Disclaimer, I'm only going to put this once! I don't own HP or his
magical world.
Sorry about the lack of formatting before, I have tried to fix it a bit! Thanks for reading and hopefully reviewing!
CHAPTER ONE
Lucy burst through the living room door, her long blonde pigtails streaming behind her, laughing she showed her parents a letter. On heavy parchment paper in green writing, it said "Dear Miss Smith, you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of witch craft and wizardry. can you believe this? Jade must have been really bored to come up with something this whacked!" Lucy's bright blue eye's sparkling with mirth; with dimples deep set in her cheeks she had the look of a cherub.
Surprisingly though her parents looked at each other then at her with strangely serious expressions. "What's wrong?" Lucy asked, "You look as though you've both seen a ghost". She looked from one to the other. Eventually her father said "Lucy dear it wasn't Jade who sent you that letter, it was probably Professor McGonagall, if she's still there." Lucy glanced down at the letter to check the signature and quickly looked back at her father before saying with a nervous laugh "Oh dad you nearly had me there, you sent the letter didn't you?"
"No sweetie, it is real, in fact I went there when I was your age"
"But dad. wizards? witches? It can't be a very good school then, because you're not a wizard" Lucy looked to her silent Mother hoping for some kind of explanation.
"Well for a long time I didn't know either and then I just didn't believe it but after we had you I couldn't ignore it any more" replied her mother quietly.
"Me?"
"Yes, when you were a baby a few odd things started to happen" her mother smiled as if remembering "You were very small and afraid of the dark but no matter how many nights I turned off your room light It was always on in the morning and you were too little to reach it to do it yourself!"
Lucy still looked doubtful as her mother continued "remember Tommy Burns in your school? What happened to him when he teased you about your second hand clothes?"
"But Mum you said you believed me that I couldn't have ripped the leg off his trouser from the other end of the playground!"
Suddenly her Dad stood up and left the room returning after a few minutes with a black briefcase which he opened on the table lifting the bottom of it out to reveal a secret compartment, from which he drew out an old looking piece of wood, looking from his wife to his daughter he lifted it in his hand and muttered "orchideous" suddenly a huge bunch of red roses appeared out of the end of it stunning Lucy and bringing a pensive smile to her mother face. Lucy flopped down on the nearest chair with a look of utter disbelief on her face.
Her father proceeded to tell her the most amazing tale she had ever heard, that her dad was not, as she had always thought, Desmond Smith, "Des" for short, but Diogenes Hipworth the only surviving member of a long line of powerful wizards who could trace their ancestry back a thousand years or more! He had once been a respected Aurora in the Ministry of Magic but had gone into hiding during a very dangerous period of the magical community's history when around twenty years ago a terrible Dark Wizard had killed of the rest of his family and a great number of his friends!
After he met her mother and married he had never used magic for the fear of revealing himself to anyone as they all assumed he had been killed, only when Lucy herself started to show signs that she too had powers had he returned to the magical world in disguise to see how things where.
Now Lucy was expected to choose, would she go to a normal high school with her friends. With her family struggling to make ends meet or would they all move into a new world with such amazing possibilities that she wasn't sure she truly believed it? Lucy went out into the garden and stared unseeingly at the busy street outside the house, trying to take it all in. Hours later she returned to find her parents talking in almost whispers about the past.
"I think I would like to see your world Dad, if that's possible?"
"Your Mother and I were talking and we thought it might be a good idea, so we are going to go to London tomorrow and once your there you can decide what you want to do, we can send a reply to the school from there, okay?" her Dad smiled.
"Can we afford it?" asked Lucy "I mean it can't be cheap for us to go and then do you pay for this school I suppose the government don't pay for it, do they?"
"Actually I have money there, but if I had used it before everyone would have know I was still alive!" her dad smiled sadly at her.
"Dad, are you sure it's safe though, what if the evil wizard is still there?"
"Well, he vanished a few years ago so I'd say it's safe." Trying to sleep that night was impossible so Lucy lay awake; thinking about all that she had learned that day, knowing her life would never be the same again, eventually deciding that this was not such a bad thing.
The next day they set off early for the long train journey to London. Lucy was almost bouncing in her seat in excitement she barely registered the worried look on her father's face and the way her parents were holding hands tightly under the table.
Eventually in the early afternoon they got off the train and made their way to a very dreary looking pub which her dad had to point out to them called "the leaky cauldron." Inside the pub was even darker than the outside, as Lucy stared at the other patrons in stunned disbelief she heard the bar man talking to her father "Ah your daughter going to Hogwarts?"
"Yes"
"Well if you'd like to follow me I can explain how to get in to Diagon alley to buy her school supplies"
"Actually that's okay I remember how"
"Oh I do apologise I thought you were muggles, I don't recognize you" the barman was now staring hard at Lucy's father, as though trying to remember his face. However her father didn't satisfy his curiosity, he led them to an alley behind the pub, took out his wand and taped the bricks which sprang to life and moved to create an archway in the wall, through which Lucy and her mother peered through cautiously.
