Chapter 3: The Summer Before
Out jumped a huge creature...
"Wingardium Leviosa! Accio Impervilosa" Chanse yelled.
The creature was lifted into the air and came flying towards Chanse. Chanse screamed and the creature hit something that was protecting her, and flew down the path. Chanse looked down the path at the creature and slowly walked up towards it. When she got close enough to it she realized that it wasn't a huge creature, but it was a big dog. Chanse bent down next to it, but then she got a feeling in her stomach, like someone was behind her, she turned around and kicked in the air.
*BAM*
She kicked Hagrid right in the stomach, "Ouch! My stomach" Hagrid grabbed his stomach.
Chanse put her hands around her mouth, "Oh my god! Sorry Hagrid I thought you were...Well I don't know but...I thought something had happened to you," She looked at Hagrid who was still holding his stomach, "Hagrid? Are you ok?" Chanse looked at Hagrid again. Hagrid looked at her and said.
"Bravo, you've started your training with flying colors, let's continue." Chanse dropped her jaw. And looked at Hagrid, with surprise, anger, and excitement. "Well? What are you waiting for, an invitation? Let's go." Chanse shut her mouth and nodded yes.
"Wait we can't!"
"Why" Hagrid asked
"I did something to a dog. Now it's not moving!" Chanse pointed down the road at a big dog lying in the road.
"FANG!" Hagrid yelled he ran down the road toward the dog, Chanse followed quickly behind him. When Hagrid got to the dog he picked Fang's head up and looked at him. "Don't move him! I'm going back to the house to get something that will help him. Stay with him, so nothing happens to him."
Chanse nodded, and got down next to Fang, and laid his head on Chanse's legs, and started to pet him. Hagrid ran down the road, and disappeared down the road. Chanse turned her head to the side and looked at Fang's face, that was just laying there, peacefully.
"Hmm." Chanse started to think. "I feel terrible, I wish I could do something.," She began to think then she thought of something in her head, "What is it, what is it? Come on Chanse think, for Fangs sake."
Chanse didn't know, but Hagrid was walking up with a small bottle in his hands, when he stopped a few feet behind her and listened to what she was saying. "Come on Chanse, damnit! Oh...Prior Incantato." Chanse watched Fang with big eyes but he didn't move. Chanse laid her head down on Fang, she whispered, "My last try...here it goes...Prior Vixi." Hagrid watched Fang closing.
"What's she doing?" Hagrid asked.
A few minutes later Fang slowly stood up, "Yes it worked!" shouted Chanse, and stood up. Fang looked around then looked at Chanse, smelt her then jumped up on her and started to lick her face furiously. "Hey stop that."
"How'd you do that Chanse?" Hagrid asked.
Chanse turned around, "Oh hi Hagrid," Chanse smiled, "I really don't know what the hell I just did, or said," Chanse laughed, "but something inside me told me to say it...at the time I understood what I said, but now I don't....weird huh?" Chanse scratched her head.
"Not really," Hagrid smiled, "like we told you...you're advanced," Hagrid smirked, "Now Chanse if you wouldn't mind...Follow me Chanse, back to the house where I will teach you everything you need to know to be prepared." Hagrid, Chanse, and Fang walked down the path and then after a while of walking they reached a small hut that wasn't that big "Here we are." Chanse didn't say anything she just followed Fang and Hagrid inside.
Hagrid walked over to a small bed in the corner, with a small curtain around it, and pointed, "Here's your room." Chanse walked over and set her stuff down next to the two piles of clothes on her bed, and looked at the clothes for a few seconds, and then shrugged her shoulders and walked over to where Hagrid was, who was over by a table, which was in the middle of the hut.
Books were all over the table along with big and small bottles. "Come over here I'll explain everything." Chanse sat down and listen to Hagrid explain what book was for what class, what potions was what and what was in it.
"Go get those clothes on your bed please." Chanse got up and went to her bed and picked up the clothes and brought them back to the table and set them down. "This pile of clothes is your first robes. There are only two of them though; your parents will have to buy you more. You must where a robe at all times, at Hogwarts. Here you don't have to. Your mother told me what size you were." Chanse nodded. "The other outfit, Chanse, is a Quidditch uniform." Chanse quickly picked it, and looked it over, and smiled.
