UPDATE! - Like I said in Chapter 28, I have started doing illustrations for chapters. This is the link for Chapter 1's illustration.
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As I walked over to the Hogwarts Express, I saw a large family, mostly all with red hair. I think there was only about seven without the bright colour.
I looked at my own hair; today I had it black with a full fringe and its length down to my waist. I always liked it when I would run about in the garden and the wind would catch it and send it flying, as it reflected off the sun.
I climbed onto the train and soon found an empty compartment; I sat on the side away from the platform. I decided it would be best to not have the large red headed family in my view as we set off for my first year at Hogwarts, my mother couldn't come see me off as she had to work.
Ten minutes after I sat down I felt the train slowly start to move, I heard hundreds of students and parents bidding farewell to their families. As soon as the shouting had died down I saw people walking past the compartment door, obviously to go meet up with their friends and share stories about their summers. I saw a few of the red heads and a bright blonde person run past.
"Hello?"
I looked round from the window I had been staring out of to see a girl dark haired girl looking at me.
"Hello." I said.
'What else should I say? Mum said to try and make friends on the train but I'm not good at the whole making friends thing.'
"Do you mind if we sit with you?" The dark hair girl asked, I wondered what she meant by 'we', that was when I noticed two red haired girls and a red haired boy standing behind her.
"Oh, erm… Sure."
The dark haired girl sat next to me, while the red heads all sat on the other side.
"I'm Roxanne Weasley" The dark haired girl held out her hand. I shook it and smiled weakly at her, I wasn't used to strangers treating me like this.
"I'm Hugo Weasley" The boy said, I shook his hand as well.
"I'm Lucy Weasley" One of the girls said, I noticed that she had blue eyes, while the other one had bright brown eyes.
"And I'm Lily Potter, we're all cousins." Lily said politely, I smiled back at them all before I realised they were all waiting for my name.
"I'm, uh, L- uh, Alexandria Munro" I mumbled, I was being so stupid.
'C'mon Lexy, You can do this, all you have to do is make small talk, they're related, and they'll talk to each other.'
"Nice to meet you." Lucy smiled at me, she seemed friendly.
"Y-you too."
"Is this your first year at Hogwarts?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, what about you four?"
"Yeah it's our first year, we're the last of our generation to come to Hogwarts. I've got two older brothers, one in third year and one in fourth year. Rox' has a brother in fourth. Hugo's sister is in third. And Lucy has a sister in fifth. We also have a cousin in fifth and one in seventh. And one of our cousins has left and my other brother – well he's not really my brother – but he's left too." Lily told me, it seemed like she mentioned a lot more people than she actually did.
After about an hour, the trolley lady came round, we all bought the sweets we wanted and sat back down. We all munched away in silence; however it wasn't an awkward silence.
"What house do you think you'll be in Alexandria?" Hugo asked me after swallowing his bite of a liquorice wand.
"Um, Hufflepuff probably, I'm nothing special. I know Hufflepuff isn't a bad house to be in, but I'm nothing special. I'm not smart enough to become a Ravenclaw, I'm not brave like a Gryffindor and I'm nothing like a Slytherin. What about you guys?" I answered with total honesty, Mum had been a Ravenclaw, but I knew I wasn't clever enough.
"Well all our parents were Gryffindors, so probably there, but Hugo's sister Rose is a Ravenclaw and Louis is a Hufflepuff, and his sister Victoire had been a Ravenclaw" Roxanne answered. "But I think there's too much pressure on kids when they get sorted, like it's not someone's fault if they get sorted into the house their parents had hoped for."
'Maybe Roxanne doesn't think she'll be a Gryffindor then…'
Just then a pretty girl with a red braid down her back slid our compartment door open; she had her school robes on with a red Gryffindor tie.
"Hey guys, better get changed, we'll be pulling into the station in about fifteen minutes." She said with a smile on her face, as soon as I looked at her I would have put all my money on that she was a cousin of my fellow first year friends.
"Okay, thanks Dom" Lily replied.
"A cousin?" I asked Lily as Dom closed the door.
"Yeah that's Dominique, she's a seventh year." Lily said before she turned to Hugo to ask him if he'd mind stepping out so we could change.
