Year Three
~*SEVERAL WEEKS LATER*~
Charlie,
I've been home for a few weeks and I'm already missing Hogwarts. Muggle life isn't as fun anymore. I am hoping to get to see my friends again soon. I know Hermione went to France, Harry is stuck in Surrey and your family is in Egypt! Have fun and hoping to see soon YOU soon!
Brandi
PS- Please, congratulate your dad for us and tell the others we said hello!
Brandi,
I'm sorry to tell you I will be Apparating straight back to Romania from Egypt, but the others wil be back soon, I believe they are taking an afternoon Port Key. Of course we can still write each other I don't have my own owl but there is a post office near here with them to rent if they owl that deliveries your letter doesn't want to wait, hehe I write kinda slowly. Also I've been told your mother now reads the Daily Prophet, well, if this is accurate you and your sister should already know to be careful when outside this year. Sirius Black has escaped Azkaban, the wizard prison. Since I know you will ask, all I know is he killed about 13 people 12 years ago.
Charlie
Mom,
We are in London at the Leaky Cauldron. When we took the Floo Network to The Burrow, the Weasley's wheren't back yet and we went out front to check if they where in site yet. Then we heard something and Brandi pulled her wand out over the dirt road, next thing we knew a purple thriple decker bus pulled up and wisked us off . We still had enough money to pay for the trip but not from our room so we are off to Gringotts now. Our letters should arrive shortly then we'll have to buy our new books and supplies.
Bethani
Charlie,
You family wasn't back at The Burrow yet when we arrived threw the floo. Don't worry about us though, we caught The Knight Bus and met Harry Potter at The Leaky Cauldron. The next day Hermione and your family arrived. Ron showed us the newspaper clipping of you all in Egypt, just to make sure we hadn't missed it. Right now we are going shopping for school supplies since the Hogwarts letters arrived JUST as I was picking up my quill and Bethi wants to get it over with. I'll write you later, promise, hopefully from the train.
Miss you,
Brandi
PS- Ron's rat got sick and when getting the tonic they discovered pretty, dancing rats! Ron wouldn't HEAR OF IT , oh and he showed me his new wand. Question, when he took your old one what did you get?
Mom,
We are going to the train station tommarrow. Our friends have been finding things to do and we tagged along cause we are still fairly new to their world. Gobble Stones and Wizard Chess are games that we learned and they are some what similar to muggle games. I mostly hang at the ice cream shop with Ginny tasting new flavors, taking about boys or studying the books Charlie gave me, I think I want to work with him when I grow up. Bethi either studies her new school books with Hermione hangs withe the twins in the joke shop I don't know how those boys afford their obsession with that shop but they spend hours a day in there. When I could catch one of them I was told we don't OFFICIALLY get to take a Care Of Magical Creatures class until our third year! I am so jealous of Harry, Ron & Hermione right now! They start them this year, I will have to get details on what to expect next year.
Brandi
Charlie,
I'm sorry, I couldn't find anyone willing to lend me an owl on the train so I had to wait til I arrived at the school. We went to the castle in carriage's this year instead of boats. Do you know why they use invisable horses? I know they are horses cause my carriage was fairly quiet so I could heard the hooves and a bit of neighing. I'm at breakfast and Hermione told me that she'd let me study Care Of Magical Creatures with her, Hagrid is the new teacher by the way. She ISN'T looking forward to Divination though she heard bad things about the teacher and doesn't like the idea of the course but she is taking every class she could including Muggle Studies haha easy 'A'. I heard last year in Herbology they dealt with mandrakes that should be interesting. Also Ron's rat keeps running off I thought it was because Hermione's cat scares him but the twins say he was doing that before she even bought him. My kitty, Sunni, on the other hand is scared of Scabbers but likes Crookshanks!
Brandi
Mom,
I already told Charlie that Hermione has told me alot about what to expect this year and promised to let me study Care Of Magical Creatures with her. She hates Divination and bets I will to but they learned a boggart repelling charm in Defence Against The Dark Arts, thats useful because those little buggers read your mind and shape shift into what you fear most. She said in her first Care Of Magical Creatures class they met Hippogrifs. The fat lady in the painting still can't sing. Hey, next year we can go to the village if you sign the form we bring home this coming summer!
Brandi
PS- My head of house is transfiguration teacher and an Animagus! That means she can turn into an animal, hers is a Grey tabby with markings that match her glasses!
Brandi,
So sorry I didn't write you sooner. A juvenile female Ridgeback was trying to clear out all the males in the colony until she had a run in with an old bull Ironbelly who scared the blazes out of her. Every "trainer" in the area had to be involve in either caging her, stunning him or rounding up th others all of whom had a good fright and where more aggressive than usual. The Vipertooth they sent me after wasn't to happy about being recaptured but I came out of it ok, just a scorched shoulder which the local hospital fixed before I could even say what sort of dragon did it! As for Ron, yeah he is really attached to that stupid rat, it would be kinder to just let him slip away he has had a full life and at at least four times a normal rats age he can't possibly have a day with out pain anymore. He won't be a danger to your cat but old Crookshanks could certainly give him a heart attack. My newish wand is also Unicorn Hair and a foot long but the wood is now Ebony it used to been Pine but that isn't strong enough for the kind of work I do any how, I'm glad it wasn't Mahogany cause I couldn't afford that but Oak would of been ok, my coworkers keep asking me if my wand got roasted because its black. What did you and Beth think when you heard what you where?
