Title: The Unofficial Hogwarts Student Journal

Author:P.L.S.

Rating: Eh, I'm saying Mild to Medium Store Brand Salsa

Disclaimer: I do not own the ideas and well everything taken from the Harry Potter Books and Movies.

Summery: Lillian Dursley is a typical wizard's kid, who happens to take after her father (a hippogriff-sun bull breeder and the Man-Who-Killed-Voldemort.) Her best friends are the techno-geeky Weasley Triplets, Professor Hagrid, and her hippocampi. This is her and her friends' version of their story. Of course, if you talk to Deputy Headmaster Snape he'll tell you a whole different story which actually seems to be the truth.

(Chapter One-Setting the Scene)

Lilian Dursley, a rather small eleven year old with her mother's
straight and thin hair and her father's green eyes, sat waiting for
the Hogwarts Express to take off. Her mom had got her settled in, and
then left. Which was what Lil had insisted on, because one of her
mom's thestrals was in labor and her father just didn't have the
talent with the carniverous horses. He was a great hippogriff handler
and as it was his mares were all close to birthing too.

Her owl, Brunhilda, was the offspring of her father's very faithful
familiar and she knew one of her future teachers already. Rubeus
Hagrid was a regular visitor in the summers, and he even bought a few
of her own hippocampi for his classes. She smiled, as soon as she got
to the lake she was going to see Rei, Forsyth, and Deedee. Uncle
Rubeus had promiced her that he was going to take the first year
students across the lake, so she knew she could call them.

"Eh, are there a few seats here?" asked a auburn headed guy who
looked to be her age.

"Sure. It's just me." the boy smiled at the answer.

"Brill. Oi! Found us a compartment!" Two boys who looked almost
identical to him invaded her area and she soon discovered just who
she'd have to watch out for.

"I'm Ryan, this is Brian, and that's Brad. We're all first years,
like ya I'm guessing." said the triplet with a small freckle to the
right of his nose. Brian had a small scar on his chin, and Brad's
nose was slightly off center. Lil smiled.

"I'm Lil. It's a pleasure. So I'm guessing even your mum can't pick
you three apart." she said.

"Yeah, but we don't push that trick. Our uncles taught us not to,
besides out mum's way too smart. Our neighbors are all estatic that
we are going to a boarding school." said Brad with a wink.

"Excellent, and dad said that I wouldn't find kindred souls." said
Lil, "Eh, I've got my dad's gift of finding out secrets and secret
passages."

"Brill!" said all three boys and Lil grinned.

"So, what do your parents do?" asked Lil. The boys grinned and
started trading off as they told about everything.

"Da's a hit wizard."

"Ma's an unspeakable."

"Makes home interesting."

"Aye, Ma tends to come home with horns or wings."

"Da tends to come home cursed and with dark objects that Ma helps 'im
destroy. Not that everything gets lost to their skill."

"And it gives us insperation, and we even smuggled a masking crystal
out of some major loot Da forgot about."

"Yeah, an' Ma and Da both have killer books on everything they do,
plus the computer files that Ma keeps too."

"We even picked up that habit, keepin' files and such."

"After all, good prankin' is all in the preparation. And if we're
goin' ta follow our uncles' example, we need a good system."

"Thus, we took one of Ma's old PC's."

"She wasn't using it. She was goin' ta give it away ta tha cripled or
sommat."

"And now it's charmed, along with a printer."

"It's in my trunk, with my CD player..."

"Me electric guitar and speakers..."

"My DVD player and things from all our uncles..."

"And my charmed servailance equipment."

"We used a few of Ma's conversion and connection charms to make them
better suited for Hogwarts."

"Aye, Ma was muggle-born an' used ta complain something awful about
how she needed a good laptop computer."

"'Cause o' her, Brad's a world class computer wizard and we all
learned early on that we needed a way to bring our favorite things in
ta Hogwarts."

"So tell us 'bout yerself." concluded Brian. Lil grinned.

"Of course. My mum and dad run P and J ranch,"

"That place where they breed anything that has hooves?" asked Brad.

"Yes, Da's the sun bull and hippogriff handler and he also takes care
of the aethonan and abraxan. Mom deals with the nogtails, thestrals
and slipnars, but now she also will be in charge of my hippocampi and
kelpies. Granddad breeds the all the mundane things; horses, cows,
and such, Grandmom is in charge of the mooncalves and unicorns and my
Uncle Eddie and his crew are best with his re'em herd, the tebo, and
graphorns, Aunt Olive does experimental breeding and such. Great fun.
Her last project was a sun bull/re'em hybrid. It ended up sterle, but
it's wicked fearce and even spits flames. Uncle Eddie even tamed it
and calls it Bob. Da says he's loony, but then Da's the one taking
care of a basilisk and an acromanitla."

"Awesome!" said Ryan, all three were looking thrilled.

"You know..." started Brian.

"You are inviting our family over for the winter hols." Brad
finished. Lil laughed. It was the start of a wonderful train ride.

--

As Lil got off the train she spotted Rubeus calling all the first
years over to the docks.

"Hey! Rube!" called out the slip of a girl, the triplets tailed her
as she wove through the crowd to the half-giant.

"Oi! Lilsy, 'ow are yeh?" boomed out the huge man as he swept her up
in a bear hug.

