A Lifetime *Hiatus*

Chapter 8

A/N: Hey Buddies!

I'm back!

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I have no beta unfortunately seeing as having a new set of eyes will find mistakes that could be made and I overlook when checking the story.

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Eight days.

It took Bella eight days to read all the books that she acquired from the alley.

And she was perplexed. Her lips thinned, firmly pressed to each other as she tried to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

The wizarding world was basically fucked up. Underlying themes, even in the books she read indicated that the world was ran by the pure of blood leaving the rest of the magical race to squabble for the scraps of rights that were left.

Which wasn't much. Some things however Bella could understand. It seemed that with every generation of people from her world (the muggle world) that came into the Wizarding world, the less wizarding culture that was actually practiced.

So she could understand why the pureblood wanted to come off as pompous gits who ruled the government; it was the only thing about themselves that they had left protect. The one thing that the muggle-borns and the muggle-raised couldn't take from them.

There were so many wrongdoings from both sides that she could see, and she was only eleven for Christ's sake! It just went to show how much bigotry and bias went on in the world that it hasn't been fixed yet.

On another note, those etiquette books really paid off. With a little more practice and the constant watching and mimicking of the people of this society, and Bella felt at least for right now she could hold her own at acting like a lady of her social standing.

Oh yea. She found out that she was freakin' royalty amongst these people and that the stories she found about her life was complete and utter crap. Although she felt that she was magically apt for her age- at least from the books she read that showed what other people who age accomplished- there was no way she could single handedly slay a dragon which up until then she didn't even know existed.

She also found out what the man meant by calling her a Ravenclaw. It was a type of house that you could be sorted into at Hogwarts along with three others; Gryffindor, Slytherin and Hufflepuff.

Gryffindor for the brave and courageous. Slytherin for the cunning and ambitious. And then Hufflepuff for the loyal and hardworking.

And then what the man said. Ravenclaw for the witty and intelligent.

Bella could honestly see herself in any of these houses. She could be brave when she wanted, loyal to someone who was just as loyal to her, she was very intelligent for her age, and she was definitely ambitious enough to be considered a Slytherin with all the things she wanted to accomplish in her lifetime regardless of blood status.

Before Bella ran off into the inconsistencies that came with blood status, she centered herself. The room she had stayed in for the past week and a day was now cleaned just the way she found it and she had all her stuff packed away into her multi-compartmental trunk and headed down to the Leaky cauldron where for a sickle she flew through green fire and landed at the train station.

She came an hour early just so she could hopefully get a good seat and she was glad she did because looking at the platform nine and ten had her sporting a confused scowl when she couldn't locate nine and three-quarters.

With a sigh, she looked around at all the people fluttering in and out of the station. Some looked at her with surprise or confusion that probably came from her where her school robes made of acromantula silk.

Her beautiful ball of fur by the name of Apollo turned a little in his cage as noise in the train station started to pick up. He was just as little as when she got him maybe only a few centimeters taller and a pound heavier. Bella realized that she had to be very responsible with her baby kneazle. She couldn't spoil him rotten with all the love and affection in the world without training him as well or he'd never listen or know obedience.

By now she had walked up and down the platform at least five times before a thought struck her. In the mist of all these people who weren't magic, why would you have a station that leads to a magical place?

That meant that it must be hidden.

Platform 9 ¾. Okay so maybe somewhere in between platform 9 and 10; disguised or hidden maybe?

All there was between the two pillars was space filled by dozens upon dozens of people and when she went to rest her weight on the side of the pillar with the number nine on it, she fell through the opening carry her luggage with her.

If she had stayed even a second longer, she would have heard the telltale calling of a chubby redhead complaining about the crowdedness of muggle train stations.

On the other side of the hidden platform Bella scrambled to maintain balance from where she almost fell in front of the entrance.

After she righted herself, she got out from in front of the entrance knowing from experience that just because you stop doesn't mean that heavy traffic will.

She saw families hugging and kissing each other good-bye. Younger brothers and sisters wishing their older one's farewell. On some level Bella was a bit jealous that these families got to share these moments when she couldn't, but for the most part she was over it and learned a long time ago that wishing for something that can never come true is just wasted wishing that could have gone towards something else more probable.

On the bright side, due to all the people saying goodbye she was able to get one of the first pickings at seats and chose one the furthest in the back away from most people so that she may get situated and hopefully avoid the spotlight that came with her fame.

Hogwarts here she comes!

So... I am so sorry for the delay.

Again.

I sorta went backwards with this chapter as it really raked me through the mud figuratively speaking. Then I saw that this trench it dug me in carried on for three Fridays without an update and just decided to post the 1000+ words that i constantly kept rewriting over.

Like I said. Backwards. I had planned to go through with the train ride sorting and first night with here roommates that hopefully would have surpassed the last chapter 3000+ words and would've been 5000+ but sigh. Things didn't exactly go as planned

Hopefully now that this chapter is out the way I can pursue chapter nine that will inevitably be better.

On a better note, what do you think of Bella's views so far on the magical world.

For those of you who PM'd me, basically when I was saying that Bella's kneazle was like a lion panther mix, imagine a black panther. Now instead of black replace it with gold and without a mane. That's what Bella's magical kneazle will look like in the future.

So, Bella embarrassingly found her way onto the station after some reasonable deducting. Hopefully nobody saw her.

Hehe... I was trying to make her a highly intelligent girl. Yes she is smart but she is still a child and all humans are flawed.

See you next week hopefully :)

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