The Path to Inexistence
Chapter One Back to Hogwarts
The feeling of being back at Plat Form ¾ was both thrilling and frightening for Harry. What would happen this year? Was all that went through his mind. His trunk already on the train and Harry was waiting for the arrival of Ron and Hermione, who were running late. Harry's summer was fare from unusual. He had spent most of the summer in his room avoiding the Dursleys and counting down the days until he would go back were he belonged. Now here he was, the day he had been waiting for all summer and Ron and Hermione weren't even here.
"Where the bloody hell are they! They're such little prats!" Harry exclaimed suddenly out of frustration.
"Who's a little prat?"
Two young girls Harry had never seen before walked into the compartment. They were the same height with identical features. Both had long blonde hair to the middle of there back. Both had blue eyes and fair skin.
"Or better still, what is a prat?" the one on the right asked.
"I don't care as long as it's not me." Said the one on the left, who looked back at Harry with big blue eyes, "Are you the one with his undies in a bunch? We could hear you in the corridor."
"My names Harry, and sorry, I'm just a bit anxious to be off, and my friends haven't arrived yet."
"S'ok." Said the one on the right, her eyes were alight with excitement, "I'm Catelin, but everyone calls me Cate. And this is my sister Tru."
"What house are you in? We've heard all about Hogwarts all our lives and it's way cool to be actually on our way!" she looked at Catelin who had a strange expression on her face like she was trying not to laugh.
Curious, Harry looked out the compartment window to find what Cate found so funny.
"Ron! Hermione! Wha- What are the doing?!" Harry gasped out, watching his friends run around the plat form in what looked like a wild goose chase or rather a wild toad/cat chase.
"Hey look! It's a cat!" Cate cooed, watching a ginger blur dart around people's legs erratically.
"That's not a cat, that's Crookshanks!" and on that note Harry ran out of the compartment and onto the platform.
"A Crooka what?" said Cate and Tru together but they were detracted at that moment when a large toad landed on Harry's chest causing Harry to gasp in surprise.
"Harry quick! Grab him!" yelled Ron as they neared him.
"Oh no! Crookshanks don't!" Hermione called out as the large ginger cat bounded over to Harry, crashing into his chest, and knocking Harry onto the platform floor.
"Oh Crookshanks!" Hermione moaned, as she pulled the dazed cat into her lap.
"Harry are you all right? Bloody cat. have you still got Neville's toad?" Ron asked, helping Harry to his feet and checking on Trevor who was gripped firmly in Harry's hands.
"Here, give the runt to me," Ron said, taking Trevor and hobbling him upside down by his back legs. He then proceeded to shake the toad in a fevered fashion.
"What's going on?" Harry finally got out, starring at his friends.
"Trevor must like shiny things-" Hermione started out, "-he swallowed Ron's gift to me." Harry turned to Ron who had gone extremely red.
"It was a bracelet-"he stuttered.
And indeed it was Harry noted, for at that exact moment Trevor made an odd clucking noise and out fell Hermione's bracelet. Picking it up with her handkerchief Hermione sighed and placed it in her pocket.
"There now come on, the trains about to leave."
And so, they hoped into a nearby compartment and made their way to the end of the train. Cate was sitting there waiting for them, a grin on her face.
"Great catch Harry!" she jumped up from her seat and walked towards the trio.
"I suppose you're Ron and Hermione, huh? I'm Cate; will Catelin really, Catelin Mackenzie. And my sister is Tru."
Harry looked around the compartment but for the for the four of them it was empty. "Where's Tru?" Hermione asked obviously coming to the same conclusion as Harry.
"Oh she went to the front of the train to get-"
But Cate was interrupted by the slam of the compartment door. Turning around Harry say a sight that was a bit confusing.
"Hello, Potter. How's. life?" came a jeering voice, coming from a sneering mouth on what had to be the pale face of one Draco Malfoy flanked on either side by Crabbe and Goyle. But was it Malfoy? The shocked and disgusted looks on his friends (minus Cate) faces mirrored his own.
Malfoy (it had to be) looked much different from how he had last appeared to Harry when they had last met. His silver-blonde hair had been cut short and spiked, his ear pierced and he wore a black T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off along with some sort of tattoo on his right arm just below the shoulder.
"What kind of animal did you run into this summer Malfoy?" Ron put out, but his fists were clenched ready for a fight. Hermione was laughing somewhat coldly, "He looks like a muggle rebel punk! I believe the boys' dress like that in the States at lest."
