DISCLAIMER: JKRowling owns HP, as she wrote the story. I don't own anything (But i will someday) Cackles evily, and steals Neville and hides him under bed
Amber Potter and the Traitor Within.
Blurb …
Follow the antics of 11-year-old cousins, Amber-Leigh Potter and Rosemary Weasley, during their first year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, along with their new friend, Alice Longbottom.
Find out what happens when you mix an evil plot, an invisibility cloak and two girls with extraordinary powers and I world full of magic.
CHAPTER TWO: A strange message.
"Come on! If you don't hurry up, you're going to miss the train!
The 1st of September came and at half past 10, Harry, Ginny and the children still weren't ready to leave.
Rose was just sitting on the couch, applying make-up; Daphne was running around the house, trying to find her wand. Andy was half dressed, and trying to eat a piece of toast and polish his broom at the same time, and Amber was screaming that she couldn't find her diary.
Ginny didn't really approve of diaries, ever since the "Tom Riddle Incident". Not fair you may say, but being possessed by a memory preserved in a diary to kill off muggle born's can do things to a person.
"Come on now! I've got work soon and if you guys aren't here in 5 minutes, I can't see you off the train!" Harry yelled and finally 10 minutes later, the six people, four trunks, and a mewing Elli the kitten in her wicker-work basket, were finally ready to pile into the muggle taxi.
The taxi ride was a bumpy journey. Amber wouldn't shut up and it was extremely stuffy with six people and a driver along with all there luggage. The taxi driver was a little apprehensive.
15 minutes later, Harry and Ginny caught up with Ron and Hermione, who were also running late. They got to the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 with 5 minutes to spare.
"Ok everyone! Two at a time! We only have 5 minutes!" Ron yelled over the heads of the 11 people surrounding him and sent off Andy and Joshua first, and then Rose and Daphne, Ginny and Harry, Amber and Rosemary and finally himself with Hermione and Zachary last.
"Well, I've got to go-there's James-JAMES!" Zachary yelled at a tall boy, who turned at the yell of his name and the two jumped onto the train.
"Now you two have a great Year, are you coming for Christmas?" Ginny asked her twins
"Sure mum, seeya!" Rose said and went off with her best friend Anna Longbottom-Neville and Luna's daughter. Daphne closely following, in search of her friends, and they both disappeared on to the train after Zachary.
The four adults turned to their two youngest daughters.
"Now have a wonderful first year Amber!" Ginny told her and hugged Amber tightly.
"Let her go Ginny, she can't breathe!" Harry said laughing and took his turn to hug his daughter as Ron and Hermione said goodbye to Rosemary.
"Bye Amber!" Harry whispered into her ear. Amber tried hard not to cry. She really couldn't wait until she was in the great hall at Hogwarts, eating dinner, but she loved her dad more than anything and wish that he were coming with her on the Hogwarts express.
"It's behind the statue of the one-eyed witch on the third floor corridor. You'll know what to do!" Harry suddenly whispered, as a whistling could be heard as the train started to rumble into motion.
"What? What's behind there? What statue" Amber asked
"No time! You'll know what to do! Bye Amber!" Harry called as Amber ran to the train and jumped on onto the steps. Harry dumped the trunk on after her and handed Amber the basket containing Elli, just as the train started to pick up speed and waved at her rapidly disappearing parents around the corner.
"What was that all about?" asked rosemary as the platform was whipped out of sight and they headed off to find a spare compartment, dragging their trunks and Elli. "Uncle Harry almost made you late!"
"He had to tell me something." Amber told her as they hurried into an empty compartment before anyone else could take it, dumped their luggage and sat down.
"What was so important?" Rosemary asked.
"I honestly have no idea." Amber said. "All he said was something like "It's behind the statue of the witch, you'll know what to do!"
"What on earth is that supposed to mean?"
"I haven't a clue."
Amber opened Elli's cadge and the grey kitten leapt from the basket and settled on Rosemary's lap. The morning past with the two talking and playing exploding snap. At around lunchtime, the compartment door slid open.
"Um, do you mind if I sit with you guys? I can't find an empty compartment anywhere!" A nervous looking, round-faced girl with long blond hair asked them.
Amber and Rosemary took one look at each other, and then turned to face the girl and they both said "Sure!"
