Everything Changes: Turn Back the Pages Chapter 2: First Meetings, a harry potter fanfic

Melinda walked with her sister and their parents to Diagon Alley where they then went first to Flourish and Blotts Melinda's favourite place.

Walking inside Melinda was about to go and get her school books when their parents told them they could get three extra books each.

Melinda was ecstatic and Rebecca just followed her around so she could pick another three books since Rebecca really didn't want more to read when she would rather write things.

Rebecca took 'her' three books and went to the front desk to pay and then she waited patiently for Melinda.

Melinda had just got her third extra book when she bumped into someone causing her and her books to fall down. She looked up to see....

Scarlett had already gotten everything except her books, and her owl. And she knew what owl she wanted: A pure black one. She would call him Thorn.

She was scared though, to be surrounded by so many people. What if she got lost? Diagon Alley was a very big place. So she held her aunt's hand tight, as they walked towards Flourish and Blotts.

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She'd already bought the books, but something else had caught her eye. Hogwarts: A history.

"Cool..." she breathed.

Her aunt shook her head but conceded anyway.

"Go on then! Go and get it!" she said sternly, dropping a few galleons into Scarlett's hand.

Scarlett smiled in response and walked off to get that book.

She'd just collected it, and was walking to the counter when she bumped into a girl with dark hair. Her three books fell out of her hands and clattered to the floor.

Everything suddenly stopped.

Scarlett opened her mouth. "Sorry," she said apologetically. "I'm… really clumsy sometimes..."

She waited for an answer as she trailed off.

Melinda looked up at the red headed girl and clumsily stood up nearly falling over again.

Once she had stabled herself she picked up her books and smiled at the girl for a brief second before it was gone "It's OK." Noticing Hogwarts: A History she truly smiled and showed the girl her own "I'm buying that too it looks to be a very interesting read...."

A red tint coloured her cheeks before she could stop herself then she noticed her sister come around the corner "Melinda can't you hurry up. I want to get out of here preferably now."

Melinda shook her head "I'm Melinda Collins and I can be clumsy sometimes as well." Seeing her sister cross her arms she smiled at the girl one more time before going to her sister at the last minute Melinda turned to the girl "It was nice meeting you. Maybe we will see each other on the train."

With that said her and her sister left after paying for the books. They then went to get their robes then the rest of their school supplies.

Jon and his parents looked at everything around them in amazement. Jon wanted to go into every shop but he knew he had to go to the wizarding bank first in order to change muggle money into wizarding money.

Inside Jon converted all his life savings into wizarding money so he could buy things for himself and future friends. As he didn't want to be seen as the farm boy any more he wanted to be seen as Jonathan Heights the boy who any one could befriend.

Jon wanted his life to change and he also wanted to be popular rather than a no one.

James and his parents went earlier than he expected so he already had managed to go to Flourish and Blotts and get his things for potions.

Walking to an ice cream area as he asked his parents if they could have a small break, he spotted a lad his age waiting with what he assumed was his parents but the lad looked absolutely bored.

James was thinking of asking him to join him when he realised who his parents were they were the Peterson's which meant the woman who was the lad's mother was from the Noble House of Black. She was known to a few about her pure hatred towards Muggles much like the rest of the Blacks.

Theta Black now Theta Peterson had chosen her Slytherin Husband not the other way around. She was a dominating person who few would mess with.

So James realising this carried on towards his ice cream.

Liam yawned waiting with his parents for his cousin's as apparently his mother Theta (named after a binary star in the constellation Orion.) had arranged with his aunt for both the boys to do their own shopping together. Now whether or not they would remember was another thing.

Liam however wished that they would so him and Sirius could leave their families and have some actual fun.

His mother kept looking at him expecting something to happen or was it because she secretly knew that under his robes he wore black jeans and a black t-shirt. He certainly hoped it wasn't the latter.

He was so consumed with his thoughts he didn't notice a lad with messy hair and glasses look at him.

