You Make Me Feel at Home [ENG]

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You Make Me Feel at Home
Rating: PG
Summary: Barely scraping her exams the previous years at Hogwarts, Olivia Clearwater is determined to pass her O.W.L’s in her fifth year. Starting off the year with studying hard and performing well, making both herself and her parents proud, she runs into distractions and she’s at the risk of not being allowed to continue into sixth year, something she couldn’t dread more. This story follows Olivia’s journey to success and failure at Hogwarts and her road to find happiness within herself, as well as with someone else.

Chapter 1
Olivia woke up startled by the aggressive knocking on her door. She could feel her pyjamas clinging to her skin from the nightmare she’d just had.
“Olivia, breakfast!” Her brother Will shouted. Olivia drowsily sat up and rubbed her eyes. Today was the day she was going back for her fifth year at Hogwarts. She wasn’t sure if the knot in her stomach was due the stress of facing O.W.L’s, or that Will and his twin, Tom, were starting sixth year, meaning they will bother her even more now that they had both achieved top marks in their O.W.L’s. After putting her robes on and putting some makeup on, she took a deep breath and walked downstairs to the kitchen.

“Someone’s tried to make themselves look pretty for the Hogwarts boys” said Olivia’s older sister Hannah who was smirking, “Tried”. Olivia ignored her and their mother nudged Hannah, staring at her annoyed.
“She’s just stating the truth, mum. She’s got a crush on that Slytherin boy Adyn” said Tom condescendingly. Olivia blushed. She had had a crush on Adyn since when they had Potions classes together last year. He had helped her produce a Confusing Concoction, a potion they were supposed to be able to produce in third year, however, she still struggled with it. Adyn was a tall boy with dark hair, friendly and outgoing, and very popular amongst both girls and boys. He had a reputation of dating whoever he fancies at the time and dumping them whenever he finds someone better. Olivia knew he wasn’t the ideal boyfriend, but she couldn’t help herself dreamily thinking about him for a few moments.

In the meantime, her brothers and sister had started arguing about who was the smartest out of them. They made a comment about how Olivia doesn’t even compare against them when they were in first year of Hogwarts but she ignored them and started eating her morning roll instead. She had learnt from many years of snarky comments that it was better to stay quiet instead of giving them even more to make fun of. Her parents only half-heartedly tried to defend her these days; a part of Olivia thought they likely agreed with them. All of Olivia’s family had been in Ravenclaw except for herself who was in Hufflepuff. She didn’t mind this as she preferred the values of Hufflepuff to Ravenclaw’s, however, everyone else in her family thought she was only in Hufflepuff because according to them, she wasn’t smart enough for Ravenclaw.

After breakfast, they packed up the last few things and put the suitcases in the trunk of the car that was undoubtedly expanded by an expansion spell. On the way out of the house, Olivia had one last look at herself in the mirror. She had changed her hair since last year and felt a lot more confident. Her siblings had been making fun of her all summer for getting a fringe and dying her hair dark brown, but she felt a lot more like herself in it. Her mascara had smudged under her eyes a bit and she tried to remove it as good as she could and smiled. She thought to herself: I only need to pass my exams. Then I can pick N.E.W.T subjects I’m actually good at and they will never make fun of me again.
Little did she know this was going to be a lot harder than she expected.

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Chapter 2
As soon as they arrived at Platform 9 ¾ Olivia hastily hugged her parents and sister goodbye and got on the train to get away from her brothers as fast as she could. She found an empty compartment and sat down waiting for her friends to come join her. It wasn’t long until Nora and Aoife were cheerfully embracing her with Aoife’s black cat, Pepper, stroking her feet excitedly.
“Love the hair babe!” Said Nora messing with the top of Olivia’s hair. Olivia laughed and ran her fingers through her hair to flatten it back out.
“Thanks Nora, how were your summers?” Olivia asked the girls, scratching Pepper behind his ear.
“Mine was great, I honestly think I want to move to New York after our holiday there. Did you know they have a different word for ‘muggle’? I felt so foreign there!” said Nora excitedly, now playing with Pepper’s tail.
“Merlin your accent has nearly turned American after just being there for 2 weeks Nora, imagine after you’ve lived there” Aoife said with a grin on her face, “My summer was grand, been enjoying the single life back home” she winked at Nora and Olivia who laughed, knowing very well that Aoife who had recently broken up with her boyfriend hadn’t been allowed to leave the house all summer to help her parents, who were both muggles, renovate the house.
“How have your siblings been with you this summer?” Nora asked Olivia in a more serious tone.
“Just as bad as you’d expect them to be” Olivia sighed “You know they’ve somehow found out I’ve got a crush on Adyn?”
“No way! That must’ve made them even more annoying” Aoife said shaking her head comprehensibly.
“Yeah, I’m used to it at this point though. I just hope they don’t tell him.” Olivia said, knowing that they probably would.
“I mean, considering how relaxed Adyn is with his girls I’m sure you’d probably have a better chance getting with him that way” They all giggled and a small spark of hope lit within Olivia. Maybe she’d actually have a chance with Adyn this term.

That spark of hope was soon extinguished as after the sorting ceremony, a roar of laughter filled the Great Hall. The girls turned around to see Tom and Will standing on the Ravenclaw table, waving their wands in the air.
“Oh no” said Aoife quietly. Large ghost-like figures were flying around in the air with banners saying: “Olivia Clearwater loves her Slytherin prince, Adyn”. Olivia realised the ghost-like figures were supposed to portray herself on her knees, begging a disgusted-looking Adyn to be with her. She could feel blood rush to her face; she knew they would have told Adyn at some point, but she had not expected them to do it within the first hour of being back at Hogwarts, let alone in front of everyone in the Great Hall. As people started pointing towards Olivia Nora got out of her seat and stormed off to the Ravenclaw table.
“Nora, no! They’re not worth it!” Yelled Olivia who had now also got out of her seat rushing after Nora.
“Are you out of your mind!? She’s your freaking sister! I know you’re jerks but this is taking it too far!” Nora yelled at Tom and Will who were still laughing.
“Nora!” This time it was Aoife yelling as she saw Nora’s fist heading towards Will, hitting him straight in the face. The Great Hall was filled with “Oo”s and “Aa”s and their potions professor, Professor Johnston, pulled Nora away whilst a group of boys in Ravenclaw were holding Tom and Will away from her.
“That’s one detention for you Miss and one week of detention for you two Clearwater” Professor Johnston pointed at Tom and Will who no longer were grinning.

Olivia, Nora and Aoife had their dinner in the Hufflepuff common room that night.
“Nora that was amazing but you really didn’t have to do that” Olivia said whilst chewing on some roast potato.
“Are you joking? They embarrassed you in front of everyone just so they could have a laugh, that’s not okay” Nora said determinedly.
“I know but you’ve got detention now! They’re not worth detention” said Olivia, feeling a bit bad her friend had got detention for defending her.
“Don’t worry gal, I’ve always got your back” Nora said reassuringly and Olivia hugged her; Aoife joined the hug and after letting go they spent the rest of the night in the common room playing exploding snap, thinking of ways to get their revenge on Will and Tom.

Bra!