I have just gotten some inspiration for this story. I went and saw the 3rd Harry Potter movie
the day after it came out, and so I thought I would update this as fast as I could. Just a note,
I won't be updating as much or as fast as I have been. I'll be pretty busy for a while.
A New Dawn
Chapter Two,
Classes
After dinner that night, Hermione, Ron, Harry and Serena trudged the long halls up to the Gryffindor common room. Serena was still thinking about what she had dreamt about when the dementor came into the train.
It had been too blurry to see anything clearly. But she remembered the energy ball. It was pure black in color and very powerful.
All the girls went into their room to sleep. Most of the girls fell asleep. But Serena lay awake in her bed thinking of the coming up classes and such and thinking what she was going to do that school year.
She couldn't sleep, so she decided to go down to the common room and sit in front of the fire. She got out a piece of parchment and started writing a letter to her mother and father. When she went to get the parchment, she found a news paper, or rather, The Daily Prophet stuck in there. It had a picture of Sirius Black on the front with a warning and tid-bit about him.
Serena wondered why that was in there. Then she found the scrapbook her mother and father had given her for her 11th birthday.
Serena looked through it and smiled at the pictures and all the memories they brought back. There were some of the family vacation to Italy. Josh and Mina weren't too excited about the trip, but Serena was. She had wanted to go to Italy for a long time, and then they finally went. Then they went to Paris and saw the sights there. They had lots of fun and got really dark tans.
Then there was one of just Serena and her Dad when they went to San Francisco. They were standing on the Golden Gate Bridge. That was the finest trip Serena had been on besides Italy.
Serena turned the page. Ilene had added more pages to it this year. This one was of a couple Serena didn't know. But she had a good idea of who they were. The man had the same unruly black hair as a certain kid she knew, and the young lady had long red hair and vivid green eyes.
'They must be Harry's parents.' thought Serena as she took the page out of the three ring binder it was in. She was going to give it to Harry in the morning.
Then she looked on the one page after that and it was a picture of a wedding. Or, more precise,
Lily and James's wedding. Serena smiled. She turned the page and saw more wedding pictures.
Standing in the receiving line was Lily in the middle, then her friend Hotaru to the left of her and then Ilene. Serena looked at the grooms side and saw only three people. One of them looked suspiciously like the man they saw on the train. The one that was closet to James also had black hair, and bright blue eyes. The other was short, and had mousy brow hair. He resembled that of a mouse.
Serena smiled as she looked at the pictures. She took all the ones out of Lily and James, and was going to give them to Harry in the morning.
Serena climbed the stairs to the girls' dormitories. She sat on the windowsil that was by her bed and looked out the window for a while.
All she saw was rain. She thought she saw something moving down in the trees, but didn't put any effort into finding out what it was. After all, it was probably Hermione's cat, Crookshanks.
Serena decided that she really needed to go to sleep, otherwise she would be sorry if she fell asleep in classes the next day.
"Good morning, everybody." said Hermione cheerily the next day.
Serena smiled. "'Morning," she replied, getting her clothes out of her trunk and going to get changed.
All the girls left for the Great Hall except for Hermione and Serena, who were taking the time they needed to get ready.
"You said you spent your Summer in France?" Serena asked Hermione, who nodded.
"It was beautiful there," she replied.
Serena smiled. "Me and my family took a family trip to Paris one year. It was really fun. And I swear I gained five pouds with all the cresants and French bread I ate there."
Hermione and Serena got to talking about their experiences in France. Some of them were quite the same and others were totally different.
"Me and Mina were walking passed an ice cream parlor," said Serena, "And we saw these two people.
Let's just say they weren't focusing on their ice cream." Hermione giggled. "I didn't encounter any thing like that before. That would be quite the sight."
"Yeah, it was to Mina. After we passed she was laughing and I was trying to hide my red face. Mina won't ever let me live it down." replied Serena, grinning.
The two girls hurried down to the Great Hall and started eating breakfast. Hermione was eating full throttle. Serena grinned. "You're going to make yourself sick, 'Mione." she stated.
"Yeah, but you know my schedule. I've gotta go," replied Hermione getting up and hurrying out of the Great Hall.
Serena grinned shaking her head. She resumed eating her breakfast.
"Hey, squirt." came an annoyingly familiar voice.
Serena turned and looked at him. "Oh, hi, I don't believe I know you. Can I help you with something?"
she said sweetly.
He scowled. "Very funny," he replied as he sat down next to her.
Serena grinned. "What's your first class?" she asked.
"DADA," replied Josh.
