AN: Hopefully i can write this story without new readers needing to read Going Unnoticed first and hopefully people will be patient and keep in mind that things will be explained later on. :D

Also, this is NOT a Teddy/OC, cause i already did one of those haha ;)

Disclaimer:Obviously, i don't own Harry Potter stuff blah blah blah, you get it.

There will be like 24 chapters in this story. Anyway, please enjoy and review! :D

Prologue

She should have expected it.

It had happened a thousand and one times before, so why did she not expect it?

Hope. That cruel, torturous emotion, it tricked her, didn't it?

She should have expected it.

But no, she hadn't and yes, it still hurt as much as it had the first time and every other time after that.

Today was supposed to be one of the best days, one she would remember forever, after all, a child's first journey to Hogwarts is a memorable one, isn't it?

For the wrong reasons, this one was.

She had wished for a reason to remember it, wanted a reason to hold tightly to the memory, the event, the moment.

She had gotten what she had wished for and, well, you know what they say about wishing.

The morning hadn't started well at all, her parents had nearly left without her.

How could they forget her?

It wasn't long before she realised they hadn't forgotten…they had hoped she would, after realising they had departed, attempt to make her own way across London and to Platform 9 and ¾'s.

Alone.

It had been pure luck that one of the house elves had happened upon her while she sat curled in a ball on the cold floor of one of the many hallways.

The elf had, after a tear stained plea from her, disapparated them and her luggage to the Platform.

When they were amongst the bustling crowd, the elf disappeared, leaving her to search franticly for the parents who had bruised her little heart again.

Perhaps this time, it had truly been an accident on their part?

There! Her parents were over by that pillar, saying goodbye to her brother who was about to embark on his final year of magical schooling.

Her little sister was even behaving for once, it was her that alerted their parents to her presence.

She should have expected it.

That look. The one her parents, especially her father, had only for her.

A mix of disappointment and disgust.

No regret that they had abandoned her?

No relief that their daughter had in fact, survived arriving to the station?

Of course not.

After giving her 'the look', they turned promptly back to her brother, warmly embraced him and stepped back.

She had been surprised when her arm had been roughly gripped by her father.

One of the things about this day she would never forget?

That expression in his brown eyes that were so like hers as he whispered fiercely,

"Don't you dare ruin your brother's last year."

Oh, the hate, it leapt from her father's very eyes and burrowed into her chest like a starved animal, sharp and quick, it struck her heart.

She must have nodded then because he let go and, with her mother, disapparated.

The hot tears had sprung up then, blinking had barely helped clear her vision.

The first thing she had noticed with her regained sight, was that her older brother was nowhere to be found.

As people pushed and shuffled about her, she couldn't have felt more alone.

That had soon changed however.

For a few precious moments she had been seen, properly seen by people.

She had entered a compartment, awkwardly dragging her belongings behind her.

The compartment had fallen silent.

They had seen her.

A girl had even lifted her hand in greeting and…smiled.

At her.

It had been a most glorious moment, but one that had to end all too soon.

She had sat herself down and bathed in the positive attention for all of five minutes before it happened.

He had entered the compartment.

She should have expected it.

With his charming, easy going smile and vibrant blue hair, all eyes had fallen on him.

Blue hair? Who on earth had blue hair?

She had decided then and there that she would do whatever she could do reclaim the attention she had lost and…

She had a feeling that this strange new boy would help her get it back.

Years later, that day, that journey would indeed be remembered by her and she would countlessly wish it had been different.