Thalia Patil

Sorry, I haven't been able to go on lately. It's been very hard for me to get everything done, I have started both this story and Lily and James'. However, I may not be able to post Lily and James because I still haven't thought of a good name for it. (Suggestions would be appreciated!) This one, well, you'll see it's just one of those things that it just has to be her name because she's different, strange, she's just herself.

I think the entire thing will be in Thalia's point of view.

SPOILER: This is the third book of the series it WILL have spoilers from the first and second books in this chapter and the others, so please read those first.

So here it is! (I'm aware the first part starts out slow but it gets much more interesting, hopefully because honestly I haven't planned out the plot line on paper. In my head I've had hundreds of ideas.

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My family is the largest in the entire wizarding world. There are loads of people in it but in my branch, the most famous one, I'm really strange.

My family either excels at Quidditch or is absolutely terrible, I'm mediocre. Both my parents, Alyss and Tom, were Head Boy and Girl at Hogwarts. My little brother and sister, the twins, Ebony and Mike are twins and they're brilliant. As is my Aunt Hermione. I'm normal. 

Everyone in my family, the famous branch, went to Hogwarts. I went there for one year - hated it and begged to be transferred. At least I was sorted into Gryffindor and didn't have to suffer that shame too. 

My parents said they would transfer me if I hated my second year too. 

I had already chosen where I wanted to go. Mum wouldn't let me leave Europe and Beaubatons would be too girly for me. And seeing as my mother and uncle both worked to stop Dark Wizards it wouldn't be fitting for me to go to Durmstrang.

So I went for my second year, became the worst chaser on the Gryffindor team, and got called my mother and Aunt Hermione's wanna-be. I had wavy brown hair but Ebony had Mom's hair and Dad's eyes and Mike had Dad's hair and Mum's eyes. And that was another reason I didn't fit in, I had wavy hair a mixture of straight and curly but it was brown and Mum's eyes leading to the wanna-be. 

At the end of that miserable year Mom asked me where I wanted to go even though I knew she already knew the answer. I had been watching and reading plays for as long as I could remember. 

"The Wizzarding Academy for the Dramatic Arts."

So for my third year on September 2nd at 8:00 I walked into the Headmaster's office. I was extremely nervous, I hadn't even been accepted yet.

"You are Thalia Patil?" he asked.

"Yes, sir." I said.

He laughed, "We are much more relaxed than Hogwarts. You can call me Mr. Stern." he said and he stared at me for a second and when I didn't reply he asked, "Are you nervous about being accepted?"

"Definatly." 

"Well, we hardly reject anyone. You see, there's five sections, director, singer, actor, crew and writer. You would have to be very uncommon to be rejected from all five."

"How do you decide?" I asked.

He placed six identical speres of air in front of me with his wand. The hovered about four inches off his desk. "Each contains a slip of parchment. They each say a section but one says magic. Let us hope you don not pick magic." 

"So I just pick?" I asked.

"Yes, it is more questioned than Hogwarts' sorting hat but by all means just as effective." 

"Right." I said not altogether resassured. But I reached out my hand and grabbed one. The air disappeared immediatly leaving me with a small slip of parchment. "Singer." I said with a rush of joy.

"Excellent. I believe Kanani Morrisse has arrived early." He muttered dropping a slip of parchment he had just writen on into a box marked '3rd year girls' where it vanished. "She'll be here shortly."

It was stupid. I had been worried for months and now I was just in.

In five minutes, Kanani was there. She showed me our dorms and told me some stuff. Then my other three roommates arrived. Noelle Doyle, Jasmine Grey and Katie White. 

Jasmine and Katie were really nice. Jasmine was an actress and Katie, a writer but my friends were Noelle and Kanani.

There were three types students, levels really. Singers and directors were on top. Then actors and writers then crew. It didn't matter to me but singers looked down on crew. We were all nerds but singers were the popular kids and crew were the nerds.

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So that was the prolouge, I know it was boring but it had to happen. Please help me find a title for Lily and James.

Thanks, 

Alyss