"The Slythindor"
By Chou aka Tash Bita


Summary: Fifth year Cassidy Crow, is starting out fresh at Hogwarts. The sorting hat's having a lot of trouble deciding where to put her. Slytherin? Or Gryffindor? Befriending both Slytherins and Gryrffindors, both houses are where she belongs. But where? WHERE?! She can't wait to meet the legendary Harry Potter she's heard so much about! But then she finds it's not Harry she's falling for… It's Ron!! Hogwarts has many new choices in store for young Cassidy. Never has she had tasks so difficult as this.

A/N: 15 year old Cassidy Crow is writing in her diary, late at night. She's at her desk with a small light on, using a eagle quill-tip pen and bottle of ink.

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Harry Potter ;_; and I never will!! But I do own the Serpentine broomstick, Kuro-Shiro, Cassidy, and the rest of the lot in Cass's family.



The Slythindor
"The Diary of Cassidy Crow"

I simply cannot believe it. This must be the best thing that's happened to me since I found out I was a witch. Mum and Dad surprised me by telling me they were going to send me to the best school of witchcraft and wizardry in England! Hogwarts!! Oh, I was so excited when they told me, now I'm even more! The day after tomorrow is the big day. My first day at Hogwarts. I'm a fifth year, but I guess I'll still have to be sorted by that sorting hat I've heard so much about.

I wonder what it'll be like! Going to the finest school there is. Oh, I'm so excited, but yet so nervous. What house will I be put in? What sort of new friends will I make? I hear the legendary Harry Potter goes to Hogwarts, and he's in his third year too! Everyone says he's really good looking, but not only that. Some people even say he's the greatest wizard of all! Greater than the Headmaster Dumbledore? Than Lord Voldemort himself? Well, I'll just have to find out for myself. And it all begins tomorrow. Tomorrow's the day mum and me go to Diagon Alley to buy all the supplies I need for my first year at Hogwarts.

I hope we'll manage. All the stuff on the list does not look cheap. Even though my dad just got a job at the Ministry of Magic somehow… he has to send my brother Higashi a lot of money because he lives far from here; and has a difficult job. Higashi raised unicorns in the east. To raise one unicorn costs a fortune on its own. So you can see why we're in serious money trouble. It's a good thing that dad got a job at the Ministry of Magic. I still don't understand how he got it. He's a squib, you see.. a wizard of very little or even no magic at all. And my mum's a pure Muggle, too. So he's very lucky to have come across another man who works at the Ministry. That guy is really interested in Muggles, and since my dad is practically one of them, he was very excited to meet him. A little too excited maybe. I really don't see much special about Muggles, but that's just me. So anyway, this man talked Cornelius Fudge (the head of the Ministry of Magic), into hiring my dad.

It was such a big shock when mum and dad found out that Higashi was a wizard. That's what's great about having an older sibling. Even if they do live far away. Since then, I've grown up learning as much about the magic life as I can. It's so nice that mum and dad are getting involved more, too.

Wow. It's really late. And I'm so excited about tomorrow, but I guess I really should get some sleep before the big day. Well, goodnight then.

…Cassidy Crow