Chapter 1: All Alone

"And now I'm all alone again, no where to turn, no one to go to.

Without a home, without a friend, without a face to say hello to."

"Evelyn Lamberg"

The moment I had been waiting for had finally come, I was about to be sorted.

I walked up to the stool slowly and put the ugly old hat on my head. I was so scared, what if I got in a bad house with people who don't like me!

"Hmmmm, where should I put you? I see you have some loyalty in you, a good quality. Maybe Hufflepuff then? No, no, too mischievous for that bunch. What about Ravenclaw? You definitely have the brains, but… no. You want to be accepted not stand out. How about Gryffindor? Loyalty, knowledge, but it seems as if you lack the outgoing persona. That leaves us Slytherin, a family house, very close, you'd be great there. No, too close for you. Well then, it seems to me you belong in… GRYFFINDOR!"

I let out a silent sigh, I was so releaved. Up until that moment I thought it was some mistake that I was there, I mean two months ago I had never even heard of Hogwarts and here I was. It was the best feeling ever, to have an entire table clapping for you waiting for you to come and sit with them.

I sat down next to a pretty redheaded girl. She was fixated on the sorting process so I didn't get to ask for her name, but I had all year to do that.

Every so often the redhead would cross her fingers and start muttering "Gryffindor, please Gryffindor". I noticed that all the people she prayed for were boys. Maybe she was into boys, goodness knows I certainly wasn't. Well, it turned out that all of these boys were sorted into Gryffindor and sat down around the red-head.

"Well, Lils, you're stuck with us again. Won't it be fun?" the boy across from her with glasses was the first to speak.

"Yeah, but I think I'll survive. Who knows, maybe I'll even have fun?" she said with a smirk. I don't think any of the boys noticed but she blushed when she spoke to the boy in glasses.

"Maybe! Of course you'll have fun! You obviously don't know who we are Mrs. Evans. I am shocked, dazed, bewildered, baffled, mystified-" said one of the other boys with a goofy smile.

"I get the point Sirius. I'm sure I'll have fun, but in case I don't I can always go to Duncan to liven up my year." said the red-head.

"Hey, there's no reason to bring in Duncan" said the boy with glasses.

"I only said in case you guys get boring." replied the red-head.

No, just… no. Don't even bring him up in the conversation. I don't want to hear of him or see him all year if I can." said the boy with glasses looking very agitated.

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After dinner was over we all went up to the dorms where our things had been put away for us already. I had a bed next to a large window and the redhead. I was glad to be next to a window, I tended to do a lot of thinking and it helped to look outside when I did.

I was still curious as to who all the people at the table were. I know one of them was named Sirius and the girl's last name was Evans, but other than that they were all a mystery to me. There were two other boys that didn't really talk too much. They just talked to each other and the prefect a few seats away. I was pretty sure the red-head knew them because she was cheering for them to get in Gryffindor.

I didn't get much time to think about the events of the day before the prefect came in a told us the time. It was 10:00. She said that breakfast was at 8:00 and that we should get to bed soon because we had a big day ahead of us. A few of the girls laughed at her when she left. Okay, all the girls laughed at her. I felt kind of sorry for her. She was only doing her job, she just wanted to make sure we weren't zombies the next day.

I quickly got in to my night clothes and took out my diary, I didn't want anyone to know I had one. I had a bad experience when I told someone I had a diary before and I didn't want everyone to know what was in it. I glanced around to make sure no one saw what I was doing as a took out a quill and some ink.

Dear Diary,

Today was my very first day at Hogwarts. I was sorted into Gryffindor, I hear it's the best house to be in, but I'll be fine as long as someone befriends me. I just don't want to be all alone like I was at my last school. That was horrible. After all those kids ignored me, I'm so glad Mom decided to home-school me instead. But I'm starting to get the feeling that this school might not be so different. On the train here I sat by myself in a compartment reading my school books. Since no one bothered me I had a few hours to get started on my readings. You wouldn't believe how much I have to learn now! And to imagine, I would be in the 6th grade back at home, now I have to start all over again at square one. Oh well, I'll manage. I'm a pretty good student so I'm hoping that'll help me get by. The thing is, Diary, I have this feeling, and it's not a good feeling. I feel think all of Hogwarts is a snow globe. Or maybe just the people are in a snow globe. The snow globe is in my hand, and I'm so close to it, yet I'm on the outside looking in. I just hope the feeling passes and I make some friends, I mean, I'll be here for seven years, I'm bound to find at least one friend. If not, well, I'd rather not think about that. I'll write to you tomorrow after our first day of classes. I'm so excited! I hope I can fall asleep. Oh well, I'm just so excited!

~Evelyn~

I got under the covers and started to think about the next day. The more I thought about it the more excited I became. Finally I got to sleep, and dreamt about potions and spells all through the night.

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Okay guys, that was my first attempt at writing an original character, hope you liked it. Just so we all know the song at the top belongs to Les Miserables, a great play, and Evelyn Lamberg is mine. If it's your name, then it's obviously not mine, but you get the picture. PLEASE REVIEW!