Defeated

Chapter One

Andrea's POV

"Come on!" Rose, my best friend, said impatiently.

"Hold on," I muttered, swinging my backpack onto my shoulder. I hurried after her, my suitcase's wheels squeaking irritably.

"I can't wait," Rose said excitably, "Our fifth year at Hogwarts!"

"Calm down," I said and rolled my eyes, though on the inside I was freaking out too. I couldn't wait to go back. I loved everything about Hogwarts. The classes, the teachers, quidditch. Not to mention I missed my friends. Rose was really my only witch friend I saw out of school, since we're neighbors.

"And this year is the Triwizard Tournament," Rose squealed, "Tell me your not excited."

"I'm really excited," I admitted, "Can you hold Tigress for a sec?" I handed my orange tabby to Rose, even though she was already holding her own cat. I ignored the frustrated look Rose have me. I smoothed out my blond and curly hair, then checked in my backpack to make sure all my books were there. After I was satisfied, I took Tigress back from Rose and muttered a quick thanks.

"We're here," Rose smiled hugely. I looked at the solid-looking brick wall on front of us. Like always, I got nervous.

"You go first," I told Rose, "You're the Gryffindoor."

"Fine," Rose sighed at me. Without another word she took off running towards the wall and right when it looked like she was about to smash her face into the wall, she disappeared through it. Seeing that she was successful gave me the courage to go sprinting towards it. At the last moment, where I truly thought I was going to run into an actual wall, I disappeared through the wall just as Rose had did.

I smiled when I saw the Hogwarts Express, with a huge crowd of students milling around it, trying to find their friends to sit with and other things. I quickly got into the train and went to the back. I opened the door to the private compartment slowly.

"Hullo Andrea," a familiar voice said. When I fully went into the small room I saw Fred and George Weasley, along with Rose.

"Hullo guys," I greeted. I wasn't quite sure which was which, since I had only met the twins the year before. And they were always playing tricks on me, pretending to be the other one. I settled down next to Rose, and we all began telling each other of what we did that summer. Of course, Fred and George's summer was filled with pranks, while mine was mainly normal things like reading, and Rose traveled around Europe.

What felt like an eternity later, we finally arrived at Hogwarts. As we exited the rain and made our way towards the carriages that would actually takes us to Hogwarts, I heard someone calling my name. I turned around to see my friend, Luna Lovegood.

"Luna," I smiled. We hugged, and then Rose engaged poor Luna in a bone crushing embrace.

"Careful there, love," George said.

"You might break her!" Fred joked.

"Have you seen Hermione?" I asked, and Luna nodded.

"But she already got onto a carriage with Ron and Harry," she answered. I sighed, upset that I would have to wait to see my friend.

Rose, Luna, Fred, George, and I got into a carriage, and we were off. The carriages were strange, in that they pulled themselves. However, Luna insisted that there were invisible horses pulling them, and that only a few students could see them. The Weasley's had already began telling Luna of all the jokes they had played on their poor mother. This is going to be a good year, I thought happily to myself.