*CHAPTER 7*
Thanks for the reviews. I had to edit the story due to some mistakes pointed out by Everpresent. I hope many of the kind people put there would review and help point out my mistakes too.
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"I guess I am." Yasmin said, accepting the fact rather quickly. She had found out so many things that, she could accept almost anything. Yasmin stared at the Hogwarts letter for a while before putting it in her pocket, eager to find out the contents of the envelope.
"What are you doing?" Ron asked.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Yasmin said as she tried to pry open the seal.
"Maybe we should go find a place to sit." Hermione suggested.
"Wait- I- cant- get- this- to- ope- Ahh!" Yasmin shouted in frustration as she attempted to rip the envelope into half, but it wouldn't tear.
"Someone placed a charm on it!" Hermione said as she recognized the signs of the charm.
"How do you know?" Yasmin asked as she looked curiously at Hermione.
"Because she's a know-it-all." Ron said.
"It's almost dinner, we have to go." Hermione threw a dark look at Ron before they began to head for Hermione's house.
A woman, the receptionist to be exact, stood by the window of the hospital as she watched the four walked away. A small smile crept onto her face, content and happy that they couldn't open the envelope. Her charm had worked. She would never want them to be able to see the contents of the envelope.
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Yasmin looked around bewilderedly as she walked. The whole place was strange and new to her. She looked at the different shops. Each was selling strange things. Witches and Wizards of all ages were walking cheerfully with their family and friends. She looked around wildly at the strange things. Brooms, Robes, and others were on display. She had never thought that an actual place like this would exist.
"What is the name of this place again?" Yasmin asked they walked pass a sandy haired boy, who was waving at Harry, Hermione and Ron.
"Diagon Alley." Harry answered.
It was already a few days after their visit to the hospital, and they had come to diagon alley to buy their school stuff. They still couldn't open the envelope because according to the other three; they are not allowed to do magic outside of school. Yasmin would frequently think about the letter, but being here made her forget everything.
After walking past many shops, they entered a shop with 'Ollivanders: Makers of fine wands since 382B.C.' written on the door with gold peelings.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, I didn't expect to see you here." An old man with eerie moonlike eyes greeted them as they went into the shop. "Did Mr. Weasley break his wand again?"
Ron went a little bit red.
"No. Nothing like that at all." Harry said quite nervously. He had only been in here once. "Er. My sister is going to Hogwarts this year and she doesn't have a wand."
"Your sister?" Ollivander said quizzically as he looked at Yasmin then at Harry, and back to her again. "Another Potter?" He said in disbelief. "How can it be?"
The four students felt very nervous.
"You must be the Muggle child." Ollivander said after awhile.
"Muggle child?" Hermione asked.
"Yes. Your birth was quite extra-ordinary. The ministry tried to cover it up, but it was quite unsuccessful. It was all over the news the next day." Ollivander said, as he kept looking at her with a very thoughtful look. "But, we're here to find you a wand. Which is your wand arm?"
"My Right?" Yasmin answered unsurely.
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The four of them finally got out of ollivanders with Yasmins' wand. It took a very long time to find a wand, until it had reached a point where Yasmin thought that maybe her being a witch was a fluke, and that she wasn't meant to be one.
When they proceeded to buy other stuff, they received the same reaction that ollivander had from many of the other shopkeepers'. They had all apparently read about Yasmin in the daily prophet. Ron, Hermione, and Harry highly suspected that the leakage of the news had been Rita Skeeter's work.
"What's are they looking at?" Yasmin asked, when she saw a small group that had formed by the window of one of the shops. The group seemed to be excited, so excited that some of them had stumbled over stray animals and other things.
"Most probably another broom." Harry said.
"Yeah. Lets go see." Ron said right before he hurried towards the shop with Hermione, Harry and Yasmin following him.
Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Yasmin stood at the back, trying to look over the heads of others. The group was apparently looking at a new broom, another nimbus series. It was a nimbus 2002. Yasmin tiptoed to see the broom; it was the first broom she had seen, other than Harry's Firebolt. But, Yasmin's curiosity of the new broom was cut short when she kept hearing a man's voice, grumbling.
"Damn them!"
Yasmin turned around to see who it was, but she could see no one, even though she could still hear the voice.