Chanse ran back into her area, and closed the curtain. "Hagrid it's too big." Chanse came out and the outfit was way too big. The pants wouldn't stay on and the shirt went down to her ankles.
"Damn." Hagrid said. "I'm sorry to say but, I can't teach you Quidditch then. You need the uniform to play."
"I'll play without it." Chanse looked at Hagrid, whose jaw was wide open and had the look of seeing a ghost, on it.
"You can't play without the uniform." Chanse ignored Hagrid and closed the curtain and started to change. When she walked back out she was in running shorts and sports bra. "What do you think your doing?" Hagrid yelled, "Even if you could play without the uniform, which you can't, you need to learn to fly first."
"Well, then let's learn to fly!" Chanse laughed
"Well we're going to do right now." Hagrid pointed to them two brooms in the corner, "Bring those with you." He walked out of the hut, behind him followed Chanse holding the brooms.
Once outside Hagrid led Chanse to the empty field. Chanse handed Hagrid a broom and then looked over hers, "The Thunderbird two-thousand two?"
"The newest, fastest brooms out there, right now." Chanse nodded. "Now stand next to your broom, and stick your hand out and say up." Chanse stuck out her hand, "Now Chanse, not everyone can get the broom up on the first..."
"Up!" and up went the broom into Chanse's hand.
"...Time. Well now that you have that done, I want you to get on the broom like this." Hagrid put his left leg over the broomstick and sat on it. Chanse did the same. "Good. Now kick off and hover there for a while." Chanse kicked off and hovered.
"This is easy. Watch this..."
"No! Don't fly yet, you don't know..." Hagrid screamed but it was too late Chanse was up in the air. Hagrid closed his eyes waiting to hear the crash. But to his surprise there was no crash.
"Hagrid you ok?" Hagrid opened his eyes and Chanse was hanging upside down in front of him, "I don't why flying seems so hard to people. It's easy." Chanse laughed
"Wow! That's amazing!" Hagrid said. Chanse smiled at him and then turned right side up and hovered next to Hagrid.
"So can I learn Quidditch yet?" Chanse said excitingly. Hagrid sighed.
"Fine, but I'm stopping as soon as you tell me to. The rules are..."
"I know the rules, Hagrid, its ok. I read all about them." Hagrid looked at her.
"What position do you want to play?"
"Keeper."
"Ah. Keeper." Chanse smiled and took her spot in front of the goals.
"Ready?"
"Always" Hagrid slowly came up on her a shot the ball
*BAM*
The ball came flying back towards Hagrid's head, he quickly ducked and the ball went flying by. Hagrid looked up at Chanse who was laughing and dancing on her broom.
"Ok. I'm now trying Chanse, ok?"
"Hagrid try your hardest, please." Hagrid nodded.
He and found the ball and hit the ball has hard has he could towards Chanse's face. She caught the ball then dropped it. "Ouch!" Chanse grabbed her hands and rubbed them. Then looked up at Hagrid who was coming towards her. Before Hagrid got there she flew down a fast as she could and grabbed the ball and flew back up, and hit towards Hagrid.
He hit back to the third goal. Chanse flew towards it stop it, but she caught it but it was hit so hard that hit her in the side and knocked her off her broom and she was holding on by one hand. Hagrid flew over at full speed and picked her up and grabbed her broom and landed on the ground.
"You ok?" Chanse nodded, and looked down at her side. She was bleeding, "Oh my god you're bleeding!"
"It's ok, it's doesn't hurt that much. Just when you touch it." Chanse laughed, "Ah! Or when I laughed" Chanse smiled, "But hey Hagrid," Hagrid looked up, "The ball didn't go in." She smiled and Hagrid shook his head. He picked her up, "Put me down I can still walk." Hagrid looked at her and did as she said.
She walked back to the hut and Hagrid followed behind her, and thought, "Wow she tough, she'd make a good Quidditch player." He smiled.
