Harry walked through the wall to the platform with his parents directly behind him. He spotted the Weasleys and Longbottoms and headed towards them. Pushing his way through the crowd was proving to be difficult.

Harry thought to Ginny, "This is a mad house."

"I told you." Ginny laughed.

"I thought you were exaggerating." Harry replied.

By this time he had finally reached the group and Neville asked, "Alright there Harry?"

"Fine Neville you?" Harry asked.

Ginny got to him by this time and he was engulfed in a hug, Ron reached out and shook his hand, followed by the twins and Percy.

Out loud Ginny asked, "How was your night?"

Harry grimaced at his friends, "Right creepy place that is. I'm glad we'll have a different place by Christmas. There's a portrait of his Mum and she's all the time yelling rude things at you."

"Come on Harry." James said, "I'll help you get your stuff on board. Ron you have a spot yet?"

"Oh yes, this way." Ron led them onto the train and to the compartment his and Neville's things were in. They put up his trunk and went back out to say there last goodbyes.

"Tell Remus and Sirius, I miss them already and I'll write as soon as I can." Harry said.

He gave his parents and Ginny another hug and the boys boarded the train. They made it to their compartment then leaned out and waved at their families. Harry laughed when he heard Fred and George promise to send Ginny a toilet seat. In his mind he said, "Ginny, I miss you already. I love you."

"I love you too." She replied, "At least we can talk."

"And feel each other's emotions." Harry said.

The train left the station and Harry sat down and chatted with Ron and Neville. Percy checked on them and then left for the prefects car. It wasn't long until he returned with someone and said, "Hey you guys mind an extra? Snakes invaded her compartment. There were starting to get rough."

"We don't mind." Harry replied.

"This is Hermione Granger." Percy stepped aside.

"I'm Harry." he reached out to shake her hand, "This is Ron and Neville."

"Ron's my little brother." Percy said, "You should be ok now. Be careful you guys."

Hermione stepped into the car and gingerly sat on the edge of her seat, "Thanks Percy."

"No problem." he said, "I'll just toss your trunk up here and then I have to go. See you."

"Bye Percy." They said as a group.

"How'd you end up in the wrong compartment?" Ron asked.

"I was in one that was empty." Hermione said, "I don't know anyone…"

Fred and George came in and said, "Hey you have a girl in here, how'd that happen?"

"Percy brought her." Ron said, "The snakes were giving her a hard time."

"You must be muggleborn then." Fred said.

"Yes why do you keep calling them snakes?" she asked.

"They're in Slytherin." George answered.

"Oh, right Slytherin's symbol is a snake." They chatted for a few minutes then the twins left and Hermione asked, "Were they your brothers too?"

"Yes." Ron said, "I have five older brothers and a younger sister."

"What houses are they in?" Hermione asked.

"So far they've all been in Gryffindor." Ron said, "So were my parents, Neville's and Harry's."

"So you guys have been friends for a while?" Hermione asked.

"Harry is one day younger than Neville." Ron said, "Their Mums have been best friends since Hogwarts. They've been together since birth. I'm the new one of the group, I've only known them since I was about one."

"Well you're not the new one any longer." Harry said with a chuckle, "Now Hermione is."

Hermione laughed but stopped as soon as their compartment door opened again. This time it had been opened by a blond boy followed by two large boys.

"So it's true, Harry Potter is back." the blond boy sneered, "Since you've been gone I feel I should tell you that these… people aren't the sort you should be seen with. You can come with us and I'll introduce you to the right sort. I'm Draco Malfoy."

"I don't think so." Harry looked at him with a blank face, "I don't associate with your sort. My friends are the right sort. And we'll thank you to sort yourself off to some other place."

Before Draco could respond Percy showed up, "Any trouble?"

"So you have all kinds of low class friends." Draco sneered, "Don't know why I should be surprised, after all your mother is a…"

"If you finish that sentence, I will give you detention for the entire year." Percy warned.

"You can't." Draco sneered.

"You are right but when I tell the headmaster, my head of house and yours I believe they will uphold that detention as well as the fifty points I'd remove." Percy grinned, "Now run along before I start deducting points." The three Slytherins left and he turned back to the group in the compartment, "You need to think about getting into your uniforms."

Percy left and a short time later the food trolley stopped. The three boys loaded up on sweets, while Hermione declined.

When they had settled down to eat Hermione asked, "So are you Harry Potter?"

"Yes, but don't make anything of it." Harry groaned, "I didn't do anything that I remember and that isn't who I am."

"Oh,." Hermione said, "I guess you don't like talking about it?"

"He hates to talk about it, he hates being stared at and he hates the fame of it all." Ron snickered while Neville explained, "He just wants to be plain old Harry. Which is exactly who he is, just a normal bloke like me."

They continued to chat about anything but Harry Potter, as they finished their candy and got into their uniforms.