"Shut up you filthy mudblood-" but unfortunately for Draco his retort was cut off by someone crashing into him from behind, covering him and his cronies in a foul smelling liquid that seeped into their cloths and skin. They, Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle were now all soaked in blue liquid and face down on the train floor.
"What the hell?!" Malfoy cried out and glared at the girl on top of him, who had not been covered in the strange liquid. It seemed that Tru (Harry had seen it was her the moment she burst into the room) had run at Malfoy with their drinks floating along beside her, and had spilled the contents all over them also landing herself right on top of the blonde Slytherin. "Oh, hi!" Tru flashed a cunning grin at Cate. "Did I interrupt something?"
"Get off my right now! You're dead you stupid girl! I just got this shirt yesterday and you've ruined it." Draco yelled at Tru from the floor struggling to get up.
Tru got off Draco and walked to where Cate was standing and proceeded to look Draco up and down as he got up.
"Funny I don't feel dead. Cate, do I look dead because according to him I am but I think he's mistaken."
"No Tru he is mistaken you're not dead, not yet any way."
"Oh and Praco you should be thanking me. You look much better in blue, that black makes you look much to pale, the blue really brings out the color of your eyes."
Draco made a move to grab his wand having had enough of this insolence. "That is it! My name is not Praco its Draco and you better learn to respect it or you'll be sorry."
"Whatever. Besides who could ever respect you, when you look like you got in a fight with a lawn mower?"
"Who the hell do you think. What the hell?!?" Draco cut himself off after having realized that he no longer possessed his wand, which he had been searching for.
"Looking for this?" Tru was casually twirling Draco's wand between her fingers.
"How did you get my wand?" Draco snarled viscously.
"If you have to ask you'll never know." Cate jumped in, knowing exactly how Tru had gotten Malfoy's wand.
Hermione meanwhile had been looking between the twins and Malfoy apprehensively, when she noticed that Malfoy's two cronies were missing. Harry and Ron were to busy laughing to notices.
"Wait, were did your two friends go?" Hermione asked Draco looking around.
"What do mean where did they go they're right here. What!? They're gone."
Just then the twins started to laugh uncontrollably, the kind of laugh where you know your are not suppose to be laughing, because you'll give yourself away if you do. Well they had that and couldn't help themselves it was all very amusing to them. Unfortunately Malfoy didn't find his situation so amusing and his temper was getting the better of him.
"What in the name of Merlin are you two idiots laughing at now!?"
"Nothing. just.." Cate tried to explain through her laughter.
"Well. you look so.funny. when you're mad.." Tru continued for her.
"Kind of cute.too"
"I think I'm going to be sick." Ron said before he too started laughing. Which made Harry and Hermione laugh as well. Draco had gone pale and was shaking with rage.
"Here take your wand and go find your friends." Tru said holding out his wand.
Draco snatched his wand from the girl and turned to leave but just before he was completely out of the compartment he turned and pointed his wand yelling a spell they didn't know. Much to Malfoy's and the others astonishment the spell simple rebounded of a mysterious barrier that surrounded the five teenagers. Green light flared and died and Malfoy stormed away beat red.
"Well that was certainly interesting. Does the year at Hogwarts always start with such drama or is that just a resent development?" Cate asked
"I don't understand," Hermione mumbled more to herself then to the others, "how did the spell just rebound like that and then diminish and fade out completely. It's never happened before that spell would have worked I just don't understand it. I've never read about that happening before and I didn't see any of use block it with our wands."
"It was probably some kind of fluke, Draco must have said something wrong and the spell died before it reached us. Now come and lets set down my feet are killing me or they will be if I don't sit soon."
They took a set at once. Cate by the window across from Tru, Harry was between Cate and Ron, while Hermione sat next Tru, Crookshanks purring continently on the empty set next to her.
"Where did you two say you were from again?" Hermione asked taking her mind of the fluke spell incident so she could look it up later.
"America, we went to Salem's School for Witches. All girls there weren't any teenage guys for miles." Cate replied.
"Having no guys around really sucked. Speaking of guys have you seen Basil? I haven't seen him since we got on the plat form." Tru said.
"No, I haven't. He's probably of tormenting some poor innocent girls or what he calls flirting." Said Cate.
"Probably right. Boy I feel sorry for them."
"Wait, whose Basil?" Ron was completely lost in this part of the conversation.
