Deepest desire (A Harry Potter fanfic)

chapter one

I was walking to the train station trying to find platform 9¾. This was my first day of school and I was very nervous about what house I would be in, my father was in Slytherin and so was my mother. But my mother’s whole family was in Ravenclaw. I found the platform easy enough but as I was walking     to the train someone running in the other direction came crashing into me, the force knocked us both over, but luckily most of my stuff stayed on the trolley. I looked around and heard a hiss.

“Bad snake leave Scabbers alone.” I heard a boy say. I looked in the direction of the hiss and saw that my snake was harassing a grey rat. I got up and walked over to the commotion and called to the snake.

 “Leave that rat alone and come here.” I kindly told the snake and it slithered over to me, I bent down and put my hand on the ground, the snake went up my arm and rested on my shoulder. I looked at the boy as he picked up the rat; he was a tall boy with red hair and freckles, he was as well gangly. “Sorry about that.” I smiled sweetly at him.

“No that’s ok his always getting….” he looked up at me and I his eyes went a fraction wider. “In trouble.” he finished off a little quieter. I held out my hand to help him up, he took it with a lot of enthusiasm.

 “My name is Ron. Ron Weasley.” He tried to make his voice deeper but failed; I smiled at him and shook his out stretched hand.

 “It’s a pleasure to meet you Mr Weasley, my name is Mora.” I was going to tell him my last name but the whistle to get on the train went, we both parted and I saw him walk off to see some boys that had the same red hair. I found an empty compartment and went inside.

 I grabbed out my book on magical creatures and sketch book and started drawing a basilisk. Some boys opened the door and came in. They were an odd group. One was about my height with a pointed face, bleach blond hair and grey eyes; one was a relatively tall with a big build and short brown hair, the third was smaller and very fat with black hair and a pudding bowl style hair cut. They came and sat down opposite me without a word, not really caring what they were doing I went back to drawing. I heard one of them gasp with shock and looked at them to see what it was. The one with the shaved hair cut was pointing at me while the others were staring at me wide eyed; I looked at my shoulder to see that my snake had come out from behind my hair to see what was going on.

“He won’t bite.” I told them, then whispered to the snake telling him not to do anything that might scare the boys. The snake went over to them, the boy with blond hair looked at the snake.

 “Is he yours?” he asked, still looking at the snake with interest. I nodded then called the snake back, “yes, I’ve had him for two years.” I told him. The boy was still looking at the snake; I smiled at that.  “Would you like to hold him?” I asked, the boy looked at me for a while then nodded. I moved forward a little bit and took the boys hand so the snake could go over to him; the snake went to him and wrapped himself around his arm.

 The boy smiled.

“You can pat him if you want” I told him. He did this. His smile grew wider as he passed the snake back to me.

“Nice snake, I’m Draco Malfoy by the way,” he told me still looking at the snake. “And this is Crabbe” he pointed to the one with black hair. “And this is Goyle.” He pointed to the one with brown hair. I smiled and nodded at both of them. The boys were staring at me wide eyed; I was starting to feel uncomfortable.

“And what is your name?” Draco asked, when he finally looked at me he was wide eyed as well.

 “My name is Mora, Mora Snape.” I told them.

 We spent the rest of the trip talking about school and what houses we would be in.

Soon the train came to a stop and we all got into little boats. I was in a boat with Draco, Crabbe and Goyle. We looked at the castle ahead. Hogwarts, my whole family had come here, I was told that I was a direct descendant of two of the school founders; one of them was Rowena Ravenclaw. We soon arrived at the head of the great hall and were greeted by professor Mcgonagall, who told us what was to happen and what the houses were. She walked into the great hall and we stood waiting to see what happened next. I saw the boy with red hair, Ron, and smiled at him, he smiled back. Draco looked over in that direction to see who I was looking at.