CHAPTER ONE

Sarah was looking forlornly out the window of the car. This was to be his first year of boarding school, but not just any boarding school. This boarding school taught magic. Sarah's older brother and sister had already gone to school. They both had done well, despite mica's need for a tutor, so everyone expected Sarah to do well. Mica was holding her toad, Boatsy, Jon was holding his cat Wanda, and Sarah was holding her pet Fwooper, Dumbledore.

Sarah was sick of driving, and she felt slightly ill. "When are we going to get there?" Sarah asked.

"Soon" said Sarah's mother Annie. Annie had a husband named Mike. They weren't wizards.

Sarah didn't thing that soon was really that soon. It seemed over an hour before they got out of the car and Mica said, "Finally!"

They walked over to a funny looking tree; Jon took out his wand and tapped on the tip of the lowest branch. All of a sudden, the tree moved aside and they could walk into a little town.

"Okay, first Mica, take Sarah to go get her wand. Me and Jon will go get everyone the books they need. We'll meet back at Gladrags wizardwear."

"Okay mom, let's go Sarah." Mica said.

"Where do we get a wand?" Sarah asked

"This way." Mica lead Sarah towards the end of the town. They went into a shop called Blake's Quality Wands.

"Good morning." Said the man behind the counter, "Wands are sold for seven galleons."

"We need one." Said Mica.

The man held out a wand to Sarah. "How about this 11 inches mermaid scale made of yew." Said Mr. Blake

Sarah took the wand and waved it. "Yes, I think that will work." Mr. Blake said.

Mica handed him the money. "Thank you, let's go Sarah." They left the shop and went to Gladrags Wizardwear. When they got there, Jon and Annie was already their.

"Did you have any trouble?" Annie asked.

"Nope," Mica said

"Okay let's find your sizes."

They were out of there in no time, and then they finished all there shopping. After shopping, they went to meet there cousins at The Green Dragon Bar and Grill. They had a butterbeer, and went up to the school after saying goodbye to there mother's.

"My favorite store was Miss. Tibbin's fancy parchment store." Said Sarah

"Cool." Said Mica sarcastically.

"Mine to." Said Dillon, one of their many cousins.

They went into the main building, Sarah and Dillon went over to the dorm list and saw that they were both assigned to the new dorm building named Ashbury dorm, and then they went into the banquet hall.

Sarah and Dillon sat with each other. Mica, her cousin Aubrey, and there friends sat by each other, they were all in the same dorm building. Jon and Brandon sat together with there friends.

Then Headmaster Vickers got up to say his speech. "Welcome to the Midwest Academy of Sorcery. First years, we are hear to guide you thru your magical education. I hope you enjoy you term. Enjoy the feast."

Sarah dug into the food. First she ate a mouthwatering chicken, and had some delicious roast potatoes. And she kept eating until she couldn't eat any more. Now Headmaster Vickers stood up again. "If everyone would please go to your dorm room."

Everyone stood up and filed out of the banquet hall. When Sarah got to her dorm she noticed how small it was. Sarah had no problem falling asleep that night, and she woke up the next day with a letter at her feet. She opened it up and saw her first class was potions with Professor Vickers, headmaster Vickers sister. She got dressed, and headed down to breakfast with Dillon. She didn't eat very much, because she still felt full from last night. But next to her Dillon was putting big helpings of everything on his plate. "Hungry?" Sarah asked.

"Yeah, Why?"

"No reason." Sarah said half laughing. "What's your first class?"

"Magical Gardens, and you?"

"Potions, well see you later."

Sarah headed to potions. When she got there, she sat at a table by herself. A few minutes a girl with blonde hair, and blue eyes walked up to Sarah.

"Is it okay if I sit here?" she asked.

"Sure, I'm Sarah Page."

"I'm Kitty LaBoufé"

After that Professor Ramsey walked in. She was an average size woman, with a very kind voice. "Good morning. Today we are going to do some thing simple, we are going to make warteasu, a solution to get rid of warts within ten minutes. If every one would get out there ingredients, there cauldron, and turn to page twelve of there potions book, and get started, It is due at the end of class. The person with the best solution, will get ten bonus points. You may start."

Sarah got out all the things she needed, and got started.

b i u WARTEASU /b /u

three unicorn hairs

one pig eye

stir clockwise ten times

seven earthworms

stir counterclockwise twenty times

b USE ON WARTS ONLY /b /i

Sarah was the first person done. She put a sample in a test tube and took it up to Professor Ramsey. "Very impressive, not one mistake, your brother and sister are good in this class to.

Just then there was a big explosion, and Sarah turned around to see Kitty LaBoufé with exploded potion all over her. Sarah could not help laughing. "It was an accident,"

Said Kitty laughing also.

"Just clean up the mess." Said Professor Ramsey also laughing.

