A/N: This Chp focuses on a little bit more character information/ transition to life at Hogwarts. Aka, Prologue pt. 2. The real action will start happening in the next chapter

2 Years Later (Circa Philosopher's Stone)
Daphne's POV

After pushing through the Platform wall, I was in absolute awe. I had heard plenty of stories about the Hogwarts Express, but seeing it in person was a completely different story. I looked at Astoria and her eyes were bulging out of her sockets as well.

"Why can't I go to Hogwarts this year toooooooooo Papa," pouted Astoria.
"Sweetheart, it will be two more years until you can do so, okay? Now let's just be happy for Daphne and Alex!"

I smiled at Astoria as Alex put his arm around her. Astoria and I had always been very close and we were inseperable, I didn't know how I was going to handle two years away from her. I silently wiped away a stray tear as the thought crossed my mind.

"Daphne! Over here! Over here!" I looked to the direction of the voice and saw my best friend Lucy Yaxley standing with her family and waving for us to join them. Our mother's embraced and our father's began speaking in hushed voices. Her twin brother, Lucas, started asking Alex various questions about Hogwarts as Astoria and Amelie, the youngest Yaxley and Astoria's best friend, held hands and listened in.

"Aren't you excited Daph? I was so excited! Lucas has already painted his room green of course, but I was a it hesitant. I mean, green isn't even my color, you know?" I kept listening to Lucy go on and on about her excitement, and which house we would be sorted in. Ha, they call me the talkative one.. Lucy was a very interesting girl. Pretty, smart, brave, cunning, adventurous – if she wasn't a Yaxley, I'd bet all my money that she would be sorted a Gryffindor. But no child of one of the most renowned Death Eaters would ever be placed in a house full of blood traitors? Hah.

"Jesus Yaxley do you ever stop talking?" A familiar voice droned.

"DRACO!" yelled Astoria as she pushed me aside to envelop him in a long hug. Sometimes I wondered how someone as sweet and pure as my sister ended up so close to someone as arrogant and annoying as Malfoy. But then I remembered how sweet and graciously he treated my little Stori and how she wasn't just another person to her.

Soon, I was surrounded by all of my friends and their parents. We said our last goodbye and my heart broke a million times as I hugged Astoria for the last time.
"Daph, you'll write to me everyday won't you.." sobbed Astoria. The train whistled and everyone began entering the large vessel.

"Theodore grabbed my hand and began leading me inside. I turned around and said, "Everyday, Stori. You be good to Maman and Papa!"

"Blaise, Lucy, Lucas, Theo, Greg, Draco, Vincent Crabbe, Adrian Pucey, and I found and empty compartment and filled its seats. I watched Draco look out the window and into the crowd, his eyes landed on my little Astoria crying into Maman's dress.

"As Draco sighed, I watch his eyes glass and kept switching my stare from him to Astoria. This is Weird.
"Mate," Blaise nudged Draco, "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."

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We had all been sorted and just finished dinner. Our whole group had been sorted into Slytherin of course. (However, Lucy had been a hatstall and I almost had a heart attack at the thought of us being separated.) Now, a prefect was leading us down to our dormitories.

"The Slytherin dorms are actually dungeons, and it's partially under a lake!" exclaimed my cousin, Milicent Bulstrode.

"Milly.. we've just got here. How could you possibly already know that?"

"Hogwarts, a History, of course!" I scoffed. I have always been compared to cousin Milly. Smart arse, she should have just been in Ravenclaw to make our family proud.

"We entered the 1st year girls' dorm and introduced ourselves to our other room mates, Pansy Parkinson, Tracey Davis, Lilith Flint, and Gabrielle Lestrange. I had previously heard and met them though, at many of the pureblood events, they were all daughters of Death Eaters – except for Tracey. Pansy was an obnoxious, pug – nosed girl, she is the only person who has ever made Lucy cry. So the Yaxley twins have always hated her. Tracey was an Australian pureblood who had recently moved to Britain because of her dad's job transfer. She was very quiet, yet always knew the juiciest gossip. Lilith was rich and had three beautiful older brothers. She was also the biggest snob to walk the planet earth. And Gabrielle Lestrange was Draco's cousin and the daughter of the deranged Bellatrix and Rodolphus, who were both locked up in Askaban, leaving a very bitter Gabrielle to move to America with her grandmother.

"These next 7 years will be a very interesting experience