This is my first time writing a fanfic and I am kind of afraid, but hey, let's do this. Oh and I'm not from America, but I chose to write in English because I love English, and Harry Potter is British, so yeah. But if I make any grammar mistakes or I don't know, some foreign mistake, feel free to correct me. Thanks and here I go.

Everything except my OC character belongs to JK Rowling.

Dawn woke up exactly at 6 a.m. without her alarm, that's how excited she was to go to Hogwarts. She couldn't believe it when she received the letter. The fact that her hair and her eyes kept changing colors according to her humor finally made sense. Well, at least until the day she went to Diagon alley with her mom to buy her supplies for school. There she found out that the other wizards had normal hair and eyes, but even so, she didn't really mind it, she could keep doing what she always did, hide her hair with a cap and her eyes with glasses (she also looked like a weirdo doing so, but she thought it was better like that then having her hair express her feelings for her), and instead she was amused with everything she had to buy in the list. She had lots of fun in Diagon alley.

Anyway, back to today, after Dawn finished getting ready and checking if everything was packed she went down the stairs. Her mother was already eating her breakfast.

-"You hurry up with your breakfast 'cause if you lose the train to your freak school, I'll lock you up in your room during the whole semester."

-"yes ma'am…"

Needless to say, Dawns relationship with her mother was… horrible.

-"Thank god you're going to this school. Do you know if you have to come for Christmas? I'm planning a trip with some friends so warn me about it because then I'll have to find a place for you to stay in. And don't even ask, you can't come, wherever you go terrible things happen and even between the freaks you are a freak… oh dear, please hide that so that you won't be expelled!"

-"yeah, I will." - Said Dawn without any emotion, while quietly finishing her breakfast. When she was done they hurried to the car to go to King's Cross.

-"Right, here we are! Send me a letter to warn me about Christmas. And until next summer" – then she lowered her voice –"if I'm lucky…"

-"I will…"

-"Bye-bye!" – Her mother waited until she got everything of the car and hurried off.

Dawn already knew the station, she had been there before, but what intrigued her at the moment was that she didn't know how to find the platform 9 ¾. She looked between 9 and 10 and there was nothing. She began panicking, because there were only a few minutes left. "Okay, don't panic!" she kept walking around the platforms in circles until she heard an owl cry. She saw a family, probably a family of wizards and followed them. She saw their son run through the wall followed by his parents.

-"Right…"- Now she was a bit confused. She wasn't sure if that was some kind of spell she had to do or if she only had to run towards the wall. "I should just run for it… I mean, the worst that could happen is: I hit straight to the wall and fall…" So she decided she would try it because she didn't want to spend the whole semester locked in her room (she knew her mom wasn't kidding about it). She closed her eyes, prepared herself and ran, afraid of what would happen, but nothing happened. She opened her eyes to see lots of students running to the train, Hogwarts express. She couldn't help but smile. She was so relieved. And now all she had to do was get into the train and finally enjoy her trip to the most awesome school ever! But getting in the train wasn't as simple as she thought with all her luggage and her owl to carry, and that's why she lost balance and fell on the grounds making a huge noise causing some students that were passing by to giggle at her. Then a boy, that apparently had her age, appeared. He had light brown hair and his face had lots of scars. Actually, she would be scared of him if it wasn't for his kind expressions. He was offering her a hand to help her up while smiling a bit. He also looked a little curious about her looks, but she pretended not to notice. "I will not ask about his scars so he should do the same about my style…" Dawn though. She took his hand and smiled back murmuring "thanks".

-"I can help you with this if you want..." – He said pointing to the luggage on the ground.

-"Oh, Thank you! That would be great! Really, I mean, I think I put too much things in there… haha… So foolish" – Then she started to laugh nervously because she was embarrassed.–"Oh! I'm Dawn, Dawn Piper"- She smiled widely and the boy laughed and answered:

-"I'm Remus Lupin."- They shook hands and then he took her luggage while she grabbed the owl's cage.

After sometime walking through the train they finally found and almost empty compartment. There was a girl with red hair and green eyes and a boy with greasy black hair and a large nose. When Remus opened the door, the two of them looked a little surprised to them. Dawn didn't blame them, they were just having a normal conversation and then suddenly a boy with a lot of scars on his face enters the compartment followed by a girl that looks like a weirdo. They kept staring until Remus spoke up:

-"Do you mind if she stays here?"
Then the girl smiled widely and answered:

-"Not at all! Are you first years too?"

-"Yeah, we are. So I'll be going now…"

-"Okay! Oh, by the way, I'm Lily Evans and this is Severus Snape." – She pointed ate the boy that looked really bored now.

