Prologue
"Sophie come on you'll miss the train honey" Charlie Weasley called softly to his 11 year old daughter over the students and parents who where sending there children off to Hogwarts. Some for the first time, some for the last.
"Daddy?"Little Sophie said barley above a whisper tugging onto her fathers robes. Clutching the red toy dragon she had been attached to since birth, she had simply named it Dragon.
"Yes Sophie?"Charlie said crouching down so he was level with the short 11 year old.
"Do i have to go to Hogwarts, Cant I just stay home with you and mummy?"Sophie pleaded fluttering her thick long lashes over her honest blue eyes. She bit her bottom lip, a nervous habit.
Charlie frowned slightly, He knew his daughter was nervous about starting Hogwarts but he didn't know she was this nervous. He picked up the hand that wasn't clinging onto dragon and squeezed it playfully.
"Listen Soph, you have your big brother Arthur to protect you from anything and you can always owl me and mummy if you miss us and we'll owl straight back. Hogwarts is one of the best places in the whole wide world and I promise you're going to love it" Charlie smiled down at the little red head.
"Pinkie promise?" Sophie said staring him in the eye with a small smiled on her lips.
"I pinkie promise" Charlie grinned and he did so.
Sophie wrapped her arms round Charlie's neck. She then let go and gave her mum a final goodbye hug and kiss. Her brother Arthur then guided her onto the Hogwarts express and to sit next to him, their cousin Victoire, who like Sophie was just starting Hogwarts and Teddy Lupin in a compartment near the back of the train.
The great hall was beautiful, Sophie's neck was sore from all the examining of the huge hall she had done. She listened as the head master gave the routine speech that Arthur had told her about and then she stood biting her lip as they went through the names of first years that where to be sorted into housed.
"Sophie Vivienne Weasley" The deputy called.
Sophie's stomach did a huge flip as she walked up to the hat. Her hands where shaking slightly and she could feel sweat forming on her brow. She wished she hadn't put Dragon in her trunk, she needed him for comfort.
The hat was placed on her head. Sophie could hear it muttering to itself. She couldn't make out what it was saying but she was sure she heard the words "Hufflepuff or Gryffindor".
"GRYFFINDOR" The hat screeched and it was lifted off her head.
Sophie could help but smile proudly as she walked over to the Gryffindor table. She felt relieved that she had been put in the same house as her brother and most of all Teddy.
Sophie took a seat at the Gryffindor table next to her brother and across from Teddy.
"Well done getting into Gryffindor Soph" Teddy grinned at her and she blushed back.
And that's how it all began.