Unbreakable Friendships

The tiny little girl who looked more like an eight year old than an 11 year old waited patiently for her chance to get on the Hogwarts Express. She had already changed into her Hogwarts robes and handed her second hand trunk over to the conductor and only carried a brown sack and a cage with her black fluff ball of a kitten in it with a singular piece of string with a bell attached to keep Hel entertained.

Finally, there was a chance for her to board the train and she immediately headed to the last car, looking for an empty compartment and reached one, opening the door as quickly as she could to duck in, only to be dismayed the compartment was not actually empty, but there was a boy reading in the blind spot. She blushed, hair growing longer to hide it, and murmured an apology before backing out and hastily shutting the door to make a barrier between her and the Slytherin boy before back-peddling and searching for another. She found an open compartment diagonal of the one she had embarrassingly almost entered and quickly sat, tucking herself into a ball on the seat opposite of the window so she could stare out it while she took out Hel out of her plain carrier and started playing with the munchkin kitten quietly, praying that they would be left alone to their own devices.

Sadly, about thirty minutes later, her compartment door opened and the same Slytherin boy who she had walked in on earlier was standing there. He walked in with a since of purpose and sat down opposite of her before opening his book, Horrifying Creatures and Their Uses, and opened it up, but he didn't read it, Instead he studied her and finally opened his mouth when the door of the compartment opened, making her jump and him shut his mouth with a quiet clicking sound of teeth, "Anything from the trolley dears?" A young woman asked them, smiling kindly. The girl timidly shook her head, eyes flashing colors and the boy answered with a crisp "No thank you" and a smile and face that would make the most beautiful angel jealous.

The woman nodded with a smile and closed the door of the compartment as silence fell over the two occupants again. She started playing with Hel again before he spoke, "You're a metamorphmagous aren't you?" She jerked and looked at him, eyes wide. "Well, it's not like you can hide it very well," he said, eyes glinting with interest, "how much can you change of yourself?"

She tried to talk, but had to clear her throat first, "Um, a bit. Hair, eyes, skin, nose, but it's hard to hold all at once." She said softly, twitching in her seat as his eyes scrutinized her.

After her answer, he seemingly dismissed her and she timidly went back to playing with Hel for the rest of the trip, not noticing his eyes lifting to watch her more than once.

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After pulling into the station she regretfully put Hel back into the cage and with a whisper of "keep her safe" passed her to a house elf who had greeted her with a bow and a "What can Plipsy do for you misses?"

The boy had already exited the train by the time she had looked up, she had no idea of his name but was sure she'd eventually found out in the seven years she would be at Hogwarts but wasn't sure if she wanted to know it.

She exited the train and caught site of the carriages that pulled the older students and smiled sadly at the Threstals who were pulling the carts effortlessly before having her attention called to an older gentleman with bright green eyes and a thick Irish borough, "Fis' years this way! Here we go, come on. Oi, lass, hurry up, we haven't got all night!"

She was broken from her thoughts and quickly raced forward to catch up with the others and fell into line behind a boy with startling blonde hair and a pair of twin girls with tanned skin, black hair, and almond eyes.

"Passing under mercury tonight is a good sign," the blonde said softly, blue eyes lighting up, "unbreakable friendship will form tonight to face the worst of hardships later on..."

The twins giggled and one pulled her into the boat with the three of them, they road across the lake in silence, taking in the beauty and admired the view of the castle that came into play. They would spend the next seven years of their lives there and in a few moments it would be time to discover what their new home was like.

The jolly man, whom they discovered to be Mr. Carver, the groundskeeper, led them up the castle steps and to a man with an impressive beard and twinkling blue eyes.

"I am deputy headmaster Albus Dumbledore, in a few moments you will enter the great hall and your lives will be changed forever. You will be sorted and will make new friends, new beginnings, and begin your education as wizards and witches within these great halls, all I can tell you is good luck and babababananana."

