YEAH! Year two. Sorry it took so long. I've had Driver's Ed and I've been reading a lot for school. Plus, I've had no inspiration for anything but Justin Long (YUM!) and Jeepers Creepers.
Disclaimer: This story does not belong to me. Only Kat, Adrian, Sarah and their mothers do.
Note: If you didn't notice, year 1 was more in Harry's POV than the others. All the stories are going to be this way and I'm changing it to first person. Year 2 is in Sarah's POV.
The Way It Should Have Been
Chapter One: Back to Hogwarts
"We're going to be late Dad!" I whined softly. Peter looked in the rearview mirror and smiled softly.
"No we won't Sarah." I rolled my eyes and continued to stare out the window as dad parked the car and we rushed out to the station. I gripped my ticket as we rushed through the barrier without looking suspicious, two minutes to go.
I hugged my parents and gave my stuff up to the conductor as I climbed onto the train. I walked, making sure my wand was in my back pocket, looking for either Neville or my friends. I saw Hermione and the Weasleys before reaching the back compartment to see my friends.
Kat was in the right corner, her nose in an old book. Adrian sat next to her, and Harry across from Kat. They were trading cards and I stepped in, shutting the door behind me.
"Late?" Harry raised an eyebrow before glancing up at me while I sat next to him.
"Yeah, dad wouldn't listen when I told him we needed to leave."
"Kat has been here for an hour." Adrian poked her side and she laughed.
"Stop!" He laughed, but lowered his hand.
"Another year." Harry sighed contently and put his hands behind his head.
"Wonder if anything exciting will happen." Kat smiled and lowered her book.
"With these two boys, something is bound to happen Sarah." I laughed at the older girl.
"Hey did you know that Gilderoy Lockhart was at Flourish and Blotts the other day?" I squealed while the others rolled their eyes. I mean he was just so handsome.
"Harry and I were there the same day as Neville. Lockhart dragged him into a picture with him and gave him a free set of all his books." Adrian showed Harry a card, but Harry shook his head no.
"He is so phony."
"Kat! I thought all girls liked Lockhart! The blonde hair (Harry ran his hands through his hands like a vain model), the blue eyes (Adrian batted his eyes charmingly at Kat and she laughed), the fabulous smile..."
"That's won him the Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award five times in a row!" I butted in. I may be slow, but I knew they were making fun of him.
"Please Sarah! How in the world could he have done all of those extremely dangerous things and not have a scratch anyone on that face?" I sat dumbfounded for a few seconds.
"It's because he's the best!"
"Mad-Eye-Moody is one of the best Aurors ever and his face is terribly scarred."
"Who is Mad-Eye-Moody?" Kat sighed loudly and stuck the book back to her face. Harry and Adrian shrugged at each other before buying some food off of the cart.
A few hours later we piled out of the train and followed the older students to hundreds of black carriages pulled by what seemed nothing. They drove up a hill and stopped in front of the school's front doors. We jumped out and walked forward into the Great Hall and sat at the long tables.
Not long after the first years arrived and stood at the front. I smiled softly, remembering the fear of not knowing where you were going. It was obvious that we would all go to Gryffindor, but some weren't so obvious. Especially if they were muggle-born or only children, or if no one knew about them.
When all were housed Dumbledore stood and started his speech. "Look! There's Lockhart!" Adrian nudged me and I squealed softly and stared at him. He had wavy blond hair and blue eyes that shone brightly, even across the hall. His smile went from ear to ear and every single one of his brilliantly white teeth shone at them. Next to him was Snape, looking as mean as ever: greasy hair, large nose, sour expression.
"Seems Snape still has that stick up his arse." Harry snickered and Kat smiled softly.
"Oh come on Sarah! That was funny!" Kat waved her hand in front of my face but I was too busy staring up at Lockhart to notice.
"Guess he's the new Defense teacher." Kat sighed sadly as Dumbledore finished the introduction of Lockhart to the students (with a loud sigh from a lot of the girls, including myself) and grabbed some food onto her plate.
"No way! He's the teacher of the Ridiculous Fashion class." Harry spit his pumpkin juice onto the table as he laughed. Kat starting laughing too and Adrian grinned proudly.
"Oh come on! Give the god a break. We haven't even had a class with him yet!" I had to defend him.
"Sorry Sarah. We didn't realize you were taking "the god's" fashion class." I sighed loudly again in irritation at Harry before eating some of the steak.
"Really Sarah. We're sorry. We'll give him a chance." Adrian smiled softly at me before giving me a sad puppy-eyed look. Harry and Kat rolled their eyes and I nodded. Adrian was far too charming to not forgive.
