Disclaimer: I don't own any Harry Potter Characters, J.K.Rowling does, I do own my characters, like Alexis, Nancy, Sadie, Mary Anne and so on.I don't own any of my friend's names

Chapter 9

"Waaaake uuuup!" shouted Amy shaking Alexis.

"Think she's dead?" asked Mary Anne timidly.

"Of course she's not dead!Look she's breathing!" answered Nancy.

"Then why wont she wake up?" asked Amy.

"Alexis come on!!" yelled Sadie who had an extremely loud voice.

Alexis moaned,"Ugh what do you want?" she said in a muffled voice as she was lying face first into her pillow.

"It's the first day of school aren't you excited!?" Amy exclaimed starting to jump on the bed until Alexis fell in a heap onto the floor.The girls giggled except Alexis, how groaned.She was covered with the blanket so her reply came out muffled.

"Thrilled," she said grumpily and sarcastically.

"Well come on then!" said Amy.Alexis stood up and pulled off the blankets.Her hair was all tangeled and messed up.She rubbed her eyes and hit Amy, who was sitting on the edge of Alexis's bed, with a pillow.

Amy gasped, "How rude!" and grabbed her own pillow to hit Alexis with.As she stealthily blocked the attack, Nancy, Sadie, and Mary Anne joined in.There was soon a full fledged pillow fight on top of Alexis's bed.

This all ended when Amy's snowy white owl named Bonnie flew in the window and got smacked with a pillow.It soared across the room.Amy ran over and picked it up.

"Bonnie!" she screamed.The owl seemed fine in most respects.She was just a little shaken up."Oh poor Bonnie!Someone hit her." she turned to them, tears in her eyes, and said."Which one of you did it?" accusingly.The four other girls stood shaking their heads and muttering no's.She looked at each pillow."Okay, Alexis, yours doesn't have feathers on it.Your either,Sadie.Lemme see yours Mary Anne.How about yours,Nancy." then she looked at her own pillow.Sure enough, feathers were scattered across it.

"Oh my goodness!I hit her!Oh, Bonnie, I'm so sorry, I can't believe I did that!It reminds me of this one time that Kenny threw Clyde, Clyde's our family owl, by the way, into the window whe he wanted to send a letter, but the window was closed.Oh horrid things for birds those are, closed windows I mean.Why, my Grandmum got a letter last year but the owl flew right into the window that she had just cleaned.It suffered a broken wing.Oh!Oh I hope that's not what happened to Bonnie!Oh you poor thing!" she said all this very fast and started cradling Bonnie in her arms.The other firls had just been staring at her the whole time.Alexis was the first of the four to speak up.

"Oh look!We've missed breakfast!On the first day, too!" she said hunting for her robes."So what do we have first period?" she asked as everyone got dressed hurriedly.

"Looks like Potions," answered Mary Anne.

"Oh yay!I love potions!" exclaimed Sadie.

"I heard the Proffessor is extremely mean to Gryffindors, though," said Nancy.

"Well, that's not very nice," said Amy pulling on her robes.

"Rather stereotypical if you ask me," said Mary Anne.

"Well, what if we don't give him any opportunities to be mean?" Alexis piped up.

"That's a good idea," said Nancy, Mary Anne, and Sadie all at the same time.All the girls laughed.

"That reminds me about this one time, my brother and I, we-" Amy started but was cut off by Hermione who had walked in wearing her prefect badge.

"Come on, girls, you're going to be late if you don't get a move on!" she said in a very bossy tone.

The girls grabbed their bags and wands and ran out the door.

Harry and Ron stood outside the door for Transfiguration.They were waiting with the Hufflepuffs and it seemed that they were a bit early.

"So, did you send Snuffles a letter?" asked Ron in an undertone.

"Not yet, but I will as soon as we get a free period," Harry replied.

Just then, Curtis Wiegand, a first year Hufflepuff ran by, being chased by Mark the Gryffindor.Curtis had a rather large pointed nose and it looked like his teeth were a bit big and pointy.A long black tail was protruding from his robes near his,er, backside.Unfortunately for him, her ran straight into Proffessor McGonagall.Everyone went quiet in the hall.All the fifth years were watching with smirks on their faces.

"And what, may I ask, do you think you were doing?" she asked the two boys.They both stuttered out their replies at the same time.Each had a different story.The fifth year Gryffindors snickered.Chrissy, a first year Gryffindor, ran up behind Mark.

"Oh Proffessor, he's really sorry, I promise he is, and he wont do it ever again and we're sorry that we made you-er-" she looked at the fifth years,"late for your class.Really we are." she said quickly, taking Mark's hand with hers. "I promise he wont do it again, honestly, I do." she smiled up at her hopefully.

Proffessor McGonagall looked down at her sternly."You three will each recieve a detention and you will serve them tonight at 8 o'clock.You are to report to my office promptly." she then turned to walk into her classroom leaving the first years staring after her, stunned.

"Good morning class," said Proffessor McGonagall as everyone was seated, and listening.Hermione, having been released from prefect duty moments before, was seated next to Ron and on Ron's other side was Harry.After being instructed on how to turn a paper fan into a bird, the three started to talk in whispers.

