A Heart of Gold {Sequel to 'The Undiscovered Triplets'}

[Chapter One-Gabby]

 Gabby

Once upon a time...

There is a lot of meaning behind those words. For some, it's the beginning of a story with a happy ending. For others, it is a story from long, long, ago. For most people, it's just the boring words people say at the beginning of a fairy tale, which goes hand in hand with the ultimate fairy tale ending- and they lived happily ever after.

But if a fairy tale was real life, do you really think that it would all end happily? I mean, for some people it might. But for others, like me, if my life was a fairy tale, it would be the worst fairy tale ever written!

Usually fairy tales start with all the characters being happy, and nothing bad happening. Not in my case. My fairy tale starts with my parents death at the hand of the most evil wizard of all time. He tried to kill me too, you know. But I am like a cat, with nine lives. I used to have a nine carved into my forearm, but now it's a five, since I only have five lives left.

Then, in the middle, all these bad things happens. That definitely happens in mine! So at least my life got one thing right. Then, the hero comes along and saves everyone and they all live happily ever after. I can't exactly say that happens in mine. Well, no one could, seeing as my fairy tale is still in the middle part where all these bad things happen.

My name is Gabrielle Potter, but I prefer to be called Gabby. I have a two triplet brothers called Harry and Jason. We go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the best school of magic, in, like, the world,  I guess!

I am in my sixth year at Hogwarts at the moment. In my first year, Voldemort kidnapped Harry and Jason, so I came after them. We found out we had special powers; I had nine lives, Jason could turn invisible and Harry was the one who was prophecised to kill Voldemort. We used our powers to escape his lair and made it back to Hogwarts alive.

In my second, third, fourth and fifth year at Hogwarts nothing too eventful happened- unless Harry, Jason and I constantly running into trouble counts as eventful!

At the moment, I am on the Hogwarts Express, on my way to Hogwarts.

"Do ya want a chocolate frog?" my best friend Aria Martins interrupts my thoughts.

I grin. "Of course!"

"Here," she chucks the chocolate frog at me.

"Ow!" I cry. It had hit me on the forehead. Aria giggles, and we start having a chocolate frog war where we peg them at each other. Soon enough, we are both covered in melted chocolate.

The door of the compartment slides open. Kelly  Ryan, our other best friend, has returned from the bathroom.

"Whoa," she stops short. "What happened here?"

Aria and I giggle. "Chocolate frog fight!" we chorus.

"Well, I think you two better get cleaned up. We're nearly at Hogwarts and I don't think that'd be setting a great example to the younger kids, two six-years walking around covered in chocolate," says Kelly, grinning.

After we have cleaned ourselves up and got dressed into our Hogwarts robes, we exit the train with everybody else, and Kelly runs ahead to snag a carriage. We quickly join her, trying to keep out of the drenching rain.

When we arrive at Hogwarts, we all sprint up to the gates to avoid getting wet.

"Ugh!" Kelly cries, slipping in the mud and falling over.

"Watch out, ladies. Somebody might get hurt with all this running," drawls the familiar voice of Draco Malfoy.

I look up at him and my brother Jason with loathing. "Get a life, Malfoy," I say and we walk away, with Kelly attempting to dry herself off.