After we changed we stepped out so Hugo could get changed too. As soon as Hugo opened the door to let us know we could come back in, the train slowed down to a stop. I looked round at Roxanne, Lucy and Lily nervously, however they didn't seem to share my nervous look, they couldn't wait to get off the train and get to the castle any faster.
'It'll be fine.'
~O~O~
There was an applause for the sorting hat as it finished its song, most of the first years were staring at the ceiling which looked like it was missing, but it was just bewitched to look like the sky.
I didn't listen to many of the names that were getting called out, I mostly just heard the hat shouting the house they were in, but everything was unclear, I was far too nervous.
"Munro, Alexandria"
I felt the blood drain from my face as I heard my name, I walked up to the stool and sat myself down to have an old battered hat placed on my head.
"Hello, Lexy." I heard a voice in my head say.
"Um, Hello, Sir?"
"So you want to be in Hufflepuff do you?" It asked, how did it know I thought I'd be in Hufflepuff?
"Not really, Sir, I just thought because I'm not very talented in anything I'd do better there, but if you have any better ideas, please, do tell." I said, wanting to know what the hat had to say itself.
"Well, Ravenclaw wouldn't suit you; I don't think you'd like it there. Gryffindor could use someone like you, ah but so could Slytherin… So you're a metamorphmagus?"
"Yes Sir."
"And only yourself and I know?"
"Yes Sir, my mother too, I didn't feel I could talk about that straight into meeting someone. I wanted them to like me for who I am, not what I am."
"Hmm… Well then it's going to be…"
SLYTHRIN!
I sighed in relief, I wasn't a Hufflepuff or a Ravenclaw, the two I was dreading. I stood up and talked over to a cheering Slytherin table, my black hair grew dark green streaks, luckily no one noticed.
~O~O~
"Potter, Lily"
Lily walked up to the stool and sat, not long after I heard the hat cry Gryffindor, I cheered for Lily, she had wanted to be in Gryffindor, I saw the large group of red heads and some not-so-red people hug her as she sat down, next to who I can assume would be one of her brothers.
"Weasley, Lucy"
Lucy was also a Gryffindor.
"Weasley, Hugo"
The hat one took a few seconds to place Hugo in Gryffindor.
"Weasley, Roxanne."
Roxanne? Will she be a Gryffindor like the rest of her family? Probably, but she didn't like the pressure of being in Gryffindor, although it seemed that with three relatives that didn't make it to Gryffindor, her family wouldn't mind.
I could tell that Hufflepuff was out of the choices as soon as she put her opinion about the houses across on the train.
"Well let's see Gryffindor – no offence to my family and all, but it's all the brave people who get in there and many can be stuck up, because they believe that they got into the best house, just because that's the house Uncle Harry and Ron were in, as well as Aunt Ginny and Hermione. Also Uncle Nev' was in Gryffindor" She turned to me and said "You'll meet Uncle Nev' at school, he's the Herbology Professor. He isn't actually our uncle but he's like one." She turned back to face us all to continue. "Ravenclaw – well, it's just a bunch of know-it-all kids, like, Yeah Vic' and Rose are both smart and they deserved that house but… I don't know, it's not my idea of a fun house. Hufflepuffs are just annoying! I know Louis is a Hufflepuff, but he's annoying, and they're main thing I being loyal. I don't want to have all my friends being loyal – I know it sounds weird – but I want to have some fun, sneak out of the common room, find the kitchens – Dad gave me a clue to where it is, he said him and Uncle Fred found it when they were at school – but I can't do that if I have friends that are so loyal to the professors that I can't do that!" Roxanne was getting angrier with every few words and only calmed down when she got to the final house. "Slytherin are known to be sly and cunning and evil, but I've met Scorpius a few times, he's a Slytherin and he doesn't seem evil, I know his family were Death Eaters and all, but I think his father has really tried to change. Dad told me about what he was like in school, and to be honest, Draco Malfoy was a total b-"
"Roxanne!" I looked round to see Lily glare at her cousin to stop her from bad mouthing her brother's best friend's father. She had said earlier that her brother Albus had been friends with this Scorpius boy and that he was really starting to be like a fourth brother to her.