The girl's nervousness disappeared and looked grateful, then sat down next to Amber. Elli got up and leapt lightly over the seats and settled on the girls lap instead.
"Thanks a lot. Well, I'm Alice Longbottom." Alice said.
"Longbottom? But that means …" Amber started
"Yeah, my dad is headmaster of Hogwarts! Neville Longbottom became headmaster after McGonagall retired." Alice told the two girls, trying not to look too pleased.
"Wow! Well, I'm Rosemary Weasley. But you can call me Rosie." Rosemary said
"And I'm Amber-Leigh Potter. But just Amber is fine." Amber told her.
"Weasley and Potter?!" Alice said excitedly. My parents knew you're parents! Neville and Luna?"
"Harry, Ron and Hermione? The fantastic trio? Thought you would have heard of them!" Rosemary said and the three girls laughed.
"So do you have any brothers and sisters already here? We're first years." Amber asked.
"Yeah, just my older sister Anna. She's in fourth year. And I'm a first year too! I hope I'm a Gryffindor!" Alice said.
"Cool! We're all in the same year! My Older cousin's and Amber's sister's are in fourth year as well. Actually, I think they're friends with someone called Anna." Rosemary said.
"Oh, so you're cousins? So you already know each other quite well?" Alice asked, looking suddenly nervous again.
"Yeah." Amber said and caught on to Alice's nervousness. "But let's not talk about us, let's talk about Hogwarts! Oh it's going to be so much fun, we can't wait to go!"
"Neither can I. I've wanted to go since Anna came, and now I can! I want to see a Qudditch game in action." Alice said, looking slightly more cheerful
"Yeah! I heard they're super competitive and that Gryffindor and Slytherin's all hate each other!" Rosemary said excitedly.
"Do you want to play on the house team?" Alice asked Amber.
"Nah, I'm not really a 'professional' kind of person. But my dad didn't even need to try out! He got in on his first flying lesson! I so want to see the Quidditch games here, the only Qudditch games I've seen was the Qudditch world cup two years ago, the one when Scotland won against Ireland?" Amber said, leaping up onto her seat "But if I did play Qudditch, I would be the best player! I'll fly-" she jumped onto the other side of the seat, Rosemary and Alice laughing, "-I'll swoop! I'll do whatever it takes to win-"
Amber went to leap to the other side of the seat again, when the compartment door slid open again and the door handle caught her jeans. Amber was thrown onto the floor with a thud and two boys were in the doorway.
Amber rolled over and looked up and saw one of them standing over her. Her first impression was a rat.
The boy was a scrawny, and looked about their age. He had shoulder length hair and was a shiny blond. He had bright blue eyes, and was wearing a sneer, which reminded her of Draco Malfoy- a man her dad had talked a lot about, he was a death-eater.
Elli looked up from Alice's lap and hissed at the two boys, as if she knew they were no good.
"Can we help you?" Alice asked, pulling Amber to her feet.
"Yes," Said the boy. "We were just walking down the corridor, when someone said that the daughters of the famous Harry Potter and his friends were in here." He sounded impressed.
"Yeah, that's us!" Rosemary said, trying to look important. "I'm Rosemary Weasley. And she's Amber-Leigh Potter!"
"Oh, so it's you, and who are you?" said the second boy, who had a face like he had run headlong into a wall, and turned to Alice.
"I'm Alice Longbottom. What's it to you?" Alice said, looking forceful.
"Nothing, nothing." Said the first boy with a sneer.
"So are you going to tell us who you are?" Rosemary said.
"Oh how rude of us. I'm Kyle Malfoy. I think your dad knew my father? Draco Malfoy? And this is my friend, Liam Goyle." He said.
Amber wasn't really keen on this boy. He was making himself less and less likeable by the minute.
"Yeah, our parents knew yours." Amber told him. "And to tell you the truth, they didn't like them very much."
"Oh yeah? But who said our parents had to like each other to be friends? I don't think you want to hang around with people like Longbottom over here-" Malfoy shot Alice a filthy glance "-they're a bad influence. You're much better than that. Now if you were to be friends with us-" Malfoy stuck out his hand for them to shake and Amber was strongly reminded of a story her dad had told her-her dad's first encounter with the Malfoy he knew.
