This Story will be a Harry Potter (which I do not own, that honor belongs to J.K. Rowling) remake of my own design. The infamous encounter with Voldemort never happened, seeing as in my version Voldemort doesn't exist (bet you hate me for that one, don't you), and James and Lily are still living. This will also be a love story with pairings of Harry and Hermione, Ron and Luna, and possibly Ginny and Draco, since they will both be evil bigots in this story. Having said that Ginny will be evil does not mean that all of the Weasley family is. Ron will be the extremely faithful best friend and the rest of the family will be like Harry's extended family, with the exception of Ginny of course (you'll see why later). Aside from these changes, I will stay pretty true to the original story line, with the occasional original character thrown in. So, without further ramblings, let the story BEGIN!

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(First Day of School)

"Mum, have you seen my shoes?" I yelled down the stairs while sprinting around my room and throwing things doing my last minute packing. "Yes Harry dear, I have them right here!" she yelled back, a bit of a wavering laughter showing through, presumably at my over-eagerness. I turned and bolted out of my door and raced down the stairs, jumping down the last five and nearly taking out my Dad. "Whoa there, take it easy. I know you're exited, but you can slow down and catch your breath Harry!" he said, chuckling and setting my broom, which he had just gotten out of the backyard, on top of my trunk. "Sorry Dad, I just can't believe I'm actually going to Hogwarts!" I said, plopping down on the bottom step and hurriedly lacing up my shoes.

I was finally going to school, I couldn't believe it! Of course, Mum and Dad had already taught me loads of stuff, and I already could play Quidditch and use wand less magic, but I was still super excited. Plus, I would get to make new friends besides my cousin Dudley (yes, Dudley is good in this story) and maybe see that nice girl I met in Diagon Alley the other day. Hermione, I think….

(If you haven't guessed already, Harry will still be famous even without being the 'Chosen One' because of being a young prodigy of magic along with Hermione, as well as a Quidditch prodigy)

"All ready now son?" my Dad asked, picking up my trunk and moving toward the door. "Yep, let's GO!" I whooped, literally jumping with joy. My Mum chuckled at me and gave me a gentle nudge toward the door. We all piled into our Muggle car and headed off to King's Cross Station

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"Hey, Harry! Wait up!" I turned around to figure out who was yelling at me to see Hermione running down the platform. "Hey Hermione, how are you? Excited?" I asked, stopping to let her catch up and fall into step beside me. We didn't notice, but our parents had started walking together as well, drawn to friendship by Hermione and me.

"Oh yes! Definitely! I can't wait to get there! I wonder what it's going to look like. Mum and Dad say it's a castle but I need to see it for myself." She said, smiling as widely as I had been all morning- well, week actually. (Yes, Hermione's parents are magic in this story as well.) I nodded, seeing as I had the exact same thought as her.

Twenty minutes later, we had our faces hung out of the window of our compartment, waving at our parents as the train began to roll. Once we were out of sight range, we closed the window and sat down beside each other and began talking about what we thought school was going to be like. We talked like that for what felt like hours, eventually slipping into telling each other about ourselves. Turns out that we were natural friends, and pretty soon we knew enough about each other to know for sure that we would be best friends just because of the things we had in common. Then, with a rather loud and irritating knock, our door slid open and a gangly red-headed boy and a short blond girl step into the compartment.

The girl talked first, blushing before she did so because of the peeved look Hermione shot her. "Sorry for the rude interruption," she emphasized the word 'rude' and elbowed the boy in the side, "but there are no other compartments open. We had been sitting in the hall talking but then the snack cart lady made us go somewhere else." She said, giving a small, nervous smile and blushing. The boy rubbed the back of his neck in an embarrassed way and nodded in agreement. I gave them a sympathetic look and Hermione softened as well. I smiled and gestured to the seats opposite of us. "Well come on in then!" "You should've said something before! We would've let you sit here!" Hermione said, smiling along with me now.

