A/N alright, here goes my first fanfic chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own harry potter or Hogwarts or anything else that looks familiar. J.K. Rowling does

Chapter One: Paige

It was a busy day at Kings Cross Station. People hurrying off and on, to and from trains. And me? I was staring at a plain, ordinary-looking brick wall. Why was I doing this? Well, I expect some of you may know already. Obviously, I wasn't at the station for no reason, so I was going to board a train. But this train I was taking, it wasn't just any train. No, this train would take me to my new school where I would live for almost a year. But why was I staring at a brick wall? Well, you see, I wasn't just going to any school, no. I was going to Hogwarts, a school of witchcraft and wizardry. Now before you ask me a bunch of questions about it, let me tell you that's all I knew. I was planning on reading my books on the train when nobody sat by me. Now, lets get back to the original question. I was staring at the brick wall, between platforms nine and ten, because that was how you get to the train. As the man who came to my house to speak with me and my parents said, "You walk straight through the brick wall. Don't worry though, it's enchanted so you won't feel a thing." I remember thinking about how he talked about magic like it was perfectly normal! I had just found out that I had magic powers! I believe his name was Professor Logbutton or something like that.

Anyways, there I was standing a bit away from the brick wall between the platforms, with my cart, which held my trunk, which held all my stuff, except for my few belongings that I had in my bag I was wearing. I then looked at my parents, who were just as nervous as I was, and saw my father nod. I turned, took a deep breath, looked at the wall, and started running towards it, thinking, "Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash." And the next thing I knew, I was standing on a new platform. This one was called Platform Nine and three-quarters. I remember looking right up at the Hogwarts Express, awed by its beauty. It was a magnificent, scarlet red steam engine with packs of kids boarding it. Some you could tell we're all in a group, like all the people with blonde hair, or the girls with braids, or the people with red hair.

Looking at those groups, I wondered if I'd be In a group at Hogwarts, or if everyone would just ignore me and make fun of me because I was different, like in elementary school. I hoped not the latter.

Then, I turned around to see my parents come trough the wall. I couldn't help but laugh at their faces, which were filled with relief that we hadn't crashed and amazement at the magic. They smiled and led me towards the scarlet engine. I felt my eyes getting watery when I realized that this would probably be the last time we saw each other for almost a whole year. I heard a sniffle and saw that my mom, one of the strongest people I knew, had tears in her eyes too. I smiled at her and my dad through the salty tears sliding down my cheeks. Then my dad said, "Don't worry Paige. We'll always be there for you." I looked at my mom and she smiled and said, "I just can't believe hat my little girl has magical powers and that she'll be far away from me, learning how to control them for almost an entire year." I smiled and said, "I know. I can't believe it either. But I guess it really is real. This is really happening. Don't forget I'll write to you guys, and Leo too." They smiled some more and my dad said, " And will always return your letters with love and promise to give Leo his. We're just really going to miss you honey." I felt a few more tears slide down my cheek as I said, "I'm going to miss you guys too. But I want to do this. This is my chance to make new friends and learn new things. I just wish I didn't have to be so far away from you guys." My mom smiled even bigger at me and hugged me, which caused my dad to join in too. We didn't mind that people were looking at us. All that mattered at that moment was us, together as a family.

Then, when we finally let go and dried our tears, they helped me get my trunk on the train, which took a while with all the kids running around. Once it was on, I hugged each of them one last time and said goodbye. As I got on, I could have sworn that i saw the red-headed passing guard show a small, sad smile towards me. Then, I found an empty compartment and hauled my trunk in, not even bothering to put it up, or close the door. Instead I rushed to the window and looked out, opening it, hoping to find my parents in the bustling crowd below. I was still looking for them when the train whistle blew. When people heard that, it was like everyone started rushing, all at once, to the train, either to get on or say goodbye. I was still looking for my parents and didn't even think about closing the door. I finally found them when the train started leaving. I started waving, hoping they would see me. As the train was pulling out of the station, they saw me waving frantically, trying to get their attention. They waved back smiling. I started to feel the tears coming back, but I knew they wouldn't want me to be sad or scared, so I bit back my tears and tried to look brave for their sake. Then, as the train left the station, I lost their faces in the crowd. I kept my "brave face" on and closed the window. Then, I looked around the compartment to find it empty with my trunk sitting on the floor. Of course nobody wanted to sit by me. I knew nothing about magic and they all probably had their own little groups.

