Disclaimer: see first chapter

A/N: Hey everyone here's another fantastic chapter for you all. Hehehhe. I also have given up on whining about how the street life gets reviews and this one doesn't get as many because one of the reviewers pointed out something very true – this story is all about original characters. This chapter Carlie meets Harry, Jess sends Draco flying across the room and Lyndsay and Nathan have a little fun at school assembly.

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Chapter 5- Power mischief.

"I can't believe this is my last day with you guys" Carlie sighed, after these holidays, filled with fun, she didn't want to leave.

"Why don't you tell you mum that you'd rather go to Whitecross than Pigwarts" Keisha suggested

"It's Hogwarts" Lyndsay informed them.

"I can't, it's a long story but I can't really leave" Carlie said.

"Why are we spending all day moping? If this is your last day with us then do something" Jax said.

"Here's something, fifty things to do in your holidays" Tegan was reading a magazine.

"It has to be something interesting" Jason confirmed.

Lyndsay and Carlie were looking over Tegan's shoulder, scanning the article.

"How about a road trip?" Tegan asked

"No, it has to be something we can do in an afternoon" Lewis said.

"Anyone want to go explore our park?" Lyndsay asked.

"That'll do. I haven't been to the park in ages" Carlie said.

The park wasn't that far to walk from The Green Leaf. When they did get there it was obvious that they were going to annoy some parents.

"Get off! You're too big!" A little girl cried as Jax and Lewis sat on the baby swings.

"Let the kid on the swing" Jason called from the seesaws. Carlie, Nathan and Lyndsay were on one side, while Keisha, Jason and Tegan were on the other. It was a funny sight to see: Six teenagers on one seesaw.

Jax and Lewis were walking over from the swings they had been kicked off. "Can we have a go?" Jax called.

"Yeah sure, hop on" Keisha said.

Jax got on with Keisha, Tegan and Jason and Lewis sat on the other side. It took a while to get it balanced but soon they could go up and down on it.

"This was such a good idea" Jason laughed as the got a few disapproving stares from the parents.

"This is so fun!" Lyndsay cried.

Carlie was laughing; she didn't want to leave this tomorrow. Sure, Fred and George were fun but they just never had the impact that the group had on her. Maybe it was all the mixed personalities. Jason was a computer geek, Tegan was boy obsessed, Jax was a prankster, Lewis was a punk, Nathan was a quite type, Lyndsay was into magic (even before she'd discovered it was real), Keisha was a neat freak and then there was her. She wasn't sure what she fitted into it didn't matter. The group got along so well because they had different views on things.

"Let's see how many of us can go down the slide!" Jax announced.

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Jess was in a happy mood, it was the last day of the holidays and he would be going back to Hogwarts. Unlike when he was at home, the Malfoys wanted him around all the time. Draco was constantly annoying him with questions about Hogwarts. He had even considered making himself invisible for a while so they would quit bugging him. He had a few photos that Carlie had given him and he was admiring the picture of him and Tegan when Draco came in. Jess quickly stored the picture in his pocket and looked up at Draco.

"What?" He asked impatiently.

"What was that?" Draco pointed to Jess's pocket.

"None of your business" Jess replied coldly.

Draco raised his eyebrows at this. "It is my business since it's my house"

Jess sat there and a smile formed on his face. He concentrated and soon Draco's scream could be heard as he flew five feet from Jess.

Jess tried not to laugh but it was very hard as Draco was groaning on the ground.

"Oh dear. How did that happen?" Jess taunted as he rushed over to his cousin.

"What did you do?" Draco groaned.

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"Mum, can't I just quit Hogwarts?" Carlie asked as she threw in her robes and other clothes in her trunk.

"I don't care but how are you going to explain it to the teachers?" Miranda asked as she leant on the doorframe of Carlie's room.

"I think magic is gay and I like being a muggle" Carlie answered, tossing her Discman in her trunk.

"And you think that they are not going to question it?" Miranda said.

"I think Dumbledore will understand"

"Not on this one Carls. He'll probably want you to at least complete your owls."

"It's not his decision to make. He can snap my wand if he wants. I don't want to go back there." Carlie said simply.

"Sure. I really don't think you can just say 'I'm not coming back to Hogwarts' and they'll let you go" Miranda told her.

"Did you ever try?" Carlie asked.

Miranda shook her head and then pointed to the window. Ebony was back with the letter from Sirius. Carlie opened the window and she flew in and sat on the edge of her trunk.

"There's two letters" Carlie said, holding up two bits of parchment and passing one to Miranda.

Miranda silently went out of the room and Carlie opened her letter and began to read:

Dear Carlie,

Thank you, for the lovely pink pen, it goes with my nails (kidding). Your friends look like interesting people. What do you mean you're not excited about going back to Hogwarts? I know you miss your friends but you have friends at Hogwarts right? I can't understand how anyone would choose being a muggle over Hogwarts. How are you? Miranda's letter was nice to read. It's good to know she hasn't changed much. Please send me some more parchment as I'm almost out.

From Sirius

Carlie looked at Ebony and said "I'll write to him when I get back to Hogwarts"

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The whistle of the Hogwarts express sounded and Carlie was rushing to get on the train. It was 10:55; she had five minutes to get on the train. She was late because her alarm didn't go off and she woke up at ten thirty. Now after rushing to have a shower, get dressed and saying goodbye to Sara and Miranda. She'd orbed to the station and was looking for a compartment.

