Hi everyone this is my first story so review will be welcome

declaimer- all the things you recognize belongs to J K Rowling

On September 1st 1970 Ted Tonks was standing on platform 9 3/4 full with excitement, his mom was saying last parting words " be safe OK?, and be nice to people make friends" "OK OK mom I got it love you" said Ted , kiss both his parents and run off to the red train.

He set down in one of the compartment with a feeling that this day is the start of something new, something brilliant that is going to change his entire life.

He was watching from the window exciting to see wizarding families, and tried to figure out rather they were different from his own. He noticed this family of five all of whom clearly magical that even from a distance and without hearing them speak he could tell were very rich.

The father was a tall man who stood very straight and looked very important, the mother was very beautiful with long blond hair, she was talking with her three daughters, one looked a little older than Ted, she was very beautiful with long black curls and heavy dark eyes, there was another how seems to be the youngest, she was blond and also very pretty. Ted's eyes however were drown to the middle daughter, she looked very much like her older sister but with brown straighter hair and was also very beautiful, but what caught Ted's attention was the fact that she looked so excited but was trying to hide it. She stood there near her sister at kept fidgeting and throwing glances to the train. Ted figures it was her first year too.

He was waiting for the girls to say goodbye to their parents when all of the sudden the door opened and a kid with big blue eyes and curly blond hair stood at his compartment "hey" he said "do you mind if I sit here?" "Not at all" said Ted "my name is Ted nice to meet you"

"I'm Xenophilius Lovegood, but you can call me Xeno, do you have a nickname that you go by like Det? "

"No" laughed Ted wandering if he was joking but something told him that he wasn't "Ted is my nickname, my name is Edward Tonks but please don't call me Edward only my mother calls me that when she is angry at me or something"

"Ted it is, you seem to be looking to the window did you see Crumple-Horned Snorkack ?"

"I don't really know what that means" said an embarrass Ted, he really didn't want to embarrass himself for his lack of wizarding knowledge in front of his new friends.

"Don't worry not many people know them I will show you a picture later" assured Xeno just as the train started to move.

"So do you prefer awkward silence or should we have a conversion?" ask Xeno in a dreamy voice like he didn't care which one Ted choose.

Ted laughed and decided immediately that he liked his compartment mate "Let's talk you can tell me all about that crumple thing"

Ted and Xenophilius spent the rest of the train ride talk about all kind of different creatures that Ted had a strong feeling didn't really excite, when the train arrived to the station they were greeted with the call " fisr' yea' over hea' " the person who were calling can be described as no other way but a giant. He was very tall and had a bushy beard. They followed after him to boats, Ted and Xeno shared their boat with a boy called Mike and a girl called Stephany. Ted saw the brown haired girl getting into the boat near his, he couldn't help but notice that there was something very elegant in the way she was sitting and getting into the boat.

Soon the castle was in view, it was the most magnificent thing Ted has ever seen, it was like all of the stories he was told as a child came to life and he actually got to be a part of it.

Once they got into the castle they were greeted by a witch who explained that they are about to be sorted into different houses. Ted got nervous at once, he didn't know that, what would he have to do? How much does it meter what house you are on? Why the hell was he wasting his time talking about nargals instead of asking Xeno questions about Hogwarts?

He looked around and then he saw her, the girl from the platform, she will know all of that, her family looked magical through and through.

He touched her shoulder "Hey I'm Ted nice to meet you"

"Andromeda" she answered briskly

'What a beautiful name' thought Ted "I was wondering if you can explain this all house thing to me, I was a little thrown off I must say, is there a good house to be in? How do they decide which house do you go to?"

She looked really confused "Are you taking the mickey?"

Ted didn't understand the confusion "No I really don't know you see my parents I muggles so…"

Her eyes open wide and she backed away as if she saw a monster and hurried to join her friends from the boat.

Ted looked around in confusion to see if anybody else saw this strange exchange, he saw Mike giving him an understanding look " don't worry about it she is a black by the looks of her, they are blood fanatics", he noticed Ted confused look and explained "that means they think pure bloods those with only magic blood are better than muggle borns or half blood, all nonsense of course but I would stay away from her if I were you, you never know what her family thought her, they are really into dark magic"

Tad looked at the girl and he just couldn't believe that the pretty excited girl he saw on the platform can do anything dark, or hate him just because of how his parents were.

He kept on staring at her as she got sorted into Slytherin, looking very happy and skipping to sit next to her sister. It was only was his name was called and he went sitting in the chair that he stopped looking.