Welcome to Hogwarts!
(I won't regret meeting you, never. As long as I live. I will always love you. Are you so daft you can't understand that! There is no other who can make me feel like this! No matter what. So please, please stop pushing me away! you think you are protecting me, and doing what you think are the best for me, but it only hurts! You only hurt me and yourself when you do this! At least look at me!)
The sun had just begun to show itself on the blue morningsky, but one 11year old girl with the name of Evangeline Redwood was already up and combed her black, curly mess of hair. Her room was in a mess as well. Clothes and books where thrown everywhere. She also had an owl who sat quietly in a corner. For any normal person it might seem strange to have an owl as a pet. It's not the most common pet to have after all. And if one would take a closer look at the books, they would find a lot of strange titles like "History of magic" and "Fantastic beast and where to find them".
Evagneline gave the mirror one last look with her brown, almost black eyes and then rushed outside and In to the kitchen where her mother was on her way to prepare the breakfast. Evangeline's mother had almost as curly hair as her daughter, but it was blond instead of black. The black hair Evangeline had gotten from her beloved father.
"You are up early, I though you would sleep for some more" Her mother smiled and placed a freshly made pancake on Evangeline's plate.
"As if i could sleep now. You do know what day it is today right?" She smiled back and poured some jam and whip cream on top of them.
"Of course i do sweetie. But your train to Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry aren't going to leave yet." she laughed and continued with the pancakes.
Yes, Evangeline was no ordinary eleven year old girl, she was a witch. She had, since she was little known that she would go to Hogwarts, her mother had told her that. Evangeline's mother, whose name was Hilly, was a witch who after she graduated Hogwarts had fallen in love with a muggle (which is the name of non magical people) called David. He had been very surprised when he had found out that Hilly was a witch, but he had stilled loved her very much, so when they got a daughter Hilly had told David that Evangeline would most likely go to a school where she would be taught magic, as Hilly had done herself back in the days. David had not opposed. He thought it was quite exiting having witches in the family.
When Evangeline was done with the pancakes she went back to her room and began to pack everything she needed inside some big trunks.
After about one hour, when she was done, she was sitting on her bed, with her neatly piled trunks and her owl on top. She was impatiently swinging her legs back and fourth, waiting for her parents to come and take all her stuff to the car. Soon She heard a knocking on the door and her dad entered the room with a smile.
"Are you ready for your school start honey?" He asked, almost as exited as she felt.
"You bet!" Evangeline answered happily and helped him carry her luggage to the black car. Hilly came out whit a proud grin on her face and brought Evangeline a sandwich for the long car drive to king's cross station in London, where her train be departure in a couple of hours.
When they all sat in the car David turned up the music real high and left the driveway. Half way to the station Evangeline fell asleep, tired of looking at the landscape that quickly flew pas them. And when she finally woke up they were already at King's Cross.
The train would not leave until an hour more, so Evangeline and her parents decided to go to a nearby Cafe where they could spend a little more time whit etch oter. Since she would stay at the school for the whole year, except when it was holidays, she wanted to spend as much time whit them as she could.
Her mum talked much about Hogwarts and how it would be to go there when suddenly a lady who looked like the age of Evangeline's mother came up to them.
"Sorry, i couldn't help but hear that you talked about Hogwarts" She said.
"Yes, what about it?" David asked and looked suspiciously at her. If she was a muggle, she shouldn't know about Hogwarts.
"Well, i have a daughter who also will begin her first year there too, her name is Lily, Lily Evans" She smiled.
Evangeline saw the girl by the woman's side. She had red hair and green beautiful eyes. Evangeline's parents invited them to sit and have a talk. The two girls almost immediately became good friends. Evangeline learned that Lily came from a muggle family but had also gotten the letter to Hogwarts. That wasn't strange though. Even a muggle born child could have magic inside of them sometimes.
They talked until the train soon was about to departure. when Evangeline and Lily looked at their train tickets there was something strange with them. It stood platform nine and three quarters. And bout Lily and Evangeline had never herd of such a platform before. But since Evangeline's mum had gone to Hogwarts before she knew how to do. To be able to get to the train, she said, they had to run into what seemed like a solid brick pillar. The pillar that separated platform nine and ten. After they ran into it they would find themselves inside a new station that no one else but the wizards and witches knew about and could access. Since muggles could not enter Evangeline's dad and Lily's mom had to stay outside. But luckily Luna's mum could follow them inside to make sure that they would get on the train whiteout any problems.
Lily hugged her mum and Evangeline her dad before they turned towards the pillar. For Evangeline who had a witch to mum, she was used to magic a little. Which made it not all to strange to run towards a solid pillar, but for Lily… well. One could tell she was nervous.
"Don't worry child. I am here. Just run into it and everything will be fine" Evangeline's mum promised, to ease Lily's fear. And thus, the girls breathed in, and ran for it. When they knew they had entered the inside of the pillar, they finally opened their eyes.