"Oh he's just are ignorant brother who for some strange reason things he's all that and a bag of chips." Tru and Cate said together. "Don't do that. I was talking first! Stop that!" the twins yelled at each other they obviously hated saying the same thing at the same time.
They were quit after that the two sisters being annoyed with one another. Cate was staring innocently out the window while in the mean time Harry stared at her.
"Harry?" Hermione whispered.
"Huh, oh. yes?" Harry responded knocked out of his own thoughts.
"Have you heard from. Snuffles lately?" She asked her tone low and casual.
"Oh yeah, he's kind of busy with some business right now, but he says he's doing fine."
"I was so worried over the summer. I almost stopped subscribing to the Daily Prophet, thinking that I'd see him on the front page." Hermione grasped the book she was holding so tightly her knuckles bled white.
"Hey 'Mione give the book some air-" Ron chuckled lightly. "Harry, do you want to play some exploding snap?"
And that was how they passed the rest of the train ride, pausing only to buy and munch on the sweets the witch brought near noon.
They changed into their robes when they neared the end of their journey. "You boys go in with your Gryffindor friends, we're taking Hermione away for some girl talk!" laughed Tru as they dragged Hermione to an empty carriage.
When they neared the castle, Harry and Ron got stuck in a large crowd of students who were talking excitedly and making gestures at the castle. The girls appeared abruptly, winded from running.
"Harry-Ron you wouldn't believe it-" Hermione started. Trying to catch her breath and talk at the same time was not something Hermione was good at.
"They're huge scaly brutes, I wonder how Dumbledore got them-" Cate babbled on.
"What are you talking about?" Ron exclaimed impatiently.
"Dragons!" Tru breathed out, eyes glittering dangerously.
"Dragons!?" Harry gasped in awe.
"Guarding the entrance!" Cate exclaimed pointing.
"Much better then Fudge's old dementors if you ask me." Hermione scowled folding her arms.
"Bet that's why Charlie came down this summer, no wonder it was so hush hush." Ron replied.
"Come! Come see!" Tru cried, grabbing their hands and pulling them through the crowd not caring if the ran into people on their way.
"Welsh Greens." Hermione explained when they reached the doors. "They used in the early 1930s during the time of Grindewald was gaining power. I read about it in-"
"Hogwarts, A History" Ron replied dully receiving a kind slap on the arm from Hermione. "Any way lets go its getting cold and I'm hungry."
So the walked into the Great Hall where the trio bid farewell to Tru and Cate, who had walked back to where the first years had just entered and the whole school watched as professor McGonagall brought in the sorting hat. Everyone waited with baited breath as the rip near the top that served as a mouth opened and began to sing.
"Long ago, In the days of old, When founders four Stood proud and bold, I was made to nick, And pick You're childish brains. To seek out That one trait you hold That outshines all the rest And place you In the house That shall fit you best. The cunning to Slytherin They always find a way The quick of wit to Ravenclaw They can solve any puzzle come what may The loyal to Hufflepuff They are friends to the end And to Gryffindor the brave and proud On them you can depend So set me atop your head To see your future course And on you'll go Into your crowd To become one of the best!"
The end of the song was met with tumultuous applause and a "He's brilliant, Brilliant, BRILLIANT, I tell you!" from Fred followed by some catcalls made by George. Near the end of the sorting students began to notice the two girls and boy who were obviously too old for first years. They weren't very tall and had fit in with some of the taller eleven year-olds. They were called up after the last if the first years with a:
"Mackenzie, Basil"
"Gryffindor!"
"Mackenzie, Catelin"
"Gryffindor!"
"Mackenzie, Tru"
"Gryffindor!"
As they neared the Gryffindor table whispers began, every one was wondering who these new kids were as the obviously were not first forms. The three seemed to not notice however seating themselves next to Hermione, joking with each other causally.
"Gryffindor, who would've guessed?" Cate began.
"Please, was there ever any doubt?" Tru answered, as she speared a baked potato when the food appeared. Everyone was so busy eating that almost nobody noticed as the door opened to the great hall and a tall brunette with curly hair came in, leading three boys with neon green and blue skin. She led them to the Slytherin table and sat them down before walking to take her place at the High Table.
"Tru. that blue liquid that you spilled on them wasn't the potion we stole from Dads privet store this summer. was it?" Cate asked pointing to the boys but Tru was too busy laughing to respond.
