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"Welcome, little badger, I know just where to put you" the sorting hat claimed before shouting "Hufflepuff!"

A huge cheer went up from the Hufflepuff table along with polite clapping from both Ravenclaw and Gryffindor tables as Harry Potter got up of the stool and made his way over to his new housemates and took a seat next the two students he had made friends with earlier on the Hogwarts Express.

Flashback

Harry Potter was wondering around king's Cross station looking around platform 9 and 3/4 after been dropped of by his uncle, when he felt drawn to a pillar in between platform 9 and 10. Wondering what was causing this feeling Harry made his may over to it and circled around it trying to find out what was causing this feeling. Soon realizing that it was only one side that he was feeling drawn to, he made his way closer and took a good look at the side of the pillar when someone accidently bumped into him rather hard sending him flying into the pillar. Harry braced himself for the impact with the pillar only to find himself impacting with the floor, looking up from the floor in confusion he saw that he had fallen through the pillar and was now on a platform he'd never seen before which had a big red steam engine on the tracks with Hogwarts Express in gold on its side.

Harry picked himself up from the floor and looked back at where he had fallen through and pressed his hand against the wall only o watch it disappear through it.

"Whoa." Harry said as he realized the entrance was hidden with magic just like Diagon Alley, but was still confused as to why he felt drawn to it. Deciding to forget about it for now he gathered up his things including Hedgwig's cage and made his way onto the train looking for somewhere to sit down, he passed a few compartments which already had students in them, he continued on until he found an empty compartment, opening the door and stepping inside and putting his trunk in the overhead racking he sat down with Hedwig at his side near the window. Figuring it would be a good time to get a bit of sleep Harry pulled down the blinds and settled himself in the seat and found himself drifting off to sleep.

"Interesting."

Harry looked around for a source of the voice he just heard, but could only see darkness surrounding him.

"You have such potential." it continued.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked nervously, not liking that he couldn't see who was talking to him.

"It's not yet time for you to know"

"Who are you? What do you want?" Harry asked

"You'll find out soon enough, but for now it's time to wake up! …. Little badger" the voice finished with a whisper.

Harry Jerked awake form the strange dram falling out of his seat, startling the compartments newest occupants.

"Are you ok?" asked a ginger haired female sitting near the door.

"Err …. Yeah" Harry mumbled while getting back into his seat.

"I'm Susan, and this is my friend Hannah." she said indicating to the other girl that was also sitting near the door.

"Hi." Hannah said with a smile of her face.

"I'm Harry, nice to meet you both."

"I hope you don't mind us joining you in here, but we got tired of looking for an empty compartment and you were asleep." Susan explained.

"It's ok, don't' worry about it." Harry assured her.

"So … are you two looking forwards to Hogwarts? Harry asked, hoping to break the ice and start a conversation with both Hannah and Susan.

End Flashback

Harry snapped back to reality when he saw the headmaster sat back down and food suddenly appeared on the table in front of them. While helping themself to plenty of food, Susan asked

"What do you make of the headmasters speech?"

"I don't think there's anything dangerous on the third floor; I mean imagine how much trouble he'd get into if a student got injured or worse." Harry Said "And no doubt your Aunt would be furious Susan."

Hannah snickered "That's an understatement."

"She's not that bad." Huffed Susan "She's just a firm believer in the justice system and doing things by the book as she says."

"What's it like? Having your Aunt working as the head of the DMLE?" asked Harry

"It's not too bad; she tries to be more of a friend than an Aunt." Susan explained

The conversation soon died down as Headmaster Dumbledore stood

"Now that we are all fed and watered, it's off to bed with you all."

"First years over here!" a seventh year with bright yellow hair shouted. "I'm Tonks, a Prefect for Hufflepuff, gather round me and I'll show you to the common room and dorms where you'll be sleeping during your time here."

Harry, Susan, Hannah and the rest of the first years gathered around the prefect and followed her as she lead them out of the Grand Hall. Along the way Tonks pointed out several routes they could take that would get them to the classes they would be taking this year and which would be the quickest. The first years gathered around Tonks when she stopped next to a blank section in the wall.

"Alright listen up, this here is the entrance to our common room, you will need a password to be able to enter. The password will change from time to time, when it does a notice will be posted on the notice board in the common room or if you've forgotten it you can ask a prefect"

Tonks then turned facing the wall and said "Unity"

Slowly a door started to appear where the empty wall once was. Following the prefect through the door the first years were eager to get their first look at their new home. The walls were a soft cream colour with a yellow floor; along the walls were numerous pictures of wizards, witches and some of various strange creatures Harry had never seen before. Throughout the room there was also; alcoves with tables for studying and more comfortable sofas for relaxing.

"Now, the first year boys dorms are on the left and the first floor going down and the girls dorms are on the right on the first floor going up, I'd recommend getting to sleep now as it's going to be a busy day for you all tomorrow, you will be getting you timetables at breakfast which will tell you what classes you have, when and who with." Tonks explained as she left to go to her dorm. After saying good night to both Susan and Hannah, Harry made his way to the first year boy's dorms. After finding his trunk and getting changed into his pyjamas he got into bed and couldn't help but think 'this is so much better than Stonewall High that his Aunt and Uncle wanted to send him to'.