DISCLAIMER: My names JKRowling, and i own HP. In fact i'm going to kill him off and Hagrid and Ginny will get married and have 20 children, while Dumbledore ans Sirius come back to life and live happily ever after.
Just imgine if that were true, huh? (In other words-HP's not mine)
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 a world full of magic.
CHAPTER THREE: The sorting.
" … So matter which house you may belong,
Whichever it may be,
We must be united from within,
Or freedom we'll never see."
The entire hall clapped at the sorting hat, which had now finished his song and was again quiet. Amber, Rosemary and Alice, along with the other first years, waited in a long line between the house tables and waited for Professor Flitwick to start reading out the names.
"When I call your name, you will come forth, place the hat on your head, and you will be sorted into your houses." Professor Flitwick squeaked and un-rolled a long piece of parchment.
Amber heard Alice give a little squeak. Amber looked behind her and saw her pale face looking frightened.
"What if I don't belong in any house?" She whispered.
"Don't worry-you will!" Rosemary whispered back. Alice just continued to look like she had seen the ghost of Christmas past.
"Benjamin, Max."
A freckled-faced boy stumbled out of the line and nervously placed the hat on his head, which fell all the way down to his shoulders.
"Ravenclaw!" shouted the hat and Max ran off to sit with the rest of the Ravenclaw's, who were clapping loudly.
"Burns, Ashley." A blond girl walked out of the line, confidently and placed the hat on her head.
"Ravenclaw!" The hat shouted again to more applause from the Ravenclaw's and the girl ran off to sit with Max.
"Conner, Carley." A girl with long brown hair and freckles ran forward and jammed the hat on her head.
"Gryffindor!" Carley ran off to the table and looked relieved that she was finally at a table. Amber saw Rose, Daphne and Andy clapping.
And the list of names went on and on. Many Amber recognised, such as Finnegan, being the last name of a roommate her dad had mention.
"Longbottom, Alice." Alice was beyond nervousness now, and looked plain petrified. She almost ran to the stool out off nerve and forced the hat on so she couldn't see the crowd.
She sat on the stool for almost 3 minutes until the hat finally yelled "Gryffindor!" and a relieved looking Alice almost threw the hat off and ran to the table.
The names went on. "Patterson, Liam" … "Perkins, Daniel" … "Pewter, Geraldine."… Then at last "Potter, Amber-Leigh!"
Amber walked up to the hat and placed it on her head, just glancing at the crowd, all staring at her, whispering her name, before all she could see was the inside the hat and a little voice spoke in her ear.
"… Ah, a Potter? I see, you're daring, brave, and can't wait for adventure. I definitely see your father in you. And you have a certain dis-regard for the rules! I think I know exactly where to put you …GRYFFINDOR"
Completely satisfied, Amber pulled off the hat, a huge smile on her face and ran to sit next to Alice. She had done her dad proud-she got into Gryffindor!
"Yes! We both got into Gryffindor!" Alice whispered as Amber sat down next to her.
"See, you belong somewhere after all." Amber hissed back, not realising people were looking at her and asking Rose, Daphne and Andy whether she was related.
"Ok, I do. Now we have to hope Rosie gets in!" Alice whispered back "Cross your fingers."
Not many people were left now.
"Turner, Tomas." Was sorted into Slytherin. "Then "Vienna, Logan." Became a Gryffindor. Then it was Rosemary's turn.
"Weasley, Rosemary."
Rosemary walked up to the stool as if her legs had turned to jelly. Amber caught sight of her pale and nervous face, just before the hat completely covered her eyes and Amber and Alice waited, crossed fingers and waiting-
"Gryffindor!" shouted the hat and everyone clapped and Amber and Alice welcomed her to the table.
"I knew you would be a Gryffindor-everyone in your family have been!" Amber said excitedly to her as they all quieted down as Professor Flitwick rolled up the parchment and carried the stool and the hat away while Professor Longbottom-Alice's dad and the headmaster of Hogwarts-stood up to address the school.
"Welcome everyone! Welcome to the new first years and welcome to all our older students. I'm sure that we will have another wild and interesting year at Hogwarts! I have a few start of term notices, but first-lets eat! Bonne Appetite!"
Everyone clapped and laughed at the first year's gasps of surprise as the supposedly empty plates filled with food before their eyes.
"Eat up!" Rosemary laughed and they tucked into the delicious feast.
"I so can't wait to learn magic!" A girl was saying to her friend-the girl with brown hair and freckles who was the first sorted into Gryffindor. "I'm muggle born and I was majorly surprised when I got my letter."
"I'm not looking forward to homework." A boy with Sandy hair told her "My dad said that homework is killer round exam time-especially fifth year."
