A/n: Here's chapter 2! Please review

Meanwhile in another compartment, a poor first year, one Sara Elwood, had the misfortune of sitting with some fourth years who didn't appreciate her company.

"Hey!" one of the boys said, taking the girl's book away. "You do not read when we're trying to talk to you."

Another smirked. "Yea, you're an ickle firstie. You need to sit elsewhere."

Sara wasn't paying much attention to them but calmly replied. "I'd like my book back please." She didn't want to get into a fight. She wanted to read because it was her way of dealing with the transition. Books taught her about the world she was now joining.

They didn't listen and continued harassing her.

" Oi! Lookit what we got! A filthy mudblood! " They laughed at their terminology, pleased with the insult they had just given her. Though she was clueless as to what they'd said.

"What's a mudblood?"

"You!" they laughed as they hexed poor Sara. She was clueless as to what was going on until then. Being hexed kind of cleared things up on what they thought of her.

However, they had the misfortune of having to deal with another first year that wasn't quite so meek. "YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!" she yelled, having heard the last bit of the conversation. She did not tolerate bullying.

"O lookie here. We have another ickle firstie but this one doesn't know her place does she?"

His friend shook his head. "Nope. She doesn't. This one has a mouth on her too. Tsk tsk I think we need to put her in her place. What do you think?"

"Yea, I think that'd do her good. What shall we do?"

Before they had the chance Kaitlyn pulled out her wand and tried her best to teach them a lesson. "TARANTALLEGRA!"

The spell didn't go quite as planned as it only made one leg start dancing but that was almost worse than both as it made the boy fall over, trying to keep up with one leg that wouldn't stop moving and the other couldn't figure out what to do.

Kaitlyn smirked and laughed at them.

"What the hell?! I thought first years didn't even know how to do shit. O this tears it!

"CONJUNCTIVITIS!" He decided to make it hard for her to see, thus hard for her to do anything to them in return. He laughed at himself as he and his friends decided to go off, reversing the curse on the dancing idiot. They didn't want to deal with this crap anymore.

After they left, having tossed Sara's book aside, Sara got up to fetch it. She put the book back on her seat and then went over to the poor girl on the floor. "Are you alright?"

"Yea, I'm fine." Kaitlyn realized she could still see a bit and took the hand Sara offered. "They're not that good. I'm Kaitlyn Markham, by the way. Call me Kait, if you want that is. Now come on." She took Sara's hand and led her through the compartments. She felt her way around, not paying mind to people laughing at her.

Sara was stunned at this behaviour. This girl tried to curse a couple of their upperclassman and was now running around the train after getting cursed herself.

Kaitlyn asked her to listen for a specific name as she was focusing on finding her way around. Sara just nodded and listened, telling her when she heard the name Markham. The other girl then spoke, trusting Sara and looking with her screwy vision to recognize her family. "Hey you!"

"Kait! Oi, Kait! What the bloody Hell's happened to your eyes?" a tall boy with blondish hair like Kaitlyn's popped his head out of the compartment.

"Conjunctivitis curse. Some gits in your year were bullying this one." She pulled Sara's hand up, making sure her brother noticed the other girl. "Naturally I couldn't let that happen so I butted in. Ended up cursed. O well. I did tarantallegra on him but only one leg danced. Funny though."

Her brother reversed the spell and then started snickering. "Merlin's beard, I bet it was Coldwater and his fellow Slytherin brats. Stuck up, they are. Maurice and I managed to hang one of them off a suit of armour last year. Professor Sinistra wasn't too pleased with us for that but it was worth it. I'm Sasha Markham, by the way. Kait's brother, Gryffindor fourth year."

Sara shyly nodded. "Nice to meet you. I'm Sara. Sara Elwood." She was not very good with people. She liked books. They were her friends. People...bullied her. Like those from earlier did.

Kaitlyn laughed as well, glad her eyesight was back. "Yea, probably. Awesome! Can't wait to see your antics up close this year! Heh. Did you think your prof would be pleased?" She asked.

"Which professor?" Sasha asked. "There's more than one, yanno. And why don't you and your friend come in here? If you don't then I might have to hex Coldwater. Or even worse Maurice might, and you know what he's like. Bloody Ravenclaws know too many spells for their own good!"

"Be right back." She rolled her eyes and nodded, taking Sara back to their compartment, grabbing their things before heading back in no time.

Sara was still amazed at how fast this was moving and what the hell was going on. "Um, ok. We're going to stay with them?"

Kait nodded and led her back to the compartment where her brother was. "Back! And yea, either of you would be dangerous. Maurice is the one who taught me some of the spells I know!" She laughed. "Well it's clear what house you're in. And I meant Professor Sinistra, ya know, the one you mentioned. "

Sara stared. "You know spells already?"

"Course she does," Sasha laughed. "Me and Maurice taught her most of them - Maurice is my best mate, even though he's in Ravenclaw and I'm in Gryffindor. But you've gotta consider the fact that there are... how many of us are there now, Kait? Eight? It's hard to keep track." He laughed

She smiled. "Eight it is. Though the question always comes on if there will be more at any given time."

Sara blinked. "Um, wow. That's a lot of you. I've got like one sister and that's it. My parents aren't wizards. This is all new to me. Please don't hold it against me." She blushed.

Kaitlyn looked at her brother. "Those bastards called her a mudblood. Can you believe it?! Urgh! I wanted to hurt them so bad."

Sasha grinned. "Right: you, me, Maurice, Johnny and Darren are going to plot that bastard's downfall. Now. It's what we're for, right?"

"RIGHT!" Kaitlyn cheered loudly, laughing. At that moment Maurice came in. "What about me and the downfall of someone?"

Sara stared. "Do you have all brothers?"

She shook her head. "Uh, no. One sister. Though some of my brothers are out of Hogwarts already. And I've got a git for a twin around here somewhere. Have you seen Michael?"

Sara couldn't keep track of it all. This was a lot.

"He's buggered off somewhere," Sasha replied. "Probably picking a fight with some Hufflepuffs or something, knowing him. Now come on! We've got to come up with new ways to torture Coldwater and his gang!"

Maurice looked at him. "What did they do now?"

"Only put a conjunctivitus hex on my sister," Sasha replied. "I'm gonna string the bastard up from the rafters in the Great Hall for this, I swear."

Kait groaned. What the hell was Michael up to now? It was only their first day and they hadn't even gotten to Hogwarts yet. That was basically the only thing on her mind right now - which house would she be placed in. The family was split between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor...more on the Gryffindor side. Though Darren, the fourth Markham brother, was an oddball - a Ravenclaw.

He frowned. "I don't like the sound of that. And I'm guessing you mean Kaitlyn as I don't think they would dare do that to Missy as she's a seventh year and well, Missy."

"Obviously he means Kait," Johnny laughed. "Missy would... well, she would have killed him, or damn near."

Kaitlyn sighed. She loved Melissa, she really did. Missy was practically her idol growing up, what with the six-year age gap that they had. But she got frustrated sometimes. It was hard to live up to her older sister. She was practically an idol at school. She was good at school, pretty, and feisty when she needed to be. Though Kait beat her there...about the only way she did.

Sara was looking on and patted her friend's hand. There was obviously tension going on there and she wasn't sure what exactly the deal was but she was trying. She was mostly confused about all of this and nervous. She just hoped that things would be OK when they finally got to school…