mudblood princess

The first of September

This was it. The moment every wizarding kid had looked forward to. Starting an education at Hogwarts. Theo, Draco and the other first years walked into the great hall. While everyone was looking at the floating candles, the magical decorations or even the headmaster. Theo was scanning the faces of the students. Hoping he could see his long lost sister, Athena. He knew the changes were very slim. But he couldn't help having a little bit of hope.

'When I call out your name please step forward. And you will be sorted into your new house.' McGonagall stated in a loud, clear voice. She had been calling out names for a while now when she finally came close to Draco and Theo their names. 'Draco Malfoy.'

'I'll see you at the snake table.' said Draco in hushed tones to Theo before proudly stepping forward.

The hat had barely touched his head before calling out 'Slytherin!' Draco grinned smugly at Theo.

'Theodore Nott.' McGonagall now called his name out. It stayed quiet for a few seconds and then whispers erupted throughout the great hall. 'That's the last surviving Nott.' 'I heard his younger sister might still be out there.' 'My father was there when they stormed the Nott manor.' 'I heard his older sister got killed by some drunk muggle.'

Theo did his best to ignore the whispers and stepped forward. Blaise Zabini gave him a reassuring squish in his shoulder when Theo passed by him. The hat was placed upon his head. After a little while the hat decided to sort him into Slytherin. Theo made his way over to his new house mates.

'It's an honor having the last Nott in our house.' joked some guy a bit further down the table.

'Oh please Vincent, just shut up.' a girl said. 'don't mind him. He thinks he is funny.'

Theo didn't answer. He simply sat down next to Draco. They watched the other first years get sorted. Two redhead kids named Fred and George were sorted into Gryffindor. Were they were greeted by 3 other redheads. They were informed they were Weasleys. Bloodtraiters first class. Blaise obviously was also sorted into Slytherin.

Theo felt very conflicted. He was happy he and his friends were togheter. But inside he felt crushed. He had always kept a little glimmer of hope that his sisters might have survived that horrid night six years ago. He told himself so many times he would see them here at Hogwarts again. Now he finally had to accept the truth. He truly was the last Nott.

Meanwhile on the other side of Great Brittian, in London. A small girl with big brown eyes and frizzy brown curls walked into her new school together with a skinny boy with messy jetblack hair and bright green eyes.

'welcome, to the first grade of elementary school. I'll be your teacher this year. My name is miss Harris.' a woman said kindly to the young kids. 'Today were just going to get to know one another. Who wants to go first? Come on don't be shy. Fine. Why don't we start with you?'

'Uhm. My name is Hermione King. I'm six years old. My birthday is in a few days and I like to read.' Hermione shyly said.

'Hermione? That's a special name. Your parents must like Greek mythology.' the teacher smiled at her.

'I suppose so. I don't know who my parents are so I can't really ask them. All i have is this necklace with my name engraved in it.' Hermione explained.

'Oh I'm so sorry.' the teacher quickly apoligized. 'let's move on then..' she gave Harry a signal that he could introduce himself.

'Hi, I'm Harry Potter. I'm seven and I'm also an orphan.' Harry said almost in a challenging way.

'Alright... Let's just skip the introduction. How about we go make some drawings.' poor miss Harris suggested. She sat down at her desk and pulled out a flask from the top drawer. She took a big gulp and mumbled to herself 'Why do I keep coming back here. I should have accepted that desk job.'

And so time went by. Hermione and Harry learned how to write, read, do math and the basics of science. Hermione always felt like she didn't belong. It also didn't help that strange things seemed to happen whenever she was very mad or very sad. It did made her feel better that Harry seemed to feel the same.

Meanwhile Theo learned all about magic at Hogwarts. He, Draco and Blaise had gotten quite the reputation. They were know as the silver trio. They had top marks and seemed to think that because of that they were better than the other students. 

Four years had passed. Hermione and Harry just came back from an outing to the zoo with the school. Somehow Harry had managed to lock some fat kid, named Dudley, into a snake terrarium. And now he was getting punished. Hermione didn't really understand how he did it but she had to be honest. That Dudley kid had it coming.

That evening a man came to the orphanage. He demanded to speak to Hermione and Harry. He and miss Spagel, the headmistress of the orphanage, had argued almost an entire hour before she finally gave in. Hermione and Harry were escorted to miss Spagel her small office. When they entered they saw a giant man with a long black beard and long black hair sitting in a chair that was way too small for him.

'Ah Hermione and Harry. You two are very hard to get a hold on.' the man said kindly. I've got something for the two of you.' He produced two letters out of a pocket of his heavy fur coat. He gave one to Hermione and one to Harry. It was a parchment letter written in emerald green ink.

'What is Hogwarts?' asked Hermione confused. 'is this some kind of joke? There is no such thing as magic. Wizard, witches and far off castles is a thing from fairy tales.'

'of course it isn't. That just what muggles tell themselves.' The man laughed.

'muggles?' Harry piped up.

'None magic folk.' the man said offhanded. He pulled out three teacups and a kettle. 'do you want some tea?'

'We're not allowed to accept tea from a stranger. And definitely not when pulls it out of his coat pocket.' Hermione answered.

'suit yourselves.' he said while raising his pink umbrella. Sparks flew out of the tip. Then he poured himself a cup of tea. He took a sip and then said 'I'm Rubeus Hagrid, ground keeper at Hogwarts school of wizardry and witchcraft. So now we aren't strangers anymore.'

Hagrid then told Hermione and Harry everything about Hogwarts and the wizarding world. After three hours Hagrid said 'You two better go to bed now. Tomorrow we'll go shopping at Diagon ally.'

Neither of them slept that night. Both their fantasies were running wild. Hermione had to pinch her arm multiple times during the night just to make sure this wasn't a dream.