"Tru." Cate whined trying her best not to laugh too for she was rather disappointed she had not been informed.
"Potion, what potion, I know not of what you speak. And since when does dad have a privet store?" Tru said between laughing.
"How could you we were saving that and you could have at least told me. Still it was pretty funny." Cate tried to say sternly but was failing miserably.
"Don't through a hissy fit Cat."
At this Cate presided to hiss like a cat at Tru. The two of them went into a fit of laughter. "You're too much, honestly." Hermione said before turning bake to her supper.
"Sorry we can't help it, we had to much sugar on the train I think." Tru replied.
The rest of the meal was uneventful, consisting of small talk and mindless chatter. When the meal was over Hermione and Harry left to lead the first years to the Gryffindor common room.
"We'll see you guys later. We have to go check in with the headmaster." Cate said grabbing Tru's wrist as Harry, Hermione and Ron started off. The girls ran over to the High table.
"I wonder what that was about?" Harry asked.
"Don't know. Come on Harry lets go."
They led the first form back to the common room pointing things out to them as they went. The entered the common room and took a seat in a secluded corner.
"How was your summer? It must have been horrid at the Dursleys." Hermione asked.
"It wasn't that bad really. I stayed out of their way and they didn't bother me, much."
"I wish you could have stayed with us at the Burrow." Ron said wistfully.
"You know what Dumbledore said about that. Harry is safer with the Dursleys for some unknown reason." Hermione said sharply glaring at Ron causing Ron to blush.
"Is there something I'm missing? What went on this summer between you two?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well. erm." Hermione blushed and Ron's ears went red.
"Well what?"
"You see after me and Viktor broke it off." Hermione began.
"I sort of comforted her."
"Is that all? I thought it was something really big." Harry said rather relieved to know.
"I better be going to bed." Hermione then got up and walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitories still bright red.
"I wonder when the girls are coming back." Harry murmured stretching him self-out on the puff he rested on.
"Who knows?" Ron answered, dragging himself up from his chair. The common room was nearly empty and the people were retreating to their beds.
"C'mon Harry, the last thing we need is to fall asleep down here when we've got classes tomorrow." He gripped Harry's hand in his own and hauled him up. They then retreated to their dormitory.
A/N PLEASE REVIEW!!
Chapter One Back to Hogwarts
The feeling of being back at Plat Form ¾ was both thrilling and frightening for Harry. What would happen this year? Was all that went through his mind. His trunk already on the train and Harry was waiting for the arrival of Ron and Hermione, who were running late. Harry's summer was fare from unusual. He had spent most of the summer in his room avoiding the Dursleys and counting down the days until he would go back were he belonged. Now here he was, the day he had been waiting for all summer and Ron and Hermione weren't even here.
"Where the bloody hell are they! They're such little prats!" Harry exclaimed suddenly out of frustration.
"Who's a little prat?"
Two young girls Harry had never seen before walked into the compartment. They were the same height with identical features. Both had long blonde hair to the middle of there back. Both had blue eyes and fair skin.
"Or better still, what is a prat?" the one on the right asked.
"I don't care as long as it's not me." Said the one on the left, who looked back at Harry with big blue eyes, "Are you the one with his undies in a bunch? We could hear you in the corridor."
"My names Harry, and sorry, I'm just a bit anxious to be off, and my friends haven't arrived yet."
"S'ok." Said the one on the right, her eyes were alight with excitement, "I'm Catelin, but everyone calls me Cate. And this is my sister Tru."
"What house are you in? We've heard all about Hogwarts all our lives and it's way cool to be actually on our way!" she looked at Catelin who had a strange expression on her face like she was trying not to laugh.
Curious, Harry looked out the compartment window to find what Cate found so funny.
"Ron! Hermione! Wha- What are the doing?!" Harry gasped out, watching his friends run around the plat form in what looked like a wild goose chase or rather a wild toad/cat chase.
"Hey look! It's a cat!" Cate cooed, watching a ginger blur dart around people's legs erratically.
"That's not a cat, that's Crookshanks!" and on that note Harry ran out of the compartment and onto the platform.
"A Crooka what?" said Cate and Tru together but they were detracted at that moment when a large toad landed on Harry's chest causing Harry to gasp in surprise.
"Harry quick! Grab him!" yelled Ron as they neared him.
"Oh no! Crookshanks don't!" Hermione called out as the large ginger cat bounded over to Harry, crashing into his chest, and knocking Harry onto the platform floor.
