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The sun shone brightly on the 1st September 2018, Carter woke up, and flicked through the photo album, and that was all she had left of her family. The scars on her limbs burned and she experienced some quite severe pain in total silence, when it was over, the door opened and there was a dumbstruck Albus Severus Potter, looking at Carter in her underwear. You could feel the awkwardness in the air had you have been there; they both stared at each other prior to Al snapping out of his gobsmacked-ness and said "Oh, this isn't Lily's room, my bad!" then he left. After the door shut Carter flopped onto the bed and went into hysterical giggling.

Carter got dressed, she wore the locket and the bracelet that she had received for her 12th birthday, and went downstairs to enter the havoc of the Potter family at 8 o'clock in the morning. To the young female's surprise she found that everyone (minus James) was sitting at the table, and having a civilised conversation, she realised that it was only because two out of the three Potter children would be returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She sat at the table and took a bit of toast, when an evil looking James entered the room, Ginny caught the suspicious look, and went to go and check his trunk for anything from her brother's store. After a few minutes of eating in silence, there was a yelling, and a screaming, the only person who went to go and do anything about it was Harry.

An hour later they were in the car going to King's Cross Station in London after triple checking that they had everything that was needed for the next school year. Carter was the first ready, because she didn't have to sort through everything, she just took it with her, so she decided to help Al with his stuff. On the trip to the station, the Potter's were having a discussion about something, and Carter was inspecting her locket, she discovered that on the front was an inscription which said Le trésor des choses que vous avez, les gens que vous aimez, et les moments que vous rencontrez, car une fois qu'ils sont partis, tout ce que vous avez des souvenirs. There was an inscription on the bracelet as well, which Carter had not noticed, that said Toujours être même parce que quand vous allez partir, c'est comme ça ceux que vous avez laissé derrière vous rappellerez-vous. She thought about this on the journey.

Soon enough they arrived at the station, and got onto the platform with no issues. Al and Carter tried to help put their trunks onto the train, but failed epically and so Harry just did it for them, after they found Rose and Scorpius, they were going to share stories until Lily ran up to Al and clung onto his leg crying. Al and Carter went back to where Harry and Ginny were, and somehow managed to pry Lily off Al. The announcement that it was five minutes until departure came through the speakers, and they said their farewells to everyone and boarded the train.

Rose, Scorpius, Al and Carter managed to get a compartment to themselves, and they started to share stories about the holidays. Carter planned to get through the whole conversation and never had the falling off a broom in the middle of the orchard at Rose's house come up, but obviously Rose had other plans. "Hey Carter, remember when you fell off the broom at my house?"

"Carter, you never mentioned this before." Said Al with concern

"It wasn't important, I survived if you can't see that" she said bitterly "Anyway, what did everyone do during the first week holidays?" she tried to change the subject

"Well, I went crazy waiting, with excitement waiting for Carter to show up" said Scorp

"I got flying lessons from Mum and Dad" said Al

"I hung out with Hugo, Mum and Dad" replied Rose "What about you?"

All Carter could think was, I sat recovering, and I went to the graveyard to pay respects to my family "I spent a day with my family while they were on holiday, and then I just relaxed" she said, thinking hey it wasn't a total lie, she did spend the day with her family, they just aren't so much on holiday as dead, and she did relax.

Before anyone could press anything any further the food trolley came, and they shared some lollies, but all through the time, Al was staring at Carter strangely, as if he didn't believe her completely, or as if he could still see her in her underwear. As if no time had passed at all they arrived at Hogsmead station, and walked to the carriages after waving to Hagrid. Carter saw the scabby, quite strange looking horses pulling the carriages, and she was both intrigued and scared of the strange creatures, Rose told her to hurry up, and she did, but she never mentioned the creatures, because it was obvious that no one else saw them, there was a part of her that thought perhaps she was going crazy. As usual the trip was breathtaking and Carter momentarily forgot about the creatures.

When they arrived at the castle they went into the Great Hall for the Welcoming feast, it looked the same as the previous year, but with fewer students, and a lot less intimidating for the second years. The hall settled down at once because the first years had just entered and the Sorting Hat was about to sing it's song for the year.

Welcome to a new Year
Where you will learn new things
About others and yourselves
Although some of you hide things
Your secrets may not become so private
whether you like it or not
You may belong in Gryffindor
Where those who are courageous dwell,
You may belong in Hufflepuff
Where Loyalty is always found
You may belong in Ravenclaw,
Where the smartest belong
Or you may belong in Slytherin
Where being ambitious rules the lot.
So put me on your head
and see where you are lead.

The Great Hall burst into applause, however Carter couldn't stop thinking about the lines in the song: Although some of you hide things your secrets may not become so private whether you like it or not. Did that refer to me she thought to herself, but was brought back by Al whacking her on the scar on her left arm. The sorting went on for a while, and she clapped along with the rest of Gryffindor when a tiny First year was put into Gryffindor. Finally the sorting ended with Jason Wiley becoming a Hufflepuff. The food magically appeared on the table, and Carter started to grab anything that was in reach, then the dessert came and Carter ate all she could. Once the food was demolished, the Headmaster gave his speech, the usual new things that have been banned, stay away from the forbidden forest, blah, blah, blah. After the Headmaster had finished, the quartet went up to Gryffindor tower, and slept peacefully that night.

The next morning Carter woke up and found Rose's bed empty, she got dressed and went to investigate, she didn't go very far before she found her best friend shouting at Al and arguing with Scorp. "SHUT UP!" Carter yelled

"CARTER!" yelled Al with a sigh of relief, said girl blushed

"Why are people yelling and what are you two arguing about now?" she asked looking from Rose to Scorpius and back to Rose.

"Scorpius stole my quill!" Rose stated in an isn't-it-obvious tone of voice.

"Did Not!" he exclaimed, Al and Carter looked at each other and had to fight the urge to laugh uncontrollably at the pair, instead they backed away out the door, after Al had grabbed his things and went into the common room. That was where they started to laugh uncontrollably. Before the twosome could get whacked by Rose and Scorpius they went down to breakfast as Carter thought that it was going to be a long year.

Authors Note: I don't know what you guys think, but here are the translations for the inscriptions if you can't understand them that I came up with, and a quote that I came up with that inspired the inscriptions. Let me know what you think or even if you're just reading it please let me know that people are still reading it.

I think that many of the Next-Gen Characters won't have witnessed death, so thats why there are thestrals

Every time someone you love dies, a part of yourself dies too, because there can be no more experiences, just memories. Eventually all of the parts of yourself that have died add up, and then you rejoin those who caused you the initial pain.

Treasure the things you have, the people you love, and the moments that you experience, because once they're gone, all you have are memories. (The locket)

Always be yourself because when you go, that is how those that you left behind will remember you. (The bracelet)