Back at the hut Hagrid tended to Chanse's wounds, and served dinner. They were eating when Chanse remembered, "Oh yeah Hagrid," Hagrid looked up from his soup bowl, but Chanse had disappeared all ready. She came back holding an egg; "My parents and I wanted you to have this. You know, for training me and all." Hagrid looked like he was going to cry.
"Is this a..."
"Dragon egg? Yes, it is. But you can only keep it on my dead mother's ranch, which my mom and dad ran now." Hagrid nodded and put the egg in a blanket and set it on his bed.
Over the year Hagrid taught Chanse everything she needed to know to be ready for being a sixth year student at Hogwarts. He also continued teaching Chanse how to play Quidditch, without the uniform; because once she started without a uniform she didn't want one.
Finally the day came where Chanse was to go back home to her mother and father and get all her supplies for the up coming school year. Hagrid flew her to the train station, where they began to say their good-byes...
"Bye Hagrid thanks again." Chanse gave Hagrid a hug.
Hagrid nodded and took Chanse's bags down to be loaded on the train. Chanse sat there waiting for Hagrid to return, but Hagrid didn't. Finally, the conductor pushed Chanse onto the train; Chanse slowly got on the train and got in a cabin facing the train station and looked for Hagrid, but never saw him.
Chanse kept watching outside the window until the train station became a small black speck behind her. After she couldn't see the train station anymore she turned and faced the seat in front of her and pulled out her CD player, then pressed played, but nothing happened, "What the hell?" She looked at it, "Oh yeah out of batteries."
A few minutes later and lady knocked on the cabin door; "Alohomora" the door slid open. "Yes?"
"Is there anything I can get you, Miss?" The lady asked.
"Um... Do you have double "a" batteries?"
"Um...yes here you are."
"Thank you." Chanse paid the lady and closed the door and sat back down. She put in her batteries, and turned on her CD player, and began to listen and sing.
About an hour later she arrived to platform nine and three quarters. Chanse got off the train and walked over to get her stuff when a white owl came down to Chanse and dropped a letter in her hands. It was marked, To: Chanse From: Hagrid, Chanse took the letter and put it into her purse.
She walked down and got her stuff, and she took her cart down to the wall and ran through it. On the other side she looked around and took a deep breath, she looked at all the Muggles walking around, not a single elf, pixie, or goblin, no creature, just humans. "CHANSE!" Chanse turned around and saw her parents running towards her.
"Mommy, daddy!" She screamed and ran to them; they sat there, the three of them hugging. After a while the three walked back to the car.
"So how was training?" her father asked, while he pushed her cart to the car.
"So much fun! Hagrid thinks I'm going to be a star player on the Quidditch team. Oh the letter!" Chanse got into the car and pulled out her letter from Hagrid, as quick as possible:
Dear Chanse,
I'm sorry I didn't come back to tell you goodbye. But I couldn't bear to see you leave, even though I'm going to see you in about two weeks. You really touched my heart, I can't wait to see you again, and I can't wait to hatch my dragon! Don't forget to thank your parents for Nora (that's what I'm calling her).It's a pink egg therefore it's a female.
~Hagrid~
P.S.
Don't forget to practice your Quidditch, but be careful where you practice, though.
Chanse laughed, "Hagrid loved his present. He almost cried when I gave it to him." Her parents laughed.
They drove a little longer and then reached a hotel, marked, Train Station Hotel, "We'll stay here for the night." Her father said. By the time they had gotten to the hotel it was dark out. Then went up to their rooms and went to bed.
The next day, the whole Jackson family all got up and went into Diagon Alley, to pick up all the supplies, Chanse would need for her year at Hogwarts. "Mom when do I go to Hogwarts?"
"In two days honey." Chanse stopped walking, "Come on honey." Her mom said. Chanse ran up to her mom.
"I was wondering when you would come in here," a old man, that looked as if he was short a few screws, smiled from behind the counter, "You wait just here," the old man ducked behind, into shalves of, what looked as if they were shoe boxes, "we'll find you a wand, if it takes all day."
"I hope it doesn't." Chanse mumbled, under her breath.
"Here," He opened it and handed Chanse a wand, "Here try this Unicorn Hair, Yew, nine and half inches." Chanse swished it...Nothing happened.
