The young muggleborn Diane Lou Albury gets her Hogwarts letter at last, Starting her first year at Hogwarts in the year 2018.
Throughout her years at Hogwarts she meets peculiar people and makes the greatest friends, but are they all who they seem t...
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*. Hogwarts Castle .* °
The four youngsters had been on the train for a good while at this point, continuing to talk about their pets and other favourite magical creatures. When the sweets trolley passed by their compartment, Diane was oddly gazing at the wide variety of candy. She could see star shaped boxes with frogs illustrated on them, small tic-tac like cartons which contained beans in every colour imaginable, and so much more.
'Anything from the trolley dears?' The elderly lady asked. The teens around her all started asking for very strange named products. 'Pepper imps for me please!' yelped Saoirse. To which Lysander politely added. 'Could we also have three chocolate frogs please?'.
The young boy handed some silver looking coins to the older lady before she handed them their confectionary and gently pushed the trolley over to the next compartment, once again greeting some other students with 'Anything from the trolley dears?'.
Lysander handed Saoirse her so called pepper imps and proceeded to hand out two of the chocolate frogs to both Lorcan and Diane. She accepted the sweet with a soft spoken thank you and proceeded to study the box before opening it.
'It's not gonna bite, you know.' Lysander affirmed. Diane looked up from the blue box to see Lorcan's brown chocolate frog jump out of the carton, nearly landing on the dusty ground of their compartment, before he quickly grabbed it by its hind legs and proceeded to take a bite out of it.
She couldn't believer her eyes and kept staring wide eyed and terrified at a very content Lorcan. 'Wha'?' He asked with a mouth full of chocolate. 'Did-did you just eat a- a live frog?' She asked still shaken.
'Wait, have you never seen a chocolate frog before Diane?' Saoirse asked with a hint of worry in her voice. 'Not at all, I've only discovered magic and everything that comes with it about a month or so ago.' The three children all looked at her perplexed. 'So your parents are muggles, then? Not that there's anything wrong with that of course!' Lorcan said. 'Wha-what are muggles?' Diane asked him in return. 'Oh boy, we've got a lot to teach you.' Lysander chuckled.
The three youngsters spent the rest of the train ride giving Diane an entire lecture about everything magic. From the sweets to a sport called quidditch to the history of Hogwarts castle itself. They thought she might like to know at least a bit more about the place she would be calling home for the next seven years. Diane was still processing all the information they just flung at her when the train came to a screeching halt and blared its horn.
The four of them stepped out onto the platform and followed the mass of young students moving towards an extremely tall, brown haired and bearded man. 'firs' years, follow me!' he bellowed. The first year students divided into pairs of twos by themselves and followed the towering figure.
'So, how've you been liking our magical world so far?' Saoirse sarcastically asked a still astonished Diane. 'I like it a lot actually.' She smiled. 'I grew up with all kinds of fairytales about dragons and other magical creatures, always wishing I could live in a universe where they were real. Only to find out that, in fact, they are very real in my own universe.' She added while looking around at the trees surrounding them, hoping to catch a glimpse of the creatures the teens had discussed on the Hogwarts Express.
'I sometimes wish I could experience everything the way you're experiencing it. My dads are both wizards you see, so I grew up with all this stuff. It's just the plain old regular to me.' Diane turned her attention back to the short girl. 'You're gonna be a great teacher to me though, I need someone like you to guide me.' She said in the hopes of cheering Saoirse up a bit, which it clearly did. Her eyes lit up and a wide smile appeared on her face before she hooked her arm through Diane's. 'I think we're gonna be great friends, you and I.' They both chuckled and proceeded down the muddy path the giant was making them follow.
'We're 'ere! O', ya lot can call me Hagrid by th' way.' The tall man called out after they'd been trudging through the mud for about half an hour. Before them, a fleet of small boats were floating alongside a wooden dock.
Several groups of students were already wandering over to the small boats as to lay claim on them, which Diane thought was really funny. After Hagrid was done separating the mass into smaller groups, Diane found herself boarding a wooden boat with her train company.
As the vessels magically unknotted themselves from the dock and set of onto the vast black lake, Diane looked around amazed. She felt like every time she blinked she would miss something else magical happening.
She tilted her head up towards the night sky and took in the gorgeous clear view, admiring the twinkling of the stars and the owls that passed over the lake towards the castle every now and again. she felt like she could stare at this sight for hours, until her gaze was torn away from the dark blue sky towards the massive castle now standing in front of them.
It looked ancient yet beautiful, unkempt yet intriguing and magical. Diane had never felt so many emotions at once. She felt like she'd finally come home, but was very intimidated by its towering presence all the same. She had an inkling that she wasn't the only one feeling this way, as she looked around at her friends they all had the same perplexed expression on their faces.
'Our parents told us what Hogwarts looked like, but I'd never expected it to be this... this enormous.' Lorcan said, still gazing at the fortress with his mouth slightly gaping. 'Just...just wow.' Lysander said as his eyes twinkled with excitement and a wide grin grew on his face. The four of them looked at each other and started smiling so wide Diane's cheeks started hurting.
They'd all made their way up the small steps engraved from the stones the castle was standing on. Their eyes wide from amazement, they entered the huge castle and were immediately greeted by a snug and welcoming environment. The walls were adorned with flickering torches that radiated a warm and yellowish light.
As the mass of first year students sheepishly continued down the hall, a stern woman came into view. She looked a bit scary at first but the small smile her lips displayed as they got closer immediately made Diane feel comfortable and welcomed.
'My name is professor McGonagall, I'm the headmistress of this institution. It's lovely to finally see all your faces.' She said as she looked over every student standing before her. She took a few steps to the side and motioned towards the two huge doors towering behind her, the moment she did so they started slowly opening and revealing the room behind.
'Welcome, to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and wizardry.'
