Sweets

CHAPTER 1

"Hey Sil! How was your summer?"

The first face I saw after the holidays was, of course, Kristie's.

"Oh it was okay, we went to France and... yeah no that's it. You?"

"Well that sounds great! But you know my parents, went to the Malfoys again. But Draco didn't even look at me!" She sulked in that voice I know so well.

She just couldn't let that go... no matter how many years it has been. But I will always be there to support her. It was amusing, too sometimes.

"C'mon girl! He's going to notice you this year for sure! Don't get your hopes down."

"Thanks, but you say that every year! Maybe I should just give up..."

"No you can't! I- I mean you shouldn't! If you do you will never know whether you would have been able to do it. And that's not just for your whole Malfoy dilemma but for everything. Trust me, I know."

I just sucked at giving advice, didn't I?

"Okay, if you say so... I'll give it another try."

"That's the spirit!"

I loved this feeling. Being back at King's Cross Station on Platform 9¾ and seeing the scarlet Hogwarts Express just waiting to depart and reach its next destination. The favourite school of us all.

It was my fifth year and the things that happened at Hogwarts were so distracting. There hadn't been a year so far where nothing crazy had happened. It was not surprising though since Harry Potter, the boy who apparently LIVED was in my year. I didn't really get the jist but maybe that's because there was still so much to learn about the wizarding world. I mean I was starting to understand why he is so special, he defeated a very powerful, dark wizard when he was a baby and all that, but still! Some things were just so confusing for me even if some things have cleared up a bit. The point is, a lot of things happen. And that kept me busy.

But that was actually a good thing, since I didn't have much time to even start thinking about my past. Still, every now and then painful pieces of old memories would flash in my mind and reminded me of a truth that I could never really run away from. They came out of nowhere and punched me where it hurt the most.

I am merely a copy.

Noone really cared and they never will.

That's what that man said all those years ago. And though up to that moment I had never heard it directly, I feel like part of me always knew.

After I ran away... I didn't remember much but I must have passed out on a doorstep. I was lucky that the couple living in that house was really nice and generous. They took me in and adopted me later on, after finding out that I didn't have any parents.

When I turned nine, strange things started happening that today, I know as my magical abilities. My adoptive parents are what one would call 'muggles', people with no such powers. So of course everything was new and weird and very scary. But after all these years, they- we all had grown to accept that and now they supported me in everyway possible. Even if they didn't understand much about the Wizarding World.

And that's what made them such great people.

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Every year, when the Hogwarts Express pulled out of Kings Cross Station, this feeling overcame me. I didn't really know how to describe it, but it was incredible. Only this year... there was something else mixed in between. I just didn't know whether to trust it or not.

Kristie and I sat together as every year since we met on that first day that made us friends. This time we were alone. Sometimes, some other friends of Kristie would join us. I on the other hand... Let's just say I am lucky to have Kristie. But today noone came. And maybe that was a good thing.

"Have you heard? There is a new guy coming to Hogwarts this year!" Kristie was always very excited to go back to Hogwarts but this...?

"Is it really that big of a deal? I mean there are new students every year. That's why we have a Sorting every year." I said jokingly.

"Ya, I know. But he is said to be in our year! Oh, I hope he's handsome. Maybe then I can forget about Draco and..."

What?

I have a bad feeling about this.