So, here it is, the first chapter of the re-vamped "George's Girl"! I hope you all love it as much, if not more, than you did the original. Enjoy, you guys! Leave me nice reviews so I know how you're liking the changes and additions I've made! ~Angel

Disclaimer: I do not own the wonderful world of Harry Potter or any of its locations or characters. I wish I did, but I don't. The story concept and original characters are all mine, though, and I'm so so proud that they are.

I sighed as I looked around my room. Packing for school was going to be a nightmare.

"Mum," I yelled, as I walked toward my bedroom door. "Muuuum!"

"Yes, Sarah?" She stood at the bottom of the stairs, looking up at me.

"Do I have to go," I asked. "To Hogwarts, I mean. What's so wrong with me going to Beauxbatons?"

She began walking up the stairs toward me, and leaned in the doorway. "Yes, you have to go. Your father and I agreed that, even though it IS still a boarding school, it would be better to have you close to home. To keep you out of trouble. And, I've heard you might even get a better education at Hogwarts than at Beauxbatons."

I huffed, and went back to packing. "Fine. I'll go," I said, half-sure she couldn't hear me. "But I won't be happy about it."

"But, can't I at LEAST take Cal with me," I asked for the millionth time.

"Fine," my mum sighed. "You'll have to deal with your teachers when you get there. Dogs aren't on the 'pets permitted' list, you know." She half-smiled. "And don't you dare lose him," she lectured. "Your sister will kill you."

I laughed. "Don't worry, mum," I replied. "How hard could it be taking care of this guy? And besides, who could turn away this lovable mutt?"

"I don't know how, but I just have a feeling that you would," she said. "I'm just scared you're going to lose him..."

"Whatever," I said, smiling brightly. "Just help me get my junk on-board so I can leave, yeah?"

Mum laughed and made me drag my own trunk over to the storage compartments. She wasn't about to let me get away with EVERYTHING today.

Now, to introduce myself.

My name is Sarah Andrews. I'm 15, and I've attended Beaxbatons academy since I was 11 years old. There, I was the troublemaking prankster queen. I'd been sent home SEVERAL times at the end of term with a letter asking that my "behaviour problems be resolved" over the summer holiday. My dad thinks I will do well at Hogwarts, but I'm not so sure of that.

Cal (short for Calcifer) is my older sister, Christine's, dog. At the moment, we're watching him for her, since she's away on her post-graduation holiday. She gets to travel around the world to some of the most important wizarding locations of the far distant and very near past.

A very large, rather hairy man was helping students up onto the train. He yelled, "Alrigh'. Everyone on-board! Train's leavin' soon!"

"Bye, mum!" I hugged her one last time before getting onto the train. "I'll see you, dad, and Christine at Christmas!"

She smiled sadly at me, like she always did when I left for school, and blew me a kiss. "Be GOOD!"

Wandering around the train, I finally found an empty compartment. Cal curled up in the corner of the seat closest to the window. I threw my bag into the spot across from him and went to sit down.

Just as I started to sit, I heard a very loud, almost angry "HEY!"

Jumping up, I looked around, startled. "Who's there?" The compartment still seemed to be empty, except for myself and Cal.

"Why, hello there!" Suddenly, a tall, red-haired boy appeared, sitting right next to Cal. The poor old dog jumped when he appeared.

I turned back to where I had been sitting, just in time to see a flash of brightest red. In the seat was not just me, but another boy that looked exactly like the one next to Cal.

This was going to be a LOOOONG trip.