Olivia Potter
By Marina
A/N: This one is in a totally different time to HP and the Marauders. Actually, it's hardly HP, but Olivia is his ancestor. So, it is loosely connected to HP.
Disclaimer: Hogwarts and the things that you recognise belong to JK. The rest belongs to moi.
On with the show (soz, but I just love saying that!)
CHAPTER ONE- Letters from Hogwarts and A Visit to Diagon Alley.
(31ST July, 1711)
Dear diary, I got a letter today from Hogwarts. I have been waiting for the letter since Henrietta and Henry started Hogwarts. Papa and Mama are proud of me. Henrietta and Henry - the twins, who left only just last year - are also equally pleased. I am glad I have finally been admitted.
Mama replied to the letter, and tomorrow, we are to go to Diagon Alley. I have only been there but a few times, with Henry and Henrietta. Now I go to buy my Hogwarts equipment. Mama says her heart swells with pride, mine swells with excitement.
Yours, Olivia.
(1ST August, 1711)
Dear Diary, Today, I went to Diagon Alley, with mama, papa, Henry and Henrietta. How I love that place; the many smells, the shops, the bustling street, the crowds of people, the gossip! I bought new robes, cloaks, cauldron, and all my equipment. My wand is a brilliant masterpiece, says Henry, and Henrietta adores my barn owl, Barnaby.
We saw that dreaded, vulgar Gerald Marsh. Henrietta simpers after him, though he is twenty years her senior. I find him an annoying, pathetic old fool. Henrietta finds him sophisticated, clever and, I quote her, "the perfect husband." Papa is also interested in marriage between Henrietta and Gerald, for he is rich. We are not bad off, but the Marsh family inheritance would do well for any son Henrietta bears, Papa says. Sometimes I think that Papa doesn't care for us when it concerns marriage, and all he wants is to have rich in-laws. He forbade Henry to court Martha Mills, for she was not of our class, and inferior. When Henry tried to woo her in secret, Papa found out, and turned very violent. Poor old Martha, I liked her very much, and so did Henry. But Papa scared her away, once and for all. Papa then lectured us saying that he would rather us have loveless marriages with people superior to us in class and finance, than for us to be in a marriage of love with a commoner.
I hope Mama speaks up against Papa, for she disapproves of Gerald, I can tell, though, when confronted, she denies it. Oh poor mama, she doesn't have much will. She, like all other married Witches are kept oppressed. I know that we are more free than Muggle women, but I still don't understand why we should be degraded. We are not weaker than wizards; I know that for a fact, for mama is as powerful as papa, and Henrietta as powerful as Henry. If only I could do something. But I am an 11-year-old novice witch, who hasn't been to one single lesson, at Hogwarts. I can't wait until 1st September! Yours, Olivia
A/N: This one is in a totally different time to HP and the Marauders. Actually, it's hardly HP, but Olivia is his ancestor. So, it is loosely connected to HP.
Disclaimer: Hogwarts and the things that you recognise belong to JK. The rest belongs to moi.
On with the show (soz, but I just love saying that!)
CHAPTER ONE- Letters from Hogwarts and A Visit to Diagon Alley.
(31ST July, 1711)
Dear diary, I got a letter today from Hogwarts. I have been waiting for the letter since Henrietta and Henry started Hogwarts. Papa and Mama are proud of me. Henrietta and Henry - the twins, who left only just last year - are also equally pleased. I am glad I have finally been admitted.
Mama replied to the letter, and tomorrow, we are to go to Diagon Alley. I have only been there but a few times, with Henry and Henrietta. Now I go to buy my Hogwarts equipment. Mama says her heart swells with pride, mine swells with excitement.
Yours, Olivia.
(1ST August, 1711)
Dear Diary, Today, I went to Diagon Alley, with mama, papa, Henry and Henrietta. How I love that place; the many smells, the shops, the bustling street, the crowds of people, the gossip! I bought new robes, cloaks, cauldron, and all my equipment. My wand is a brilliant masterpiece, says Henry, and Henrietta adores my barn owl, Barnaby.
We saw that dreaded, vulgar Gerald Marsh. Henrietta simpers after him, though he is twenty years her senior. I find him an annoying, pathetic old fool. Henrietta finds him sophisticated, clever and, I quote her, "the perfect husband." Papa is also interested in marriage between Henrietta and Gerald, for he is rich. We are not bad off, but the Marsh family inheritance would do well for any son Henrietta bears, Papa says. Sometimes I think that Papa doesn't care for us when it concerns marriage, and all he wants is to have rich in-laws. He forbade Henry to court Martha Mills, for she was not of our class, and inferior. When Henry tried to woo her in secret, Papa found out, and turned very violent. Poor old Martha, I liked her very much, and so did Henry. But Papa scared her away, once and for all. Papa then lectured us saying that he would rather us have loveless marriages with people superior to us in class and finance, than for us to be in a marriage of love with a commoner.
I hope Mama speaks up against Papa, for she disapproves of Gerald, I can tell, though, when confronted, she denies it. Oh poor mama, she doesn't have much will. She, like all other married Witches are kept oppressed. I know that we are more free than Muggle women, but I still don't understand why we should be degraded. We are not weaker than wizards; I know that for a fact, for mama is as powerful as papa, and Henrietta as powerful as Henry. If only I could do something. But I am an 11-year-old novice witch, who hasn't been to one single lesson, at Hogwarts. I can't wait until 1st September! Yours, Olivia