Animagi at last!

Luella was gone and so were her clones. We checked around one more time to make sure no one else was around and then Laurie set up the area for the spell. I got my notes out and checked them over one more time.








Once Laurie set it up, Tash volunteered to go first. She was shaking with fear but went and stood in the center of the triangle.


"Are you ready?"


"Yeah, don't worry Tash, I won't let anything go wrong. Are you completely sure you want to go first?"


"Ok Fetcher? You completely ready?"


"Yes Guard, I'm ready."


"Ok." I pointed my wand at her and recited the incantation, "Animagus Doggus Golden Retriever."


As soon as I had said the incantation, she immediately started to shimmer with light and started to change form into her chosed dog. Then as suddenly as it had started, it stopped and where Tash had been, a big Golden retriever was standing there.


"Tash? Can you hear me? Nod if you can." The dog nodded. "Ok, now try changing back."


The dog started to grow and it's paws changed into hands and feet. The ears sunk down the head and were once again human. In a matter of seconds, Tash was standing in front of us once more.


"That felt amazing! It was great! Thanks so much!"


"Ok, Bite, your turn."


Sam then walked into the triangle. Looking much more relaxed as Laurie prepared herself to do the spell.

"Ready bite?"

"Just do it."

"Animagus Doggus Belgian Sheepdog!"



Sam immediately went through the transformation just as Tash had done and then turned back.

She looked a bit dizzy and disorientated.

"Wow, that was amazing! I loved it!"



"Ok Laurie, your turn now."



Laurie stepped into the triangle, looking rather apprehensive.

"It'll all be fine. Don't worry. Animagus Doggus sheepdog!"

Laurie started to change and then, before we knew what was happening she was a dog and then was Laurie again. Looking slightly confused, she was obviously a bit dazed.

"Oh my God! Fantastic! Genius! I'm loving this! What're my parents going to say?!?! They'll kill me for doing such dangerous magic!!!"

"We can think about that later. Now it's my turn," I stepped into the triangle and said to Laurie, "Ok, Do the honours."

"Ok then." With a shaking hand, she pointed her wand at me and said, "Animagus Doggus Black German Shepherd."
It felt amazing! I felt as though I was weightless. It was a wonderful sense of Euphoria. Then all of a sudden, it stopped and I was on all fours. It was great! Apart from the fact that I had a burning desire to chase my newly grown tail, I still could think like normal.
"Annie? Can you hear me? Try changing back now."
I imagined myself as a human again and without any warning, the weightlessness and Euphoria returned.
"WOW!!! That was so amazing!" I looked around to check that everything was ok,"I think we should go back up to the castle."

We walked back up to the castle and talked about everything that had happened. We couldn't wait until the Christmas holidays, we planned that we would map out the school.

Uh oh, We're in trouble!

Luella had set us up! But we had expected it. We weren’t sure how much Prof. Malfoy knew, but we were sure that Luella had told him everything.

“Hand over the evidence,” we didn’t move, “I SAID hand it over.”
We had also expected this and hadthe fake notes that were in actual fact the doodles I had swiped from Luella in History of Magic.
“Here you go.” Sam handed over the doodles, “Just to say, I think you’ve got it all wrong. We came…” Sam didn’t get to say anymore before Prof. Malfoy turned on Luella.
“What is this? Luella, you told me that these students were doing illegal activities! The notes that these girls have are merely doodles! You,” He pointed at Laurie, “Explain!”
“Well, you see Professor, we came down here to do some sketching competitions. These were some of our previous ones to compare,” she took her sketch book and some chocolate frog cards out of her bag, “here are some of the sketches from last week. We also came down here to trade some chocolate frog cards.”
“Professor, that’s not what…” Luella started. She never managed to finish as Prof. Malfoy started to scold her.
“Luella, I can not believe that you have accused your fellow pupils of doing illegal activities with the intention of having them expelled. I have never been so disappointed with a student, let alone one from my own house!”

Prof. Malfoy took Luella by her ear and lead her back to the castle.
"Ow ow ow ow ooooooooow!!!!" Luella threw us a death stare.
"Oh shut up Rencor."

We waited until they were out of earshot and then fell around laughing.
"Amazing Laurie! You did that perfectly! I never knew that you could lie so well!"
"I wasn't lying, I merely stretched the truth, I was going to do some sketching afterwards."
"Well, as far as I am concerned, I don't care what you call it! But I think that we should start doing what we were planning before anyone else comes down."

We're two months in!

We had reached the end of our first two months at Hogwarts and we had done pretty well in coping with school work and coping with Luella and the Luella-Ettes.
We made a list of things to be done and things we had done to Luella, each thing based on different scenarios. So far, we had: Bewitched matchsticks to follow her and the others around, enchanted her shoelaces to tie themselves together, grown her teeth to an enormous size and we dyed her hair bright orange.
But, in return she had: Poured soil down my shirt, take credit for my work, mocked Laurie and I and shaved off Tash's hair. Not to forget the nosebleed nougat she put in Sam's pumpkin juice the morning after the teeth incident.

Laurie and I were doing progressively better in our Transfiguration and had reached human Transfigurations now. We had finally persuaded Prof. McGonnagall to let us get the Animagus book out from the restricted section in the Library.

The date was Saturday 4th November. We decided that we would go down to the Marauders' hideout and do the Transformation. Laurie and I had copied out the needed page for the transformation spell and returned the book as to not be caught with the book. When we got to the inlet of the beach, we were not the only ones there. Luella and her clones were there, waiting for us. Zofka looked as though she was ready to re-arrange our faces. Petunia had a look as though she knew that we were going to be in a whole heap of trouble soon. But Luella, she looked the most dangerous. She was there, sitting on a rock, sneering at us. We knew that something bad was about to happen.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Sam whispered in my ear through the corner of her mouth.
"Stop quoting Star Wars, Sam!" I hissed back.
Tash kicked me in the ankle. "Something's up. Act normal. Don't give the game away!"