"Who's your dad?" Amber asked, interested.
"Seamus Finnegan." The boy said. "I'm Toby. I've already got two brothers here-James and Thomas."
"Hi!" Several people coursed.
"I'm Amber." Amber said, "And this is Rosie and Alice."
"Geraldine Pewter." The girl who was muggleborn said, sticking out her hand for Rosemary to shake. "But please, please, please! Call me Deeny. I hate my name."
"My name is Carley Conner." The girl who was sorted first into Gryffindor said. "I don't hate my name."
Everyone laughed and talked all through dinner. Then when the plates were sparkling clean and empty, puddings arrived, carrying all of Amber's favourites, including Treacle-tart.
Once everyone thought they would burst if they ate any more food, Professor Longbottom stood up again and everyone fell silent.
"I hope you enjoyed the excellent feast. Now some notices. First years please notice that the forbidden forest is out of bounds to all students-and some older students had best be reminded." Professor Longbottom said and everyone laughed at a girl in Hufflepuff who had turned beetroot red and shouted "But didn't know!"
"Anyway, I'd like to introduce you all to this years defence against the dark arts teacher-Professor Sara Lyra!"
Amber looked over to the staff table and looked up at a woman in her late twenties and with long brown hair, which stood up at the mention of her name and waved at the crowd. She was wearing pale blue robes with a worn sort of air about them, as if they had been worn many times. She looked very pretty, Andy said and Amber noticed several people, mostly boys, eyeing her with interest.
"Dad said there hasn't been a teacher yet who can teach defence against the dark arts for more than a year!" Amber called to Rosemary and Alice over the polite applause.
"Why?" Alice asked.
"Don't know!"
"Wasn't it something to do with Voldemort?" Rosemary asked.
"Oh yeah …"
"Also, anyone wanting to play for their house teams please hand in your names to your head of house and they will pass them on to the Quidditch captain." Professor Longbottom said as the room fell silent again.
"Also, Mr Filch has asked me to remind you all that any joke items from The Weasley's Wizard's Wheezey's are completely banned from this school. That is all, now off to bed!"
There was a scrape of chairs as people got up and began swarming towards the entrance hall.
"First years! Follow me please! I will take you to you're dormitories!" Rosemary's older brother, and newly elected prefect, Zachary yelled and the three followed him through the entrance hall and up a great marble staircase with all the other first years.
"This is so cool! Look, the pictures are moving!" The girl Carley Conner whispered behind them.
"This is cool isn't it?" Amber said. "Look! There are so many passageways! How on earth are we going to find our classes tomorrow?"
"I have no idea, but that's the adventure of it, isn't it?" Rosemary asked as they finally stoped in front of a picture of a fat lady in a pink dress.
"Password?" She asked.
"Everyone, the password is 'Quidditch Dreams'." Zach called to everyone.
"I hope I will remember the passwords, my dad could never remember!" Alice joked as the portrait moved aside to reveille a hole in the wall and they all scrambled through it to the Gryffindor common room.
"This is the Gryffindor common room. This is where you'll spend most of your free time and sleep in your dormitories. Girls, you are up the stairs on your left, boys, up the stairs on the right. Your belongings have already been brought up, so I hope you enjoy your time here at Hogwarts!" Zack said and finished talking as all the other students came in, talking loudly and enjoying a night of no homework.
"Hey Amber, Rosie! So how do you like Hogwarts eh?" Rose asked as she and Daphne and Alice's older sister Anna came and sat down with them by the window overlooking the grounds.
"It's wonderful!" Amber said, looking around the warm and welcoming common room. "I can't believe we're here!"
"Yeah, we've been dreaming about coming ever since Zack came." Rosemary said, looking out at the grounds in awe.
"It's totally beautiful." Alice agreed.
"It is isn't it? That's what I thought when I first came here. And who's this?" Daphne asked, noticing Alice as the one who spoke.
"I'm Alice." Alice mumbled.
"My little sister." Anna said "So you're friends with Potter? Just like me!" Anna said and all six of them laughed.
This was just how Amber imagined Hogwarts to be. Sitting here, with all her friends, laughing, with not a care in the world. While Elli the kitten pranced around their feet.
This is going to be the best seven years of my life at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
A/N: Come on! They have to be Gryffindor's! It's natural ... and hurrah! Back again. Ok, after here is where the story kicks off (Well, sort of). By the way, the reason there's a new DADA teacher s because the way i see it, they won't be able to keep a DADA teacher longer than a year unless Voldemort gets to teach, and seeing as he's dead ... well, let's just say he won't be teaching for a while.
Lol. Reviews appriciated. p