"It's okay." They smiled at me and continued to eat, talking about what we thought the new year would be like. Suddenly Neville ran into the Great Hall and sat down next to me. It took me several seconds to get over the butterflies in my stomach before talking to him.
"Neville! Where were you?" He gasped for air before speaking.
"Gran and I were late and the doorway to the train wouldn't open. We had to owl Dumbledore and he sent some people to bring me here."
"Whoa! That's weird."
"Wonder why Sarah didn't get caught outside too." Kat said, sipping her drink.
"I don't know. How late were you Neville?"
"We had about two minutes or less."
"It closed right after dad, mum and I got through."
"Well you're here and so is the food, so that's all that matters." Neville nodded as Harry clapped him on the back and he started to eat. That was until he saw Lockhart.
"Oh no! What is that git doing here?"
"New Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." Kat grimaced as Adrian spoke the words and Neville's face fell even more.
"Well this has defiantly not been a good day for me." He ran a hand through his brown hair and smiled sadly.
"Oh Neville! It'll get better." I timidly put a hand on his shoulder and he blushed a bright red. I could feel my face light up as well and when he raised his head to look at me, I quickly took my hand away. I threw a look at Kat and Adrian to see them glancing at each other as well.
"Neville!" We turned before a bright flash came out of nowhere. We all groaned and rubbed our eyes, trying to make the little dots go away. "HI Neville! I'm Collin Creevey and I've heard so much about you, even though I'm not from a wizarding family. I found this neat way to make regular pictures move like wizard pictures. Well I'll see you later!"
"That kid is a bundle of energy." Adrian muttered after the shock of picture attack passed over them.
"Who cares? I still can't see anything." Kat laughed and held up two fingers in front of Harry's face.
"How many fingers?"
"Uh...four?"
"Two."
"So I doubled it." She smiled and lowered her hand.
"You'll live Potter." The feast was over and behind them stood Malfoy and his cronies.
"What do you want?" Adrian stood to face his shorter cousin.
"Just to say hello. What happened Longbottom? Too slow to make train? Too stupid to walk through the portal?"
"Thought you just wanted to say hello." Kat stood up and touched Adrian's arm, ready to pull him back. Draco smirked at her and turned. He left the Great Hall and Neville sighed loudly.
"It'll get better huh?" I shrugged softly as Neville left as well. The others and I followed and we ran into Percy. Kat was more friends with him the rest of us.
"Hi Percy."
"Hello Kat. Have a good summer?"
"Yeah! My parents and I went to France for a couple of weeks."
"Excellent! The new password is 'wattlebird' by the way." We thanked him and went into the portrait to see the a lot of the Gryffindors still in the common room, talking with old friends and congratulating the first years.
"Hey Ron." The tall red haired boy stopped and smiled.
"Hi guys! How were your summers?"
"Fine, Kat was the only one who did something." Harry said, pointing his thumb at the amber-eyed girl.
"I went to France."
"Neat! Hey, this is my little sister Ginny." He hugged her shoulders and she smiled softly at Harry.
"Hello! Adrian Black."
"Kat Lupin."
"Sarah Pettigrew." The girl was cute with the same red hair and freckles as her older brothers. She was shorter than Ron and seemed really shy, smiling only at Harry.
"Harry Potter." She smiled at us again before saying night and heading up to the dorms.
"Quiet." Adrian observed, nodding like a professional.
"She's shy. She usually doesn't shut up." We laughed and separated for the dorms. I smiled as I saw my stuff by my bed from last year.
Kat threw herself onto her own bed and smiled. Our beds were right next to each other and were on either side of the window. The moon's light flowed into the room, bathing everything in a silver glow.
"I hope dad will be okay." I followed her gaze to the almost full moon.
"I'm sure he will be. He always has been before."
"I just worry when I'm not there to make sure." I patted Kat's hand as we started unpacking our school things. Hermione, Lavender and Parvati entered the room as well.
"Hi girls." Lavender laid down on her bed and was ready to go to sleep.
"Hello. Have a good summer?" They all nodded before yawning and pulling their pajamas on. Soon after all of us had fallen asleep.
"Schedules!" As the teachers passed out schedules, all the Second Year boys continued to yawn.
"Why are you so tired?" Kat asked, her delicate eyebrows raised.
"We didn't get much sleep last night." Adrian yawned out.
"Why? All the girls fell asleep as soon as we got into the dorm." I asked, biting some toast.
"Guy talk." Harry's head fall onto Kat's shoulder and she patted his head.
"Maybe one of the older students will give you some coffee."