"Oh Crookshanks!" Hermione moaned, as she pulled the dazed cat into her lap.
"Harry are you all right? Bloody cat. have you still got Neville's toad?" Ron asked, helping Harry to his feet and checking on Trevor who was gripped firmly in Harry's hands.
"Here, give the runt to me," Ron said, taking Trevor and hobbling him upside down by his back legs. He then proceeded to shake the toad in a fevered fashion.
"What's going on?" Harry finally got out, starring at his friends.
"Trevor must like shiny things-" Hermione started out, "-he swallowed Ron's gift to me." Harry turned to Ron who had gone extremely red.
"It was a bracelet-"he stuttered.
And indeed it was Harry noted, for at that exact moment Trevor made an odd clucking noise and out fell Hermione's bracelet. Picking it up with her handkerchief Hermione sighed and placed it in her pocket.
"There now come on, the trains about to leave."
And so, they hoped into a nearby compartment and made their way to the end of the train. Cate was sitting there waiting for them, a grin on her face.
"Great catch Harry!" she jumped up from her seat and walked towards the trio.
"I suppose you're Ron and Hermione, huh? I'm Cate; will Catelin really, Catelin Mackenzie. And my sister is Tru."
Harry looked around the compartment but for the for the four of them it was empty. "Where's Tru?" Hermione asked obviously coming to the same conclusion as Harry.
"Oh she went to the front of the train to get-"
But Cate was interrupted by the slam of the compartment door. Turning around Harry say a sight that was a bit confusing.
"Hello, Potter. How's. life?" came a jeering voice, coming from a sneering mouth on what had to be the pale face of one Draco Malfoy flanked on either side by Crabbe and Goyle. But was it Malfoy? The shocked and disgusted looks on his friends (minus Cate) faces mirrored his own.
Malfoy (it had to be) looked much different from how he had last appeared to Harry when they had last met. His silver-blonde hair had been cut short and spiked, his ear pierced and he wore a black T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off along with some sort of tattoo on his right arm just below the shoulder.
"What kind of animal did you run into this summer Malfoy?" Ron put out, but his fists were clenched ready for a fight. Hermione was laughing somewhat coldly, "He looks like a muggle rebel punk! I believe the boys' dress like that in the States at lest."
"Shut up you filthy mudblood-" but unfortunately for Draco his retort was cut off by someone crashing into him from behind, covering him and his cronies in a foul smelling liquid that seeped into their cloths and skin. They, Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle were now all soaked in blue liquid and face down on the train floor.
"What the hell?!" Malfoy cried out and glared at the girl on top of him, who had not been covered in the strange liquid. It seemed that Tru (Harry had seen it was her the moment she burst into the room) had run at Malfoy with their drinks floating along beside her, and had spilled the contents all over them also landing herself right on top of the blonde Slytherin. "Oh, hi!" Tru flashed a cunning grin at Cate. "Did I interrupt something?"
"Get off my right now! You're dead you stupid girl! I just got this shirt yesterday and you've ruined it." Draco yelled at Tru from the floor struggling to get up.
Tru got off Draco and walked to where Cate was standing and proceeded to look Draco up and down as he got up.
"Funny I don't feel dead. Cate, do I look dead because according to him I am but I think he's mistaken."
"No Tru he is mistaken you're not dead, not yet any way."
"Oh and Praco you should be thanking me. You look much better in blue, that black makes you look much to pale, the blue really brings out the color of your eyes."
Draco made a move to grab his wand having had enough of this insolence. "That is it! My name is not Praco its Draco and you better learn to respect it or you'll be sorry."
"Whatever. Besides who could ever respect you, when you look like you got in a fight with a lawn mower?"
"Who the hell do you think. What the hell?!?" Draco cut himself off after having realized that he no longer possessed his wand, which he had been searching for.
"Looking for this?" Tru was casually twirling Draco's wand between her fingers.
"How did you get my wand?" Draco snarled viscously.
"If you have to ask you'll never know." Cate jumped in, knowing exactly how Tru had gotten Malfoy's wand.
Hermione meanwhile had been looking between the twins and Malfoy apprehensively, when she noticed that Malfoy's two cronies were missing. Harry and Ron were to busy laughing to notices.
"Wait, were did your two friends go?" Hermione asked Draco looking around.
"What do mean where did they go they're right here. What!? They're gone."