"Stupid foul fools."
Yasmin kept looking around; the crowd was made up of young wizards none of them could have sounded like that.
"Where are you going?" Yasmin heard a too familiar voice asked. Yasmin turned around to see Hermione.
"What?"
"Where are you going?" Hermione repeated. Her question made Yasmin realize that she had wondered off.
"Just wondering around." Yasmin lied. She didn't think it was a good idea to tell Hermione she was hearing voices.
"Come on, we have to go get your robes." Hermione said as she pulled Yasmin along with her.
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Yasmin sat in the dark with an envelope in her hands. Hermione was already asleep on the next bed. Yasmin glanced at her new stuff at the other side of the room that she had just bought. She was curious about her school things, and also the envelope. Yasmin kept staring at the envelope wondering what could be inside. She pulled the seal and also tried to tear it open, but nothing happened. How could this be any of use to her if she couldn't open it? Yasmin spent the night thinking about the contents of the envelope, and finally fell asleep thinking about it.
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The barrier between platforms nine and ten stood solid. How could anyone go through that? Yasmin thought as she stared nervously at the wall. It was already September, and Yasmin, Harry, Hermione and Ron were at the train station, about to go through the barrier to Platform nine and three quarters, Hogwarts Express.
"Its easy, you just have to walk through it." Hermione assured.
Yasmin gave a small smile to Hermione before beginning to walk towards the wall, and eventually broke into a run. As Yasmin got nearer and nearer to the wall, she became slightly frightened that she would crash and slowed down, but she already moving too fast, she could not stop in time and went through the barrier.
The first person Yasmin saw when she entered platform nine and three quarters was Harry. He had been waiting for her. Hermione and Ron came after her a few seconds later. Harry and Hermione followed Yasmin into the train as Ron went to meet his sister.
"This one is empty." Yasmin said as she went into the compartment. Hermione and Harry followed her into it. Crookshanks slept on Hermione's lap as they waited.
"The train is about to leave, where's Ron?" Hermione asked worriedly just as soon as Ron entered the compartment with Mina tailing him.
Yasmin picked up Mina and placed her on her lap and stroked her, as she stared out of the compartment (not the window). Ron, Hermione, and Harry were talking excitedly as Yasmin stared at the young wizards and witches walked past. Soon, there was no one walking as the train had begun to move.
"Hello beautiful." Yasmin heard a male voice say. It definitely wasn't Ron or Harry's. Yasmin ignored it. But heard another voice, this time, it was a female.
"Shh. You can be heard."
Yasmin looked out of the compartment, but saw that there was no one, and all the other compartment doors were closed. Yasmin got a little frightened and joined in the conversation with the trio to try to forget about the voices.
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Yasmin couldn't help but stare at the giant as they crossed the lake. The giants name was Hagrid; he was Harry's friend. Even though Hagrid was Harry's friend, he still doesn't know that Harry was her brother.
Everyone started to get excited as they saw the castle come into view. Yasmin was one of the more excited ones. The first years clambered out of the boats. Some of them were chattering excitedly as they did, while others stared at the castle in awe. Yasmin kept staring at the castle in awe, and wasn't watching where she was going. As she walked with her eyes still set on the castle, she bumped into a girl.
"Sorry" Yasmin muttered to the black haired girl.
"It's okay, I wasn't looking too. I'm Emma, Emma Geller. And you are?" The girl asked as they went up the stone steps.
"Yasmin Po-"
The oak doors opened, revealing a stern looking woman. She opened the doors wide, and led the first years in. The students followed the woman through a large hallway, and into a small chamber hall.
"Welcome to Hogwarts. I'm Professor Mcgonagall. In a while, you will all be sorted in each of the four houses. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin." Mcgonagall said. "Please wait here until I return." Mcgonagall said as she went to another room.
Everyone was nervous and wondered which house they would be sorted to.
"Which house do you think you would be in?" Emma asked. Yasmin shrugged.
"I don't know. I have never thought about it." Yasmin said. Someone smirked at her reply. Yasmin and Emma turned to see a pretty girl with brown hair and a not so nice smirk on her face.
