A/N: Hey this is my first Harry Potter story, this is only the first chapter and when I'm inspired, these stories just come pouring out, so keep checking back and please review so I know if I'm any good at this! Thanks a bunch! Hope you like it. If there are spelling mistakes, I'm sorry, I don't have microsoft word on this computer so I had to use notepad and I can't do a spell check! So... Have fun I guess! lol
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!
Indu Shah stood at the train station with her supplies for her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was transferring from her old school that she used to go to in India. I hope the other children are nice, she thought, not like in my old school. She looked on her paper.
"Platform 9 and 3/4? Where's that?" She said.
"I'll show you" came a voice from behind her.
She turned around to find a boy with raggety brown hair and a lightning bolt scar on his forehead.
"You're..." she said barely able to get the word out.
"Harry Potter" He finished for her,"and you are...?"
She studied his face as she answered,"I'm Indu Shah, nice to meet you". They shook hands.
"Come with me" he said,"We'll find my friend Ron and show you to the platform."
They both gathered their things and started walking twards the area between platforms 9 and 10.
"So, where are you from?" Harry asked her as he scanned the station for Ron.
"I'm transferring from Miss Merryweather's school for girls in India." she replied shyly.
"I've never heard of that school" he said, still searching for his friend,"What year are you? I'm a 5th year."
She looked around, wondering how they were going to get to platform 9 and 3/4,"I'm a 5th year,too" she answered.
"Ah! There's Ron" Harry exclaimed pointing to a short redheaded boy about 15 feet away. Harry waved to him and the redheaded boy came over followed by two older, also redheaded, twins, and a younger girl.
"Ron, this is Indu, she's a fifth year that's transferring to Howarts" Harry said."Indu, this is Ron" Harry said, pointing to Ron as he told her his name.
"Hi Indu" Ron said, shaking her hand.
"Hi" she replied.
"I'm Gred, and this is Forge, we're Ron's brothers" said one of the twins, stretching out his hand to greet her.
"He's only joking" said the other twin as she shook 'Greds' hand,"I'm George and the funny guy over there is Fred" offering her his hand.
"Nice to meet you both" she said as she shook George's hand.
"Hi, I'm Indu" she said to the little girl she assumed was Ron's sister.
"Hi" she said, seeming to have had to muster the courage to do so,"I'm Ginny".
"It's very nice to meet you, Ginny" Indu said smiling at her.
"Alright then, everyone's been introduced so let's get on the train" Harry said.
"Indu, all you have to do is just run straight into the wall between the platforms. You can go through with me. We'll go last so you can watch the others go through."
Walk through the wall!? She thought.
"Alright" she replied.
Then, she watched as Fred went running up to the wall and right at the point where she expected him to crash, he disappeared. Then George went, then Ron, then Ginny. It was time for her and Harry to go.
"Ready?" he asked, with his deep brown eyes looking into hers.
"Ready as I'll ever be" she answered.
They took off running with their carts, faster and faster and faster as they got closer and closer Indu squinted, ready for a crash, but it didn't come.
Suddenly she found herself standing under a sign that read: Platform 9 3/4. There was a large train with the words "Hogwarts Express" waiting as the passangers loaded their things onto it. There was smoke and steam filling the air and people everywhere. It was chaos.
"Wicked" she said, trying not to sound too amazed.
"Come on" Harry said, taking her hand,"we don't want to miss the train".
They got on the train and found a compartment. A girl was waiting there. She had frizzy brown hair and brown eyes, she was about Ron's height and was already wearing her Hogwarts robes.
"Oy Hermione!" Ron said when he saw her.
"Hello Ron, Harry" the girl replied.
"Hello Hermione" Harry replied in a friendly tone.
"This is Indu, she's a fifth year and is transferring from her old school in India." Ron introduced her.
"Hi" said the girl,"I'm Hermione". "Hi" Indu replied.
"I'm so excited to be going back to school. I can tell crookshanks is too" she said, motioning to the black cat sleeping on a suitcase. "I see you have an owl, Indu" she said, pointing to the owl in the cage Indu brought with her,"What's it's name?".
"His name's Opa" she answered,"It means owl".
"That's a nice name" Harry added smiling at her.
"Thank you" Indu replied,"It was my mother's idea".
Suddenly there was a knock at the door to their compartment. Ron opened the door. A smiling, dimpled woman was pushing a cart of different kinds of candy was on the other side.
"Anything off the cart, dears?" asked the woman.
"Do you want some chocolate frogs everyone?" Harry asked.
They all nodded. Harry pulled out a pouch of money and paid the woman five silver sickles and six bronze knuts.
Ron unwrapped his,"Oh, I got another Dumbledore. What did you get, Indu?".
She unwrapped hers and took the card out,"I got...Agrippa".
"Oh" he said, she could tell he was pretending he didn't want it as bad as it looked like he did.
"Would you like to trade?" she asked,"I'd like to see what Dumbledore looks like, He's the headmaster at Hogwarts, right?".
"Sure I'll trade!" Ron exclaimed, no longer caring about hiding his feelings tward the card.
