I'm so sorry! gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I am having the absolute worst case of writers block imaginable. Also stabs computer My computer is so slow and freezy and dumb.
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Now you can all yell at Gabi. Oh go on, yell. hides
Milky neon- Lol. I know what you mean about siblings. thanks sooo much for reviewing every chapter even though I'm being a slacker with writing. I LOVE your reviews and really really really appreciate them. :) Feel free to harass me until I write more if I'm taking too long, it may work, Lol.
okies, now on to the story! I've taken long enough as it is.
Disclaimer: I think I've said it enough times by now that you know that this isn't mine, but if you want to think that go ahead :)
"You're coming? What? But muggles can't even see Hogwarts properly ... to them-you -- it looks like a run-down thing with a 'DO Not Enter-Dangerous' sign or something like that-" Anna cut Lani off.
"I'm not a muggle." She looked at Rain, "Car" she told him and he scurried out the front door. Smart dog, Lani thought, watching him run outside.
Who?
Shut the heck up! Have you nothing better to do than read my mind?
Not right now. Lani ignored him, much more interested in what Anna had to say.
"Huh? You're not a witch ... are you?" This was just getting weirder and weirder.
"Nope. I'm a squib. I can't learn the magic at Hogwarts but I can learn some Herbology, Potions, ride a broom and learn theories on some other stuff." She then looked at her feet sadly and added quietly, "Where else could I go, anyway?" she wiped her eyes angrily so Lani wouldn't catch the tears her eyes brimmed with.
"You're a squib? Woah! What about your dream of being the first female jujitsu Grand Master in centuries? When your dad passes his Grand Master status to you?" Lani was appalled that her friend was a squib and giving up her dream of being a Grand Master in the Jui-Jitsu style of Martial Arts. Her father was the current Grand Master and she was a Brown belt. Anna was adopted so Lani wasn't surprised that she wouldn't have known she was a squib, though.
"I don't have a father anymore, Elana. He-he" she bit her lip to hold back a sob and continued, "He died. He's gone and that's why I'm here. That Pettigrew and his corrupt friends killed him and my sister and destroyed my house. I took some things and packed them early this morning. Professor Dumbledore also said that I can bring Rain with me to Hogwarts." They were interrupted by Harry.
"We're going to be late! Come on out here we've got to go now!"
The girls stopped talking and ran to the car, each silently vowing to talk about the subject more later.
The car ride to kings cross seemed to take forever. As they passed the dojo Anna's father used to run, Anna looked sadly out the window of the car but said nothing. Anna always hid her emotions in front of people when she could.
They got to King's Cross station so late that they had to practically jump on the train as it was pulling out of the station. When they got in the train, Lani looked for Eliza as Anna gawked at everything and everyone.
Lani finally found Eliza sitting by herself and staring out the window at the passing fields. Sitting next to her was an owl that was unmistakably Moonsong. Lani snuck up behind her.
"BOO!" she grabbed her friend's shoulders. Eliza shrieked and spun around, "Lani! Omigosh, you scared the life out of me!" she noticed Anna and said more quietly, "Who's the girl? And the.. dog? Dogs aren't allowed in Hogwarts.."
Lani remembered. "Oh yah! Anna, this is Eliza Longbottom. Eliza, this is Anna Moore, she's a squib..." Lani and Anna explained things and Eliza caught them up on what happened on her break. She explained that she had Moonsong with her because the owl had arrived with Lani's latest letter the afternoon before so Eliza just kept him until they saw each other.
When they got to Hogwarts, it was dark and dinner was finished. Everyone was staring at Rain as the German Shepherd dog pranced between the two girls. Lani, Eliza, and Anna had become pretty good friends and were chatting amiably when they got to the Gryffindor tower. Will was waiting for them in the Gryffindor common room. Lani and Eliza introduced Anna and explained everything, as well as the fact that Dumbledore said that Rain was allowed to stay at Hogwarts with Anna because of her circumstances. Lani didn't know why, but Will and Anna didn't seem to hit it off as well as Anna and Eliza did. Lani ignored that and went to bed relatively happy.
I'm sorry that was such a gay ending but I wanted to get this chapter out tonight so I don't have people angry with me. I'm so sorry that it took me so long to post this chapter, life's been getting in the way quite a bit lately.