"Brilliant, just brilliant now that you hugged me. Do you mind if I
call up Rei, Forsyth, and Deedee? I want to ride Rei, and I think my
new friends should get to see my old pets." Lil put on her begging
face and Rubeus grinned.

"Sure, who are yeh freinds?" he asked as he put her down.

"Oh, Ryan, Brian, and Brad, this is the gamekeeper and professor of
magical creatures, Rubeus Hagrid. Rube, theses are my friends, maybe
we all can ride to Hogwarts?"

"Sure. I trust yeh wit them three. Go call em up the boats are
leaven' soon." Lil turned to the triplets.

"We're ariving in style, boys. Follow me." She went to the ferthest
edge of a dock and pulled out a flute of reeds. Playing a simple tune
she called out her three prize hippocampi, Rei, a large green
stalion, Forsyth, a medium grey mare, and Deedee, a medium violet
mare. She introdused the boys to the hippocampi and just after the
boats pushed off, Forsyth was carrying Brad, Deedee was carrying
Brian, and Ryan and Lil were on the back of Rei. It didn't take long
for them to catch up with the fleet of small boats and then pass
them. Laughing all the way, they were soon racing each other around
the boats, and Lil knew Hogwarts was going to be every bit as
wonderful for her as it was for her dad.

They treked up the stairs with the rest, abit soaking wet. At the to
was the deputy headmaster, Professor Snape, just like Rube had told
her. He sneered down at her and the triplets who were singing a song
in round by someone named Monty Python.

"And how did you three come to be so wet?" he asked coldly. Lil
grinned up at him.

"We played with Rei, Forsyth, and Deedee." she answered. This only
amplified his glare.

"Professor Hagrid let you four play with hippocampi?"

"Aye, they used ta be Lil's." said Brian.

"Didn' yeh know yeh got a hippocampi and kelpie breeder in this lil'
Lil." said Ryan and Brad draping themselves on her.

"Get off of me, you oafs." snapped Lil as she stepped forward.

"Why? What are we gonna do ta yeh?" asked Ryan.

"Get yeh wet?" asked Brad and all four laughed, which only peeved the
professor even more.

"Yes, well, let's go get you lot sorted. As a student here, you will
be sorted into one of three houses, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff,
or Gryffindor. Your successes will earn your house points, your rule
breaking and other indiscrepencies will cause those points to
vanish." with that he gave Lil and the triplets a pointed
look, "Come." He turned and lead them into the great hall.

Lil watched fasinated as the first ten were called up alphabeticly.
Then Professor Snape called her name, "Lillian Dursley."

Putting on the hat she heard the strange voice that her dad discribed
to her, Ah, so you do know more about this place than you let on. So
now let's see, you already have a plethora of knowledge in magical
creatures and plants. However studying is not something you willingly
do. You work hard but only if it's something that you know will
behove your own goals. You have great ambission and cunning,
Slytherin could help you on your way to greatness.

'Nah, too obvious. Come on, how could I do anything there?' thought
Lil. The hat laughed.

I thought you'd say that. Your father would have been in Slytherin as
well, if not for his being so vocal. If not Slytherin, it better be
GRYFFINDOR!

Lil took the hat off, gave the deputy headmaster a grin, and dashed
to the cheering table. The triplets all gave her the same grin and
just as she knew, they each joined her to become the only first year
gryffindor boys and all four gave Professor Snape the same sweet
innosent smile to which he gave them all a dark glare.

Lil sat on Ryan's bed as Brad hacked away at the keyboard of his
computer and Brian played on his guitar. Ryan and Lil were watching
the recordings from the servailence cameras on his DVD player while
making notes on the footage.

The room no longer looked like a typical dorm, the bedside tables
were filing cabinates, one of the wardrobes was a desk in disguise,
and books, charts, and prototypes littered every spare inch of the
walls and window sills.

"So, Dad owled me." said Lil. Ryan looked up at her.

"Oh?" he asked.

"Yes. He has given me permission to invite you three for a week
during winter hols." she smiled and all three looked happy.

"Great, we'll owl Ma in the morning and see if we can come over, then
invite you during spring hols." Brad said as he looked up from
writing his program code.

"Yea, should be great fun." declared Brian and he let out a riff. Lil
smiled and laughed and Ryan frowned at the screen.

"Er, Lil, I think we may have a problem." Ryan said and he rewound
the DVD. Lil watched, Professor Snape looked right at the camera and
smirked.

"Yeah, I'd say that's a problem. He knows about camera 3, but he
hasn't found the rest. We'll move it, but to someplace obvious, like
the corridor outside the potions room. It's just going to have to be
a decoy." Lil said.

"Aye, it figures that Snape would be the one to notice the cam." said
Brian. Ryan sighed.

"Do you guys think he'll tell, or should we keep the records of
cam3?" asked Ryan.

"Well, keep the camera in place for a few days, that will give us
time to gage the impact that Snape will have." said Brad, "He may not
mind if we don't use the information against him and his classes and
intrests."

"Maybe we should do something minor to one of Professor Davies'
classes. DADA is so boring, that it'd be a good deed." said Brian.
All laughed at that, and agreed. Defence was dull, maybe moreso than
History was.