Chapter 5 ~ Beginnings

                                    

                                          
NEW CHAPTER - SORRY FOR THE WAIT
                          
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Two months into my first/fourth year at Hogwarts and I am already finding it amazing. I love the classes, the food, the teachers and my fellow Gryffindor friends. The best thing however, is Quidditch. I have made it onto the team as Chaser and played my first match today. Unfortunately we lost to Hufflepuff, only because Harry fell off his broom. In a next week we play Ravenclaw, they're going down.
                          
There had been a couple of sightings of my father over the past few weeks and each of them closer to Hogwarts. This was making me nervous. Very nervous. In ways I wanted him to find me so I can get revenge but I am scared that I will break when I see him, he is my father after all and I barely have gotten to know him.
                          
Harry found out about Sirius being my father and to my surprise he didn't hate me for it. I explained to him how much I despised my father for betraying his parents and how he even killed my own mother. Harry and I are in the same boat.
                          
As for Hermione and I, we are friends and are both competing to get better marks even though she's a year behind. She loves Hogwarts just as much as I do. We have so much in common, although she still has the same opinion on flying; she hates it.
                          
Ron, well, I maybe, kinda, possibly, have a teeny weeny crush on him. Just a lot. I love how his red hair is his signature feature along with his blue eyes. He and I are both food lovers and race to breakfast, hungry for hot sausages and baked beans. Many times we have competed in food eating contests and we always seem to tie. However, I don't think he thinks of me in the same way. I see how he looks at Hermione.
                          
Fred, George and I are always pranking the students and teachers of Hogwarts. We have always successfully gotten away with it and caused chaos. Uncle Remus says I'm just like him and his friends when they were at school.
                          
And then there is Draco Malfoy. The slimy git with his ferret face and bleached blonde hair makes me want to puke. In Care of Magical Creatures, the other day, Buckbeak gave him a taste of his own medicine but now Malfoy carries on like a baby, always whinging about how bad his arm is. I just want to break his other arm.
                          
"All those Zonko items should last us for months!" I exclaimed heaving the many shopping bags up the Grand Staircase with Fred and George doing the same at my side.
                          
"Tell me about it!" George huffed, switching arms.
                          
"What the..." Fred stopped in his tracks. George and I both looked up, there in front of us was the Gryffindor Common Room portrait, but instead of the Fat Lady sitting there requesting a password there was large claw gashes in the fabric.
                          
Portraits were disturbed around us, yelling out random things and travelling to neighbouring canvases. Students from Gryffindor house and the others started gathering around us and breaking into whispers.
                          
"Let me though!" A large voice boomed. The crowded split apart allowing Professor Dumbledore to walk through.
                          
"We need to find her! Round up the ghosts and find Peeves." He instructed to the other teachers behind him. They nodded and turned on.
                          
"Look there she is!" A Ravenclaw girl yelled.
                          
Everyone gasped and began fighting their way to the floor above us. Fred, George and I shrugged at each other and followed.
                          
"My dear lady, what has happened to you?" Dumbledore asked, kindly.
                          
"It was him headmaster, the one they all joke about! Sirius Black!" She screamed and ducked back behind the hippopotamus.