Chapter 1 – Hogwarts Express
It was finally time to return to Hogwarts. I hugged my mother goodbye and grabbed my trunk heading onto the train to find my friends or at least what was left of them. I knew Dean wouldn't be returning this year after the announcement of the Muggleborn Registration. There was no way to prove he wasn't muggleborn even he didn't know if his father was muggle or wizard.
It looked like this year it would just be me, Seamus, Ginny and possibly Luna. Luna was more Ginny's friend than mine though. I found her a little weird. Nice but really odd.
I finally saw a flash of Ginny's bright red hair in the compartment next to me and opened the door.
"It's great to see you Gin" I said wrapping my arms around my best female friend.
I looked around the compartment to see Neville and Luna. Luna I wasn't surprised to see but Neville wasn't really someone who I had spent much time with.
"I've missed you Bailey" Ginny replied "did you see they made Snape headmaster"
"Yea this can't mean anything good" I wasn't happy about this at all.
"We're planning on bringing back the DA if enough people are interested in coming back" piped up Neville.
"You really think a bunch of school kids can take on You-Know-Who because we all know Snape is just his puppet" I snapped.
Not that I thought reinstating the DA was bad because it really was a good idea. I just didn't like that Ginny had planned this Neville and Luna but not me. Childish to be jealous of something so trivial yes but I didn't have a lot of friends and Ginny was really my only female friend since Lexi stabbed me in the back and I hated feeling left out.
Neville looked a little upset at me snapping at him so I offered him a small smile. "Sorry. It sounds like a good thing to keep our minds of all this bad stuff and we really should stick together in times like this. I'm in"
"In what?" came a voice from the carriage door.
I smiled and turned around to see Seamus standing there. I threw myself into his arms and hugged him tightly. "I missed you so much" I said in his ear.
Seamus and I have been friends since we met in Diagon Alley before going Hogwarts for our first year.
"I missed you to Bailey" he said lifting her up and hugging her. "What were you talking about before I got here?" he asked
"The DA" Neville answered. "We're going to reform it this year. We were just telling Bailey about it before you came in. You want to join us?"
"Definitely" he said to Neville.
"We hope to have the word spread by the weekend so we can have our first meeting then if you could let some of the others know" Luna spoke for the first time.
we all discussed plans for the DA most of the ride and a few people had come to the carriage knowing that if anyone was continuing the DA it would be Ginny. Word was spreading fast.
The train came to a sudden stop. Reminding me of my third year at Hogwarts when dementors had come on board to search for Sirius Black.
"There's no way we're there already" I voiced. The others all nodded in agreement.
I looked into the corridor to see blacked cloaked figures moving around. My first thought was dementors again but it was worse. Death Eaters searching the train for Harry Potter. I know he isn't the smartest of people but he isn't stupid enough to actually try to go back to Hogwarts.
Eventually the train began moving again but we ended all discussion about the DA after seeing the Death Eaters for all we knew there could still be some aboard listening to all our plans.
Ginny, Luna and I went to change into our school robes while Seamus and Neville just changed in the carriage.
Rather than waiting for the girls I decided to head back once ready since Lavender and Parvati had come to change to and I really wasn't in the mood to listen to them giggle and bitch.
As I made my way back I bumped into someone.
"Watch where you're going traitor" he snapped "don't want to get your mudblood loving traitor disease all over me"
"Real mature Malfoy. Why don't you go to hell and get out of my way before I hex you again" I replied angrily pushing him out the way so I could go past.
We used to be good friends before I was sorted into Gryffindor and branded a blood traitor by my father. Malfoy and I grew up together because our fathers were good friends and it hurt a lot when he rejected my friendship. I'm over it now and want nothing to do with him or my father but it still stings a little.
I got back to our carriage, took my seat next to Seamus and crossed my arms.
"Who pissed you off?" he asked me.
"Malfoy!" I stated with a huff
"Forget about him. He's just a stuck up git" Seamus said and put him arm around my shoulders pulling me to him.
I could feel my stomach doing flips at the contact and smiled burying my head into him.
Just then Ginny and Luna walked in.
"I thought you were going to wait for us?" Ginny said looking at me.
"Sorry" I replied "Lavender and Parvati came in you know I can't stand them" I sat up taking my head off Seamus.
"You're going to have to get used to them Bailey. Hermione and Lexi are both Muggleborn so your going to be alone with them in your dorm this year" Seamus laughed.
"Shit" I said only just realizing
"At least that 'Mudblood' whore Lexi is gone though" Ginny laughed at Bailey remembering the shouting match between Bailey and Lexi in the common room before term ended last year where Bailey had called Lexi a Filthy mudblood whore in front of half of Gryffindor.
I was still given dirty looks by some of my fellow Gryffindors for the outburst. Not that Lexi didn't deserve every insult I could throw at her.
Everyone in the carriage laughed except Neville.
"Don't you feel bad for saying it now knowing that the only reason she isn't back is because she is muggleborn. She was your best friend" Neville said to me.
"Of course not. I went soft on her she's lucky she got away with as little as a few names" I replied smiling.
"Don't forget the broken nose" Ginny added
"How could I forget that" I laughed remembering the blood spilling out as Lexi ran out of the common room crying.
The train came to a stop in Hogsmeade station. We all exited the train together and found and empty 'horseless' carriage and sat together.
"I wonder how many empty seats there will be" Luna said
"Too many" I answered her
The carriages took us up to the castle and we were silent for the rest of the trip. I put my head on Seamus' shoulder and looked out the window into the darkness thinking about Dean and all the others who wouldn't be returning this year.
A/N I hope you enjoyed reading my first Harry Potter fan fiction. Please let me know what you think in the comments.