I'M SO SORRY I DIDN'T UPLOAD THIS CHAPTER EARLIER! I already have the next few chapters saved as drafts, so. Um. YEAH. I won't stop to upload the next few chapters.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own Harry Potter. I'm not the creator of that beautiful fantasy world where magic is real. It belongs to Goddess J.K. Rowling.

Until first September, (Y/F/N) kept to her room with her new pet cat for company. On her way back from Diagon Alley, (Y/F/N) came across a pet shop which had been dark and full of rustling and flickering, jewel-bright eyes. (Y/F/N) ended up buying a black cat and decided to call her 'Leo'.

Wizard books were very interesting. (Y/F/N) lay on her bed reading late into the night, with Leo purring near her ears. She mostly read about lelimency, and practiced a bit of it on her father. He was always thinking about paperwork. Always. (Y/F/N) made sure that she was always wearing her silver rose pendant, as when she wore it, it felt as if her mother was next to her. Turns out that the reason she was able to read people's minds was because she was wearing her mother's pendant. Those kind of pendants which could enable one to read another's mind were called 'Legiliment Pendants' and only worked if a witch or a wizard wore it, it won't work if a muggle tried to use it. But (Y/F/N) had confirmed that her mother wasn't a witch...neither her parents nor her father EVER saw (Y/F/N)'s mother perform any kind of magic. Also, Professor Mcgonagall said that (Y/F/N)as a Muggleborn, meaning her mother wasn't a witch. But then...where did (Y/F/N)'s mother get that pendant from?

Since the time (Y/F/N) got to know about Ligiliment Pendants, she became restless. She would dream about her mother plucking red roses which changed into silver pendants, forming a chandelier over (Y/F/N)'s mother. In the end, (Y/F/N) decided that her mother probably received the pendant from someone as a gift. But then...why did she request (Y/F/N)'s father to give it to (Y/F/N) once she turned 11 years old? Irritated by the fact, (Y/F/N) tried her best distracting herself by reading other books.

Every night before she went to sleep, (Y/F/N) ticked off another day on her calendar, counting down to September the first.

X-X-X-X-X-X-X

"Funny way to get to a Wizards' School, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?" (Y/F/N)'s father commented as they walked towards the station, pushing (Y/F/N)'s trolley. (Y/F/N) giggled.

"Okay, honey. Are you sure you'll be fine on your own? I wanted to escort you inside the train, but I don't want to miss my flight."

"I'll be fine dad. Seriously, I'm eleven. I can take care of myself." (Y/F/N)'s father chuckled and smiled. His little girl sure had grown up.

(Y/F/N) pecked a kiss on her father's cheek and they both did their goodbyes. Her father rushed back to the car, and (Y/F/N) giggled at the way he ran.

(Y/F/N) walked inside the station, towards the platforms. She couldn't find platform Nine and Three Quarters. She even asked the guard about it, but he had no idea what she was talking about.

(Y/F/N) started panicking - where did she go wrong? She re-read the ticket a few times. She was at the right venue...then where the duck was that train?

(Y/F/N) looked around, and suddenly saw the blonde boy who she had met in Flourish and Blotts walking towards the platforms. He seemed alone too, without any parents.

(Y/F/N) looked at the way he walked. He was fast, slick and he walked majestically. The boy was quite handsome too. He looked pretty mature from his age, though. She had to admit - that boy was attractive.

(Y/F/N) shamed her head to rid herself of these thoughts. First things first, she had to ask the guy about Platform Nine and Three Quarters. She walked upto him.

"Hello! I'm (Y/F/N) (Y/L/N), you must remember me from Diagon Alley." She said to the boy.

Draco turned to see the same cute girl he had met at Diagon Alley.

Wait.

Did he just think she was cute?

Ew.

"Hey. I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy." Draco noticed she was alone. "Do you want any help?"

"Um, yeah. I don't see Platform Nine and Three Quarters...how am I supposed to reach there?"

"Oh. I see you're alone. It's easy. Just walk into that wall." He pointed towards the intersection between platform nine and ten.

"Okay. Wait. What? We're supposed to walk into that wall? Is it like a...like a portal?"

Draco chuckled. "Yeah. Like I told you, it's easy."

(Y/F/N) raised an eyebrow. "I don't think I'll be able to do it. It's just a solid wall!"

"We can walk in there together. If you're scared, you can hold my hand." Draco let out a hand to her.

(Y/F/N) blushed a bit. A cute boy just asked her to hold hands with him. "Um, okay." She held his hand.

His hand is warm...and muscular... (Y/F/N) wondered.

Her hand is soft...and light... Draco thought.

(Y/F/N) read Draco's mind and she blushed a bit.

Both of them pushed their trollies together and started running towards the wall. (Y/F/N) closed her eyes and squeezed Draco's hand. Before she knew it, she had crossed the 'portal' kind of thing.

"Wow..." (Y/F/N) saw a beautiful black and red train, throwing smoke above everyone 's heads.

Suddenly, she realised she was still holding Draco's hands and she let go of it.

"Isn't it beautiful?" (Y/F/N) asked Draco.

"Hm. I guess it's quite comfy."