Luella strode up to us with a sneer that was even worse than that of her normal one.
"Well, there you are Bolt! I thought you'd not show up. Yeah, I knew you would be here, today, at this exact moment. I heard you talking a few days ago, when I was hidden behind a tree, that you were going to do something that would be breaking over a hundred school rules. So, I've put you in a position where you can do one of two things. Option number 1: You can do what you were planning ,and threaten me all you like about this, but I will tell a teacher, and you'll be in trouble. Option number 2: You can hand over your notes, give me all your pocket money AND do whatever I say and I won't tell a teacher about this. I will give you 2 minutes to decide."

We huddled in a group and discussed what we would do.
"You know, she's probably going to tell a teacher whatever we do."
"Yeah and I bet you anything she has a teacher down here right now."
"I have a ton of Leprechaun gold that we can give her and we do this at a different time."
"You know what? I think that we should tell her. I have some fake notes here and we can give those to her. They're just a ton of doodles that I swiped off her in History of Magic the other day. Tash, you then cast Homenum Revelio and see if there is a teacher here in disguise. We then pretend that we were coming down to do a sketching session. Laurie, you have your sketchbook with you?"
"That I sure do."
"I think we'll do that plan. It's gold!"
"Ok Tash, cast the spell, quietly."
"Homenum Revelio! Yeah, Prof.Malfoy is using the Disillusionment charm and is hidden behind that tree."

"Time's up! What're you going to do?"
"Luella, ven do I get to give zer faces a make-over?"
"Calm, Zofka. You'll get your chance soon enough."

"Luella, here's all our pocket money that we have left," Laurie handed over the bag of Leprechaun gold. "We'll do whatever you say, as long as you don't tell any teacher what we're doing down her."

"Ok." Luella paused and then an evil, malicious grin spread over her now very pimpled face. Tash and Sam had noticed and were now stuffing their hankies into their mouths to stop them laughing as they saw the word 'Tattler' writing itself over Luella's face in spots. "Professor Malfoy, could you please come out now. These girls are here doing illegal activities."
Professor Malfoy came out of hiding, looking like a big Chameleon when he appeared out of nowhere.
"Thank you Luella. I now need to see the evidence of their 'Illegal' activities."

The beginning of the Quidditch season.

We weren't sure whether it was the work we had or the amount of fun we had, that took us so quickly through the first 2 months at Hogwarts. It was the start of October, and it was nearing to Me and Sophie's 11th birthday.

I had never forgotten to get her a present, but I wasn't sure for the first time ever on what to get her. Because I couldn't leave the Castle to go to Hogsmeade because that's a third year privilege, I had to send Albus off with an order form and money.

I sent him to Honeydukes to get a gift package of Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans, Drooble's Best blowing gum and Sugar Quills. I was really apprehensive and gave him a note to put on the counter saying that I needed the gift package wrapped, with extra cost if needed.

Our birthday came and in the morning, we both had presents sent from our parents and she received my package and had no idea who it was from. I also received a package from her, it was a book called "Flying with the Cannons", it was a book about the Chudley Cannons Quidditch team. I also got some presents from Tash, Laurie and Sam. Tash gave me a framed photograph of us 4 together, Laurie gave me a pack of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes jokes and Sam gave me some Chocolate frogs. It was so sweet of them to remember. From my parents, I got a musical snow globe from my favourite musical called Wicked, which was really, really beautiful. I couldn't thank my friends enough and I sent a note to my parents thanking them for the gift.

That day was a special day because we got the afternoon off to watch the beginning match of the Quidditch season; Gryffindor vs Slytherin.
It was great fun, of course we rooted for Gryffindor. We made a banner and enchanted it to have a lion on it that moved and roared.
It was amazing! The match went like lightening. The three chasers on Gryffindor passed the Quaffle like lightening. In the first 7 minutes, they had already scored 3 goals! Their Goalkeeper was amazing as well, she seemed to know where the ball was going to go before it even happened! It was a very long game because the Snitch evaded capture for so long. The Slytherin seeker attempted the Wronski Feint maneuver once but instead crashed to the ground whilst the Gryffindor seeker was in actual fact following the Snitch. When the snitch was finally caught, the scores were 430-70 to Gryffindor. With the Snitch's score added, the scores were 580-70!
It was thrilling. We stayed awake that night after homework in our dorm talking about the Quidditch match. I pulled out my special FX sweets which make the eater act like/sound like whatever type of FX sweet. It was so fun!

The second note.

That night, when the rest had gone to bed, I opened the second note that Albus had brought me. I didn't dare open the second note, because I knew who it was from.

I looked around the Dorm to make sure that everyone was asleep and opened it.

Dear Annie,

How are you? I'm fine. Are you liking your teachers? I really like mine.

I'm sorry that I haven't made any contact during our first week, although we have many lessons together.

I liked what your friend Sam did this morning to Luella at breakfast, I heard you talking about it just before the teeth started to grow. Did you get something from Mum too? I got a red scarf with owls on. I love the little scops owl mum got me. I prefer it to Albus, no offence, but he knocked my bottle of ink all over my Potions essay! See you sometime. Remember, don't tell your friends about me unless they see me. I like my privacy!

Sophie.

