Hi, someoneorother123 here! First we'd like to thank everyone that has reviewed. It really helps to know what you guys think of this story. We hope you enjoy this chapter about Lena Payne. Also its my birthday today! I'm officially a teenager! Yay!
Lena Payne
Sunlight streamed through the window, waking Lena up from her deep sleep. She stretched out her hands and yawned. Then slowly she got out of bed.
"Hogwarts letters today" she muttered softly, to herself. Then she opened her eyes wider and repeated herself, "We're getting our letters today!" She said excitedly, finally remembering what it meant.
She quickly pulled on jeans and her favourite purple top, and brushed her shoulder-length, blonde hair. Then she quickly rushed down the stairs, almost knocking her mother over as she ran.
"Where are you in such a rush to go?" Her mother asked.
"Have the letters arrived yet?" Lena asked excitedly.
Her mother laughed, "Not yet" she said.
Lena ran down the remaining steps into the kitchen. At the table was the rest of her family, her older sister, Zoey sat reading a thick book, her older brother Joseph, was polishing his glasses and her twin brother Matthew, was sitting, nervously eating his breakfast.
"Why do you look so nervous?" Lena asked her brother, sitting down beside him.
He looked up nervously, "What if I don't get a letter? What if I'm a squib?" He asked.
Lena didn't reply, she had been wondering the same thing for days. Her entire family had been witches and wizards for generations, her family were all Ravenclaws, all top of their years and the best at magic. Her older brother Billy, who had left home, was even taking one of the hardest courses in wizardry, over in America. Lena felt obliged to follow in the family tradition and be top of the year and brilliant at magic, but she was worried about what her family's reaction would be if she wasn't.
Her thoughts were disrupted by four brown owls swooping in through the open window. They each dropped a letter in the four children's laps. Matthew opened his excitedly, obviously happy that he wasn't a squib.
Lena on the other hand, stared at her letter for longer. Tracing her fingers over the words on the front. For years she'd dreamed of receiving her letter. She'd watched her older siblings get their's and was always jealous, now finally she had one.
She carefully opened the letter, trying not to rip the envelope. She read the message inside.
Dear Ms. Irvine
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.
Please find enclosed a list of necessary books and equipment.
Term beings on the 1st of September. We await your owl by no later than the 31st if July.
Yours Sincerely,
Professor. Lydia Kaligaris,
Deputy Headmistress.
She couldn't believe that she'd been accepted. Matthew was still reading his, in awe. Joseph had tossed his aside and gone back to eating and Zoey was carefully going through her list of books.
"I got accepted!" She said, excitedly.
"So we noticed" Joseph replied dryly, not looking up at her.
"Don't listen to him, we're very proud of you" her dad said, coming up behind her.
"When can we go to Diagon Alley?" Matthew asked, happily.
Zoey groaned, "But I have a billion things I have to do, do we have to go now?" she asked.
"How could you not want to go to Diagon Alley? It's the best place in the world! Can we go now? Please, please, please?" Matthew replied, directing the last part at their father.
"Alright, well that is a bit of an over-exaggeration, I don't think it's the best place in the world, in my opinion home is" Lena butted in, keen to join in the conversation.
"The correct term is hyberbole" Joseph said in a bored tone, putting down his book.
"How can something be an over-exaggeration, its either an exaggeration or it's not?" Zoey asked. Lena laughed, thinking to herself what a bunch of nerds her family was, debating about hyperbole's.
"Guys? Do you want to go to Diagon Alley or not?" Her mother suddenly asked, stopping the argument going on between Zoey and Joseph.
"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Matthew replied.
"Not really" Joseph said.
"Oh, come on Joey, please can we go?" Matthew pleaded.
"Seriously, why are you so keen? I think its unnatural for an eleven-year-old boy to want to go shopping this much" Zoey said.
Her mother laughed and took the Floo Powder off a shelf. She handed each child a pinch of the silver powder. Lena watched as her father stepped into the fireplace followed by Matthew.
Lena closed her eyes as her brother disappeared in a flurry of green fire and smoke, it always made her nervous looking at people travelling by Floo Powder.
"You next" her mother said to Zoey and suddenly she was gone as well.
Finally it was Lena's turn, she rarely travelled by floo powder and it always made her nervous.
"You'll be fine" her mother whispered to her. Lena nodded nervously and took the powder from her mother. She always worried that she would end up on the other side of the world.
"Diagon Alley" she said as clearly as she could.
She tucked her elbows into her body as the green flames engulfed her and she too, disappeared.
Well, we hope you enjoyed that chapter. I enjoyed writing it, especially about hyperbole's. Squidscool and I have had that discussion before! I thought I might write some questions to see what you guys think.
1. Did you like Lena Payne?
2. Out of the three characters so far, who is your favourite?
3. Would you like to see anything different? (Longer chapter etc)
Trivia: Who is the professor of Astronomy?