Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, you would be watching this story in a movie theater.
Summary: 15-year-old Vexes has always dreamed of going to Hogwarts, but there was one tiny little problem: Vexes is a vampire. But then, she gets her chance to attend. Dumbledore performs a spell that allows her to be human by day, but at night she returns to her bloodthirsty self (wow, how generic is that?). But when there is a killing at Hogwarts, dark magic is suspected, and aurors are sent. It was hard enough to keep the truth about herself hidden from other students, and it will be harder to keep from aurors.
"Please, Cosmin, can I go?" begged Vexes.
"It's too dangerous, you could kill someone!"
15 year old Vexes paced the forest floor, her scarlet eyes glowing fiercely in the moonlight of the Transylvanian forest. She was average height, with black hair that hung loosely down her back. She was slim, and very pale, almost white. Around her neck was a silver chain, from which a single ruby pendent hung. In her pale, cold hand she clasped a yellow piece of parchment with writing on it that was written in emerald ink. A Hogwarts letter.
Vexes had been wishing for a way to go to Hogwarts, the greatest school of witchcraft and wizardry, for years. There was only one problem: Vexes was a vampire. Sunlight burned her skin, and whenever she spotted a human being she got the strong, unfightable urge to kill for blood. She and her brother, Cosmin, retreated to the forest, and occupied it, terrorizing and sometimes killing muggles and wizards alike that were stupid enough to step foot into their forest. But now, there was a chance for Vexes to attend Hogwarts.
Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, had known of Vexes's wish to go to Hogwarts, and felt that a little inconvenience, such as being a vampire, should not get in the way of attending. So, he had devised a series of spells that would allow her skin and eyes to tolerate sunlight, and control her urges for blood. But, the spells would only work in the daytime. Come night, the need for blood would return, and her skin and eyes would no longer tolerate large amounts of light. Madame Pomfrey had also come up with a spell to hide her fangs during the day, but she was still working on something for her scarlet eyes.
She had received the letter from Dumbledore a week before, telling her of his plan. Vexes was overjoyed and anxious to go, but her brother Cosmin still thought it was too dangerous.
"What if you kill someone during the night?" he asked. "Don't you sleep in dormitories?"
"Yes, but I would have my own, on the 3rd floor which has been forbidden from students, and I am free to prowl up there," she replied.
"What about food? How will you get fresh blood? We can't eat their food, Vexes," replied Cosmin, as he ran a hand through his thick, shoulder-length hair.
"Animals will be sufficient. Rabbits, mice, dogs, it's all planned out already!" she said.
"What if someone finds out, huh? What will you do then?" he shot back.
"I'll come home. You know I can be here in a flash," she said. As a vampire, she could apparate anywhere, and she didn't need a permit like wizards did.
"I'm not sure…" said Cosmin, sighing and furrowing his brow in thought.
'This is good,' though Vexes. 'He's cracking'
"It seems so much like a Cinderella story," he said. Cosmin was fond of muggle fairy tales. Their mother was too, and used to tell them to them all the time, until a village took it upon themselves to stick a wooden stake straight through her heart.
"Please? Cosmin, you always complain about how the wizards treat us like animals, who banish us to places like this. Now I have a chance to be part of their world, even if it is only for a semester," said Vexes, taking her brother's cold hands into her own, and looking into his eyes. He sighed.
"O, alright, you can go. But I want an owl at least every other day, understood?" said Cosmin.
"O Cosmin, thank you, thank you, thank you!" said Vexes, giving her brother a hug. He smiled and shook his head.
"Go, pack. You'll need to leave tomorrow," he said. "I need to hunt. I'll bring you a toad or something," he teased, as he disappeared through the forest trees.
Vexes smiled, and ran nimbly through the trees to a cave that served as her room. It was well furnished, and dimly lit by candles that were sitting in crevices in the walls. The letter said her supplies and uniform would be at school waiting for her, so all she needed to pack was regular clothes. She packed within minutes, and hunted around her room for anything she may have forgotten. The bats which occupied the ceiling of the cave came and went, fluttering about her playfully.
Vexes extinguished the candles as dawn came. She shrank back into the shadows of the cave and sat on her trunk, waiting for Cosmin to come back. According to the letter, the beginning of term feast would begin at sundown. Dumbledore would meet her and Cosmin in the forbidden forest at noon, and perform the spell that would allow Vexes to attend Hogwarts. Then she would have all day to explore the castle and meet the staff, and she would meet the students the next morning.
Soon, Cosmin returned from his hunt, with a large rabbit with him.
"Here, it's all I could find," he said, tossing the rabbit to her. She buried her fangs into the rabbit's neck and drank the blood thirstily, and tossed the carcass to the side.
"Ready?" she asked Cosmin.
"Mmhmm," he replied. Cosmin grabbed one side of the trunk.
They both closed their eyes, and they were off to the forbidden forest.
Phantom: well that was a nice intro chapter! The summary I put at the top is lame, but it'll get better, I swear! I have NO IDEA what the vampires in Harry Potter are really like (they don't tell you or anything), so I'm just kind of building it off of Dracula and VanHelsing...if anyone has a problem with that, then please write down your complaints on a slip of paper and drop it into hell.
Harry: friendly type, isnt she?
Phantom: reply please! ; )