Alright. A long time ago, I wrote a very interesting and very n00bish fanfic with my sister. Eventually, she copped out and I was left with a not-so-great fanfic and no co-writer. In the third chapter I switched everything up and tried to make it work. It didn't. Now, I have gone back to the first two chapters, compressed and expanded them, fixed mistakes, and am re-posting them. Still in the same story, though. I apologize for the horrible spelling and grammar of the last first two chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter blah blah blah Draco's an idiot blah blah blah

Stephanie smoothed her brown hair and held onto her little sister Amanda's hand, who was trying to squirm away. She was saying goodbye to her parents for another year as she and her sister boarded the train for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Although it was Stephanie's third year, it was only Amanda's first.

"Bye Mom! Bye Dad! We'll see you at Christmas!" Stephanie called and dragged her sister onto the train a few minutes before it was going to leave.

"I don't see why we have to get on so early." Amanda said. She was grouchy about being woken up early and she didn't want to leave her parents any earlier than she had to. That small disadvantage was offset by the fact that she was going to learn how to be a witch, so the moodiness was short-lived. Stephanie moved about the train until she found the compartment she had told her friends she would meet them in. She heard them through the window then, yelling something about toilet seats and then they boarded the train. She poked her head out.

"Fred! George! I'm here!" She yelled down the way. They came in, their brother and a friend trailing after them. "This is my sister, Amanda. She's a first year." Stephanie said, by way of introduction.

"This is Ron and his friend Harry, they're first years too." Fred replied.

"Perfect! Amanda! Go with them then, and I'll see you after the tasks and once you're sorted." Stephanie said and gave her sister a shove before shutting the door on her, leaving her to her own devices.

Stephanie had just reached into her pack to grab some food when Amanda stuck her head in again, telling her sister that she was off to find another compartment.

"Sure, sure, whatever." Stephanie replied to the already shut door. "Alright, I brought apples, cheese sticks, a peanut butter sandwich and some crackers. You guys?"

"Corned beef sandwiches. Oh, and we snuck some sugar. Pure sugar." George said and took out the objects as he named them. The sugar was in a small pouch. They poured the sugar on everything, apples, cheese, and sandwiches. By the time the snack cart rolled around they were quite energetic.

Stephanie loaded up with sweets, muttering about how sugar always makes her hyper.

"I love how it does that!" Fred exclaimed.

"Y'know, it's not really sugar. It's more the psychology, and what we've been taught." Stephanie said philosophically.

"I don't care," he replied. "I still get hyper from it!"

Just then, Stephanie realized that she still had to give Amanda some of the money their mum had given them for the trip. She decided to just not give her sister any.

"She won't notice." Stephanie mumbled to herself.

"You better believe that I'll notice," Amanda's voice came from the doorway. "And I swear, mum gave US that money, and then you turn around and..." She went on and on in a big long lecture. Finally Stephanie simply handed her young sister the money and rolled her brown eyes at Fred and George. Amanda then started on an even longer lecture about not rolling your eyes. Eventually Stephanie pointed out that the snack trolley was disappearing down the corridor. Amanda ran out of the compartment without a word, her mind focused solely on the food on the snack cart. This time when Stephanie shut the door, she locked it.

"Now, have either of you two continued research over the summer?" Stephanie asked the red-headed twins. The mood turned somewhat serious.

"Of course!" Fred replied, his crooked smile widening slightly. He took out a list and handed it to Stephanie.

"Exactly what I found!" She exclaimed excitedly, before grinning sheepishly. "I mean, Excellent! It's conclusive with my findings!" She grabbed a crumpled piece of paper from her pocket and deftly smoothed it. It was when all three of them were reading the list over when they all realized that the lists were practically identical. In celebration, they dug into the sweets and sugar, becoming more and more energetic.

At last, to overcome their hyped-up boredom, they turned to truth or dare.

"George! Truth or dare!" Stephanie called rather loudly, earning her a hush from George and a light swat from Fred.

"Hmm… Dare!" Fred called.

"Okay…" Stephanie paused, placing her forefinger and thumb on her chin and stroking it, thinking dramatically. After a few giggles, she stopped. "I dare you to go find my sister's compartment, saddle yourself up to the window and then…"

"Then what?" George asked, having no clue where Stephanie's current thought pattern lay. If he had, he might not have been so eager to hear the rest of the dare.

"Moon her and her compartment!"

"Okay!" Then again, he might have been every bit as eager.

They took off down the hall, all three trying to be inconspicuous and appear innocent to the passer's by. They looked carefully into each window until they found the one with Stephanie's sister in it and a few other first years. George actually had to stand on Fred's back so that his bum could reach the window into the small room where the girls were.

Quick as you wish, he dropped his pants, wriggled his shinning white arse in full view of Amanda and her friends, then ran like hell, pulling up his trousers, the other two trailing behind him.