Just then the twins started to laugh uncontrollably, the kind of laugh where you know your are not suppose to be laughing, because you'll give yourself away if you do. Well they had that and couldn't help themselves it was all very amusing to them. Unfortunately Malfoy didn't find his situation so amusing and his temper was getting the better of him.
"What in the name of Merlin are you two idiots laughing at now!?"
"Nothing. just.." Cate tried to explain through her laughter.
"Well. you look so.funny. when you're mad.." Tru continued for her.
"Kind of cute.too"
"I think I'm going to be sick." Ron said before he too started laughing. Which made Harry and Hermione laugh as well. Draco had gone pale and was shaking with rage.
"Here take your wand and go find your friends." Tru said holding out his wand.
Draco snatched his wand from the girl and turned to leave but just before he was completely out of the compartment he turned and pointed his wand yelling a spell they didn't know. Much to Malfoy's and the others astonishment the spell simple rebounded of a mysterious barrier that surrounded the five teenagers. Green light flared and died and Malfoy stormed away beat red.
"Well that was certainly interesting. Does the year at Hogwarts always start with such drama or is that just a resent development?" Cate asked
"I don't understand," Hermione mumbled more to herself then to the others, "how did the spell just rebound like that and then diminish and fade out completely. It's never happened before that spell would have worked I just don't understand it. I've never read about that happening before and I didn't see any of use block it with our wands."
"It was probably some kind of fluke, Draco must have said something wrong and the spell died before it reached us. Now come and lets set down my feet are killing me or they will be if I don't sit soon."
They took a set at once. Cate by the window across from Tru, Harry was between Cate and Ron, while Hermione sat next Tru, Crookshanks purring continently on the empty set next to her.
"Where did you two say you were from again?" Hermione asked taking her mind of the fluke spell incident so she could look it up later.
"America, we went to Salem's School for Witches. All girls there weren't any teenage guys for miles." Cate replied.
"Having no guys around really sucked. Speaking of guys have you seen Basil? I haven't seen him since we got on the plat form." Tru said.
"No, I haven't. He's probably of tormenting some poor innocent girls or what he calls flirting." Said Cate.
"Probably right. Boy I feel sorry for them."
"Wait, whose Basil?" Ron was completely lost in this part of the conversation.
"Oh he's just are ignorant brother who for some strange reason things he's all that and a bag of chips." Tru and Cate said together. "Don't do that. I was talking first! Stop that!" the twins yelled at each other they obviously hated saying the same thing at the same time.
They were quit after that the two sisters being annoyed with one another. Cate was staring innocently out the window while in the mean time Harry stared at her.
"Harry?" Hermione whispered.
"Huh, oh. yes?" Harry responded knocked out of his own thoughts.
"Have you heard from. Snuffles lately?" She asked her tone low and casual.
"Oh yeah, he's kind of busy with some business right now, but he says he's doing fine."
"I was so worried over the summer. I almost stopped subscribing to the Daily Prophet, thinking that I'd see him on the front page." Hermione grasped the book she was holding so tightly her knuckles bled white.
"Hey 'Mione give the book some air-" Ron chuckled lightly. "Harry, do you want to play some exploding snap?"
And that was how they passed the rest of the train ride, pausing only to buy and munch on the sweets the witch brought near noon.
They changed into their robes when they neared the end of their journey. "You boys go in with your Gryffindor friends, we're taking Hermione away for some girl talk!" laughed Tru as they dragged Hermione to an empty carriage.
When they neared the castle, Harry and Ron got stuck in a large crowd of students who were talking excitedly and making gestures at the castle. The girls appeared abruptly, winded from running.
"Harry-Ron you wouldn't believe it-" Hermione started. Trying to catch her breath and talk at the same time was not something Hermione was good at.
"They're huge scaly brutes, I wonder how Dumbledore got them-" Cate babbled on.
"What are you talking about?" Ron exclaimed impatiently.
"Dragons!" Tru breathed out, eyes glittering dangerously.
"Dragons!?" Harry gasped in awe.
"Guarding the entrance!" Cate exclaimed pointing.
"Much better then Fudge's old dementors if you ask me." Hermione scowled folding her arms.
"Bet that's why Charlie came down this summer, no wonder it was so hush hush." Ron replied.
"Come! Come see!" Tru cried, grabbing their hands and pulling them through the crowd not caring if the ran into people on their way.
