Hello! This is my second story :-) Sorry if some sentences are looking like they are copy and pasted from Google Translation, because I am a french writer and English is not my first language so I must translate some things...Anyway, hope you'll like it!
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns the universe of HP, and me, I own Aude.
Chapter 1: The Hogwarts Express
Okay. I don't know if it's right. If it's even…legal? All that I know it's that I'm doing it. I am actually in the Hogwarts Express. Going to Hogwarts. That will be, well normal if I was a sorcerer. It's not the case. I'm not a squib, otherwise I could not have passed through the wall of Platform 9 & 3/4.
What I am? Well, it's complicated. I must keep that secret. After I need to think. What people would think of a fifteen year old girl, entering for the first time to Hogwarts? No, I must find something to tell them. Maybe I was like...Running from an horrible orphanage? That evasive. It's great. The problem is that I actually never went in a orphanage. I live in a huge house in London, with my parents and my brother Cyril. But that's not the point. No one needs to know that. It's my secret. One among many other...
"Hello". A blonde hair girl entered the compartment. She looked like she was sixteen. Without asking or nothing, she sat in front of me.
"Hello...", I answered, uncertainly.
"I don't think I saw you before, in Hogwarts". She frowned.
"Well...You know you can't know all of the Hogwart's students!"
"No, but I am prefect, so I saw lot of people. Anyway, in which house are you?" Crap. Well, I can't be sure which house I'll be in, so...
"Okay, I will tell you the truth. I never been there before."
She looked at me with a mix of fear and admiration. She has hypnotic grey eyes.
"Oh...Well that's unusual. Then, how did you know about Hogwarts?"
It's time to test my story.
"I...I run away from the orphanage where I was. When I was thirteen. And then, in my, well folder, I found something interesting. The letter. I told a..another guy about it. We ran together. And...here I am"
"Woah...it's a little bit scary. But, yeah I understand. You didn't have an easy life"...
I felt guilty. Because my life was actually easy. My parents were like really absent, but my brother and I were always happy. I never known misery and poverty.
A brown hair girl passed her head through the door.
"Hannah, what are you doing? It's time to go in the prefect's compartment.
"Oh. Okay I'm coming. See you later...erm, what's your name?"
"Aude. Aude Gardaea".
"See you later, Aude".
And she leave me alone in this compartment. I looked through the window. I saw a mix of grey and green. It's often rainy, there in England. I miss France. But my parents are business people. And the company moved to England.
Anyway. My little story...It has worked. For the moment.
Later...
"Hey, we're back!"
I turn my head. Hannah and the brown hair girl were back.
"This is Hermione!", said Hannah, pointing the girl.
"Hello, I'm Aude"
"I know, you said it".
Woah. She's so sympathetic. But what hurt me...It was her look. Her eyes were hazelnut. And she looked at me like...Like a have some horrible disease. Like, she know I lied to Hannah. But she didn't heard our talk. Or...Or she was listening. Oh man! I hope not.
"Erm. Well" said Hannah.
And the rest of the journey passed in silence.
Couple of hours later
Finally. I saw Hogwarts for the first time of my life. It was beautiful. Amazing. I can't realize that I'll spend my year in that. Then, a teacher called my name.
"Aude Gardaea!"
I walked towards her. She talked about the "Sorting", where I'll me place in a house. Oh gee. I hope I'll be in Slytherin. At least, Ravenclaw.
"You'll pass before all the first year, right?"she said, and it was like an obligation not a question.
"Euh...Right?"
Oh crap. I started to stress. I don't want to be there, opening this ceremony. I am fifteen! Not eleven!
This was my first chapter. I hope you liked it! I'll write the second one soon!