The shop owner took back the wand, and shook his head and put the wand back into the box and placed the box back into its slot. He walked over to a ladder and climbed it and pulled out another box. He climbed down the ladder and opened the box and handed Chanse another wand, "Ok try this one. A Dragon Heartstring, Ash, seven inches." Chanse gave it a flick, and the wand began to glow.
"I think we found a winner." The Wand shop owner took the wand and put it into its box. Chanse became so excited she finally realized she was becoming a witch. She paid the owner and took the box and walked out of the shop with her parents.
Right as she walked out of the shop, an owl flew above her and dropped and rapped gift into Chanse's hands. Chanse looked at the package and put it under her arm and decided to wait to open till they finished getting everything and got home.
After they had got everything they left Diagon Alley, and got into their car, and went back to the hotel. Chanse sat down on her bed with her parents and started to open her gift, "Wait honey there's a card" Chanse's mom handed her the card, "What's it say?" Chanse opened the card a read:
Dear Chanse, This broom has no use just sitting in the corner of my house, so I sent it to you, to use when you join the Quidditch team
Love,
Hagrid
Her mom and dad looked at each other and smiled then watched their daughter tear open the present, and there lying on the bed was The Thunderbird two- thousand two broomstick. Chanse stood up and jumped up and down. "Yes!" she yelled. Her parents began to laugh, and Tom put his arm around Heather.
Chanse grabbed the broom and set it next to the bed. "Honey, get into bed we going to be packing all day tomorrow." Chanse's dad said. He kissed her and walked into his room. Chanse's mom left the room so that Chanse could get into bed.
A few minutes later, her mom walked back in and sat down next to her on her bed. "I'm proud of you, honey. All you have to do to keep me proud is do what you do best, be yourself and do your best." Chanse nodded and grabbed her mom and hugged her like she's never hugged her before.
"I love you mom." Chanse mom shed a tear.
"I love you too Chanse." Heather kissed her goodnight and turned out the lights, and started to walk out of the room. Then turned around and looked over at Chanse who was lying in her bed so peaceful. "God please, whatever you do, please watch over Foxlin. Please protect my baby." She walked into her room and went to bed.
Out jumped a huge creature...
"Wingardium Leviosa! Accio Impervilosa" Chanse yelled.
The creature was lifted into the air and came flying towards Chanse. Chanse screamed and the creature hit something that was protecting her, and flew down the path. Chanse looked down the path at the creature and slowly walked up towards it. When she got close enough to it she realized that it wasn't a huge creature, but it was a big dog. Chanse bent down next to it, but then she got a feeling in her stomach, like someone was behind her, she turned around and kicked in the air.
*BAM*
She kicked Hagrid right in the stomach, "Ouch! My stomach" Hagrid grabbed his stomach.
Chanse put her hands around her mouth, "Oh my god! Sorry Hagrid I thought you were...Well I don't know but...I thought something had happened to you," She looked at Hagrid who was still holding his stomach, "Hagrid? Are you ok?" Chanse looked at Hagrid again. Hagrid looked at her and said.
"Bravo, you've started your training with flying colors, let's continue." Chanse dropped her jaw. And looked at Hagrid, with surprise, anger, and excitement. "Well? What are you waiting for, an invitation? Let's go." Chanse shut her mouth and nodded yes.
"Wait we can't!"
"Why" Hagrid asked
"I did something to a dog. Now it's not moving!" Chanse pointed down the road at a big dog lying in the road.
"FANG!" Hagrid yelled he ran down the road toward the dog, Chanse followed quickly behind him. When Hagrid got to the dog he picked Fang's head up and looked at him. "Don't move him! I'm going back to the house to get something that will help him. Stay with him, so nothing happens to him."
Chanse nodded, and got down next to Fang, and laid his head on Chanse's legs, and started to pet him. Hagrid ran down the road, and disappeared down the road. Chanse turned her head to the side and looked at Fang's face, that was just laying there, peacefully.
"Hmm." Chanse started to think. "I feel terrible, I wish I could do something.," She began to think then she thought of something in her head, "What is it, what is it? Come on Chanse think, for Fangs sake."
