So, today me and a few friends began planning this fanfiction. The main character is based quite closely to a friend of mine who is also a book obsessed, passionate cat owner who, according to pottermore, is a Ravenclaw. I hope you all enjoy, I have worked very hard on this and it took me two hours to write. Enjoy :)
September 2007 -
Most compartments on the train had been filled to capacity, either with playful first years or seventh years catching up with what they had missed over the summer. Evelyn's compartment however was empty apart from herself and her cat. Titan's tiny body looked like a ball of soft black fair. Every so often his ear would twitch or his tail would flick from side to side.
Evelyn herself was curled up into the corner of her compartment with her legs carefully tucked beneath her. A novel was open on her knees, her small, pink fingers was clutching the corner of the page waiting to flip over. A curtain of gentle brunette curls hid her face from the rest of the world as she bent her head to read the tiny print.
Evelyn loved books and had always been a passionate reader. Her family has always supported her love for fiction though can't understand her fascination with muggle novels. For Evelyn, she found it a refreshing change. Magic had been part of her everyday life for as long as she could remember. The Selwyn's were a pureblood family and like most pureblood families, they were dying out. It meant there was a lot of pressure for Evelyn to one day marry a fellow pureblood and maintain the prestigious blood status.
But marriage was far way from little Evelyn's head. Her mind was instead working away at the exciting thought that in just a few hours she would be at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts. The thought alone made her want to squeal with excitement. However, she stayed calm and continued to read. Like so many books she reads, she just wasn't able to put it down. She had been reading for the last hour and in that time the grey September sky had turned black and the trains dim lights had turned on. But Evelyn didn't notice.
What she did notice was the body of a boy falling in front of her. Titan jumped and ran out of the compartment from fear and Evelyn dropped her book causing her to lose the page she was on. Annoyed, she looked down at the boy. His black curly hair was messy like spaghetti that had been thrown on a plate. His eyes were a dark sea green with specks of black. His cheeks looked quite pink against his pale skin, as if he had been laughing. He looked young in the face but he was much taller than most their age.
"Now look what you've done" Evelyn complained as she bent down and picked up her book and began flicking through the pages furiously, searching for where she had been before "And you scared Titan off"
Moments later another boy came running into her compartment. Evelyn was feeling extremely peeved off now. Her calm, peaceful sanctuary had been invaded by boisterous and loud boys. She glared at them. She wanted to get out and search the train for her terrified kitten but the two morons in front of her was blocking the doorway.
"Mikey!" a tall, sandy haired boy with a thick Irish accent shouted. Evelyn thought the first boy was tall but compared to this new boy he could have been a midget. This new boy was like a giant. There was very little space between the ceiling and his head "Hurry up, Nathan's trying out the Bat-Bogey Hex on some Hufflepuff girls"
Evelyn, growing impatient, pushed her way passed the two boys. When she finally escaped the confines of her compartment she glared at them for another moment before turning on her heel and haughtily making her way down the corridor. As she moved away she could hear the two boys talking.
"What's got her knickers in a twist?" Evelyn assumed he was talking about her. She already didn't like them but that last comment and made it official. The boys were rude and loud, and Evelyn would avoid them like the plague "So Mikey, you coming?"
For the first time the boy who had fell spoke "Maybe another time, I've got things to do" Like the sandy haired boy, Mikey had a thick Irish accent when he spoke.
"Suit yourself"
Moments later the sandy hair shoved past and sent Evelyn flying towards the floor. She landed awkwardly on her arm and the trains' carpet had burnt her skin. "Excuse me!" she shouted after me, beyond irritated now. The boy completely ignored her and continued to run. Evelyn hoped that not everyone in Hogwarts would be as rude as her two intruders.
She quickly pulled herself from the train's floor and continued to search the train. After twenty minutes of searching she was growing worried. What if he had got off the train somehow? Or if someone had sat on him? As terrible visions consumed her thoughts, she saw two black shapes flash past in her peripheral vision. Her head darted to see Titan and...Titan?
The two kittens went inside the girls toilets with Evelyn following closely beyond. The two mounds of black fluff were tumbling about and chasing each other over the tiled floor. Evelyn bent down and picked the two kittens up. Closer inspection proved that the second cat was not a Titan clone. It was in fact a girl! Whilst Titan was all black, this second cat had patches of white and long silvery whiskers. It was a cute little kitten with big, bright eyes and sharp pearly white teeth.
"Aren't you a little cutie?" she cooed at the adorable little kitten that was playing with Evelyn's owl necklace. Footsteps behind signalled the presence of someone new. However when she turned, she was not pleased by the face that greeted her. The same curly black hair and green eyes that had ruined her mood before had come back. "This is a girl's bathroom"
"I know that" he said as if it was the most obvious and pointless piece of information he had ever heard "I'm here for my cat"
He grabbed the little kitten from her before she could stop him. He didn't seem like a suitable cat owner. Cats were beautiful creatures that deserved peaceful and calm homes so they can relax. This Mikey was anything but that. The poor kitten would get no peace or quiet.
"What's the cat's name?" Evelyn asked holding Titan close to her chest as if the Irish boy might steal grab him as well
"What?" The boy wasn't expecting to be questioned and at first he looked quite confused "Oh, it doesn't have a name. It's just Cat"
Evelyn couldn't believe what she was hearing? This boy hadn't bothered to name the little kitten? Did he not care at all about his feline friend? A cats name holds a fragment of its personality. Naughty cats are called Minx or Demon whilst good little kitties are called Princess or Timmy. Titan was named after Greek mythology; it was perfect considering how intelligent Titan was.
"You have to name her something!" she protested "She needs an identity"
The boy sighed and stopped in his tracks. He looked very bored with the conversation. Apparently cats weren't a very interesting topic of conversation for him. "Alright then know it all, what would you name it?"
Evelyn was mildly offended by being referred to as a know it all but she quickly forgot about it. Finding a suitable name for a cat could take hours of considering. But what did she know about the little feline? Well, it was a very beautiful little kitten, very affectionate too. "Venus, after the goddess of love and beauty"
"Great" He said turning around again and leaving the girls bathroom "Then that's its name!"
Evelyn turned right and headed back towards her compartment. Her book and suitcase where still there. She had been worried that someone else might have claimed her compartment whilst she was gone. Luckily, they hadn't. She sat down and was about to continue reading when she noticed the boy was still there.
"Why don't you just go and join that friend of yours?" Evelyn asked hoping he would get the hint and leave. Titan was on the floor by her feet trying to catch a fly that was teasingly flying just out of the poor kittens reach.
"Friend? No! That was my brother" he said laughing slightly though Evelyn couldn't see what he found funny about this "My names Michael"
"Well Michael, can you leave me alone?" she said quite bluntly as she opened her book and continued from where she had left.
"Alright, alright, you don't need to be rude"
Later that evening Evelyn sat on a small wooden stool in front of Hogwarts entire student body with a ridiculously large hate. Finally the silence that had fallen on the hall broke as the hat above her head shouted "RAVENCLAW!" and was followed by a loud applause. Evelyn quickly made her way over to the table filled with fellow eagles.
From across the room she could see Michael laughing and messing about on the Gryffindor table. Evelyn felt she wouldn't be disappointed if she never met Michael again.
Four years later...