It was so much to look at that Evangeline, nor Lily did know what to do at first. For a moment they both where happy they had made at least one friend already, even though they newly met, because with all the children that ran around everywhere, making friends wouldn't be easy, at least not for an introvert who had a hard time talking to new people.
Evangeline's mum followed them to one of the carriages entrances and kissed her daughter goodbye and took Lily's hands and said a "nice to meet you" before they went to take their seats.
they looked quite a long time before they decide to take a seat next to four boys.
"Is it fine if we sit here?" Lily asked and the boys nodded.
Lily who was a little bit more outgoing than Evangeline introduced them.
"Nice to meet you" a boy whit black hair and glasses smiled." I am James Potter"
"H...hi. I am Peter, Peter Pettigrew" A boy whit a ratlike appearance continued. He looked like someone who was always nervous, with his wide eyes and stiff appearance.
"And i am Sirius Black" Sirius was a guy with curly, long black hair and dark brown eyes. He looked quite handsome. The last of the four boys was reading a book and did not seem to take any notice on what happened around him. But the guy named Sirius quickly gave him an elbow to the side.
"Hey!" The guy complained and shot an angry look towards Sirius.
"You might want to introduce yourself to the girls here mate!" Sirius said and gave him a hard gaze.
"Oh, sorry. My name is Remus Lupin. Nice to meet you" Remus gave them bout a small smile that not quiet seemed to reach his ears and then continued on the book. Evangeline examined him a little bit closer. He was also quite handsome. He had short, kind of curly, thick blond hair and blue eyes. But he also had some strange scars on his face. Not to visible, but enough to catch her attention. She wanted to ask him how he got them, but that would be strange from a first meeting.
When Lupin put down the book they all talked and had a fun time. Evangeline was happy to have gained even more friends now. They hadn't even entered Hogwarts, but she had already made five new friends. At least she hoped they would be.
Lupin was a really nice guy when he got away from the book and talked to her and Lily. But he seemed to be a man of few words since he mostly looked outside the window. Lily and Evangeline learned that all the boys also would start their first year of Hogwarts.
"Wich houses do you hope to get into?" James asked.
"Well, my relatives and parents will kill me if I'm not getting into Slytherin" Sirius sighed, but then smiled "So I'm hoping for Gryffindor" James laughed and playfully hit Sirius on the shoulder. Evangeline didn't know what house she wanted to be placed in.
After a while James reminded everyone to go and put on their uniform since they soon would be at Hogwarts.
Their was a little place on the train where one could change in privacy. The robe fitted Evangeline very well. She had bought the robe In a secret place only wizards and witches knew about called Diagon ally, where a person could get everything needed for magical activities.
The train came to a stop and everyone began to take their things and go outside. A man with a huge brown beard and glasses asked the once who was about to begin there first year to come with him, while the rest of the people went up a dirt road.
The man led them to a huge black lake which the students would have to cross over in very small, and not so safe looking boats. Evangeline and many more looked at the big, fantastic castle in the middle of the lake. It was really beautiful whit what looked like candles floating in the air.
To her surprise, when she had entered one of the boats, she noticed that they where moving by themselves once they all got in. She sat beside Lily and two others inside one boat and the four guys they had meet on the train took the boat beside them.
When all came across the lake the old man led them inside the castle. I was a wonderful sight. It was like an 1800-th century castle, whit armors and strangely enough, moving paintings. Evangeline was used to that, since her mother always read a magazine called the daily prophet. it was a magic magazine with moving pictures. The paintings greeted each and everyone of the students when they passed them. Lilly looked surprised.
"We don't have moving pictures in the muggle world" She said with a smile.
When they finally came to a stop in what seemed to be a little Scrub, Evangeline saw a very young witch whit a stern look at her face and a big stereotypical witch hat on her head. When she began to talk, Evangeline noticed that even her voice was stern. Not someone you should mess with for sure.
"Welcome to Hogwarts. I am professor mcgonagall. Before you can enter the great hall i have somethings to inform you about. The First thing you will do when you go through the big doors is to come forth when i have shouted your name. A hat will be placed on your head, and it will tell you which house you'll be in. Those are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. These houses will serve as your family. You can win points to your houses, but you can also lose points if you don't behave or break some rules. A teacher can remove points whenever they find it fitting. Well, that's it for now, I am sure you are all tired after the long train ride, so follow me." She said and lead them to a set of big wooden doors.
Evangeline began to feel sleepy. It had been a very strange day whit many new impression and information. She kind of longed for a bed. But the entrance ceremony had to be done.
The great hall was really big and grand. There was four rows of long tables where people already had taken a seat. Students, who was older.
The tables had all different colors in decoration. One was green with a snake, one red with a lion, one blue with some kind of bird and the last was yellow with a badger. And to Evangeline's surprise there was no roof. The sky was all visible with candles floating in the air.
"It's just magic. At least that's what I've read in my book" Lily explained happily.
"Oh, I see" Was all she could answer. Her mum had told her about the sealing, but she had never thought it would be so beautiful.
When everyone had gathered close to the staff table a little stool was placed in front of the new students whit a very old looking hat on top of it. The professor started to call out the names of the first year students.