Chanse didn't know, but Hagrid was walking up with a small bottle in his hands, when he stopped a few feet behind her and listened to what she was saying. "Come on Chanse, damnit! Oh...Prior Incantato." Chanse watched Fang with big eyes but he didn't move. Chanse laid her head down on Fang, she whispered, "My last try...here it goes...Prior Vixi." Hagrid watched Fang closing.
"What's she doing?" Hagrid asked.
A few minutes later Fang slowly stood up, "Yes it worked!" shouted Chanse, and stood up. Fang looked around then looked at Chanse, smelt her then jumped up on her and started to lick her face furiously. "Hey stop that."
"How'd you do that Chanse?" Hagrid asked.
Chanse turned around, "Oh hi Hagrid," Chanse smiled, "I really don't know what the hell I just did, or said," Chanse laughed, "but something inside me told me to say it...at the time I understood what I said, but now I don't....weird huh?" Chanse scratched her head.
"Not really," Hagrid smiled, "like we told you...you're advanced," Hagrid smirked, "Now Chanse if you wouldn't mind...Follow me Chanse, back to the house where I will teach you everything you need to know to be prepared." Hagrid, Chanse, and Fang walked down the path and then after a while of walking they reached a small hut that wasn't that big "Here we are." Chanse didn't say anything she just followed Fang and Hagrid inside.
Hagrid walked over to a small bed in the corner, with a small curtain around it, and pointed, "Here's your room." Chanse walked over and set her stuff down next to the two piles of clothes on her bed, and looked at the clothes for a few seconds, and then shrugged her shoulders and walked over to where Hagrid was, who was over by a table, which was in the middle of the hut.
Books were all over the table along with big and small bottles. "Come over here I'll explain everything." Chanse sat down and listen to Hagrid explain what book was for what class, what potions was what and what was in it.
"Go get those clothes on your bed please." Chanse got up and went to her bed and picked up the clothes and brought them back to the table and set them down. "This pile of clothes is your first robes. There are only two of them though; your parents will have to buy you more. You must where a robe at all times, at Hogwarts. Here you don't have to. Your mother told me what size you were." Chanse nodded. "The other outfit, Chanse, is a Quidditch uniform." Chanse quickly picked it, and looked it over, and smiled.
Chanse ran back into her area, and closed the curtain. "Hagrid it's too big." Chanse came out and the outfit was way too big. The pants wouldn't stay on and the shirt went down to her ankles.
"Damn." Hagrid said. "I'm sorry to say but, I can't teach you Quidditch then. You need the uniform to play."
"I'll play without it." Chanse looked at Hagrid, whose jaw was wide open and had the look of seeing a ghost, on it.
"You can't play without the uniform." Chanse ignored Hagrid and closed the curtain and started to change. When she walked back out she was in running shorts and sports bra. "What do you think your doing?" Hagrid yelled, "Even if you could play without the uniform, which you can't, you need to learn to fly first."
"Well, then let's learn to fly!" Chanse laughed
"Well we're going to do right now." Hagrid pointed to them two brooms in the corner, "Bring those with you." He walked out of the hut, behind him followed Chanse holding the brooms.
Once outside Hagrid led Chanse to the empty field. Chanse handed Hagrid a broom and then looked over hers, "The Thunderbird two-thousand two?"
"The newest, fastest brooms out there, right now." Chanse nodded. "Now stand next to your broom, and stick your hand out and say up." Chanse stuck out her hand, "Now Chanse, not everyone can get the broom up on the first..."
"Up!" and up went the broom into Chanse's hand.
"...Time. Well now that you have that done, I want you to get on the broom like this." Hagrid put his left leg over the broomstick and sat on it. Chanse did the same. "Good. Now kick off and hover there for a while." Chanse kicked off and hovered.
"This is easy. Watch this..."
"No! Don't fly yet, you don't know..." Hagrid screamed but it was too late Chanse was up in the air. Hagrid closed his eyes waiting to hear the crash. But to his surprise there was no crash.
"Hagrid you ok?" Hagrid opened his eyes and Chanse was hanging upside down in front of him, "I don't why flying seems so hard to people. It's easy." Chanse laughed
"Wow! That's amazing!" Hagrid said. Chanse smiled at him and then turned right side up and hovered next to Hagrid.