Serena scowled. "That's not FAIR!" she said rather loudly, making all the passersby stare at her. She scowled them away. "I wanted DADA,"
Josh simply smiled. "Well, tough luck, lil sis." he said, getting up and started heading for the exit.
Then he turned around and went back to Serena. "Meet me and Mina tonight at midnight in the common room."
She was a little confused about this, but agreed all the same. It had to have been something important.
"What do you think it'll be like?" asked Serena to Harry and Ron as they were making their way up to North Tower and Divination. "I don't know. Probably just another class to snooze in," replied Ron, grinning.
Harry rolled his eyes. "Yes, and snoozing has EVERYTHING to do with what Sere just asked. Honestly Ron." he said.
Ron glared at him and was about to say something when Serena put in quickly, "What do YOU think it will be like,
Harry?" "Honestly, I don't know." said Harry as Ron cracked up laughing.
Serena smiled. "You guys are hopeless, you know that? I've heard a lot about it from Mina. She says it's just a bunch of rubbish." she said.
"Well, Mina says a lot of things that aren't true, doesn't she?" asked Parvati Patil. "You should know, you live with her,"
Serena rolled her eyes. "She's not a liar, if that's what you mean. Besides, she's my sister. Are sisters ALWAYS supposed to be honest with one another?"
Lavender Brown chimed in. "Whenever possible they are,"
"Oh, drop it you guys. Mina's my sister and that's all there is to it." said Serena. "I haven't had any reason not to trust her so I don't think I'll just suddenly change my mind. But thank you for your concern. I'm sure Mina will appreciate it." Lavender and Parvati hurried away up into the line that was waiting to get into Divination.
"Wow! That was awesome!" said Ron. "If somebody came up and told me they thought one of my siblings was a liar, I would have-"
"Let them have it?" asked Serena, laughing. She knew him way too well. Then she turned to Harry who was frowning.
"Ah, Harry, I'm sorry if we made you upset," said Serena sincerly. "But we just like to make fun of our siblings.
Nothing special."
Harry shook his head, grinning. "Yeah, I'm sure that was REAL painful for you, sticking up for your sister and all,"
Serena hit her hand to her head. "I set myself up for that one, didn't I?" ......................
"Ouch," muttered Serena as she spilled some boiling water on her hand. There was a blister already starting. "Darn it,"
She took her seat next to Ron and Harry at their table. Ron was reading Harry's tea leafs and from the sounds of it wasn't having very much luck.
"Let me see it, Ron. Maybe it just needs a lady reading it," said Serena, taking the cup Ron handed her. She looked through her book and twisted the cup around just as Professor Trelawney explained to do.
"Well, Harry, those things there look like vultures." said Serena, looking confused. "What would vultures be doing in your cup? Anyway... This here looks like a goat... And this HERE looks like a big giant dog." The three heard the breaking of a cup and looked up to see Professor Trelawney's shocked expression. "What did you say that looked like, dear?" she asked.
"A big dog," replied Serena, confused. "What does it mean, Professor?"
Professor Trelawney held her heart. "My dear, that's the Grim." she said.
"The death omen sign?" asked Serena calmly. Then she looked at her cup. "What does mine say, Professor?" The shocked and nearly hysterical Professor took Serena's pink tea cup in her hands and read it. After finishing reading it she told the class. "Class dismissed,"
Everybody got up to leave, including Serena, but Professor Trelawney stopped her. "No dear, stay. We need to discuss what was in your cup,"
Serena sat patiently in her seat while all the other students left. "I'll catch up with you," said Serena to Harry and Ron.
Professor Trelawney looked at the huge clock on the wall. "I only have five minutes to explain this to you, so listen carefully. In your cup was death...Not just the death omen sign...But the real thing. It also said of an adventure, the likes of which you've never seen before. It also said a lot about your friends, how you need to protect them... Do you understand, my dear?" Serena nodded. "Yes, Professor. I do," Trelawney nodded. "You may go,"
Serena caught up with Harry and Ron and Hermione just in time for the next class, Transfiguration. The four kids took a seat in the back. The lesson was on Animagi, but Harry wasn't listening. His mind was on other things. The Grim, mainly. But then the other thing his mind was on was the escape of Sirius Black and how he was supposed to be after him.
Serena looked over at Harry and noticed that he wasn't listening, so she smiled and took notes for him too. It was an interesting lesson. She especially liked it when Professor McGonagall turned into a cat. But when her mind wasn't on the lesson, it was on her cup. She wondered what her next adventure would be. She was thinking about what Trelawney had said. '...the likes of which you've never seen before'
Whatever it would be, she was excited about it.
