It was his third year at Hogwarts and Harry was nervous beyond belief, Sirius Black notorious mass murderer had escaped Azkaban. That wasn't all though, Sirius Black was after him! He let his head fall into his hands and groaned miserably to himself. 'Why, why me damn it! First I blow up my aunt and now a mass murderer who I've never met and haven't done anything to wants to kill me! Argh my life!' He was roused from his depressed thoughts by a timid knock at the compartment door. A tall girl with jet black wavy hair and startling blue eyes was standing at the door biting her lip nervously.
"Umm I was just wondering if I could possibly sit here? she asked politely, "everywhere else is full" Harry blinked surprised, he had never seen her before and she looked too old to be a first year, he then realised that he had been staring at her for the past two minutes. A light blush dusted his cheeks and he mumbled a "sure it's fine" before turning his head out the window. He watched her out of the corner of his eye, taking in the way she sat neatly in the seat opposite him, taking off a blood red hoodie and brushing a stray chunk of hair out of her face before settling and looking out the window.
Harry relaxed, he just wanted to go back to wallowing in self-pity and cursing his life but he couldn't just sit in silence could he it would be rude! She interrupted his thoughts once more and made the decision for him. " Oh silly me" she laughed lightly desperate to break the awkward silence that had descended in the carriage, " I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Rose, Rose absconditum, it's a pleasure to meet you...? " Harry, my names Harry" he replied smiling, "it's nice to meet you too, can I just say I haven't seen you around before, are you new? She smiled gently, " yeah this is my first year, it's really odd to start in the third year I know! She laughed somewhat bitterly " not that it was my choice, my father wouldn't let me come, he hated the idea of me learning stupid magic tricks" her face changed again and she now wore a sad, wry smile " now he can't do anything about it and Dumbledore offered me my place back!" She finished and blushed when she saw him listening to her intently " wow I didn't mean to talk so much" Harry smiled and shook his head, " it's okay, it was interesting" he laughed " and all too familiar, that's exactly what my uncle said when I got my letter!" "Wow, who knew two people could be such idiots! I thought stupidity of that calibre was one of a kind" she giggled and they both laughed.
Suddenly the door to the compartment was wrenched open with a terrific clash, and Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle sauntered in with matching smarmy smirks on their faces. " Potter, found yourself a new girlfriend have you? Though I can't understand why you would want to talk to someone so queer who is only starting school now, the freak! She looks awful" he spat, laughing at Rose as she blushed and balled her fists to stop herself crying or lashing out at his comments, which one he wasn't sure. Harry leapt to his feet snarling, "how dare you Malfoy! You don't know anything about her, why don't you and your cronies go and hang out with the rest of your slimy friends before I get a prefect or punch you myself!" Malfoy's smirk faltered slightly then disappeared entirely as Rose stood up. She spoke and her words were barely audible, making them all the more frightening for it, " Malfoy. I don't know you, I've just met you and already I want to hurt you now please leave before I LOSE IT! At her last words her head snapped up and rage was clear in her eyes. Malfoy whimpered and walked off quickly, a distant " Crabbe, Goyle come" echoing back to them.
She stood there trembling with rage while Harry stared at her open mouthed 'wow' he thought ' that was not expected, and cool!' Rose flopped down onto the bench and let out a huge sigh " well, he seems nice" she remarked sarcastically " I hope everyone here is just as warm, oh and you should probably close your mouth before you swallow a fly" she giggled waving her hand casually. Harry blushed and sat back down nervously checking to see if they had woken the only other occupant of their carriage, one R.J. Lupin. Sighing in relief at the still unconscious man he turned back to Rose, she had pulled out a book and was absorbed in the text, her blue eyes filled with an electric concentration that was fascinating. Harry felt he could watch her read forever, he shook his head sharply, what on earth was wrong with him, having thoughts like that! At that moment Ron and Hermione burst into the carriage and stopped dead when they saw who was in there.
"Blimey" Ron said "what are you doing in here Harry? with them, who are they?! Hermione snorted, "its professor R. Ronald and i'm assuming you're a new student?" she queried Rose who had looked up when Ron made his less than polite comment. She nodded and smiled shyly, "im Rose, it's nice to meet you" "it's nice to meet you too, im Hermione and this is... "I'm Ron" he interjected "nice to meet you, and how do you know his name Hermione, it's scary, and she knows bloody everything!" Hermione sighed and rolled her eyes "it's written on the suitcase Ronald! Rose laughed she couldn't help it, the looks on their faces were priceless! Then she realised Harry was looking at them in delight, 'well that's that' she thought 'I had better leave them in peace' she stood up and turned to Harry. "I suppose these were the friends you were waiting for" she smiled " I'll leave you guys in peace" she stepped carefully over Ron and Hermione who had sat down to get to the door. "Wait, don't go!" Harry called just as the train jolted to a sudden halt and she was sent flying backwards, cracking her head against the wall and falling unconscious into Harry's lap.