Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter ot the characters! Except Evan and Micheal, I made them up.
In the next eight years, Sirius had to go to a hearing or two to prove his innocence. Harry and Evan were even toke away from him while he was temporarily put in Azkaban. But he proved his innocence and he was able to raise them like a normal family. Except for the facts that every witch or wizard goggled their eyes on the children, had them sign autographs, shake their hands, and even bowed to them passing by. And along the way, Sirius had picked up a permant girlfriend who he was now married to. Remus "Moony" Lupin had forgiven him and come around alot, babysitted the kids while Sirius and Catrina(the girlfriend) went out on dates, honeymoons, and such. Now Evan was old enough to go to Hogwarts, and Evan, Harry, and Sirius were currently in Diagon Alley, purchasing her school stuff.
"Oh, come on Harry. Only two more years and you'll be doing this too," Evan was trying to comfort her little brother, who was staring longing at the bag of spellbags she was carrying.
"Two years is a long time, though," he huffed.
"Yeah, but at least you didn't have to wait another year after you turned 11 to go, like I did," she reasoned, walking backwards infront of her brother.
"Evan, watch it!" yelled Harry suddenly
"Whoa!" added Uncle Padfoot.
She walked right into a pair of redhead twin boys, knocking them all to the ground, thankfully, nothing fell out of their shopping bags. But the sight itself was a funny one. The boys' backs had been facing Evan, so when she knocked into them they fell on the stomaches and she had landed inbetween them on her butt. Harry and all the redhead kids surrounding the twins went burst out laughing. Evan quickly stood up and began to help the other two to their feet. In the process, she noticed that her uncle was having a hard time keeping a straight face as well.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't notice you, I should've watched where I was going," she apologized hastily, her face turning a light pink.
"It's cool," said the one on the left, and the one on the right added, "Everyone makes mistakes."
"Are you going into your first year, dear?" asked the redhead woman, who Evan guessing was the mother.
"Yes m'am. Are you two?" she asked, turning back to the twins.
"Yes we are. I'm Fred Weasley," said the one on the left, "And I'm George Weasley. Pleasure to meet your acquaintice," said the one on the right.
"I'm Evan. Evan Potter," she said, extending out her hand for the twins to shake.
Instantly, all of the family members' mouthes dropped and stared at her and my brother dumbly. "Blimey, your Evan Potter?" asked Fred, still staring.
"And your Harry Potter?" asked the little girl next to George, but it kinda came out as a little squeak.
"Yep. I'll be going to school in about two years," said Harry proudly, smiling at the girl, who blushed and looked at her feet.
"Cool, so will I," said the boy next to the girl, who indeed look to be about Harry's age.
"Um," Evan said, looking at her hand which was still stretched out in greeting.
"Oh, sorry," said George, but instead of shaking her hand, he toke it and bowed. Fred did the same. But Evan was pleased that the rest of them didn't. As a matter of fact, if anyone else had bowed, she wouldn't have liked them at all; her and her brother hated that. But she could tell it was regular for the twins to do such things.
The shy girl was named Ginny, she was the youngest, and then Ron, the one who was Harry's age. After them came the twins, Fred and George, and then their brother Percy, who appeared to be rather stuck up and tight. Then there was Charlie, who was an alright guy, and Bill, a cool looking person who'd already graduated from Hogwarts.
The group stayed together the rest of the trip, and Fred, George and Evan we're already good friends, and so were Ron and Harry. ("We'll have to get them together sometime," said Sirius to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. "Even though he'll still have me and Catrina around, I'm sure Harry will be really bored without his sister.") When they left, Fred and George promised to look for Evan on the train so they could sit together, and she agreed.
"Can you believe it? I'm finally going to Hogwarts!" exclaimed Harry. Catrina and Sirius smiled at him, and Evan look amused.
"Oh thank you for reminding me! I nearly forgot in the last two minutes since you last said it," she joked playfully.
The four were in King's Cross walking to Platform 9 and 3/4. It'd been two years since they'd met the Weasley's, and they were good friends with them. And speaking of the Weasley's, Evan could hear Mrs. Weasley's voice now...
"Now, what's the platform number?" she asked her sons.
"Nine and three quarters. Mum, can't I go...," begged her daughter.
"No, Ginny, you not old enough, now be quiet. All right, Percy, you first,"
Then, Percy walked quickly away from the group, and vanished after a load of tourists and such got in the way.
"Fred, George!" called Evan, catching her friend's attention.
"Evy! There you are, dear," greeted George, "thought we were gonna have to scracth the whole train for ya, like last year," put in Fred, and they each gave her a big hug.
"Harry, what's up?" said Ron, embracing Harry in a brotherly hug.
"Hey, Evan. Hi Harry," piped Ginny quietly.
"Hey Gin," Evan said kindly and gave her a hug, and Harry smiled at her.
