Brie was lost, she knew it the second the door closed behind her and she was swallowed by the large crowd of Hogwarts students.
"Lost are we?" A Hogwarts student said, coming up from behind her.. left and right. Wait, left and right? She glanced at the two and then collected that they were twin boys.
"Just a bit." She admitted.
"Who are you?" One of the twins asked.
"Brie." She answered, "I'm trying to find the guest chambers.."
"Well I'm Fred and that's George! Come on, we'll show you." Fred said, taking her by the arm and dragging her down the corridor.
"How come we've never seen you before?" George asked, "Are you new or something?"
"Yes." Brie answered blankly, "I'll be in school the day after tomorrow they hope."
"Ah. And here we are my lady." Fred said, picking up Brie's hand and kissing it.
George shoved Fred aside.
"Until the day after tomorrow." George said, taking her hand and kissing it.
"Hey!" Fred said, outraged, "I just called dibs!"
Brie laughed and turned around and walked into her room.
Brie woke up the next morning, got ready and pulled on ripped shorts and black and white striped knee socks and then up to knee converse that let the sock peep out just a little bit.
Brie swiped on a few inches of eyeliner and mascara, she straightened her hair and her bangs and decided she was ready. She opened the door to the rush of Hogwarts, students were racing into there classes as teachers patrolled the hallways.
Brie walked into the hallways and walked through the field and she saw a teacher fast approaching her.
"What are you not doing in class?" Severus Snape snapped at her.
Brie glanced up at him, and he froze.
"I need to go get my school books with Hagrid." Brie said, swallowing hard.
"Don't worry." Snape said, "I'm on Dumbledore's side."
"Oh." Brie said, breathing a sigh of relief, "It's a little nicer to know I'm not alone anymore."
Snape nodded and quickly brushed away and back into the castle. Brie watched him, did he know about her Mum?
Brie doubted it as she saw him disappear she felt a aching in her chest as she remembered her mother. The pain was temporary – or at least she heard.
"Hello there! Time ter head off to Gringotts. Got yer key?" Hagrid said, coming up from behind Brie.
"Yep. Right here." She said, fiddling with the key a bit but then putting it back in her pocket.
The journey to diagon alley was short, mainly because it consisted of a simple port key.
Her and Hagrid walked around and picked up her books and got her money from the bank. They even got a black owl that Brie decided to name Flizzy. It was just a random name, no hidden meaning.
They got back to the castle in one piece and went their seperate ways.
"Flizzy, got a note for me already?" Brie asked, looking up at the bird as it flew through the window and dropped a note. Brie stopped painting her nails and opened the note.
It was her schedule.
Defense Against The Dark Arts, Potions, Charms, Transfiguartion, lunch, free time.
Brie sighed and set it aside and reached for the other note.
It was from Albus Dumbledore.
Your mother left this with me.
She opened the package and slid her finger under the string and the box popped open, and Brie glanced in and she saw a locket, she picked it up and popped it open.
It had one word inside of it: horocrux.
Brie gasped, she knew the foul meaning of the word, her mother always hinted that her father had split his soul into several pieces. Brie pushed aside the note and clutched the locket in her hand, waiting for a heartbeat, but none ever came. She sighed relieved, so the locket wasn't a horocrux.
She glanced over at a picture of her and her Mum on the beside table and she quickly whipped out her wand and made a duplicate. She then made the duplicate small enough to fit inside the locket. She cut the picture into heart form and then put it into the locket and clasped it shut.
Brie reached into her bag and grabbed out a piece of paper and a quill and quickly wrote:
Thank you. She put it into Flizzy's waiting talons and sent her off with a wave.
Brie licked her lips nervously when Flizzy came back with a concealed note.
Brie had to mutter a spell to get the note to show itself and she nearly cried when she began to read the note.
Dear Daughter,
I know you've run, and I know where you are. So if you think you've magically outwitted me, you're wrong. I will be hunting you down, I'll have eyes on you.
I've noticed you have Defense Against the Dark Arts 1st period.
When you are done with Hogwarts and feel the need to stop your silly game, you'll come back to me. I know you will, you can't hide what you are forever.
You and forever will be, the Dark Lord's daughter, and you are made to follow in my footsteps.
Sincerely,
Voldemort.
Brie crumpled up the note and flung it across the room. Then she heard a knocking at her door and she got up and answered it. And standing in her doorway was Professor Mcgonagall with a worn old witches hat.
"We must sort you into your house now and then get you settled in tonight." She said, "Please take a seat." She said.
Brie did as she was told, "What's a old hat going to do?"
"It will sort you into your house, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff." Professor Mcgonagall explained and plopped the hat down on Brie's head.
