*Disclaimer* This story is based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. My original characters are Mackenzie, Tabitha, Scarlett the cat, and Mackenzie's parents. The other characters come from Rowling's books. This story begins during Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Chapter One- No longer No One

It was September 1st and Mackenzie Campbell had just said goodbye to her parents and was walking through the Hogwarts Express. Her trunk was levitating behind her and she was carrying her calico cat, Scarlett. Soon she found an empty compartment, she stowed her trunk and set Scarlett down on the seat as she rummaged through her messenger bag for her book.

She settled down in a corner of the compartment, leaning against the window with her knees drawn up to balance her book on and she began reading. Scarlett made her way across Mackenzie's lap and climbed onto the window sill, lying in the small ray of sunshine and purring softly as Mackenzie scratched her ears before she went back to her book.

Mackenzie's strawberry blond hair was braided into a single plait down her back. She pale blue eyes scanned the words and illustrations of her charms book. She wore her muggle clothes, a simple, tight fitting t-shirt and a pair of low-rise jeans with a pair of black tennis shoes.

Suddenly the compartment door opened and three boys, deep in conversation entered. The boy in the middle had long black dreadlocks and dark eyes. He was listening intently to the story the other two boys, redheaded twins with freckles and brown eyes, were telling him. They were talking animatedly with their friend, using their hands and finishing each other's sentences. Mackenzie laid her book down in her lap and watched them with her eyebrows raised as they sat down in the vacant chairs of her compartment apparently not noticing her.

"We aren't going to let him get away with this," said one of the twins, leaning back in his seat.

"What do you plan to do, mates?" Lee Jordan asked.

"Well, first we plan on…" began the other twin, when he stopped and looked over to where Mackenzie was sitting. She was giving them a bewildered look with her hands folded on top of her book.

"Don't let me stop you, boys. Do come in and make yourselves at home," she said sarcastically gesturing to the seats they had already taken.

"How long have you been sitting there?" asked the first twin.

"Longer than you," she answered.

"Are you new here or something?" asked the other twin, looking confused.

Mackenzie rolled her eyes. "No, I'm not. I've been going to Hogwarts with the three of you for five years now," she informed them, trying to keep the frustration out of her voice. Gryffindors can be so self-centered sometimes she thought.

"I feel like I would remember someone like you," said Lee waggling his eyebrows at her and smiling.

Mackenzie scoffed," Is that so?" she asked.

"What house are you in?" asked the first twin. Mackenzie saw that he had a small scar through his left eyebrow.

"Ravenclaw," she said.

"What year are you?" asked the other twin.

"I believe I have already told you that." Mackenzie crossed her arms across her chest and she folded her legs. Scarlett stretched and crawled from the windowsill onto her now vacant lap.

"So you mean to say you're in our year and we've never met before?" Lee asked. He shook his head and his dreadlocks bounced. "I'm not buying it."

"Wait," said the second twin with a faint smile as he looked at her more closely. "You're on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. You're a chaser.

"Took you long enough," Mackenzie sighed, stroking Scarlett who began to purr happily.

"It's Cameron, right?" asked Lee.

"Campbell," she corrected.

Lee's cheeks darkened slightly as he mumbled an apology and looked down at his hands. The twins looked away also, obviously embarrassed. Mackenzie let him sweat for a few moments before deciding to let them off the hook.

"It's all right boys, with egos as big as yours I'm amazed you notice anyone,' she teased, giving them a playful smile.

The second twin looked up and gave her a crooked smile. "We can be rather thick headed at times," he admitted.

She shrugged. "You're more than welcome to stay if you like. I'm not expecting anyone," Mackenzie said knowing her best friend would be busy with her boyfriend Cedric for most of the journey. Mackenzie rolled her eyes at he thought, knowing Tabitha wasn't the type to keep a boyfriend long.

They heard the trolley clattering down the hall and Mackenzie picked up Scarlett, placing her on the seat before stretching and letting out a small yawn. She noticed that the boys eyes widened and they stared at her and she gave them a confused look.

"What?" she asked.

"What's that?" the first twin asked pointing at her stomach.

Mackenzie's brows furrowed for a second and she ran a hand across her stomach. "Oh, you mean this?" she asked lifting her shirt to expose her pierced belly button. She saw the creeping blush wash over all three boys who were obviously caught off guard at her exposed midriff. Mackenzie rolled her eyes and let her shirt fall back down as she looked through her messenger bag for her wizarding money. "Honestly, they say us Muggle-borns don't know anything. I'm going to go get something, you guys coming?"

They blinked at her, still deep in thought about her pierced navel and she rolled her eyes before making her way out of the compartment and down the hall. She waited in line with some other students as they bought their sweets from the trolley cart. She had just finished buying a few chocolate frogs and licorice wands when she heard shouting down the train a few compartments. Mackenzie sighed and started to turn to go back to her own compartment when she saw Draco Malfoy and his goons exit a compartment laughing. Then she saw a tall gangly red-haired boy she recognized as the youngest Weasley brother slam the compartment door in Malfoy's face.