Sirius spotted his cousin and aunt waiting and walked up to them with his mother following, Regulus having gone off with some of the other Slytherin housemates in his year. He saw Liam's bored expression and stifled a smile. He slid a glance at their conversing mothers and folded his arms, observing the crowd.

Liam yawned and then noticed Sirius a grin appeared on his face he went next to him and whispered "Am I glad to see you. Do you know how boring it is waiting with my mother for who knows how long?"

Before his cousin could answer he turned to his aunt and asked in as much of a polite tone he could get "Can me and Sirius go and you know shop?" He did not like the word shop unless it began with Quidditch because otherwise it made him and Sirius sound girly. However when it came to his mother and sometimes his aunt the only right word was shop or something that degraded muggles.

Peter was strolling with his mother and father up to Ollivanders, where he would get his first wand. He'd already gotten his books, his robes, his cauldron, and everything that he could remember. He'd wanted an owl, but his mother was allergic.

After a few minutes - or possibly hours - he'd finally gotten a very nice oak and phoenix feather wand. Peter left his mother to pay.

"Now where?" his father had asked.

His mother had shrugged.

His father looked down on him, and noticed Peter's quick glance at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.

His father sighed. "If we must..."

Peter had chosen the largest sundae possible and was eating away, watching the world go by. He noticed a boy - around his age - with very messy hair and glasses coming toward the parlour. He saw a little girl with red hair, holding her mother's hand for dear life, walk towards Flourish and Blotts.

Then he saw he'd finished his ice cream.

"Quidditch." His father's single word was enough to make Peter's eyes light up.

"Yes." His mother agreed whole-heartedly.

Peter grinned as he collected his bags in order to go to Quality Quidditch Supplies.

James was nearly towards getting his Ice Cream when he saw the Quidditch shop with....

Running up to the window ignoring his parents he stopped at the window in amazement then read the name of the new broom "Nimbus 1001." His eyes lit up "Nice."

As soon as she started down the alley with her father Charlette started dragging both of them towards the Quidditch shop where their was a crowd of people at the front ogling at some new broom. Charlette couldn't see from where she was standing in the back so she used her small stature to her advantage and started twisting her way through the crowd to get a close look at the wanted broom. Only she came face to face with the pavement as a black headed boy whipped his head around as she was passing behind him and fell even further into the crowd.

Remus calmly walked through Diagon ally with his mother at his side when he saw the crowd in front of the Quidditch shop and wondered what it was that had them bickering. To get a closer look at it so much having no desire to be caught in a crown of bodies he went into the store in hopes of getting a look at the intriguing item.

James turned around to just see someone fall over. He was shocked at the amount of people around him. He was in such a daze looking at the new broom he never noticed them come to see it themselves. He laughed at first finding it funny.

Noticing no one helping the person who fell over and the person surrounded by people as the person seemed to fall smack right in between a lot of people he said "Oy back off." His laughter dying with his words.

People stepped back in more of shock than actually doing what he said. He bent down and helped the girl up until she was in a standing position "You okay?"

Melinda and Rebecca had just finished most of their shopping when they noticed the crowd in front of the Quidditch shop and before Rebecca could stop her Melinda was in the shop trying to see what everyone was looking at.

Her eyes widened when they landed on the new broom and before anyone could react she was the front desk and buying it with money she had saved up. The man smiled and retrieved the broom from the window saying "You're lucky this is the last one until the shipment we get later arrives which should be in an hour." Melinda smiled and thanked the man taking the broom in its rapping when Rebecca came in pushing past a boy their age who was probably trying to see the broom.

Outside the crowd dispersed now that the broom was gone leaving James and the girl he had helped alone.

Jon had just finished getting his things for the new school and was still staring at everything in amazement. In his amazement he nearly got trampled on by annoyed people who where all walking away from 'Quality Quidditch Supplies'.

