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Chapter Three: The Hogwarts Express
It was August 31, the day before Harry and I were to start our first year at Hogwarts. The last month at the Dursleys before school started went by quickly. I hung out with Skylar, Aredhel, and Ryker. They showed me all kinds of wizarding items and stuff. Ryker had gone to a friend's house the week before school started, so Harry asked Uncle Vernon if he would give us a ride to King's Cross Station. He grunted and said that he would.
The next day, Uncle Vernon dropped us off at King's Cross Station. He took us inside and showed us platforms 9 and 10 and says that there is no platform 9 ¾. He walks away laughing. Harry and I turn to each other and do the twin thing, 'What now?' I thought.
'I dunno,' he thought back.
We couldn't find platform 9 ¾, so we asked a person that worked there. They just laughed at us, and sent us on our way. We saw a family of redheads, with trunks on trolleys. We followed them and the older redheaded woman was talking about Muggles, so we knew that we had found people that were going to Hogwarts. She told some guy named Percy to go first and Harry and I looked shocked when he disappeared between the barrier of Platforms 9 and 10.
Harry started to ask the woman how to get onto the platform and she interrupted him.
Harry and I nodded our heads and she explained that all we had to do was walk through the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10. She told a pair of redheaded twins to go next. They smiled at me and took off into the barrier, also disappearing. I decided to go next. I ran towards the barrier and turned around to see a brick wall behind me. The twins came up to me and one of them asked, "Is this your first time at Hogwarts."
I nodded my head and looked around in awe.
"Oi, George. Let the girl breath," said the other redheaded twin. "My name's Fred," he said holding out his hand.
I took it, saying, "My name's Isabella Potter, but I go by Bella."
Their eyes pop open. "Wow, does your brother really have that scar?" Fred asks.
'I knew it. It's never about me, always about Harry.' "Yeah," I said aloud.
Harry came through the barrier next and said, "Whoa! That was bloody amazing."
"And you must be Harry Potter," Fred said, walking up to Harry.
I rolled my eyes and walked off to get on the train. "Hey, what's the matter with you?" George asked.
"Nothing," I replied and tried to put my trunk on the train.
"Let me help you with that," George said, coming up to me. George took the trunk from my hands and lifted it up onto the train. I found an empty compartment and told George that he could leave my trunk in here. "Thanks," I said to him, smiling, when he put my trunk down.
"You're welcome," he replied, pushing a piece of my hair, which had fallen in my face, behind my ear.
Blushing, I turned away and began digging in my purse for a book to read on the train ride.
"Hey, Bella," I heard a voice say behind me.
I turned around and saw Ryker standing in the doorway. "Hey, Ryker," I said.
"I see you met George Weasley," he said looking at George.
"Yeah," I said smiling.
"How do you know Ryker Clark?" George asked me, glaring at Ryker.
"He's my best friend's cousin," I told him.
"Well, I'm going to say hi to my friends and sit with them if that's okay with you," Ryker said.
"That's fine."
"I'll come by once we all get settled in and come talk to you some more." He walked out leaving George and me alone in the compartment.
"Well, I had better go get my stuff and put it on the train."
He shut the compartment door after leaving. I sat down, let Briceaus out of her carrier, and opened my book. Before I could begin reading the first chapter, the compartment door opened. It was Harry.
"Hey sis," Harry said, sitting down across from me.
"Hey bro," I said right back.
The compartment opened yet again, this time it was the younger boy of the redheaded family. He asked to sit with us because there wasn't room anywhere else.
"Sure," I said turning back to my book.
He ignored what I said and went over to Harry. "So you're Harry Potter," he said to Harry. "And you must be his twin sister," he said, he kept looking at me like he was waiting for me to say my name.
"Yup, I'm Harry's twin, Bella," I said with a tone of disgust in my voice and stormed out to find a bathroom. I made sure that I grabbed my purse that had my diary in it.
Before closing the door to the compartment, I heard a voice say, "What's her problem?"
I was on the way to the bathroom, when I knocked over George and landed on top of him. "Sorry," I said, my face turning red.
"Where you going in such a hurry?" he asked smiling.
"Bathroom," I said spotting the bathroom and going inside. I put the toilet lid down and sat down on top of it. I took out my diary and pen. I began writing. I couldn't concentrate on what I was writing because my eyes were blurry. I felt tears slide down my face and onto the paper.
It's all about him. Harry this and Harry that. What makes him so special? I'm a person too, ya know. With feelings. Everybody ignores me but puts Harry in the spotlight.
I was about to write more, but someone was knocking on the door.
"You okay in there?" I heard George's voice asked.
I put my diary and pen back and wiped my face. "Yes, I'm okay," I said opening the door.
"Have you been crying?" he asked.
"No, what makes you say that?" I asked.
"Because you're eyes are red," he replied.
