Chapter one
"It's wonderful to meet you Abby, I hope you enjoy your time at Hogwarts, are you aware of how long you will be with us?" Dumbledore asked me.
"I believe t to be for the rest of my schooling, it was father's idea to bring me to Hogwarts, he also went here and believed you to be a great headmaster and professor."
"That's wonderful I'll make sure to send them my best, now for your sorting, would you like to have it done privately and then have me announce it or in front of the school?"
"Oh, privately, some attention is good but not a lot please." I replied with a smile.
"Then so it shall be, please have a seat." Dumbledore said motioning to an old looking chair that didn't look as if it could hold anyone. I took a seat as Dumbledore used his wand to summon an old looking hat into his hands.
"This isn't going to hurt is it?" I asked with a very concerned expression.
"I would never do anything to cause one of my students harm." Dumbledore replied, as he was about to place it onto my head the doors to his office burst open and a scruffy, scary, tall, man came bursting in holding the robes of a boy, close to my age.
"I found Mr. Black lurking in the corridors during classes Professor." the man said. The boy looked at me and shrugged, with a smile that made me melt on the inside. He was good looking, he had medium length, jet black hair, stormy grey eyes, and a wonderful figure, and I knew that his robes must be hiding perfectly shaped abs and body.
"Good afternoon Professor Dumbledore," he said, "who is this lovely young lady?" he asked making me blush.
"This is Abby Martian, a new student here at Hogwarts."
"And what house has Miss Martian been placed in?"
"We were just getting to the placing before we were interrupted." Dumbledore said, signaling to the man to let the boys cloaks go. "You may leave Professor. Thank you". And with that the man was gone.
"May I stay? I can show her around the castle." the boy asked.
"What a brilliant idea Sirius, you do know all of the secrets of the school, now for the sorting!" he said with a smile, plopping the hat down on my head. And then it started to grumble words that were just barely recognizable.
"You are brilliant, brave, courageous, and strong on the inside, tough between Slytherin and Gryffindor. I must say, GRIFFINDOR!" and then it was silent and a normal hat once again.
"Brilliant!" Sirius said grabbing me and my schedule as we darted out the door.
"You're going to love Hogwarts; it's wonderful, especially when you know all of the secret passages in and out of the castle and the shortcuts. It's amazing that even Dumbledore doesn't even know about them. He knows that I do and all he had to do was ask but he doesn't, it's great. Oh I guess we aren't going to get very far if I keep stopping to chat are we?" Sirius said with a slight smile as we started off into the castle.
"I love how everything here is so old, and I don't mind if you talk, I want to know about this school and the people in it before I make friends with the wrong people." I said smiling at him.
We continued to walk through the castle and he told me about everything, how old the school was, how old everyone thought Dumbledore was, the history on why it was good I was put into Gryffindor and not Slytherin, because they were backstabbing, future, death eaters. When we walked into the Great Hall I gasped and he laughed.
"It looks like it goes on forever! There is no way this place has a ceiling!" I exclaimed, apparently to his amusement because he snickered and said,
"Yeah, we have been trying to get Dumbledore to let us explode firecrackers in here so we can see how high it is."
"It's amazing!" then I heard a bell ring and the halls filled up fast.
"Oh, I almost forgot that there are classes going on today. We should take you to the dorms so that you can unpack and meet your new roommates, you will love them… I know my one friend does. We have an hour break until classes start again, so we could get you settled in and I could walk you through your classes. Sound good?" he asked.
"Lead the way!"
"Take my hand," I looked at him, "so you don't get lost, I'm not trying to make a move on you, just yet that is." he said as he slipped his fingers into my hand and we entered the mess of people in the large hall. It was a good thing he did because I had a hard time keeping up and not getting separated, even while holding hands, I thought he was going to pull my shoulder out of socket. We heard a few teasing whistles as we made our way through the bustling crowd. And then I stopped and froze. I couldn't move.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked.
"I cannot go up those steps!" I shouted.
"Well why not?" he asked as if nothing was wrong.
"Are you blind? They are moving, I can't get on those I might fall!" I yelled at him.
"They are always adjusting themselves, you won't fall, no one ever has." he said matter-of-factly.
"Absolutely not!" I exclaimed, and then he slid his arm under my legs and started to walk up the steps.
"Absolutely yes." he said smiling and tightening his grip on me.
I was terrified of heights and moving stairs don't help either, so I grabbed his neck and hid my face in his shirt, I could hear him snickering. I thought about hitting him for it, but I was too afraid to let go, even for a fraction of a second.
I honestly must have feinted, because I woke up on a couch, in a room covered in scarlet and gold. There was a cozy fire twenty feet away and I had a small crowd of people crowded around me.
"Wow Sirius," I heard a male voice say, "I know you have a tendency to sweep girls up off their feet, but literally? And making her pass out? Mate, you have a true gift."
"I did not pass out." I lied.
"Yeah, okay, and I'm going to be famous one day." the boy said.
Sirius pulled my hands so I was sitting and introduced me to the crowd around me, "These are the lovely people I was telling you about; the girls are Lily Evans, Maggie Prince, May Cho, and Felicity Might. They will be your roommates. These striking fellows are, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and that lovely fellow that was giving you and me a hard time is James Potter."
"How do you do?" James said sarcastically, as he bowed so low his nose almost touched the floor.
"It's wonderful to meet you all." I said smiling at them.
James laughed and said, "Wonderful, you're American aren't you?"
"Yes. Did I do something wrong?" I said thinking that it's great I haven't even known these people for five minutes and I already did something wrong.
"No, you didn't do anything wrong, it's just your accent and that you said wonderful. We don't normally say that, we say-"
"Brilliant, right?" I asked, cutting Lily off. "That's what he keeps saying." I said motioning to Sirius.
"Yay, we have a quick learner." James said sarcastically.
"James quit being such an ogre and shut up, come with us Abby, we will help you unpack." Felicity said grabbing my arm. Rest of the girls followed us upstairs.
"We are going to be great friends I know it already." said May dropping my huge suitcase onto my bed and undoing the clasps on it. "Oh my, you have great sense of fashion," she said pulling out on of my outfits, "you are going to have to share your clothes!" she exclaimed hugging the dress to her shirt.
"Um, sure, why not?" I said. We continued to talk while we worked on unpacking my things and I could tell this was going to be a great year.
"Damn Sirius, she has one nice arse. I wish I could have been in that hall and drug to Dumbledore's office. You are always the lucky one." James said as the girls vanished up the stairs to unpack Abby's things.
"Yeah, she does, I like her." Sirius said in a more serious tone.
"That's brilliant," Remus said, "Sirius has already found his next project." he finished, rolling his eyes.
"Mooney, I really like her, she's different. She isn't one of the stupid girls we have wandering around here, thinking they are best." Sirius said.
"HOLY DAMN!" Peter said, "You really like her, what are you going to do?"
"He is going to go after her, ruthlessly, until he wins the prize like always, Wormtail, what else?" James said punching Sirius in the arm. "Ay mate?"
"No, I will get her the right way. I'm not going to rush her. She doesn't know anything about my past with the other girls; we just have to keep her from finding out." Sirius said, still staring at the girls dormitory stairs.