P.S. I'm really sorry for being such a prat when you got your acceptance letter.

xxx

It was from my twin sister Sophie. Not many people know her because she likes being on her own. But she is a very brave girl. Unlike me, she was sorted into Gryffindor, with Sam.

Because people don't pay attention at the sorting, no-one realised that she was my twin sister.

Every morning she would be up early and down at breakfast quickly and leave before anyone else came down and even though we have a lot of our lessons together, she sits at the back of the class, last in and first out. She doesn't really take her studies very seriously but is a very nice girl once people get to know her.

I took this photo at the beginning of term, at the end of the day so that we had it.

We are identical to the last curl, except that our interests are very different. Although we both are interested in Quidditch, she cares about her appearance and what people think of her.

I'm more of a 'Don't care what they think' type person.

I remember the day we got our letters. She got her letter first and went absolutely mental! She opened her letter and screamed! She then went and flapped it in my face and started gloating. She even made up a song. It went something like this (to the tune of we are the champions chorus): I'm going to Hogwarts, and you're not! I'll be learning Magic and you won't! I'm going to Hogwarts, I'm going to Hogwarts! No time for muggles, 'cause I'm going to Hogwarts, and you're not!

She kept singing this over and over and over, all day long! Then, during the evening, I got my letter!!! It was so funny! She was halfway through her song and this letter landed in my lap and her face fell. She wouldn't talk to me after that. When we went to Diagon Alley, she went off with Mum and I went off with Dad. We met up back at the leaky cauldron and Sophie and I had to share a room. She still wouldn't talk to me. When we got onto the train, we were waved off by our parents then went different ways. She went and joined up with 2 girls and a boy, and I went off to the carriage where I met Tash and Laurie.

At the sorting, no-one was paying attention, so we went off without notice.

After reading her letter, I went to bed with thoughts buzzing around my head. I was thinking up an idea on how to get my friends to know her.

On and on and on!

We finally reached the end of the first week with relatively no damage done. It was a pretty good start.
In our first week, we had already managed to make 3 enemies, Sam got into trouble in Potions, Tash had blown up a desk, Laurie punched Petunia Pygge, I got locked out of the tower because I couldn't figure out the riddle, We found the Weasley Twins and Marauder's hideout and decided to become Animagi. Yep, a really good start.

We were sitting in the common room, Sam was there too, on the friday night with our homework and listening to Billy Ray Cyrus on our wireless. Suddenly, my owl, Albus, flew in and crashed into the bust of Rowena Ravenclaw. He dropped a parcel and two notes.
"Annie, that owl is starting to become a menace! Just yesterday, he knocked my pumpkin juice all over my astronomy homework!"
"Yeah, and on Wednesday he landed in my porridge!"
"Oh never mind about that! Let's see what you've got!" Sam was starting to get a bit short tempered because of the detention she had received from Prof. Malfoy.
"Well, the parcel is from my parents, as is one of the notes. I'll open those first."
I opened the note and I read it out to my friends.
"Dear Annie,
I hope this letter gets to you. I don't know about this owl post, it's a bit hectic, as it were. I guess I just need to get used to it. Your owl is a teensy bit clumsy. It knocked over Dad's bust that his mother made... thankfully it fell onto the washing pile. It could have been horrible!
I just want you to know how proud I am of you and hope that you've made new friends. I know that you really didn't want to leave Tash and Molly and all the other friends that you've made. I've sent you some of our home-made fudge and a present which I crotched for you. I hope you like it.
We're both missing you lots. But some really funny things happened whilst you've been gone which we wanted to share with you. Do you remember how dad really HATES those Tele-Marketers? Well, someone phoned our house a few days ago and said in a slightly american accent 'Hi!' but your dad immediately assumed that it was a Tele-marketer and shouted down the phone 'OH, F*** OFF!' . The phone rang a few moments later and he picked up and the caller said ' Johnny, it's Jean!'. It was sooo hilarious! It was your Godmother that your dad had sworn at! I've got to go now, your owl is starting to bug the dogs. What're you going to do with it in the summer?
Lots of Love,
Mum.
xxx"


"Aaaaaaw-that's-so-sweet!" Said Laurie in between fake sobs. She got her hanky out and did a long and loud nose blow!
"Yeah, so sentimental!"
"Let's stop jawing and see what she made for you!"

I opened my mum's package and found a Scarf with Brooms and Quidditch balls over it.
"Aaaaw, it's so sweet! She knows that I've always wanted to play Quidditch! I've got to thank her for that."
"Hey, if you're from an all muggle family, how does your mum know about Quidditch?"
"Every summer, I go into my 'Harry Potter obsession' faze, because I love the books and films so much. You should see my room, I've got pictures of Quidditch all over my room! It was really bad last summer, I got a branch which had been cut off my tree which was the perfect shape, and I made it into my own Firebolt broom! It was very beautiful infact. Now that I know how to make things fly, I can even try to bewitch it to make it fly for next year so that I can join our Quidditch team."
"That's cool, but also quite sad..." Laurie said with a huge smirk on her face.
"Careful there Laurie, she may bludgeon you to death with her 'Firebolt'!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Real mature guys! Anyway, if you carry on, you won't get any of my delicious fudge!"
"Ok, we'll be good!!!" They all said at once.
We shared out the fudge and went off to our dormitories, Sam going back to Gryffindor Tower.

That night, I lay in bed writing a note to my mum about everything that had happened. I told her all about my friends and enemies and about my lessons and Hogwarts in general.

