Chapter Two: The First Day

After the day at Diagon Alley I sent in my owl and the rest of August passed by as simple as that. It was as if Tempus (has power over time) had decided to fast forward the whole month. Sooner than I though possible it was the morning of September 1st. My mother came in to my room that morning shaking me restlessly trying to wake me. In my opinion it was much too early for there to be a train going anywhere much less to school. But never the less I finally got out of bed and got dressed. I had already packed my things the night before so it was no problem just picking up my trunk and hauling it downstairs to where my cousin Alex was waiting. As it turns out the rest of the cousins (not including my twin sisters. They hadn't quite made the age cut off) had gotten invites too but had decided not to join us. I guess it was up to Alex and me then.

I ate my breakfast and linked arms with Alex the moment I was finished. She orbed us to a bathroom at the train station. We walked out and I pulled out the tickets from my pocket.

"Platform nine and three quarters? Is that supposed to be funny?" Alex looked at me and shrugged. I walked up to someone who looked like he might know. "Sir, do you know where platform nine and three quarters is?" He looked at me with a very upset face.

"I bet you think you're a real riot don't you?" Alex and I looked at each other then back at him. "Did you really think I haven't heard that one before? Honestly, I am not amused." He finished and stormed off. I was about to give up when I noticed a red headed girl who couldn't be more than twelve, with a trunk and an owl just like us. She was probably our best bet.

Alex and I followed her to the nine platform and were suddenly met by many other red heads as well as a brunette girl and boy. I walked up to one of the red headed boys who turned and looked at me, at which point I realized there were two of them.

"Hello are you going to Hogwarts too?" He laughed and nodded.

"Is it your first time? You sure don't look eleven." The boy said. "My name is Fred. This is my brother George." He said gesturing to his twin.

"Oh I'm not eleven. I'm fifteen. I only just transferred to Hogwarts. My name is Faye, and this is my cousin Alex. Could you tell us how to get to platform nine and three quarters?" He laughed again. I was really beginning to feel stupid.

"Watch her." He said pointing to the red headed girl we had followed here. "That's my sister Ginny she'll be a second year. And we're sixth years by the way." I nodded and watched with curiosity as Ginny ran at the wall and disappeared behind it.

"Wow" I said still in shock. "That's really all there is too it?" I asked.

"Yep" George said. "Well see you on the other side." He said and then they too ran at the wall and disappeared. The woman who appeared to be the red head's mother turned to look at Alex and me.

"Ah you must be some of the new Wiccan students. I'm Molly Weasley. All the red heads are my kids. This is Ron, Hermione, and Harry." She said pointing at the three who were left first to the red head then to the two brunettes. "And I see you met Fred and George already." I nodded. "There's also a younger girl named Ginny and an older boy, Percy."

"My name's Faye Halliwell and this is my cousin Alex." I said stepping forward to shake each of their hands. "How do you do?"

"Ah what manners and I was convinced they didn't teach those any more." I laughed. "Well off you two go then." She said pointing at the wall. Alex and I looked at each other.

"Well it was nice meeting you all." I said as we took a run at the wall. We went right through. Relief swept over me even though I knew we would be fine. We climbed aboard the train and began looking for a seat. Fred and George stuck their heads out of the compartments and ushered us inside. I stepped inside and struggled not to gasp as I found myself face to face with the grey eyed boy I had bumped into at Diagon Alley.

"You two know each other?" Fred asked and Alex was about to say no when the grey eyed boy spoke.

"Well no, we more or less bumped into each other once but we haven't been properly introduced." He moved closer to me. I stuck out my hand.

"My name is Faye Halliwell."

"Nice to meet you Faye, I'm Cedric Diggory." He said taking my hand and giving it a gentlemanly kiss. A huge lump rose in my throat. It was really good I had already introduced my self because I would know no doubt have a difficulty speaking. "And you?" He said in the direction of my cousin.

"Oh I'm Alex, I'm Faye's cousin." She said but didn't offer up her hand.

"How come I haven't seen you around before? You obviously aren't first years." Cedric asked.

"Their new transfers" George said

"From America" Fred said

"And their Wiccan" The finished together

"Fascinating" Cedric said with that same crooked smile I remembered from before. "I hope you both enjoy it here."

"Thank you" I managed to say with out sounding completely off. For most of the rest of the ride I remained silent, only keeping conversation with Alex through our heads, until Cedric told us that we should change into our uniforms because we were close. We were about to leave when the train stopped. "Are we already there?" I asked confused.

"No not at all." Cedric answered looking just as confused.

The windows began to ice up and it felt like the happiness in the atmosphere had died. My breaths turned instantly to fog, and a figure was making its way down the compartments. It opened ours, and my eyes grew wide. I was terrified, which felt strange because after all my demon fighting I wasn't supposed to be so afraid of something like this but there I was petrified. As if he knew how I felt Cedric grabbed my arm and pulled me behind him. I looked over to Alex who basically looked ready for a fight. It always seemed she wasn't afraid of anything.

"Expecto Patronum" Cedric said and a bright white light came out of the tip of his wand. It made the, whatever it was go away. I was eternally grateful. Warily I sat back in my seat until the train started moving again.

"Thank you Cedric." He smiled.

"Anytime. Now you two should probably go get your robes on." Alex and I got up and departed to one of the empty compartments. I slid into my new robes easily as did Alex. We waited a little for good measure just to make sure the boys were dressed before we made our way back.

A/N: Yay another chapter! And the meeting of Cedric. Hope you enjoyed, please review it honestly makes my day.