"You two would be in Hufflepuff. I bet." The girl said. "Useless and too loyal to do anything." Emma glared at her. Yasmin didn't quite get what she was saying to get angry.
"Then what house would you be in?" Emma challenged.
"Slytherin. Of course." The girl said proudly.
"I should have guessed." Emma mumbled. Just then, Professor Mcgonagall came and brought them into the great hall.
The first years walked in a straight line as they went through the great hall. The other students watched them as they walked past. The teachers sat at the front, watching them intently. As Yasmin got nearer, an old hat on a stool came into view. Yasmin kept wondering what the hat was for, but got extremely surprised when the hat began to sing.
"You will all come up here and place the hat on your head, to be sorted, when I call your name." Professor Mcgonagall said as she held out a parchment.
"Simon Moore." A boy trembled his way onto the stool. He gave a small squeak when Professor Mcgonagall placed the sorting hat on his head. And almost instantly, the sorting hat shouted-
"Ravenclaw!"
"Emma Geller." Emma went up, and sat on the stool nervously. After a while, the Sorting hat said out loud-
"Gryffindor!"
"Lisa Mapin" The girl the Yasmin had met in the chamber went to the front. She looked extremely confident. Professor Mcgonagall placed the hat on her head. Even though the sorting hat covered her eyes, Yasmin could slightly make out that the girl had lost some of her confidence as she began to grip the stool tight.
"Slytherin!" The sorting hat finally announced after a long time. Lisa went down the stool and headed for the Slytherin table with extreme relief.
"Yasmin - " Professor Mcgonagall paused. "Potter?" She said unsurely. Many people in the hall, including the teachers, had a bemused expression on their faces. A few were standing to see who it was.
Yasmin walked very nervously towards the sorting hat. Everyone stared at her. She could hear whispers as she walked past. Yasmin sat on the stool. She had a clear view of the whole hall, but she was soon unable to see the hall as the sorting hat was placed on her head and covered her eyes.
"Ah - " The sorting hat spoke.
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Finally I'm done!! Please, Please, Please, Review!! I know I update late but this chapter is the longest I have written! I can't update very fast, I have other thing to do too. Please Review! The More reviews, the faster I update!
Thanks for the reviews. I had to edit the story due to some mistakes pointed out by Everpresent. I hope many of the kind people put there would review and help point out my mistakes too.
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"I guess I am." Yasmin said, accepting the fact rather quickly. She had found out so many things that, she could accept almost anything. Yasmin stared at the Hogwarts letter for a while before putting it in her pocket, eager to find out the contents of the envelope.
"What are you doing?" Ron asked.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Yasmin said as she tried to pry open the seal.
"Maybe we should go find a place to sit." Hermione suggested.
"Wait- I- cant- get- this- to- ope- Ahh!" Yasmin shouted in frustration as she attempted to rip the envelope into half, but it wouldn't tear.
"Someone placed a charm on it!" Hermione said as she recognized the signs of the charm.
"How do you know?" Yasmin asked as she looked curiously at Hermione.
"Because she's a know-it-all." Ron said.
"It's almost dinner, we have to go." Hermione threw a dark look at Ron before they began to head for Hermione's house.
A woman, the receptionist to be exact, stood by the window of the hospital as she watched the four walked away. A small smile crept onto her face, content and happy that they couldn't open the envelope. Her charm had worked. She would never want them to be able to see the contents of the envelope.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
Yasmin looked around bewilderedly as she walked. The whole place was strange and new to her. She looked at the different shops. Each was selling strange things. Witches and Wizards of all ages were walking cheerfully with their family and friends. She looked around wildly at the strange things. Brooms, Robes, and others were on display. She had never thought that an actual place like this would exist.
"What is the name of this place again?" Yasmin asked they walked pass a sandy haired boy, who was waving at Harry, Hermione and Ron.
"Diagon Alley." Harry answered.
It was already a few days after their visit to the hospital, and they had come to diagon alley to buy their school stuff. They still couldn't open the envelope because according to the other three; they are not allowed to do magic outside of school. Yasmin would frequently think about the letter, but being here made her forget everything.
After walking past many shops, they entered a shop with 'Ollivanders: Makers of fine wands since 382B.C.' written on the door with gold peelings.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, I didn't expect to see you here." An old man with eerie moonlike eyes greeted them as they went into the shop. "Did Mr. Weasley break his wand again?"