Hermione was looking at the chocolate frog cards her three friends had given her and said, "I don't think I can start a collection of these cards. I'm not sure I could get past the wiggling frog to eat the chocolate."

"No worries." Harry grinned, "We'll eat the frogs for you."

The group laughed as they pulled into the station. They climbed off the train and heard a loud voice calling, "First years this way."

Ron saw Hermione gaping at the large man and said, "That's Hagrid. He always takes the first years by boat to the castle. It's the best view of Hogwarts at night."

Later that night when Harry finally reached his dorm he pulled out his pajamas and his two way mirror. He climbed into bed and said, "Prongs."

It was just a few seconds before he saw his father's smiling face in the mirror Harry said, "I'm in Slytherin."

James' smile faltered a bit and he said, "Slytherin… Congratulations."

"I'm sorry." Harry said.

"There's nothing to be sorry about." James said, "As well as you can prank you had to have a sneaky side."

"You think I'm going to be a dark wizard then?" Harry asked.

"No, your mother won't let you." James replied, "And she's scary when she gets mad."

Harry laughed and said, "Well I'm off to bed, I'm really tired."

"Set up some wards around your bed." James warned, "I want you to be safe. I love you son."

"Love you too Dad… "Harry yawned, "Oh, by the way. I got you... I made Gryffindor." He cut the connection and smiled as he drifted off to sleep. First prank successfully implemented.

At the other end of the connection three men first sighed in relief before James yelled, "Harry James Potter you are so grounded."

"What?" Lily stepped in to the room.

Sirius and Remus were laughing too hard to speak, so James had to tell the story, "Harry called on the mirror, he said he'd been sorted into Slytherin. We talked for a few minutes while I was trying to congratulate him and tell him how proud I was. Just before he hung up he said got you, I'm in Gryffindor." Lily started laughing and James said, "Fine don't side with me that was just beyond terrible."

"He is your son." Lily said between laughs as she left the room, "You're just mad that you didn't think to do it to your own Dad."

James thought for a moment and said, "Well…"

"He got you so bad." Sirius was still chuckling.

"No he got us so bad." Remus said, "I saw your face when he said Slytherin, you were about the same color as Binns."

Hermione had a cold and felt miserable and it was only the second day of school. She hadn't slept and had finally left the dorm in an effort to keep the girls as friendly as possible, which wasn't saying much. Her cough was terrible, but at least sitting up made her able to sleep a little. It was still dark out when a noise brought her to half consciousness. A group of people were walking out the portrait hole. Hermione was too tired to say anything so she just went back to sleep.

Later that morning she was woke up by Harry. "I know you went to bed early, what are you doing sleeping in here?"

"Coughing didn't want to wake the girls." Hermione muttered.

"Go get dressed and I'll walk you to Madam Pomfrey." Harry smiled.

Hermione nodded and trudged up the stairs. When she came back she was dressed but dragging her book bag behind her. Harry picked up her bag and led her out the door.

"Need to go to class." Hermione protested lightly.

"No, you need to sleep." Harry laughed, "Madam Pomfrey will fix you up."

He knew she was really sick when she didn't protest any more. She didn't even try to turn into class when they walked by it. Professor Flitwick saw them and nodded at Harry, which he knew to mean that he was excused if he was late to class. Harry nodded in return and kept walking. Hermione felt like they had been walking for hours when they finally reached the hospital. Madam Pomfrey sent Harry back to class and put Hermione to bed with several potions. After classes were over Harry, Neville and Ron stopped by to visit.

They chatted for a few minutes when Hermione said, "I hate sleeping in the common room it gives me weird dreams."

"What did you dream about?" Ron grinned.

"First I dreamed a big group of people left the room." she said, "Then I dreamed that they came back all sweaty. I think it was mostly boys."

"What will all the girls think Hermione is dreaming about sweaty boys. I can hear them now." Then in a high pitched voice Ron said, "Were they good looking? Did they have cute bums?"

Hermione laughed, Ron sounded just like Lavender Brown. Later in the week the first years had their first DADA class. Quirrell wasn't a bad teacher; he knew the subject and they did learn. However, he seemed to be afraid of the subject he taught. Harry of course knew it was all an act. Albus in an effort to entice Voldemort to go after the stone had asked the teachers to help him put up the defenses for it, including Quirrell. Harry knew the defenses weren't in place yet and was wondering what was taking the man so long to go after it.

Harry and Ron rounded out their first week with quidditch tryouts. Ron made reserve keeper to be trained up to replace Wood when he graduated. Harry got the seeker position, because of this he was allowed to keep his broom in Professor McGonagall's office. James and Lily were happy he had a broom nearby in case he needed it. Sirius just wanted to gloat that he knew Harry would be a fantastic seeker.