"The older students get coffee?" Adrian and Harry looked at Kat in shock through puffy eyes.
"I think so. It might only be a Prefect thing though." [A/N: I don't know if the coffee thing is true, but it seems like some of the older students should be able to have coffee]
"Coffee sounds so nice." Harry looked at his schedule and groaned. "Double Potions with the Slytherins."
"Great." We left after that and headed towards the dungeons sitting in our normal spots, in the middle of the room on the far right.
After that we went to Herbology, and then we had lunch. After that was Transfiguration.
"Now you have to admit. That really wasn't that bad of a first day." Kat smiled at us as we threw our books onto a table in the common room.
"Speak for yourself. You and Hermione were the only two who remembered anything from last year." Adrian grumbled opening his bag and taking out a quill and some ink.
"I thought Neville did well in Potions." I whispered softly, glancing at Adrian.
"You would." I looked at Harry who had his eyes closed and his glasses were pushed up onto his forehead. I felt a small pang of hurt and sadness.
"Harry!" Kat scolded.
"I'm sorry Sarah. Really, I'm just so friggin' tired." I nodded.
"Well go to sleep!" Adrian told him, pushing up and towards the direction of the dorms.
"Right. I'll do that. Night guys."
"Night Harry." He gave a small wave and clopped up the stairs, bag in hand.
"What is with him Adrian?" Kat asked, turning her gaze to Adrian. He shrugged one shoulder.
"I don't know. He's had this 'feeling' that something not good is going to happen. He was moody when we got out stuff for school."
"I hope he's okay." I whispered softly and Kat rubbed my shoulder.
"He'll be fine. Just needs to sleep it off."
"Sleep helps me." I agreed.
"If you two don't stop talking about sleeping, I'll fall sleep right here." Adrian yawns and we laughed.
"You know it is late. Maybe we should all head off to bed." Kat suggested. We nodded and picked up the little homework that we had done (a few written words for each of us) and headed up the stairs where Kat and I slipped in bed.
"I'm sure Harry didn't mean it Sarah."
"I know. It's just he's never said anything like that to anyone."
"I know. He'll be fine." She smiled softly at me and turned on her back, falling asleep soon after. I stared up into the darkness before falling asleep myself.
YES IT'S DONE! This was the hardest thing for me to write! Do you like the first POV better? It made this a lot easier to write after I changed everything from 2nd to 1st so if there's a wrong usage of anything, sorry!
Disclaimer: This story does not belong to me. Only Kat, Adrian, Sarah and their mothers do.
Note: If you didn't notice, year 1 was more in Harry's POV than the others. All the stories are going to be this way and I'm changing it to first person. Year 2 is in Sarah's POV.
The Way It Should Have Been
Chapter One: Back to Hogwarts
"We're going to be late Dad!" I whined softly. Peter looked in the rearview mirror and smiled softly.
"No we won't Sarah." I rolled my eyes and continued to stare out the window as dad parked the car and we rushed out to the station. I gripped my ticket as we rushed through the barrier without looking suspicious, two minutes to go.
I hugged my parents and gave my stuff up to the conductor as I climbed onto the train. I walked, making sure my wand was in my back pocket, looking for either Neville or my friends. I saw Hermione and the Weasleys before reaching the back compartment to see my friends.
Kat was in the right corner, her nose in an old book. Adrian sat next to her, and Harry across from Kat. They were trading cards and I stepped in, shutting the door behind me.
"Late?" Harry raised an eyebrow before glancing up at me while I sat next to him.
"Yeah, dad wouldn't listen when I told him we needed to leave."
"Kat has been here for an hour." Adrian poked her side and she laughed.
"Stop!" He laughed, but lowered his hand.
"Another year." Harry sighed contently and put his hands behind his head.
"Wonder if anything exciting will happen." Kat smiled and lowered her book.
"With these two boys, something is bound to happen Sarah." I laughed at the older girl.
"Hey did you know that Gilderoy Lockhart was at Flourish and Blotts the other day?" I squealed while the others rolled their eyes. I mean he was just so handsome.
"Harry and I were there the same day as Neville. Lockhart dragged him into a picture with him and gave him a free set of all his books." Adrian showed Harry a card, but Harry shook his head no.
"He is so phony."
"Kat! I thought all girls liked Lockhart! The blonde hair (Harry ran his hands through his hands like a vain model), the blue eyes (Adrian batted his eyes charmingly at Kat and she laughed), the fabulous smile..."
"That's won him the Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award five times in a row!" I butted in. I may be slow, but I knew they were making fun of him.