The next morning, we jumped out of bed and went down to breakfast. It was Saturday, which meant no lessons!!!! We were so happy. We sat in our usual group and talked about what we would do. Sam then told us what she had been doing last night.
"You'll never believe what I did last night. When I went to bed, I got out my parchment and wrote a letter to Luella which she'll get this morning!"
"Yeah, uh, Sam... That's not really that interesting!"
"You haven't heard the best part of it yet... I put a charm on the envelope so that when she opens it and reads it, her teeth will grow and grow and grow!"
"That's awesome! I wish you'd told us earlier though."
"You guys, this isn't really the best idea ever. First of all, 1. She knows Sam's writing because of that note I got which she read, 2. She'll recognise your style, 3. She'll recognise your owl and last but not least, 4. What provoked you to do something like that! In the morning, at breakfast! With the teachers at the high table!!! You're mad! You'll get detention... again!!!! Not your best work Sam." I then put on a voice and imiatated Prof. McGonnagall, "I'm very disappointed in you Sam. 20 points from Gryffindor!"
"Oh... I'm very sorry," she said in an apologetic tone, we knew she was faking. We all laughed, "Ooooh, look, Show time! Watch those teeth go!"
We quickly finished our breakfast and left the Great Hall. As we left, we saw that Luella's teeth had already grown down to her knees.

We went outside to enjoy a nice sunny day.

The second day

The next morning, my friends and I went down to the great hall to have our breakfast. We ate it quickly and went back up to the common room to get our books for our next lesson. We had to go to History of Magic, which was easily the most boring subject at Hogwarts.

So we sat down and got out our books. Unfortunately, Laurie wasn't quick enough and I had to share a desk with Luella.
She looked at me with the look one gives to dog muck on the underside of their shoe, "Well, this is great. I have to share a desk with YOU!!!"
"Well, I'm not exactly doing cartwheels am I?"
"Just keep away from me, ok?"
I was very close to making a retort, but thought better of it.

All the way through the lesson, Luella kept pinching my notes and flicking my ears. I was really irriatated when Proffessor Binns collected in our essays and he gave Luella five house points. I told him that it wasn't her work but he just ignored me!

When we left the classroom, I bewitched her shoelaces to tie themselves together so that she tripped in front of a big crowd. Everyone laughed at her! It was great!!!

After History of Magic, we went to our Herbology lesson where we learnt about Devil's Snare. It was a very interesting lesson, but Luella kept chucking soil down my shirt from her desk behind me.

Thankfully, after Herbology, it was our lunch time. I had a quick lunch and went to clean myself up. I swore that I would get my revenge on Luella. I couldn't believe it! Two days into my new school and I already had an enemy!

Tash and I went for a walk around the school grounds looking for a place in which we could meet. We realised that we wouldn't be able to use the Room of Requirement after the Fiendfyre in 1998, well, we assumed that anyway.
The first place we looked was at the rocky inlet we had been the day before, but found nothing of obvious use.

Tash was really frustrated and in her anger kicked a rock and yelled,
"This is never going to work!!! Why can't we just be normal students and NOT leave a legacy?!"
"Because we're not normal students! We're the biggest bunch of oddjobs and misfits I've ever known!"

We hadn't noticed that a big door had opened up in a boulder when Tash had kicked the rock. We went in and found a room, big enough for four people or so and filled up with dungbombs, nose-biting tea cups and all sorts of old Zonko's products. We also noticed that there were also scores of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products as well. There was a note on the wall directly opposite us. We took it off and read it.

Messrs Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs,
Purveyors of aids to Magical mischief makers,
hand over to whoever reads this note, our hideout.
As you can see there are hundreds of magical jokes here, which will replenish themselves when used.
Use them well.

There was an addition on the bottom added by another person.

Fred and George Weasley and Lee Jordan, have benefited from this hideout,
we discovered it in our first year. It has helped us very much in our mischief.
To help the future mischief makers, we have also left a self-replenishing stock
of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products.
Good luck.

We ran back to tell Sam and Laurie about this. But, before we had gone far, we realised that we had been followed. Luella had been sneaking around, watching us whilst we had been searching.

"You know what, Bolt? I'm going to get you. The teachers will find out about this, mark my words!"
"You know what, Rencor? You're not going to get us because, we'll know if you tell, and I also know, that Tash and I are very able with the Bat-Bogey hex. So if you tell, your bogeys will become bats."

We went off back to the castle.
"Annie, I didn't know that we had been practicing the bat-bogey hex!"
"Yeah, we haven't. I was bluffing. But she was very scared! But don't worry, I've got something else up my sleeves. If she does tell, she'll get bad acne on her face with the word Tattler, written across her face in spots. I got that from Hermione Granger's security charm for the D.A. in 1995."

We arrived back at the castle in time to get our books and go to our next lesson.
We had double Defence Against the Dark Arts, with Mr.Potter. We were really excited! In our first lesson, we were learning about the different types of hexes and curses and jinxes. As our homework, we had to write an essay about any crse we may have heard of.

We went back to our common room to do our homework. I only had to do D.A.D.A. I did my essay about the unforgivable curses. It was quite an interesting topic.

We soon went to bed, but before I went to sleep, I sent a letter to my parents telling them about all my new friends and what we were planning to do and all sorts of stuff.