Serena was sitting in her usual arm chair by the fire, waiting for Josh and Mina to come down. It was a quarter after 12am and she was starting to get drowsy. She wasn't used to staying up this late; her mother made her go to sleep by 10:00pm or 10:30pm.
Finally they entered the common room, carrying a paper. They both looked a little wary, but other than that they were happy to see that Serena was still awake.
Mina looked at Josh, then sat down next to Serena. "Hey, Sere," she said, smiling. "I heard what you said to that Patel girl when she was making fun of me. That was really classy."
Serena just blushed. "Thanks,"
"So, how did your classes go?" asked Josh, sitting down next to Mina. He smiled at his youngest sister.
"Fine. I really liked McGonagall's lesson. It was on Animagi. It was excellent. And Divination was sort of fun, too, although Hermione didn't think so. She quit on the spot," replied Serena, smiling at the memory.
"How was DADA?" she asked Josh, who grinned.
"It was great. Professor Lupin is a good teacher," he replied.
Serena looked between Mina and Josh. They kept looking at each other. She looked at them confused.
Mina hesitantly pulled out a letter from her pocket and gave it to Serena. "Mom says your old enough to read this," she said. Josh and Mina watched as Serena read each line with careful concentration. They watched her expression change from confusion to anger. They're hearts broke as they watched her blue eyes filled with tears.
Serena slowly folded the letter up and stuffed it back into the envelop. She felt sick. She didn't want to know what was in the letter now.
"You guys knew, didn't you?" asked Serena in a hoarse voice. Her eyes brimming with hot tears. She looked at her brother and sister. "You knew all the time!" Mina looked down and nodded. "Yes," she replied quietly.
Serena nodded and was going up to bed. She was shaking with anger. Her own family had kept this information from her! The people she was supposed to trust had lied to her all these years! "Sere," said Mina in a quiet voice. "Don't be too angry at all of us." Serena stopped in her tracks. "Don't be too mad at you? That's kind of hard right now because, at the moment, I don't want to be with either of you." She continued on her way up to the dormitories.
Once she was in her bed she closed the hangings around her bed and threw the blanket over her head and started crying. Dealing with all this was not going to be easy on the young girl...maybe even impossible.
Okay, end of chapter. Thought that looked like a good place to end, so there you have it. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.
R&R or flame, if you want. Thanks for reading.
I won't be updating as much or as fast as I have been. I'll be pretty busy for a while.
A New Dawn
Chapter Two,
Classes
After dinner that night, Hermione, Ron, Harry and Serena trudged the long halls up to the Gryffindor common room. Serena was still thinking about what she had dreamt about when the dementor came into the train.
It had been too blurry to see anything clearly. But she remembered the energy ball. It was pure black in color and very powerful.
All the girls went into their room to sleep. Most of the girls fell asleep. But Serena lay awake in her bed thinking of the coming up classes and such and thinking what she was going to do that school year.
She couldn't sleep, so she decided to go down to the common room and sit in front of the fire. She got out a piece of parchment and started writing a letter to her mother and father. When she went to get the parchment, she found a news paper, or rather, The Daily Prophet stuck in there. It had a picture of Sirius Black on the front with a warning and tid-bit about him.
Serena wondered why that was in there. Then she found the scrapbook her mother and father had given her for her 11th birthday.
Serena looked through it and smiled at the pictures and all the memories they brought back. There were some of the family vacation to Italy. Josh and Mina weren't too excited about the trip, but Serena was. She had wanted to go to Italy for a long time, and then they finally went. Then they went to Paris and saw the sights there. They had lots of fun and got really dark tans.
Then there was one of just Serena and her Dad when they went to San Francisco. They were standing on the Golden Gate Bridge. That was the finest trip Serena had been on besides Italy.
Serena turned the page. Ilene had added more pages to it this year. This one was of a couple Serena didn't know. But she had a good idea of who they were. The man had the same unruly black hair as a certain kid she knew, and the young lady had long red hair and vivid green eyes.
'They must be Harry's parents.' thought Serena as she took the page out of the three ring binder it was in. She was going to give it to Harry in the morning.
Then she looked on the one page after that and it was a picture of a wedding. Or, more precise,
Lily and James's wedding. Serena smiled. She turned the page and saw more wedding pictures.
Standing in the receiving line was Lily in the middle, then her friend Hotaru to the left of her and then Ilene. Serena looked at the grooms side and saw only three people. One of them looked suspiciously like the man they saw on the train. The one that was closet to James also had black hair, and bright blue eyes. The other was short, and had mousy brow hair. He resembled that of a mouse.
