DISCLAMIER: I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER!
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.
CAPTER FIVE: A Gift.
Rosemary gasped.
"I know what this is! It leads to Honeydukes-the sweets shop in Hogsmede!"
"How on earth did you know that?" Amber asked in amazement. She racked her brains for a story about a secret passage leading to Honeydukes, but she couldn't remember one at all.
"Dad told it to me." Rosemary said "You were 'Too busy' to listen."
"What was I doing?"
"Stealing another biscuit off mum."
"All well, she does make excellent biscuits. But how did it open? Did we say the magic word? HA! Get it? The magic word!" Amber laughed at her lame joke and stopped when Alice and Rosemary weren't laughing.
"Does it matter? Come on; let's see what's down there!" Rosemary said and started towards the statue.
"Wait! Let's be logical, it could be dangerous! Let me check first …" Alice pulled out he wand and said "Lumos.".
"I learnt it from my sister. It lights up your wand." she added at their faces and lowered her wand into the hole and peered inside.
"I can't see anything dangerous, it's just a slide. I suppose you could go down …" She said, muttering "Nox" and the light on the end of her wand went out.
"Yippee!" Amber and Rosemary cried and Amber climbed into the tube first and let go.
Shooting out of the slide, Rosemary and Alice behind her, Amber saw she was in a dimly lit tunnel with a hard earth floor that led off into darkness beyond.
"Wow!" Alice breathed, "This is supposed to lead to Honeydukes?"
"Yep!" Rosemary said happily. "I told you I was sure dad told us a story about this place."
"Well, doesn't hurt to look around." Said Amber, and they walked around the tunnel for anything interesting.
"Hey guys! Come look at this!" Alice called after a while and Amber saw her crouched by the slide opening, under it seemed to be something brown.
"What is it?" Rosemary called.
"A package." Alice said and Amber and Rosemary came over, Amber could see it was indeed a package, wrapped in brown paper.
"Who's it for, do you wonder?" Alice asked to no one in particular, more talking to herself, then anyone else.
"No idea, but if they were going to get it, it wouldn't be here, would it?" Amber said, clapping her hands together.
"What are you saying? That you want to open it?" Rosemary asked.
"Well, yeah, I mean, what are we going to do? Just carry on as if we never found it?" Amber replied.
"I don't know Amber, what if it was meant for someone else?" Alice said, reminding Amber of her aunt Hermione and how she always said that she had to be the responsible one when she was at Hogwarts.
Suddenly, Amber remembered something,
"It's behind the statue of the one-eyed witch on the third floor corridor; you'll know what to do!"
"It's for us!" Amber said, after all, it was behind the one-eyed witch and she knew what to do-open it!
"How do you know?" Alice asked.
"My dad told me something before I got on the train, "it's behind the statue of the one-eyed witch, and you'll know what to do!" It's for us, I know it."
"We-ll, if you're sure …" Alice began, but was cut off by Amber saying "Excellent!" and began to rip off the paper.
Under the paper was a bundle of something silver and other random things. A note lay on top.
Amber picked up the note and read out loud:
"To my hopefully future children,
If you're reading this, than you should be the child of me, Harry Potter. Unless something went horribly wrong and this letter is never read. But this is a package that I used during my years at Hogwarts, and I want you to have it.
I put this collection of things together on my last day of school, the end of my seventh year. I had no use for them any more, so I put them here, so the next generation can use them for 'The good of the school' as your future uncles, Fred and George would say.
Right now, I'm only 17, and sitting under a tree besides the lake, writing this. But I had better finish this letter, as Ron and Hermione are coming over-Shiver they're holding hands. I'll never get used to them going out.
Anyway, put these to good use (and by 'Good use' I mean getting Filch fired!)
From your hopefully future dad,
Harry."
"So it is for us! Well, for you, but …I-you, well you know what I mean!" Rosemary said, stoping herself, before she got confused.
"Come on; let's see what's in here!" Amber said, and reached into the collection of things.
Each thing had a note with it, explaining why Harry had put it there. They found the famous invisibility cloak, (I used this many times for night-time wanderings, and can be very useful and I want you to use it wisely-but if you're going to use it to go to the astronomy tower at mid-night, with a illegal dragon, please remember to wear it on the way back!), which Amber's dad had told many stories about. They also found a piece of worn parchment, which turned out to be the marauders map, the note explaining how to work it.
They found a copy of Hogwarts: A History. A note left by Aunt Hermione this time (The countless times I pestered those two to read this! Anyway, please remember that it is very useful and interesting, so please don't consider it a joke, or I'll make you pay when you find this!) And they also found a Gryffindor scarf, which belonged to Ron (Rosemary kept that one) and a box full of photos of the trio when they were at Hogwarts.
The last thing inside the bundle was all the essays that Hermione had ever written, with a note saying (Ok, so Hermione doesn't know I put these in here, but let's just say O.W.L.S and N.E.W.T.S are killer! So this is to make it easer for you, but NO COPPYING! This is just to help you understand, but I doubt Hermione would approve, so Ron and me didn't tell her-uh-oh, she's coming! Got to go!)
"This is so cool!" Alice said, looking through the old photos.
"Guys, I think our years here, just got a whole heap better!" Amber said, smiling. "Come on; let's get this stuff out of here.
Cramming the things into their bags, the three climbed out of the tube and collapsed onto the floor of the corridor.
"Glad we got out of there, it was getting stuffy!" Alice said, pulling herself up.
"Yeah, but hey! The bells about to go and we didn't even get detention!" Amber said, laughing. But-
"I wouldn't bet on it." An angry voice said and Amber's insides froze. Turning around, Amber saw to her horror that Filch had come back and was looking like Christmas had come early.
"I think we're about to get our first detention!" Rosemary whispered and the three girls giggled, which probably didn't improve the situation.
A/N: Oh dear. That stupid Filch. Oh well, i can always kill him off in the sequel. Tell me what you think of him begging for mercy at Ara's (Ara is my name for Amber, Rosemary and Alice. I'll use it often) feet, while being set on fire and then being eaten alive by blast ended screwts (Or however you spell it).
Hehehe ... my evil jucies are flowing ... reviews appriciated.
P.S. Hurrah!
P.P.S Thankyou a millon to so far, my only reviewer. Fizzing-Whizbee-nz-i love you! (Not really, but you know what i mean).