"Yes, Dumbledore's the headmaster" Hermione answered,"he's really quite a brilliant wizard. I hope to be headmaster at Hogwarts someday... You all need to change! We'll be arriving any minute."
Harry, Indu, and Ron all searched through their trunks for their robes. Indu pulled out her brand new black robe and put it on over her clothes. A perfect fit. She was happy that it fit because she hadn't had time to try it on when she and her parents had gone shopping for he school supplies. She pulled her necklace up from under the neck of her shirt.
"That's a beautiful necklace" Harry said, still searching for his robes. "Ah-hah" he said as he pulled a long black robe out of one of his trunks.
"Thank you" Indu replied,"It used to be my grandmother's. She gave it to me before she died. She was a great witch. She was famous in India. Not as famous as you of course, Harry, but everyone loved her because she never used her magic for herself. She always used it to help someone else in some way."
"She died?" Harry said in an apologetic tone,"I'm sorry, I didn't realize..."
"Oh it's alright" Indu reassured him,"It was a long time ago. My family doesn't even know how she died. She just went to Gringots in London one day and never came home."
"That's strange" Harry said as he tugged on his robe.
"You don't suppose something bad was happening with her do you?" Ron asked,"was she acting strange before she died?"
"I was too young to remember, but my parents never mentioned anything like that to me before".
"I see" Hermione said with a puzzled expression on her face.
A voice came through the speakers in the compartments: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken into the school separatley.
A few minutes later the train slowed to a stop. Harry opened the compartment doors and the four of them walked out into the corridor. Indu followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione off the train.
Once they were off the train Indu saw a VERY large man with a long fuzzy beard hollering to the first years,"Firs' years follow me!"
"That's Hagrid" Harry said pointing to the large man with the beard,"you'll have to go with him so you can be sorted. Hermione, Ron, and I will be in the great hall for the sorting ceremony. We'll save you a seat. I have a feeling you'll be in Gryffindor."
"Alright then" she replied,"I'll see you later."
Harry walked away with the rest of the non-first years.
Indu followed Hagrid to the boats with the first years. They went down a steep narrow path and found themselves at the edge of a large, black, lake. Indu chose a boat and the boats took them up through a tunnel to some kind of an underground boathouse.
"Alright then" Hagrid said,"Everybody out!" He looked at Indu. "Ah" he said,"you must be 'ndu, nice ter meet ya. 'arry told me 'bout you before he went off with the others. I'm 'agrid."
"Nice to meet you, Hagrid" she said as she shook his enormous hand.
"Alright firs' years! Follow me up these stairs to the sorting ceremony.
Indu shivered half with excitment, half with fear. I hope I get into Gryfindor, then I could be around me new friends, she thought.
"Here goes" she said, to no one but herself as she started up the stairs with Hagrid and the first years.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!
Indu Shah stood at the train station with her supplies for her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was transferring from her old school that she used to go to in India. I hope the other children are nice, she thought, not like in my old school. She looked on her paper.
"Platform 9 and 3/4? Where's that?" She said.
"I'll show you" came a voice from behind her.
She turned around to find a boy with raggety brown hair and a lightning bolt scar on his forehead.
"You're..." she said barely able to get the word out.
"Harry Potter" He finished for her,"and you are...?"
She studied his face as she answered,"I'm Indu Shah, nice to meet you". They shook hands.
"Come with me" he said,"We'll find my friend Ron and show you to the platform."
They both gathered their things and started walking twards the area between platforms 9 and 10.
"So, where are you from?" Harry asked her as he scanned the station for Ron.
"I'm transferring from Miss Merryweather's school for girls in India." she replied shyly.
"I've never heard of that school" he said, still searching for his friend,"What year are you? I'm a 5th year."
She looked around, wondering how they were going to get to platform 9 and 3/4,"I'm a 5th year,too" she answered.
"Ah! There's Ron" Harry exclaimed pointing to a short redheaded boy about 15 feet away. Harry waved to him and the redheaded boy came over followed by two older, also redheaded, twins, and a younger girl.
"Ron, this is Indu, she's a fifth year that's transferring to Howarts" Harry said."Indu, this is Ron" Harry said, pointing to Ron as he told her his name.
"Hi Indu" Ron said, shaking her hand.
"Hi" she replied.
"I'm Gred, and this is Forge, we're Ron's brothers" said one of the twins, stretching out his hand to greet her.
"He's only joking" said the other twin as she shook 'Greds' hand,"I'm George and the funny guy over there is Fred" offering her his hand.
"Nice to meet you both" she said as she shook George's hand.
"Hi, I'm Indu" she said to the little girl she assumed was Ron's sister.
"Hi" she said, seeming to have had to muster the courage to do so,"I'm Ginny".
"It's very nice to meet you, Ginny" Indu said smiling at her.
"Alright then, everyone's been introduced so let's get on the train" Harry said.
"Indu, all you have to do is just run straight into the wall between the platforms. You can go through with me. We'll go last so you can watch the others go through."
Walk through the wall!? She thought.
"Alright" she replied.
Then, she watched as Fred went running up to the wall and right at the point where she expected him to crash, he disappeared. Then George went, then Ron, then Ginny. It was time for her and Harry to go.