Serena smiled as she looked at the pictures. She took all the ones out of Lily and James, and was going to give them to Harry in the morning.
Serena climbed the stairs to the girls' dormitories. She sat on the windowsil that was by her bed and looked out the window for a while.
All she saw was rain. She thought she saw something moving down in the trees, but didn't put any effort into finding out what it was. After all, it was probably Hermione's cat, Crookshanks.
Serena decided that she really needed to go to sleep, otherwise she would be sorry if she fell asleep in classes the next day.
"Good morning, everybody." said Hermione cheerily the next day.
Serena smiled. "'Morning," she replied, getting her clothes out of her trunk and going to get changed.
All the girls left for the Great Hall except for Hermione and Serena, who were taking the time they needed to get ready.
"You said you spent your Summer in France?" Serena asked Hermione, who nodded.
"It was beautiful there," she replied.
Serena smiled. "Me and my family took a family trip to Paris one year. It was really fun. And I swear I gained five pouds with all the cresants and French bread I ate there."
Hermione and Serena got to talking about their experiences in France. Some of them were quite the same and others were totally different.
"Me and Mina were walking passed an ice cream parlor," said Serena, "And we saw these two people.
Let's just say they weren't focusing on their ice cream." Hermione giggled. "I didn't encounter any thing like that before. That would be quite the sight."
"Yeah, it was to Mina. After we passed she was laughing and I was trying to hide my red face. Mina won't ever let me live it down." replied Serena, grinning.
The two girls hurried down to the Great Hall and started eating breakfast. Hermione was eating full throttle. Serena grinned. "You're going to make yourself sick, 'Mione." she stated.
"Yeah, but you know my schedule. I've gotta go," replied Hermione getting up and hurrying out of the Great Hall.
Serena grinned shaking her head. She resumed eating her breakfast.
"Hey, squirt." came an annoyingly familiar voice.
Serena turned and looked at him. "Oh, hi, I don't believe I know you. Can I help you with something?"
she said sweetly.
He scowled. "Very funny," he replied as he sat down next to her.
Serena grinned. "What's your first class?" she asked.
"DADA," replied Josh.
Serena scowled. "That's not FAIR!" she said rather loudly, making all the passersby stare at her. She scowled them away. "I wanted DADA,"
Josh simply smiled. "Well, tough luck, lil sis." he said, getting up and started heading for the exit.
Then he turned around and went back to Serena. "Meet me and Mina tonight at midnight in the common room."
She was a little confused about this, but agreed all the same. It had to have been something important.
"What do you think it'll be like?" asked Serena to Harry and Ron as they were making their way up to North Tower and Divination. "I don't know. Probably just another class to snooze in," replied Ron, grinning.
Harry rolled his eyes. "Yes, and snoozing has EVERYTHING to do with what Sere just asked. Honestly Ron." he said.
Ron glared at him and was about to say something when Serena put in quickly, "What do YOU think it will be like,
Harry?" "Honestly, I don't know." said Harry as Ron cracked up laughing.
Serena smiled. "You guys are hopeless, you know that? I've heard a lot about it from Mina. She says it's just a bunch of rubbish." she said.
"Well, Mina says a lot of things that aren't true, doesn't she?" asked Parvati Patil. "You should know, you live with her,"
Serena rolled her eyes. "She's not a liar, if that's what you mean. Besides, she's my sister. Are sisters ALWAYS supposed to be honest with one another?"
Lavender Brown chimed in. "Whenever possible they are,"
"Oh, drop it you guys. Mina's my sister and that's all there is to it." said Serena. "I haven't had any reason not to trust her so I don't think I'll just suddenly change my mind. But thank you for your concern. I'm sure Mina will appreciate it." Lavender and Parvati hurried away up into the line that was waiting to get into Divination.
"Wow! That was awesome!" said Ron. "If somebody came up and told me they thought one of my siblings was a liar, I would have-"
"Let them have it?" asked Serena, laughing. She knew him way too well. Then she turned to Harry who was frowning.
"Ah, Harry, I'm sorry if we made you upset," said Serena sincerly. "But we just like to make fun of our siblings.
Nothing special."
Harry shook his head, grinning. "Yeah, I'm sure that was REAL painful for you, sticking up for your sister and all,"
Serena hit her hand to her head. "I set myself up for that one, didn't I?" ......................
"Ouch," muttered Serena as she spilled some boiling water on her hand. There was a blister already starting. "Darn it,"
She took her seat next to Ron and Harry at their table. Ron was reading Harry's tea leafs and from the sounds of it wasn't having very much luck.
