Chapter One: Train to Hogwarts

I saw the Hogwarts train coming to view as I waited with Remus Lupin to finally go to Hogwarts and see my half-sister Scarlette Lestrange and cousins Flavia and Draco Malfoy; I spotted Draco by himself and bounded over to him.

"Hey cuz, long time no see." I greeted him brightly; I hadn't seen him for two years and it was good being around my best friend.

"Yes, um… Audrey! Yeah long time no see alright," he scratched his head and awkwardly laughed as Scarlette walked past glaring at us. I glared back at her before she realised who we were then watched a rare smile broke loose across her pale skin. I gasped at the sight of the smile as she came over.

"Gather round everyone, a world first Scarlette Lestrange smiled!" I exclaimed as I pretended to be extremely shocked. The smile was immediately wiped off her face as she replied,

"What are you guys going on about, I always smile around you." She flashed us a fake smile as Blaise walked past.

"Miss Snape!" Blaise coughed under his breath as he walked past, Scarlette instantly glared at him. She stepped towards but he immediately scurried off before she could unleash her wrath. When she was angry she was worse than our mother. Which if you had ever met Bellatrix you would know that anything worse than her, would be Hell itself. The train pulled in and sounded its ear-splitting call; I linked arms with Scarlette and hurried to the train doors excitement almost bursting out of me. I was finally going to Hogwarts and not just hearing about it in letters. The parents were giving their children last minute kisses and fussing over their clothes, there was no sign of Draco's parents which were practically my parents in some way since they had been there my whole life when my real mother abandoned me.

"Where's Flavia?" I asked them as we looked for a carriage.

"She's already gotten on; she's a bit confused with all this." Draco replied

We grabbed the first empty carriage we could find and shut the sliding door and curtain; we didn't want to be disturbed while we had our first and only family time for a while. Because once I was at Hogwarts, no one except these two and a select few that they didn't even know about could know who I really was. While I was at Hogwarts I was Audrey Hart not Audrey Lestrange-Riddle, because if my father found out who I was he would kill me.

It wasn't long before the trolley lady came with sweets and confectionary that I loved; we purchased almost one of everything. We sat on the floor all the candy spread out, I ate while I listened to their stories about their adventures over the holiday and about the horror that overtook Hogwarts last year with the chamber of secrets. I hadn't received any letters last year once it was evident that Voldermort was trying to come back, we didn't know if he knew about me and we couldn't risk anything. I was already in hiding but they had to move me even further away while my only friend Dawn got to go to Hogwarts. It was a lonely year my only company Remus who taught me Defence Against the Dark Arts. Hogwarts hadn't wanted me missing out on two years of my education so they made sure that I had all the books and someone who was able to teach me various things. It had past the time and was they thing that I looked forward to everyday, but I loved it more when Severus Snape came to visit me in the holidays and taught me everything to do with potions and DADA. Though he was so occupied protecting Harry Potter without letting Harry know that Severus was protecting him, I guess I'm not the only one who Voldermort wants to kill. It was comforting to know that I'm not the only one with a death sentence hanging over my head.

"The funniest thing of the year was when Weasley was all eat slugs and then ended up being the one who ate slugs." Draco told me looking extremely proud, I caught the slight glare that Scar through at him I could see that she disapproved of Draco's smugness.

"Draco that's not funny that's just horrible, imagine if you were the one he was eating slugs. I think you deserve to after what you said to that muggle born girl." I scolded him, Scar wasn't the only one who wasn't impressed by Draco at the moment he could be such a jerk sometimes. He snorted at my remark and looked annoyed.

"Girls they are so annoy, they are such goody-two-shoes. What is up with that anyway?" he replied rolling his eyes at us, he was soon to regret making that huge mistake. I looked at Scar before bursting into a fiery walking hell.

