TMD: Sophie's Hogwarts Years

Chapter 1: Waking up at Hogwarts

At the age of six, Sophie Adair had experienced so many strange and curious happenings around her that she concluded she was a witch. At first, she was devastated; this was just another thing making her stand out from all the idiots at school. They already bullied her for being raised by a single father and being an insufferable know-it-all. If anyone ever found out, it was sure to be a disaster, so Sophie never told a soul, not even her father.

Then just before her ninth birthday, her cousin, Hermione Granger, came to the same conclusion. Hermione told Sophie all about the wizarding world, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Ministry for Magic and Diagon Alley. Sophie's self-confidence skyrocketed, knowing that there was a whole community of people just like her, where she was sure to fit in.

Slowly, Hermione, and her husband, Draco Malfoy, introduced her to the wizarding world and all of their friends. They accepted Sophie, and she found that her weirdness was commonplace; she no longer stood out. Until she made her first-ever friend, Elizabeth Montgomery, a pureblood girl who knew hardly anything about the muggle world. However, Elizabeth was eager to learn, so they exchanged addresses and promised to owl each other letters, explaining the intricacies of their native worlds. The two girls soon became best friends, telling each other everything. Until Elizabeth announced in one letter that her French cousin, Florian Montgomery, would join them at Hogwarts in September. Sophie became so jealous she ignored her friend for a whole month. How was Sophie supposed to compete with a cousin for the title of best friend?

The dynamics of her friendship with Elizabeth turned out to be the least of her worries. On the first of September, Sophie instantly got on the wrong side of a Slytherin prefect after threatening to curse him for calling her a mudblood. At the time, Sophie hadn't known he was a prefect, although she doubts it would have changed her actions. Thankfully, her father had been there to stop her from performing magic in the middle of muggle Kings Cross, an expellable offence.

On the Hogwarts Express, Florian had immediately brought up Sophie's mother, despite being told not to by Elizabeth. Sophie had brushed the question aside, refusing to answer his curiosities. She didn't want the other Hogwarts students to know that Gwenog Jones, the famous Quidditch player, was her mother. Especially since her mother abandoned her at birth, only to return nine years later, pretending to be the perfect mum. Thankfully, Elizabeth changed the topic by telling Sophie about her summer holidays.

However, the distraction was short-lived when a small, large boy burst into their compartment. He begged them to buy him some sweets after his older brother refused. Sophie had agreed out of curiosity. Afterwards, she followed the boy back to his own compartment, where she discovered his older brother was the Slytherin prefect from earlier. He bullied first-years and his own family. After being bullied most of her life, Sophie refused to stand by and let it happen at Hogwarts. She walked into their compartment, cursed the prefect, and ordered the boy to come with her to her compartment. It turns out the boy, Gaius Broadmoor, took her act as one of friendship and proclaimed the four of them to now be friends.

Sophie was apprehensive initially, but she had promised her father that she would try to make friends. He would be impressed if she could tell him in her first letter home that she had made two more on the train ride to school. It also meant Sophie could save time once lessons had started trying to make friends. It wasn't until Sophie, Gaius, Elizabeth and Florian were all sorted into Ravenclaw that she thought maybe the four of them were destined to be friends.

After the tour of Ravenclaw Tower, the first-years were left to settle into their dormitories. Luckily, Sophie and Elizabeth were sharing (along with a small girl named Lucile) because Sophie had already gotten into an argument with Nancy Nevis. She seemed to be the kind of girl Sophie would have avoided in the Muggle world. In their dormitory, Sophie learned that Lucile was a muggleborn. When she'd seemed surprised Sophie and Elizabeth had been friends for two years already, Sophie took pity and offered the girl their friendship. Surely four friends wouldn't be too many?