Ok, new one. This is the next gen Harry Potter people, I'm going to try and keep it all true to the book, pairings included. But it is gonna mostly follow the Potter and Weasley children, Albus, James, and Rose. Hugo and Lily will take the back seat as they are not old enough to go to Hogwarts yet…. I hope I didn't botch the names :p
Also, this is gonna be a slight crossover with the show, and book series of the same name, The Magicians, but not enough to warrant a full crossover. You'll see what I mean.
OC's galore, and I'm gonna start right on the train after they left off in the epilogue in Deathly Hallows. So, without further ado, enjoy :)
3rd person PoV Hogwarts Express
"I am so excited!" squealed a bubbly Rose Weasley. Her, alone with her cousin, Albus Severus Potter, and her friend Allison Cooper, were starting their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The 11 year olds are currently sitting in a private compartment on the train that will bring them to the school, The Hogwarts Express.
"Hey, here's an idea!" Allison said suddenly. "Why don't we do some magic now that we're allowed to?"
"Yeah, that's a good idea!" Rose agreed. "My dad taught me some spells. Mostly charms that make pretty colours, and my mum taught me some more useful stuff. What about you Albus? Albus?"
He gave a start, he was spaced out, still thinking of his worries about being in Gryffindor and what his father told him. "What?" he asked.
"Do you know any spells?" Allison asked.
"Albus, are you… are you alright?" Rose asked worriedly.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Just a bit worried about the sorting. What was that you said? About the spells?"
Rose still gave him a look, who wouldn't worry about their younger cousin? But she didn't press the subject and instead said, "We were gonna try out some magic. Did Uncle Harry teach you any spells?"
Albus thought for a minute and smiled. "Yeah, he did. My dad and mum taught me a few spells. 'Practical' stuff, they called them. Pull out your wand, this is one he learned in his second year."
Smiling and almost giddy of the prospect of doing some magic unrestricted, she gets up.
Albus motions for Allison to get behind them and she does, opening the compartment door and stepping behind him out in the corridor. Rose pulls out her wand and is excited, but also a little apprehensive. Is she gonna have to defend herself? That's not his style, more like Jame's style, but he would never do something to intentionally hurt them.
"Are you ready?" Albus asks. Rose nodded and Albus raised his own wand. "3… 2… 1 expelliarmus!"
A small jet of crimson light shoots out of his wand and hits Rose's. It jerks out of her hand and falls sideways into her seat.
She looks at him in disbelief. No one she knows, not even James could do it properly, and her little cousin Albus got further in that particular spells mastery than James ever did in his first year. And they haven't even left London yet!
"Oy!" someone behind them shouted. It looked like the conductor, a tall man in his 30's wearing a blue uniform and a cap with the Hogwarts crest on the front of it, and on the left arm near his shoulder. "What's going on here!?" he shouted.
"W-we're sorry, sir," Albus said stuttering. "We're just trying to practice some magic-"
"Dangerous magic!" the conductor cut in. "That kind of magic is expressly forbidden on the train! What are your names?"
"R-Rose Weasley," Rose said.
Albus took a breath and said evenly, "Albus Severus Potter."
The conductor gave a pause. "Surely not Potter, as in the Harry Potter?"
Seeing this as an opportunity to get out of trouble, he said, "Yes. The one in the same. I'm his son. Well, second son. my brother James is a few cars ahead, I think."
The conductor appeared to be thinking and then he said, "Alright. But no more funny business. Magic like that has been out right restricted for a reason, you could get seriously hurt or cursed or painfully transformed. Don't let me catch you at it again."
He left and the trio went back in their compartment. Rose retrieved her wand and they all sat down. "Well, that was…"
"Close?" Allison finished for him.
"I was gonna say scary, but ok," Albus said. They all burst out laughing and they went back to trying to practice magic, though, none of the defensive magic that Harry taught his son. Soon the sun was starting to kiss the horizon and the day bleed out from blue to orange and red. Albus walked out of the compartment so that the girls could change into their robes, which only left him with 5 minutes to change too.
The conductor came around to tell them that when they stopped to leave their belongings and wait on the platform.
Outside they waited while the older students went past them to the carriages. "Oi! Firs' years! Firs' years, over ''ere!" The yell was as familiar as it could be. Hagrid, tall and massive as ever, stood way above the crowd, holding a lantern in the fading dusk so the beginning first years could flock to him easily.
"Firs' years follow me!"
The made their way to the front of the crowd and stood before the giant man.
"A'right you three?" he asked when they stood before him.
"As well as ever?" Rose said, and hugged him around his middle. "It's nice to see you Hagrid. That trick you did at Uncle Harry's birthday was really, really funny. You have to show me one day!"
"Heh heh, maybe. How are you Albus?"
Albus smiled widely and answered, "Well, Hagrid, nervously excited about the sorting. And this boat ride."
Hagrid chuck a bit and continued to call the first years off the train. Allison, who has never met the half-giant gamekeeper, was staring with her mouth agape.
"Stop staring, you're being rude," Rose said to her friend, lightly closing her mouth gently with her hand. "Come on, or we won't get first pick of the boats!"
Once Hagrid made sure all the first years were gathered, he set off the platform and down a brightly lit path down to the lake. The dock held around 20 boats, with what looked like a boat house that can hold a hundred more to the side. The climbed into a boat at the front of the dock. There was 4 to a boat so the trio had to share with a new kid.
"Hello," Rose said cheerfully. The new kid was a stringy brown haired boy. He was about Albus' height, 5"2, blue eyes, long nose, hair going to about shoulder length and a good looking smile.
"Hi," he said and extended his hand to her. "I'm Quentin. Quentin Coldwater, I just moved from the States." That explained his accent. "Who are you?"
"Rose Weasley," Rose said and took his hand.
"Allison Cooper," Allison said shaking his hand next, a little too vigorously, but Quentin didn't seem to mind, or notice. In fact his smile seemed to grow wider.
Finally he turned to Albus. "Albus Potter," he said taking Quentin's hand. "So," Albus continued. "How are you liking it so far on this side of the pond?"
Quentin laughed and said, "Good so far, though, the change in which way the traffic moves was hard to get down on the first try."
Rose and Albus laughed good naturedly at that but Allison was left in the dark because none of her parents are muggles or was muggle born.
So with the rest of the boat ride spent talking to her about the finer points of cars and traffic(most of which she didn't even get) Albus couldn't help but feel optimistic, despite him dreading the sorting ceremony, he could help but think that his first year is gonna go great.
End chapter 1
A/N: first of the 5 that i am planning to make, this is the only one, besides the prolog, that's done. So, cliffnotes, Quentin is pretty much OOC in here, and maybe Albus too, but other than what we've seen in the epilogue and at the end of Deathly Hallows part II is that he's insecure. I've seen a few fanfics where that's pretty much ALL of his character and him trying to build past that. I want him to be insecure, yes, but only a SMALL part of his character, the rest of him out going, like a little James too. Harry's James, not James Sr. So, instead of him building confidence, I want him to have that confidence,.but also have him stumble. He's the second of Harry's kids, James is an excellent wizard, and of course Harry is the Hero of the second Wizarding War, The Chosen One, Albus has a LOT to live up to, and even though he was insecure from what we've seen of him cannon wise, that was literally 3 pages of reading, and 5 minutes of movie time, and the reading was from Harry's point of view. So, thank you for reading, don't forget to read and review, this has been once again been Bigmike33321 signing off. *BOOOOOOP*