Author's Note: Hey, everyone! This is my first fan fiction, and I'm really excited since I've been wanting to do this for awhile! I hope you enjoy it as much I do myself! Read and Review! Thanks! :)
Six Years in the Past:
"Alright, sweetheart, go on through the barrier," Granddad Aberforth said beaming down on Lena. She was a petite eleven-year-old with extraordinary blue eyes and long blond hair split into two braids. An excited smile spread on the girl's face as she raced into the brick wall between Platform Nine and Ten.
Just before Lena could crash into the wall, she slipped through it and found herself on Platform Nine and Three Quarters. The Platform she had been anxious to see since the day she got her Hogwarts letter.
Aberforth came through the barrier next and set an encouraging hand on Lena's shoulder. He gave her a proud smile though she wasn't sure she deserved it. She wasn't as compassionate as Aberforth or as brilliant as her Great Uncle Albus Dumbledore, but many people said she was.
"You'll be sure to write, Granddad?" she asked.
"Every week, Madalena," he replied his blue eyes just as piercing and twinkling as her own. He was old, of course, but Lena didn't think him like that. She thought he was a younger man who lived in an old man's body. She'd actually told her Granddad that, he had just laughed his good-natured laugh.
"Let's get your trunk in a compartment, shall we?"
Lena nodded as they both turned towards the scarlet train known as the Hogwarts Express. Many people crowded around the train in a strange hazy mist that flowed out of it. Some of the families were saying their farewells and some were helping students get their trunks onto the train.
Owls hooted, cats meowed, and toads croaked, the noise echoed throughout the Platform. Lena noticed a family with all red hair, another with white blond hair, and one that looked to be the Potters if she remembered their appearance correctly.
She didn't stare though, it would've been terribly rude, so instead she turned away and helped Aberforth load her trunk and cage into the train. Lena's owl, Archimedes, ruffled his tawny feathers, irritated. Lena grinned and said softly to the bird, "Hush, Archimedes, I'll see you in the compartment in a minute."
The owl silenced at once. Animals always seemed to follow her orders; maybe it had something to do with her calm voice. Then when her things were safely on the train she hopped off and joined the rest of the families saying goodbye.
Aberforth was still grinning at her as he gave her a large bear hug before saying, "Your father would have been proud, Madalena. You are so much like him… And you look like Ariana"—his long dead sister—"as well, spitting image at that…"
He hugged her once more then exclaimed, "Oh, dear! Better get on the train, don't want to miss your first year, do you?"
She nodded. "Goodbye, Granddad, I guess I'll see you at Christmas, then?"
"Of course, Madalena, of course!"
"Love you."
"Love you, too. Hope you have a great time and learn loads."
Lena smiled then departed to board the train. In the corridor she had just started walking along when she ran head long into somebody. The boy was rather tall for his age and had white blond hair and almost translucent blue eyes.
"I'm terribly sorry," Lena apologized sincerely.
"'Ts alrigh'," the boy mumbled.
Lena gave him an encouraging smile, the boy, stunned, stuttered, "Y-you in f-first year?"
"Yes," she replied. "Are you?"
"Yeah-h, I'm Scorpius Malfoy. W-what's your name?""
She was stunned to hear the name. Prejudices welled up inside her, but she quickly shoved them down. She couldn't judge people before she knew them; it would go against all that her Granddad taught her.
"Lena," she paused. "Lena Dumbledore."
Scorpius's eyes widened. "D-D-Dumbledore? Like Albus Dumbledore?"
Lena avoided his eyes as she said, "Ahh… yes. He was my… Great Uncle."
He nodded then frowned. "You probably recognize my name as well…"
Suddenly she smiled, meeting his eyes, and said wisely, "That was them, I suppose. Its best we look to the future, right?"
He nodded again; a look of confusion went across his face at her kindness.
"You want to find a compartment?" Lena asked still smiling kindly.
"Sure."
Scorpius seemed utterly perplexed now. He obviously hadn't expected this much kindness from the grand niece of the Headmaster his father had attempted to kill.
They sauntered down the rather crowded hall in a silence that was not too terribly awkward. Lena checked each and every compartment but they all seemed to be full. Sighing out of frustration, she practically shoved her way through the gathering crowd. Scorpius followed in her wake, a tentative expression on his face.
Finally, she found a compartment that wasn't completely empty—a girl with a mane of curly red hair and a boy with jet black hair occupied it—but she though it would have to do. Sliding open the glass door, she asked the girl placidly, "Mind if we take a seat?"
Scorpius loomed in the background, his height clearly exceeding Lena's. The boy and girl glanced up interestedly. The red head glowered at the sight of Scorpius, but the boy, who had eyes so bright green it was entrancing, stared blankly at Lena.
"I don't want that sitting next to me," the red head said unmistakably recognizing Scorpius as the son of the hated Malfoy.
Lena frowned and said, "Is it too much to ask to forget your prejudices for one train ride?"
The girl looked taken aback; the boy, however, smiled slightly and said a bit cheerfully, "She's got you there, Rose," then he paused, deliberating. "You can sit and, please, excuse my cousin's rudeness. Her name is Rose Weasley and I am Albus Potter, by the way."
Rose shot him a quick look before turning her head as if to illustrate her anger. Lena wasn't surprised to find a Potter—or a Weasley for that matter, there was millions of them—on the train. Granddad Aberforth had talked very highly of the Potter's and Weasley's, though they'd never visited.
"It's alright," Lena said with a slight smile appearing on her face. She had just met Albus and she already knew they would be good friends. "This is Scorpius Malfoy and I'm Lena Dumbledore."
Albus gasped and even Rose couldn't resist a furtive glance at her.
"Like Albus Dumbledore?"
Lena nodded. "He's my Great Uncle… And your Harry Potter's son, right?"
"Yes," he said a bit timidly. Lena knew how he felt, she wasn't ashamed of her name but it did give her a lot of unwanted attention.
With that both Lena and Scorpius sat in two remaining seats. Albus and Lena did most of the talking for the first part of the train ride; Scorpius was shy and liked to listen while Rose just seemed indifferent.
But after awhile Rose couldn't help herself and joined in the conversation. Lena found that Rose was actually quite intelligent and seemed to know the textbooks by heart, just like Lena. The more she talked to the two cousins and Scorpius the more she liked them.
Though Lena wasn't at all a Seer, she could tell her Hogwarts years weren't going to be dull.
Author's Note: Review! Please? Well, thanks for reading anyway! By the way, I will be trying to add new chapters at least every other day (almost summer break!), I don't want to deprive you of this story I've been concocting in my head for awhile now! So, thanks! :)