They thanked us and sat down after the boy and I had put their luggage up onto the rack. "So, what're your names?" Hermione asked, aiming her question toward the girl since she was obviously the speaker of the two. "Oh, my name is Luna, Luna Lovegood." the girl replied, reaching for a handshake from the two of us. "And I'm Ron Weasley." the boy said, copying Luna's actions and shaking our hands. "Nice to meet you both. I'm Hermione Granger and this is Harry Potter." Hermione answered for us both. I shot her a small smile at her antics and then returned my attention back to our new friends.

We started into another bout of conversation and only stopped talking once before we made it to Hogwarts, and that was just to change into our robes. We were all in a trance as we stepped through the door as if it were a portal to a new world- which it kind of was…

"Firs Years! Firs Years 'is way!" The gruff yell came from further down the platform, and I immediately recognized it. Apparently Hermione did as well, because she grabbed my arm and whispered, "Let's go see Hagrid," in my ear. We both squeezed our way through the crowd- Ron, Luna, and our other new friend Neville close behind- and made our way to the huge half-giant. We must've really scared him when we hit him with hugs, because he jumped and even stumbled a little.

"Well 'ello you two. Who are these three?" Hagrid laughed, gesturing toward the others as we stepped back from the hug. We introduced them and then waited as Hagrid rounded up the rest of the first year students before following him to the opening of a little path. We walked on for about a minute before the path opened up and a huge lake jumped out to meet us, with Hogwarts twinkling in the background as if waving and saying hello to all of us.

Hagrid told us all about the lake- which we learned had all sorts of magical creatures living deep in the black waters it was named for- as he led us to the small fleet of little boats that we were going to ride across the lake in. Hermione was so excited that she held a death grip on my arm- she embarrassedly apologized for it later- and was whispering ooh's and aah's as we climbed into a boat and started off across the lake.

We didn't say a word past the middle-point of the lake because we were all too busy marveling at the huge, stony giant that was Hogwarts. There were so many towers and spires that I could only count about forty before I lost my spot and gave up. As we neared the school, the mix of nerves and excitement was so strong that most of us were nearly to the point shaking. We reached the opposite side of the lake and I was in a bit of a daze as we all filed into the front doors after trekking across the beautiful emerald grounds that had been freshly tended to.

As we all lined up outside of the Great Hall that my parents had told me about, Hermione was spouting off information to the group that she had learned from her school books, which she had already read at least twice. After Professor McGonagall came and told us what we were to do after entering the hall, the doors opened and we were greeted by the entire student body and the beautiful night sky peeking through the enchanted ceiling- which Hermione had explained to us. We all gathered in front of the stool in which we would be sorted on and waited as McGonagall and Dumbledore gave their respective beginning-of-year speeches.

"Now, let's begin the sorting ceremony. When I call your name, come forward and sit on the stool. Abbot, Hannah…" McGonagall called and the read-head girl went to be sorted. She was placed in Hufflepuff, and McGonagall continued down the list.

(I'm going to skip forward a bit so as not to bog down the storyline with the Sorting Ceremony. Oh, and also in my story, Luna will be a Gryffindor as well)

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"Well, here it is boys and girls, the Gryffindor Common Room." Said our prefect, who happened to be Ron's older brother Percy, as we all piled through the portrait hole. Mum and Dad had told me about it, but it was still something to be able to finally see it with my own eyes. We were all given a tour of our rooms and then we were given the rest of the night until curfew to hang out.

"I can't until we start classes tomorrow!" Hermione squealed from beside me on the couch. I chuckled and shook my head. "Only you would be so excited about actually doing school-work." I teased, lightly poking her in the side. Ron, Luna, and Neville, who were sitting in armchairs around the coffee table, laughed as Hermione blushed. I grinned as well and bumped her with my shoulder, which brought her to laughter as well. "Oh, whatever! You know that you are excited too!" she laughed, elbowing me. I smiled and shrugged my shoulders. I had to admit, we haven't been friends for a really long time, but she already knew me very well. I may have said this before, but I'm going to say it again anyway, I can already tell that Hermione is definitely going to be my best friend.