She raised an eyebrow at that and ignored the mutterings of students as she curiously looked around and inched closer to the blonde boy when the doors to the great hall opened and they were let inside.

Four tables were lined up, each with the house emblems on banisters and tapestries hanging above them. The green, yellow, blue, and red all stood out in their own way. Green, since it was the darkest, yellow, since it was ridiculously bright, blue since it was centered, and red due to the boldness, each seemed to reflect the house it represented personality if the song the hat sang meant anything

I may not look like much,

But I'll tell you now to hush

I can see inside your head

And I'll know you better than you will when all your hair has shed

Let me see inside your mind

So I may place you with your kind

Gryffindor which is surrounded by the best of lore,

A house where you must be true in your very core

Ravenclaw, where the smartest gather,

And talk so their brains may get fatter.

Hufflepuff where the best of friends lounge about,

So close none their loyalty doubt.

Slytherin where ambitions grow,

And create benefits from which they sow.

Let me take a peek,

You will not be viewed as weak

Now put me on

As soon as I finish this song.

Adams, Weddington! GRYFFINDOR

Battlewise, Marshal! RAVENCLAW

Birch, Mildred! RAVENCLAW

Creevy, Milton! HUFFLEPUFF

Greengrass, Harold! SLYTHERIN

Ilwart, Clayton! RAVENCLAW

Imperial, Abigail! GRYFFINDOR

Imperial, Katelyn! SLYTHERIN

Jewell, Hyde! GRYFFINDOR

Lovegood, Zephier! RAVENCLAW

Lost, Althia!

It was her turn, the twins and blonde boy had just went, all being sorted into different houses right after he claimed they would make the best of friends. She slowly made her way up to the front where the hat was, bangs growing to help conceal her face. Everyone in the wizarding world knew what the last name Lost meant; it meant a squib or the family of a squib that had been disowned by their magical family, it was universal knowledge now that she was one in roughly 600 that had magic reactivate in the blood. Soon, different families would be inquiring of the family name before being thrown from the wizarding society as a pariah, especially if they learn of her metamorph abilities, which they surely would due to her poor control over her emotions. Rejuvenated magical blood, no matter how diluted by muggles, was sought after, her father had warned her as much.

She sat on the stool and made eye contact with the boy from the train right before the hat lowered onto her head and a voice echoed through her mind as though she were underwater, "Hmmm… timid but for good reason, smart, very smart but not too studious so not Ravenclaw…you have ambitions but not the sort that would allow you to enter Slytherin and you're too tame for the likes of Gryffindor though I expect great bravery one day..that leaves your longing for friends…HUFFLEPUFF!"

She rose from the stool and headed to the Hufflepuff table, they were applauding outrageously as furious whispers from other houses broke out and she timidly walked to the closest open seat next to Milton, who's large, thick glasses and looked at her with uncertainty but a timid smile, which Althia tentatively returned before looking past the prefect opposite of her to the Slytherin boy who was still staring at her with interest before his attention was diverted to a blonde boy who made a wide gesture. Althia broke eye contact and looked around her, not hearing the other names until a "Zabini, Matteo" was sorted into RAVENCLAW and Headmaster Dippit made a short welcome speech and then food appeared at the end.

Her eyes went wide at the sheer amount of food and she waited until Milton nudged her and asked if she was hungry before taking a chicken breast, some broccoli, sweet potatoes, and a roll to eat when the prefect across from her began a conversation, "I don't think Hufflepuff has had a Lost in 70 years."

Althia shrugged, obviously uncomfortable with the conversation and was grateful when the prefect began a conversation with the girl next to him. She ate slowly and surely until the end of the night, when the tables were dismissed to introduce the new students to their common rooms.

Althia tiredly got up and tripped over her robe and closed her eyes, ready for the impact of the heard floor but was jerked back by the back of her collar and met grey-blue eyes before they disappeared into the crowd of Slytherins and from her sight.

A/N: Review please!