"And who said we wanted to be friends with you?" Rosemary told him, ignoring his hand.
"Oh I think you're going to." Malfoy sad, pulling out his wand and advancing on Amber, who was cornered against the wall and had no where to run
"I think we said no!" Amber said loudly, hoping she would attract attention from outside the compartment.
"But who ever said we were going to say no?" Malfoy said with an evil grin. "Now come with us, and we'll make it less painful for you-"
"Didn't you hear them? They said NO!" Alice yelled, leaping up and Elli leaping lightly from her lap and onto the seat next to where Goyle was standing.
"And? You wana make a fuss?" Goyle yelled back, eyeing the kitten nervously.
"Only if you make me!" Alice yelled, fist raised
"Oh, so you're going to fight us now, are you?" Malfoy yelled at her and Amber was even more reminded of the story that her dad had told many times. Supposedly the Malfoy they knew said the exact same line.
"Only if you make me, you great git!" Alice yelled again, looking ready for anything. But she had gone too far.
"Right, you asked for it!" Malfoy yelled and he came at Alice, forgetting all about wands.
"Alice look out!" Rosemary had yelled, but the words were barely out of her mouth when Alice grabbed Malfoy's arm and whirled him off his feet and over her shoulder and he landed on the floor with a thud and completely winded. At the exact same time, Elli jumped at Goyle, latching onto his face and Goyle lumbered around, yelling.
"Let that be a lesson! If you come near me or my friends again, you'll be very sorry indeed!" Alice shouted at them both, Goyle managing to throw Elli off, who flew through the air and Rosemary caught her. Without a backwards glance, Malfoy and Goyle hurried out of the compartment, slamming the door behind them.
"Wow Alice! Where did you learn how to do that?" Rosemary asked, putting Elli down and helping shaken Amber to her feet and onto her seat.
"At a muggle karate class. My parents were afraid that I would get picked on here at Hogwarts, so they signed me up so I could defend myself, and let's just say it can come in handy! Are you ok Amber?" Alice said, sitting down next to her.
"I'm fine; it just gave me a fright, that's all." Amber said quietly, her hands shaking.
"Well, if you're sure. Hey, how about we forget all that and play exploding snap eh?" Rosemary asked, pulling out a pack and they all sat round for a game.
A couple of hours later, it grew dark and excitement flew through the air. Any minute now, and we'll be pulling up at Hogsmede station! Amber thought as they pulled on their robes. Rosemary tried to catch Elli and put her back in the wicker-wok basket, but Elli was leaping everywhere, evading capture.
"5 more minutes! We'll be there in 5 more minutes!" Amber sang as the train finally came to a halt, Alice snatched Elli out of the air in mid-jump and locked her safely into the basket and everyone pushed and shoved to get out onto the tiny platform, leaving their luggage to be brought up the school.
"FIRS' YEARS OVER HERE! ALL FIRS' YEARS TO ME!" A voice roared over the crowd and Amber recognised it as Hagrid-the Hogwarts gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures teacher.
Making sure she wouldn't lose Rosemary and Alice amongst the crowd, the three made their way to the giant, along with about another 40 students.
"Everyone 'ere? Right, follow me!" Hagrid yelled and they set off up a path and down to the lake. Amber knew what was coming next-first years got to Hogwarts by crossing the lake in boats.
"No more than four to a boat!" Hagrid yelled and Amber, Rosemary and Alice climbed into one along with a boy with dark hair.
"Right then-Foreword!" Hagrid yelled and the boats glided silently foreword towards the most splendid castle Amber had ever seen. There were beautiful torrents and towers all lit with sparkling lights and perched on top of a hill, overlooking the lake. It truly was the most spectacular thing she had ever seen.
"It's beautiful!" Alice gasped
"Yeah I know." Rosemary agreed.
"Defiantly." Amber said.
This is it! I'm about to go to Hogwarts! I'm going to go in there and have the time of my life! Amber thought as they climbed up and out of the boats and Hagrid knocked three times on a huge oak door.
A/N: Hurrah! (Today's word and likely to be for the remander of the story). Back with the second chapter. Told you it'd get better, right? I tried not to make too much like PS, but sorry if it did. I tried, really i did!
I quite like Alice, she's shy and sweet. I'm glad i used that name-it's one of my favourites! p