Eleven year old Margaret (Maggie) Moonbeam is getting ready to leave for Hogwarts with her thirteen year old sister Millicent (Millie). She comes from a pureblood family and have many famous family friends.

"Maggie!" Melinda Moonbeam whispered to her sleeping daughter "come on Mags, you don't want to be late for the Hogwarts Express!" Those last two words jolted Margaret Moonbeam awake, filled with excitement and anticipation for the coming day. Her mind filled with all the things she had been thinking – and dreaming- about for the past month. Hogwarts. Although she had never seen it, she had envisioned it in her mind. A dark gothic castle, students milling through the ancient halls in dark robes carrying the very textbooks that were packed in the bottom of her suitcase.

These images were all based on the various stories that her parent and older sister Millicent, had told her. As well as what "Hogwarts, a history" had taught her. For the past few months all her thoughts were consumed by Hogwarts and magic, she had a large calendar in her room, a magical one that would tell her how many days or hours it was until the thing she most anticipated, in this case, today. The calendar was now showing "Two Hours". The time until she would be boarding Hogwarts Express, she knew that, as soon a she boarded the train, it would show the hours until her arrival at the school. The thought that this was a matter of hours away made her shudder.

On her mother's suggestion, she went and had a shower and changed into her muggle clothes that she would wear to the station, she would change into her uniform on the train, and it was about a six hour train ride so she would have plenty of time to do so. After she was clean and changed, she went down for breakfast. Normally in the Moonbeam household, breakfast was made the same way it was in most wizarding families. Wands would be used to direct ingredients or food into bowls or fry pans and then would be cooked, mixed, chilled or served using various spells. Muggle food made magically. But today was different. As it was Maggie's first day officially joining to magical world, she was given a truly magical breakfast. Plates of colour changing pancakes and bowls of jumping cereal were brought to the table by multi coloured pixie like things that would explode into glitter when touched. Although she was anxious and not very hungry, Maggie couldn't help but try some of this new, magic food and smiled at the sensation of the still jumping cereal going down her throat.

Maggie's bags were already packed; She kept her new wand made of African Padauk, a very red, hard wood, and had a core of unicorn tail hair. She had bought a week ago in Diagon Alley; this was also where she had purchased her owl, Harley.

She had been packing gradually for the past two weeks so she was much organised so that none of her excitement was crushed by the thought of packing. Her sister Millicent obviously hadn't thought of that, she was still running around the house yelling out the things that she was missing.

"Mags, have you seen my 'History of magic' Textbook?"

"Nup, try the bookshelf."

"I can't find my scarf! Have you noticed it anywhere?"

"I think Hippo might have taken it."

Millicent began to curse the cat.

"Wait, have you seen Hippo?"

Maggie sighed, how her thirteen year old sister had managed to misplace her cat, she did not know. But she helped to look for it, she definitely did not want to be late.

After Hippo and the (slightly chewed) RavenClaw scarf had been found, Both girls were ready and had only fifteen minutes until they would be leaving for kings cross station. Maggie's father, William, began loading the car with the girl's bags being careful to keep Millie's cat cage and Maggie's owl cage out of the back of the car, knowing from past experience that when animals get scared, they get aggressive and no cage can keep the from harming anybody, or bag close to them.

The entire family, animals included, were in the car at 10.20 am, it was normally a thirty minute trip to kings cross station, but they had factored in traffic and parking into that time so added ten minutes. Lucky they did because, three minutes into the trip, Millicent realised she had left her wand at home so they William had to drive back to retrieve it. Millie blamed her parents ban of her using her wand indoors as to why she had forgotten it.

"It's 'cause I haven't used it for so long." She muttered.

Her comments were ignored and after a few minutes she cheered up and started to tell her younger sister more about Hogwarts, exaggerating heavily on how bad detentions are and how strict the teachers are. Although this didn't damper Maggie's spirit, she was excited to learn about magic, and wouldn't let anything stand in the way of that.

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