The train jerked forward and I found myself in George's embrace. "Oh sorry," I stuttered. I ran back to my compartment to find a bush haired girl and a shy looking boy in the doorway. The girl was asking if they had seen a toad. She said that someone named Neville lost his. I guessed that Neville was the shy looking boy.
I picked my book up from the seat and sat down, curling up on the seat, reading it. I was reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyers.
A lady came by with some food on a cart and asked us if we wanted anything. Ron said no and showed her some sandwiches that his mother had made for him. Harry replied saying that he'd take some of everything. So we got Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and other strange things we had never seen before.
Briceaus tried to eat the candy so I put some food in her bowl, so she could eat. While we were eating our candy, when Ryker walked in. "Hey Bella, Harry," he said. He turned to Ron and said, "Red hair, you must be that last Weasley boy."
"My name's Ron," Ron said.
"Pleased to meet you Ron. My name's Ryker Clark."
"We should be arriving shortly, so you might want to change into your school robes," he said. "How are you liking the candy and pastries?" he asked me.
"They're not too bad," I replied.
"Well, I just wanted to check up on you before I went and changed into my robes. I'll see you in the Great Hall."
"Okay Ryker, bye," I told him turning back to my book.
I finished the chapter that I was reading before going to change into my school robes. I grabbed my robe and hat before walking to the bathroom.
George was just coming out of the boy's bathroom, when I walked up. "Hey," he said.
"Hi again," I replied back.
"Did you enjoy the train ride?"
"It was nice. I had my book to read, so I wasn't really paying any attention to anything. But, Harry did buy everything from the food cart. So, I got to try new candies."
George was about to say something, but the girl's bathroom opened so I went inside saying, "I'll see ya later," before closing the door.
I got back to the compartment to find that both Harry and Ron had changed into their robes.
I ran back to the compartment and saw that a bushy haired girl and a shy looking boy were blocking the doorway. The girl was asking if they had seen a toad because Neville had lost one. I assumed that was the shy boy's name.
The train came to a halt and we gathered out things, before stepping out onto the platform. I noticed Hagrid holding a lantern saying, "Firs' Years this way."
We walked up to Hagrid and said hello. While waiting for the other first years to come, Hagrid asked me how my kitten was doing. I told him that she was very playful. Once, all the first years were gathered around Hagrid, he headed us towards the pond so we could cross it in boats.
Harry, Hermione, Ron and I were all in a boat together. "So what house do you think you'll be in?" Hermione asked. Hermione then said that she hoped she was put into Ravenclaw because they're supposed to be the smartest.
Ron said, "Hopefully, I'll get put into Gryffindor."
Harry and I both replied, "I don't know what house I'll be in."
A woman in emerald-green robes was standing behind the doors when Hagrid opened them. Hagrid said that the witch's name was Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall thanked Hagrid and led us into an empty room. We could hear the rest of the student talking somewhere near us.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," Professor McGonagall began. "You must be sorted into your houses before eating. While you are here, your house will be like your family. You will have class, eat, and share a dorm with them. Your accomplishments earn you points, break any rules you will lose points. Hogwarts has four houses: Gryffindor, which I am, head of, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. I will be back momentarily."
Professor McGonagall came back five minutes later, saying that she was ready for us.
We followed her into the Great Hall. There were millions of candles lit above our heads, and the ceiling looked like the night sky. I saw Ryker; he was waving and smiling. I waved back to him. George caught my eye as I was walking by him; I smiled at him and turned away to hide my red face.
When we got to the front of the room, I saw a raggedy looking hat on a stool. Once all the first years were surrounding the Sorting Hat, it began to sing.
McGonagall pulled out a scroll and began naming names. When she got to Harry's name, the students in the hall, all began whispering. I rolled my eyes at some of the things that people where whispering. 'Not once did they ask where his sister, Isabella was. It's all about Harry.'
Harry walked up there and he looked very nervous when he sat down. The Sorting Hat must've been saying something because I could see Harry mouthing, 'Not, Slytherin. Not Slytherin.' I guess the Sorting Hat went with what Harry was saying, because it yelled out, "GRYFFINDOR!"
"Isabella Potter," McGonagall called out. I walked up to the stool and she put the Sorting Hat on my head.
"Hmm," I heard a voice in my head say. "Jealousy isn't a nice trait to have. It'll get the best of you, if you don't learn to control it."
'I can't help it,' I thought to the voice. 'I have feelings too. It's like I'm an outcast in the magical world.'
"You have a good heart, you're smart, and you're loyal. But, I think I'm gonna separate you from your brother," the voice said to me. "SLYTHERIN!" it yelled out. The Slytherins all clapped and I looked at Harry. He gave me an apologetic look and turned back to something Percy was saying. I walked over and sat down in between two first year Slytherins, Pansy Parkinson and Theodore Knott.
"So you're Harry's twin. Isabella right?" Pansy asked.
"Yeah," I said. "And you're Pansy."
She nodded her head and asked, "So, what's it like growing up around Muggles?"
