Family Ties

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"Harry, Ron, come on, I wanna get a good compartment on the train!" Hermione screamed back to her two best friends. The three boarded the train, giving people with trunks room as all of their stuff was already loaded. Harry, Ron, and Hermione found their compartment

There were three people sitting in the room already. Seeing who it was Ron, Hermione, and Harry automatically got pissed off. Malfoy and his trollish cronies had taken over an entire side, even though the compartment was clearly already occupied.

"Tsk tsk, not even enough time to greet your enemy." Malfoy spat at Harry. Harry had advanced toward Malfoy, wand drawn, but backed off when Malfoy spoke.

"Aww, shut it ferrret boy. We all know that you've only become pissier because darling daddy's doing time." It was the first thing Hermoine had said ant it even surprised her.

She stared up at him, knowing that this would just make him madder and ruder, due to the fact that his father's arrest hadn't exactly been secret. She could not believe that the son of one of the biggest Death Eaters ever couldn't think of a comeback. Malfoy spluttered, and then motioned to Crabbe and Goyle and stormed off. He returned only briefly to retrieve the huge pile of sweets he had left in the compartment before returning to the Slytherins, and more importantly to Malfoy, Pansy.

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Later on, in the great hall, everyone was sitting at their house tables. Dumbledore stood up, looking extremely tired. Harry looked around for a certain five people, the only other ones who knew why the headmaster looked so tired. After the battle that Harry, Ron, Hermoine, Ginny, Luna Lovegood, and Neville had fought last year, Dumbledore had spent the whole summer working for the Order.

"We have several announcements this year," the headmaster spoke, "first, let me just say welcome to the new students, and we hope that you enjoy your seven years with us. The other announcement is teaching announcements. You may have not known, but before Madame Hooch came to us for Quidditch, she trained to be an Auror. So this year, due to unfortunate issues with last year's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher," his eyes rested on Harry and he smiled, "Madame Hooch will be teaching this year. So therefore, we have a new Quidditch coach. May I introduce Mr. Caelum…"

End of Chapter One, hope you liked it! Sorry to leave you hanging, but you won't be disappointed I hope, with the new professor and all… Hope to have two up very, very soon, but please read and review so that two is better than this,

Much love, the authors…