The man in the store was about to say something to Melinda when he heard something from his back room. Going inside he found his shipment of the new broom and replaced the one on the window.

Luckily for the two outside no one had noticed it yet.

After Scarlett's quick encounter with Melinda Collins, she'd gone and paid for her new book quickly and now she was walking with her aunt to Eyelops Owl Emporium.

After she'd gotten her owl (black and she had named him Thorn) her aunt had decided that it was enough, until they'd spotted Quality Quidditch Supplies.

Her aunt nodded, stiffly, to allow her to go and look at what all the fuss was.

Peter was short for his age, and, in this case, it was his advantage. He'd burrowed forward, climbing around people until he'd reached the window.

"It's amazing," he'd breathed. "It's... brilliant..."

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James was still waiting for his reply when everyone left the area. Then a few minutes later there where loads of people looking at the window again and one of these people was a short slightly pudgy lad.

"It's amazing," he'd breathed. "It's... brilliant..."

James totally forgot about the girl and turned back to the window and said to the lad who seemed to be his age but he was so short he couldn't be sure "It's magnificent that's what it is." Looking closer he said to the lad "Look at it." Pointing at its gold encrusted name he added "It's bloody fantastic." His voice then went to sounding like an advertisement "Nimbus 1001 the next best thing." Laughing at his own joke he turned to the lad and held out his hand ignoring all the pushing going on around him "James Potter."

Peter was shocked.

Was this boy talking to him? Wow.

"P-peter P-Pettigrew," he said, taking the hand. "I agree. It's fantastic." He sighed. "I wish we could take brooms to Hogwarts..."

A mischievous grin that one day everyone would come to know appeared on James face "Peter my friend." He put his arm around the shorter lad's shoulders and whispered "Who says we can't sneak a broom into Hogwarts." A smile lit up his face "Just think about it we could fly over the grounds if we managed to sneak one in. It would be bloody brilliant."

Peter squeaked, both in excitement and fear.

"But - but, we're not allowed to! What'll hap-p-pen if we get caught?!"

Charlette felt almost trapped where she was and started to get a little angry when the boy she ran into started laughing she got up on her knees when he reached down to help her.

She decided he wasn't so bad but still a little miffed at being laughed at when he asked her if she was ok she looked up at him from her 4'9 height and replied "Fine I'm close to the ground wasn't a long fall thanks." She then turned around to see that she was at the front where she wanted to be in first place she stared for a moment until a man came and took it because apparently some one bought it.

Charlette waited for the crowd to dissipate this time so that she wouldn't end up on the ground again and was glad she had when a new broom was displayed and she didn't have to go through a crowd of people to look at it. Charlette watched the exchange between the two boys wondering why the shorter one who was closer to her height was stuttering, was he scared of the taller boy or was it some sort of speech impediment.

James smile just grew "That's what it makes it so much more exciting the thrill of the chance at getting caught. However if we where to get caught since it was my idea in the first place I would take the blame."

Then James eyes lit up with an idea "Maybe we could get someone else in on this maybe even two more people. As we don't want loads of people knowing about this brilliant plan now do we?"

Waiting for Peter's reply James looked around trying to find any other students that would be going to Hogwarts and spotted someone inside the shop he dragged Peter out of the crowd making sure not to lose him then entered the shop and before the lad in front of them could even think of stepping out of the way James grabbed his hand shaking it "James Potter and this..." Motioning to Peter "Is Peter Pettigrew." Looking into the boys brown eyes he asked "You're going to Hogwarts right?"

Liam waited patiently for his aunt and mother to decide if they could go yet when he noticed people swarming around Quality Quidditch Supplies. Glancing at Sirius then his mother he made sure he had his bag with his money in it then proceeded to drag Sirius to the shop but instead of the outside the inside of the shop.

He was sure Sirius was going to be a bit annoyed by being dragged around but taking them away from their mothers and going to a Quidditch shop should stop him from killing him.

