Author's Note
Hey! Blue-Sapphire-99 here! Yea, yea, I know that this story is under the name NightStar7, but I assure you, it's still me. I had to re-upload this story because my dad found out about the other one, and because of that, I had to take out all of the swearing, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to add in any romantic stuff, so I decided to just ditch that one and upload the story on another account. It's still me, and I'll be putting up all of the chapters that I have so far, and finishing this story. So, I hope that this one turns out better than the last one, and please read&review, it's what keeps me going.
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Chapter One
The Train
I'm not like most purebloods in the wizarding world. I live in a group of people like me, and I'm their only princess. I'm my vampire clan's princess.
I had just walked through the barrier and onto platform 9 ¾, and I could feel my palms start to get slightly clammy as my level of unease and discomfort rose significantly higher than it had been a few minutes prior. I sighed and shook my head sadly. I was disappointed that neither my mother, nor my father had come to see me off. But, I was used to doing things without them. I had just about raised myself, with the help of my ten older brothers.
I had just boarded the train and was thinking about going to find one of my brothers, when I was shoved from behind, and heard a hurried apology from a girl with long, curly flaming red hair and snappy emerald eyes, pulling on the hand of a boy with long greasy hair (long for a boy anyway), a long beak like nose, and cold black eyes.
From inside the compartment to my right, I heard a couple of voices snicker, and one say,
"I bet he runs for the hills at the sight of shampoo." I turned, looked into the compartment and instantly disliked what I saw. Two raven haired boys were looking out of the compartment window, looking at me now, since the greasy haired boy was gone. Sitting opposite the two black haired boys were two more boys, who's general appearance I liked more than the other two's. One was a slightly plump boy with mousey brown hair, watery blue eyes, and large front teeth, much like that of a rodent. The other looked like he would be tall when he stood up, though he also looked like he would be slim. He had floppy blond hair, bangs falling into golden colored amber eyes. Golden eyes.
I swallowed nervously when I realized that all of them were looking at me now. Another girl came down the hall, came up to me, and said,
"Hey, I'm Parker Brown, who're you?" At first, I was taken aback by her colloquialism, but quickly racked my brain and understood what she had said (Being that my family doesn't often use contractions or abbreviations).
"Asana Russet," I said, already tiring of saying my name.
"Cool, do ya wanna see if those boys wanna share?" she asked. It took me a moment , I responded with a slight nod of the head, and I suppose she took it as an enthusiastic 'Yes!', because she grabbed my hand and pulled me inside of the door without knocking.
"It cool if we share with you guys, great." Parker said, not giving them a chance to object. She sat down between the two raven haired boys, and pushed me between the brunette and the blond. The blond one turned to me and said,
"Hi, I'm Remus Lupin." I was surprised at his voice, it cracked when he said 'Remus' and given the dark circles under his eyes, I attributed it to fatigue.
"Asana Russet," I repeated, finally accepting the fact that I would probably be saying my name a lot tonight and for the next few days if I were to seem polite. Remus turned from me when one of the raven haired boys asked him a question (this one had hazel eyes and wore wire rimmed glasses).
I got a weird feeling sitting next to Remus, almost like some dark force was emanating from him. I inhaled deeply through my nose, and caught the scent of pine trees, wet mulch, rivers, and a lingering trace of chocolate. That accompanied with the golden eyes and the bags under his eyes, led me to the conclusion that Remus Lupin was a werewolf. But, thanks to over a decade of magical creature recognition classes, I knew that he wouldn't be dangerous except for on the full moon, which was a few weeks away.
"What house do you want to get into?" the boy with the glasses asked Remus.
"I don't know, Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. But definitely not Slytherin. But I guess Hufflepuff wouldn't be so bad either. How about you, James?" he asked the hazel eyed boy.
"GRYFFINDOR! WHERE DWELL THE BRAVE AT HEART!" James shouted at the top of his lungs, making me flinch at the high volume.
"You don't have to shout. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF WE AL SHOUTED?" asked Parker, once again making me flinch. Then again, I couldn't really blame her, he had just screamed right in her ear.
"Oh sorry," he said, "Wait a minute, who are you?"
"Parker Brown," she nearly shouted. Then the other black haired boy turned to me and asked,
"And who might you be?"
"Oh, she's Asana Russet," Parker said before I could speak.
"Okay then... I'm Sirius Black, that's James Potter," he said waving his hand at James, "Peter Pettigrew," he said, pointing at the plump quiet boy next to me, "and Remus Lupin," he said, waving at Remus. The compartment was silent for a while before, until Sirius' stomach growled in hunger.
"Well, I'm off to find the lady with the food," he said, standing up and opening the compartment door. The door slammed shut behind his retreating back, and we were submerged in silence once again. I reached into my rucksack and pulled out my Charms textbook. I had only gotten to read the first word, when James groaned and said,
"Not another bookworm, I can barely stand Remus reading all the time, but I will not stand for two bookworms in the compartment at the same time. Put the book away right this very second Russet." I raised my left eyebrow, but said nothing, before continuing to read. I got to the end of the page before Sirius came in empty handed.
"She wasn't there!" he wailed. Then he noticed me and started screaming, "BOOKWORM! BOOKWORM! BOOKWORM! BOOK-" but he was cut off by Parker screaming,
"WILL YOU STOP SCREAMING?"
"NOT UNLESS YOU SAY PLEASE." Sirius said in a singsong sort of yell.
"I'LL SAY PLEASE WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!" Parker yelled back. But hell isn't actually flames like most people think, it's more like an ever expanding red caver with black clouds and no sunlight or warmth. Silly wizards.
They continued to scream at each other for a while until I found a Charm that I thought would do everyone's ears a favor.
"Silencio," I muttered under my breath, my ebony wand poking out of the end of my robe's sleeve, pointing at Parker and Sirius. They instantly fell silent, and James, Peter, and Remus looked around in bewilderment, Parker looked like she was trying to scream, while Sirius looked like he was trying to shout profanities. I, on the other hand, squelched a smirk and continued reading my textbook. The rest of the train ride went by in silence, allowing my ears to cease their ringing.
When the train finally stopped, it was getting dark. We stepped off of the train to a platform where we were greeted by an eight foot tall giant that I later learned was named Hagrid. He led us over to a small dock where we were told to get into groups of three or four and get into a small wooden boat with a lamp hanging from a small post at the back. Somehow, I got stuck in the same boat as Parker and Remus, but I figured that it could have been worse, I could have gotten stuck with Sirius or someone worse. Remus was looking through a Transfiguration textbook that he had with him, and Parker was looking into the lake's dark, murky waters.
We were told to duck as we passed under a curtain of ivy, and everyone let out an audible gasp as were granted with a picturesque view of Hogwarts castle. The castle loomed before us, standing black against the deep purple sky of twilight, small balls of gold revealing windows, the stars looking like little more than silver pinpricks in the sky, the crescent moon hanging off to the left of the castle.
The boats continued on with their sluggish pace until we bumped against the opposite shore. We were told to be careful when we exited the boats. We all clustered together, waiting for the giant to lead us further. He eventually called us, and we were led to the large double doors leading into the castle. The doors swung open, revealing a frail looking witch with gray hair pulled back in a tight bun, clothed in emerald green robes and a pointy purple witch's hat.
"Hello students, I am Professor McGonagall, I will be leading you to the Great Hall to be sorted into your house." she said in a soft voice. She led us over to a beat up old wizard's hat resting on a stool. Professor McGonagall produced a scroll and announced,
"I will now read your names in alphabetical order for you to be sorted."...