"So can I learn Quidditch yet?" Chanse said excitingly. Hagrid sighed.
"Fine, but I'm stopping as soon as you tell me to. The rules are..."
"I know the rules, Hagrid, its ok. I read all about them." Hagrid looked at her.
"What position do you want to play?"
"Keeper."
"Ah. Keeper." Chanse smiled and took her spot in front of the goals.
"Ready?"
"Always" Hagrid slowly came up on her a shot the ball
*BAM*
The ball came flying back towards Hagrid's head, he quickly ducked and the ball went flying by. Hagrid looked up at Chanse who was laughing and dancing on her broom.
"Ok. I'm now trying Chanse, ok?"
"Hagrid try your hardest, please." Hagrid nodded.
He and found the ball and hit the ball has hard has he could towards Chanse's face. She caught the ball then dropped it. "Ouch!" Chanse grabbed her hands and rubbed them. Then looked up at Hagrid who was coming towards her. Before Hagrid got there she flew down a fast as she could and grabbed the ball and flew back up, and hit towards Hagrid.
He hit back to the third goal. Chanse flew towards it stop it, but she caught it but it was hit so hard that hit her in the side and knocked her off her broom and she was holding on by one hand. Hagrid flew over at full speed and picked her up and grabbed her broom and landed on the ground.
"You ok?" Chanse nodded, and looked down at her side. She was bleeding, "Oh my god you're bleeding!"
"It's ok, it's doesn't hurt that much. Just when you touch it." Chanse laughed, "Ah! Or when I laughed" Chanse smiled, "But hey Hagrid," Hagrid looked up, "The ball didn't go in." She smiled and Hagrid shook his head. He picked her up, "Put me down I can still walk." Hagrid looked at her and did as she said.
She walked back to the hut and Hagrid followed behind her, and thought, "Wow she tough, she'd make a good Quidditch player." He smiled.
Back at the hut Hagrid tended to Chanse's wounds, and served dinner. They were eating when Chanse remembered, "Oh yeah Hagrid," Hagrid looked up from his soup bowl, but Chanse had disappeared all ready. She came back holding an egg; "My parents and I wanted you to have this. You know, for training me and all." Hagrid looked like he was going to cry.
"Is this a..."
"Dragon egg? Yes, it is. But you can only keep it on my dead mother's ranch, which my mom and dad ran now." Hagrid nodded and put the egg in a blanket and set it on his bed.
Over the year Hagrid taught Chanse everything she needed to know to be ready for being a sixth year student at Hogwarts. He also continued teaching Chanse how to play Quidditch, without the uniform; because once she started without a uniform she didn't want one.
Finally the day came where Chanse was to go back home to her mother and father and get all her supplies for the up coming school year. Hagrid flew her to the train station, where they began to say their good-byes...
"Bye Hagrid thanks again." Chanse gave Hagrid a hug.
Hagrid nodded and took Chanse's bags down to be loaded on the train. Chanse sat there waiting for Hagrid to return, but Hagrid didn't. Finally, the conductor pushed Chanse onto the train; Chanse slowly got on the train and got in a cabin facing the train station and looked for Hagrid, but never saw him.
Chanse kept watching outside the window until the train station became a small black speck behind her. After she couldn't see the train station anymore she turned and faced the seat in front of her and pulled out her CD player, then pressed played, but nothing happened, "What the hell?" She looked at it, "Oh yeah out of batteries."
A few minutes later and lady knocked on the cabin door; "Alohomora" the door slid open. "Yes?"
"Is there anything I can get you, Miss?" The lady asked.
"Um... Do you have double "a" batteries?"
"Um...yes here you are."
"Thank you." Chanse paid the lady and closed the door and sat back down. She put in her batteries, and turned on her CD player, and began to listen and sing.
About an hour later she arrived to platform nine and three quarters. Chanse got off the train and walked over to get her stuff when a white owl came down to Chanse and dropped a letter in her hands. It was marked, To: Chanse From: Hagrid, Chanse took the letter and put it into her purse.