Mackenzie narrowed her eyes, although Malfoy was two years younger than she was, she had been on the receiving end of some of his more nasty remarks over the years. She reached into the waistband of her jeans and pulled out her wand. She stepped back slightly so that she would be partially hidden behind the trolley crowd. She waited until Crabbe and Goyle entered the compartment ahead of Malfoy and she whispered the leg-locking curse.

She stifled a laugh as his legs snapped together and he fell flat on his face in front of the crowd of students. He began whipping his head wildly around, looking for the source of the attack, but all he could see was laughing students. Mackenzie turned on her heel and started to walk back to her compartment when she bumped right into one of the twins.

He caught her before she fell, wrapping an arm around her waist and looking down at her curiously. "What did you do that for?" he asked. His brow was furrowed and his honey brown eyes were gazing into her blue eyes.

"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention." She placed her hands on his biceps to steady herself before stepping back form him slightly. She blushed as she felt his strong muscles flexing before she let go of his arms.

"I don't mean that," he said dismissively. He bent down to help her pick up her dropped sweets, "I mean Malfoy."

Mackenzie blushed a deep shade of red as she picked up her candy. "Oh, you saw that? Well does anyone really need a reason to jinx Malfoy? He's a bully. I normally take any opportunity I can to make him accidentally trip or something." Mackenzie shrugged and stood up.

"He's a slimy git," he said offering her the chocolate back.

As he gave her the chocolate their hands touched and Mackenzie looked into his honey brown eyes with her own pale blue ones. Although he was shorter than his siblings he was still a few inches taller than her. She looked up into his eyes for a few seconds, neither of them blinking or speaking. She glanced down at his lips which were slightly parted and noted the scar under his full bottom lip. She remembered the Quidditch match when a bludger had struck him in the mouth.

"Thanks, Fred. I appreciate it," she said stepping back from him slightly and looking briefly back into his eyes.

"What?" he asked stupidly still slightly dazed.

"Thanks for helping me with my stuff," she clarified, blushing and stepping around him to walk back to the compartment. As she did she passed George and Lee who were staring between her and Fred with slightly confused looks.

"What was that about?" she heard Lee ask Fred and she walked into the compartment. She sat down and pointed her wand at the door so that it would slide shut before she heard Fred's answer.

She looked over at Scarlett who had resumed her sunbathing and she slumped down into her seat. "What was that about?" she asked herself quietly.

Before she could think much about it the door slid open and a girl with raven black hair and olive green eyes slid into the compartment and slumped down across from Mackenzie.

"How's Cedric?" Mackenzie asked opening a licorice wand and biting off a piece.

Tabitha sighed heavily and looked dreamily out the window for a few second before answering. "He's even more handsome than last year, if that's even possible."

"And has he consented to fall madly in love with you yet?" Mackenzie asked trying to stem the sarcastic tone in her voice.

Her friend glared at her momentarily before smiling at the jab. "We are going to have lunch together Saturday," she squealed leaning forward and snatching a chocolate frog from the pile on top of Mackenzie's abandoned charms book.

"Congratulations. How long do you think this one will last; maybe two, perhaps three, whole weeks?" Mackenzie giggled.

She quickly dodged the chocolate frog packaging that Tabitha had thrown at her when the compartment door slid open again. Both girls stopped to look over at the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan who had stooped in the doorway. Tabitha raised an eyebrow at Mackenzie who rolled her eyes in response.

"Boys, this is Tabitha King," Mackenzie said gesturing to her friend who was taking a seductive bite out of her chocolate frog. "Tabs, you know Fred and George Weasley and Lee Jordan."

The Twins awkwardly waved and Lee stood rooted to the spot staring at Tabitha who had taken to locking the chocolate off her fingers. "Nice to see you again boys. Thanks for the frog Maxie. I'll see you at the feast, Ced expects me back." Tabitha stood and gave Scarlett a quick scratch behind the ears before sauntering out of the compartment, making sure that she brushed past Lee who was still staring blankly at her.

He turned and watched her walk down the hall be as the twins sat down. When she was out of sight Lee shook his head as if he was trying to clear it before walking into the compartment and sliding down next to George.

"Don't worry, Jordan, she has that effect on most men," Mackenzie offered with a shrug of her shoulders as she opened one of her chocolate frogs.

"I still don't understand how we have managed to get this far into our Hogwarts careers and we have failed to notice not one, but two very attractive girls in our year," Lee complained opening a pumpkin Pasty.

Mackenzie felt the blood rushing to her cheeks and she busied herself with looking though her bag for some treats for Scarlett.