The screams merely spurred them on.

They locked the door behind them again and fell onto the seats laughing like madmen. When he calmed down enough, George asked Stephanie 'truth or dare'.

"Dare," she replied and took a deep breath, onto to dissolve into giggles again.

"I dare you t-"

"Hush!" Stephanie commanded. She put her finger to her lips, signaling silence as they strained their ears.

They heard some soft giggling, and a whispered 'alohamora', a charm Stephanie had foolishly taught her sister a summer ago. She had regretted it three times since then. Once, when Amanda had found Stephanie's diary, the second time when Amanda had been able to free herself from what Stephanie thought was 'fitting punishment for reading that!' The third time was when her little sister had undone the lock on her school chest and stolen spell books to learn other spells.

The door to the compartment opened, allowing a red-faced first year to walk in. Too bad she didn't have a badge yet, or she would have been easier to remember later, Stephanie thought somewhat cruely to herself. Blackmail was an excellent resource.

"G-George?" The girl asked, her face turning slightly more red.

Quick as pie, Fred looked up, as if he himself were named George and not his brother. Stephanie looked down at the floor to keep from laughing, then looked back at the girl.

Hesitating slightly, she walked over to him and kissed him lightly on the cheek, then ran out of the room and back to her support of the other first years. Stephanie heard the distinct tone of her sister's voice and finally couldn't hold it in. She and George burst out laughing.

"Okay. So. Stephanie." George finally had control of himself. "I dare you to kiss Fred."

Stephanie leaned towards George in a joke, and that set them all off again. Once they could breathe somewhat normally, Stephanie leaned right across to Fred and kissed him right on the lips. She pulled back somewhat quickly, and put a hand to her mouth, all trace of the giggles gone.

"What?" George asked. Fred was looking at her intently.

"That was… was my first kiss…" she replied. Fred blushed and Stephanie looked away.

"Hey, it was Fred's too. No big deal." Fred went even more red at his brother's words. "C'mon, Stephanie, it's your turn."

"Uh, fine. Ah, George, truth or dare."

"Hey! I just did you! No fair!" He pouted slightly.

"Well, you wanted me to go so badly, so pick one." Stephanie crossed her arms across her chest in triumph.

"Dare." Typical. In two years, she could not remember anyone picking truth more than once. Ever.

"Fine. I dare you to kiss Fred." She smiled evilly.

"What am I, your harem?" Fred asked. He did not particularly enjoy being the object of other people's dares.

"Ew! We're brothers!"

"Him or Snape, you choose." Stephanie smirked all out, now. She had him trapped. With every dare, the person taking it had a choice of taking a 'chicken', instead. That way, if the dare were truly vile he or she didn't have to complete it and could easily do something else. Early on, Stephanie, Fred and George had decided that the best thing to discourage them from taking a chicken was to make it something horrible. Therefore, they had made it the chicken to kiss Professor Snape, their most hated Slytherin teacher.

George snarled slightly and quickly pecked his brother on the cheek.

"Cheap!" Stephanie called as George sat back down in his seat.

"You didn't specify," George pointed out and stuck out his tongue. "It's my turn. Stephanie chose truth or dare."

"Dare," she replied without hesitation.

"I dare you to moon Fred."

Stephanie smiled, starting at the button of her pants. The joke was on George, she thought. Anticipating this situation, she had put on very opaque and cute bear panties.

"No underwea-"

"WHAT?"

"I said-"

"I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID!" Stephanie did up her pants with dignity and sat back down. "I choose chicken." She replied, instead.

"You can't-"

"Coward! You don't-"

"I'm a thirteen year old girl! Merlin! You're practically asking me to become a-"

"But I do it!"

"You're a guy! Guy's are built differently! I'd rather kiss Snape."

Stephanie sat and fumed, the boys sat in relative silence for most of the trip. Towards the end, Stephanie broke down a little.

"I am so not looking forwards to this…"

And so the teasing started as they loaded off the train and into the carriages with the weird horses. They were on their way to the great hall, and Stephanie was finally getting excited to see her sister sorted.

Okay, so quite a few major changes were made. I explained a bit more, and took a few things out that I think only made it implausible or confusing. I keep forgetting that they're only in third year! My goodness, they're thirteen and fourteen. I just turned 18. Hard to think back so long…

Anyways. Her duel will change. It will not be with Draco, and if you noticed, I changed who Amanda was with on the train. Makes more sense to the original characters this way.

Also, yes! Stephanie CAN ALREADY see the horses. She has already witnessed death. Please ignore an edit error in chap 3 until I fix it because of this change.

And remember: Almost everything will be explained in due time.

Next up: A revision of Chapter 2 and Stephanie kisses Snape!