"DRACO MALFOY HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE FEMALE RACE YOU SLIMY PIECE OF DIRT! YOU WILL NOT LIVE TO TELL YOUR FATHER OF THIS ORDEAL IF YOU DO NOT APOLOGISE THIS INSTANT! AND ONCE YOU HAVE APOLOGISED TO ME AND SCAR YOU WILL GO OUT AND INTO THE MUGGLE BORN GIRLS CABIN AND APOLOGISE SINCERELY TO HER IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE OF SLYTHERIN, YOU WORTHLESS DADDY'S BOY!" I screamed at him, my body getting tenser with every word, I watched him shrink it the corner trying to get as small as possible to escape my wrath. I saw Scar smirk at him as she watched on, she put her hand in the air as I threw open the cabin door to reveal everyone outside listening.

"Hey don't leave me hanging," she said before I stormed away, I just glared at her and then smiled sweetly at the others who were now scurrying away from our cabin. I hoped Draco was embarrassed he had just been told of by a girl, a new accomplishment in the life of all the girls on the train. I headed down the train looking at all the cabins soon I will be sitting with some of these people with the rest of the house that I will be in. Suddenly the train stopped hard and I fell forward, I didn't have time to get up before the whole train went dark as the lights went out and the walls started freezing up. Mist was floating through the air; my teeth started chattering as it got colder and colder. Everyone else had already gone back to their cabins so I made my back to ours, something bad was happening. Before I could reach my cabin I was stopped by a black figure just floating in the air, it was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. It came closer to me extending a long, thin bony hand I whacked it away with my wand as my terror reflexes kicked in, but that was the biggest mistake. The face of the grotesque creature drew down closer to mine; I fell to the ground as the world went even darker, I could hear someone crying, crying out for help but I didn't know who it was. I felt like I was forever drowning in a pit of sorrow, a white light blasted from somewhere stopping the sorrow, but that was all I knew. I passed out leaving the black world with the dreadful sorrow.

"Audrey come on you have to wake." A voice urged me; I was starting to come round. I opened my eyes to find that I was back in my cabin and Draco was leaning over me urging me to wake up. When he saw that I had awoken he threw his arms around me crushing me,

"Hey cuz, don't go all mushy at once it might become an embarrassment in school." I grinned as he immediately pulled back. I was still a bit faint; I looked around for Scar but couldn't find her.

"Where's Scar?" I asked Draco as I leaned my head against the back wall and closed my eyes. I couldn't seem to find her essence anywhere, she couldn't have just disappeared. Maybe I couldn't see properly because of what had happened.

"I don't know she went looking for you, when she brought you back she left again and didn't tell me where she was going." Draco replied a look of worry on his face, he never really cares about anyone but himself but when it comes to family he can worry like and obsessed mother. But I knew Scar pretty well, it was a sister thing she had been disappearing all her life, and it always was for something important.

"Don't worry she will be here soon, anyway we are probably almost at Hogwarts we should probably get changed." I said getting up slowly as to not get all faint and again, I grabbed my bag and went and got changed.

Fifteen minutes later I was walking back to our cabin when Draco came up from behind me, he leaned his arm down on my shoulder.

"Hey look a walking armrest!" he exclaimed, he laughed when I glared at him, my bright green baring into him trying to make him squirm but I didn't work. But just on queue Scarlette walked up behind Draco and rested her arm against his shoulder.

"Oh hey look a walking armrest." Scar retorts back at him, we high five each other as we leave him behind gobsmacked. We grab the rest of our stuff from our cabin as the train pulled in. The excitement of before came rushing back and I forgot all about what had happened before on the train ride here. I was finally at Hogwarts after waiting two years for this moment I was finally here. I leaped off the train landed on the platform amongst the streams of students.

"First years, all first years this way please!" A big voice boomed I followed Draco and Scar to the carriages that would take us up to Hogwarts. We rounded the corner and came upon the carriages the moved by themselves; we hopped into an empty one and headed up the trail to the gates of Hogwarts.