"Running late huh?" Jess's voice asked.

Carlie turned around and smiled. "No Shit Sherlock."

Jess laughed and said "You know who's on the train?"

Carlie shook her head and Jess replied "Harry Potter"

Carlie looked at Jess with a 'like I would care' look.

"I thought you might be interested since he is one of the reason's Sirius is in Azkaban" Jess replied.

"Oh, right"

"I better go, since my cousin is coming" As Jess said this Carlie looked over his shoulder.

"That's Dracula?" Carlie asked as Jess snickered.

"Yep that's him and he's made friends"

"I thought he'd be like you and have no friends" Carlie teased him.

"Not all Pure-Bloods are like me" Jess told Carlie.

"I'll see ya round then" Carlie said as she spotted Lee.

"See ya" Jess said.

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"What's in the box?" Carlie asked when she came closer to Lee.

"You wanna see?" Lee grinned.

"Yeah, that's why I asked" Carlie replied.

Lee lifted the lid and a giant tarantula looked up at her. Carlie screamed and then started laughing as he placed the lid down.

"Where'd you get it?" Carlie asked as he led her to a compartment.

"My Uncle gave it to me as a present" Lee told her as they entered the compartment with Angelina Johnston and Katie Bell in it.

"Hey Carlie, did you have a nice summer?" Katie greeted her.

"Yeah" Carlie replied as she sat down "Spent the whole time hanging with my friends"

"Your muggle friends?" Angelina asked.

"Thems the ones" Carlie answered.

"Lee can we see the tarantula?" Fred and George had burst in the compartment.

Lee grinned and opened the lid of the box.

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"Welcome to a new year at Whitecross High. I can see many new faces and many old ones as well" Mr. Parish, the school principal began his 'set your goals now' speech.

Lyndsay was sitting next to Keisha and Tegan. Tegan pointing to a guy sitting up the front.

Obviously a student teacher. Lyndsay thought.

It was understandable why Tegan was pointing. He was hot. For a teacher.

Nathan was sitting in front of her. Lyndsay kicked the back of his chair and he looked over his shoulder and smiled.

/Are you perving at the new student teacher? / Nathan asked.

/Tegan is. I was merely checking him out to see if he was worth my attention/ Lyndsay answered.

/And is he? /

/He's pretty hot for a teacher. Young too. Only looks in his early twenties. / Lyndsay told him.

/Trust you to think of that/

/This is boring. I'm going to liven it up a bit/ Lyndsay smiled.

/No! Marcus will kill you if you use your powers here/

/it's not going to be anything major, just a little fun for some laughs/ Lyndsay told him.

She soon spotted the perfect idea. As Mr. Parish walked down back to his seat, Lyndsay pulled the seat away and he fell on the floor. The whole auditorium burst out laughing.

Nathan was shaking his head at Lyndsay, who was now smiling with great satisfaction.

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The sorting wasn't something that Carlie liked. For many reasons. She hated the stupid hat for one. Another was they had to be in front of the whole school. Plus it was pretty boring to watch.

"Potter, Harry" Professor McGonagall's voice echoed through the hall.

Most looked up at this point. Harry Potter climbed onto the stool and sat there for a while. Both Carlie and Jess wished they had Nathan's hyper hearing. Finally the hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!"

Harry got down came over to the table near Carlie, Fred, George and Lee.

"WE GOT POTTER!" Fred and George bellowed.

Carlie laughed along with the rest of the table. "I'm Lee Jordan" Lee was shaking Harry's hand "And that's Carlie Mason" He pointed to Carlie.

"Hi" Carlie said, shaking Harry's hand as well.

After Ron was made a Gryffindor (To which Carlie was pleased about) and some other guy was made a Slytherin, Dumbledore said a few words (Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweak to be precise). Everyone dug into the feast.

"You know what we get to do this year don't you?" Lee spoke with a mouthful of Chicken.

"We get to go to Hogsmeade?" Carlie asked, who wasn't very interested.

"Yeah! It's awesome! Zonko's is supposed to be great! And then the shrieking shack is cool to see and –"Carlie stopped listening there. She wished she was back home with Miranda. Hanging with her friends and talking to customers in the Green Leaf.

"Alright there Carls?" Fred asked as he piled more food on his plate.

"Yeah, just homesick" Carlie murmured.

"Missing your mum?" George asked.

"I'm missing everyone" Carlie drawled. "I'm going to see if I can leave Hogwarts"

Fred and George both spat out their food at hearing this. "You—wanna—leave?"

Carlie nodded, "I might see Professor McGonagall about it"

"You can't leave!" Fred declared.

"Yeah, where will you go?" George asked.

"Whitecross" Carlie answered.

"Where's that?" Fred asked.

"In Hereford, it's the school all my friends go to" Carlie replied, grabbing some more food.

"A muggle school?" Both Fred and George looked gob smacked.

Carlie decided to ignore them and continued to grab food that she knew she wasn't going to eat.

"Dumbledore won't let you" George told her.

"We'll see" Carlie answered.

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Is Dumbledore going to let Carlie leave Hogwarts? If you have any common sense you'll know the answer.