-"I'm Remus Lupin, nice to meet you." – Said Remus smiling before leaving the compartment.
The Lily looked at Dawn waiting for her introduction.
-"Oh, yeah, I'm Dawn Piper!" – They smiled at each other. After a little tense moment of silence Severus spoke up:

-"So, as I was saying Lily, Slytherin is the house for students who exhibit such traits as cunning, resourcefulness and ambition. It is the best house at Hogwarts."

-"I see… Then I will be going there with you!"

-"Oh, no Lily, it's not like that! Didn't I tell you? You will be sorted by the sorting hat."

-"Yes… I forgot!"

-"Um… Sorry to be intruding… kind of…" – Started Dawn shyly – "But could you tell me what you were talking about?"

-"Oh, Sev was telling me things about Hogwarts…"

-"Really… and how do you know about it?" – Dawn asked a bit curious.

-"Because I have wizards in my family, so I've heard about it. And I also read about it in Hogwarts a History."

-"Ah… nice! And what – But Dawn couldn't finish her question because Severus cut her and started to talk to Lily again, letting her out. Lily seemed to notice it and shot some glances at Dawn kind of apologizing for his attitude. After a while she decided to go out of the compartment for a walk. She still didn't understand the Slytherin thing, or how was a school supposed to have a house in there (she was thinking of house in a literal way which made it more confusing). While she was deep in thoughts she bumped into a boy a bit too hard, they both fell on the ground and he hit his head. She got up quickly and offered him a hand while saying:

-"I'm sorry! So sorry! Oh my, are you okay? I wasn't looking where I was going! I'm so sorry!"

-"It's O.K.!"- Said the boy smiling ate her. He had black messy hair and used round glasses. He took her hand and stood up.

-"Are you a first year too?"- Dawn asked.

-"Yeah, I'm James Potter! What's your name?"

-"I'm Dawn Piper…"- Then she thought about her "conversation" with Severus and Lily earlier –"Are your parents wizards too?"

-"Yeah… So you're a muggle-born!"

-"A what?"

-"A witch who is born to non-magical parents!"

-"Oh, yes! I guess I am a muggle-born… So can I ask you something?" – She looked at him wondering if he would be rude like Severus or nice like Remus.

-"Sure! What do you want to" – But he was interrupted by someone screaming in pure rage:

-"POTTER! I'M GONNA KILL YOU! BASTARD!"

Dawn turned around to see a gorgeous guy with shoulder length black hair and grey eyes, but he was really stinky and was all dirty, as if he had been playing around in mud… Then James grabbed Dawn's hand while he screamed:

-"Shit! Run!"

They kept running until they entered a random compartment to hide. James put a spell on the glass so that they wouldn't be seen and the stood there waiting for the guy to pass. When he finally did, Dawn looked at James waiting for her answers.

-"Well, I might have been responsible for throwing a Dungbomb in the Slytherins compartment…"

-"Come on! What the heck is a Slytherin?" – Dawn asked a little bit irritated, then she noticed his surprised face –"Sorry, but well, I don't understand how is a school supposed to have a house in it? And why did you attack them?"

James looked at her and couldn't help but laugh, but he wasn't the only one that did. They only noticed that there was someone in the compartment when he started laughing too. They turned around and saw a boy sitting in the corner reading a book.

-"Remus, hello! No! Wait! Why are you laughing? I'm serious!"

-"Well, it's because you misunderstood the meaning of houses, they are like a community. Not literally a house…" –Said Remus as calm as always.

-"Oh… Well that makes sense… and what about Slytherin house?"

-"It's just the WORST house! Full of racist pureblood assholes!" –Said James.

Dawn was a little confused now, because while Severus was praising the house saying he wanted to be there, James said it was the worst…

-"And that is why I threw a Dungbomb in their compartment!" –Said James smiling widely.

-"I see…" –She decided she would believe what James had said since Severus was such a prick to her. And then that made even more sense: He wanted to go to Slytherin house! Then she turned to Remus:

-"Where is everybody from this compartment?"

-"Some of them went out just to walk and the others were looking for the trolley-lady to buy something to eat." –James looked at Remus and said:

-"I still didn't introduce myself! I'm James Potter."

-"I'm Remus Lupin."

-"And I'm Sirius Black!"

They all turned around quickly and saw Sirius at the door smiling at them, an evil smile. –"Nice to meet you!" –He said and then threw something inside the compartment and closed the door. The thing exploded and out of it came a lot of green smoke that smelled a lot! When the smoke got down, they looked at each other and they were all greenish. "Great, now I'm even more weird" though Dawn. But then she looked at Remus and James and they were so funny that she started laughing. They looked at her and then started to laugh too. After a few minutes she looked over at them:

-"So, does any of you two know how to take this off?"

Okay, so this is the first chapter.
I decided not to make it too big, so the train ride ends in the next chapter and then… HOGWARTS! Yay!