~ CHAPTER 1~

"Albus wake up!" yelled a familiar voice. Well, hello, my name is Albus. This is the story of my life at Hogwarts. I woke up to see my brother James with a water bucket over my head. Unfortunately for me, I had to sit up straight and hit the water bucket with my head. SPLASH. Great I thought.

I stood up to yell at my older brother." What was that for? I'm going to tell mum!" James smirked slightly, "Well, my dear brother you slept in this morning so Mum gave me the honor to wake you up. I tried to wake you up with my voice but it didn't work." he mock sighed, "So anyway my dear brother, what a better way to wake you up with nice cool water." I was furious! Before I could do anything to James however, he went to wake up my little sister Lily. I heard Lily screaming at James next door. Laughing I got dressed and went downstairs.

My whole family was sitting at the table eating. James, looking happy as ever. Lily, with a frown on her face as she ate. My mum fussing on how she had to pack James' things again. And my dad reading the Daily Prophet. We ate breakfast and headed over to Kings Cross station. "Albus, I want a quick word with you," my dad whispered in my ear. I walked with him to the front of the train.

"Do you know how I told you about how me, your Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione almost never used to get caught in our Hogwarts years?" he said to me. Of course I remember. My favorite adventure my Dad had told me was of the time they accidentally landed in the 3rd floor corridor and went to find the trapdoor and instead found a three-headed dog named Fluffy.

He continued, "Well, we had a tool that we used." He pulled out a silvery fabric. I couldn't help it. I watched in awe as he slipped the fabric onto himself and disappeared. A few seconds later he reappeared. "This," he said handing me the cloak, " is an invisibility cloak. This was passed down through our family for generations. Take good care of it." I replied, "I will Dad."

We met up with my Mum and Lily. It turns out my cousins were there with them. " Where's Hugo?" I asked. Uncle Ron patted me on the head and said, "He's over there, Al." I saw him talking to James.

I turned to my red headed cousin Rose Weasley. "Hi Rose!" I greeted. "Hey Al! So how you been?" Rose was the cousin I was closest to. Being the same age, I practically thought of us as brother and sister. "Good, how 'bout you?" She suddenly looked solemn, "I've been studying." Albus looked at her incredously. "We haven't even learned anything!" Rose merely shrugged. "Well, see you on the train." Albus finally said. He rushed to his mother and father and hugged them goodbye. With that he rushed on the train and departed for my first year at Hogwarts.

I went off down the hallway checking for empty compartments. Once or twice I would walk in on some people talking about Hogwarts gossip. I felt someone poking me. I looked up to see James. "Don't you have anything better to do?" I said casually. James replied, "As a matter a fact I do." I rolled my eyes. "Mum told me to check on you and here I am. Well seeing as you're fine I must be off then." With that he whirled around and went to find his friends.

I kept going on for at least for 15 minutes until I accidentally bumped into another first year and knocked her off balance. "Ouch that hurt," she said in a soft voice while rubbing her head. She had short curly black hair. Albus apologized and helped her up. I had to admit she was lacking a bit in the beauty area but…Merlin! I was starting to sound like a girl!

She had hazel eyes and she was a little shorter than him. They stood there frozen still holding hands from when Albus helped her up. "Ahem" said a voice behind him. The girl let go of Albus' hand and blushed. "Umm…s-see you around." She said and turned at the corner. Rose and her older sister Alix(who was in fourth year) approached Albus with knowing looks that made Albus confused. He tried to hide it but did not succeed.

"So who was that?" Alix said with a mischievous smile. "I don't know," Albus replied. Rose spoke next. "Then why were you holding her hand?" " I accidentally knocked her off balance and she fell. So being the polite little boy I am, I helped her up!" said Albus defending himself. Too bad for him, his cousins did not give up. "Well it looked like you hadn't planned on letting go of her hand until we came along." That was NOT true, Albus thought to himself.

Rose sighed and turned to her sister, "Be sure to tell me when he tells the truth." Albus retorted, "I am tel-" Alix put a silencing charm and said, "Save it Albus." She smiled and tookthe charm off. "Yeesh! Cousins these days, who knew they were so annoying?" he muttered under his breath. He stepped into an empty compartment only to find out that it wasn't empty. There by the window in the corner sat the girl who he bumped into earlier.

"Er…hello!" he said looking at her.

She continued looking out of the window. He tried again," Well since we are going to share a compartment I think we should get to know each other." She looked at him and hesitated. She stuck out her hand and recited in an American accent, " Nice to meet you…?" "Albus Potter," he supplied. She continued, " Nice to meet you Albus Pot—" A look of realization dawned on her face.

"Did you say your surname was Potter?" He shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The last thing he wanted to do on his first day was talk about how his father defeated Voldemort. She noticed this and said, " if you don't want to talk about it, I'm sure we can continue on to a different subject?" "Thank you!" he exclaimed relieved. She continued on from where she left off, " Well my name is Ella False, yes I know my surname is weird but we don't get to choose them do we?" "Right you are Miss False!" Albus saluted. Once they started talking Albus knew that she would become one of his best friends soon.

Hours later, a Prefect popped her head in and informed them that the train was stopping soon and to get into their robes. Ella left to change seeing as Albus was already dressed. They got off the train and Ella went to search for her luggage. Albus sighed and pulled her the other way. "Albus! My luggage!" she yelled over the noise. " Sorry, I keep forgetting you're Muggle born. Anyway, your luggage will be there when you get to the common room alright?" he assured her.

They got into a boat as the half-giant Hagrid instructed them to and were shortly joined by Rose and her new friend Melanie. They exchanged greetings and introduced themselves but, other than that they didn't converse much. "Yeh'll see Hogwarts in abou' a minute now!" Hagrid supplied. There was much cheering when they saw the castle and gasps. "It's beautiful!" I exclaimed. Albus grinned but Rose and Melanie looked shocked. "You're not from England are you?" they asked warily.

"Is that a problem?" I asked. Melanie said, "Of course not!" but Rose had something else in mind. "It's just, this isn't directed at you of course Ella, every person I meet who's from another country think they're so cool and better than us. Usually, they end up controlling the students."

I felt offended. However, I managed to ask, "What about the saying 'Don't judge a book by its cover'?" Rose flushed a bright pink and stuttered, "W-well yes but—" I cut across her. "Then I guess we're on the same page." Albus looked amused, Melanie looked as if she didn't know whether to laugh or retort, and Rose averted my gaze.

"We're here!" Hagrid yelled over the chatter of the first years. We stepped out of the boat and a plump Professor strode towards us.