Charlie
PS- The carriages are pulled by Thestrals, they are carnivorous horses with,as I was told, bat wings and lizardesque skin. I never actually saw one thankfully because you, well, have to of SEEN a person DIE before they become visable to you.
Charlie,
Wow, you are lucky not to of been eatten! Also wow because our wand wood is the same, but not the core. Mine is dragon heart string, which is cool, but it sucks that its the ONE core that something requires the creature to die to get it! Is there a way to know what sort of dragon my wand is from? As for what my sister and I though of being witches, well our reactions where a bit different. Bethi was skeptical because of logic, I was skeptical because we are Christians and where taught not to believe in such things. Yes, we still believe in God and everything but we now also know we have powers. My proof was my hair. It is bright and smooth when I'm happy. It is dull and frizzy if I get upset. Hermione's Care Of Magical Creatures classes have lost their edge, but her Defence Against The Dark Arts class is doing cool things BUT I take tat class too. Everyone besides the Slytherin's LOVE Lupin! Also those Mandrakes aren't what I expected I'd rather of been in green house three working on puffapods and believe me I was informed of how boring that is. I wasn't scared, they just annoy me! Charms was just ok because my favorite thing we've done in there so far was the hover charm last year, I over heard some 4th year girls discussing the summoning charm I bet that'll be useful. Transfiguration was good yesterday, we turned our pets into water goblets. (After being assured it wouldn't harm them.) Mine was an onyx looking carved tea cup with a coppery possibly bronze handle. Bethi's went crystal with ornate white gold scroll work on the sides and tiny scattered sapphires on the base.
Brandi
Brandi,
I take it that since you have mentioned every class except Potions and History Of Magic, Snape's still a prat and the novelty of a ghost teacher still doesn't make History Of Magic the least bit interesting. Does the fat lady still think she can sing?
Charlie
PS- Olivander! I just remembered, he told me my wands core was a hair from the mane of a yearling female, he remembers EVERYTHING next time you are by there go ask him, you could right but I'm not sure he can recall sight unseen.
Bethani,
Geez, busy busy busy! Your dad came home for two weeks and we had alot of catching up to do so I haven't been able to pull myself away long enough to reply! I see what you meant last year now. Professor Magonagall wrote to tell me she's never seen such a good FIRST attempt at the Feriverto spell? Obviously I am very proud of you, but what exactly IS that?
Mom
Brandi,
Your dad sends his love, and we are glad the two of you arrived safely. Please be careful the Daily Prophet mentioned Dementors gaurding the exits to the grounds cause of Black. They seem to be as dangerous as he is!
Mom
Mom,
She's not onl y the deputee head mistress and head of Brandi's house she also is the Transfiguration teacher and the spell she mentioned is used for turning an animal into a water goblet. She told me it was okay to use it on Isis because it won't harm her and she will reverse it as soon as she saw how it turned out. Mine went crystal with white gold scroll work on the sides and tiny sapphires embedded in the base. I wanted the while gold to be copper so it would match my house colors! Hermione was even impressed hen Brandi told her, but I didn't like it!
Bethani
PS- The teacher was correct, my ferret was back and unharmed seconds later, she blinked confused, then climbed in my pocket and curled up to go to sleep. It was good she was with me because that night the fat lady who gaurds the entrance to Brandi's common room was attacked so we all slept in the Great Hall while the castle was searched for whoever did it MOST say it was Sirius Black, Harry told me he could hardly hear Professor Sprout in Herbology the next day because a Hufflepuff girl kept darting around telling people He turned into a potted plant he could be in here run!!!!! This of course is stupid human's can become animal's or other people but not plants. (the other people thing is a potion that's not allowed here)
Mom,
Classes are going well. I am behaving and as I am sure Bethi told you we had to camp out in the Great Hall last week. Well it was uneventful but I'd better tell Charlie that I'm ok I'm sure he has heard by now from his siblings but still I don't want him to worry.
Brandi
Charlie,
Yeah! I'm sorry I didn't write you back sooner be we all had to stay in the Great Hall the night I got your last letter , then I had to write my mom back next time I had some free time. The fat lady was attacked and though she still usually bugs us trying to sing she told me it was Sirius Black!
Brandi
Brandi,
I assume you already wrote the Weasley boy because I just got your reply. Bethani said her pet/cup trick turned out really well and her pet was unharmed. How is Sunni doing?
