It was September the first. This date was not important to a lot of people. But this date was the most important to me.
It was going to be my first day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, my mother had dropped me off at the platform, with a distant kiss on the cheek and a strict look that reminded me off exactly where I should sorted, if I didn't want to unleash my fathers wrath.
I dragged my trunk onto the train, mother had cast a feather-light charm on it. Not wanting her only child to seem like an imbecile, and even though her reason was selfish, I was still grateful. Once that mission was complete, I found an empty compartment. I levitated my trunk onto the luggage rack, and sat down on the chair.
I looked out the window, seeing families gather and wave their children goodbye. I wasn't jealous like some might assume, I had never seen this type of interaction before, and was merely curious.
I looked away from the window when the compartment door slid open. Standing there were some older looking girls.
"Get out" One of them said. I raised my eyebrow at this display of arrogance, they were only a couple of years older then me. I looked back out of the window, not replying, but I kept a tight grip on my wand. From the corner of my eye I saw that the 'leader' had gotten her wand out and was smirking, but I didn't move at all. She was getting ready to curse me, I realised, but before she did I had stood up.
"What do you think your doing?" I asked in a soft tone. The girl seemed to hesitate, but knowing her friends were standing right there she couldn't back down. I knew this and it amused me.
"Stupefy" She shouted at me, but before it touched me it rebounded off my silently cast shield charm. It hit her and she was thrown back by the force it had gotten as it rebounded. Her two friends gaped at me.
"Get out" I whispered, but they still heard me. They lifted up their friend and moved along quickly, not wanted to anger me. I found it funny that they were scared off me, but I realised that, that was the way it was going to be from now on.
I took out a book from my trunk and started reading, a group of boys had decided to come into my compartment, they were only first years and didn't even seem to realise I was there so I left them there. They hadn't done anything to annoy me, and I didn't want everyone to be scared of me yet.
Hours passed, and the boys noticed I was there. I smirked realising I could blend in wherever I wanted. Of course they only noticed I was there, as I was hungry and the lunch lady had stopped at our compartment.
They were confused as to where I had come from, but left me alone when I glared at them. I changed into my robes in the girls toilets, and decided to give the boys a little more time to get dressed. I didn't want to walk in and they were only half dressed.
Someone bumped into me knocking me into the wall. I turned to see who it was.
"Malfoy" I greeted. That blonde hair could belong to no other then Abraxas Malfoy.
"Rester, what are you doing down here" I smirked at him, and motioned to the girls bathroom behind me, finding delight when his normally pale cheeks suddenly had a hint of red in them. I suddenly realised there was someone with him.
"You seem to have made a new friend. Where are your manners?" I asked, staring at the handsome boy behind him, who seemed intrigued by our conversation.
"Maria Rester I would like you to meet Tom Riddle" Malfoy said proudly.
"Pleasure to meet you" I said, holding out my hand, which he shook.
"The pleasures all mine" I took my hand back and smirked. This boy would be a charmer when he grew up.
"Well it was nice to see you again" I said to Abraxas, and started walking back to my compartment, but a hand stopped me.
"Why don't you come back to our compartment?" Riddle asked. I looked up at him.
"No thank you" I said, stepping past him "I don't want the people in my compartment going through my things" Who knows what those disgusting boys would do with what I have in there.
Riddle nodded, and let me past. I walked back into my compartment and sat in my seat. The boy seemed a little shocked by my sudden reappearance but didn't dare say anything to me.
An hour later and we had finally arrived. I hurriedly got off the train, leaving my trunk inside as instructed. I quickly went towards the voice that was shouting "First years over here".
We were then led to a lake, where a small fleet of boats were waiting. I got into one with Riddle, Malfoy and some girl, who obviously was of no importance if I didn't already know her name.
After the short boat ride I finally got my first glimpse of Hogwarts. I held in my gasp and just stared at the castle. It had to be the most amazing this I had ever seen in my life. The boats finally stopped as we reached the shore, everyone was chatting excitedly, but I wasn't in the mood to talk about rubbish. I just wanted to get sorted, and sit at my table.
I didn't even want to think about what would happen if I wasn't in Slytherin. I had to be.
The man who had brought us here, knocked on the door, which opened immediately. Standing there was Albus Dumbledore, my father had told me about him. He said that Dumbledore loves muggles and mudbloods. So I hated him.
Dumbledore made us wait inside the doors for a few minutes after giving us a speech which I didn't listen to, and then we were led in a single file line to the front of the Great Hall. On a stool was the Sorting Hat. It sang a song (AN: I'm not making one up :) Lmao) and finally the sorting began. While waiting for my name to be called I looked at the ceiling, my mother had told me about the enchantments on it. It was bewitched to look like the sky outside and I was looking at the stars when my name being announced snapped me out of it.
As I walked up confidently, I looked over at the Slytherin table to see Malfoy and Riddle already sitting there. I gave them a wink as I sat down. Before the hat even touched my head it shouted "SLYTHERIN" I then caught sight of the girls who tried to kick me out of my compartment, they were sitting at the Ravenclaw table, and were looking at me uneasily. I smirked and walked over to sit next to Riddle who had saved me a seat. I relaxed, and looked around. Mother and Father were going to be pleased I got in. I had no doubt, well little doubt that I would. I was going to like it here.