Tamara Quirrell's POV

"I can't believe I'm attending Hogwarts!" Tamara thought while boarding the Hogwarts express that was starting to pull away from platform 9 3/4 towards its magical destination. The second Tamara stepped on the train she knew her mission, find friends.

After searching a couple train compartments, not liking most of her options, she opened one of the last compartment doors. She found three tall, bright red-haired boys, two of them were identical, a bushy, brown-haired girl with her nose in a book, and a boy with messy black hair, bright green eyes, and round rimmed glasses. They all introduced themselves, the twins were Fred and George Weasley and their younger brother Ron, the wild haired girl looked up from her book and said, "Hermione Granger," and continued her reading, and the boy with glasses introduced himself as Harry Potter. After Tamara shut her mouth from gaping at him for a couple of seconds, which looked rather foolish, she introduced herself as, "Tamara Quirrell," Harry asked, "Are you related to Professor Quirrell, the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor?" "Yes, he's my uncle," Tamara replied. They seemed friendly, but she didn't feel a connection. Interesting enough, she noticed a difference between the Weasley twins, one is more attractive than the other.

Although she enjoyed their company, she knew she didn't belong in their group. After Tamara left their train compartment, She moved on to the next one and stopped in front of the door. Somehow Tamara knew that whoever was behind this door was destined to be her friends. Her dad always told her that it was good to have more than one friend because Uncle Quirinus didn't have any friends and her dad told her that is what made him so strange. When Tamara swung open the door to see her soon to be friends for life, instead she found two children her age, a boy and a girl, who looked at her with a bored expression.

The boy, who even sitting down was tall, had shaggy, blonde hair and steel grey eyes, that looked as if they were calculating everything around them, were covered by dark, thick-rimmed glasses. She could tell instantly from his posture and knowledgeable eyes that he was the smartest one in the compartment, but looking to the other side of the room she could tell he was not the one in charge. The girl was short and petite, but she radiated superiority. She had long, dark red hair, but nothing like the Weasley' red hair, and her eyes were the color of a green forest at nighttime. Her skin was porcelain white and she looked like a pretty doll that was scheming of ways to use you towards her own agenda.

But Tamara still felt instantly connected to them, so Tamara being the person that she was introduced herself, "Hi, My name is Tamara Quirrell, may I sit in here with you," she asked as she sat next to the boy, "What's your names?" The boy straightened his posture, which made him look even taller, replied, "My name is Leviticus Morgan, but I prefer Levi."

"His mother told him to sit properly and speak respectfully or else she would send him a howler," spoke a dull and monotonous voice. Tamara stared at the girl, who had boredom etched in her features, surprised that such a dark, monotone voice could belong to this fragile looking doll. She noticed Tamara's expression and continued to speak in a dull manner, "To answer your question, my name is Elsepeth Balderdashton, and don't you forget it." Next to Elsepeth's feet was an owl cage containing a large, stormy grey Great Horned Owl, whose burning gold eyes stared daggers at her, causing Tamara to shift uncomfortably in her seat. Elsepeth noticed her discomfort and smirked, "Definitely a Hufflepuff. Don't worry it's not a terrible thing, I just can tell. This is Zeus, my owl, he'll warm up to you," Zeus screeched fiercely in reply, "Well, maybe eventually." Elsepeth concluded smugly. Somehow her stare was more unnerving.

Suddenly, two new faces joined them in the compartment. The girl looked Tamara's age, she has wide hazel eyes, brown hair in a bob cut, and a splash of freckles on her nose. Her smile was absolutely contagious. The looked maybe two years older, he didn't look unfriendly but he definitely didn't have the same aura of likability as the girl. His eyes and hair looked black as night but his smile was nice enough. Tamara could tell that they were siblings. The boy stepped forward in introduction, "Hello, my name is Edmund Pevensie, and this is my little sister Lucy. This is her first year at Hogwarts, I'm a third year Slytherin. May we join your compartment?"

"Of course!" Tamara exclaimed."Alright." Levi shrugged.

"The more the merrier." Elsepeth added dully with a sly grin. Which caused Tamara to raise some alarms.

Lucy bounded in and sat next to Tamara and gave her a wide grin. Edmund looked slightly uncomfortable while he sat down in the only available seat... next to Elsepeth.

To break the silence and the tension once more, Tamara changed the subject, "Elsepeth, can I call you Elsie? I'm going too anyway. What's your favorite color?"

Trying to keep her eye contact with Elsie's cold glare, all she hoped for was an answer to one of the saddest conversation starters ever. Tamara was never going to live this down.

"Well, green and silver of course. I'm generous enough to answer pathetic questions, but I can tell you're not very good at this, are you?" Elsie remarked smugly.

Tamara was confused by Elsie's statement so she asked slowly, "What do you mean I'm not good at this, not good at what?"

Then, something truly disturbing happened. Elsie smiled. While grinning, Elsie answered, "Being friends with a Slytherin." Edmund scooted a little bit farther away from Elsie. Levi looked like he was nodding in agreement but then stopped when he saw Tamara had caught him. Lucy just simply put her hand on Tamara's arm and whispered,

"Well. I'll still be friends with you, either way not all Slytherins are bad, I mean, look at my brother." Edmund then scooted even a little farther away. If that were even possible.

But Tamara was not one to give up.

She heard someone calling that they were nearing Hogwarts. So, she was temporarily putting off the quest to make Elsie and Levi her friends. After all, she had a whole year at Hogwarts to do that.