Kallie rolled her eyes as her mother insisted she wear the horrendous dress she had bought for her. Kallie personally thought all dresses were horrendous.
"Bye, mam. If I don' leave now I'll be missin' the train. I know that ye'll miss me. I'll make sure t' write ye at least once a day," Kallie Byrne said as she attempted to escape her mother's vise-like grip. She waved to both of her parents and dragged her trunk, and her pet raven's cage, to the gleaming scarlet steam engine that would take her to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Walking down the corridor of the train she looked for an empty carriage, looking over her shoulder to make sure her friend Jude Sciuto wasn't trying to sneak up on her. Jude had met Kallie when Kallie and her parents moved to England a year ago so that Kallie could get adjusted to England before school had started.
"Kallie! In here!" Jude shouted from a compartment a couple feet in front of Kallie. "C'mon hurry up! I got someone you need to meet!" Her head ducked back into the compartment as Kallie approached it. She walked in and sat down next to the brown-haired girl. Jude's eyes sparkled with glee at seeing her best friend after Kallie came back from a visit to Ireland. "Kallie Byrne this is Jaylieza Janees. I've known Jay here for about five minutes. You'll like her."
Kallie eyed this girl as she shook her dark hand. Her black hair had a tint of indigo to its wavey length. She seemed tall for a first year at about 5'10". Kallie noticed with interest that she had two different eye colors. The left seemed to be a pale jade and the right a pale powder blue. The train shot forward with a jolt. Kallie mumbled a curse as she fell off her seat.
Sitting on the floor of the train, Kallie just sighed and let her head plop to the floor. She rolled her eyes as Jaylieza and Jude laughed at her misfortune. She watched the shoes of the people walk quickly past the open compartment, either looking for friends or a compartment with no hyenas in it. A pretty auburn walked past glancing at the girl on the floor.
A couple minutes later a black-haired girl started to walk past and froze. She knew that face.
"Kallie? What are ye doin' here?" The girl said questioningly to the shocked girl.
"Annette? Ye are a witch? Wait... If ye're on thi' train... Annette ye're comin' t' Hogwarts?" Kallie said amazed as she quickly stood up and hugged the girl. The compartment had gone quiet at the meeting. Kallie invited her to sit in the compartment.
"Annette? This is Jude Sciuto an' Jaylieza Janees. Jude, Jaylieza, this is Annette Wood," Kallie quickly introduced.
"Um... Kallie I'll be right back ok? I met someone and I wan' t' 'ave her sit with me... is tha' ok?" Annette said quietly. Kallie glanced around and nodded quickly. There were only a couple seats left and she wanted to sit with Annette. Annette left the compartment quickly and Kallie turned to the others who were looking at her questioningly.
"I've known Annette for foreve'. We grew up in th' fields behind me house. I thought she wa' jus' a muggle bu' she's one of me best friends," Kallie explained.
Annette returned with the pretty auburn from before. She looked very nervous until Annette introduced her. Kallie tilted her head in slight curiosity as she recognized the name. Her parents had talked to her about the pure-blooded family before. Robyn Savage was the youngest child to Mark Anthony Savage and Jeanice Savage.
For the first couple of minutes everyone was tentatively chatting. They found out that all five of them were first years and most of them liked quidditch. Once everyone explained quidditch to Annette she wanted to play on one of the teams.
Attention! Attention! We will be arriving at the school in five minutes! Please leave all trunks and cages on the train they will be taken to your dormitory before the feast! Thank you!
The girls in the cabin pulled the shades on the compartment and changed quickly into their robes. Kallie looked around the compartment and noticed with dismay that she was definitely the shortest person there.
As the train slowed to a stop the five quickly filed out of the compartment to the nearest exit. Once on the platform, they were informed that they were to travel to the castle on boats, with four people to a boat. They looked at each other trying to decide who was going to sit where when three boys said they needed one more person. Rubeus Hagrid, the groundskeeper, walked by and pushed Annette with the boys. When Kallie went to protest Annette shook her head no. She didn't want to raise a fuss because she didn't know the boys.
She climbed into the front of the boat so she hopefully wouldn't feel as awkward. She smiled slightly as the talked loudly joking with each other. She stared in awe as the boats went underneath a bridge that was draped with ivy and vines and then the castle. It looked like something she would she in a movie. The windows were lit everywhere. The old castle (she assumed it was old...) seemed to have a glow to it. An air of mystery and enchantment. She knew now that she wouldn't regret coming to the school. She would've laughed at the fact that all of the boats went completely quiet if she wasn't speechless but she was...
Meanwhile in the other girls boat, they were laughing. Almost all of them had seen Hogwarts before because of older siblings who had graduated. Robyn and Kallie however were quiet when the first saw it. Then Kallie realized it got awkward for some reason. She scrunched her nose, looking for something to say then she got it.
"So... How 'bout them Chudley Cannons?" She said, conversationally. The other three girls looked at her in amusement then they all started laughing.
A couple minutes later, Hagrid handed the nervous first year students off to Professor McGonagall. She gave a speech on conduct, houses, and such. She had them wait a few minutes so she could make sure they were ready. They checked their uniforms over, finger brushed their hair, and such. Kallie stood with her friends and noticed that she was the shortest of the entire year. When she mentioned this, they all glanced around and started laughing at the truth of it. She glared at them and ignored them and their pleading gazes and statements that they were just joking. Professor McGonagall led them into the Great Hall quickly. They noticed an old stool and, upon the stool, an old tattered hat. Staring at it, it quickly burst into song. It explained all of the houses and their qualities.
" When I say you're name, please step forth, sit on the stool and I will place the sorting hat on your head. Your house will be announced and you may go sit with your house at their table," She unfurled a scroll.
"Abbot, James."
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Black, Bellatrix."
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Black, Sirius."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Silence met the room as this was said. The table didn't clap, Sirius looked shocked, and scared. Trembling he got off of the stool. McGonagall continued.
"Byrne, Kallie."
"RAVENCLAW!"
Kallie sat down at the table and tuned out the sorting until she heard a name she knew.
"Janees, Jaylieza."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Kallie applauded loudly for her new friend as Jaylieza sat down quickly at the table one over from
her. More names were called as Kallie sat disinterested.
"Savage, Robyn."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Again Kallie applauded loudly, annoying the other new Ravenclaws as there was an extra seat next to her she wouldn't give up, almost knowing that at least one of her friends would be with her. She was right.
"Sciuto, Jude."
"RAVENCLAW!"
Grinning wildly she had Jude sit next to her. Then she asked the girl sitting across from her to please scoot over, knowing absolutely that Annette would be a Ravenclaw, she was studious even if she denied it.
"Snape, Severus."
"SLYTHERIN!"
Severus, Kallie noted, looked upset as he glanced at the Gryffindor table and it made her really wish she had paid more attention to the sorting.
"Wood, Annette."
"RAVENCLAW!"
Kallie smirked at Jude, who had doubted the Annette would be a Ravenclaw, as she clapped and Annette sat down. She watched as Albus Dumbledore, the school's headmaster, Kallie remembered, stood up. The students remained quiet as he said his speech.
"There is a time and place for speeches. Before all of you have been feed and watered is not that time. So enjoy the feast! Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" Dumbledore said as he sat down. Many of the new students looked confused but the gasped as they say the food on the table.