A/N: Welcome! Glad you decided to click on this. Some backstory, my dear friend and I were getting very nostalgic about Potter and started discussing how life could've been like if we'd grown up in the world of Harry Potter. These one-shots will be seemingly random, they'll show various segments of life that we spoke about. It may even go back and forward in time as and when I write each moment in our lives. Heavily written whilst listening to the song 'End of an Era' by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls.
Of course, I own nothing except the characters (who technically I don't own really as they are based on people I know in real life) and any locations mentioned that are not part of the Potter world are also mine.
A knock at the carriage door stirred me, "May I sit here? I don't know where else to go." I looked up at the girl in the doorway. Her hair hung in waves around her waist, glasses hiding sheepish eyes.
"Sure, I don't mind." I really didn't, I needed someone else to talk to on this journey.
"I'm Katherine, by the way," she said.
"Alistair. I'm pleased to meet you," I replied, still nervous. I couldn't shake this feeling, my family were... What do these people call them? Muggles? I had only been introduced to the idea of magic 5 months ago, and now here I was, sat with a witch, off to a school for magic people.
"You're nervous, too, aren't you?" Katherine said, I think I'd be quite for too long.
"Yes, yeah I'm not used to this magic thing. My family are muggles."
"Mine, too. It's all so strange, isn't it? But exciting, I guess," I could see the spark in her eyes, now. Almost as if this were something she'd received after years of waiting for it.
"Really? Where are you from?" I asked, I felt at ease around this girl.
"New Arkwood, it's not a very big town," But, I knew that town.
"So am I! Which train did you get to London?"
"The 6.00 am from Northgate, were you there, too?" This was unbelievable.
"Yeah! Wow, I've never even seen you before."
And the train ride went by without a moment of silence between us. Katherine wanted to be a Ravenclaw, me a Slytherin. We showed each other our wands, we wondered which lessons we'd like the most, we promised we'd look out for each other.
To think it all started there.