Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter characters. Artemis and Victoria are creations from my mind. All others belong to J.K. Rowling.
1st Year-The Marauder Sisters
"Artemis Flora Potter! If you don't get down here this minute and eat your breakfast, we'll be late getting to Kings Bridge Station!"
"I'll be right down, mum!" I yelled as I flung my trunk closed and grabbed my hoodie before running downstairs. I could smell bacon and pancakes coming from the kitchen as I walked in. My mum was standing at the stove finishing up breakfast as my dad sat at the table eating and reading the newspaper. I always wondered how people could read a huge paper and eat at the same time, but I guess it was possible since my dad did it.
"Sit down and eat. Where's your brother?" mum asked as she put a plate of pancakes and bacon in front of me.
"How in bloody heck should I know? He's your son,"I replied.
"James Potter! You come down right now and eat before we're late getting to Kings Bridge Station!" she yelled upstairs. There came a thump and I started laughing. My older brother, James, was always funny and doing things that were hilarious. That is if they're not done to me. About a minute later my older brother came trudging into the kitchen. As always his hair was a complete mess. No matter what he did to it, it was always a mess.
"Morning, bed head,"I said as he sat across from me.
"Morning, brat,"he replied before he started shoveling food into his mouth.
"Mum! James is eating like a cow again!" I exclaimed, pushing my plate away from me in disgust.
He looked up at me with a glare and I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Alright you two. That's enough. James, finish eating and then help your father with the trunks and owls,"mum said as she gave her wand a flick and the dishes started cleaning themselves. Of all the things I wish I could do it was do magic, especially to get out of household chores. And finally I now got a chance to go to the best magic school in the entire world. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has been one of the highest magic schools the world of wizardry could offer and just like my brother, my parents, their parents, and so forth, I finally am able to go. I couldn't wait.
"Artemis, please don't forget Summer,"mum said as James and my dad finished loading our trunks into the car. Even though we were witches and wizards, we still traveled by muggle, non-magic folk, ways because I had insisted attending some kind of schooling so I was not bored and upset about not being able to go to school like my brother. My parents enrolled me in a muggle school where I took up a passion for art. Unlike my brother's care for pranking, my passion could actually take me places around the world.
"Artemis! Don't forget Rigil,"James added as he raced around the house looking for last minute things.
"You mean Chunky?"I asked as I grabbed both owls' cages.
"His name isn't Chunky, Artemis,"he said.
"It is when you're fat and chunky like this,"I said.
He was about to retort when mum cut in and said,"That's enough you two. Let's get going before we miss the train." I stuck my tongue out at my brother and we were on our way.
It's funny how different my brother and I are and my family and I are. My mum, dad, and James were all kind of tall with dad and James having messy, jet black hair and glasses while my mum had curly brownish colored hair and no glasses. My entire family, except for myself, had dark eyes. James always made fun of me, in a brotherly way, about being an oddball in our family. I was only 4'6 at 11 years old, short for someone my age, with choppy shoulder length dirty blonde hair and icy blue-green eyes. Everyone in our family is completely confused how that happened, but I pretty much ignore it.
"James, please make sure you look after your sister and keep her out of trouble. We don't need another you."
I was brought out of my thoughts by my mum's voice as we reached platforms 9 and 10. To get to platform 9 and 3/4 we had to go through the wall between platforms 9 and 10. I knew this from the two times before when James went to Hogwarts. He would be starting his third year at Hogwarts. I couldn't wait to start though.
"Don't worry, mum. Artemis will be fine,"he said as we crossed the barrier to be met with a huge train that read Hogwarts Express.
"Hogwarts Express? Sounds like you're shipping us somewhere,"I muttered as our things were loaded onto the train.
"Now Artemis, please behave and listen to your brother while you're there. Be good and have good grades at the end of the year. We don't want you doing horrible on these exams,"mum said as she gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. Don't worry. Can I get on the train now?"I asked as I gave dad a hug.
Dad laughed and nodded. I got on and made my way through groups of students as I tried to find an empty compartment.
"I'm joining Sirius in one of the compartments. Behave,"James said from behind me and went in the opposite direction. I rolled my eyes and continued on my way. As the train started moving, students started filing into the compartments and it seemed like I would never find an empty compartment. Toward the end, however, I came across one that had only one girl in it and she looked to be about my age.
"Is it alright if I sit in here?"I asked. She looked up at me from my book and stared at me for a second before nodding. As I sat down I took a good look at her. She was about 5'2 with long tight curly brown hair and brown eyes that seemed to move quickly over the book she was reading. She seemed the opposite of both James and I, who didn't like reading as much as most people did.
"Are you new?" Her question brought me out of my thoughts
"Yeah. Are you?" I asked.
"Yeah. But my brother is starting his third year,"she replied.
