Samantha and Emma Potter

chapter 1

My name is Samantha Lillian Eve Potter but everyone calls me Sam , I am 12 years old and  the twin sister of Emma Lillian Eve Potter and younger sister [by one year] of Harry James Potter; the boy who lived. I am about to start my second year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Today is July 31st 1993 and it is Harry’s birthday which means we are going to Diagon alley. It has become a tradition that on Harry’s birthday we go to Diagon alley for the past three years [since he started going to Hogwarts.]  I got him a model of a snitch because he is seeker for the Gryffindor team and a poster of his favorite quidditch team [Puddlemere United.] I personally like the Holyhead Harpies, it is an all girls quidditch team. My twin sister Emma doesn’t like quidditch and always talks to my mum about potions, but me, my dad James and harry could talk and watch also play quidditch all day. However my dad is an auror and often gets called on a mission so we don’t go to watch quidditch that much anymore. An auror is someone who catches dark witches or wizards.  

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Today we leave for Hogwarts I’m so excited to go back for my second year. I’m in Gryffindor like my brother and sister and all of my family on my dad’s side. Because my mum is a muggleborn [non-magical relatives.] I woke up to my mum screaming “HARRY JAMES POTTER, SAMANTHA LILIAN EVE POTTER, EMMA LILIAN EVE POTTER AND JAMES CHARLES POTTER GET UP NOW OR WE WILL MISS THE TRAIN!!” I should probably get up but I love sleep and my bed. Then Emma comes in and tells me its 10:45. The trains leaves at 11am. Once all of us were ready we apparated in the alleyway by kings cross station. We walked into the train station and all eyes were on us because we had three big trunks and two owls and one cat [me and harry have a snowy white owl and Emma has a black and white cat.] we made it to platform 9 and 10.

We have to run through the wall to make it to platform 9 ¾ where the Hogwarts express lies it is a scary thing to do the first time, but the rush of running through it and seeing the train is fantastic. Harry and my dad went first then I did then Emma and my mum. Every time I see the train and every time I run through the wall the same feeling of exciment rushes through me. When we get on the train I sit with Emma, and my friends [Ginny and Luna.] Harry sits with Ron, Danny and Hermione. Around an hour later the old lady with the sweets trolley comes by she hobbles up to our door and opens it she has chocolate frogs, pumpkin pasties, Bertie Botts every flavored bean and loads of other delicious sweets, we buy loads to last the train ride. Soon a prefect comes and tells us that we will be arriving soon so we should get changed into our robes.

When we have arrived we watch the new first years get taken to the boats by the half-giant Hagrid. We remember going on the boats last year it is the best experience when you turn the corner and you see Hogwarts for the first time it is breath-taking. We now take the carriages drawn by threstrals [but they can only be seen by people who have seen death] to everyone else they look like they are drawn by magic. Luna, Emma, Ginny and I all got in one carriage but there was still one space left that just happened to be taken by the one only Draco Malfoy [he was in slytherin and was the enemy of my brother.] we rode to the castle in silence and seeing Hogwarts was an amazing as the first time. When we walked into the great hall we all went and sat at the Gryffindor table except for Luna sadly she was in ravenclaw but we still saw her a lot and sometimes we would sit with her. When we walked into the great hall I saw the four long running length ways house tables and the one at the far end running width which was the teachers table. The enchanted ceiling and the loud chatter of all the students seated. It was as breath taking if not more than last year. The ceiling representing the weather outside with candles floating about, we all knew the house ghosts would arrive soon.

When we were seated professor McGonagall brought in the scared first years wondering how there were going to be sorted.  When she had brought them up to the front, she told them to line up as she set down the rocked three legged stool and the old and patched sorting hat. Everything was silent then the sorting hat began its song “Oh you may not think I'm pretty, But don't judge on what you see, I'll eat myself if you can find, A smarter hat than me. You can keep your bowlers black, your top hats sleek and tall, for I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, and I can cap them all. There's nothing hidden in your head, The Sorting Hat can't see, so try me on and I will tell you, Where you ought to be. You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry, Set Gryffindor’s apart; You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil; Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind; Or perhaps in Slytherin, You'll make your real friends, Those cunning folks use any means, To achieve their ends. So put me on! Don't be afraid! And don't get in a flap! You're in safe hands (though I have none,) for I'm a Thinking Cap!” The first years looked flabbergasted as we all clapped as the hat fell silent. McGonagall started calling out the names, and the first one was Elizabeth Ashford, she walked up to the stool terrified  as McGonagall lifted the hat and placed  on her head the sorting hat closed his eyes and thought about it then screamed RAVENCLAW!! Cheers erupted from there table. And it goes on and on. After everyone has been sorted Professor Dumbledore [the headmaster of Hogwarts] he looks through his half-moon spectacles with his ice blue eyes shining and simply says ‘let the feast begin.’ Just then plates and plates of all sorts of food appear out of thin air. There’s roast chicken. Potatoes, and all sorts of fantastic and delicious food. When we have all finished dinner and dessert professor Dumbledore stands up and tells us about the new teachers starting this year, there is only one and it is my mum and dad’s friend Remus or as he is now known as professor Lupin. He then tells us to go off to bed. We walk up the spiraling moving staircases, past the thousands upon thousands off moving portraits of witches and wizards. We reach the fat lady also known as the entrance to the Gryffindor common room and dormitories. We walk into the red and gold common room with four blazing fires lots or chairs and tables also the staircases leading right and left, up and down to the girls and boys dormitories. Ginny, Emma and I walk up the stairs to our dormitory, which has our four poster beds, with all our belongings already there. I lay down in bed and wonder what this year will be like.