Mom
Mom,
I was after Bethi, so I my kitty would be just fine, but I also knew I sure couldn't beat what Bethi did! Sunni was a possibly carved onyx tea cup with a coppery handle, for about 30 seconds just long enough for the teacher to examine it and see how well I did. I got a smile, "Very good for a first try but the goal was a goblet"
Brandi
Brandi,
Thank God! If it wasn't halloween, oh, I don't even want to think of what could of happened to the Gryffindors! Most of my family (and a few friends) are in there and how many others? You know all those people Black killed, it was with a SINGLE CURSE!v
Charlie
Charlie,
Thanks for the concern but everyone is fine. I went to the Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff game and the stupid dementors made Harry pass out and fall! Cedric Diggory got the snitch and they won by 100 points! The wind from the storm carried Harry's Nimbus into the Whomping Willow. Could you possibly fill in for him in the match versus Ravenclaw?
Brandi
Brandi,
I'd love too but I'm sorry to say I can't because I'm old and I know they wouldn't let me. Also, I was pretty skilled but I have a Comet 360, that's no good compared to what the other teams will have. Maybe Ginny can fill in. Sorry I can't be more useful you know I'd love to visit you all.
Charlie
Mom,
I know last year we said we just wanted to stay over Christmas to see how wizards celebrate. However this year a teacher friend, Hagrid, is in need of some major help and we volenteered to help Harry, Ron & Hermione get his Hippogriff out of this. I assure you this looks to be a matter of life and death.
Bethani
Bethani,
Alright, I figured, hope to see you both for Easter!
Hugs,
Mom
Mom,
Hermione has been studying too much and the boys are mad at her over the Firebolt Harry was sent for Christmas, she had it taken away to be tested for jinxes since it was sent anonymisly. So I took over Buckbeak's defence with Bethi. As for presents, Ginny got me a pocket sneakascope, Bethi got me a book on wands, everyone else got me things from honeydukes that didn't last the month when Harry got me sweets of the month membership last year. There is a location in Diagon Alley, you should really go with the Weasley's sometime!
Brandi
PS- Thanks for the minature dragons! They walk around spitting cold "fire" and when a poke them with a wand they circle your head and land back in the box.
Mom,
When Brandi took me to the Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw match. Harry's broom was fine by the way. I was just trying to read a library book that might help with the case and I felt some wind and reached up to toss back the quaffle that I figured was accidently shot at me. Then it gets quiet so I ask Brandi what happened and I hardly heard her reply over the cheers, it was a BLUDGER! It was after Cho Chang, my house's seeker, she dodged and I got it just seconds before Harry catch the snitch. Gryffindor took him off to a party while the Ravenclaw's dragged me off to insist I take over for their 7th year beater in their next practice because they want me for next years team. Cho, a forth year, is right now the teams only girl and she didn't like the idea. I know Fred and George won't like it either. I told them I'd practice if I could keep Isis in my pocket and I'd join if I like it. So next year I may need a broom, the school ones are very old and slow. For now I am studying up on it.
Bethani
Mom,
Gryffindor had another Black incident. The night of the game, Ron Weasley said Sirius Black woke him with a knife in hand. A boy in their dorm, Neville, wrote the password down and lost the note. So the portrait let a killer in! We stayed in the common room that night and our dorms were all searched. However he was long gone and no one was hurt.
Brandi
Mom,
We are coming home for Easter, Ron took over the Hippogriff case for the appeal.
Bethani
Brandi,
Why the bloody hell didn't you tell me Black was in Gryffindor tower!?!?!
Charlie
Charlie,
I'm so sorry when Harry got his broom back my sister and I had alot to write our mother about. Besides Ron told everyone here and if he didn't write I should think another Weasley would! Do you hate me?
Brandi
Brandi,
Of course not! Besides your right as well, Ginny, the twins, Percy and Ron ALL wrote home but Mom wrote me. Dad usually does but he was on a rampage at Azkaban DEMANDING they send more damn Dementors, yes he hates them as much as everyone else but if they can protect those kids,well I believe you get what I am saying.
Charlie
Mom,
Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup for the first time in SEVEN years and Charlie was their seeker then!
Brandi
Charlie,
Gryffindor won the Quidditch cup! Slytherin cheated alot and we had to win the match by more than 200 points to get the cup. We lead 80 to 20 when Harry caught the snitch so, final score 230 to 20 so we where just one goal over what we needed.
Brandi
PS- I went home over Easter and Olivander told me it was from a young male who was the hybrid of a Welsh Green and a Hybridean Black. Hardly exotic but I'd say its pretty rare.
Brandi,
I remember how Quidditch works thanks. YAY, I will have to write Harry and congratulate him and maybe send Fred and George a couple of Galleons! As for your core I can guarentee the mother was the Green or that mix couldn't happen. A female Black would of killed a Green before he got close to mating with her.
Charlie
Charlie,
Buckbeak was to be beheaded, but, he got away. Sirius was caught and got away before the kiss. Also, Scabbers ran off and for some reason Ron doesn't care, and he told me a tiny owl flew in the window of his compartment and it got attatched to him. Are you going to the Quidditch World Cup?
Brandi
Brandi,
Of course I'm going. My entire family is and as far as I know Harry and Hermione are also. I suppose you and Beth are to? Either way see you soon!
Charlie
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