Disclaimer: Yeah it's still not mine...wait for it...nope still not mine
A/N: PotterManiacGrl: Jen didn't know Harry because she never saw him April only saw him and because April didn't mention the scar how else would Jen notice him?
Sorry that I don't really have a plot I might change the Summary a little. Also, sorry for the boring chapters but you have to set up things. Well back to the story...hope you like it...
Chapter 2: The Glories of Hogwarts
After a long day of shopping April went home with Jen tagging along. They were talking about what house they wanted to get in.
"Well I wouldn't mind getting into Ravenclaw or even better Gryffindor," April said
"Yeah, Gryffindor would be fun to be in. As long as I don't get into Slytherin," Jen said
April very much agreed with Jen, because only terrible people usually got into Slytherin. "Yeah, that would be bad."
After many weeks of anticipation September 1st finally came. April was so excited she woke up at 5:00 in the morning (5:04 to be exact). She woke up and didn't want to go back to bed so she took a shower got dressed and made her own breakfast. After she fed her new owl Belle, (Jen convinced her Mom into getting her one) she named her owl after the main character in Beauty and the Beast, because that was her favorite movie, she waited and waited for her Mom to wake up.
April called Jen, finding out that she woke up just as early as April, and they drove together to King's Cross. At the station they saw a whole family full of red-heads. Seeing as April was sort of a red head, strawberry blond, she didn't really care but Jen, who has dirty blond hair, felt out of place. April just laughed to herself.
As they were waiting to go through the barrier April saw the same little boy that she saw at the Leaky Cauldron. She nudged Jen and nodded over at him.
"Ouch! What?" Jen hissed
"That's the boy I saw at the Leaky Cauldron. Do u recognize him now?" April whispered as he asked the red heads mother something.
"Oh my gosh, I do know who he is. I forgot he was our age. Oh my gosh!"
"What? Who is he?" April asked now very confused.
"Wow, we're going to be in the same school as Harry Potter."
"What? Who in the world is Harry Potter?" April asked. She didn't get her answer, because they ran through the wall taking them to platform 9 ¾.
They climbed onto the train after saying good bye to their families. They couldn't find a place to sit so they asked the red-headed boy and Harry Potter if they could sit with them.
"Sure, we don't need all this room," the redhead said. "Oh, my name is Ron by the way."
"Hello," Jen and April said at the same time
"My name is Harry Potter," Harry said.
"I noticed. My name is Jennifer, but you can just call me Jen."
"And my name's April," April said at barley a whisper.
"That's a cool name. Were you born in April?" Harry asked.
April sighed. She was always asked that question. "No, I wasn't. I was named April after my aunt."
"Oh, sorry you probably get that question asked a lot," said Harry. Wow it's like he can read my mind. Well I guess that wouldn't be so strange considering he is a wizard, April thought.
"No, it's fine. Hey, what house do you want to be in?" April asked trying to start a conversation.
"House, what do you mean?" asked Harry.
"You must've been in a cupboard your whole life to not know that," Jen said laughing a little
Harry winced at this, because he was in a cupboard for most of his life, but he wasn't about to tell them that, so he put on a forced smile and said, "Well, I live with Muggles. In fact I didn't even know that I was a wizard until July."
"Wow, that's sad but I didn't know either until you did probably," April said.
Harry smiled a little at this mostly glad that he wasn't the only one who didn't know that they were a witch or wizard until this summer. He was thinking of that when all of a sudden a girl with buck teeth and bushy hair walked in and asked, "Have you seen a toad?"
"No," they said in unison.
"Well if you see one, tell me," she scanned the room and spotted Harry. "Oh wow, I've read about you before you're Harry Potter," she said.
"Yes, I know," He said, April had to hold back a snigger. "Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm Hermione Granger. Well I better be going," she turned to leave and turned back around. "By the way, you have something on your nose," talking to Ron. "Just there," she said and then turned and left as Ron started rubbing the side of his nose.
"She was...nice. A bit frantic sounding, but nice," Jen said. Ron gave Jen a nasty look.
As day turned into night April sat by the window dressed in her robes. She sat staring out the window wondering how much longer it was until they got there when she saw a small station in the distance. "Hey, guys, we're almost there! I can see the station!"
"Finally, I was about to go talk to the conductor," Jen said
As they were walking to the lake with Hagrid, the Keeper of Keys and Grounds,
they saw the castle. It was amazing with its many windows warmly lit and the towers so tall. Harry was gaping at it.
They got across the lake safely and walked into the entrance hall. It was huge; you could've fit three houses inside it. Professor McGonagall took them from there into a tiny room just outside the Great Hall. She told them she would be right back to take them to be sorted into their houses.
"Wow, this place is amazing," Jen whispered into April ear.