"Sorry Lils, but you get my point, they're all just as bad as each other, and don't get me started on house rivalry!" We all started laughing when Lucy suggested we make a house called 'Roxanne Weasley' so that she could be happy and not have to deal with the bad points of the other houses.
Before I knew, it had been five minutes since Roxanne's name had been called, she had an annoyed look on her face, it seemed that she was having an argument with the Sorting Hat, and then she pulled a relived face just before the Hat shouted across the hall.
"SLYTHERIN!"
The hall filled with cheers and muttering, I could see the Weasley's and Potter's faces fall as their cousin and sister walked over to the Slytherin table to sit next to me.
The Sorting went rather quickly after that, I didn't know anyone who was waiting to be sorted so I turned to Roxanne and had a quite conversation with her, she didn't seem to care about the other first years either.
After Professor McGonagall's start of year speech, food filled the house tables; I could hardly believe how much food was there, Mum had told me very little about Hogwarts, but she did mention I would never forget the feasts, and I had to admit she was right.
As I ate my food at a good pace, not stuffing my face, unlike Roxanne who just mumbled it was the Weasley gene in her after I gave her a questioning look while she piled more food on her plate. Before I knew it, desert was almost over, I realised I hadn't had a chance to have a look at my fellow Slytherins, as I looked to my right I felt Roxanne's elbow dig into my ribs on the left side, I looked round to see she was nodding her head over to a cute bright blonde boy, he was smiling and talking to some people, if I had to take a guess, he would have been about third year.
"What about him?" I asked as I turned back to Roxanne.
"That, is Scorpius Malfoy, you know, the one we were talking about on the train?" I nodded after she said this, I realised I'd recognised him, then I realised he must have been with the Potters and Weasleys on the platform.
'I wonder what he's like, maybe we'll be friends? Shut up Lexy, you can't make friends with him, he's too popular.'
~O~O~
"Roxanne?" I whispered. We were in our dorm and the two other girls she shared the room with were already asleep.
"Alexandria, call me Rox, or Roxy. Roxanne makes me sound like I'm in my thirties!" She whispered from her bed which was right next to mine.
"Okay, Roxy, if I won't call you Roxanne, you won't call me Alexandria!" I whispered back, still giggling from her comment about being in her thirties.
"Okay what do you want to be called?"
"I didn't think this through… Erm, well everyone calls me Alex. When I had friends they'd call me Lexy, but that's kind of a lost name now." I trailed off thinking about all my old friends who were all at least a year older than me and went to school last year, but none went to Hogwarts. Joey's dad had gone to Durmstrang Institute, so Joey went there with his sister. And my other friends Sophie and Caitlin went to Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, they had always liked France and when they heard there was a school there, they turned down their Hogwarts acceptance letters and applied for Beauxbatons. We tried keeping in touch but it became difficult when they went on holiday in the summer.
"What do you mean by when you had friends?" Roxy asked talking me out of my daydream.
"Uh. N-nothing. Can I ask you what I was going to ask in the first place?" I said quickly changing the subject. I knew I wasn't totally let off after seeing Roxy turn to me and giving me a look that said I-will-get-this-out-of-you-if-it's-the-last-thing- I-do. She nodded to my question. "Well I was going to ask how what happened between you and the Sorting Hat? It's just your face looked annoyed?"
"Oh, I had an argument with it. It was trying to put me into Gryffindor because I voiced my opinion on the train about the houses, and I said I wasn't brave, it argued that I must be if I could say that. So I started shouting in my head that why I wasn't a good Gryffindor and that I don't want to be what my family expects, and then it gave up and shouted Slytherin. What about you? I saw your face pale at one point?"
"I'll tell you another time. However that was spoken like a true Slytherin!" I whispered, Roxy started to giggle, which made me giggle. After five minutes of giggling I finally stopped to say,
"G'night, Roxy."
"Night, Lexy." I couldn't help but smile as she said my reincarnated nickname.
'See! I knew I'd make a friend, just keep it up Lex!'
Please tell me what you think, this is my first fanfic.
I don't own Harry Potter. I suppose I should say that, every other one does.
I always thought it would be fun to write about a metamorphmagus, so I created Alexandria, who I own, that's it so far.
If you read this then thank you.
Hugs and butterfly kisses! (AVPS)