"Hm.. this is a difficult one, I'm torn between Slytherin and Gryffindor, you are a free spirit, stubborn, but free...Gryffindor it is!" The Sorting Hat proclaimed. Professor Mcgonagall took the hat off of her head.
"Well, to the Gryffindor commons we go." She said and then she waved her wand and all of Brie's belongings went into her suitcase, including the crumpled up note.
Brie walked over and began to roll her suitcase as she followed Professor Mcgonagall out into the hallway. They walked for a few minutes until they reached the Fat Lady.
"Pig snout leviosa." Professor Mcgonagall said, and the potrait accepted their entry and they entered, but Brie couldn't help but hear a shriek from the fat lady. She undoubtly figured out who Brie was.
"Now, to the left and down to your right is the girls dormitry and to the right and down is the boys dormitory, not that it matters." Professor Mcgonagall said.
Everyone in the common room right now were staring at Brie as if she was some kind of ghost, as if she didn't belong. And Brie couldn't help but squirm under their stares as she followed Professor Mcgonagall down to the girls dormitory.
The girls down there were erupting in giggles and talking about boys, Brie couldn't help but roll her eyes, the cliché life of a average teenager ceased to amaze her.
Brie woke up the next morning and swung her legs over the side of her bed and grabbed her new Gryffindor robes and put them on. Hermione Granger was eyeing Brie with interest.
"I've never seen you before." Hermione finally said, breaking the silence.
"I'm new, just got here two days ago." Brie explained.
Hermione looked confused, "But shouldn't you have been here when you were 11?" She asked.
Brie sighed, "My story is a long one and it's hard to explain. Let's just say I'm a special case and leave it at that."
Hermione, thankfully and to Brie's relief, let it go. For now anyways.
Brie arrived at Defense Against the Dark Arts and say Remus Lupin sitting at his desk hunched over. Brie walked up to the desk.
"Um, hi, I'm new.." Brie said, biting her lip.
"Oh yes, Brie. Here, you can take a seat in the back corner over there." Professor Lupin said, waving with his hand.
Brie nodded and walked over to her desk and sat down, she was aware of all the eyes following her, she could feel them boring into her back. She blew a bang out of her eye and sat down, her dark hazel eyes trailing to her desk, she pulled out her defense against the dark arts book and awaited class to begin.
Teddy Lupin then stood in front of the classroom, he walked around with his wand in his hand, he then stopped in front of a asian girl, he slammed his hands on her desk and she flinched.
"See what I did just now? I scared her." Professor Lupin said, "We're going to do.. a little exercise. Neville!"
A quite frightened boy looked up, "Yes Professor?"
"What are you most scared of? What scares you the most?" Professor Lupin asked him.
Neville bit his lip and considered this for a moment, "Professor Snape."
Apparently this fact had laughter fill the room.
"You live with your grandmother right?" Professor Lupin asked, and Neville nodded, "So I want you, to imagine Snape in your grandmother's clothes."
Neville chuckled.
"Now." Lupin turned around quickly and with a whip of his wand a large cloak was lifted to reveal a wardrobe underneath it. The wardrobe shook violently.
"In this wardrobe, there is a boggart, anyone care to tell me what a boggart is?" Professor Lupin said, he then called on Hermione.
"A boggart is a creature that morphs into your greatest fear." Hermione said, Brie couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Correct! Now everyone up and out of your seats!" Professor Lupin said, and everyone reluctantly got out of their seats. Brie strayed towards the back of the room.
"Now Neville, stand in front of this wardrobe, and when I open this wardrobe and Snape comes out, I want you to simply say 'riddikulus' and imagine Snape in your grandmother's clothes, simple." Lupin said, "Now on the count of 3."
Brie strayed further away.
"3!" Lupin shouted and the wardrobe opened and out walked Professor Snape. Neville shuddered for a moment.
"Riddikulus!" He shouted and the Professor was lined with a fur hat and fur vest, Brie couldn't help but chuckle at that.
"Everyone form a line!" Professor Lupin said, Brie made a move for the back but Lupin grabbed her by the shoulders and put her in the middle.
People passed, snakes, clowns, bees, all things alike came out of that wardrobe and in a matter of seconds they were 'ridiculous'. Then came Brie's turn, Brie honestly didn't have a clue what would come out of the wardrobe. And by then, the Boggart had transformed, and Brie was staring at herself. In a much darker form.
In this form her hair had black streaks in it and her eyes were glowing a deathly red, the second Brie raised her wand, and screamed.
"AVADA KEDARAVA!" And everyone ducked, and Brie heard the spell whizz past her.
"Riddikulus!" Brie shouted at herself, but the spell wasn't working.