Black Cat [ Harry Potter ]

003

[ Hogwarts Bound. ]
-> prologue

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It was a week later, the date September 1st, the day Evanna would be attending Hogwarts. She couldn't believe that she, Evanna Lupin, was a witch. She was so grateful that she could leave the orphanage  and start a new life in the wizarding world! She was so excited. She had packed her luggage the night before, making sure to bring along her favourite muggle book.

Mr. Weasley would be picking her up and dropping her off at the burrow on his way to work so that she could go to Kings Cross station with everyone. They had made the decision last time she was over that she would keep her supplies at the burrow so she wouldn't draw attention at the orphanage. I mean, it would be pretty awkward if one of the kids saw her Potions textbook... She even had to keep Hoodini, her new owl, with the Weasleys, which sucked, but at least Evanna knew he was in good hands.

It was now 9:30am, and Evanna was pretty sure she was the only one awake at the orphanage. She felt extremely tired, she was definitely not a morning person- even though 9:30 was a decent time to get up, she liked to sleep in. After checking she packed everything, she saw the same woman from the orphanage who had told her about her visitor the night she found out she was a witch approach her, telling her that her ride to her boarding school was here, (which was actually Mr. Weasley). Evanna couldn't help but wonder if maybe she knew she was attending Hogwarts, and maybe she was a witch also. Probably not though. With her trunk in hand, she walked down the steps of the orphanage to see Mr. Weasley standing in front of his car with a smile on his face.

"Hello, Evanna. Here, I'll put your trunk in the trunk" he said laughing at his play on words and taking her trunk from her hands.

"Hi, Mr.Weasley! Thank you." Evanna said as she got into the passenger seat of the blue car.

The car ride was very cool, the flying setting had been turned on and they had to fly really high up in the air to not be seen by muggles. Evanna never had a great fear of heights, so she just enjoyed the view. Mr. Weasley asked Evanna many questions about muggle inventions, just like he did the week before.

"So, Evanna, you come from the muggle world... Could you please tell me the function of please-men?"

"Policemen? They stop crime. If you need help, say you got robbed, you would call 9-1-1 on your cellphone, and the police would come and investigate. They also make sure people aren't breaking the laws, for example pulling people over on the highway for speeding."

"Aaah, I see. So basically the Aurors of the muggle world? Aurors are wizards who stop crime, too."

"Exactly! I'm sure they're quintessentially the same thing, just for different reasons."

"Evanna, how old are you? Using words like quintessentially... You seem like a Ravenclaw to me!"

Evanna blushed a bit, she knew that she was smart, but intelligence only takes you so far. She would much prefer to be Gryffindor, where she could have brain and nerve and bounding heart. Those are the traits she values most.

"Haha, thank you Mr.Weasley. I wonder which house my parents were in."

"Hmmm, what are their names? Maybe we went to school together."

"Castor Lupin and Lyra Vega."

"I'm afraid I never knew them. But the name Lupin does sound familiar... Are you sure your parents don't have any living relatives?"