"Please Sarah! How in the world could he have done all of those extremely dangerous things and not have a scratch anyone on that face?" I sat dumbfounded for a few seconds.
"It's because he's the best!"
"Mad-Eye-Moody is one of the best Aurors ever and his face is terribly scarred."
"Who is Mad-Eye-Moody?" Kat sighed loudly and stuck the book back to her face. Harry and Adrian shrugged at each other before buying some food off of the cart.
A few hours later we piled out of the train and followed the older students to hundreds of black carriages pulled by what seemed nothing. They drove up a hill and stopped in front of the school's front doors. We jumped out and walked forward into the Great Hall and sat at the long tables.
Not long after the first years arrived and stood at the front. I smiled softly, remembering the fear of not knowing where you were going. It was obvious that we would all go to Gryffindor, but some weren't so obvious. Especially if they were muggle-born or only children, or if no one knew about them.
When all were housed Dumbledore stood and started his speech. "Look! There's Lockhart!" Adrian nudged me and I squealed softly and stared at him. He had wavy blond hair and blue eyes that shone brightly, even across the hall. His smile went from ear to ear and every single one of his brilliantly white teeth shone at them. Next to him was Snape, looking as mean as ever: greasy hair, large nose, sour expression.
"Seems Snape still has that stick up his arse." Harry snickered and Kat smiled softly.
"Oh come on Sarah! That was funny!" Kat waved her hand in front of my face but I was too busy staring up at Lockhart to notice.
"Guess he's the new Defense teacher." Kat sighed sadly as Dumbledore finished the introduction of Lockhart to the students (with a loud sigh from a lot of the girls, including myself) and grabbed some food onto her plate.
"No way! He's the teacher of the Ridiculous Fashion class." Harry spit his pumpkin juice onto the table as he laughed. Kat starting laughing too and Adrian grinned proudly.
"Oh come on! Give the god a break. We haven't even had a class with him yet!" I had to defend him.
"Sorry Sarah. We didn't realize you were taking "the god's" fashion class." I sighed loudly again in irritation at Harry before eating some of the steak.
"Really Sarah. We're sorry. We'll give him a chance." Adrian smiled softly at me before giving me a sad puppy-eyed look. Harry and Kat rolled their eyes and I nodded. Adrian was far too charming to not forgive.
"It's okay." They smiled at me and continued to eat, talking about what we thought the new year would be like. Suddenly Neville ran into the Great Hall and sat down next to me. It took me several seconds to get over the butterflies in my stomach before talking to him.
"Neville! Where were you?" He gasped for air before speaking.
"Gran and I were late and the doorway to the train wouldn't open. We had to owl Dumbledore and he sent some people to bring me here."
"Whoa! That's weird."
"Wonder why Sarah didn't get caught outside too." Kat said, sipping her drink.
"I don't know. How late were you Neville?"
"We had about two minutes or less."
"It closed right after dad, mum and I got through."
"Well you're here and so is the food, so that's all that matters." Neville nodded as Harry clapped him on the back and he started to eat. That was until he saw Lockhart.
"Oh no! What is that git doing here?"
"New Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." Kat grimaced as Adrian spoke the words and Neville's face fell even more.
"Well this has defiantly not been a good day for me." He ran a hand through his brown hair and smiled sadly.
"Oh Neville! It'll get better." I timidly put a hand on his shoulder and he blushed a bright red. I could feel my face light up as well and when he raised his head to look at me, I quickly took my hand away. I threw a look at Kat and Adrian to see them glancing at each other as well.
"Neville!" We turned before a bright flash came out of nowhere. We all groaned and rubbed our eyes, trying to make the little dots go away. "HI Neville! I'm Collin Creevey and I've heard so much about you, even though I'm not from a wizarding family. I found this neat way to make regular pictures move like wizard pictures. Well I'll see you later!"
"That kid is a bundle of energy." Adrian muttered after the shock of picture attack passed over them.
"Who cares? I still can't see anything." Kat laughed and held up two fingers in front of Harry's face.
"How many fingers?"
"Uh...four?"
"Two."
"So I doubled it." She smiled and lowered her hand.
"You'll live Potter." The feast was over and behind them stood Malfoy and his cronies.
"What do you want?" Adrian stood to face his shorter cousin.
"Just to say hello. What happened Longbottom? Too slow to make train? Too stupid to walk through the portal?"
"Thought you just wanted to say hello." Kat stood up and touched Adrian's arm, ready to pull him back. Draco smirked at her and turned. He left the Great Hall and Neville sighed loudly.
"It'll get better huh?" I shrugged softly as Neville left as well. The others and I followed and we ran into Percy. Kat was more friends with him the rest of us.