Ron went a little bit red.
"No. Nothing like that at all." Harry said quite nervously. He had only been in here once. "Er. My sister is going to Hogwarts this year and she doesn't have a wand."
"Your sister?" Ollivander said quizzically as he looked at Yasmin then at Harry, and back to her again. "Another Potter?" He said in disbelief. "How can it be?"
The four students felt very nervous.
"You must be the Muggle child." Ollivander said after awhile.
"Muggle child?" Hermione asked.
"Yes. Your birth was quite extra-ordinary. The ministry tried to cover it up, but it was quite unsuccessful. It was all over the news the next day." Ollivander said, as he kept looking at her with a very thoughtful look. "But, we're here to find you a wand. Which is your wand arm?"
"My Right?" Yasmin answered unsurely.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
The four of them finally got out of ollivanders with Yasmins' wand. It took a very long time to find a wand, until it had reached a point where Yasmin thought that maybe her being a witch was a fluke, and that she wasn't meant to be one.
When they proceeded to buy other stuff, they received the same reaction that ollivander had from many of the other shopkeepers'. They had all apparently read about Yasmin in the daily prophet. Ron, Hermione, and Harry highly suspected that the leakage of the news had been Rita Skeeter's work.
"What's are they looking at?" Yasmin asked, when she saw a small group that had formed by the window of one of the shops. The group seemed to be excited, so excited that some of them had stumbled over stray animals and other things.
"Most probably another broom." Harry said.
"Yeah. Lets go see." Ron said right before he hurried towards the shop with Hermione, Harry and Yasmin following him.
Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Yasmin stood at the back, trying to look over the heads of others. The group was apparently looking at a new broom, another nimbus series. It was a nimbus 2002. Yasmin tiptoed to see the broom; it was the first broom she had seen, other than Harry's Firebolt. But, Yasmin's curiosity of the new broom was cut short when she kept hearing a man's voice, grumbling.
"Damn them!"
Yasmin turned around to see who it was, but she could see no one, even though she could still hear the voice.
"Stupid foul fools."
Yasmin kept looking around; the crowd was made up of young wizards none of them could have sounded like that.
"Where are you going?" Yasmin heard a too familiar voice asked. Yasmin turned around to see Hermione.
"What?"
"Where are you going?" Hermione repeated. Her question made Yasmin realize that she had wondered off.
"Just wondering around." Yasmin lied. She didn't think it was a good idea to tell Hermione she was hearing voices.
"Come on, we have to go get your robes." Hermione said as she pulled Yasmin along with her.
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Yasmin sat in the dark with an envelope in her hands. Hermione was already asleep on the next bed. Yasmin glanced at her new stuff at the other side of the room that she had just bought. She was curious about her school things, and also the envelope. Yasmin kept staring at the envelope wondering what could be inside. She pulled the seal and also tried to tear it open, but nothing happened. How could this be any of use to her if she couldn't open it? Yasmin spent the night thinking about the contents of the envelope, and finally fell asleep thinking about it.
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The barrier between platforms nine and ten stood solid. How could anyone go through that? Yasmin thought as she stared nervously at the wall. It was already September, and Yasmin, Harry, Hermione and Ron were at the train station, about to go through the barrier to Platform nine and three quarters, Hogwarts Express.
"Its easy, you just have to walk through it." Hermione assured.
Yasmin gave a small smile to Hermione before beginning to walk towards the wall, and eventually broke into a run. As Yasmin got nearer and nearer to the wall, she became slightly frightened that she would crash and slowed down, but she already moving too fast, she could not stop in time and went through the barrier.
The first person Yasmin saw when she entered platform nine and three quarters was Harry. He had been waiting for her. Hermione and Ron came after her a few seconds later. Harry and Hermione followed Yasmin into the train as Ron went to meet his sister.
"This one is empty." Yasmin said as she went into the compartment. Hermione and Harry followed her into it. Crookshanks slept on Hermione's lap as they waited.
"The train is about to leave, where's Ron?" Hermione asked worriedly just as soon as Ron entered the compartment with Mina tailing him.