Liam came to stand in front of the broom "Nimbus 1001 whoa that is one sweet looking broom." Turning to Sirius he asked "Got any bright ideas on how to get one of these in Hogwarts or are you scared we'll get caught."

Peter obediently followed James outside and listened inattentively as he spoke.

This was weird. Did James know them?

Remus noticed the broom being taken from the display window and bought as well as the new one that was put out he looked at it for a moment then bought the leather gloves he needed for school and headed for the door.

The new DADA teacher, Professor Marco Silving, walked through the Leaky Cauldron, heading for the back. Tom, the new barkeep, nodded to him, and he nodded back, pulling his black cloak tighter around himself. It's been a while since he had been in the wizarding world, let alone seen many magical folk...

Finally, he made it to the back alley. He tapped the certain brick combination to get into Diagon Alley. Finally, the bricks started to move themselves to either side. He sighed and pulled his hood halfway over his head, leaving most of his face showing, as to not scare anyone.

'Diagon Alley, I haven't been here since I became an outcast 3 years ago,' he thought, pausing in his trek through the alley, to take in all the surroundings. He gazed at all the shops, at all the students and adults walking throughout the alley, at the two young boys talking of sneaking a broom into Hogwarts? He turned around to see he had stopped in front of the 'Quality Quidditch Supplies' store, with both boys, a brunette and a raven haired one, staring into the window. He smiled and walked up behind the boys, pulling his hood further over his face.

"Excuse me boys, did I hear you say you were planning on sneaking a broom into Hogwarts?" He asked in his most chilled voice.

James watched the lad go and just shrugged but when he heard the voice behind him he froze for a second before he turned around an innocent grin on his face and noticed he wasn't talking to him and Peter at all but two other lads one he recognised as the Peterson lad.

He didn't know what made him do it but he went and put his arms around both lads and looked at the man who spoke in such a chilling voice that he was sure that he had felt a chill run down his spine and it wasn't even directed at him.

"Actually my friends here were just joking around you see we all would love to take a broom to Hogwarts but it is not allowed."

Liam was very tempted to move this lads arms but instead he played along and a innocent grin appeared on his face that would charm anyone "I was just teasing my cousin as well you see we both really love Quidditch and I always tease him about not being able to bring a broom into Hogwarts for our first year."

Looking at the lad behind him he jabbed his finger at him and said "My friend here James." He said after James whispered it in his ear quick "Likes to tease us both about the same thing. Teasing all around really."

James nodded with everything and whispered his name to the lad when he needed to and when he finished speaking he said "So you see my friends here weren't being serious about sneaking a broom into Hogwarts."

Looking back into the shop he noticed the person who bought the broom coming out with someone and he noticed both seemed to be his age so he jabbed finger in their direction "Now those two girls I would worry about since they actually bought the broom."

Melinda and her sister quickly left the shop and began making their way to the last shop they needed to go to which was Ollivanders where they both got their wands.

Rebecca looked at her sister and said "Why did you get a broom when you can't take it into Hogwarts?"

Melinda sighed "Because we still have a few days before we go to Hogwarts meaning I use it to train myself up for second year." Also I'm going to sneak it into Hogwarts but Rebecca doesn't need to know that. Smiling at her sister she carried on "So do you want to go now or would you want go somewhere else?"

Rebecca smiled at her sister "Lets go get some ice cream."

Melinda nodded but then said "I'll meet you there I want to get something and tell mum and dad that I won't be long."

Rebecca nodded then carried on to the ice cream parlour.

Melinda looked around her and decided that she wanted to get another book when someone bumped into her causing her to fall over and all her things to get splayed around her. Her hair changed colour at her embarrassment and now instead of her natural brown hair it was now blonde. She looked up at the second person she bumped into that day and saw....

