Title: Change was all they Needed
Author: twinsRus87 (Lauren)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor/Romance
Summary:
AU! post ootp Laurali from the US joins Harry in his 5th year hogwarts and then soon the important truth (about her and Harry's past) is discovered as a new teachers comes to teach.Will Hogwarts be better with all the changes she helps make?
AN: Hey! If you're reading this, then that would mean that you have decided to read my story! This is my first fanfic ever. I decided to write this because I spend a lot of time reading different fics so I figured that I would write one too.
I have to admit that I wasn't extremely impressed with J.K. Rowling's Order of the Phoenix, so this story takes place in Harry's 5th year. Although this is his 5th year, there will be ideas from Rowling's story. You might find some ideas similar, and in some cases, I will take excerpts from the original novel and place them here. But I do bold them, and I will point them out to you so no one thinks that I take the credit.
The character in this chapter, Laurali Richardson is the American transfer. My story basically takes place around her. For the first few chapters, the POV will change from Laurali to harry. That stops later on, and the POV is mostly in Laurali's.
One thing that I would also like to say is that I have always had trouble with writing POV's, so for the first few chapters that are not BETA-ed, you may notice a difference. For this, I am sorry, but believe me when I say that I am working on it.
Now I have to warn you that I am an extremely strong writer, so you'll have to bear with me. And, to make some sort of a defense, WORD likes to change things without my consent. If you notice any grammar mistakes or anything that you find confusing, please point them out to me in a REVIEW so that I would modify that.
This chapter, is just a sort of background chapter, if you will, it introduces Laurali (AKA LAUR). It says some of the things that she likes to do, where she lives, etc.
Now, we have the first chapter, Just the Beginning. And REMEMBER TO REVIEW!
Chapter 1: Just the Beginning
Harry Potter woke up suddenly. He was having a reoccurring dream, well, no; we wouldn't call it a dream. For it actually happened. He was having a dreadful event replay in his mind. One that Harry knows will make a big difference in the Wizarding world.
This event occurred just a couple of months ago, on June 24, at the Triwizard Tournament.
Harry had witnessed a classmate, Cedric Diggory be murdered. And then not long after that, he was forced to be involved with the rebirth of Lord Voldemort. Voldemort, or Tom Riddle actually, was an ugly, egotistical moron who wants to kill Harry. This ugly moron calls it revenge. Harry calls it a living pain in the ass. Anything and everything bad always happens to him, past, present, and future.
Rita Skeeter, enjoyed writing false articles about Harry and then letting the entire Wizarding world read them. The Slytherins, the students who were most likely associated with Voldemort, and the Hufflepuffs for a short time last year loved to quote the articles and give Harry a hard time about all of it.
His parents were dead, so Harry lived with his very-muggle like aunt and uncle, and their son Dudley. These people love making Harry's life a living hell as well. At least he didn't have to live with them most of the time. Just only in Harry's 3rd year at Hogwarts, he discovered that he had a godfather, Sirius Black. But poor Sirius, a wrongfully accused convict, couldn't be free for Harry to live with him.
Of all these bad things that happened to Harry, there are some good. Harry has two great friends. Ron and Hermione. They always tried to help Harry in the best way possible. They also get in trouble together a lot, which means detention. Some of the things they have done weren't their fault in the past, other times it was. I guess that's how it goes. Professor Dumbledore was like Harry's grandfather. He's always looking out for Harry, and was the only person to believe him about Sirius' innocence.
Dumbledore was very trustworthy, which is always a good quality.
Now back to this awful "dream". Harry is awoken, and he is feeling depressed and pissed off.
Glancing at his alarm clock, which read 6:30a.m. He gets out of bed and starts to get dressed.
"Great. You'd think that I'd be able to sleep but no. I mean, it's only my summer vacation, and I'm at Hogwarts," Harry angrily said before grabbing his Firebolt. "I'm going down flying Hedwig, I'll be back later." Hedwig was his pet owl, which was given to Harry by Hagrid on his 11th birthday.
In Massachusetts, USA
"What-the-fuck-is-that-beeping-noise??" Laurali said, rather annoyed. She threw her covers over her head trying to get in position to stifle the noise. Deciding that nothing can be down she runs into her brother Jay's room and finds his alarm clock making that awful beeping noise.
'How the hell can he sleep through that?'She thinks. 'Too bad I don't have a sledgehammer. That would stop it' she smirks suddenly, as if really thinking about finding the tool and smashing the clock in to pieces. But knowing how much trouble she'd be in, she just slams the SNOOZE button, and then turns off the alarm so it won't start again.
Knowing that she wont be able to fall back to sleep, she grabs a blanket off her bed and goes downstairs to the living room to watch TV.
"Nothing on… Nothing…"she mumbled flipping through the channels. 'Well of course nothing is on, its only 7 am, and not even the little kids are up yet. I'll just have to watch a movie,' she thinks.'But not before I get some food.'
Sitting down with buttermilk waffles, some ham and grapes, she presses the play button on her VCR to watch Beauty and the Beast.
Laurali, was an American muggleborn teenage witch who lived in Massachusetts. She currently was spending her summer vacation swimming, hanging out with her muggle friends, and babysitting. The school she went to was in Salem, Mass. the Salem Witch's Institute, only about 20 minutes from her home. It wasn't an overnight school, so she lived at home. She did have friends there, but they were all vacationing out of the country. But she didn't go on many vacations far away, just mainly to the beach and to Rhode Island for the weekends.
Her hobbies included music, movies, dance, and bowling.
Without music in her life, she felt like she'd die. It was that important to her. Her favorite movie from that summer was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Everybody likes to dance, which is her opinion. She took classes at a nearby dance studio to study the classics. Ballets, pointe, jazz and lyrical, were her dances of choice. Tap dances in her opinion are fun to watch, but not to dance in. And although she wasn't very gifted in bowling, she loved going to bowl anyways.
