Half Blood: Philosopher's Stone

Arrival

Maddy had managed to get to Platform 9¾ in time, though it was by a small margin of time, only about one minute, that she had to get onto the Hogwarts Express. She appeared to have the least amount of things out of all the other students who were carrying large trunks and rowdy, caged animals but all Maddy had was her bag -which she had managed to get Maude to expand the inside so she could fit all of her things in it- and Melinoe, who was very well mannered and perched on top of her full bag.

Right after she boarded the train it began to move, she wavered a bit and grabbed the walls, letting go once she felt steady on her feet and began looking for a compartment. Unfortunately, all of them were full of people, as Maddy had expected, except for one that only had two people in it, two boys, one with unruly black hair and the other with bright red hair.

She, a little awkwardly, slid open the door and said, "Can I sit here? All the other compartments are full."

"Of course," the ravenette said and the redheaded boy nodded, though they both seemed rather apprehensive about it. It probably had something to do with the fact that ever since she had been claimed she always gave off a feeling of doom or death with very little control over it. She looked at them both, her blood ran cold when she saw a lightning shaped scar on the black haired boy's forehead, there was something off about it but she couldn't tell what. It bothered her.

"Thanks," Maddy fully entered the compartment and closed the door, sitting down beside the redhead and slid her bag off of her shoulder. It made a thud as it landed on the seat. "I'm Maddy." She said quickly when she noticed both of the boys gawking at her owl, who was still sitting on top of her bag.

"Harry," the black haired boy responded first. "And this is Ron," he gestured to the redhead.

"Nice to meet you two," she said to the boys. She turned to Ron, who was still gawking at Melinoe, who was pecking under her wing. "Got a problem with my owl?" Maddy raised an eyebrow and smirked, amused.

"I've never seen an owl that's uncaged act like that," Ron said. "How'd you get it to stay so calm?"

"I've got a bit of a knack at training screech owls," she said and it was fairly true. For as long as she could remember all animals would avoid her except for screech owls which she would actually be able to communicate with them and they began to do what she said about a year ago. She wasn't sure why, although Annabeth had suggested that it might be because screech owls were often associated with death, which made sense to Maddy and is also why she named her owl after her half sister, the goddess of ghosts.

"Cool!" Harry grinned.

"Yeah, I guess it is pretty cool," Maddy smiled as she ran her finger around Melinoe's head in fast circles.

"Where're you from?" Ron asked. "You're not English."

"Oh, yeah. I'm actually American."

"Why aren't you going to the school in American then?"

"Well, I guess I am English or something. Apparently my mom works at the Ministry of Magic here. I don't really know since I'm an orphan, though. All I know for sure is that I'm half Greek," she quickly explained.

"Oh," Ron said awkwardly.

"My parents aren't dead or anything." She quickly said.

After that it was kind of awkward, given that Maddy had found out that that both of Harry's parents were dead and he had to grow up with his fairly abusive family -maybe she shouldn't have added in the part about her parents not being dead, though her dad could technically be counted as dead since he's the god of the underworld- but it soon lightened up as they began to talk about other things like the fact that Harry was apparently famous and Ron's comically large family.