Chapter Two:
All throughout the train ride to Hogwarts, Juvia's thoughts consisted of worrying and dreading. She felt terrified of going to a new school, knowing that sooner or later everyone would find out what happened at her last school and they'd all hate her. Or something similar would happen there, making her transfer schools again.
Only a year and a half, that's all I need to complete.
If she could just hold up for that long, than maybe she'd be able find a simple muggle job and forget all about the wizarding world for the rest of her days. Honestly, she originally had no intentions of going to another school to finish her seven years of studying wizardry, but the headmaster at Hogwarts insisted that she "deserved a chance of redemption" and how "a mage as strong as she shouldn't be forbidden to using magic ever again".
Whatever, Juvia just hoped that no one at the school would try to get close with her. She didn't deserve friends anyway and was determined not to make any.
After slowing down for a while, the train came to a halt and one of the professors at her new school named Professor Fernandes helped her out of the train and guided her to a boat waiting for them in order to cross the lake. Looking at the lake under them as they sailed across only brought back bad memories, so Juvia closed her eyes and pretended to be somewhere else, thinking of her happy place that was constantly changing. Today, it was of her leading a muggle life, serving food at an average restaurant.
"We're here, I'll lead you inside and right away you'll be sorted into one of the houses." He explained to Juvia as he helped her off the boat. She nodded her head and they walked in silence towards the school.
Juvia admitted, she was amazed by the size of this school compared to her old one. The halls were lit up by candle light, giving off a warm welcoming essence. It almost made her want to smile, but right after she was seen all the students stopped, coming to a silence. Professor Fernandes gave them a stern look which sent their attention away from her and back towards heading to the dining hall where she assumed was the place where she'd get sorted.
After they were the last to make it inside the dining hall, the headmaster noticed them and right away he called for everyone's attention.
"Listen up brats!" he yelled, The headmaster at this highly ranked school calls his students 'brats'? "Natsu stop already devouring your meal!" Everyone gave a little laugh as the wizard (Natsu it seemed) at the Gryffindor table grumpily put his food down. "Anyway, as you've probably heard, tonight we have a new sixth year named Juvia being sorted into one of the houses and she'll be finishing out her schooling here at Hogwarts. If any of you make rude remarks against her or treat Juvia poorly then I'll make you clean the bathhouses for an entire month!"
Everyone then chanted "Aye sir!" This sure is a strange school…
"Good. Now Juvia dear will you come up here to the sorting hat please?" all the heads in the room turned around to Juvia and Professor Fernandes. Actually, her teacher seemed to have disappeared so it looked like it was just her. She cautiously walked up to the front, feeling everyone's eyes on her and hating all the attention. She placed herself on the wooden chair and immediately a professor with long red hair placed the hat on top of her head.
She found it surprising that the hat started talking to her as it debated where to put her, "Hmm… oh dear. You seem to not believe it, but there is a heroic side of yourself that could lead to your own salvation, easily making you a Gryffindor. But of course, putting you in Slytherin or perhaps Hufflepuff could be justified given your weaknesses that are possessing you for the time being, but I think your brave side will show again someday. GRYFFINDOR!"
Gray saw the new girl just sitting there looking confused while everyone in Gryffindor cheered louder than necessary with flame brain yelling, "WE GOT- wait Lucy what's her name again?"
Lucy wacked him on the head, "Her name's Juvia you idiot." Which then led to him to chanting properly. Gray was usually a lot calmer than Natsu and the others in his house so he just sat there clapping quietly.
After a few awkward moments of Juvia standing around, Erza guided her towards the table full of celebrating wizards. Gray noticed an empty spot available next to him and figured he'd better offer it, "Hey Juvia! You can sit here!" he patted the seat to his left, trying to indicate that she could sit there since she might've not heard him with all the commotion. She noticed his hand motions eventually and sat down, mumbling a soft thanks.
Gray wanted to give her space since she seemed to need a few moments to take it all in, but obviously flame brain didn't notice that. "Yo, I'm Natsu! This here's Lucy," he pointed her out, following up by introducing everybody sitting around them which besides Natsu and Lucy included Levy, Wendy, Gajeel, Romeo and Gray. Although he called Gray 'popsicle' in which he just rolled his eyes.
"The name's actually Gray Fullbuster." he explained. She nodded and gave a tiny smile. "I know coming to a new school must be hard, but in time it'll seem like you've been coming her since your first year." Gray tried to assure her.
"Actually, here in Hogwarts, especially Gryffindor, there'll probably be a new surprises every day. So just always expect the unexpected." Levy responded giving a slight laugh. Everyone else quickly agreed with her.
"Yeah, funny thing some years back," Gajeel mentioned, "Natsu hates trains so much that he 'accidentally' missed it and flew a broken old car to get here which then he successfully crashed into a tree-"
"Don't pretend like you don't hate them too! And besides, I really did miss the train and after a while of being in the car I started to feel sick which is why I crashed into the tree." flame brain defended. Gray looked over at Juvia who was starting to give a little bit of a real smile as she nibbled at her meal. For some reason, he really wanted to see her fully smile or even laugh so he tried to think of a story that he could tell. Before he could come up with anything, Lucy asked Juvia what school she was from.
She looked uncomfortable answering that question, but after a few seconds she decided to tell them, "Before coming here, Juvia attended Phantom Lord." Everyone stared in shock. Wasn't that the school who had to kick out a wizard recently for being the cause of another student's death? Wendy was the first to come up with a response,
"Oh wow cool. I heard that school hosted the Grand Magic Games a while back."
"Yeah they did." Juvia replied. The conversation went from casual to incredibly awkward really quick. "So... why does the head master call you guys-us 'brats'?" she questioned. We all just laughed.
"Well it's not exactly the most normal school here at Hogwarts." Levy started to explain, "For starters, we don't even call our teachers 'professor', we just use their first names. Second, while most schools make sure their dorm rooms have students the same age, we kind of just shuffle people around to whatever works. Like Lucy, Wendy and I all share a room yet Wendy is only a first year while Lucy and I are sixth years. Oh that reminds me! You'll be sharing a room with us so we'll help you settle in. It's a good thing we already know each other." Levy smiled, which at first Juvia looked confused but then smiled too. Gray couldn't help feeling like Juvia was hiding a lot, But I guess it's none of my business. After all, why should I care about her emotions or past anyway?
Hope you enjoyed that second chapter! I don't think the last chapter ended up getting an author's note at the end but all my chapters probably will from now on!
So welcome to this story and thank you for taking the time to read it! I might set up a schedule of when to update this story but I'm still not sure whether to update once or twice a week... hmm I'd like to update it twice a week but during the school year that might change since school takes up so much time (ugh).
This story might have a few characters from Harry Potter, but most of them will probably be from Fairy Tail.
This ships will definitely include gruvia, nalu, a little bit of gajevy and jerza, then maybe some elfever, rowen (or chendy I ship both), and also maybe some of the Sabertooth ships but idk I have a lot of different ships when it comes to Sabertooth XD
Again thank you so much for reading, reviewing, etc!
Have a fairy tail-astic/hogwarts-full day!