Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter... sorry
This story is also dedicated to my friend Larissa, who without her, there would be no story.
Angelina Johnson walked faster, trying to keep up with her mother. The crowd at King's Cross Station seemed to suddenly become larger. She had to steer her cart around people, which wasn't proving very easy. Finally, her mom slowed down.
"Angelina," She said bending down to her level, "Do you see that pillar over there?" She pointed, "The one between plat form 9 and 10?" Angelina nodded.
"Yeah, what about it?" She asked, looking back up at her mom.
"You are going to run through it." Angelina looked at her mother as if she had three heads.
"You're joking right?" Angelina laughed. Her mother could be so funny at times! "Nope." Her mother said, looking very serious. Angelina stopped laughing, and turned her cart towards the pillar. "Okay Angel, I want you to run through it." Her mother said. Angelina nodded. These were her real first steps to a school called Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry.
She slowly began to push her cart, and then began running, finally she picked up pace and was running in full sprint. She was coming closer to the barrier. 'Oh my god, I'm going to crash!' She thought, but it was too late for her to stop or slow down. She closed her eyes and grimaced, expecting to feel some sort of impact from the crash. When the crash didn't come, she slowly opened her eyes to a whole different world. There were students and people scurrying around everywhere. She looked around in amazement. In front of her was a big red gleaming steam engine. Her mom appeared at her side.
"Come on honey, we should move so we don't get hit by the next person coming in." They moved just in time because just then two red haired boys came crashing in laughing loudly.
"Come on, we had better go hide before Percy realizes what we did!" One of them said laughing. Angelina looked closer and saw that they looked exactly alike! She walked over to the train, and said good-bye to her mother.
"Have a good year honey, make new friends, and let's hope to God you don't have an attitude." Her mother laughed. Angelina smiled slightly. She knew she was going to miss her mom. After her father had left, it was just the two of them. When Angelina got her letter, she wasn't worried about making friends, she was worried about what here mom would do without her.
"Okay," Angelina said laughing lightly giving her mother a big hug, "I love you mum." She reluctantly let go and looked up at her mom.
"Oh Mum!" Angelina said, "You promised you wouldn't cry!"
"I know, but I can't help it." She said, giving Angelina another big hug. She let go, "now, don't forget to write me when you get the chance!" she said kissing the top of her head, "I love you Angel, have a good year." Angelina smiled one last time at her mom then turned and walked with her trunk to the entrance of the one of the cars. She turned around and waved one last time to her mom, and then a crowd of people separated them.
Angelina turned back and was suddenly knocked down. She looked up from the ground to see who had knocked her over. It was the two red-haired boys she had seen earlier!
"Hi." They said cheerfully together.
"Hi," Angelina said, still on the ground, "Aren't you going to help me up?" They looked at each other.
"What for?" They asked at the same time, grinning. Just then a woman with red hair who held a strong resemblance to them stormed over.
"Frederick and George Weasley!" She roared. Their faces fell suddenly.
"Yes Mum?" They asked, angelic expressions appearing out of nowhere on their faces.
"You knocked this poor girl over, and you're not even going to help her up?!" Their mum yelled. They grinned at each other and said no. By this time Angelina was already standing. She looked up, and an older version of them came walking up behind their mum. Not another one! He smiled down at them.
"Fred, George, you've got to show more class than that, especially to a lady." He smiled at Angelina. One of the twins rolled their eyes.
"Girls are gross," He started.
"Yeah, they have cooties." The other finished for him. Angelina rolled her eyes at that, and started trying to lift her trunk onto the train, but was yet again knocked over. Angelina counted to ten on the ground then looked up to see who had knocked her over this time.
"Oh my gosh!" cried a girl who looked around her age, "I am so sorry!" She held out her hand for Angelina to take. Angelina grasped her hand, and with in seconds was on her feet again. The girl was pale with had curly auburn hair and light green eyes. She was almost the opposite of Angelina who had light brown skin, chocolate colored eyes, and straight brown hair, which she usually wore in braids. Angelina smiled at her.
"Hi, I'm Angelina Johnson." She said lifting her trunk once again.
"Alicia Spinet" The girl said smiling sticking out her hand. Angelina shook it, "I'm going to be a first year." Alicia said proudly. Angelina glanced over her shoulder to find the red haired family nowhere in sight, then smiled
"Me too." She said. Alicia helped Angelina get onto the train, and led her to a compartment.
"Do you want to sit with me?" The girl asked nervously. Angelina nodded her head.
"Yes," She said smiling. Together the two girls got the trunk up on the rack. They heard the train whistle, signaling that it was about to leave. Angelina walked over to the window to see if she could see her mom. She scanned the crowd but her mom was nowhere to be found. She sat down in a seat across from Alicia.
"So," Alicia started off. Angelina smiled at her, figuring her Mum had to leave because something urgent had come up.