"Welsh Greens." Hermione explained when they reached the doors. "They used in the early 1930s during the time of Grindewald was gaining power. I read about it in-"
"Hogwarts, A History" Ron replied dully receiving a kind slap on the arm from Hermione. "Any way lets go its getting cold and I'm hungry."
So the walked into the Great Hall where the trio bid farewell to Tru and Cate, who had walked back to where the first years had just entered and the whole school watched as professor McGonagall brought in the sorting hat. Everyone waited with baited breath as the rip near the top that served as a mouth opened and began to sing.
"Long ago, In the days of old, When founders four Stood proud and bold, I was made to nick, And pick You're childish brains. To seek out That one trait you hold That outshines all the rest And place you In the house That shall fit you best. The cunning to Slytherin They always find a way The quick of wit to Ravenclaw They can solve any puzzle come what may The loyal to Hufflepuff They are friends to the end And to Gryffindor the brave and proud On them you can depend So set me atop your head To see your future course And on you'll go Into your crowd To become one of the best!"
The end of the song was met with tumultuous applause and a "He's brilliant, Brilliant, BRILLIANT, I tell you!" from Fred followed by some catcalls made by George. Near the end of the sorting students began to notice the two girls and boy who were obviously too old for first years. They weren't very tall and had fit in with some of the taller eleven year-olds. They were called up after the last if the first years with a:
"Mackenzie, Basil"
"Gryffindor!"
"Mackenzie, Catelin"
"Gryffindor!"
"Mackenzie, Tru"
"Gryffindor!"
As they neared the Gryffindor table whispers began, every one was wondering who these new kids were as the obviously were not first forms. The three seemed to not notice however seating themselves next to Hermione, joking with each other causally.
"Gryffindor, who would've guessed?" Cate began.
"Please, was there ever any doubt?" Tru answered, as she speared a baked potato when the food appeared. Everyone was so busy eating that almost nobody noticed as the door opened to the great hall and a tall brunette with curly hair came in, leading three boys with neon green and blue skin. She led them to the Slytherin table and sat them down before walking to take her place at the High Table.
"Tru. that blue liquid that you spilled on them wasn't the potion we stole from Dads privet store this summer. was it?" Cate asked pointing to the boys but Tru was too busy laughing to respond.
"Tru." Cate whined trying her best not to laugh too for she was rather disappointed she had not been informed.
"Potion, what potion, I know not of what you speak. And since when does dad have a privet store?" Tru said between laughing.
"How could you we were saving that and you could have at least told me. Still it was pretty funny." Cate tried to say sternly but was failing miserably.
"Don't through a hissy fit Cat."
At this Cate presided to hiss like a cat at Tru. The two of them went into a fit of laughter. "You're too much, honestly." Hermione said before turning bake to her supper.
"Sorry we can't help it, we had to much sugar on the train I think." Tru replied.
The rest of the meal was uneventful, consisting of small talk and mindless chatter. When the meal was over Hermione and Harry left to lead the first years to the Gryffindor common room.
"We'll see you guys later. We have to go check in with the headmaster." Cate said grabbing Tru's wrist as Harry, Hermione and Ron started off. The girls ran over to the High table.
"I wonder what that was about?" Harry asked.
"Don't know. Come on Harry lets go."
They led the first form back to the common room pointing things out to them as they went. The entered the common room and took a seat in a secluded corner.
"How was your summer? It must have been horrid at the Dursleys." Hermione asked.
"It wasn't that bad really. I stayed out of their way and they didn't bother me, much."
"I wish you could have stayed with us at the Burrow." Ron said wistfully.
"You know what Dumbledore said about that. Harry is safer with the Dursleys for some unknown reason." Hermione said sharply glaring at Ron causing Ron to blush.
"Is there something I'm missing? What went on this summer between you two?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well. erm." Hermione blushed and Ron's ears went red.
"Well what?"
"You see after me and Viktor broke it off." Hermione began.
"I sort of comforted her."
"Is that all? I thought it was something really big." Harry said rather relieved to know.
"I better be going to bed." Hermione then got up and walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitories still bright red.
"I wonder when the girls are coming back." Harry murmured stretching him self-out on the puff he rested on.
"Who knows?" Ron answered, dragging himself up from his chair. The common room was nearly empty and the people were retreating to their beds.
"C'mon Harry, the last thing we need is to fall asleep down here when we've got classes tomorrow." He gripped Harry's hand in his own and hauled him up. They then retreated to their dormitory.
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