When his younger brother came exulting that he got a Hogwarts letter, Lucius merely smiled maliciously and then growled as his mother obliged him to take Perseus and their cousin Jazmine to Diagon Alley and look after them. But the young man with long silvery-gold hair obeyed his mother, and so, there he was with the two little monsters, going from a store to another, buying them ice-creams and sweets, making their packages small with a wave of the wand (much to the youngsters' pleasure!) and cursing the day when he stopped being an only-child, pampered by his parents and relatives.

At one time, his eyes were caught by the most peculiar pair of young boys standing in front of the latest broom on the market and drooling, and Lucius, with a specific smirk, after hearing their names as they introduced each other, just said "Gryffindors!"

His state of dreaming and scheming on how to make life Hell for the newbie's was soon gone as Perseus grabbed his robe sleeve and took him back to Flourish and Boot's because he wanted another roll of parchment. With a small sigh and never losing his majestic way of walking and the straight, noble features of his face, Lucius Malfoy followed his young brother and cousin as he eagerly awaited to begin his seventh and last year at Hogwarts.

Severus Snape was both the most happy young boy and the most miserable one. Happy because he got his beloved Hogwarts letter, but miserable because his mother didn't let him join the Evans (and mostly Lily) on the trip to Diagon Alley, she insisted that they should go together, like a family...or half a family since Severus' father wasn't present.

His day passed in a blur as his mother dragged him all over the place. He smiled when he caught sight of Lily in Madam Malkin's, even if she didn't see him, and almost cried when he saw that his future schoolmates were already starting friendships (he saw James Potter and Peter Pettigrew admiring a broom). He was also intrigued by the older blonde boy, smirking mysteriously while watching the same two characters as he did..."That must be a Malfoy!" Severus told himself...

Charlette had watched the exchange between the boys and the person who seemed to be a professor with his eye and ear for any trouble making and decided she didn't want to get caught up in a lie as the boys were obviously doing.

She turned around and spotted an older platinum blond haired boy being dragged off by what looked to be his younger sibling and also noticed a much darker figure watching the blond boys as well he was in his own way very handsome not your usual hotty type but definitely cute at least to her. So she figured it wouldn't hurt to be friendly and walked over to grab the boys attention "Hello my names Charlette Sento." Charlette smiled at the dark headed boy and held out her hand.

Charlette wondered why the man with black eyes wasn't answering her. "Hello?" she said in an attempt to get his attention.

Severus lifted his eyes to the girl and said "Hello" shaking her extended hand. "So...are you going to Hogwarts this year?" he asked, trying to make a conversation and to take his eyes away from Lily, who just passed with her sister, looking very sad.

Charlette smiled as she finally got his attention "Yes I am. My name is Charlette what's yours?"

Lucius let out a sigh of relief once the two devils tried to "play" a trick on him and hide. He had, of course, heard them planning but acted as if he was looking elsewhere. Once they were out of view, he started walking around and looking for a certain blonde girl who was just a year younger than him. But no matter how hard he looked, he didn't find her. Disappointed and irked, he returned to where he parted from his young brother and cousin, and waited for them to return at some point. It is when he noticed a boy who looked like a vampire, talking to a girl of his age. A new idea flourished in Lucius' mind, which put a smirk back on his face. "Well, there's always the Express to see her...and this boy, when he'll make it to Slytherin...oh, I've never been so anxious to start school before!' he was telling himself, his smile growing bigger.

"I am Severus Snape. I'm also going to Hogwarts this year, it's going to be the greatest thing ever!" he said enthusiastically, but soon regained his sad and composed face. He felt someone was watching him, but he didn't turn around to look.

Lucius had his eyes locked on the pale boy with dark hair for quite a while but decided it was time he got into his favourite place, knockturn Alley, and give his little brother and cousin a bit of a fright.

Charlette was almost giddy with excitement she was almost literally bouncing on the balls of her feet "What house do you think you'll be in?"

"I don't know, but I doubt it will be Hufflepuff..." Severus trailed. "How about you? Any preferences?" he asked, a bit annoyed by the hyper-activity of the girl and thinking, no, hoping she wouldn't make it to Slytherin, where he wanted to be.