"So," Angelina continued she was about to ask a question when the door burst open, and in walked a short girl with wavy blonde hair and big blue eyes ((A/N okay, I know Katie Bell isn't in the same year as them but in this fic, it's easier for me if she is)) . She looked nervous.
"Um, hi, I was wondering if I could, um, sit with you?" She asked uncertainly. Angelina smiled brightly.
"Yes, of course!" She said. The girl smiled gratefully and Angelina stood up and helped the girl with her trunk. The girls sat in silence until the train started to move.
"My name's Katie." The girl said, "Katie Bell."
"I'm Alicia Spinnet, and this is Angelina-" She trailed off, forgetting Angelina's last name.
"Johnson." Angelina supplied, "I'm Angelina Johnson." The girls started talking about various nonsense, until they hit a subject they all liked, Quidditch. They had been in the train for about two hours when all of a sudden, the door burst open, and three boys feel in. Angelina immediately recognized two of the three. She groaned.
"Not you two again!" She yelled.
"Well, happy to see you too!" One of them said. They quickly stood up and closed the door, as a large stream of girls ran past. They each sighed.
"That was a close one." The third boy, whom Angelina did not recognize, said.
"But it was well worth it!" The other twin said, or maybe it was the same one⦠she couldn't tell. Alicia and Katie looked at them curiously.
"What exactly did you do?" She asked. "And if it was something bad, I do not want you in a compartment with us, they'll think we had something to do with it!" The three looked at each other and grinned.
"Nothing." They said in unison. Just then the door shot open again with a loud bang and in stormed yet another boy with flaming red hair only he was looking very, very frustrated.
"How could you two do that?" He yelled the twins. They grinned, and put on their best innocent faces. It was the same angelic expression they had worn earlier.
"Do what?" One of them asked.
"You know exactly what!" The boy yelled.
"Aww Perc, it was just a joke. Those girls will get over it!" The other one said. Then, another boy appeared behind Percy.
"Percy, lighten up, they are only first years." He said with a strong Scottish accent.
"Oliver, they need to go apologize." He said, clearly annoyed. Percy looked around the compartment for the first time noticed the three girls looking up at him.
"I'm so terribly sorry this lot has disturbed you." He said. The three girls were speechless for a second and then Angelina spoke up, closing the Quidditch magazine and placing it on the seat next to her.
"It's alright." She shrugged. Oliver noticed the magazine and his eyes lit up.
"You like Quidditch then?" He asked excitedly. Angelina smiled and blushed.
"Um, yeah, we were, um just talking about it, before the boys stormed in." She said nervously. Katie looked over at the boys and noticed the one with dread locks was starring at her. She made a face at him and he quickly looked away.
"Were you now?" he asked sitting down next to them, "I play quidditch you know." He informed them. The three girls had no idea what to say, they simply starred at him.
"Oh." Alicia said.
"Yep, I'm the keeper for Gryffindor." He said proudly.
"Oh, then that's why you lot didn't have a spectacular season last year!" One of the twins said, grinning. Oliver shot him a look then stood up.
"You two are going to get it one day." He said, a faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth, "Besides, I've done nothing but practice over the summer, so we've got to have a shot at the cup this year!" he said.
"Come on, let's go back to our compartment." Percy said, speaking up.
"Well, it was nice talking to you three." Oliver said, though the three girls really hadn't said anything, "hope to see you in Gryffindor." He smiled then walked out.
"You three had better behave." Percy warned then followed Oliver out.
"You three had better behave." One of them mocked Percy. The girls went back to talking, but after a few minutes realized the boys were still in there.
"Why are you three still in here!?" Angelina asked annoyed. One of the twins was starring at her, she looked at him, "WHAT!?"
He shrugged grinned, and continued to stare. Angelina looked away and tried to focus on the conversation that Katie, Alicia, Lee (that was the other boys name), and one of the twins who she figured was George were having.
"I have a tarantula." Lee said suddenly. Angelina looked at him.
"Really?" She asked, and glanced sideways, twin 1 was still looking at her. Lee grinned.
"Yeah, her name is Sally."
"You named a spider?" Alicia asked. Katie wrinkled her nose in disgust.
"I hate spiders." She said. Angelina nodded her head.
"Me too." She looked at the other twin who was starring at her and yelled, "STOP STARING AT ME YOU CREEP!" The other four looked at her, and then looked at twin 1. Twin 2 grinned, and twin 1 started laughing.
"You get mad so easily." He said.
"I'm not mad, I'm annoyed." She said coolly.
"Sure, whatever." He said, "I think we have overstayed our welcome long enough." He said standing up. The other two followed suit, and simply walked out. The girls stared at their retreating backs.
"They are so strange." Katie said. The other two nodded then Alicia spoke up.
"Okay, no matter what houses we are sorted into, we have to try to stay friends." she said a little while later as the train slowed down and pulled into Hogsmead station. Together they got off the train and were told to follow a big burly man with a large lantern, and thus started their journey to their new school and new way of life.
