Chapter I - Train ride gone wrong

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Hogwarts. The magical school for children to someday become witches and wizards. You are lucky if you get in. Some children get in much easier if they are pure or half bloods. If your parents are both muggles, you have to be pretty special.
Avyanna being a pure blood got in easily. Her father, Fiennes Cummins, was a well respected Slytherin as well as a respected judge. He had high expectations for his two daughters, Brianna and Avyanna. His wife, also a Slytherin, died shortly after Avyanna's birth, leaving the man to raise the girls. Avy's older sister, Brianna, was considered "perfect", her father treated her like she's perfect and was proud of everything she did.
Today, Avyanna would finally get to become a student at Hogwarts, just like her sister. She might even prove herself to her father. She was excited, no doubt, but nervous.
"Avyanna Soul Cummins, I expect you to get into Slytherin, you hear me?" Her father said as he straightened her coat at the train station. "For generations, our family has ALL been Slytherins, I expect you to be as well."
Avy nodded nervously, she could NOT mess this up.
"I expect you to have exceptional grades and keep up in your classes, do not get into trouble..." Her father kept continuing.
After finally finishing, Mr. Cummins looked towards Brianna, smiled and said;
"Good luck." And let her get onto the train.
Jealousy boiled inside Avy but, by the age of 11, she knew how to keep her emotions in. She had been doing it for years now. The train whistle blew, and children where scrambling to get in. "Off you go." Her father said with a hard sturn. "Remember what I told you."
"Yes sir." She said as she got into the train.

She walked down the aisle, trying to find a place to sit, most of the booths were taken, but she eventually found one with a boy and girl.
"Do you find if I sit here?" She said a bit nervously. She had never interacted with many children her age.
"It's fine with me, we are expecting one more person, but I don't think he'll mind." The girl said as she made room for Avyanna. "I'm Pansy by the way, Pansy Parkinson. And this is Blaise Zabini."
"Uh, I'm Avyanna Cummins, you can call me Avy though, I don't care." Avy responded to the girl.
"Are you the Judge Cummins daughter?" Blaise asked.
"Yes."
"Hah, Judge Cummins is a fool who doesn't know what he's doing, that's what my father says."
Avy turned around, and standing there was a boy with sleeked back, blonde hair, who looked like a rich snob, smirking.
"Excuse me? That is very rude of you to say, and my father is in fact a respectable judge, and your father is a low life to say so." Avy snapped back.
Pansy and Blaise looked wide eyed and uncomfortable, then looked down and pretended not to listen to anything that was just said.
"Do you have any idea who MY father is? Just wait till he hears that there is people already disrespecting him. I'm Draco Malfoy, my father is Lucius Malfoy." The blonde boy looked disgusted with her.
Oh god, it's a Malfoy, Avy thought. "Hah, and what does YOUR father do?"
At this point, the Malfoy boy was red with anger.
"Ah, Draco, this is Avyanna. Just calm down, uh-" Pansy tried to stop them.
"Hah, why is she even sitting with us?" He sneered.
At this point, Avyanna was about to just punch him between the eyes, but before she could think, the train horn went off and it started moving.
They sat down, and didn't even look at each other for at least 30 minutes of the ride, in fact, there was dead, awkward silence. It wasn't until Pansy started talking about Hogwarts.
Every once and awhile, Draco and Avy would get a small look at each other and would be disgusted.
Eventually, Avy stated to actaully talk to the others but she couldn't help thinking about what Draco said about her father. He is NOT a fool, not her father, she knows that.
"Which house do you think you'll get in?" Pansy suddenly asked Avyanna.
She was startled at the question, only because she was deep in thought at that point.
"I don't know." The truth was she wanted Ravenclaw or Gryfindor. She then thought of what her father told her. Slytherin. She must get Slytherin. "Uh, I hope I get Slytherin."
"Hah." Draco scoffed. "You, a Slytherin. You couldn't be a Hufflepuff."
Avy was about to really slap that boy in the face now.
"Uh, I hope to be in Slytherin too actually, how about you Pansy?" Blaise quickly said.
Both Blaise and Pansy knew things would get worse if they let this go on.
"Yes, me too. Avyanna," Pansy said as she got up. " I'm going to go use the restroom." She said knowing Avy would go with her.
"Yes, I do too." Avy said still glaring at smirking Draco.
"The nerve!" Avy said as they walked down the train to the bathrooms.
"Yes, calm down now, we have to change into our robes. They are required."
"I know, I have mine here."
Pansy stopped halfway. "Oh, your lucky your not a mudblood, things would be much worse, Draco HATES mudbloods."

