"You will be careful now won't you dear?"

"Yes mom, its just school."

"You got…"

"MOM! I gota go before I miss the train!"

"What platform?"

"9 ¾" you leave and run and get onto the platform just in time to see the train pull away. "NO! Stop!! Wait!!!" you look down at your owl Fluffy. "Fluffy, feel like a long and fast flight?" Fluffy hooted eagerly and stretched out her wings. You open her cage and take a quill and paper out of your pocket and wrote; Dear headmaster, I missed the train to Hogwarts and don't have a way to get there on time, could you send someone to get me or something? Sincerely, Alvina Shalve.' You tie it to Fluffy's leg. "Take this to the headmaster at Hogwarts." Fluffy flew off.

About an hour later a large man stepped onto the platform. "Miss Shalve?"

"Yes?"

"I am Hagrid, I was sent to get you. Miss the train eh?" you nod and he grabs your trunk and finds a fireplace you hadn't seen before. "Follow me." He stepped in with your trunk and handed you half his floo powder. He dropped his and shouted "Hogwarts!" he disappeared and you did the same.
"Alvina Shalve." You hear your name at last. You look up to see that all the first years had been sorted. You slowly walk up and sit down on the stool. "Miss Shalve has joined us from her school over in America. She is a sixth year." McGonagall said before she placed the hat over your head.

"Hmmmmmmm, Now you are the most Difficult one to place I have ever had. Where do you WANT to go? You don't know? Very well then," It opened the small rip that it used for a mouth and shouted… "I don't know!!"

The hole room gasped and Dumbledore stud and grabbed the hat and shoved it on his head. He stud there half stunned as he talked to the hat. After a wile he gave the hat to McGonagall and asked all the teachers to follow him. You stud at the head table staring at all your fellow students. They all whispered and stole glances at you. Finally the teachers all came back. And Dumbledore spoke. "Miss Shalve, as you have probably guessed, this has never happened before. EVER! Now, the sorting hat has told me why and the teachers and I have talked about it and we have decided that you shall stay as you are. The hat has told us that you have TWO houses that you should equally go to and you suggested none. Therefore, You, even though you belong hear, have no house."

"Then, Sir, what am I to do?"

"We will talk about it later, first, we eat!" food appeared on all the tables.

"Sir?"

"Oh, you can take a seat at any table." Dumbledore said gesturing towards the four house tables.
You walk along a row between the Gryffindor and Slytherin tables looking for an empty seat. You finally spot one by a blond haired boy on the Slytherin side. "Excuse me, Do you mind if I…" t

He boy looks up at you with his blue eyes that pulled you in to him. "No, you can sit."

"Thanks." You sit down and fill your plate with food.

"So, Alvina,"

"Call me Vina."

"Vina, No house?"

"Nope, Dumbledore said for me to sit anywhere."

"Oh, I'm Draco, by the way, Draco Malfoy."

"Nice to meat you, Draco." You said shaking his hand. His grip was firm, yet gentle and you got a fluttery feeling in the pit of your stomach.

"This is Crabbe and Goyle." He said pointing to two large boys stuffing their faces.

They grunt and you nod at them. "What year are you Draco?"

"Sixth, like you."

"Oh?"

"Why didn't you get a house?"

"That annoying hat said I have Two houses I equally should go into. But I don't know what two I they are."

"Oh."

"I didn't see you on the train."

"I missed it."

"Oh,"

You talk to Draco until everyone left the hall to go to there common rooms. Then you followed Dumbledore up to his office. "Alvina,"

"Sir, call me Vina."

"Vina, you have left me in quite a spot. Gryffindor and Slytherin? Now that is hard to do."

"Sir?"

"You are wondering what you are going to do, yes?"

"Yes."

"Ah, yes I am wondering that to."

"Sir?!"

"Call me Dumbledore. As I have told you before, this has never happened before." He started pacing, mumbling to himself. "No… Slytherin… Gryffindor… can't…" Suddenly the door swung open and a woman stepped in. "Ah, YES!! Professor Trelawney,"

"Yes?" her voice sounded mystical.

"You have come in the nick of time!"

"I was looking in my ball and saw you having trouble with something I could help you with."

"You are quite right. This is miss Alvina Shalve, and she has no house."

"And, you want me too…?"

"Take her. You do have the extra rooms. Turn one into a dormitory for her."

"I shall."

"Professors, What about Quidditch? I wanted to play…"

"Then, you shall have to settle on being a backup. For all houses."

"Yes sir."

"Come Miss Shalve." She led you up a maze of halls and staircases until you reached a latter then she turned to you. "Up the latter are my classroom and offices. Now look, she turned to a large painting of a kind faced woman in purple robs. "This is the door to your privet dorm. The password is," she lends in close and whispered it into your ear, "Tea Leaves." She stud and started up the latter and stopped, "Good night to you miss Shalve."

You approach the painting and she looked at you silently "Tea Leaves." She smiled and swung open for you to step in. the room had a four-poster bed in a corner draped with purple. Your school trunk sat at the end of it. There was a grand fireplace opposite the bed and beautiful old fashioned furnisher sat around for you to use. There was a large window that opens up to a balcony that was framed by purple velvet curtains that were tied open to let the moonlight shine in. "Well Vina, guess this is home." You change into your nightclothes and lie under the worm purple covers, and think about all that has happened that day until you drift off to sleep thinking of Draco.