Hey! This is my first fanfiction story under this penname. I hope you guys like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own the world of Harry Potter, but I do own Mattie. She is based on me.

Warning: There will be some rude language. Don't like, don't read.

"No! I'm not going!"

"Darling, please think about it! I'm sure you will make new friends!"

"I don't want new friends! I have friends! I've got Jake and Tom and Michael-"

"Yes dear, but at Hogwarts you can make friends with girls! You don't have any friends that are girls."

"I hate the girls at my school! I'm sure I'll hate them at Hogwarts too!"

"Now dear, you don't know that."

"Yes I do."

"Well it doesn't matter. Your Aunt Bessie and I have made our decision, Matilda. You are going to that school next week. The plane leaves on Wednesday."

"But-"

"No buts."

"It's halfway 'round the world! I don't wanna leave Australia!"

"That's too bad. Your Aunt Bessie went there, so did your mother."

"...She did?"

"Yes, and she wanted you to go as well."

"I guess I have no choice. Fine, I'll go. But I'm not happy 'bout it!"

"Thank you Matilda."

"Waddeva."

Matilda Lewis, (AKA Mattie), stomped to her room and threw herself on her bed. "I hate my life."

She picked up a magazine and flicked through it, before throwing it across the room. There was a loud meow and a bang.

"Oh shit sorry, Sydney. Didn't mean to hit you." She picked up her cat and stroked it's grey fur. "I'm going to take you," she said, talking to her cat. "To that damned Hogwarts." Syd meowed in reply.

"What do you think Jake and Tom and Michael would think of me going? I guess they would like it without the girl around."

Sydney shook his head and Mattie laughed.

"I can't play Quidditch with them anymore...I wonder if Hogwarts has a quidditch team. I suppose it does. If it doesn't, I'm leaving. Auncle Ed says they have a strict uniform, stockings and all. Nothing like my uniform. I'd rather be caught dead then wear those weird shoes and those tartan skirts. Infact, I don't want to wear the skirt at all!"

Syd looked at her weirdly. "No silly! I'll be wearing something. I wear pants, not skirts remember?" She gestured to her grey denim jeans and dark green baggy quidditch t-shirt.

Syd nodded in understanding.

"I wonder if Uncle Ed was right. Do you think I will make some friends that are girls?"

Syd purred and nodded.

"Thanks Syd." Mattie said, laughing. "What about the boys? Do you think they will like me?"

He nodded and purred again. "I'm not that pretty though." She said quietly, looking across the room into the mirror.

She was slightly on the short side, but had filled out quite nicely for her age, which was 16. She had lightly tanned skin with a couple of freckles on her nose. One thing she hated was her hair. It was strawberry-blonde, long and very straight. Mattie hated having blonde hair and really wanted to dye it pitch black, like her mother's used to be. To hide her hair, she wore a black cap and almost never took it off.

While she tugged on her hair frustratingly, she had an idea. "Syd, when I get to England I'm going to dye my hair."

The cat cocked it's head as if to ask why?

"Because I want to!" She said back.

Syd seemed to roll his eyes.

Mattie loved her eyes. They were a really dark blue, it was unique. Her friends said that when she was angry, her eyes would turn even darker, or when she was happy they would go lighter.

There was a knock on the door.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT!?" Mattie screamed.

There was silence behind the door before footsteps moved down the stairs and faded away.

Mattie smiled. She loved screaming at people.

Before she knew it, it was Wednesday and time to leave Australia. She said goodbye to her family and friends at the airport, before stepping onto the plane.

It was a long flight, but she landed in England and got directions to a hotel. Mattie spent the next couple of days there shopping. She got some attention because of her accent, and enjoyed confusing people using Australian slang.

It was now the day before she was to leave for Hogwarts, and Matilda was quite nervous. She walked into a teashop, grabbed a random book from her bag, sat down on one of the wooden benches and started to read.

Before long, she felt someone looking at her. They wouldn't look away. Mattie glanced across the room to see who was invading her privacy.

A very good-looking guy was grinning at her. He had kind-of-long shaggy black hair and stormy grey-blue eyes that stood out because of his blue shirt.

Mattie rolled her eyes. She was used to guys hitting on her. She usualy flirted back a little, before walking off and leaving the poor victim to look like an idiot.

She looked back down to her book, but her mind didn't register the words. She could only see stormy grey eyes. Her eyes stayed in the same place, reading the same two words over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Someone walked over and their shadow covered Mattie.

"Hello, fair maiden!" said the figure.

Without looking up, Mattie replied. "Hi. Hey. Hiya. Bonjour. Howdy. G'day. Wotcher. Ciao."

He chuckled, and sat down opposite her. "So...what's your name, fair maiden?"

"...Cinderella."

"..."

"I'm joking!"

"Good. What's your real name?"

"Rumplestiltskin."

Haha. That was originally longer, but I've been sick lately and it's 10 o'clock in Australia, I need rest.

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