"Ok, kids, if we don't go now, we'll miss the train," said Aunt Catrina.
"Good luck," said Ginny, as they walked through the barrier onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters.
After that, Fred, George, and Evan left Ron and Harry to go find a compartant with their friends, Lee Jordan, Angelia Johnson, and Alicia Spinnet. They talked and joked about nothing and everything the whole ride there, and only stopped to change into their robes. When they got off the train, they could hear Hagrid yelling over the crowd.
"Firs' years! Firs' years with me!" Evan and Fred chuckled when they saw Harry, Ron, a girl with bushy brown hair and large teeth, and a fluffy little boy looking at Hagrid with apparent fear and amazment. They also saw tons of other groups of first years with the same reactions.
"Don't worry," Evan told her brother and his friends, "he's no where near as fierce as he looks. He's quite kind, actually." Then she and Fred had to jog to cacth up with the rest of them, who had gone ahead.
In the Great Hall, Fred and George sat infront of Evan, who sat in between Percy and Alicia, and on George's right was Lee, and on Fred's left was Angelina. They were all (except Percy, who simply glared disapprovingly at them) betting on who would be put where.
"I know Harry and Ron'll be in Gryffindor," said Lee.
"They'd better be or else," muttered Fred and George so Percy couldn't hear.
"I think that bushy haired girl will be in Ravenclaw and that fluffy boy'll be in Hufflepuff,"
said Angelina.
"Naw, they'll be in Gryffindor, too. But I bet one of those indian twins'll be in Ravenclaw, though," corrected Evan.
"How much?"
"Five sickles, two knuts," (A/N I've read all the books, but I really can't remember much on how valuable is each coin.)
"Deal, What do ya'll think? Alicia, Fred, Lee, George?" asked Angelina, offering anyone to get in on the bet.
Lee and Alicia shok their heads, but Fred put his bet with Angelina, and George put his with Evan, who smiled. Then, with a smirk forming across her face she turned to Percy, she asked if he wanted to place one.
"W-What? No! How dare you even suggest such a thing! I would never do such, how can you think of me so? Those poor first years are nervous enough as it is without you all betting on them! Why, I out to give you all detention..." he went off on a roaring rampage that made the rest of them laugh. Then they all quieted down a bit when the first years entered. When they all got to the front, the hat sang it's song and McGongall bgean to call names. When they bushy-haired girl, Hermione Granger, came up she was Gryffindor. so was the fluffy boy (Neville Longbottom). Then when the Patil twins ame up front, the first one, (Padma) was in Ravenclaw, while the other (Parvti) was in Gryffindor.
Evan and George smiled and held their hands to Fred and Angelina, mouthing, "Pay up." They blushed as they began clearing out their pockets in search of the money while Lee and Alicia chuckled softly. Then Harry came up and Evan sat up straight at once, and she wasn't the only one. Everyone else was craning their necks to get a better look at The Boy-Who-Lived. She couldn't help but feel sorry for her younger brother, she had endured the same whispers and stares when she was new here, and really, she still did. Things would only get worse for Harry, but hopefully he wouldn't have it as bad as she did, since most people had already gotten used to seeing The Girl-Who-Lived.
Anyway, he got Gryffindor, and so did Ron. So, all in all, the new Gryffindors were Ron, Harry, Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, Parvti Patil, and Lavender Brown. They seemed like a nice group, though Lee sweared that, "That Granger girl'll be the next Percy." The two were talking and Percy was advising her about how to stay out of trouble and in her classes, "you won't be doing much yet, in Transfiguration you'll start out just turning matches in to needles and such, the basics..."
About half way through the feast, Harry turned to Evan, and asked who the man with the greasey black hair and hooked nose talking to the one in the turban was. She scowled instantly. Professor Snape. Even though she was one his best students (possibly the best) Snape didn't like her much at all. She wasn't sure if it was because she was in Gryffindor, or because she and the twins had bewitched his breakfast to float in the air one morning and turn different colors. Probablly the latter, because he had been sorta tolerant of her before that. There was no doubt in her mind that he'd treat Harry and Ron just as bad. As she told him this and ways to stay on his good side, and what he did if you didn't stay on his good side, he turned rather pale.
Then, finally they were able to go to bed, Evan muttered a goodnight to her roommates, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie Bell, before dozing off. The next morning, she got up early, so she could get dressed and have time to stray in the halls before class. She had promised Hary she'd give him advice to get to his classes, but she wasn't she if he completely trusted her. He'd be right because she decided to give him the wrong directions to McGongall and Quirell. She sat between Fred and George at breakfast and ate her eggs and bacon while joking with the two of them nonchalantly. Then McGongall came around with their schedules.
