Hi everyone, my name is Jenn and this is my 5th FF on SS. The idea for this one came to me from Khristina (moonchic07)

It's going to be Romance eventually. It's about the second generation and it's going to start off with them just going to school but it'll skip to either 6th or 7th year, I haven't decided yet. This was originally going to be a one shot, but once I started writing I found that I wasn't going to be able to fit it all in a one shot.

Disclaimer: The characters belong to JKR, other than the ones I will make up along the way.

This FF is for Khristina because D/HR never happened in the books, but who's to say some version of it won't happen.

And now here's Curiosity! Hope you all like it. And I'd love to know what you think

Curiousity sa-13+

Over the years I have heard stories from my dad and uncle about how much my mother loathed him. Nothing really ever seemed to go right. From my mom though, I heard stories about how she had forgiven him for the way he acted while they were in school. That now, from the last she had heard he married well, not like his father would have wished and now he has a little boy because he went against what he was brought up to do. Becoming a widow she says changed him. I never really asked her much more about that, it was just one of those stories that you heard as a child and never gave much thought to.

Dad says that I’m like my mother in so many ways, except for my hair, I have my aunt’s hair. It’s manageable is all he says. Mom says it’s a blessing, and that I should have seen her hair when she was my age.

Hugo got to go to school last year, and this year it’s my turn, though, I believe that I’m smart enough to have gone last year, I’m still excited about getting to go now. Lily is going with me, so at least I’ll know someone other than my cousins.

In the morning everything was rushed, and mom and dad didn’t think that we were going to get there on time. But when we finally did get there, we only had a few minutes to find the Potters and get on the train. Teddy had come to see us off too, not because of us though, it’s because it’s Victoire’s last year. Mom and dad pushed me onto the train and told me to write, and that they’d see me at Christmas.

Fighting out way through the corridor Lily and I followed Hugo and Albus to find a compartment. They said that it’s only going to happen this year, next year we’re on our own to find a compartment. James and his friend Kyle Abbott had helped them last year so they were only passing on the favour. In the end we found Luna’s son Lorcan sitting in the very last compartment and that’s where Hugo and Albus left us. The train ride passed fairly smoothly. We already knew Lorcan so he was easy to get along. Mom says he’s a bit like his mom but won't tell us if that’s a good or bad thing.

The trained pulled to a stop as we reached Hogwarts. There were lights everywhere; I couldn’t wait to get inside. Oh, I just hope that I get sorted into Gryffindor.

Neville told us all to wait outside in the hallway and he would be back for us in a few minutes. Everyone around me was whispering about what house they wanted to be in, and if they would be put in the same house as their parents. Finally Neville came back; mom told me I could call him Neville when there wasn’t anyone else but family around, but otherwise I’m supposed to call him Professor Longbottom. He smiled down at Lily and me and motioned for everyone to follow him into the Great Hall. I got separated from Lily and found myself walking beside a boy I didn’t know. He was looking in amazement at the ceiling.

‘It’s not really the ceiling, you know, it’s enchanted to look that way, I read it in Hogwarts a History,’ I told him quietly.

When we reached the front Neville pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and told us all to be quiet and wait for our name to be called.

‘Abbott, Kevin,’ HUFFLEPUFF!

‘Bryans, Olivia,’ RAVENCLAW!

‘Davis, Khristina,’ SLYTHERIN!

And then names went on for awhile until, ‘Potter, Lily’ was called and I looked up hoping that I would be sorted into the same house as her.

‘GRYFFINDOR!’ the hat shouted.

After Lily, Lorcan was sorted into Ravenclaw and I went back to waiting patiently for my name to be called.

‘Weasley, Dominique’ GRYFFINDOR!

‘Weasley, Lucy,’ joined the Gryffindor table as well and I could hear all my cousins cheering.

‘Weasley, Rose!’

I was nervous as I walked up to sit on the stool that looked like it was going to break. As Neville placed the hat on my head I heard the hat inside my head saying, ‘How many Weasleys am I going to have to put in Gryffindor tonight?’

‘Just one more after me I thought,’ smiling to myself because I knew where I was going to be. As I heard the hat shout ‘GRYFFINDOR! I jumped down from the stool and went to take my place at the Gryffindor table. I waited for Roxanne Weasley to be sorted before I stopped paying attention and clapped with the rest of my house when she came to sit down beside me.

After everyone had been sorted and Neville had put away the stool, everyone’s attention turned once again to the front as Professor McGonagall stood up.

‘Eat up,’ was all she said and our plates were filled with food. The hall was filled with the sound of people grabbing their forks and reaching for the food that they wanted. The only other thing clearly from the night all those years ago that I was sorted was just before I left the Great Hall, I noticed a boy maybe a year older than me looking at me, his eyes filled with curiosity, and that is where my story really began.