N/A: There is only one J.K rowling and I'm not her.
"Hogwarts Hogwarts Hoggy Worty Hogwarts, teach us something please!" Addy bellowed down the hallway.
There were one week left until winter vacation and Addy couldn't be happier. She was going to spend the Christmas Holidays at Hogwarts like all the other orphans. Lily had offered her to stay at her house, but it didn't feel right for Addy to go over someone's house when she couldn't offer the same thing back. James's parents were taking a vacation in Hawaii so he too would be staying for the holidays. The last Gryffindor first year who was staying for the holidays was Sirius. He had sighed his name up first thing grumbling something about stupid parents.
Professor Slughorn and Professor Flitwick considered the last week of school an excuse to stop work early and throw parties. In Professor Flitwick's class the students practiced cheering charms and had hot chocolate. Professor Slughorn was busy setting up for his end of term Christmas Party for Fourth Years and up, and therefore he allowed the students to skip class and play outside. The Gryffindor first years got into a huge snowball fight girls against boys before teaming up and pelting the Slytherins.
There was only one other first year staying for the vacation. His name was Severous Snape. As soon as the news leaked out that the grease ball was staying for Christmas, James and Sirius were seen spending a lot of time coming up with intricate plots to prank him. Addy didn't join in however, because she had plans of her own.
On the last day before Christmas vacation, she Amelia, Lily, and Maddi were going to throw a slumber party. Maddi was in charge of bringing magazines, Lily the music and Amelia the make-up. (She was going to "borrow" her older sister Alice's) That left Addy in charge of snacks.
And that is why on the last day of term Addy was seen sneaking into the kitchen at five thirty in the morning. Or maybe it wasn't. Hogwarts is not free. Just as Tom Riddle had had to go to school on a loan, so did Addy. But Addy hated being in debt. That was why on the first day of school she had gone to Dumbledor and they made an agreement. Every morning Addy helped the house elves around the castle from 5:30 until 8:00 when she went straight to her first class. Addy had actually found this very useful. Thanks to the house elves she knew Hogwarts up and down now, even many of the secret passageways.
"Alright! Our first year Gryffindor slumber party is officially in session!" said Maddi sitting down on her pile of blankets on the floor to complete the circle the girls had made around the small blue fire lily had conjured. At the present moment the fire was magically making smores for the girls.
"So what do you want to do first?" Maddi asked.
"Truth or Dare!" squealed Amelia.
"Fine, but since it was you idea you're going first!" said Lily, "Truth or Dare?"
"Truth!"
"Alright, what is the worst thing you've ever done?"
Amelia thought for a moment before she said, "well, when I was six and Alice was eleven, she got her first wand, and I stole it and accidentally set her silk curtains on fire." The other girls started laughing while Amelia grinned sheepishly. "I think we should send the question around to everyone!"
"Fine," said Maddi, "The worst thing I've ever done, well one time, my mom bought me this hideously unfashionable dress and I stuffed it down the garbage disposal so I wouldn't have to wear it."
"My turn," cried Lily, "when I was ten I got an F on my English report and drew over it to make it look like an A."
"Ok, your turn Addy!" said Amelia.
"When I was ten, I robbed Gringotts," she said coolly.
"You what!" spat Lily.
"She's joking Lily, no one can rob Gringotts," assured Amelia.
"Believe what you want to believe," said Addy shrugging, "Let's see something I've done that was horrendously stupid. I could write a list. This one time I stole the minister's wig and put it on top of the flagpole."
The other girls started to laugh and Addy turned to look at Lily.
"Alright, now it's time for dare!" Addy said, "Lily, I dare you to go into the guys dorm and steal James Potter's glasses!"
"What! No way!" she protested. Addy began to flap her arms as if they were wings and cluck.
'Fine! I'll do it!" Lily stormed out of the dorm and came back a few mintues later, glasses in tow.
"Awesome!" said Maddi, "Did any of the guys wake up?"
"No, but you know those boys, once they are asleep they are dead to the world!"
The girls laughed and joked snacking on chips and ice cream, dancing around and jumping on the beds all night long with out a care in the world. What they didn't know though, is while they were joking; an act of horror on the other side of the country had just been performed. An act that would mark the start of the first war, forever.
Addy was the first to wake up in the girl's dorm, as usual. She went down stairs to help the house elves. Around 7:30, Jolly, the house elf in charge, dismissed her. Addy went straight upstairs to breakfast. She scanned the tables but didn't see any of her friends. So she went and sat across from Alice and Kingsley.
"Hey Addy," said Alice in her calming voice.
"Hey," se replied meekly.
About five minutes later, the mail came flying in. A brown tawny owl landed on Kingsley's shoulder and he paid it five Knuts before turning back to his breakfast reading the headlines of his newspaper.
As he turned to the second page his eyes widened in horror.
"Listen to this!" he whispered to Addy and Alice as the bowed their head in to hear him better.
"Yesterday seventeen muggles and two wizards were killed in Sussex. Believed to be the work of a single curse, the ministry has no leas except for this mark that was found over the scene of the crime. Kingsley pointed to a picture of a skull with a snake coming out of its mouth.
"wow…" said Addy softly.
"One curse?" Alice said bewildered, "that would have to be a very powerful wizard!"
"That's what I'm afraid of."
N/A: short, I know, I'm sorry!