Story Title: Sunny Days

Chapter Title: 11 years is more than a decade

Rating: R, it's for later chapters.

Chapter Warning:

Disclaimer: I own nothing more than Sun and her family and perhaps the plot this far. I haven't written Harry Potter, I promise.

Author's Note: Yay! First chapter. Maybe not too long, but at least it's a chapter.

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August 1

Sun was up, even if she wasn't supposed to be yet. She turned her eyes up towards the sky, seeing only darkness. This particular day was August 1 and it was her name day, according to their own calendar that is, a day that the Norton family did celebrate. She heard footsteps in the stairs and quickly dove under the covers in her bed, knocking over her radio in the process, just like she had done every day since her fifth birthday. The clumsiness was worst on her birthday, but she really didn't care anymore. She had gotten used to it by now. Just as she closed her eyes the door into her bedroom opened, it was painted red to contrast her yellow walls. Her entire room was tastefully decorated in those two colours, her parents had wanted the brightness of them make her seem a little less dark. She quickly tried to make it look like she was asleep when her parents came in, singing a song that they only sang on this day for all they were worth. There weren't many people who accepted Sun as she was but luckily had her parents made her understand that they didn't care, she was going to be loved no matter what. The next couple of minutes were a picture of a happy family and they were all talking and laughing, even when the soon to be eleven-year old spilled all the orange-juice in her bed or when she fell down the last couple of steps in the stairs because they were all so used to it. Around noon, when Sun was sitting by the table in the kitchen, watching TV in the living-room and playing with her dolls on the toilet-floor, all at once, a strange knocking sound was heard from the kitchen. Sun's mother, who was doing the dishes, looked up and saw a rather big, brown owl tapping on the window with its beak. She put down everything she had in her hands and started to tap on her side of the window to make the bird go away but it just tried to get in even more. By now both Dad and Sun was in the kitchen.

"Let it in Marie." Mum looked over her shoulder, frowning. Let it in sounded risky but Dad just nodded. "It's okay; I just want to see what it does."

She let the owl in and the three of them watched it fly around the room for a while before it settled down on the back of a chair and stuck out its left leg. Sun noticed that it had a letter tied to it so she got closer to the bird and carefully stuck a hand out to see if it was used to humans and when it did nothing she untied the letter and softly petted the owl. As soon as she had taken a step back it stretched its wings and flew out the window. Sun turned around and looked at her parents who looked just as surprised as she felt; the three of them just stared at the envelope, with her name written in green ink on it. The black haired girl opened it and read the letter.

Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

Dear Miss Norton,

We have the pleasure to inform you that you have been given a place at Hogwarts school for Witchcraft and Wizardry. With this is a list of all books and all equipment that is necessary is attached.

Term starts September 1. We expect your owl no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely

Minerva McGonagall

Executive Headmistress ((A/N. freely translated from the Swedish book.))

Sun looked up at her parents, shocked. "Did you two know I'm a witch?"

September 1

A little girl with dark skin, black hair and grey eyes stood at platform 9¾, a kind older student had helped her find it, and looked around at all the people, the train and other odd stuff that was there. Luckily this platform had been easier to find than Diagon Alley, but she had found that too. Suddenly the train whistled and she knew she had to get on it quickly. Pushing her trolley in front of herself she actually managed to get her trunk on the train just before it started to move forward. Now the next challenge would be to find a compartment that preferably wasn't full of creepy last year students, which seemed to be standard on this train. Suddenly, like out of nowhere, a boy came walking towards her and she did notice him but somehow her muscles refused to obey her brain so of course she crashed right into him, she dropped her trunk on her toes, that hurt, and managed to make his frog jump away.

"I'm so sorry!" He quickly got to his feet, blushing madly. He was about as tall as her and round, like he had all his baby-fat left on his body. Sun removed the trunk from her foot and smiled apologetically at him.

"It's okay. It was my fault; I should've watched where I was going." She had done that, but he didn't need to know how clumsy she was. To her great surprise he started to talk about how clumsy he was. In the middle of all this he seemed to realize that his frog was gone and he was soon down on his knees and hands, looking for it. The girl thought she would help him and got down on the floor too. Non of them could find him and they had to ask for help, Neville, as the boy had introduced himself as, helped her to get her stuff to his compartment. In there sat another girl with brown, bushy hair and large front-teeth. He explained the situation to her and she sighed, Sun thought she acted like a premature 45 year-old. The girl said that she was going to look for the frog and that they should stay there and try not to loose anything else. This turned out to be a good decision since Neville and Sun shared a lot of interests, like drawing and gardening. Both of them seemed to be as clumsy as the other too, and they had a great time laughing at stuff that they had done. The journey had to end and the two of them managed to lose each other in the crowd. She didn't see him again until he was sorted into the house Gryffindor, she truly hoped she got there too, but when it was her turn the hat called almost immediately that she should be in Ravenclaw, judging by the song that was the house for smart people.

December 25

Sun woke up alone in her dorm; she had been the only first year girl that had stayed over Christmas-break. The last three and a half months had been filled with magic, literally. She had learned so much, things that she didn't even knew existed. The girl had hardly had time to miss her parents, so she hadn't been disappointed when they'd told her that they were going to New Zeeland to celebrate Christmas with her uncle Gordon and that she had to stay there. It was a little lonely though hardly anyone stayed. This day would be different though, everyone that was left was going to celebrate together for most of the day. She jumped out of bed, tripping on her own feet, landing on her face. She had done that many times and the other girls always laughed at her. After opening all her presents she went down to eat breakfast. At the united table sat all teachers, even the creepy Snape, and two Gryffindor-boys she recognized as Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, at least that's what Nev called them. No one else had stayed it seemed. She sat down beside the raven-haired boy, Harry. The little bells that were sewn onto the front of her red skirt jingled as she moved. She looked around at the food, it was a bit different from the breakfast she had eaten at home, but she liked it.

"Could you pass me the eggs please?" She smiled at the red-haired boy who had his mouth full of food; he was sitting closest to the food she wanted. Since he couldn't talk he just nodded and passed her the eggs. "Thank you." She started to put some on her plate when the other boy spoke.

"Aren't you Neville's friend?" Nev and she often sat in the library, studying together. The brown-haired boy could need some help at times. Sun nodded, she was Neville's friend. She had a small crush on him too, but she wouldn't admit that to anyone. Anyway, the three of them started talking and they spent the entire day together, talking. She even helped them looking for some book about Nicolas Flamel, for some unknown reason they wanted to know who he was. She had a feeling that she knew, but couldn't quite put her finger on where she'd seen his name. This seemed to be the start on a wonderful friendship, but as soon as Christmas was over and school started again the two boys forgot about her and she went back to being the invisible Ravenclaw. Nev didn't leave her though, a thing she was highly grateful of.

Graduation

A school-year was gone. She had completed her first year. It'd been exciting and eye-opening. She had gained a friend, learned a lot and knew that the world was an evil place. Harry had together with the girl on the train and Ron defeated the biggest villain in the wizarding world; Lord Voldemort, also known as he-who-must-not-be-named. It was with worry she left the place, but she already looked forward to next year, and Nev had promised to write as often as possible. Life was good right now.

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Author's Note: I know there isn't much action in this chapter, but she isn't a person that attracts danger like Harry does, have patience with me, it'll get better later.

Peace Out!