"Let me see it, Ron. Maybe it just needs a lady reading it," said Serena, taking the cup Ron handed her. She looked through her book and twisted the cup around just as Professor Trelawney explained to do.
"Well, Harry, those things there look like vultures." said Serena, looking confused. "What would vultures be doing in your cup? Anyway... This here looks like a goat... And this HERE looks like a big giant dog." The three heard the breaking of a cup and looked up to see Professor Trelawney's shocked expression. "What did you say that looked like, dear?" she asked.
"A big dog," replied Serena, confused. "What does it mean, Professor?"
Professor Trelawney held her heart. "My dear, that's the Grim." she said.
"The death omen sign?" asked Serena calmly. Then she looked at her cup. "What does mine say, Professor?" The shocked and nearly hysterical Professor took Serena's pink tea cup in her hands and read it. After finishing reading it she told the class. "Class dismissed,"
Everybody got up to leave, including Serena, but Professor Trelawney stopped her. "No dear, stay. We need to discuss what was in your cup,"
Serena sat patiently in her seat while all the other students left. "I'll catch up with you," said Serena to Harry and Ron.
Professor Trelawney looked at the huge clock on the wall. "I only have five minutes to explain this to you, so listen carefully. In your cup was death...Not just the death omen sign...But the real thing. It also said of an adventure, the likes of which you've never seen before. It also said a lot about your friends, how you need to protect them... Do you understand, my dear?" Serena nodded. "Yes, Professor. I do," Trelawney nodded. "You may go,"
Serena caught up with Harry and Ron and Hermione just in time for the next class, Transfiguration. The four kids took a seat in the back. The lesson was on Animagi, but Harry wasn't listening. His mind was on other things. The Grim, mainly. But then the other thing his mind was on was the escape of Sirius Black and how he was supposed to be after him.
Serena looked over at Harry and noticed that he wasn't listening, so she smiled and took notes for him too. It was an interesting lesson. She especially liked it when Professor McGonagall turned into a cat. But when her mind wasn't on the lesson, it was on her cup. She wondered what her next adventure would be. She was thinking about what Trelawney had said. '...the likes of which you've never seen before'
Whatever it would be, she was excited about it.
Serena was sitting in her usual arm chair by the fire, waiting for Josh and Mina to come down. It was a quarter after 12am and she was starting to get drowsy. She wasn't used to staying up this late; her mother made her go to sleep by 10:00pm or 10:30pm.
Finally they entered the common room, carrying a paper. They both looked a little wary, but other than that they were happy to see that Serena was still awake.
Mina looked at Josh, then sat down next to Serena. "Hey, Sere," she said, smiling. "I heard what you said to that Patel girl when she was making fun of me. That was really classy."
Serena just blushed. "Thanks,"
"So, how did your classes go?" asked Josh, sitting down next to Mina. He smiled at his youngest sister.
"Fine. I really liked McGonagall's lesson. It was on Animagi. It was excellent. And Divination was sort of fun, too, although Hermione didn't think so. She quit on the spot," replied Serena, smiling at the memory.
"How was DADA?" she asked Josh, who grinned.
"It was great. Professor Lupin is a good teacher," he replied.
Serena looked between Mina and Josh. They kept looking at each other. She looked at them confused.
Mina hesitantly pulled out a letter from her pocket and gave it to Serena. "Mom says your old enough to read this," she said. Josh and Mina watched as Serena read each line with careful concentration. They watched her expression change from confusion to anger. They're hearts broke as they watched her blue eyes filled with tears.
Serena slowly folded the letter up and stuffed it back into the envelop. She felt sick. She didn't want to know what was in the letter now.
"You guys knew, didn't you?" asked Serena in a hoarse voice. Her eyes brimming with hot tears. She looked at her brother and sister. "You knew all the time!" Mina looked down and nodded. "Yes," she replied quietly.
Serena nodded and was going up to bed. She was shaking with anger. Her own family had kept this information from her! The people she was supposed to trust had lied to her all these years! "Sere," said Mina in a quiet voice. "Don't be too angry at all of us." Serena stopped in her tracks. "Don't be too mad at you? That's kind of hard right now because, at the moment, I don't want to be with either of you." She continued on her way up to the dormitories.
Once she was in her bed she closed the hangings around her bed and threw the blanket over her head and started crying. Dealing with all this was not going to be easy on the young girl...maybe even impossible.
Okay, end of chapter. Thought that looked like a good place to end, so there you have it. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.
R&R or flame, if you want. Thanks for reading.