At first everything was quiet when people tried the hat on, but suddenly the hat would shout out the name of the house the person would belong to, and everyone at the table who represented that house started to clap there hands while the new student happily stumbled to his or her table. Evangeline soon learned that Ravenclaw had the colour blue, slytherine green, hufflepuff yellow and Gryffindor red.
Sooner then she wanted, her name was called out and Evangeline nervously made her way to the stool and sat down. The hat was put on her head, and at first it was all quiet, but suddenly the hat began to talk to her, Evangeline could clearly hear its voice inside her head.
"Oh, a brave girl i see. Yes, your future will be filled with events that requires bravery, you can be sure of that. And you will become a great witch. And a very big decision will come your way that requiters this much bravery. But because of this bravery you posses, you might get into hard times. So I think it will be GRYFFINDOR!" The last thing the hat shouted out loud for everyone to hear, and the gryffindor table clapped there hands and welcomed Evangeline whit open arms. Even Lilly, Sirius, James, Remus and Peter was sorted into gryffindor which made her really happy. Now all her new friends would be in the same house. But when Remus tried the hat on, he seemed to become a little bit pale. Paler than he already was, but it soon disappeared when the hat shouted GRYFFINDORE! But Evangeline couldn't help but to wonder what the hat had said to him.
After a while, a slender black haired boy called Snape came forth and was sorted into Slytherin. Lilly gave him a look and a thumbs up, making the pale boy blush until he took his seat at the slytherin table. Evangeline was surprised that Lily seemed to know that guy. They must have met before Hogwarts.
When the sorting was all done. The principal rose from his chair and looked out at the great hall.
"Welcome, to another year at Hogwarts. For all the new students, my name is Professor Dumbledore And I am the schools headmaster. If their is anything troubling you, don't hesitate to come talk to me. And i need, as always, to tell you all that this schools forest is not a forest for anyone of you to venture into during the day, nor night. It can be very dangerous there. It's not called the forbidden forest for nothing. So keep out, and only venture inside if you are with a teacher to watch over you. Well, I think that's all that is needed to be said for now. You must ll be hungry, so I won't bother you with a long speech. Let's sing the schools anthem, and then we'll eat!"
They tried as best as they could to sing along. When they where done, Dumbledore clapped his hands, and suddenly the empty plates on the tables became stuffed with all kinds of delicious food. Evangeline didn't know what she wanted to taste first. Everything looked so tasty. There was even some foods she had never seen before and really wanted to try. Lily gasped beside her and looked as amazed as Evangeline felt.
When everyone was stuffed Dumbledore announced that it was time to go to bed. The prefects of the school was the once leading the way to the sleeping dorms. Gryffindor's prefect was called Mathias. While walking Mathias told everyone that their things would already be in place in their room.
The girls and boys had different rooms to sleep in, so Lily and Evangeline bid the four boys a good night and went inside the room. Lilly and Evangeline shared the room with some other girls there age. One of them came towards them with a smile.
"Hi, I'm Kate" She reached out her hand. Evangeline and Lily shook happily.
"I am a muggle born, so this is all very new to me. I hope we can be friends" She said shyly. Evangeline smiled at her.
"Sure. Lily here is also a muggle born as well. I am no master since I mostly lived like a muggle. My dad is one you see, but stick with me and I can tell you all that I know about the would of magic"
Evangeline manage to find her trunks beside one of the beds and happily threw herself on it with a laugh. Lilly's bed was right beside hers and she seemed to be as happy herself. Kate had the bed on the other side of Evangeline.
Evangeline smiled and closed her eyes for a moment. She felt like she would like it here already. Tomorrow would be the start of her first class, and it would be really exiting. When she was done taking everything in, she went to the toilet, brushed her teeth and put on a nightgown and went into bed. When Lily was done too, they talked for a little bit until they fell asleep. Tired, but happy. Kate fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, which made Lily and Evangeline giggle.
Next day:
The morning sun woke Evangeline. She yawned and stretched before throwing a pillow at Lilly.
"Hey! Wake up! First day at school!" She shouted while Lily gave her a death glare.
"Not before two hours from now, did you have to wake me!"
"Sorry Lils, I coulden't sleep" Evangeline laughed and went over to her trunk to get her school uniform.
"Well, do I have to suffer for that?" Lily asked but couldn't hide the exited smiled on her face. She was also exited to start the day
"Sorry again. By the way. I never asked how you know that black haired dude that was sorted into slytherin yesterday"
"Oh him. His name is Snape. We have known each other for a quite long time now. He was the one learning me a bit more about magic when I noticed what I could do. We kind of became friends after that" Evangeline nodded.
When they where done with the morning routines Evangeline, Kate and Lily went down for breakfast. When they saw the four boys from yesterday, they decided to sit together with them.
(Hope you liked the start of this fic :D I had it planned from long ago and now I'm finally on it! :D Do leave a comment and follow ;) I always love to read your comments, and always make sure to answer them when I have time :) Next chapter will be out soon :) )
