Update 2017: I think I'll try to edit these chapters five at a time, because they are relatively short anyway. ;)

A/N: The second chapter, you so waited for it then here it is! :) R&R please!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry potter, what a shame, my favourite characters would never have died if I did... I do own my OC and the plot, though.


Chapter two: When black meets red and green


Arleen found her way to Platform 9 ¾ by watching a couple of families getting through an apparently solid wall. On the other side, she found a magnificent red train surrounded by hundreds of families. It was almost 11 o'clock, yet, the students weren't getting on.

Having no family to say goodbye to, she headed right for the wagons and found an empty box were she sat, sighing and wishing somebody would soon arrive and lift her spirits.

Eleven rang. A red-haired girl entered the box without a look at Arleen, looking as sad as her, and sat opposite her. Soon after, two boys entered the compartment as well, one with dark hair and glasses, the other looking handsome and very pedant. Arleen smiled a little.


A few hours later, the train was clattering through a beautiful countryside. Arleen was silently watching through the window when a weird boy entered. He was black haired and was already clothed for school, though they would only get to Hogwarts by nightfall. He sat beside Arleen without looking at her and eagerly looked at the red-haired girl. She briefly looked back at him then looked away again, her eyes full of tears.

"I don't want to talk to you," she said with a little voice. Apparently they already knew each other.

"Why not?" the boy asked, half-concerned half-exasperated.

"Tuney h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore."

Arleen listened more carefully. This story looked a lot like her own, with her writing to Hogwarts's headmaster to ask if her sister could come with her.

"So what?" he asked.

"So she's my sister!" None of them were paying any attention to Arleen, certainly not the two boys who were laughing on the other side of the compartment.

"She's only a-," the boy cut off, seeing the girl looking angrily at him. He probably almost said something rude about 'Tuney'. "But we're going! This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!" He hardly contained his happiness about their journey. Strangely, Arleen felt almost close to both of them as they were apparently all heading to a better place than their homes.

"You'd better be in Slytherin," he continued.

"Slytherin?" The boy wearing the glasses had caught that last sentence and was now looking mockingly at the black-haired one. "Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" he asked the handsome one.

The latter looked at his hands and said: "My whole family was in Slytherin."

"Blimey, and I thought you seemed all right!" They grinned.

"Maybe I'll beat the tradition. Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"

His glasses sliding a little on his nose, the boy said: "'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart'! Like my dad."

The black-haired one made a small noise which meant that he didn't think highly of Gryffindor.

"Got a problem with that? asked Glasses."

"No, if you'd rather be brawny than brainy-"

"Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" said Handsome. Glasses roared with laughter, but the red-haired girl seemed not to like that kind of jokes. She got up and looked at the two boys in dislike.

"Come on, Severus, let's find another compartment."

"Oooooo..." they both said, imitating her voice.

Then, when they both had almost left, Glasses said: "See ya, Snivellus!"

Arleen then thought that anywhere she'd go, there'd always be prats...


A/N2: I know, I'm writing quite short chapters, I promise it'll get better! :)