The Witch, The Animagi, and The Werewolf
Part 1:Chapter 1-Hogwarts Express and The Sorting Hat
10:30am, an eleven year old girl with long, somewhat messy auburn hair and emerald green eyes, walks along Kings Cross Train Station. She was pushing her luggage on a trolley, it consists of a big brown suitcase along with a smaller one and a small cage with a snow white rat with a pale blind eye. The rat was barely an adult.
The girl looks at the ticket in her hand, Platform 9 3/4. Normal people would think of this as odd, but the girl had seen more odd things. Her eleventh birthday was just a month ago, on that day she got a letter, dropped off by an owl. That's not all, a man visited her a week ago, as if knowing she was confused by everything. He told her everything up to now, and it was all true. Except, he never told her how to get on the platform.
At first she thought it would be a hidden door, like how the Leaky Cauldron was hidden. It wasn't. She tried tapping the stones in the same way she did to get to Diagon Alley. Nothing. Finally she decides to sit down, for she was getting weird looks.
A few minutes went by, five to be exact, until the girl heard another trolley stop. She looks up, her emerald eyes meet those of a blue-grey, almost hidden behind messy black hair. She quickly looks away, blushing furiously.
"Hey are you ok?" the boy asks her.
"Sirius, come on, leave that muggle alone, we need to catch our train," a female, the only female with a trolley, says before she runs at a wall.
"I'm not a muggle...I'm a muggle-born but no muggle," the auburn haired girl calmly says.
The boy holds out his hand as the other people that were with him also run at the wall. "The name's Black, Sirius Orion Black," he says with a smile.
The girl hesitantly takes his hand and stands, silently saying, "I'm Kristy Kennedy."
"Well ," Sirius smirks faintly, "I s'pose since you're muggle-born you don't know how to get on the platform." Kristy shakes her head. "Well then," Sirius grabs hold of his trolley, "all you have to do is run straight at that wall!" Just as he says that, a male with brown hair runs on the platform with his parents. Kristy then follows Sirius.
Upon reaching the platform, Kristy was amazed. In front of her was a scarlet red steam engine, bearing the words 'HOGWARTS EXPRESS'. She heard excited voices, crying little ones and the sounds of owls, cats and rats, even a few frogs and toads. As Kristy looked for a seat she heard words like: quidditch, squibs, pureblood, You-Know-Who, death eaters, mudblood, and hippogriff. Finally, Kristy finds a seat, there was another person in the car, the boy with brown hair she saw earlier. She goes to ask politely if she could sit there when she gets bowled over by Sirius.
"Did you find us a car my dear?"
"Ugh! Sirius get off me, you weigh a tonne!"
"No need to be so rude.."
"And hello to you to, yes of course you may sit with me," a slightly annoyed voice says. Sirius looks up, his hair in his eyes. Kristy also looks up, her hair just missing her eyes, she pushes Sirius off and stands. "I'm s-so sorry for i-intruding," she manages to stutter, her true shy self showing.
The boy blinks and rummages in his bag, Kristy thinks he's going to attack her, so she hides behind Sirius who just stood up. Sirius puts his hand by his wand then chuckles. "Kristy come on out," he says then sits as Kristy moves from hiding. She blushes from embarrassment. The boy with brown hair was holding out a piece of chocolate to her. "Sorry if I startled you," he says, "your name's Kristy? I'm Remus Lupin," he smiles faintly.
Kristy hesitantly takes the chocolate and sits beside Remus then takes a bite of her chocolate and smiles. Her sister would always steal her chocolate that her parents gave her, which wasn't much to begin with.
As the train moves, Kristy glances past Remus, out the window. She sees parents waving to their children, she looks down at her rat, Jasper. Her parents ever came to see her off, they didn't even give her the money to get her stuff. She had went in her chest in which she had filled up with saved up money, and exchanged it for knuts, sickles, and galleons. Suddenly the door bursts open again, and a boy rushes to the window and silently curses.
The boy's hair was messier than Sirius', his brown eyes were behind a pair of glasses. Kristy watches him sit next to Sirius, "damn train going so fast, missed my chance to say bye to my folks," he murmurs to nobody in particular.
"And you are..." Remus asks.
"Hmm? Oh my name's James Potter, who're all of you?"
"Sirius Black."
"Remus Lupin."
"Kristy Kennedy," Kristy silently utters.
"Pardon? Couldn't hear you."
Kristy sighs, "Kristy. Kennedy."
"Much better."
Kristy looks down at Jasper again, feeling suddenly hot.
The train ride took a long time, James and Sirius were already great friends, Kristy was dying of boredom. Remus only ever said a few choice words as he read. Kristy, was still bored, the only thing that amused her was Jasper eating Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans.
In the hall of the train, Kristy could hear excited chatter, she realized they must be getting close to Hogwarts.
The Hogwarts Express slowed to a gradual stop. Kristy and all the other students had their robes on. The first years were lead to a lake while the others went to some carriages. Kristy ended up in the same boat in another auburn haired girl, a boy with black greasy hair, and a chubby boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. Then finally, the second auburn haired girl spoke, "my name's Lily Evans, what's yours?"
"Peter Pettigrew," the chubby boy says. Kristy and the other boy stay silent. Then the second boy speaks, "I'm Severus Snape," he seems to be speaking only to Kristy and Peter. Lily must already know him. Great. Peter and Kristy shift uncomfortably, then the boat stops and Kristy runs to catch up to the boys she knows before she dies of awkwardness.
Kristy enters the castle of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and stops in front of a woman with long green robes. The woman said something about being sorted into four houses before Kristy couldn't seem to hear anything. She suddenly felt dizzy, probably from being near so much people. Being hated made her scared near lot's of people. Kristy holds Jasper close, as if the rat can help her. She slightly flinches when a hand touches her shoulder. "You ok? You seem pale," Remus whispers, probably thinking that whatever was wrong, was created by the chocolate he gave her. Kristy looks at Remus' eyes. She just noticed the chocolate-hazel colour, since she avoided them before. The eyes looked worried, so she does what she usually does. She lies. "Yea, I'm fine...I think I just ate too much sweets, hehe." Remus didn't seem to believe her, he did however, remove his hand from her shoulder, but stayed close to her.
The big doors opened and all the first years walked in, down the centre isle and to the front, where they all crowded. Three steps up and on a stool, sat an old, patched and frayed hat. Every first year who's parents never told them of the hat was confused. When the hat spoke, they were amazed. The witch that lead them in the great hall took out a piece of parchment. Sirius, James, Lily, Peter and Remus were in Gryffindor, along with a girl names Alice and a boy named Frank. In Ravenclaw, Kristy remembered hearing the name...Xenophilius? Severus went in Slytherin, then it was her turn.
"Kristy Kennedy!"
Kristy walks up.
When the hat was placed on her head, it went over her eyes. She was nervous and heard a loud thumping in her ears, barely hearing the hat as it called out 'Gryffindor!' She smiles and sets the hat down then runs to the table, and sits between Remus and Alice. The ceremony continued. The feast begins and ends. The students all go to bed.