Milky Neon; Hiya! waves Hehehe patience is a very good trait. I unfortunately am not blessed with such a trait.

Mugglenet27-hey there Britt! You read this story? I thought you'd hate it. hehe. Sorry I haven't been online very much lately. My AIM is down and my computer freezes almost everytime I try to use AOL IMing. mrf.

yeah, I'm sick of disclaimers. It's mine, all mine. -cackles and steals JKRowling's ideas out of her head-

sorry for the delay ...again...

now, on to the story...


The Box
Early the next morning, Dumbledore called Lani, Anna, Eliza and Will to his office, saying that Anna had to be sorted. They all hiked up to his office, said the password ("Canary Cream"), and knocked on the door to his office. Lani noticed that Anna was walking on the right of Eliza, who was on Lani's right, and Will was her left. She also realized that Anna and Will didn't speak at all, which made her a bit nervous that her friends may not all get along.

Professor Dumbledore Greeted them cheerfully, waving Anna to sit down on a chair in front of his desk. She sat down and looked around the room in wonder, admiring the intricate architecture, the paintings of past headmasters and mistresses conversing and moving from picture to picture. But her gaze rested on a single, majestic bird. Fawkes.

Dumbledore took the sorting hat off of a shelf and was about to put it on Anna's head when she cried out,"What does that thing do?" Lani and Eliza giggled. Dumbledore's eyes twinkled and Will gave her a weird look, that seemed to say "you're afraid of a hat?"

"It only speaks to you, telling you what house you'd do best in, nothing bad."

He placed the hat on her head. "A squib?" Anna jumped when the hat said it and nodded mutely."It's been centuries since we've had a squib at Hogwarts. Anyway, you're definately a GRYFFINDOR!" Anna took the hat off and eyed it cagily.

Lani ran up and hugged her, "you're in Gryffindor! YAY!" Eliza also congratulated her and Lani could have sworn she heard Will mutter, "oh, just great.." but she wasn't sure.

Dumbledore told Anna that a house elf would bring her robes into the first year Gryffindor girls dormitories within minutes. He then told Lani, Eliza, and Will off to breakfast, promising that they'd see Anna later that day in potions class.


During breakfast, Will finally spoke his thoughts to his friends. "I dunno, something about her. Bad vibes." He shuddered and continued. "She freaks me out for some reason. You say you've known her for a while. Lan?"

Lani nodded. "Will, are you sure you're not over reacting? I've known Anna forever. She's been a great friend. I couldn't imagine her ever hurting me or any of my friends."

Eliza agreed whole-heartedly. "I love her! She's so cool and isn't her dog so cool? He's sooo smart!" Will, knowing he was out-numbered, shut up. He just shook his head and picked at his food.

That was when the owls with the post flew in. Moonsong and Hedwig flew up to her, struggling with a large parcel.

"Oooh, Lani open it! what is it?" Eliza was excited for her friend. "I dunno. I think it's from my dad.. help me open it!" Lani gave Hedwig and Moonsong each a peice of her bacon and they hooted happily before flying off to the owlry.

Lani, Eliza and Will all tore at peices of the box, trying to reliquish a large peice of masking tapes hold on the box. They finally got it open. It appered that there were many objects piled on top of each other, but there was a letter on top of everything. Lani opedned it up and read:

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Dear Elana,

Enclosed are a few things that I've been saving a while for my children when they got old enough. I think you're old enough now to appreciate these things I've included. Also, send your friends my regards.

Love,

Dad.

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Lani pulled the first thing out of the box, she was dissapointed to see that it was a blank piece of parchment. She set it on the table and looked at the next thing.

It was a wooden box about the size of a shoebox. It had intricate carvings of lions and horses around the boarder of it and in the middle it said 'Elana Lily Potter' in a sort of cursive. She tried to open the beautiful wooden box but couldn't. She saw that their was a lock on the handle and glared at it before looking to see if there was another way to open the box. Why woud he send me something I can't open!

On the bottom of the box there was a note. It said in her father's messy handwriting: Keep this box until you graduate Hogwarts. Only then will it allow you to open it. Keep this box very safe. It will be worth the wait once you're seventeen.

The note made Lani long to see what was in the box more than before she reluctantly handed it to Eliza just as Will said, "Look! There's something written here!" He was holding up the blank parchment in one hand, a small pice of parchment with a couple of words scribbled on it in the other.

"Ooh, what does it say!" Lani jumped up peered over his shoulder to read the paper.

Eliza gingerly put down the wooden box and and looked as well. But the words on the paper confused them: I solemly swear that I'm up to no good.

"What on earth does that mean?" Lani read the note over and over, trying to figure it out.

"dunno," Will said, taping the note back onto the blank parchment and putting the parchment and wooden box back into the box they came in. "But we're going to be late for Transfiguration if we don't leave now; we can figure this out later."

They all gathered up their things and were off to transfiguration.


I know. It's still dumb and short but I just got extremely tired. I have no school tomorrow so hopefully I'll get another update in tomorrow. ALSO: I gots a question(I just love my made up words,Lol) If you're reading any of my other stories, can you tell me what story you want updated first? I'll update at least one tomorrow and if you want me to update one and particular, please tell me in a review. I'll try to do two if any one wants me to. :) K, Britt, I tried to make a longer chappy.

okies, that was a dumb ending, wasn't it?

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