First day at Hogwarts: The rest of the day

We 4 went off laughing together. Unfortunately, we didn't have all of our lessons together. Whilst Tash, Laurie and I went to charms, Sam went to Flying lessons with the Slytherins.
Charms went quickly and without incident. We were all meant to be doing the levitation charm. But Tash, Laurie and I had all practised it before, so we were done quickly. So Flitwick told us to write an essay on the Levitation charm using evidence from our book. It took us the rest of the lesson to finish that off. Flitwick then set that for everyone else as homework, so we didn't get any homework that night.
Lunch time came and once again, all 4 of us sat together. Sam told us everything that happened in her last lesson.
"It was hilarious! You should have seen it!"
"Seen what?" Asked Tash, shaking Sam so hard that she almost fell of the bench.
"Luella had been boasting that she could fly a broom really well, but when it came to the flying, she fell off her broom!!!" At this, Sam did an impression of Luella's face. It was hilarious!
"So tell me, did you ask Delphinus out yet?"
"Who's Delphinus?"
"Oh, Delphinus Malfoy is Prof.Malfoy's son. Sam has a huge crush on him. Unfortunately he's a Slytherin." Tash said knowingly.
"Well, no I haven't asked him yet. I was a bit put off when he helped Luella back onto her broom and she started flirting. Annie, may I PLEASE pelt her with Mandrakes?" Sam stared at me with the look of someone who wants to do really dangerous things.
"No Sam, you can't! We have our plan!!!"

We left it at that. After we had eaten our lunch, we went outside for our 2 hour break. We took all of our Chocolate Frog Cards to do some trading, for I had procured some from some of the boys in my year.
We started to look around and found a little inlet of sand on the edge of the Lake. It was too cold to start swimming so we just sat around trading our cards. I dug my hands into my pockets and I dug out a chocolate frog from the train and we opened it. The card was Morgana.

"Wow, you got Morgana!"
"Is that good?"
"Good? Blimey Annie, it's the rarest card!"
"Wow. Hey, any of you have Harry Potter?"
"Yeah, I'll trade for your Paracleus."
"You know what? I want to be remembered when we leave Hogwarts. I want to leave a legacy. Like the Marauders! I have a theory that they became Animagi in the first maybe second year, and with Laurie and Annie's aptitude in Transfiguration, I think that we can all become Animagi. What do you say?"
"I think that's a great idea, as long as we don't hurt people badly, only Luella and the
Luella-ettes. As we know, the Marauders were to bullies to Severus Snape."
"I'm all for it, as long as we can find out how to do it."
"I'm not so sure, it could be dangerous..."
"Oh come on Annie! Please!"
"Ok, fine. I'll try and find a book. It will probably be in the restricted section... I'll ask McGonagall if I can get a book about how to become an Animagi, so I can 'Understand more about how people can become Animagi' It'll take a while though, at least 2 months before Laurie and I can be anywhere near ready."
"Ok, then. From now on we'll become the roamers. We'll have to decide what we're going to be."

And at precisely the same moment, we all said: "I want to be a dog!"

We talked and decided that:
Laurie was going to be a sheepdog, called Guard.
Tash was going to be a Golden retriever called Fetcher.
Sam was going to be a Belgian Sheepdog called Bite and that I was going to be a Black German Shepherd called Claws.

We made a deal and then left to go to our next class, which unfortunately was double potions with Prof. malfoy!!!! We weren't very keen, but decided that we could have a few laughs.

We got to Potions and were lectured about potions an stuff. Once he was done, we were told to brew a boil-cure potion. We started at once. Tash and I were in a pair and Laurie and Sam were together. It took us most of the lesson to do. We noticed though that Sam was mucking around, for everytime Prof.Malfoy sat down, Sam made it sound as though he farted. Thankfully he didn't realise it was her. The bell rang and we were all thankful to be out of potions.

We all went to our common rooms to do our homework and chat.

First Day at Hogwarts: First lesson.

Somehow, I don't remember, Laurie, Tash and I all managed to wake up in time to go down to breakfast and get ready for classes. The tables in the Great Hall were brimming with lovely breakfast food, like: Cereal, Pancakes, Porridge, Toast and all sorts of other things.

Since the Ravenclaw table was next to the Gryffindor table, we sat with our new Friend Sam. We discussed all sorts of things. We decided that we would have to be prepared to cause mayhem sometimes, like the Weasley twins used to do. We also decided to map out the school like the old marauders. Since the Marauders' Map hadn't returned.

Our first lesson was Transfiguration with McGonagall. It was a mixed lesson, so all four houses were together. We all sat together, we were adamant not to get told off the first day. So McGonagall came in and gave us a lecture about how Transfiguration is a dangerous magic. So were told to take out our books and open them on chapter one: Small object transfiguration.
As all first years have to, we started off with math-to-needle.
Laurie and I mastered it immediately, whereas Tash had a small problem and somehow blew up our desk! Sam didn't do much better, and instead of transfiguring the match, accidentally making the match fly around the classroom and conveniently wedge itself in Petunia's ear. Sam had 5 points deducted for that...

Since Laurie and I had already completed the assignment, McGonagall gave us a much harder one to do, which was used for 2nd years, to test our ability in Transfiguration. The assignment she gave us was to Transfigure a Beetle into a button. This took a while to do but we got there in the end. The bell soon rang and Laurie and I were awarded ten house points each for our astounding work. She said that we were the most remarkable students she had met since Hermione Granger and that we were ready to do Human Transfigurations. Luella couldn't believe what she was hearing and was in a foul mood.

"Bet you loved that didn't you Bolt?" she put on a high voice, "Ooooh, look at me, I'm Annie Bolt and I'm marvellous at Transfiguration! Ooooh, I'm a teacher's pet!"
"Yes, and I'm Laurie Royal! Look at me, I can turn beetles in to buttons! Ooooh."
"Yah, and I'm Sam, vooosh! Look at ze match steek go!" As she said that, she rammed a matchstick into Petunia's ear. It caused a huge scene, Sam was giving her a standing ovation and Tash was rolling on the floor laughing. But Laurie and I just grabbed the others and went. What Luella had said had really hurt our feelings.

