The Brave Slytherin

Kings Cross Station

It's 7 in the morning and I just woke up. Today is the day that we're going back to Hogwarts, my home away from home. The place where I can be myself and where I can finally see my friends again. I can't wait to go. 

Harry has been up for an hour and is ready to leave, while I'm getting the last of my stuff packed, including 'my', well Harry's, Gryffindor robe. Luckily I get changed on the train, so none of my friends see the Gryffindor robe that I use to lie to my family. They just see me as a Slytherin and my family sees me as a Gryffindor. This way everyone is happy. 

We're leaving in about 10 minutes, because we need to go to Diagon Alley to get some new books for Harry and me and a new broom for Harry. He has used his broom everyday the past couple of years, because of quidditch, so his broom is ready to be upgraded. 
I'm happy for him that he found a sport that he enjoys so much. I wish I could do that too. I wish I could play quidditch as well. But I know that would never work out. My parents love to watch Harry's games and they would see me be part of Slytherin the moment they have a game against Gryffindor. Maybe I'll be able to play quidditch in the future, but for now it's not an option. 

After we got all of Harry's and my stuff, we were off to Kings Cross station. Way too early with about half an hour to spare, we arrived. My mother always wants to be early, just so we're never late. So, because we always have half an hour to spare and our luggage is already on the train, we always end up grabbing some coffee and tea from one of the shops at the train station. Most of the time we walk into the Grangers, as they are always way too early as well. This time is no different from all the other times, because before I was able to even start thinking about where Hermione was, she was already running towards me and Harry. She hugged us and started telling us all about her vacation. How she already started reading up about everything we were going to learn this year and how she was so excited to see us all again. I, ofcourse, was happy to see her again as well. She was one of my best friends that was in Gryffindor and she was also one of the only people who knew about my lie about being in Gryffindor to my family. She always told me to be honest to my parents, but she would never tell them herself and always ended up telling stories like I was apart of Gryffindor. And for that, I'll be forever thankful. 

After catching up with Hermione and her parents, it was time to get onto the train, since it was leaving in a couple minutes. We walked towards the train and just before we got there, some of my Slytherin friends walked past me. Just what I was hoping to avoid. Draco and Pansy walked past and Pansy gave me a hug. They asked me how I was and I told them I was doing good, eventhough I was terrified of them giving anything away about my secret. Luckily they just said that they had to hurry up and that they would see me on the train. 
When they had left, I turned back to my parents, where my dad looked a bit disappointed at me, but ended up giving me and Harry a hug to say goodbye. Before we left, my dad started to talk to Harry about the upcoming Quidditch season, which gave me and my mother a little time alone. My mother said to me: 'Have fun at school and with your friends honey. And don't let your fathers facial expressions tell you anything about who you can and can't be friends with. We know that you'll only choose people who make you happy to be friends with. And it doesn't matter to me in which house they are okay? We're always proud of you and we'll love you, no matter what'. 'Thank you mom.' This was the moment I started to doubt if my mother maybe already knew about me being a Slytherin, but before I could ask her, the whistle started to sound, letting us know that it was time to get on board. I gave my mom one last hug goodbye and off we went.