Chapter 1: A New School Year

Katie walked through the barrier and entered the packed, steam filled station and looked around for her friends, whilst taking a last look around the familiar place. 'I'm about to start my final year at school see and I'm going to miss catching the train to school every September 1st' she thought. Suddenly she spotted a flash of a red haired girl a bit away from her. "Lils…hey wait up… Lily", she shouted running towards her. She stops and turns round, glaring," Oh Gaunt it's you, how was your summer" she asked whilst looking behind Katie.

"It was ok I suppose just moved around a bit though. I met my dad for the first time and he dumped me on his friends and left me there for a couple of weeks then picked me up and dumped me on someone else. I ended up at Malfoy's, Padfoot's, the Blacks, Rosier's and Lestranges, talk about overkill. Oh…err…have you seen the guys by the way"

"No fortunately I haven't been attacked by the Marauder's yet", she sighed.

"Hey I'm a marauder so you have seen one of us and the guys aren't that bad really once you get to know them"

"You don't count in my mind as you're a girl and my friend, and are a fellow band member in our band, Witches, and you don't pull as many pranks as the guys"

"Ok well I'm going to go find them", I said walking away, "Oh and congrats on making head girl"

"Oi Katie you don't know who the head boy is by any chance" she yelled after me.

"Oh aren't you in for a surprise when you get to the heads compartment" I replied turning round, and you have to share a Common room and dorm with him don't you"

"We have separate dorms but yes we'll be sharing the Head Common room so who is it?

"Can't say, sorry but I promised to stay quiet and Marauders keep their promises …well I do anyway… that's a thought they're probably in the head compartment already" I returned jumping on the train and walking in that direction whilst Lily stood there looking confused. I laughed and went to the front of the train remembering this day back in first year when all first met.

Flashback (Katie POV)

It was raining as I looked around the station with Mrs. Malfoy standing behind me with Lucius. "Now remember dear stay out of trouble, get into Slytherin, work hard and don't befriend mudbloods ", she said giving me a quick hug.

"Understood Mrs. Malfoy" I replied walking away towards the train, Lucius had gone to meet up with his friends. Suddenly I found myself walking into someone and falling over, "Oh sorry don't mean to walk into you" looking up to see a boy my age with messy raven hair with glasses, "That's ok want a hand up", offering me his hand.

"Thanks", I grabbed his hand, blushing as he helped me up.

"It's fine, you're new too aren't you, and I'm James by the way, James Potter"

"Yeah I am, I'm Katie, Katie Ri…Gaunt"

"Ok, let's get on the train now as it's about to leave and grab a compartment"

"Yeah sounds like a plan", we climbed onto the train and looked for a compartment. Soon we arrived at the compartment James had been looking for.

"Here we are" he said opening the door to reveal three other boys "ok Katie this is my friend Sirius, Sirius Katie"

"We already know each other" I said looking at the grey- blue eyes and black hair of Sirius.

Yeah Fire stays at my house a lot especially during the summer" informed Sirius.

"Oh um ok… well these are …um… I've forgotten", I laughed at his forgetfulness.

"I'm Remus Lupin" said the tall sandy haired with deep blue eyes one.

"And I'm Peter Pettigrew" said the other smaller boy.

Soon we were all laughing and making jokes. It was the start of the Marauders time at Hogwarts.

End of flashback

Suddenly Katie found herself falling to the ground having walked into someone, "Sorry" she murmured.

"Don't worry about it Firestorm, you were obviously in deep thought" came the reply. She looked up realising who I had walked into, "Shut up Padfoot, I'm still not talking to you"

"Why not" he asked looking hurt

"Hello you ran away from home and left me at your house to fend off your mother by myself" She replied angrily, punching him in the stomach. As she had answered the door the compartment behind Sirius opened and a raven haired boy with glasses looked out and smiled at them. Katie paid him no attention and continued to attack Sirius, "and by the way I got the blame for you running away which means I got punished. You know I'm in enough trouble for being in Gryffindor instead of Slytherin. You could have taken me with you, you know". She started to calm down, "so where did you go anyway?"

"The Potter's and sorry I didn't mean to get you in trouble. I really am very…"

"Forget it" She pushed paced and entered the open compartment closed the door and sat down, "hi James, know who the head girl is yet"

"No I hope it's my lilypad. It's not you is it?"

No it's not me I just came in cos I was looking for you guys", just then the door opened and in came Lily. "I best be going and find some people, Bye James and don't kill each other, Kay" She said looking at Lily's frown and walking out. As she walked towards the marauder compartment she thought about the first train ride.

Flashback (Katie POV)

"So, how come you guys know each other and why do you spend so much time at Sirius' instead of at your own home Katie? And why do you have blue hair?" asked James.

"That's a lot of questions but see. Firstly my hair is blue because I'm a metamorphmagus. Sirius and I know each other because we share cousins. Our aunt was my mum's sister and our uncle is Sirius' dad's brother so naturally we spend time together as family."

"Um why did you say was" asked Remus. Katie was silent and just looked blankly at the wall in front of her, and then she got up, her hair turning green, and walked out of the room. "What did I say?"

"Um…Katie's mum passed away when she was five and she doesn't like to think about it."

"Oh"

"Don't worry about it you didn't know"

"So who looks after her then, her dad or your aunt or who?" asked James

"Her mum said she was to be raised by her godfather as no-one knows who her father is"

"Who's her godfather?"

"Dumbledore"

"Dumbledore as in the headmaster of Hogwarts"

"Yeah, as a consequence Katie's lived at Hogwarts ever since…I don't understand why she had to get the train, though it's probably cos she spent the summer at the Malfoys"

"Oh…is there anything else we should know about her for future reference"

"Just don't make her angry or you'll end up in the hospital wing. There are three ways to tell if she's angry. Firstly she talks very quietly, and then her hair turns fiery red. Lastly if she's super pissed her eyes change colour, one red and the other is like acid green. If her eyes change run for your life as she'll make your life a living hell. I remember the last time she got that pissed."

"What happened?" asked Peter sounding a little scared.

"She destroyed half the house, turned it to rumble and put me and our cousin Bella in St Mungo's for two months in a coma. She was eight at the time", just then the door reopened and Katie walked back in and sat down next to Sirius, her hair blue again.

"Sorry" said James

"Don't worry about it you didn't know…Sirius filled you in then" said Katie.

"Yeah"

"Good" soon we were all laughing and telling jokes again.

End of Flashback

I hope you liked this first chapter

Kat Riddle