She walked down and got her stuff, and she took her cart down to the wall and ran through it. On the other side she looked around and took a deep breath, she looked at all the Muggles walking around, not a single elf, pixie, or goblin, no creature, just humans. "CHANSE!" Chanse turned around and saw her parents running towards her.
"Mommy, daddy!" She screamed and ran to them; they sat there, the three of them hugging. After a while the three walked back to the car.
"So how was training?" her father asked, while he pushed her cart to the car.
"So much fun! Hagrid thinks I'm going to be a star player on the Quidditch team. Oh the letter!" Chanse got into the car and pulled out her letter from Hagrid, as quick as possible:
Dear Chanse,
I'm sorry I didn't come back to tell you goodbye. But I couldn't bear to see you leave, even though I'm going to see you in about two weeks. You really touched my heart, I can't wait to see you again, and I can't wait to hatch my dragon! Don't forget to thank your parents for Nora (that's what I'm calling her).It's a pink egg therefore it's a female.
~Hagrid~
P.S.
Don't forget to practice your Quidditch, but be careful where you practice, though.
Chanse laughed, "Hagrid loved his present. He almost cried when I gave it to him." Her parents laughed.
They drove a little longer and then reached a hotel, marked, Train Station Hotel, "We'll stay here for the night." Her father said. By the time they had gotten to the hotel it was dark out. Then went up to their rooms and went to bed.
The next day, the whole Jackson family all got up and went into Diagon Alley, to pick up all the supplies, Chanse would need for her year at Hogwarts. "Mom when do I go to Hogwarts?"
"In two days honey." Chanse stopped walking, "Come on honey." Her mom said. Chanse ran up to her mom.
"I was wondering when you would come in here," a old man, that looked as if he was short a few screws, smiled from behind the counter, "You wait just here," the old man ducked behind, into shalves of, what looked as if they were shoe boxes, "we'll find you a wand, if it takes all day."
"I hope it doesn't." Chanse mumbled, under her breath.
"Here," He opened it and handed Chanse a wand, "Here try this Unicorn Hair, Yew, nine and half inches." Chanse swished it...Nothing happened.
The shop owner took back the wand, and shook his head and put the wand back into the box and placed the box back into its slot. He walked over to a ladder and climbed it and pulled out another box. He climbed down the ladder and opened the box and handed Chanse another wand, "Ok try this one. A Dragon Heartstring, Ash, seven inches." Chanse gave it a flick, and the wand began to glow.
"I think we found a winner." The Wand shop owner took the wand and put it into its box. Chanse became so excited she finally realized she was becoming a witch. She paid the owner and took the box and walked out of the shop with her parents.
Right as she walked out of the shop, an owl flew above her and dropped and rapped gift into Chanse's hands. Chanse looked at the package and put it under her arm and decided to wait to open till they finished getting everything and got home.
After they had got everything they left Diagon Alley, and got into their car, and went back to the hotel. Chanse sat down on her bed with her parents and started to open her gift, "Wait honey there's a card" Chanse's mom handed her the card, "What's it say?" Chanse opened the card a read:
Dear Chanse, This broom has no use just sitting in the corner of my house, so I sent it to you, to use when you join the Quidditch team
Love,
Hagrid
Her mom and dad looked at each other and smiled then watched their daughter tear open the present, and there lying on the bed was The Thunderbird two- thousand two broomstick. Chanse stood up and jumped up and down. "Yes!" she yelled. Her parents began to laugh, and Tom put his arm around Heather.
Chanse grabbed the broom and set it next to the bed. "Honey, get into bed we going to be packing all day tomorrow." Chanse's dad said. He kissed her and walked into his room. Chanse's mom left the room so that Chanse could get into bed.
A few minutes later, her mom walked back in and sat down next to her on her bed. "I'm proud of you, honey. All you have to do to keep me proud is do what you do best, be yourself and do your best." Chanse nodded and grabbed her mom and hugged her like she's never hugged her before.
"I love you mom." Chanse mom shed a tear.
"I love you too Chanse." Heather kissed her goodnight and turned out the lights, and started to walk out of the room. Then turned around and looked over at Chanse who was lying in her bed so peaceful. "God please, whatever you do, please watch over Foxlin. Please protect my baby." She walked into her room and went to bed.