Yasmin picked up Mina and placed her on her lap and stroked her, as she stared out of the compartment (not the window). Ron, Hermione, and Harry were talking excitedly as Yasmin stared at the young wizards and witches walked past. Soon, there was no one walking as the train had begun to move.
"Hello beautiful." Yasmin heard a male voice say. It definitely wasn't Ron or Harry's. Yasmin ignored it. But heard another voice, this time, it was a female.
"Shh. You can be heard."
Yasmin looked out of the compartment, but saw that there was no one, and all the other compartment doors were closed. Yasmin got a little frightened and joined in the conversation with the trio to try to forget about the voices.
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Yasmin couldn't help but stare at the giant as they crossed the lake. The giants name was Hagrid; he was Harry's friend. Even though Hagrid was Harry's friend, he still doesn't know that Harry was her brother.
Everyone started to get excited as they saw the castle come into view. Yasmin was one of the more excited ones. The first years clambered out of the boats. Some of them were chattering excitedly as they did, while others stared at the castle in awe. Yasmin kept staring at the castle in awe, and wasn't watching where she was going. As she walked with her eyes still set on the castle, she bumped into a girl.
"Sorry" Yasmin muttered to the black haired girl.
"It's okay, I wasn't looking too. I'm Emma, Emma Geller. And you are?" The girl asked as they went up the stone steps.
"Yasmin Po-"
The oak doors opened, revealing a stern looking woman. She opened the doors wide, and led the first years in. The students followed the woman through a large hallway, and into a small chamber hall.
"Welcome to Hogwarts. I'm Professor Mcgonagall. In a while, you will all be sorted in each of the four houses. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin." Mcgonagall said. "Please wait here until I return." Mcgonagall said as she went to another room.
Everyone was nervous and wondered which house they would be sorted to.
"Which house do you think you would be in?" Emma asked. Yasmin shrugged.
"I don't know. I have never thought about it." Yasmin said. Someone smirked at her reply. Yasmin and Emma turned to see a pretty girl with brown hair and a not so nice smirk on her face.
"You two would be in Hufflepuff. I bet." The girl said. "Useless and too loyal to do anything." Emma glared at her. Yasmin didn't quite get what she was saying to get angry.
"Then what house would you be in?" Emma challenged.
"Slytherin. Of course." The girl said proudly.
"I should have guessed." Emma mumbled. Just then, Professor Mcgonagall came and brought them into the great hall.
The first years walked in a straight line as they went through the great hall. The other students watched them as they walked past. The teachers sat at the front, watching them intently. As Yasmin got nearer, an old hat on a stool came into view. Yasmin kept wondering what the hat was for, but got extremely surprised when the hat began to sing.
"You will all come up here and place the hat on your head, to be sorted, when I call your name." Professor Mcgonagall said as she held out a parchment.
"Simon Moore." A boy trembled his way onto the stool. He gave a small squeak when Professor Mcgonagall placed the sorting hat on his head. And almost instantly, the sorting hat shouted-
"Ravenclaw!"
"Emma Geller." Emma went up, and sat on the stool nervously. After a while, the Sorting hat said out loud-
"Gryffindor!"
"Lisa Mapin" The girl the Yasmin had met in the chamber went to the front. She looked extremely confident. Professor Mcgonagall placed the hat on her head. Even though the sorting hat covered her eyes, Yasmin could slightly make out that the girl had lost some of her confidence as she began to grip the stool tight.
"Slytherin!" The sorting hat finally announced after a long time. Lisa went down the stool and headed for the Slytherin table with extreme relief.
"Yasmin - " Professor Mcgonagall paused. "Potter?" She said unsurely. Many people in the hall, including the teachers, had a bemused expression on their faces. A few were standing to see who it was.
Yasmin walked very nervously towards the sorting hat. Everyone stared at her. She could hear whispers as she walked past. Yasmin sat on the stool. She had a clear view of the whole hall, but she was soon unable to see the hall as the sorting hat was placed on her head and covered her eyes.
"Ah - " The sorting hat spoke.
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Finally I'm done!! Please, Please, Please, Review!! I know I update late but this chapter is the longest I have written! I can't update very fast, I have other thing to do too. Please Review! The More reviews, the faster I update!