"Hi Percy."
"Hello Kat. Have a good summer?"
"Yeah! My parents and I went to France for a couple of weeks."
"Excellent! The new password is 'wattlebird' by the way." We thanked him and went into the portrait to see the a lot of the Gryffindors still in the common room, talking with old friends and congratulating the first years.
"Hey Ron." The tall red haired boy stopped and smiled.
"Hi guys! How were your summers?"
"Fine, Kat was the only one who did something." Harry said, pointing his thumb at the amber-eyed girl.
"I went to France."
"Neat! Hey, this is my little sister Ginny." He hugged her shoulders and she smiled softly at Harry.
"Hello! Adrian Black."
"Kat Lupin."
"Sarah Pettigrew." The girl was cute with the same red hair and freckles as her older brothers. She was shorter than Ron and seemed really shy, smiling only at Harry.
"Harry Potter." She smiled at us again before saying night and heading up to the dorms.
"Quiet." Adrian observed, nodding like a professional.
"She's shy. She usually doesn't shut up." We laughed and separated for the dorms. I smiled as I saw my stuff by my bed from last year.
Kat threw herself onto her own bed and smiled. Our beds were right next to each other and were on either side of the window. The moon's light flowed into the room, bathing everything in a silver glow.
"I hope dad will be okay." I followed her gaze to the almost full moon.
"I'm sure he will be. He always has been before."
"I just worry when I'm not there to make sure." I patted Kat's hand as we started unpacking our school things. Hermione, Lavender and Parvati entered the room as well.
"Hi girls." Lavender laid down on her bed and was ready to go to sleep.
"Hello. Have a good summer?" They all nodded before yawning and pulling their pajamas on. Soon after all of us had fallen asleep.
"Schedules!" As the teachers passed out schedules, all the Second Year boys continued to yawn.
"Why are you so tired?" Kat asked, her delicate eyebrows raised.
"We didn't get much sleep last night." Adrian yawned out.
"Why? All the girls fell asleep as soon as we got into the dorm." I asked, biting some toast.
"Guy talk." Harry's head fall onto Kat's shoulder and she patted his head.
"Maybe one of the older students will give you some coffee."
"The older students get coffee?" Adrian and Harry looked at Kat in shock through puffy eyes.
"I think so. It might only be a Prefect thing though." [A/N: I don't know if the coffee thing is true, but it seems like some of the older students should be able to have coffee]
"Coffee sounds so nice." Harry looked at his schedule and groaned. "Double Potions with the Slytherins."
"Great." We left after that and headed towards the dungeons sitting in our normal spots, in the middle of the room on the far right.
After that we went to Herbology, and then we had lunch. After that was Transfiguration.
"Now you have to admit. That really wasn't that bad of a first day." Kat smiled at us as we threw our books onto a table in the common room.
"Speak for yourself. You and Hermione were the only two who remembered anything from last year." Adrian grumbled opening his bag and taking out a quill and some ink.
"I thought Neville did well in Potions." I whispered softly, glancing at Adrian.
"You would." I looked at Harry who had his eyes closed and his glasses were pushed up onto his forehead. I felt a small pang of hurt and sadness.
"Harry!" Kat scolded.
"I'm sorry Sarah. Really, I'm just so friggin' tired." I nodded.
"Well go to sleep!" Adrian told him, pushing up and towards the direction of the dorms.
"Right. I'll do that. Night guys."
"Night Harry." He gave a small wave and clopped up the stairs, bag in hand.
"What is with him Adrian?" Kat asked, turning her gaze to Adrian. He shrugged one shoulder.
"I don't know. He's had this 'feeling' that something not good is going to happen. He was moody when we got out stuff for school."
"I hope he's okay." I whispered softly and Kat rubbed my shoulder.
"He'll be fine. Just needs to sleep it off."
"Sleep helps me." I agreed.
"If you two don't stop talking about sleeping, I'll fall sleep right here." Adrian yawns and we laughed.
"You know it is late. Maybe we should all head off to bed." Kat suggested. We nodded and picked up the little homework that we had done (a few written words for each of us) and headed up the stairs where Kat and I slipped in bed.
"I'm sure Harry didn't mean it Sarah."
"I know. It's just he's never said anything like that to anyone."
"I know. He'll be fine." She smiled softly at me and turned on her back, falling asleep soon after. I stared up into the darkness before falling asleep myself.
YES IT'S DONE! This was the hardest thing for me to write! Do you like the first POV better? It made this a lot easier to write after I changed everything from 2nd to 1st so if there's a wrong usage of anything, sorry!