"Ready?" he asked, with his deep brown eyes looking into hers.
"Ready as I'll ever be" she answered.
They took off running with their carts, faster and faster and faster as they got closer and closer Indu squinted, ready for a crash, but it didn't come.
Suddenly she found herself standing under a sign that read: Platform 9 3/4. There was a large train with the words "Hogwarts Express" waiting as the passangers loaded their things onto it. There was smoke and steam filling the air and people everywhere. It was chaos.
"Wicked" she said, trying not to sound too amazed.
"Come on" Harry said, taking her hand,"we don't want to miss the train".
They got on the train and found a compartment. A girl was waiting there. She had frizzy brown hair and brown eyes, she was about Ron's height and was already wearing her Hogwarts robes.
"Oy Hermione!" Ron said when he saw her.
"Hello Ron, Harry" the girl replied.
"Hello Hermione" Harry replied in a friendly tone.
"This is Indu, she's a fifth year and is transferring from her old school in India." Ron introduced her.
"Hi" said the girl,"I'm Hermione". "Hi" Indu replied.
"I'm so excited to be going back to school. I can tell crookshanks is too" she said, motioning to the black cat sleeping on a suitcase. "I see you have an owl, Indu" she said, pointing to the owl in the cage Indu brought with her,"What's it's name?".
"His name's Opa" she answered,"It means owl".
"That's a nice name" Harry added smiling at her.
"Thank you" Indu replied,"It was my mother's idea".
Suddenly there was a knock at the door to their compartment. Ron opened the door. A smiling, dimpled woman was pushing a cart of different kinds of candy was on the other side.
"Anything off the cart, dears?" asked the woman.
"Do you want some chocolate frogs everyone?" Harry asked.
They all nodded. Harry pulled out a pouch of money and paid the woman five silver sickles and six bronze knuts.
Ron unwrapped his,"Oh, I got another Dumbledore. What did you get, Indu?".
She unwrapped hers and took the card out,"I got...Agrippa".
"Oh" he said, she could tell he was pretending he didn't want it as bad as it looked like he did.
"Would you like to trade?" she asked,"I'd like to see what Dumbledore looks like, He's the headmaster at Hogwarts, right?".
"Sure I'll trade!" Ron exclaimed, no longer caring about hiding his feelings tward the card.
"Yes, Dumbledore's the headmaster" Hermione answered,"he's really quite a brilliant wizard. I hope to be headmaster at Hogwarts someday... You all need to change! We'll be arriving any minute."
Harry, Indu, and Ron all searched through their trunks for their robes. Indu pulled out her brand new black robe and put it on over her clothes. A perfect fit. She was happy that it fit because she hadn't had time to try it on when she and her parents had gone shopping for he school supplies. She pulled her necklace up from under the neck of her shirt.
"That's a beautiful necklace" Harry said, still searching for his robes. "Ah-hah" he said as he pulled a long black robe out of one of his trunks.
"Thank you" Indu replied,"It used to be my grandmother's. She gave it to me before she died. She was a great witch. She was famous in India. Not as famous as you of course, Harry, but everyone loved her because she never used her magic for herself. She always used it to help someone else in some way."
"She died?" Harry said in an apologetic tone,"I'm sorry, I didn't realize..."
"Oh it's alright" Indu reassured him,"It was a long time ago. My family doesn't even know how she died. She just went to Gringots in London one day and never came home."
"That's strange" Harry said as he tugged on his robe.
"You don't suppose something bad was happening with her do you?" Ron asked,"was she acting strange before she died?"
"I was too young to remember, but my parents never mentioned anything like that to me before".
"I see" Hermione said with a puzzled expression on her face.
A voice came through the speakers in the compartments: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken into the school separatley.
A few minutes later the train slowed to a stop. Harry opened the compartment doors and the four of them walked out into the corridor. Indu followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione off the train.
Once they were off the train Indu saw a VERY large man with a long fuzzy beard hollering to the first years,"Firs' years follow me!"
"That's Hagrid" Harry said pointing to the large man with the beard,"you'll have to go with him so you can be sorted. Hermione, Ron, and I will be in the great hall for the sorting ceremony. We'll save you a seat. I have a feeling you'll be in Gryffindor."
"Alright then" she replied,"I'll see you later."
Harry walked away with the rest of the non-first years.
Indu followed Hagrid to the boats with the first years. They went down a steep narrow path and found themselves at the edge of a large, black, lake. Indu chose a boat and the boats took them up through a tunnel to some kind of an underground boathouse.
"Alright then" Hagrid said,"Everybody out!" He looked at Indu. "Ah" he said,"you must be 'ndu, nice ter meet ya. 'arry told me 'bout you before he went off with the others. I'm 'agrid."
"Nice to meet you, Hagrid" she said as she shook his enormous hand.
"Alright firs' years! Follow me up these stairs to the sorting ceremony.
Indu shivered half with excitment, half with fear. I hope I get into Gryfindor, then I could be around me new friends, she thought.
"Here goes" she said, to no one but herself as she started up the stairs with Hagrid and the first years.