We didn't care, much, we knew how to get back at her. Sam had been snooping in Greenhouse 3 where the mandrakes are kept and said that she could pelt Luella and her Luella-ettes with mandrakes. We all laughed at this until she said that she was serious.

"Don't let that bra-stuffer get you down. Anyway, I went snooping in Greenhouse 3 last night and saw that there are young mandrakes there. If you want, I can pelt Loo-seat-Luella with mandrakes for you." Sam said encouragingly.

We all laughed at this.

"I'm serious."

Laughing even harder, we went on our way to Charms.

The feast and Ravenclaw Tower.

"May I have your attention please? Thank you. Welcome students, welcome back to Hogwarts.
As always, there are the start of term notices. I would like to remind you that The Forbidden Forest is Forbidden! I would also like to add, we have some new teachers. Although, Defence against the Dark Arts is no longer jinxed, we have a new professor. He will be with us for a year, whilst on leave from the Ministry of Magic Auror division. I am pleased to introduce, your new D.A.D.A Professor, Mister Harry Potter!"
A thunderous round of applause erupted around the room. The only people who were disgusted by the idea were: Slytherin and Professor Malfoy, our potions master.
"I only have one more thing to say. In the immortal words of Albus Dumbledore: Nitwit, Oddment, Blubber and Squeak! Well... I think that's how it goes... Anyway, Dig In!"

As soon as she said that, the plates all magically filled with food. All my favourite food was there! Laurie, Tash and I were all talking about what we were going to do as the mischief makers, when our friend Sam caught my eye. She came over with a friend, called Aisha and introduced us.

The feast soon drew to a close and we were all stuffed full. We left the Hall and went to find Ravenclaw Tower. We knocked on the bronze eagle door-knocker and had to answer a riddle to get in. It was so cool!!!

There were hundreds of really fluffy, blue armchairs by a roaring fire. There was a bust of Rowena Ravenclaw in the middle of our common room and several desks. There were bookshelves absolutely STUFFED with books. I even noticed some of my favourite muggle books which I could read.

We quickly went up to bed, so tired that we immediately fell asleep. We were so tired that we didn't even realise that our stuff was already there.

The Sorting ceremony.

Professor Sprout led us into the Great Hall. We all looked around in amazement. There were hundreds of floating candles everywhere! Obviuosly they didn't adhere to Health and Safety guidelines, but that didn't stop them! It was a fantastic sight! We all stopped and stood in our lines waiting for the ceremony to begin. We looked at the rest of the line to see who was where. We immediately saw Luella.

"Oh my God! I can't believe she's posing there. I bet she thinks all the boys are staring at her." Laurie whispered to me under her breath, clearly she was repulsed by Luella's short skirt and tight jumper.

Professor Sprout brought in the Sorting hat with its stool. It looked a lot worse for wear than I had imagined. But then again, it had been set on fire. We all got ready to listen to the Sorting Hat's song.

" Blobbedoo, nikanpop, rinkochak, proom." It sang very tunelessly.

"The Sorting hat's been a bit off when it comes to the songs since it was put on fire in 1998. But don't worry, it will sort you properly." I was relieved when Professor Sprout said this, "I hope..." That didn't really help.

Professor Sprout then started to read out names. Soon enough, she read out my name.

I walked up to the stool, turned around and sat down on the stool. Just before I put the hat on my head, I saw some people laughing at my still very wet appearence.

I then heard a little voice in my ear, the Sorting hat was talking to me.
"Aaah, yes. Annie, yes, you have a good mind, not afraid of work, very loyal, a good friend and there's courage, oh yes, a great deal of courage." I felt myself starting to blush under the hat. "But where should I put you? I know... RAVENCLAW!!!!" The last word, he said out to the whole hall.

The table on the far left erupted with clapping, I removed the hat and went to the table, not wanting to look a bigger idiot than I already felt. Unfortunately, because my shoes were still wet, I slipped, but by happy accident, I landed, in a sitting position on the Ravenclaw bench. I got a big cheer for that.
I took a quick glance at Luella and saw that the nasty smirk had been wiped off her face and that she was glaring angrily at me.

More students names were called off and finally she came to Tash. Tash was also sorted into Ravenclaw. The Sam girl we had met on the lake was sorted into Gryffindor. Then Petunia Pygge was called up and was sorted Slytherin. Eventually it came to Luella; the sorting hat barely touched her head when it said: "Hey! Get me away from that greasy hair!" No, not really, only joking. It barely touched her head when it yelled "Slytherin!!!"

She took the hat off with a smug look on her face and went to join Petunia Pygge. Just after her, it was Laurie. She put the hat on and it took a while for it to decide her. Finally after a minute or so the hat yelled out "RAVENCLAW!!!" I was cheering and clapping, I was so happy. It was great, all three of us were together. Then Zofka had to be sorted, she was also a Slytherin. When she got to the Slytherin table, she pushed off two Slytherin boys who were goggling at luella and sat down.

Then the sorting ceremony ended and Professor McGonagall stood up to do the start-of-term announcements and the hall went quiet.

The castle

When the train pulled into the station, we heard a voice over the loudspeakers saying:

"Please do not leave any rubbish on the train, please take any purchased sweets with you and please leave all luggage on the train, it shall be taken up to the castle seperately. Thank you."

So we put all our rubbish in the bin and quickly got off the train. We were trading our chocolate frog cards when we heard a voice saying

"Firs' years, firs' years over 'ere please!"
We instantly knew that it was the half-giant Games-Keeper Hagrid, who had told Harry Potter 14 years ago, that he was a wizard. We rushed up to meet him. The first years all followed him to the lake where the little fleet of boats were waiting for us. We clambered in; Tash, Laurie and I all shared a boat with another girl called Sam, who was looking so excited that she might burst. We saw that Luella, Zofka and Petunia were all in a boat together.

