Alice Black and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Chapter 2

HEY HEY HEYYYYY! What's up? Second Chapter yeah yeah! I do not own Harry Potter, but you guys knew that already right?

September 1st 1993

"Hermione, keep that ugly brute away from Scabbers do you hear me?" Ron Weasley warned

"Crookshanks is most certainly not an ugly brute Ronald! He just wants to play a bit" Hermione Granger answered back. Harry Potter sighed and kept looking for an empty compartment. He watched sadly as the trolley lady passed them, he would have enjoyed a chocolate frog or two. He turned back to face them.

"Hey guys cut it out a bit, we aren't even there and you're already fighting." He said. He then turned around and collided with a wall. Or rather someone. They both fell down but the other person quickly got up and outstretched a hand to help him up.

"I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going!" The other said helping him up. Harry looked up to see a girl looking worriedly at him. She had long curly dark brown hair and grey eyes. Her skin was relatively pale with freckles that spread across her nose bridge and her cheeks. But what stroke Harry the most was how familiar she seemed.

"It's okay, I wasn't looking either" He smiled. She smiled back but her face turned into a slight frown.

"Um... Have you seem the Lady with the trolley by any chance?" She asked.

"She just passed us, went that way." Harry said pointing the end of the hallway.

"Thanks!" She said before walking away. Harry, Hermione and Ron, who had stopped fighting watched her as she walked away.

"I've never seen her before." Hermione said.

"Well, maybe she's a first year." Ron suggested.

"But she looks as old as us! Maybe she's a transfer student?" Harry asked.

"But Hogwarts never accepted any transfer student!" Hermione said.

"How would you know? You've been a student for only two years!" Ron said as they went back to finding a compartment.

"Stop it you two, here this is the emptiest compartment we will find." Harry said. The compartment in question contained only one passenger. A sleeping man. Which was odd since only students rode the train.

"Who do you suppose this is?" Ron asked.

"Professor R.J Lupin." Hermione answered.

"How do you know?" Ron said dumbfounded. "How come she knows everything?" He whispered to Harry.

"It's written on his trunk Ronald." Hermione said.

"Oh." Was all Ron answered.

"Do you think he's sleeping?" Harry asked.

"Probably." Hermione said looking at the said man.

"Good 'cause I've got something to tell you." Harry said closing the compartment door.

"-So you're saying Black's after you?" Ron asked

"Yeah, after what your father told me, I'm pretty sure." Harry said.

"Well, I hope he won't get to you." Hermione said.

"Are you nuts? Of course he won't get to him! Hogwarts's like, the safest place in the world!" Ron almost screamed. Hermione was about to respond when the door suddenly opened. They all recognised the girl from the hallway, but apparently, she didn't noticed them. Her arms were full of chocolate frogs.

"Alright you chocolate addict, I got ALL of your sweets so- Oh." She said noticing them. They all stared at each other.

"Hi." The girl finally said.

"Hi." They chorused.

"Uh... I was um... Sitting here so..." She started.

"Oh! We're so sorry! We didn't know!" Hermione said.

"We'll I do not mind sharing with you guys!" She said sitting down in front of the sleeping man. She sighed looking at him. She then muttered something that Harry didn't really catch and from the looks on Hermione and Ron's faces, they didn't either.

"I'm Hermione. This is Harry and this is Ronald." Hermione said trying to start a conversation.

"Actually, it's Ron." Ron said weakly.

"I'm Alissa." The girl smiled. They all shook hands and there was an awkward pose.

"Nice shirt." Ron said bluntly. Harry looked at her shirt. It was a plain white tee shirt with the word Brat written on it. It was nice.

"Thank you, this man actually gave it to me." She said pointing to the man in front of her.

"Is he related to you?" Harry asked speaking for the first time.

"No. He sort of my guardian or something, when I wasn't with my grandparents, I would go with him." She said. Harry understood what she was getting at. Her parents couldn't take care of her. Hermione gave her a friendly smile but Ron looked lost.

"Why aren't you with your parents?" He asked.

"Ron!" Hermione gasped.

"Oh it's okay." She smiled. "My mother passed away a long time a go and my father can't take care of me right now." They all stayed silent. Hermione then spoke up.

"Your accent's a bit different. Where are you from?"

"Oh, I was born here but then I went to my grandparents in Russia, after that I went to Beauxbatons in France but I would spend my summers here in Great Britain. I decided to come here for the rest of my schooling. I guess that my accent is a mix of French, Russian and English." She explained and as she spoke, Harry noticed her accent too.

"What year are you going to be in?" Hermione said.

"Third year." She said.

"Oh us too! I hope you'll be in Gryffindor! I could use more company in the dorm! Lavender and Parvati aren't the most friendly girls!" Hermione said, her eyes shining with hope. Alissa just smiled but it didn't quite reached her eyes. It looked a bit forced. Suddenly, the train jerked back and the lights went out.

"We can't be there already!" Hermione said.

"It looks like their letting someone on the train." Alissa whispered. The train jerked back again.

"Bloody Hell! What's happening?" Ron yelled. There was a pause and the compartment door began to open by itself. A tall cloaked figured appeared. It was wearing it's hood and only it's mouth could be seen. If you could call that a mouth, it was actually a black hole that was letting out a weird breathing sound. Everybody stiffened at it approached Harry. It began to suck on the air and something coming from Harry seemed to get sucked it the black hole that thing had for a mouth. The last thing that Harry remembered was that a woman was screaming and then he blacked out.