Everything was ready to go. I had my trunk filled with my uniform, and all my other clothing items, my books, and my wand. I had Alyssa, my barn owl, tucked away in her cage. And I had my black, leather shoulder bag to carry my books around Hogwarts. My mum and I were at Kings Cross train station and I saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione. I waved at them as I headed over towards them.
"Hey guys!" I greeted them excitedly. "Are you excited for Hogwarts?"
"Totally. My brother, Percy, told me all about the sorting ceremony and the different houses and all the professors," Ron babbled excitedly.
"This is going to be so awesome!" Hermione said.
"Yeah! But how do we get onto platform 9 3/4?" I asked.
"You run between the walls of platforms nine and ten of course," can two voices behind me. I turned around and saw two red-headed twins running up to us. "Hi. We're Fred and George Weasley, brothers of our dear ronniekins."
Ron shoved them off. "Oh shove off guys." He looked apologetically at me. "But their right. We do have to run at the wall."
"Okay. Let's try it," I said, very uncertain about this.
"Here. We'll go first to show you what it's like," Fred or George said. I have to learn how to tell these two apart. "Just make sure no muggles are watching and run!"
They lined themselves up with the wall and plunged forward into a fast-paced run towards it. I gasped as they reached the wall, certain they would crash into it, but the wall swallowed them up whole.
"Shall we go now?" Hermione's voice snapped me back to reality as she was talking to Harry, Ron, and I.
"Yeah, I suppose we should before the train leaves without us," I replied as the realization that we also had to run at the wall hit me like a truck. So we line up out trolleys, just like the boys did, and started to run. I let out a small squeak as we neared the wall. And suddenly, just like that, we were through. I opened my eyes to see Fred and George waving at us through the throng of people.
"There they are," I pointed out to Hermione.
"Let's go. Quickly so we can get an empty compartment," Hermione said as she pushed me towards them.
So off we ran, weaving in and out of other children and finally got to where they were standing.
"There you are," Fred said. "We were wondering where you got off too."
"We had to push through mobs of people to get here, but we finally made it," I said.
"And not a moment too soon I see," said Hermione, who looked at her pocket watch. "It's almost eleven. And that's when the train leaves for Hogwarts."
"Well then what are we waiting for?" Asked Ron in eccentric excitement. "Let's get on the train before all the compartments are taken."
We all rushed onto the train after giving our trunks and other stuff to the conductor. Fred and George left to find their third year friends and we were left trying to find an empty compartment, while receiving some weird stares from a few of the other student.
"Why is everyone staring?" Harry asked in confusion.
"Because you're famous," Hermione explained. "You're the boy who lived. Surely you should know something about that?"
"Oh yes. I forgot. Hanging out with you three has really helped me forget about the standards everyone holds up to me," Harry responded, looking wistful and sad almost.
"That's good. That's what friends do right? They help each other out when they are in need," I said, patting Harry awkwardly on the shoulder in attempt to comfort him.
"Yeah," he replied. "And we're going to be the best of friends, I just know it and-"
Our sentimental chat was interrupted by 3 boys opening our compartment door and stepping inside. There were two boys that were rather large and almost looked like bodyguards, standing on either side of the third boy, who was pale-skinned and had bright white-blonde hair, which was slicked back very tightly. His face had a smirk on it and he had striking grey eyes. I could tell this boy had a huge reputation and by the look of the smirk on his face, the reputation wasn't very good.
"So I heard that Harry Potter was staying in this compartment," he said with yet another smirk.
"Yes. Why do you care, Malfoy?" Ron said back, looking angrily at the boy whom I'm assuming was Malfoy.
"Just wanted to see if the rumors were true or not," Malfoy said lazily. "And who's your friend over here?" He looked at me and I squirmed inwardly under his intense stare."
"My name's Adrienne Fey," I said uncomfortably. "Who are you and why are you here?" I said again but with more force behind the words.
"No need to be so hasty now, Fey," he said, drawling his words out.
Oh now we're going by last names? I thought.
"I just noticed a pretty girl that I didn't get the pleasure of meeting," Malfoy said with a sly smile. I would have blushed if not for the arrogance he was giving out.
"You still haven't answered my question yet," I said impatiently, wanting so bad for this conversation to be over.
"Ah, yes. Well, I'm Draco Malfoy. This is Crabbe," he gestured to the shorter boy on his left. "And this is Goyle." He gestured to the taller boy on the right.
I'm assuming those are their last names I thought. As he calls everyone by their last names.
"Well pleasure to meet you," I said with fake enthusiasm. "Now get out of our compartment!"
"Okay, no need to become pushy, Fey," Draco said with a smirk as he walked out of the compartment.
"Wow...that was crazy," I exclaimed, running a hand through my long, brown hair.
"But no time to dwell on that now. We need to change into our robes because I think we are almost there," Hermione said.
"You're right," I said, sighing inwardly that I couldn't stay and hear more about the Malfoy family.
A/N: Hey guys!! I hope you are enjoying my fanfiction so far. Again, I don't own the characters from the Harry Potter books or that areas/places. Those all belong to J.K Rowling. The other characters I made up are mine though. I would really love it if you commented and voted on my story and feel free to comment on what I should do to make the story more interesting for you. Or what I could change to make it more accurate or interesting. Thanks!!
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Fanfiction"Sometimes people never change" Meet Adrienne Fey, a young girl who found out that she was a witch on her eleventh birthday. She gets invited to Hogwarts School of Magic and she meets a lot of different people. She learns who is there for her and w...