"Hi, I'm Sam. I'm really excited to come here. I'm a muggle-born. Who're you guys?" She was talking very quickly, she was so excited.

"I'm Laurie, pleased to meet you. I'm a pureblood, but don't hold it against me, I hate the prejudice surrounding blood-purity."

"I'm Annie, I'm a muggle-born too. Nice to meet you, I hope we'll all have fun together this year."

"And I'm Tash. I'm a half-blood. We're gonna have lots of fun us four, but a word to the wise: Don't ever feed me sugary stuff, or I may go crazy..."

"Like you did on the train?"

"Yeah, she was sooo hyper after two chocolate frogs, that we had to tie her to the seat, using a charm that Annie knew."

Sam laughed at this, she laughed so hard, that the boat started to rock when we were half way over the lake, then Tash joined in too! The boat was tossing and turning and Laurie wasn't helping. In trying to keep her balance, she flailed her arms everywhere, she caught me on the back of my head and I toppled into the water!!! It was absolutely freezing! Hagrid stopped the fleet to help me get back in. I saw most of the other first years looking sympathetic, but one group of girls were laughing. Yes, need I say more? Luella and the Luella-ettes, found it hilarious that I had fallen in!
"Did you see her face? She looked so stupid!!!"
"I'm glad that I'm not the sap who fell in!"
"Vell done to zat girl wat pooshed her een. I just sorry zat it vas not me!"
They were absolutely paralysed with laughter.

We soon got to the castle and went into the entrance hall. I was still sopping wet. Hagrid gave me a towel to dry myself off. He then left us to go get the teacher who was to bring us into the Great Hall.
Whilst we were waiting, I slipped out my bag of Fever fudge from Weaseleys' Wizard Wheezes, and dropped one on the floor by Zofka, she picked it up immediately and ate it greedily. It had an almost instantaneous effect. She had great big boils all over her face! Luella supected that it was me who dropped the sweet.

"Give her the antidote sweet right now!"
"I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about. But I do wonder who gave Zofka that sweet."
"Oh don't play coi with her, Bolt! I saw it was you!"
"Well you should keep your long nose out of this, Pig!

Luella rounded on me, she then forced her hand into my pocket and pulled out my skiving snackbox. She got the antidote and dropped the whole box on the floor. Tash and Laurie helped me to pick it all up. No sooner than we had put the skiving snackbox into my pocket, the Proffessor turned up. It was the old Herbology teacher, Proffessor Sprout.

"Welcome to Hogwarts first years. In a few minutes, we will be going into the Great Hall for the sorting ceremony. You will each be sorted into a house. The houses are: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Is that all clear? Yes? Well, let's go then."

Luella Rencor, Petunia Pyge and Zofka Svagahar

"What's this? A little party, why weren't we invited?"
A very tall girl and two other girls walked into our carriage. The tall one had a cuel sneer and a mocking tone.
"Who are you then?" She said as she turned to face me,

"I've never met you before, for that matter, I've not met any of you. So tell me, Who are you?"
I didn't like the look of her, she towered over me. She didn't seem like a very nice girl.
"Answer me, or you may have to answer to Zofka here." She pointed at a very short, rotund looking girl who was twitching in anticipation of what looked like the starts of a punch-up.

" Well, I am Annie, and this is Laurie," I gestured to Laurie, "and this is Tash."

"I'm Luella Rencor, this is Petunia Pyge and this is Zofka Svagahar."
None of them looked like a particularly nice lot. Petunia Pyge had the look of someone that could not be trusted, she had shifty eyes and a smile that looked as though she knew something dangerous about you.

"Luella, you said ve vere going to haf a punch-up, yes?" Zofka said to Luella, she appeared to be from Russia or Bulgaria or somewhere that had funny accents. At the sound of Zofka's accent, Laurie snorted and had to stop quite suddenly as Zofka cracked her knuckles menacingly.

"Do you think her name's funny do you? Well let me guess, with your looks and that hair, I'm guessing that you are a Royal? Nothing royal about you though." Petunia then started to laugh a high, shrill laugh.

"Shut up about my family!" She drew her wand out and pointed it directly at her nose. It was so close that her wand could have gone up one of petunia's nostrils, which appeared to be very big.

"Petunia, stop making a fool of yourself! No need to with this type." As she said this, she reached for a chocolate frog.

"Avis!" Tash conjured up a small bird, which proceded to peck at Luella's hand.

"You three have made some powerful enemies. You will regret this." With that, Luella, Petunia and Zofka left.

"What was Pyge talking about when she said there was 'nothing royal about you'?"

"You see, my father used to work at the ministry of magic, but he didn't get payed much. He worked in the section of Rights for Lesser Creatures department. But he became too outspoken about his beliefs that House-Elves should NOT be made to work, even though Hermione Granger has brought this out of the shadows, he got fired. He now works at the Magical Menagerie."

"It doesn't matter, you're still our friend. I think we've learned one thing from this encounter with Loo-seat Luella, she's not going to like canaries anymore!"

After saying that, we all rolled round laughing for ages. We hadn't even noticed that it was getting dark. I then remembered that I had a bag of Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes canary creams. So I ate one and immediately turned into a canary! The others were screaming with laughter, it was possibly the best day of my life. We were having so much fun that we hadn't even realised that we had pulled into the station.