Charlette heard the annoyance in his voice and decided to stop bouncing and try to be calmer "Well a lot of my family wants me to be in Gryffindor but I doubt that. My dad thinks I could be in Slytherin, me and my mom think Ravenclaw so I guess we'll just have to see whose right."

Severus gave a small sigh of relief that the girl stopped bouncing and tried to smile. "Well, good luck then!" he said to her. "So, did you get all your supplies?" he asked.

After wondering around the creepy place that was Knockturn Alley, Lucius made his way back to Diagon Alley and begun to proudly walk around, as if he owned the place. He smirked when girls turned their heads after him, very aware of his aura and looked at himself pleased in the window of a shop he passed by. "I think it's time I find the little devils and take them home now," he said to himself and left, making his cloak swirl around him.

Charlette's eyes widened "Oh I totally spaced on that I'm sorry but I have to go I'll see you at school k."

"Alright...see you!" Severus murmured. He looked around searching for sight of his mother and decided to go looking for her at Madam Malkin's. He started walking, his eyes locked on the ground until he hit someone. His eyes widened in shock as he lifted his eyes from the shiny boots. He gulped and stopped breathing.

Not paying attention to his surroundings, Lucius found himself almost knocked down. Furious, with his wand ready, he started to hiss: "Why, you..."...But he stopped as soon as he laid eyes on the skinny, pale boy that he observed earlier. "You should pay attention, others may not be as polite as I am, kid!" he said with a honey-filled voice, pocketing his wand back. He almost laughed at the boy's terrified expression, nodded and walked away.

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Severus mumbled a "I'm sorry..." and looked at the adolescent leaving. He was a bit shocked he didn't get cursed, sighed and continued his search, eyes wide opened and head straight now.

Remus continued his trek through Diagon ally with his mother getting all of his school supplies and quickly ended up in Flourish and Blotts.

Professor Marco just looked at all the boys, and started laughing. "First years I see, well, let me be the first one to tell you, we're glad to have you all at Hogwarts." he said still chuckling and turned to walk away.

Then, he stopped mid step, and turned to say something, "Oh, and don't worry about getting caught, it's been done before. Shrink and wrap it in a sock, fools that darn cat every time. See you all at Hogwarts." he said to them with a wink and a smile, resuming his trek to Flourish and Blotts.

Liam smiled "I think I'm going to enjoy his lessons." Turing back to James he said "Liam Peterson and this is my cousin Sirius Black."

"James Potter and this quiet lad next to me is Peter Pettigrew." Just then James heard someone shout Liam's name. Looking to where the voice was coming from he turned to Liam "Looks like your mum wants you."

Inside James had to agree with the lad because he liked the teacher as well especially since he had practically said they could take a broom into Hogwarts. Before anyone could react James Potter bought a Nimbus 1001 grinning the whole time then he asked the man behind the counter "Do you know any shrinking charms for a broom that doesn't need the use of a wand you see I don't want such a fine broom getting stolen."

"I could put one on it but it will cost much more."

James grinned even more "Deal."

Liam groaned looked at Sirius then his mother "Stay here I will be right back.... I hope."

He was walking to where he heard the voice and bumped into a girl he noticed had brown hair but then it went blonde. Smiling at the girl he picked all her things up then helped her up "Sorry about that." Noticing her blush he decided not to mention her hair he then handed her things to her "Here."

With that he went past her but not before turning back to her and saying "I'm Liam Peterson."

Melinda was in shock and that was why she didn't say anything and now he introduced himself she had to say something "Melinda Collins."

Liam nodded then walked off to his mother who instantly said "Since you ran off so quick I have decided that you can only have an extra hour to get your things."

Liam sighed then ran back to the other lads growling about mothers and their precious shopping time. Then he said to Sirius "So we going to finish getting our things or what?"