"That depends, because my aunt, uncle and cousin, were downright cruel sometimes, and my two best friends were supposed to be Muggles, but it turns out they're witches."
"Well, that sounds horrible. I don't know if I'd want Muggles contaminating anything I touch. You never know what they have," she said, like being a Muggle was a bad thing.
The blonde from Madam Malkin's was sitting across from Pansy and he said, "I hate Muggles. They ought to be all be killed. That's what the Dark Lord wants to do."
Pansy batted her eyelashes at the blonde, whose name is Draco Malfoy. She then, began talking to Draco, non-stop. 'Bloody hell, does she ever shut up!' I thought. 'She's like the energizer bunny. It just keeps going and going and going.'
When the sorting hat was over, Professor Dumbledore stood at the podium in front and began talking. "New students, salutation. Those returning, welcome back…" he told us that the forbidden forest was out of bounds and that we should stay away from the third floor corridor, he also said some more things that were forbidden and what not.
After Dumbledore's speech, food appeared in front of us on the tables. There were all kinds of foods, some that I knew, and some that I didn't know what it was. Some that I had eaten before and some that I hadn't. I put all the stuff that I knew and like to eat on my plate and began eating. When I got thirsty, I grabbed the goblet that was in front of my plate and took a drink. 'What is this?' I thought. Draco must've seen the look on my face and said that it was pumpkin juice. I said thanks and turned back to drinking it. 'It's okay. I wish I had some water, though,' I thought. The next moment, my goblet was filled with water. 'That's better,' I thought.
After every one was finished eating, Dumbledore said that it was time to go to our dormitories for the night. Ryker caught up to me before leaving to go to his own dormitory and said, "Oi, that sucks that you're in Slytherin. I don't like you any less because of it though."
"Thanks," I said before he had to go.
George came up to me next and said, "Hey."
"Hey."
"It's cool that you're in Slytherin. Not everybody who's bad is in Slytherin. There's some good people in there too. There's you. And I know you're good, even though I hardly know you."
I was dumbstruck. I was blushing so badly that I couldn't respond. George walked off and turned back to me one more time, waving. I looked to see if Harry was gonna say something, but he was probably already with the first years following Percy.
Marcus Flint, a Slytherin prefect, showed us to our dormitory. The Slytherins dormitories were in the dungeons. 'Well, at least the sun won't wake me up,' I thought. I hate the sun. On the way to the dungeons, Pansy talked the entire time. She hardly let anyone get to put their two cents in. We stopped in front of a stonewall, and Flint said the password, "Mudblood." There was a stone door concealed in the wall. When everybody was inside the common room, the door shut. I looked around and noticed that everything was either green, black, or silver, or a combination of all three. There were two doorways in the room. One to the left, and the other to the right. "Girls, you're dormitories are to the right; the first years are on the bottom and to the left. Boys yours are to the left and the same as the girls."
I headed for my dormitory at once so I could put on my pj's and go to sleep. After walking down two flights of stairs, I went in to the dormitory that said first years on it. When I walked in, I saw five canopy beds. Each one was black, had green curtains that were tied up and had green, black and silver sheets. I went over to the one farthest from the door that had my trunk sitting in front of it.
I opened my trunk and got out my pajamas. It was a little cold down here, so I grabbed my winter pajamas. My pajamas consisted of a green thermal shirt, a Bam t-shirt (that was black and had Bam on it and a heart-a-gram on the back of it), and black and silver pajama pants, which is somewhat funny because my house colors are green, black, and silver. I saw my skateboard, so I grabbed it and put it under my bed that was I could access it better and everything else.
I grabbed my diary out of my purse and layed down on my bed, writing in it.
September 1st,
OMG! Today is my first day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I met this really hot guy on the train today but he's a third year and I'm only a first year. His name is George Weasley and he has a twin, Fred. He's got fiery red hair and gorgeous brown eyes a girl could die for. But anyways I really wanted to write down what I've been feeling since I found out that I was a witch. It's so amazing that I won't have to put up with the Dursley's everyday now. Then there's the other fact that my stupid famous twin brother is ALL anyone can ever talk about. I mean come on; he's not the only one who survived Lord Voldemort. Yea he's the one who survived the killing curse. What about me? No one ever pays attention to me, except perhaps George. He actually followed me to the bathroom on the train, when he saw me running to it so I could cry.
I stopped writing when I heard a noise outside of the door. I quickly put my diary under my pillow and began pulling my curtains. Pansy walked in, her arm around some girl. I think I remember McGonagall say her name was Millicent Bulstrode.
"I was wondering where you had gone off to," Pansy said. They both walked over to me, "Bella, this is my cousin, Millicent."
"Pleasure," I said. "Now, if you two girls don't mind, I'm going to bed. I'm quite tired."
"Good night," both girls said.
I finished closing the curtains around my bed. I layed down and began thinking of George Weasley. I drifted off to sleep with George on my mind.
dementedvampyrefaerie · Tue Jan 26, 2010 @ 12:50am · 0 Comments |
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