A few moments later Professor McGonagall came back and led them into the Great Hall. The Great Hall really was great. There are four tables and one table at the back that looked like it had all the teachers sitting at it. The ceiling didn't look like a ceiling at all. It looked like they were back outside and they were star gazing. Harry heard Hermione whisper, "It's bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History."
In front of the teachers table was a four legged stool with an old wizard's hat on top. All of a sudden a rip in the hat opened up and started singing about the houses and what qualities they have. It also sang about how to get sorted. April was afraid for nothing all you had to do was put the hat on. Professor McGonagall started to call out names in alphabetical order.
"Abbott, Hannah!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat shouted.
She called out the names and got to "Clark, Jennifer!"
Jen took a deep breath and walked up to the hat and put it on. It paused for a moment.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Jen let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and sat down at an empty seat at the table clapping. After many more names, including a boy named Draco Malfoy who got into Slytherin before the hat even touched his head, she got down to "Genet, April!"
She walked up slowly shaking slightly and sat down on the stool with the hat on her head. Very quickly April started thinking of brave and daring things that she's done to get the hat to choose Gryffindor.
"GRYFFINDOR!" it said.
April quickly took off the hat and sat down with Jen. After April came Hermione and she was also sorted into Gryffindor. After her came many others "Moon"..., "Nott"...,"Parkinson"...and so on. Finally Harry's name was called. He nervously sat down with the hat and for a while he was just sitting and the hat was talking quietly to him when the hat yelled "GRYFFINDOR!" The whole table was erupting with applause. Ron was one of the last people called and he was also sorted into Gryffindor. After Professor Dumbledore said a few words, (Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!)they had dinner. It was enormous. After they were stuffed they sand the school song and were told to not go into the Forbidden Forest or the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side.
After dinner they were led into the common room on the seventh floor. It was really cozy and there was a fire going. The girls' dormitories were up one way and the boys up the other way. April and Jen said good night to Harry and Ron and went up the stairs to have a good nights sleep.
The next day was interesting. Everyone quickly found their favorite teachers and what steps up and down the staircases were tricks. A boy, Neville, kept falling through the same one.
Soon enough after you found your class there were the actual classes. There is a lot more to magic then just saying funny words and waving your wand around. At midnight every Wednesday they studied the stars and movements of the planets. Herbology was three times a week with Professor Sprout. History of Magic, with Professor Binns who is the only ghost teacher at Hogwarts, was easily the most boring class.
Charms was taught by Professor Flitwick who is so short he has to stand on a huge stack of books. When he reached Harry's name during attendance he toppled over. Professor McGonagall taught transfiguration, and was very strict.
Quirrell's lessons were a bit of a joke. He always smelt like garlic, some people think he kept garlic in his turban.
April and Harry were gland to find out there were more people that came from Muggle families then just them. Even Ron and Jen didn't have a very good head start.
April and Jen were walking down to breakfast on Friday morning and sat down across from Ron and Harry.
"Hi guys," Jen said sleepily. "What do we have today?"
"Double Potions with the Slytherins," Harry said.
"That will be interesting," April said completely awake. "He's the head of Slytherin House, I heard he favors them."
"I already knew that and I told Harry that before you arrived," Ron said looking at April and noticing her legs bouncing up and down at a fast pace. "Are you alright? You seem to be very awake this morning."
April giggled, "I'm not usually a morning person, but I found a chocolate frog in my trunk this morning and ate it before I came down here."
"Oh! That's why you were practically hopping down the stairs this earlier," Jen said
April giggled again. "Yup! Harry you're awfully quiet this morning. How come?"
"I'm having more fun watching you squirm around in your seat," he said with a huge smile on his face.
"I'm Bored. Are you bored? Cause I am. I need something to do like run, or jump or swim, or fly! Oh we should go fly!" April said this all very fast so the only words they caught were bored, run, and fly.
There was a long pause when Jen finally said "What in the world did you just say?" but Jen never heard her answer as April was skipping out the doors. "We should never, EVER give her sugar again," Jen said as they followed April out the doors.
They found her out side spinning around in a grassy area by the lake. "What in the world are you doing?" Harry asked
"Spinning 'cause its fun to get dizzy and fall over and see the sky spin around," April said
"Okay..." Jen said
"Come on join me Jenny! You know you want to," April said now on the ground her eyes unfocused. "You too Harry and Ron!"
"Er, we need to go to class now and I would suggest coming with us," Ron said
"Okay!"
"Wow that was easier than I thought it would be," Jen said watching April skip back up to the castle. Harry and Ron just shook their heads while walking towards the castle to the dungeons.
A/N: OK I know it was boring but rate anyways I promise it will get more exciting!
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