Harry walked between the many compartments of the train seeing some people greet others as friends, enemies, or class mates and then there were the first years who were all looking a bit lost. In the end Harry found an empty compartment near the back of the train.

There was only a few minutes left before the train was to departure. Harry caught Sirius' eye through the window, he waved one last time before the train started to move.

A few moments later Harry was joined by a girl, she had brown frizzy hair, brown eyes and a few freckles covering her nose.

"Hi I'm Hazel Warwick, I'm a first year, are you?" she asked with a smile on her face.

"Yeah, my name is Harry Potter," Harry said not looking her in the eyes.

"Are you the brother of Daniel Potter, the boy who lived?" Asked an unfamiliar voice. There was another girl at the entrance of the compartment, she had raven hair, like Harry, and blue eyes.

"What? I didn't even know he had a brother, is it true?" Hazel said turning to Harry.

"Unfortunately," Harry mumbled, he hated being referred to as the boy who lived's brother. He barely ever spoke to Daniel, or his parents. His only true family in Harry's opinion was Sirius.

"What did you say?" Hazel asked not catching what he just said.

"Err, yeah its true" Harry said so they could hear.

"Wow what's it like? How come I never knew about you?" Hazel asked.

"If it's okay, I don't really want to talk about it" Harry said, causing them to fall silent. They sat down opposite him.

"Well, I'm Alyssa Winters" said the raven haired girl, introducing herself.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Hazel."

They chattered away, talking about Hogwarts, all the while trying to get Harry to join in on the conversation. He spoke a bit, but he just stared out the window for most of it. Not long after, they were joined by two others, as all the other compartments were full.

One of them was a boy, Mathew Jefferson. He had blue eyes and light brown hair, with a small fringe flopping neatly to the left, whereas Harry's was always a mess, (But it looked good on him). The other was a girl. She has long golden hair and icy blue eyes. She was Daphne Greengrass, most people had heard of her family and their reputation and it wasn't a very good one. They had a long conversation about how they were staying neutral and not picking sides. Harry joined in with this as he had heard a bit about them in old newspapers, from the great wizarding war.

By the end of the journey Harry was having a great time with his new friends. They decided to make a pact that they would stay friends no matter what happened or what houses they were put into. The train stopped and everyone grabbed their things and walked out onto the platform at Hogsmede station.