"Oh Dracoooooo!" A sing - song voice drawled behind them.

"Oh. Hi, Pansy."

Pansy grabbed Draco's arm.

"How are you? I'm fine. How was your summer vacation? Mine was great. Did you go to Diagon Alley? I did. Do you have all your school supplies? I do. Come on, let's go and find a compartment for the two of us."

She said all this very fast.

(Y/F/N) could see that Pansy and Draco were kind of 'together'. She backed a bit, to give them some space.

(Y/F/N) looked around the crowd, and noticed a ginger family with a brunette kid. She had a funny feeling that she knew that kid.

Wait.

IT WAS HARRY!

"HARRY!" She shouted, advancing towards him.

Harry turned to see (Y/F/N) running towards him. She launched herself on him, and hugged him tightly.

"(Y/F/N)!" He said, happy and surprised. "You're going to Hogwarts too? That's amazing!"

"I know, right!" (Y/F/N) said, pulling away.

"No Pansy, I don't want to know about your birthday! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to talk to some other people, who are actually important, unlike you."

Pansy scoffed, but Draco didn't seem to notice. He turned to get back to (Y/F/N), but she wasn't there. He looked around, and saw (Y/F/N) hugging some black - haired boy and happily talking to him.

Jealousy.

Draco felt jealousy.

"Where are Crabbe and Goyle?" He said, turning back to Pansy.

"Oi! Draco!"

"We're over here!"

Crabbe and Goyle emerged from the crowd.

"How may we help you?" Asked Goyle. Crabbe was stuffing cookies in his mouth.

"See that boy over there?" Draco pointed towards Harry. "Find out who he is."

"Yeah, alright. We already know who he is." Said Goyle.

"Ifs Haihy Fohher" said Crabbe with a stuffed face, some of the food fell from his mouth.

"Ew." Grossed Pansy.

"What?" Asked Draco, with utter disgust.

"It's Harry Potter." Goyle said, shoving a tissue in Crabbe's face.

"What?" Draco and Pansy said together, this time shocked.

"You know, the guy who-"

"I know who Harry Potter is, Goyle." Snapped Draco. "That guy's bad news. He destroys all the nice things from the world." Draco started to get worried about (Y/F/N).

"What's that supposed to mean, Draco?" Asked Pansy.

"None of your business, Pansy. And you two, dig out as much information as you can about Harry Potter and that girl with him."

-XX-

"...and until I met Hagrid, I knew nothing about my parents or wizards or Hogwarts." Harry finished.

"Wicked!" Said Ron.

"Ron, don't you think it's a privilege for us to be sitting with 'the' Harry Potter?" (Y/F/N) said, playfully. She stood up and gracefully bowed in front of Harry. "All hail 'the' Harry Potter!"

"Oh please." Said Harry, flustered.

They were inside one of the train compartments, feeding on all the good stuff Harry brought from the trolley witch.

"So Ron, if everyone in your family's a wizard, you must know tons of magic spells already!" Said Harry.

"Yeah! Show us some magic, Ron!" Said (Y/F/N), excited to see more magic.

Ron took out his wand. "Well, there is one spell Fred taught me a while ago, here, lemme show you," he kept Scabbers on his lap and cleared his throat.

At that moment, the compartment door slid open and a girl with curly brown hair stuck her head inside.

"Have you seen a toad?" She asked. "A boy named Neville has lost one."

She looked at Ron pointing his wand at Scabbers.

"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see."

Ron looked a bit taken aback, but he cleared his throat anyway.

"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow,

Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow!"

Nothing happened.

"I see you've learnt a few spells..." Said the girl. "...but they aren't that good, are they? I've learned a few spells from our school books, and some of them aren't bad."

She sat opposite to Harry and pointed her wand at his face.

"Oculus Reparo."

Harry's glasses shook. Harry took them off, only to see that his broken glasses had been fixed by the girl.

"Holy Cricket!" Said the girl. "You're Harry Potter! I'm Hermione Granger." She turned towards (Y/F/N). "What's your name?"

"(Y/F/N) (Y/L/N)."

She smiled and then turned to Ron. Her smile faded. "And you are...?"

"Wonal Weevley" Said Ron, with a stuffed face.

"Pleasure." Said Hermione, quite disgusted. "They're saying that we'll reach Hogwarts in a few minutes. You three should change into your uniforms."

-XX

Eyes squeezed shut and fingers crossed, Harry was desperately hoping for (Y/F/N) to get sorted into Gryffindor. Draco prayed to Merlin for her to get sorted into Slytherin.

Hermione, Ron and Harry got Gryffindor. Draco and Pansy got Slytherin.

(Y/F/N) was sitting on the stool, waiting for the Sorting Hat's judgement.

"She sure is very brave...Gryffindor will be good for her..." Mumbled the hat.

Harry smiled. Draco frowned.

"But Slytherin will be better...she's very ambitious..."

Draco smirked. Harry gulped.

"Hmm...well for you, my young girl, it better be..."

Please be Gryffindor... Please be Gryffindor... Harry thought.

Slytherin! Please Merlin, send her here! Draco prayed.

"...SLYTHERIN!"