Several weeks into the year Harry realized there was a big change in Quirrell. In addition to the headaches he started getting in his class, he realized that the man was much more evil then he was during the summer or even at the beginning of the month. It didn't take Harry long to realize his Occlumency shields were under attack, that's what was causing the headaches and Quirrell wasn't the one attacking him. Voldemort had taken up residence in Quirrell, they were sharing space inside the same head. Harry immediately contacted Granddad Al and let him know they now had an extra guest in the castle.

At the Halloween feast everyone was laughing and having a good time. Harry looked around and saw all the first years but Hermione. He got up and walked to the doors and turned like he was heading to the bathroom. He pulled out the map and checked the girls dorm for her. Not finding her he continued to look through the rest of the castle. Finally he found her in a bathroom not far from the library. He decided to check on her and make sure she was ok. He took the map back to Ron and explained what he was doing.

When he reached the door to the bathroom he yelled in, "Hermione are you there?" He heard a noise so he repeated his question.

He could hear her walking toward him and she said, "Yes, I'm here."

She sounded stuffy and he thought she may have been crying so he asked, "Are you alright?"

She came out and said, "Yes, Malfoy was just giving me a hard time earlier and I was having a pity party."

A few moments later Harry heard someone running. Ron came skidding around the corner, "Quirrell just ran into the Hall saying there's a troll loose in the dungeons. Everyone has been sent back to their common rooms. The feast will continue there. Are you alright Hermione?"

Hermione started to answer but instead held her nose as an awful smell reached them a few seconds before the troll rounded the corner, between them and where they wanted to go. The trio backed away slowly, trying to escape the troll's attention, but it spied them, roared and then charged them.

Harry, having already pulled his wand stupefied the troll, at the same time Ron levitated his club. After the troll collapsed from the stun Ron dropped his wand to glare at Harry, allowing the club to drop from the air right onto the trolls head. A few seconds later the Professors reached them having heard the roar.

"What happened?" McGonagall glared while she asked.

"I noticed Hermione wasn't at the feast." Harry said, "I knew she had been in the library studying. I thought perhaps she had lost track of time so I came to get her."

"He left before Professor Quirrell came in. So I told Percy I was coming to get them." Ron said, "The library is so far from the dungeons we thought it would be safe for me to get them."

"Ron found us just a few seconds before the troll did." Harry said, "He levitated it's club so it couldn't hit us. But he couldn't hold it long and dropped the club on its head."

"Ten points to Gryffindor for quick thinking." Professor Flitwick said, "And using a charm."

"Take an additional ten points for helping friends." Dumbledore said, "Professor McGonagall please escort them back to the tower."

Instead of the tower, McGonagall took them to her office and shut the door behind them and asked, "Anything else?"

"I stunned it sorry Aunty M." Harry scuffed his shoe on the ground.

"Don't worry Harry." Minerva said, "Albus is taking care of it Quirrell won't know. I think we need to take Ms. Granger into our confidence."

Harry nodded. Both boys turned to Hermione as McGonagall moved to the Floo. When she returned the boys had gotten Hermione into a chair and had given her some tea.

"First let's make sure you are Hermione." she asked a detailed question and Hermione was able to answer. She sat down and said, "Ms. Granger we have a choice to make. We can either alter your memories of the event or you can join the Familia De Lumen."

"What is the Familia De Lumen?" Hermione asked.

"Are you aware of Harry's defeat of Voldemort at fifteen months old?" Hermione said that she was so Minerva continued, "The Familia De Lumen is a group of people who support Harry and have taken a vow to keep his secrets and help him defeat Voldemort for good as soon as possible."

"If you want to be a member of my family you must sign this parchment which changes to a wizards vow on your seventeenth birthday." Harry said, "You are promising to never reveal what you know about me and my family. This protects us all."

"Knowing his secrets also gets you extra training to help keep it a secret and to defend yourself and others." Ron said and they spent the next hour talking about the Family, the parchment and the vow along with answering some of Hermione's questions.

"So it's all or nothing?" Harry nodded and Hermione said, "I want to be a member of the Familia De Lumen."

"Harry and Ron had already petitioned for you to join so we have already checked you out." Minerva smiled, "We were going to offer next week so this just moves it up a tad." Then they had her sign the parchment.

"Be in the common room at five in the morning." Harry said, "Be ready for physical exercise."

Minerva then escorted them to the common room which was empty, except for a few boys. As she left Ron's brothers and Neville waved them over.

All the boys were looking at Harry as he said, "This is Hermione, newest member of the Familia De Lumen. Tomorrow at five."

The boys nodded their understanding and Harry left. Each boy shook her hand, welcomed her to the family and left. The last one was Ron, he said, "You better get to bed, five is freaky early in the morning. I'm glad you joined."

"Thanks." Hermione smiled and then headed up to her dorm.