Damn! she thought, and she knew the rest of her friends were thinking more or less the same thing. This morning she had Double Potions, History of Magic, and Ancient Ruins. Her two least favorite classes plus one that's supposed to be overly hard. Looking back now, she really wasn't sure why she was taking it. Angelina guessed she'd done it for the challenge. Harry's schedule was perfect, though, at least for Evan. He had Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Herbology. He'd more than likely get two tardies on his first day, if he really did end up trusting his sister's directions.
As she expected, Snape was absolutely horrible. Lee was the worst in the class at Potions and Sanpe kept asking him questions he knew Lee didn't know, even though Evan's and some Slytherin boy's hand was permantly in the air the whole time. And when they started to make the potions, Lee'd been very careful with this work, and he'd actual done a decent job. He was sharing a table with Evan and Alicia, and Evan smiled at him after they were done, meaning he'd got it right. Snape saw this and claimed it was evidence of cheating. As a result, he emptied both of their cauldrons with a vanishing spell and failed them for the day, and taken way ten points each. When Alicia protested and said they had not been cheating, she'd have notcied, and he toke ten points from because she was, "covering for them, and was being disrespectful and deifant."
By the time she got History of Magic, she was shaking in anger and it was impossible for her to fall asleep to Binns' drooning lectures. As a result, she actually got a full set of notes to study. Huh, maybe having those classes back to back had an upside after all. Ancient Runes really did prove to be as complicated as they said, but Evan actually liked. It gave her a challenge, and probablly would be more useful in the future than Divination. She had that Wednesday, and what she heard from those who'd already had her, she was a lunatic fraud.
At lunch, Harry got all sorts of upset with her, though, "You gave me the wrong directions," he said, quite infuriated.
"Only to Transfiguration and D.A.D.A., not like you showed up late to all your classes," she replied.
"Oh, but we did," repleied Ron. "After been giving the wrong directons for the first two classes were wrong, we figured the third was wrong, too."
Evan choked on her pumpkin juice while the Weasley twins collapsed with laughter next to her. She never thought they wouldn't trust the third directions, but thinking about it, she realized that that was actually quite guessable.
"Excuse me, but did I just hear correctly? You gaev our little borthers the wrong directons to their classes," They all turned to see Percy Weasley standing looking absolutely murderous. Harry and Ron paled. They wanted to yell at her, but never mean to set him on her. Now they'd probablly get it from her, Fred, and George later.
"Did you two get detention?" asked Percy, and they started to answer but stopped. It was then obvious that they had.
Percy turned back to Evan angrily and ordered, "If you don't go report yourself to McGongall or someone right now, I will."
"Oh come one, I really didn't mean for them to be late to Herbology, just meant it as a 'Welcome to Hogwarts' joke-"
"If you don't do it now, I'll report you too Snape, or Dumbledore himself."
And with that, Evan glared at Percy, but stood up and stalked over to the staff table anyway. She recieved two nights of detention. She was right in thinking Harry and Ron would get punished by Fred and George for Percy getting invovled, only she didn't get to particpate or witness the event because of her detentions. But from what she's heard, they're homework papers had caught on fire everytime they tried to do it (this one more for Percy) and they're clothes had suddenly disappeard in a shower of glitter and sparkly confetti, leaving nothing but they're underwear and socks (more for Ron and Harry). Even though they all knew who did it, they had no proof, and nothing happened to the twins.
The only other eventful things that week was that in Defense Aganist the Dark Arts, Evan's forehead began to hurt. Not a normal headache, but a searing pain that orginated from her scar and occured anytime Quirell got near her and Angelina's desk. Later on she learned Harry experienced a smiliar problem. And there was the time the first years came back from their first Potion's lesson. If the way Ron, Seamus, and Parvti were calling him every bad name under the sun, and the rest of them were shaking in anger and muttering bad things about Snape (even Herimone)were a clue, he'd gone way overboard with his tactics.
And there was only one other notable thing, on the way to their first class Thurday morning, a fourth year Ravenclaw boy name Micheal Robins walked straight into Evan and knocked them both down, not unlike the way she had knocked down Fred and George when she meet them. He helped he picked up her books and started a conversation with her about the ones she was reading for pleasure, Quiddditch Through the Ages and Creative and Useful Potions: How to Make Them and Use Them. (Even though she didn't like Potions with Snape, she did like them in general) He walked with them all the way to the front door (they had Care of Magical Creatures next) and then excused himself saying he had to get to class or he'd be late.
"I'd like to meet you again later though. I hope we run in to each other again soon,"
"Literally or metaphorically?" she asked teasingly.
"Doesn't matter to me," he replied with a smile, "See you later."
"Bye."
Through out Evan's and Micheal's conversations, Fred and Lee had exchanged smirks, while Angelina, Alicia, and Katie giggled and whispered about them quietly. George, however, was glaring holes in to the back of Robins' head the whole time, and the only one to notice was Fred. After that, Evan had smiled the whole day while George couldn't stop scowling. Again, Fred was the only one to notice.