After potions, Sarah had Charms with professor Quimbley. Sarah walked into the class, and saw Dillon and Kitty were in her class. She went and sat in between them. "Kitty, this is my cousin Dillon."

"Hi, Dillon." Kitty said.

"Hi." Said Dillon unconcerned.

Professor Quimbley entered the room. "Settle down class, today were going to learn a spell called i Wingardium Leviosa /i The wand movement is a swish and flick; you will be practicing on a feather. Try it now, swish and flick."

Sarah picked up her wand and tried it. " i Wingardium Leviosa /i " Sarah's feather lifted into the air slowly. Sarah looked around to see that Kitty was making her feather twitch a little.

"Very good." Professor Quimbley said with a smile on his face. "Oh, do think you could give this to Jon, my wife made it for me, but I didn't like it." He handed Sarah a knitted cat blanket.

"Um, okay"

After Charms, Sarah went down for lunch with Dillon and Kitty. "Look at this." She said, "A cat blanket . . . a cat blanket, who in there right mind would give some one a cat blanket."

They laughed all the way to the banquet hall. When they got there, Sarah walked up to Jon and said, "Professor Quimbley told me to give this to you."

"How nice, it's a kitty blanket." He said. "Who are you?" He asked Kitty.

"Oh, I'm Kitty, Kitty LaBoufé." She said.

"Um okay." Jon said taking out his newspaper.

Sarah slowly ate her egg salad sandwich.

"There was another attack," said Jon looking up from his newspaper.

"Where?" Mica asked concernedly.

"Don't worry. It's just some obscure magical village out east." Jon replied soothingly.

"Attack?" Dillon asked, "Who did it?"

"The Dark Lady," Mica said with a hint of worry in her voice. Wasn't he told this before he entered the Wizarding World?

"Who is the Dark Lady?" he asked.

i Damn it /i thought mica. How could they not tell him this before he entered the world?

"She's the person who took over after Harry Potter defeated You-Know-Who," Mica said, resigned to the fact that she would have to explain this, "She took over the Death Eaters after he died."

" i Death Eaters/i " Dillon asked, "What are they? Who is You-Know-Who?"

"Dillon, people are still scared. He was a very evil man. He had it in for everyone who was less than a pureblood. He recruited all kinds of Dark Creatures," mica said with apprehension in her voice.

"Dillon, his name was Voldemort. Lord Voldemort," said Jon, relieving Mica of having to say it. Everyone at the table shuddered.

"Do you remember when the president died Dillon?" Sarah asked.

"Of course, everyone at school was freaking out, I remember, what does that have to do with Voldytoid?"

" i He /i killed him. It was a brutal killing. He threatened the killing of important Muggle figures if the Order of the Phoenix didn't back down. He killed the president and the pope and the British Prime Minister," Sarah said softly.

Everyone sat thinking on this. "But what are Death Eaters?" Dillon asked breaking the silence.

"They were his followers. They're the followers. They're the Dark Lady's followers now," Jon said quietly. i Why Brandon and Aubrey didn't tell him this /i , Jon thought.

Everyone sat digesting this until the class bell rang. Sarah, Kitty and Dillon had Transfiguration next. They set off for class. Dillon was clearly still reflecting on what he had heard. They reached the classroom and sat in the seats in the very back.

"Good afternoon, today we will transfigure matches, into needles. The incantation is i Abeo Postulo /i . Okay, now go ahead and try." Professor Tappan said.

Sarah picked up her wand and tried it. " i Abeo Postulo /i ". Nothing happened. " i Abeo Postulo /i ." Nothing happened. "Abeo Postulos." Sarah's match burst into flames and left ashes on her desk. Kitty and Dillon were laughing. "Can I have another match?" she asked.

After Transfiguration, they went out and sat by the lake. They stayed out there until it was lunch time. When they got into the banquet hall, they sat next to Mica, Aubrey, Jon, and Brandon who were talking about the attack

"So what exactly happened?" Aubrey asked.

"The Death Eaters attacked a small town out east. A couple of people died, and some badly injured." Jon said. Mica looked at Dillon.

"Dillon, are you okay?" Everyone looked at him, he was very pale.

"Dillon, have something to eat. You'll feel better." Aubrey said.

Jon pulled a bottle out of his pocket. "Take this Dillon, it's a cheering potion," Jon said sympathetically.

Dillon took the bottle and Drunk it. The color came back to his face. "Sorry we didn't tell you about The Dark Lady." Aubrey said.

"It's fine." Said Dillon, sounding much happier.

"I have to go," Mica said. "I have tutoring with Amelia Lambchumps, and will some body else i please /i tutor me!"

"See you later." said Jon.

After dinner, Sarah, Dillon, and Kitty went into their common room. It was around ten o'clock when Sarah went to her dorm, and went to bed.