I wished Leo were there. Sure, he was two years younger than me, but he didn't fit in with his classmates either! He was the only other person, other than my parents, who understood me. And now, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty for leaving him alone to face the bullies by himself. He once told me that he wasn't the one to poke the with a pencil and that it just seemed to float in the air and fly straight towards them. I was the only one who believed him because I had had similar things happen to me. We were best friends, and now we were separated. I shook my head to get out of fantasyland. Leo was not here. It was just me.

My eyes landed on my trunk. I sighed. It was going to take a lot of strength to get it up there on the shelf. I took off my bag and put it on my seat. Then, I picked up my trunk, or should I say tried to pick up my trunk. It was so heavy that I almost dropped it on my toe. And it just so happened, that at the exact same moment, a group of three boys, about my age, were walking past. They saw me struggling and stopped for a second. I thought that they might actually help me, but then one said something to the others and they all ran off in the opposite direction. I sighed and turned, with my back to the door, thinking about how to get the trunk, now my biggest enemy, up on the shelf.

I was thinking so hard, that when I felt a tap on my shoulder, I jumped up straight into the air.

"Sorry," I heard someone say. "I didn't mean to startle you. I was just wondering if maybe I could sit with you? Everywhere else is full or they won't let me in." I turned around and saw a sad, yet hopeful looking boy, with blonde hair and bright blue eyes. I smiled at him, hoping to let him know that he didn't need to worry about not being able to sit anywhere, and said, "Sure. I don't mind a little company." I moved over, shoving my stubborn trunk with my foot, still smiling. He looked very happy when I said that, and I saw him smile back. He then came in and brought his trunk as well. I tried to hold it in, but somehow a sigh escaped when I saw that. He looked at me curiously.

"Sorry. It's just that I've been trying to get my trunk up for a bit, but so far with zero success." I sighed again and smiled at him. He looked at my trunk thoughtfully and asked, "Did you try using magic?" I literally hit myself in the head when he said that. His smile got bigger. Then I said, "I don't know any spells. I was planning on reading my books during the train ride, and I didn't even think about using magic. Although, I probably won't be attempting magic anytime soon. For fear of losing a toe or two." The boy smiled and said, "That's alright. I probably won't be either. For fear of losing a finger or two." Then we both started laughing.

"By the way," said the boy after we had caught our breath, "I never did introduce myself. My name is Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy."

I smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Snorpius Shyperion Smalfoy. My name is Paige Elizabeth Malone." Scorpius smiled.

"Cage Felizameth Calone? What kind of name is that?" He asked. I smiled.

"I wouldn't talk, Snorpius." Then we both started laughing again. "I think we can just shove our trunks to the side since we aren't using them."

"Yes, that's a good idea," he replied as we started shoving them over.

"Hey Paige,"

"Yeah?"

"Are either of your parents magical?"

"No, I don't think anyone in my family is. Why?"

"I was just wondering."

I noticed that he hasn't said if his parents were. "What about you?" I asked, curious.

"Oh, both my parents are magical," he said a little glumly.

"Wow," I said amazed. "You must know a lot about magic then."

"Yeah, I guess I do," he said looking at the floor.

"I hardly know anything about it. Maybe you could tell me about it on our way to Hogwarts. Please?"

Scorpius thought about it for a moment, and then agreed. "Alright, but just so you know, my parents say that muggle-borns are usually at the top of the class. So later at school, I'll probably be asking you for answers. Oh," he said seeing the look of confusion on my face. "Muggles are what we call non-magic folk. So you would be a muggle-born." He paused to see if I was following along and when he saw I was, he continued to explain the magical world to me, while I listened to every word.

He talked about Hogwarts and explained the four houses and moving staircases. He explained the Ministry of Magic and the Minister's job.

Then he started talking about someone named Harry Potter.