On their way back, Avy noticed three children her age in a booth. A red headed boy with lots of freakles, a girl with puffy hair, and a strange looking boy with round glasses. She couldn't tell if they were freinds or not, but if they were, something inside of her wanted a friendship like that.
They went back to their booth and sat down, this time Avy was by the window, away from Malfoy. On her way to her seat, she could've sworn Draco tried tripping her but failed.
Avyanna looked out her window. They were on a bridge at this point. The country was beautiful. Trees, hills and even a stream running through the area. It had been four out of the nine hour long ride. It felt long enough, but they weren't even halfway through.
Suddenly, Draco started talking, but it wasn't to Avy, but to Pansy and Blaise.
"I heard someone named Harry Pottah or, someone, is supposed to be coming to Hogwarts and it's supposed to be so special." He sneered. "I think it's a bunch of nonsense but I might as well befriend him. It would give me and him an advantage."
Avyanna silently giggled inside. "Pottah"? He surely meant "Potter", why would someone's last name be "Pottah". This Draco Lucius Malfoy seemed quite stupid, she thought.
"What if he isn't a Slytherin?" Pansy cut in.
"Well no doubt he'll be a Slytherin, they are the superior. Why wouldn't someone who is apparently so special be a Slytherin?"
As Avyanna very silently listed to the conversation, she couldn't help but to want to be in a house other than Slytherin. Her father made her read a book on the houses. She didn't SEEM to have any of the Slytherin characteristics. She felt more Gryfindor, or Ravenclaw.
"Hey Cummins!" She heard Malfoy say.
"What do you want Malfoy?" She glared at him, she wanted him to feel uncomfortable but he was honestly making her feel more uncomfortable than ever.
"I'll make a deal with you." Draco looked her up and down. "If you somehow make it to Slytherin, I'll let you be in my little group, Pansy, Blaise, two others, but they are somewhere else on the train, oh and possibly the Pottah boy. What do you think?"
The way Draco looked disgusted Avy, she wanted nothing to do with him. So far, she didn't mind Pansy, possibly Blaise, anyone BUT Malfoy.
"No Draco, I would rather hang out with a rat than you." Avyanna told him. "Oh wait, you ARE a rat." This pleased her.
Draco looked at her wide eyed and mouth open. Pansy muttered something under her breath, and Blaise just grinned.
"How dare you say that. My father WILL hear about this." Little did Avy know, this would become his "signature saying" that he would use for the years she would know him.
Avy didn't want to say anything more, she was tired, so she just glared at the blonde boy and rolled her eyes.
"Hah, lost your words, you scared now?" She heard him say.
She couldn't take anymore, she was tired, the ride would feel longer if they kept this up. And she fell asleep.

Hours later, Avyanna was suddenly shooken awake.
"Psst, I think an announcement is about to air, you better listen." Pansy was staring at her, right above her head.
Avyanna got up, right in time for a voice, an old man's voice that sounded almost Irish, come on.
"Children, we will be in at Hogwarts in five minutes! I want ye all to behave and be patient!"
Everybody seemed to just get louder and more excited that the man had to shout again;
"IF YE ALL DONT BEHAVE YOUR SELF I WILL SEPARATE THE LOT OF YE!"
The train was much quieter, but there was still lots of wispering.
Avy was nervous no doubt, she was about to go to Hogwarts, the school of magic. Almost all of the greatest witches and wizards attended Hogwarts. This was also her time to prove herself to her father.
The train suddenly came to a screaching stop. The whistle blew and everyone knew it was time.
Avyanna grabbed her suitcase and her owl and headed out, sticking very closely to Blaise and Pansy, but far as she could from the Malfoy boy.
They then dropped their stuff off at a gate and headed to the boats where they would make their way to Hogwarts.

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