"I mean, what other houses are hiding these hidden gems? We may need to broaden our horizons boys," Lee continued.

"So, Campbell, did you have a nice summer? Did you go to the world cup?" asked George, elbowing Lee in the ribs and opening a box of every flavor beans.

"My summer was good. No I didn't go to the match, but I listened to it. My parents are Muggles so I don't get to do much of that kind of stuff during the holidays," she said laying some treats out for her cat that rolled over lazily and inched her way towards them. "Besides I heard it got blow up by a bunch of death eaters."

"It did, but the match was amazing," said Fred with a huge grin on his face.

They talked Quidditch for the rest of the ride and the twins described the more exciting parts of the World cup in greater detail as the countryside grew wilder outside the train window.

When they drew neared to Hogwarts Mackenzie dug though her trunk for her robes and made her way down to the restrooms to change, letting the boys use the compartment. When she was finished she hesitated before opening the compartment door since she could hear the boys still shuffling around and talking.

"Honestly, Fred, do you want us to give you a moment? The way you keep looking at her it's obvious you want to snog or something," teased Lee.

Mackenzie felt the blood rush to her cheeks once again and she turned to leave, but Fred's voice froze her to the spot.

"Oh, come off it you two. You said it yourself that you think she's attractive," he reasoned.

"She is, definitely, but we aren't the one staring at her with our mouths hanging open, his twin countered.

"My mouth has not been…listen you two just drop it. And Lee you're one to talk, when her friend was here you couldn't even sit down. I think she's beautiful, ok. I admit it, but I'm not sure I am going to do anything about it. Besides, she probably has a boyfriend. A girl that gorgeous has to be with someone."

Mackenzie had heard enough, her cheeks and face were so red and her heart was racing so fast that she turned and walked back to the restroom. She wet some paper towels and pressed them to her burning face. Why is this such a big deal I don't like Fred Weasley. This guy has spent the last five years not even realizing I exist.

She looked up at her reflection in the mirror. Mackenzie took a deep breath and dried her face before she walked back to the compartment and rapped on the door.

"You guys better be dressed by now," she said

The door slid open and George smiled at her. "All decent," he said gesturing for her to enter.

She began to gather her things as the boys chatted about plans for some prank they wanted to pull. Mackenzie put her muggle clothes into her trunk along with her charms book and her messenger bag. She slid her wand into the pocket of her robes and sat down.

"Scarlett we are almost there," she said to the cat that was still sleeping on the windowsill.

She meowed grumpily in response and stretched languidly before sitting on the sill and began cleaning herself.

Mackenzie placed her hand on the cat carrier she had placed on the seat next to her. She opened the door and looked back at the cat that had frozen with her paw still in the air. "Are you going to get in your crate or are you going to be a drama queen?" Mackenzie asked.

Scarlett began meowing in protest and Mackenzie rolled her eyes.

"Honestly, get inside and pipe down will you?" she asked pointing to the crate. The cat continued to whine as she lay down on the window sill throwing her head back dramatically. After another stern look from Mackenzie, Scarlett huffed and began leisurely walking towards the cat carrier. She stretched slowly and dropped onto the seat, taking her time. Mackenzie rolled her eyes and shut the door, leaving the carrier on the seat next to her.

"Every time," she sighed shrugging at the boys who were fighting back laughter. "I named her Scarlett after a character from a Muggle movie."

"How did that work out for you?" asked Fred, chuckling.

"Well at least the name fits," Mackenzie laughed.

Soon the train pulled into the station and Mackenzie followed the twins and Lee Jordan out of the compartment and into the hall. As she went to step off the train and onto the platform someone shoved past her, pushing her roughly.

"Watch it, Mudblood," Draco spat as he made his way towards the carriages with his goons.

"Go to Hell, Malfoy!" shouted Fred, catching her before she could fall. "Are you all right?" he asked his arms holding her as she regained her balance.

"I'm fine, nothing that hasn't happened before," she admitted looking up at him.

Their eyes met once again and Mackenzie couldn't help the soft blush that rose in her cheeks as she stood gazing into his brown eyes. His arms were still wrapped around her, his face only inches from hers. She could see a blush rising in his own cheeks as he glanced down at her lips, then back up to her eyes.

"We should…" Mackenzie said softly.

"Yeah, they're probably…" he replied.

They stood staring at each other for a few more seconds, neither one breaking eye contact. Mackenzie saw him lean forward slightly, slowly closing the gap between them. Mackenzie felt butterflies erupt in her stomach and her heart began to race. She froze, not knowing if she wanted to lean forward and press her lips to his or pull away. Fred hesitated, centimeters from her face and Mackenzie's brain had a chance to catch up with her body.

"We should hurry before all the carriages are gone." Mackenzie smiled up at him before pulling away and walking down the platforms.