"So, what do you think about that Alexis girl,Harry?Have you talked to her yet?" Hermione asked poising herself to perform the transfiguration.

"No, actually, I haven't gotten the chance.I suppose I will at lunch." Harry replied.

"Who do you think she is anyway?I mean, you don't know much about any relatives besides the Dursley's,do you?" Ron said trying unsuccessfully to turn the fan into a bird.

"I'm not quite sure.I didn't even think I HAD relatives besides the Dursleys." Harry said.

"Well, she does have the last name Potter so that means she should be on your father's side, right?" said Hermione.

"What if she's not even related to him, Hermione, what if you've been wrong all this time.Potter is a popular name in Britain." said Ron

"Your the one who came up with the idea of her being related to Harry in the first place, Ron!" she replied.

"I did not!"

"Oh Ron, you did too.You were saying how she could be his older sister at Diagon Alley!"

"Well, I suppose I did, but still." Ron said not thinking of a good enough comeback.

"But still what?" Hermione asked looking at him seriously.

"Why are we even getting in a row about this when we don't even know if she's even in the slightest bit related to him!?"

"I don't know,Ron, you tell me."Hermione said turning her fan into a pure white dove.Ron scowled and tried again.The fan went up in flames.

Harry looked at his own creation.There was a bird alright, but it looked like an origami swan.

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"I canNOT believe that greasy git!" Alexis exclaimed as her, Nancy, Sadie, Amy, and Mary Anne all walked out of the dungeons together.

"Me neither!" said Mary Anne, positively outraged that she had lost 10 points from Gryffindor just for slightly messing up on her Potions.

"He reminds me of this one teacher I had at my Muggle school when I was younger, anyway, this teacher would go around saying mean things about us under his breath as he passed our desks.My brother said that one time-" Amy started.

"He hates me for no reason!Ooooh, he makes me so mad.He complained so much about my potion when it was perfect.I'm willing to bet he made all the stuff about it not being thick enough or the right shade of green or that my fire wasn't high enough, I bet he made that all up!" Alexis intterupted, positively fuming. "He better watch out or someday he'll have a dungbomb accidently left in his desk!"

The girls laughed at this, but that soon faultered as they realized that Alexis was serious.

"But,Alexis, you can't set a dungbomb off in his desk," said Mary Anne timidly.

"And exactly why not?" she asked, her face red.

"Well, because you'll get in trouble, for 1." Mary Anne answered.

"You'll probably get detention!" said Amy.

"You could loose points for Gryffindor." said Nancy.

"The dungeon would stink a whole lot after you put it there." said Sadie.

"It already does." muttered Alexis.

"Alexis, just don't, okay.Maybe he was in a bad mood or something."said Nancy in a somewhat firm voice.Though, having been here the last year, she knew that Snape was ALWAYS in a bad mood toward Gryffindors.

"It didn't seem like he was in a bad mood when he was checking the Slytherins' potions!" exclaimed Alexis.

"When I'M mad at someone I just picture them doing something incredibly stupid.I usually giggle and that's how I know it works." said Amy,smiling.

"That's a good idea, Amy," Sadie said.The others agreed and they all walked to Charms class going on and on about how huge Hogwarts was.

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Later that night, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Alexis, Amy, and Mary Anne were all seated in the Gryffindor Common Room.Harry, Ron and, Hermione were sitting together as were Amy and Mary Anne.The trio was working on Arithmancy, rather, Hermione was working on Arithmancy while Ron was secretly looking off of her paper and giving the answers to Harry, and the duo was giggling and talking in whipers.

Harry was about to bring up the subject of relatives with everyone else when Colin Ceevey(A/N:who else?) walked up to Alexis and said, "Is it true that your related to Harry Potter?Because there's a big rumour going around that you are." It looked like it took him a lot of nerve to go up to her and say that.A lot of the first years in the room where saying things like "Yeah,really," and "I've heard that one!" or, "Is it true,Alexis??" The trio looked up, Ron and Hermione glancing at Harry.

Alexis glanced at Harry."Well, what makes you think, besides the name, that I am?Because, you know, there ARE other Potters in this world." she said and some excited faces fell at these words.Plenty of people got out there replies.Many said the looks, someone said that they did their magic alike in some way.She looked around at them all and said, "Well, my father was Christopher Potter(A/N:I can't make up names!!!) and he had a brother..." she stopped and looked around.Most faces were turned to her."And his name was James." people who knew Harry's father's name gasped.She smiled."So I guess,then, that i AM related to Harry." She looked over at him.

Hermione asked just a bit suspectingly, "Well, then why doesn't Harry go to your house during the summer holidays?"People looked around at each other, muttering.

"Well, you see, my father was so devastated at the....attack.That,well, he just couldn't bear to have a reminder of his deceased brother around his house ALL the time." Alexis answered.This cleared up a lot of the questions that people had had in their minds since the Sorting.Alexis went back to talking with Mary Anne, though a few people had joined their conversation.Hermione, Ron, and Harry went back to their Arithmancy work.