"Harry Potter?" I asked.

"Yes, Harry Potter. He was the greatest wizard hero of all time. He defeated the darkest wizard who ever lived and lived to tell the tale! I kind of know what happened, but my family doesn't like to talk about it too much."

"And why's that?" I asked, getting curiouser and curiouser.

"We'll, some of my family was kind of on the dark wizard's side. But towards the end of the battle they didn't care who won, because they just wanted their family together. He stopped, looked at me, and said, "Well, let's start from the beginning." And with that he started to tell, what he knew of, Harry Potter's tale.

When he was done with that, he started talking about Diagonal Ally. He was explaining to me how many knuts were in a sickle, when the three boys who saw me drop my trunk, stopped outside our open compartment, holding loads of candy. I turned and saw that Scorpius had stopped talking and was now glaring at the boys. They had stopped and were now looking at us. Then, one who was rather tiny, spoke up.

"Listen, if you're mad at us for not letting you sit with us, it was because we were saving room for the candy," he said to Scorpius. Then he turned to me saying, "And we didn't help you because we didn't want all the candy to be gone be the time we got there."

Another boy, who had wide eyes and big ears, saw us still glaring at them and said, "But we couldn't get back into the compartment because Damien's brother got in, while we were getting candy, and locked us out." He pointed towards the last boy, who had darker skin.

"So we were wondering if we could possibly sit with you guys. We do have a peace offering," Damien said, as the three of them held up the candy they were holding.

Scorpius looked at me and I shrugged. Sure, why not?

Then he turned to the boys and smiled, saying, "Sure! After all, you guys do have a peace offering. My name is Scorpius Malfoy and this is Paige Malone. She's a muggle and I was explaining stuff to her." The boys sat down and smiled at me.

"My name's Linus Finnigan, and this is Zachary Puckle and Damien Thomas," said the short boy with sandy hair, whose name was Linus, as I now knew.

"Actually, I go by Zach and nice to meet you." said Zach. I smiled back and said, "Nice to meet you too."

Then we all worked together to lift Scorpius's trunk onto mine to form a table. After that, we put all the candy on the "table" and the boys joined in telling me about magic, while we all passed around a box of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavor Beans.

"Hey Scorpius," said Linus, as he popped a red bean with green spots I his mouth. "Have you told Paige about," Then he suddenly started choking and coughing. He spit out the bean. "Strawberry. I'm allergic. But forget about that. What I was trying to ask was have you told Paige about Quidditch yet?"

In my head I tried to remember anything about Quidditch, but nothing came to mind. Scorpius hadn't told me about that yet.

"Woops. No, I didn't yet. I totally forgot about that," replied Scorpius.

"FORGOT ABOUT IT? HOW CAN YOU FORGET ABOUT QUIDDITCH?" Linus cried. He pretended to attack Scorpius with candy. It got rather funny when he stared hitting him with a licorice wand. The rest of us just laughed and smiled.

Once we got Linus to calm down, they all helped explain Quidditch to me. It turned out to be a wizard game that was played on broomsticks. But these brooms actually flew! They tried to describe the game to the best of their ability, but I got very confused. Eventually, they just gave up and said I'd understand it better once I watched a match or two.

Suddenly, a question popped into my mind. "Hey, where do you guys want to better sorted?" Linus immediately answered Gryffindor. After a bit of thought, Damien decided Ravenclaw, because his mom was set on him being one just like her, and he didn't want to disappoint. Zach said that pretty much his entire family had been Hufflepuff, but he felt like he was different and wanted to be in Gryffindor.

Scorpius thought for a while, and I could tell that this was t his favorite subject to talk about. I told him be didn't have to answer if he didn't want to, but he insisted on answering because I had asked. Eventually, after some more thinking, he said that he wanted to be a Gryffindor to show his dad that he didn't have to be a Slytherin to succeed. He said that his mom would be proud no matter what.

I looked out the window and saw the sun setting. I suddenly started digging around in my bag, making the others send curious looks my way. Then I found it.

"What's that?" asked Linus. Zach and Scorpius were looking at it confused too. Damien looked like he knew what it was.

