The Power of Four
Death Threats
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I do not own J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories!
Jackie woke up one morning to an eagle-like owl. The owl started to peck at her face. "Go away." she muttered in her sleep.
Jackie just got back yesterday from her vacation with her parents in California and was really tired. "5 more minutes mom." she said as the owl continued to peck at her.
The owl was fed up with Jackie's behavior and decided to poke her really hard in the stomach. This resulted in Jackie jerking upward.
"Ah! No more gravy! Oh it was just a dream…"
Jackie looked around the room to see what woke her up. Her eyes then settled in on an owl sitting on the bed.
"Hoot!" It said.
Jackie noticed that the owl looked familiar. "Hey your Nehal's owl!"
"Hoot!"
"Alright, calm down!" Jackie slowly got out of her bed and put Nehal's owl with her owl Joey Joe Bob together and gave them some food. She looked outside the window and it was still dark. "Jesus Christ what time is it!"
She looked at her clock and saw that it was 6:30 am. "Great…just what I needed…a wake up call."
Jackie sat back down on her bed and read the letter Nehal sent her.
Hey Jaxs
What's up?
Danie and Hey Hey came over to my house yesterday. You can come too! It will be really fun! Except for the fact that my sister is really busy so we have to sleep in my basement. There's a BQQ at the Ministry of Magic and since my sister works there and my family is invited and you guys as well. I'm pretty sure the Malfoys are invited (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) Then we can go to Diagon Alley and stuff like that. If you can come at 6:00 by floo powder and if you can't come…we'll stick pick you up!
Love ya,
Nehal
P.S. Send Arrow with a reply A.S.A.P.
"Finally she tells me his name." Jackie muttered. "Sounds like her alright!" And she went back to the letter. There was a P.S.S.
P.S.S. Ian and family are invited too! I have a feeling Danie is gonna be busy! No boys yet. I still haven't gotten over Dean! Anyway…
See ya and bye again
"Well." thought Jackie. "Since my parents aren't up yet all just lie down here and close my eyes and dream of the land of chocolate…Mmm…chocolate."
4 hours later:
Jackie woke up and remembered Nehal's letter. "Oh shit I must have slept longer than I expected I would!"
Jackie went downstairs to breakfast where her family who was already up and eating. She got herself some frosted flakes cereal.
Her younger brother James said, "Why are you eating that cereal?"
"Cause I am!"
"Why?"
"Cause its good!"
"Why?"
"Cause Tony the tiger is my hero okay!"
"Jackie and James please stop fighting!" said Mr. Allan
"James started it!" protested Jackie
"No Jackie did!" answered James
"I said that was enough!" Mr. Allan said louder this time. Jackie and James lapsed into silence.
Jackie decided it would be best to talk to her mom about Nehal's letter. Her mom was reading The Daily Prophet while sitting in the dinning room.
"Mom can I go to Nehal's for the last two weeks of this summer. She sent me an owl early in the morning."
"Sure! When should I take you there?"
"Oh Mom you don't have to, there planning to travel by floo powder at 6:00!"
"Well…I don't think that's a good idea…you know with your father?" (Jackie's father is a muggle)
"But Mom!"
"Fine! I'll see if there's a way I can get your father out of the house."
"Yay!"
Jackie went upstairs and quickly wrote a letter to Nehal.
Hey Neh Neh
I can come! I can't wait! My mom is going to try and get my dad out of the house so he won't be shocked about the whole floo powder thing!
Bye gurl
P.S. Please come and get me soon! I'm so bored!
P.S.S. Tell Danie and Hey Hey I said hi
Jackie
Later that day at Nehal's house…
Nehal was playing wizard's chess with Heather and Nehal's older sister Manali was giving Danielle a lecture about Cornelius Fudge.
"Fudge is a very determined man. He's a hard worker and a good chef…"
Danielle didn't really want to be a part of the conversation but she looked out the window and saw Nehal's owl Arrow coming. "Hey Nehal it's your owl!"
Nehal walked over to the window sill where Arrow was. "He's got Jackie's reply!"
"Well…" Heather said. "Can she come?"
"Oh no!" said Manali. "You are not inviting anymore friends over!"
Nehal smiled. "Too late she can come!"
"Great! A circus in the house! How am I supposed to work?" said Manali
"My friends are no circus!" argued Nehal
"I meant you and your friends included."
"How dare you!" shouted Nehal.
Meanwhile Danielle and Heather were watching amused. One of the soldiers on the chess board said, "Someone move me so I can knock the king's head off!"
"You are not going to cut my head off! Our defenses need to hold!" said the king.
Nehal and Manali both looked at the chess board. "Shut up!" they said
"Now where was I?" said Nehal. "Oh yes…how dare you accuse my friends and I of being in a circus!"
Mrs. Pradhan came into the living room and said, "Silenco!"
Both Nehal and Manali became mute.
"Ahh…that's better!" she said and went back to the kitchen. Nehal turned to Danielle and Heather and made a gesture to undo the spell.
"What? Charades?" said Heather
"Oh, oh! Two words. First word…huh?" said Danielle. "This is confusing Heather you try!"
"Take out? Mmm…take out."
Nehal made another gesture kind of like a beak
Danielle said, "Bird, Owl, Sunshine!"
Heather said, "She's pointing to herself so maybe she wants to be a bird!"
"No, apparently not!"
"She's pointing to a wand! What's that got to do with anything?"
Manali rolled her eyes and grabbed the wand from the table and gave it to Heather. Manali write down the spell and also gave it to Heather and pointed to herself and Nehal. Nehal pushed Manali out of the way and pointed to herself. Manali pushed Nehal out of the way and pointed to herself!
"Their mute!" Danielle and Heather said at the same time.
"Oh…I get it now." said Heather
"Yeah…" replied Danielle
Mrs. Pradhan could hear them arguing in the distance. "Oh dear!" she said. She came back into the room; she undid the spell for her two daughters. "I don't want another word! Nehal take your friends to the basement, Manali go upstairs to your room…NOW!"
A/N: Yay! I've started the 2nd book in the series. I know this chapter is getting boring, but trust me it gets so much better! Stay tuned for more and don't forget to review!