Hi folks! I'm editing this whole story now because it was a long time ago I began to write it and then it all just... fell apart in some strange way. I was really stressed out and didn't really follow my own plot and that made the whole thing really bad in my own opinion, but I would like to thank you all for being so supportive and fantastic even if it has sucked sometimes!

I didn't have an English spell and grammar check when I first started out and that's something I've noticed too while going through the text one more time. Like I've said before, nothing more than my own ideas and characters belongs to me, the rest is borrowed from J.K. Rowling, surprise, surprise! I would also like to pardon if there's still some wrong spelling and grammar failures, I'm only human and it's my second language after all.

Anyway, here's the new chapter 1, a better and much more understandable one! Hope you like it!

Happy reading!

Chapter 1. The arrival

My name is Izabel Whitlock. I am a 15 year old girl with light brown hair and brown eyes. I am quite short for my age, and thin. Quite a normal girl you would probably say, but that is not entirely true. Five years ago I got a letter from a school for witches and wizards, because that is what I am. A witch. Now I am about to begin my 5th year at Hogwarts school. I love that place, as much as I love everything about magic. And of course, I love my mum too, even though she is a muggle. And by that I mean she is only human. My dad and I have always looked up to her, because she is so strong, caring and down to earth. I know many wizards do not like muggles and think they are worth less than us, but they have never met my mum, that is for sure. And then I have Allison, my best, best, best friend. She is like my other half, what would I ever do without her?

It was the 1st of September, the day when school starts. We had gone to the train station a little bit earlier just so I would be able to find Ally before I got onto the Hogwarts Express. There were a lot of students on the platform, and I frequently searched for her dark brown hair, and after a while I found her and started to zigzag between people to catch up with her. I ran up to her and threw my arms around her in a big hug. She turned a little bit surprised to me and her face shined up when she saw it was me.

"Hi, Izzie!", she said happily.

"Hello there! How are you?", I asked her.

"Fine, it's just been a boring summer."

"I know what you mean."

We had not met at all during the entire summer, but her owl Joshua was probably exhausted by now. He had been flying back and forth every few days to deliver our letters. Ironically he was actually asleep in his cage on the top of her carriage that her father was pulling.

"It's time to get onto the train now, girls. Where are your parents, Izabel?", Ally's father asked me.

"They're right there", I answered as I was pointing at my mum and dad standing with my carriage straight ahead. I rushed to them and hugged them both for a long time. They helped me get all my stuff on the train and then we hugged again and took a final goodbye. Ally had said goodbye to her father too and we stepped onto the train and sat down in a compartment. We waved to them as the train slowly started to move forward. I guess we both felt a bit sad about it, but we had a whole year before us now and we would have so much fun together.

Ally and I where both Gryffindors, but were only hanging out with each other most of the time. We did not think badly of the other students in our year, we had just found each other so well. Three other girls from Hufflepuff joined us after a while. We chatted a little with them.

When we had come halfway to school it suddenly got very messy outside our compartment. People were screaming and the windows were shaking. One of the Hufflepuff-girls, Hannah, stood up and looked out in the corridor. She quickly got her head inside again, as two tall boys ran past us laughing loudly.

"Close the door quick!", I shouted at her and she did as I said. There was a small bam and a disgusting green cloud was spreading out in the corridor.

"I'm quite sure we don't wanna smell that", Ally said and laughed. The rest of us laughed too.

"Well, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the pranks have already started. It was just a matter of time, huh?", another of the girls, Jennie, said and looked at us.

"Haha, yeah, and it's only getting worse. You're happy to not share the same classroom with those four", I said.

"But I think it's funny sometimes", Ally said and I looked at her.

"Well, it can be fun, and it's nice to have something handsome to look at too, isn't it?"

Ally blushed up and I smiled and winked. She tried to laugh it all away, but the other girls had noticed her already.

"Who is it?", Hannah asked. Ally blushed even more and tried to hide her cheeks in her hands.

"It's Sirius", I said and Ally punched me on the shoulder and I giggled.

"Well, you've nothing to be ashamed of! He's gorgeous!", Hannah said and all of us nodded.

"Shame though he's only playing with girls", Kate said, the third girl.

"Maybe he's afraid to let someone come close to him", Jennie said and we all hummed agreeing.

A few hours later the train started to slow down and we quickly changed to our school robes. Ally and I where riding the carriages with Jennie, Hannah and Kate to the castle. When we finally were there we separated as we got into the great hall and sat down at our different tables. The sorting ceremony went on and we got a whole bunch of new students to Gryffindor, and they all got a big applaude each when they sat down at our long table.

When dinner was done, everyone started to get up from their seats and walk to the door. A sudden whistling sound got me to turn my head back and catch the moment when a 5th year boy with black shoulder-long hair got a small bomb in his head. When it exploded the same green cloud spread over the Slytherin table. Sirius and James came running past us, but Sirius was too fast for his own best and ran straight into Ally on the way. He stopped for a second and turned to face her.

"Sorry, Ally!", he shouted as James grabbed his robe and pulled him with him to the door.

"MR. POTTER AND MR. BLACK, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MEANS THAT YOUR FIRST DETENTION OF THE YEAR WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW!", the headmaster, professor Dumbledore shouted.

"Come on, Ally", I said, and took her arm and pulled her with me to the door. She did not say anything at all; I bet she was in heaven for the moment.

When we got up to our dorm, she slowly sat down on her bed and just looked out in the air. I watched her with a smile, waiting for her to come back to the real world. And then, she blinked and looked at me finally.

"He touched me.", she said in a dreaming voice.

"So... You won't take a shower in three weeks now, or what?", I asked and she laughed.

"I'm not that extreme!"

"Don't be too sure about that!"

"Oh, god! He's even more good-looking than last year. Have you noticed?"

"Haha, no, not really."

She looked at me as if I were an idiot for a moment and then we both burst into laugh.

"It's not good for you to be in love, Ally!", I said and she smiled as she fell back onto the bed.

"No, I know. But it's a kind of nice feeling, though. And it's not the easiest thing, resisting him. I don't get how you do it.", she looked at me through almost closed eyes.

"Well, he looks good, no doubt. But... I'm just not in love, you know. Not with anyone now, before or in the future", I said and she made a low 'aw' as if she pitied me. It was after all Ally's thing to be in love, I just did not do that. And sometimes, it felt as if she liked it that way, then there was more of the boys left over for her. But I guess it was only me being stupid. It had to be that way.