"This is a camera," I told them. "It takes pictures."

"Why do you have it out now?" asked Linus.

"Because I want to take a picture of the sunset."

"Why the sunset?" he continued.

"Well, it's my favorite time of day. Look how beautiful it is," I said, pointing out the window I had opened. They all looked and I smiled as I heard Linus say, "Woah," while Zach asked, "Who knew? Well, besides Paige of course." I looked at Damien, who looked amazed, and then at Scorpius, who looked thoughtful.

I took my picture and then sat next to him. "What's on your mind Snorpius?" He showed a small smile, but then it faded.

"I was just thinking about how lucky I am to have friends already. You know, with my family being on the dark lord's side years ago."

I nodded knowingly, for I knew how it felt to be a loner, separated from the rest. That's why I was so happy to come to Hogwarts. It was like a second chance to make friends and actually fit in for a change. I smiled at him and said, "It'll be fine." Then I went back to my seat and got out my journal. I turned to the second page and wrote Scorpius's name on top with a pencil. Then Zach's on the third, Linus's on the fourth, and Damien's on the fifth. Then I started writing and drawing down stuff I knew about each person on their page. Scorpius had the most.

Then, after a while, I got like a little Feeling. Like when you know something and you know it's right. How I got it or why, I don't know, but I did know what it was about.

"Hey guys, we're going to be arriving at Hogwarts soon," I said to Damien, Zach, and Scorpius (Linus had fallen asleep.) They agreed and I left the compartment so they could change. Then they did the same for me.

When we were all in our to robes, we started talking again.

"So, do you have any siblings? I don't." I asked to no one in particular. Scorpius shook his head, no. Zach nodded and said, "Yeah. Eliza, who's a fourth-year, and Olivia, who's a third-year."

"I've got a little sister named Daisy," said Linus, wanting to be a part of the conversation.

Damien said, " I've got my stupid, Ravenclaw, older brother, who's a sixth-year, a little sister named Kendra, who's seven, and another little sister, named Mikayla who's-"

Suddenly, someone was knocking on the outside of our compartment. An older girl, with silvery-blonde hair, poked her head in, wearing her robes, and said, "We're going to be arriving at Hogwarts soon, so you guys are going to want to put on your-oh!" She stopped, noticing that we already had our robes on. She smiled and said, "Never mind. Oh, and you first-years shouldn't worry about the sorting to much. Good luck, and welcome to Hogwarts."

She smiled more and left, probably to tell more people to get their robes on. I had noticed that she was wearing a head girl badge, and a black and yellow-striped tie. I didn't even have a uniform yet. Just plain, black robes.

Soon enough, the Hogwarts Express pulled into the Hogsmeade train station. Scorpius and I left all our stuff in the train, including my bag. As we got off the train, into the crowd, we got separated from Zach, Damien, and Linus. Then, through all the voices, I heard a deep, gruff one.

"Firs' years. Firs' years, o'er here."

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a swinging lantern held by a giant man. I looked at Scorpius, and his nod confirmed my guess that this lantern-swinging giant was Hagrid, the gamekeeper.

We followed him and I heard him saying hello to someone he knew. He led us to the boats and told us, "Four per boat now, I don't be wantin' any stragglers, ya hear? Good."

As everyone rushed towards the boats to be with their friends, I lost Scorpius in the crowd.

All of a sudden I felt a bit nervous, but I knew, to fit in, I had to be strong. So I ignored the nervousness and went with the crowd.

I ended up in a boat with someone named Lorcan Scamander, who looked as nervous as I felt, Sierra Edgecomb, and Carly Parkinson, who, in a way, resembled a pug.

I wished that Scorpius, Zach, Damien, or Linus could be there with me. I wished that Leo could too. I already missed him and my parents.

As we rounded a bend, I heard everyone gasping. I looked up and saw the castle. It was beautiful! Especially with all the lights shining down onto the lake.

I was amazed and excited. The castle seemed wonderful, and I would be living there for almost an entire year!

I don't know why, I guess I had that weird feeling again, but I smiled. I smiled and looked up at the castle, repeating one thing to myself.

"Everything will be fine."