Diamond

Chapter 1

'Be yourself, everyone else is already taken' Oscar Wilde

Everyone heard about the famous Harry Potter's hearing in the ministry, if you hadn't well you were quick to be updated on the train back to Hogwarts. It had been a long summer for me I was itching to get back to Hogwarts…It was my home, I know that sounds really depressing but me and Harry weren't that much different my parents were killed a couple of weeks after I was born in a death eater attack, I was shoved around among my dad's family until I was finally taken in by his aunt who is a squib and shuns magic so she lives fair out in the muggle world, so I was raised not knowing that I had magic coursing through my vanes that is until my letter came. Don't get me wrong I've never spoken to Harry we were in the same house but I'm a year younger but I could relate.

'Did you hear?' I was staring out the window and the fields passing by and had to stop myself screaming out in fright, when I looked up a smile spread over my face, it was Spencer my best friend since the first day. We had both been sorting into Gryffindor and we had bonded over the fact that even in the wizarding world we had been given unusual names, Spencer since she was a girl and Aria because my mother was a fan of music and opera or so I was told.

'Hear what?'

She rolled her eyes and she took the seat across from me

'About Harry Potter almost being kicked out of school'

'Again this has got to be the second or third time right' I loved winding Spencer up she was always so tightly wound

'Stop teasing me, have you heard?'

'Yes, I heard the Dumbledore had come into the hearing and demanded that Harry be let go'

'I don't think he demanded but he did bring a witness in'

'Who was the witness?' She smiled she knew that I loved hearing information like this, I don't like gossip about people's love lives but I love hearing about people sticking it to the system maybe because I dreamed of telling Aunt Eddith that she couldn't use me as a servant anymore

'Someone called Mrs Figg, she lives in the same street at Harry's and Dumbledore had asked her to keep an eye on Harry apparently she's a squib'

Mrs Figg where had I heard that name before…wait did she mean Arabella Figg the women that visits my Aunt, it makes sense if they were both Squibs but I always got the impression that she hated anything the do with Magic. Anyways weren't Dementors meant to be guarding Azkaban not attacking young people

'Earth to Aria, where did you go?'

'Sorry I was just thinking about what it would have been like for Harry to be attacked by Dementors, I thought they were meant to be guarding Azkaban'

'Yes they were that's why everyone is freaked out about it, what where they doing so far away from Azkaban'

'James says that he believes that they were sent to Harry by someone trying to make a point' James was one of Spencer's brothers she was the youngest in the family of four she has 2 older brothers and an older sister two had left Hogwarts and James was in his last year sitting his N.E.W.T.S

'Since when did James take part in conspiracy theories'

She giggled

'This whole thing is sending sane people into overdrive' she sighed and looked out the window going into her own world, she did this when she was deep in thought, sometimes she should would sit there for ages with a blank expression on her face then she would frighten me when she snaps out of it.

'So how was your summer?' She looked at me and waited for me to answer I was caught between it was great and I sat in my room waiting for the start of September

'Oh you know so and so, what about you?'

'It was great we went away to visit some Wizards in Spain that dad knew, they had a son' She blushed when she mentioned him

'Spencer you dark horse' She once again giggled, I was slightly jealous of her she got to go around the world and meet handsome guys I was stuck at home with my Aunt

We talked about her trip and what happened between her a Diago until the compartment door slid open and Pansy Parkinson strutted in, she lived to torment the younger years, was I mistaken or did her and Spencer nod to each other quickly thinking I wouldn't see

'Lookey what we have here little fourth years'

What do you want Pansy' I gritted my teeth

'Nothing I just wanted to try out a new curse on a little Gryffindor and lucky you, I hereby choose you' She raised her wand at me but before she could utter a word Ginny Weasley came up behind her and hit her with a Bat-Bogey Hex causing Pansy to run out of the compartment

'Thanks for that' I smiled at her

'No problem it's a speciality of mine, just don't tell anyone ok'

I nodded and she left muttering something about beating Slytherin in Quidditch

I turned to Spencer

'Thanks for the help'

'I was about to but Ginny came in at that point'

'Fine' I sat down something was going on with Spencer but I didn't know what, did I want to know? Was I happy being blissfully unaware?

'I'm going to the trolley for something to eat do you want anything?' I asked as I stood up I could feel the tension and I couldn't stand it

'I'm fine thank you' I nodded and left the compartment

Walking along the isles allowed my legs to stretch which felt great after sitting for so long, it was losing light outside so I knew we must nearly be there which meant that I needed to change into my robes when I get back, I waited in the queue till I got to the front and picked up a cauldron cake and some liquorice wands, I paid the lady and turned to leave. I took my time walking back, wanting to avoid sitting in the compartment with both of us silent, but when I got back Spencer wasn't there. Maybe she had decided to get something from the trolley after all, I took the opportunity to change into my robes and sat down nibbling on my liquorice wands. The train pulled into the station and there was still no sign of Spencer, I sighed and jumped onto the platform and nearly jumped six feet in the air when I felt a hand on my shoulder

'What the…'

'It's only me' Spencer stood before me changed into her robes'

'Where did you go' I asked her as I crossed my arms

'For a walk to stretch my legs, when I got back you were gone and I saw you on the platform'

'Oh right ok' for some reason I didn't believe her but I didn't want to get into that here on the platform

We followed the other students to the carriages that pulled themselves and we climbed in linking arms with each other and I couldn't help the smile that spread across my face, I would soon be in the place where I felt the most connected to my parents.

Disclaimer I only own my OC J.K Rowling owns the rest

This is Arias clothes she wore on the train

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