"Really? Mine too. What house is your brother in?" I asked.
"Gryffindor. That seems to be the best house out of them all. I just hope I don't get Slytherin. It would make my bones chill. Is your brother in Slytherin?" she asked.
"No. He's in Gryffindor too," I replied.
"Really? Maybe we'll be in Gryffindor too,"she said.
"I hope so. I don't know anyone besides my brother that goes to Hogwarts," I said, making her nod.
"I'm Victoria Summer Lupin,"she said, sticking out her hand.
"I'm Artemis Flora Potter. Nice to meet you,"I said, shaking it.
We sat together in the compartment talking about everything from magic to boys to who was going to win the soccer championship. We even found out that we had a similar interest in art. She liked to paint while I liked to sketch. We thought it would be cool if we could do something together if we had time throughout the year. We were so fascinated by how much we had in common that we didn't know anyone had come into the compartment until, "Why is it that girls can never shut up?"
I looked up to see my brother and two other guys standing with him. One I recognized as Sirius Black, my brother's best friend. I had met him a few times over the summer holidays but never stuck around too long because of my art classes.
"Why is that older brother's are annoying?" I asked, rolling my eyes.
"That's your older brother?" Victoria asked with surprise.
"Unfortunately," we both replied with sarcasm.
Remus's POV
"Please watch out for your little sister." I rolled my eyes as my mother reminded me for the 100th time since we left home to watch out for my little sister.
"Mum, I can take care of myself. I don't need Remus always watching out for me." I chuckled as my younger sister, Victoria, voiced her opinion, as always. Whenever she wasn't reading a book or painting, her passion, she was always voicing her opinion and didn't care what other people thought to what she said. We shared that in common, but I was more laid back and conscious of what was going on around me. We shared looks with brown hair and brown eyes, but she preferred to paint over reading books and so forth.
"Alright you two. Have a good first term and stay out of trouble,"mum said, more looking at Victoria than myself.
"Yeah, yeah. Bye,"she said before we both got onto the train.
"I have to look for James and Sirius. Will you be alright by yourself?"I asked.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry,"she replied before she squeezed her way through the crowds of people in search of a compartment while I searched for James and Sirius. I found them sitting in a compartment not far from where my sister and I had been standing earlier.
"Remus! Good to see you,"Sirius said as he and James looked up from their game of exploding snaps when I walked in.
"Enjoy your summer?"James asked as I sat down.
"All except for the paint explosion my sister caused in one of the upstairs bedrooms. She claims she was trying to paint the ceiling when all the paints she had on a ladder fell off and splattered the walls of the room,"I replied.
"Sounds like you have an annoying sibling as well,"James put in.
"Artemis really isn't that annoying, James,"Sirius said.
"That's because she was only around for a few minutes before having to leave the house to go to her art class,"he said.
"Your sister takes art classes?"I asked.
"Yeah. It's some kind of muggle thing she picked up going to a muggle school,"he replied with a nod.
"Interesting. Is your sister starting this year?"I asked.
"Unfortunately,"he replied with a nod again.
"You make it sound like she's so annoying that if you turn around she'll hex you or something,"Sirius said with a laugh.
"You would too if she was always sarcastic and retorting everything you do. Your sister starting, Remus?"he asked. I nodded.
"Good. Maybe, if they're in the same house, they'll be good friends,"he said, causing me to roll my eyes. James could be over dramatic about his sister sometimes.
"Speaking of sisters, I should check on Victoria,"I said as I stood up. James and Sirius stood up as well and we set out in search of my younger sister. I found her in one of the compartments toward the end with another girl that seemed to be about her age. I was about to say something when James said, "Why is it that girls can never shut up?"
The other girl looked up and said, "Why is it that older brothers are so annoying?"
I realized then that this was James's sister. I didn't know how though as they looked completely different from one another. James had messy raven colored hair and brown eyes while this young girl had choppy dirty blonde colored hair and mesmerizing icy blue-green eyes. "Wait. What?"I thought as I shook that thought out of my head.
"That's your older brother?"Victoria asked with some surprise.
"Unfortunately," both James and his sister replied with sarcasm.
"I can see the two of you get along just fine,"Sirius said with a laugh.
"Oh shut up, Sirius. It isn't funny,"she said, rolling her eyes before they landed on me. She raised an eyebrow and said, "And I can see that at least someone is civil enough to be your friend out of your's and Sirius's stupidity."
"Artemis," James said, glaring at her. She merely shrugged.
"I can see that this is going to be an interesting year,"I muttered as we left the girls to change into their school robes.
"You can say that again,"James said as if he heard me. The train came to a stop a while later and we got off.
"We are home once again!"Sirius exclaimed as the castle came into vision. I chuckled and knew he was right. We were home once again.