The Sweet Trolley

As we were talking, a nice looking old lady came up to our compartment and asked if we would like anything. Having never tried any wizard sweets, Tash and I immediately went to go get anything that took our fancy. I was determined to make good friends with Laurie, so I decided to get sweets for all of us to share.

I bought 3 boxes of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans ,

5 Chocolate frogs each

and a bag of Drooble's Best Blowing gum each.

We spent the rest of the time eating our sweets and discussing what we were most interested in about Magic.

The Conversation soon turned to Houses.

"What house do you guys hope to be put in when we get there? I would like to be in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff doesn't sound all bad though, Ravenclaw would be great I suppose. Just as long it's anything BUT Slytherin!!!" I said.

"I hope to be put into Hufflepuff, they sound like a right nice lot. But Ravenclaw would be nice I suppose." Tash said, with a wistful look in her eyes.

"Well, both of you are right about one house, Ravenclaw will be the house I want to be put in! Have you never heard the sorting hat's song?"

"Well, I've read the Potter Books, but I can only remember Gryffindor..."

"I know it Laurie, Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind."

"Precisely! Now I really want to be there. Just as long as we promise each other this: No matter what house we're in, we're gonna have fun and maybe cause a bit of mischief!"

And to punctuate her little speech, she set off a Filibuster Firework. We all raised a chocolate frog card and said together: "To Mischief!"

The Hogwarts express

You can find the Hogwarts Express Here.

As soon as the Train had pulled out of the station, and I could no longer see my parents, I sat down and started "Quidditch through the ages" and "Flying with the cannons" which were some extra books I had picked up at Flourish and Blotts. I had already changed into my Hogwarts uniform and was completely oblivious to what was happening around me. I completely shut my self out. After about 10 minutes or so, someone asked me if she and her friend could come and share the compartment with me. They sat down opposite me, and started to talk, I hadn't looked up until I heard the other girl talking. Her voice was strangely familiar... as though I already knew her. I looked up at the precise moment that she had looked at me, and it turned out to be one of my best friends Tash!

"Tash! What are you doing here??? You told me you were leaving the school to go to a new boarding school in the north!" I said.

"Well this is the new school I'm going to!"

" Wow! Whod'a thunk it!!! I thought you were all muggle!"

"Oh no! I started to show signs of magic when I was about 7, my parents kept it quiet. Turns out that my mum is a pure-blood witch! Anyway, why are you here? I thought you were a muggle."

"Well, I'm a muggle-born. I showed some signs of magic the week before the letters were sent out. This is quite amazing isn't it!"

"Yeah it is! Oh, I almost forgot, Laurie, you're here with us! How stupid of me! Laurie, this is Annie, one of my best friends from school, Annie, this Laurie, I met her in Diagon Alley a month ago in Madam Malkins, and we kept in contact."

"It's nice to meet you Annie. I'm a pure-blood, but don't hold it against me, I don't care about blood purity. I hope we'll be good friends this year."

Soon after, we all started chatting, showing each other our new stuff we had bought in

Diagon Alley. It turned out that Laurie had bought a box of Filibuster fireworks and set them off in our compartment! It was great fun.

Soon the Sweet trolley came.

Diagon Alley

As soon as we arrived, I dashed off to look at Quality Quidditch Supplies, I marvelled at how many different brooms and robes there were. I decided that when I could, I would get myself a nice Nimbus 2000, it was beautiful. You can find this Nimbus 2000 here.

I was very sad when I realised that I wouldn't be allowed on the House team or a broom... oh well, it gave me something to look forward to.

Once we had gotten my muggle money converted and got a vault in Gringotts, we first went to Ollivanders wand shop to get my wand. It didn't take too long to get my wand.

My wand is: Oak, 13 3/4 inches, Dragon Heartstring, whippy and nice for Charms work.

After that, we went to Flourish and Blotts to buy my school books. I also admit to having bought some other books which were of great interest.

After buying all of my school things, as a present for getting into Hogwarts, my mum and dad bought me an owl from Eyelops Owl emporium. They bought me a beautiful Tawny Owl, whom I named Albus, out of respect of the late Albus Dumbledore.

Picture taken from Wikipedia.

We bought my school supplies a few days before my departure and put most of my stuff straight into the trunk. I read a bit about Magical Passtimes and discovered how to make pictures move. So I created a potion to make the picture animated and took a photo of my parents and framed it for them. I practised a few spells from my books and practised writing with my new quills.

Soon enough, the time came for me to depart for Hogwarts. My mum and dad took me to kings cross and saw me onto the train after our goodbyes.

Pure-Blood, Half-blood or Muggle-Born?

I am a Muggleborn. I was very surprised when I got my letter and didn't think it was true and thought that my parents or friends were playing a hoax on me.

You can find these letters here.




I thought it was really amazing when I entered the Wizarding-World for the first time. Although I had read all of the potter books (that had come out) it was more spectacular than anything I could ever have imagined!
I loved every minute of it.

Introduction

Hello, My name is Annie and I attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I started attending Hogwarts in the autumn of 2005. I am going into my 3rd year in Hogwarts.
I really enjoy it at Hogwarts, it's just like a home away from home.
I have really good friends at school and we do all sorts of things, we don't often get into trouble but when we're not causing trouble, I appear to be a goody-goody and a know-it-all, kind of like anothe girl who went to Hogwarts about 7 years before I started. It is very fun!

Legal stuff.

I do not own Harry Potter, Hogwarts, Quidditch or any other thing in the Potter-verse. This is merely a fansite of what I think life at hogwarts would be for me. Any pictures that I put on this site that do not belong to me will be acknowledged. Any music/videos will be treated likewise.