As they stepped through the opening Lucy truly believed they had moved into another world.
Sorry about the lack of formatting before, I have tried to fix it a bit! Thanks for reading and hopefully reviewing!
CHAPTER ONE
Lucy burst through the living room door, her long blonde pigtails streaming behind her, laughing she showed her parents a letter. On heavy parchment paper in green writing, it said "Dear Miss Smith, you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of witch craft and wizardry. can you believe this? Jade must have been really bored to come up with something this whacked!" Lucy's bright blue eye's sparkling with mirth; with dimples deep set in her cheeks she had the look of a cherub.
Surprisingly though her parents looked at each other then at her with strangely serious expressions. "What's wrong?" Lucy asked, "You look as though you've both seen a ghost". She looked from one to the other. Eventually her father said "Lucy dear it wasn't Jade who sent you that letter, it was probably Professor McGonagall, if she's still there." Lucy glanced down at the letter to check the signature and quickly looked back at her father before saying with a nervous laugh "Oh dad you nearly had me there, you sent the letter didn't you?"
"No sweetie, it is real, in fact I went there when I was your age"
"But dad. wizards? witches? It can't be a very good school then, because you're not a wizard" Lucy looked to her silent Mother hoping for some kind of explanation.
"Well for a long time I didn't know either and then I just didn't believe it but after we had you I couldn't ignore it any more" replied her mother quietly.
"Me?"
"Yes, when you were a baby a few odd things started to happen" her mother smiled as if remembering "You were very small and afraid of the dark but no matter how many nights I turned off your room light It was always on in the morning and you were too little to reach it to do it yourself!"
Lucy still looked doubtful as her mother continued "remember Tommy Burns in your school? What happened to him when he teased you about your second hand clothes?"
"But Mum you said you believed me that I couldn't have ripped the leg off his trouser from the other end of the playground!"
Suddenly her Dad stood up and left the room returning after a few minutes with a black briefcase which he opened on the table lifting the bottom of it out to reveal a secret compartment, from which he drew out an old looking piece of wood, looking from his wife to his daughter he lifted it in his hand and muttered "orchideous" suddenly a huge bunch of red roses appeared out of the end of it stunning Lucy and bringing a pensive smile to her mother face. Lucy flopped down on the nearest chair with a look of utter disbelief on her face.
Her father proceeded to tell her the most amazing tale she had ever heard, that her dad was not, as she had always thought, Desmond Smith, "Des" for short, but Diogenes Hipworth the only surviving member of a long line of powerful wizards who could trace their ancestry back a thousand years or more! He had once been a respected Aurora in the Ministry of Magic but had gone into hiding during a very dangerous period of the magical community's history when around twenty years ago a terrible Dark Wizard had killed of the rest of his family and a great number of his friends!
After he met her mother and married he had never used magic for the fear of revealing himself to anyone as they all assumed he had been killed, only when Lucy herself started to show signs that she too had powers had he returned to the magical world in disguise to see how things where.
Now Lucy was expected to choose, would she go to a normal high school with her friends. With her family struggling to make ends meet or would they all move into a new world with such amazing possibilities that she wasn't sure she truly believed it? Lucy went out into the garden and stared unseeingly at the busy street outside the house, trying to take it all in. Hours later she returned to find her parents talking in almost whispers about the past.
"I think I would like to see your world Dad, if that's possible?"
"Your Mother and I were talking and we thought it might be a good idea, so we are going to go to London tomorrow and once your there you can decide what you want to do, we can send a reply to the school from there, okay?" her Dad smiled.
"Can we afford it?" asked Lucy "I mean it can't be cheap for us to go and then do you pay for this school I suppose the government don't pay for it, do they?"
"Actually I have money there, but if I had used it before everyone would have know I was still alive!" her dad smiled sadly at her.
"Dad, are you sure it's safe though, what if the evil wizard is still there?"
"Well, he vanished a few years ago so I'd say it's safe." Trying to sleep that night was impossible so Lucy lay awake; thinking about all that she had learned that day, knowing her life would never be the same again, eventually deciding that this was not such a bad thing.
The next day they set off early for the long train journey to London. Lucy was almost bouncing in her seat in excitement she barely registered the worried look on her father's face and the way her parents were holding hands tightly under the table.
Eventually in the early afternoon they got off the train and made their way to a very dreary looking pub which her dad had to point out to them called "the leaky cauldron." Inside the pub was even darker than the outside, as Lucy stared at the other patrons in stunned disbelief she heard the bar man talking to her father "Ah your daughter going to Hogwarts?"
"Yes"
"Well if you'd like to follow me I can explain how to get in to Diagon alley to buy her school supplies"
"Actually that's okay I remember how"
"Oh I do apologise I thought you were muggles, I don't recognize you" the barman was now staring hard at Lucy's father, as though trying to remember his face. However her father didn't satisfy his curiosity, he led them to an alley behind the pub, took out his wand and taped the bricks which sprang to life and moved to create an archway in the wall, through which Lucy and her mother peered through cautiously.
As they stepped through the opening Lucy truly believed they had moved into another world.