Yeah I suck, I know. I'm working on getting my shit together though.
Chapter 2
The next morning when I woke up sun was barely creeping through the windows. I was anxious about the day ahead of me and was unable to get back to sleep.
Yesterday when I had been out shopping with Shane and Professor Dumbledore I had gotten a trunk that I was supposed to put all of my stuff in and bring with me to Hogwarts. I started to go through the trunk and found a black dress. It was what I normally wore. Black I mean. Everyday I wore all black because I have never been a fan of colors. All of the clothes that I owned were black even my hair was black but thats the way I was born. My eyes were the only colorful thing about me, I always had to wear dark brown contacts to hid their real color but now I don't feel so much like doing it anymore. So my bright red eyes are going to be completely visible from this day out.
"Shane it's time to get up." I said once I was fully dressed. It would be hard to fully accept him as my brother seeing as he's been my best friend for so long.
"Okay." he mumbled under his pillow.
"I'll be downstairs eating breakfast if you need me." I said leaving the room and closing the door.
I walked down the stairs into the pub below and sat up on a bar stool.
"What can I get you?" asked the bartender.
"Do you by any chance have egg sandwiches?" I asked him.
"We don't normally sell them here but I'll go cook you up one." he told me.
"Oh thank you so much." I said. The bartender went into the back of the pub.
I turned around on the stool and started to people watch. It was one of my favorite things to do. As I was sitting there a woman walked up to me.
"My goodness. I have never seen anyone with eyes so interesting except, well she was killed years ago." The woman said to me.
"She looks just like her doesn't she?" asked the Bartender coming out with my sandwich.
"Who?" I asked.
"Cleopatra Potter of course dear." said the woman.
"Who is she?" I asked.
"You don't know who she is?" asked the bartender. I shook my head. "Herself along with her husband and two kids were killed in a house fire caused by you know who."
"Oh." I said. Well apparently I look just like my mother. "Why did he kill her?" I asked.
"Her husband along with his brother and his wife were part of an organization that wanted to stop him so he killed them all. The only one in that family to live was Chloe's neifew and he was sent to live with his mothers family. He's going to Hogwarts now though." I stopped talking to the woman and the bartender because Shane came down the stairs and told me that we had to leave now.
"It was nice meeting you two." I said then ran up the stairs to grab my things.
By the time Shane and I got to the train station we had to hurry. We had to find the terminal called 9 3/4 but when we got there there was no 9 3/4.
"Shit Poppy what are we going to do?" Shane said throwing his things down on the ground.
"Look Shane." I said pointing to a boy that ran at the wall inbetween signs 9 and 10. He ran straight into the wall and disappeared.
"Holy Shit." Shane yelled. "How did he do that?"
"Ah, first years?" asked a woman near us.
"Technically." I said.
"You both look too old for first years." she stated.
"This is our first year at Hogwarts but I'm going to be in fifth year." I told her.
"Oh okay well what you have to do is walk at the platform and don't be scared or you'll run into it." she said.
"Thank you very much." I grabbed a hold of my things and walked towards the wall I closed my eyes and kept on walking. When I opened my eyes I was on the other side. I stood and waited for a minute until Shane came through.
"That was freaking wierd." Shane said staring at the wall.
"Come on we need to get on the train." I said grabbing on to his hand. I pulled him on to the train along with my things. I had to walk a ways down the train until I found an empty compartment.
Shane and I went into the compartment and sat down. We braced ourselves for the long journey.
The ride was pretty smooth but I slept the whole time. When the train stopped Shane and I got off and tried to find someone that knew us or we knew. We eventually found Hagrid who was yelling for all the first years.
"Hello Hagrid." I said.
"Well hello Poppy, Shane." he said.
"What are we supposed to do?" Shane asked him.
"Just come with me and I will get you to the castle." Hagrid said. He led us along with all the first years up to the castle.
When we got inside it looked gigantic.
When we got into the dining hall Hagrid told Shane and I to stay at the back until we were called upon. All the first years walked to the front and Dumbledore called them up individually. He placed a hat on their heads and it called out a name. By the time all the first years had been called on I realized the names he called out were group names or the names of the tables.
"Now we have something very unusual happening this year. We have two students coming in that have been living in the muggle world. Come up here you two." Dumbledore called this out and Shane and I walked up to the front. "Now this is Shanton Darby and Wednesday Pepper Potter . For 15 years they have been believed dead but they were just found. Now I'm going to be putting the sorting hat on their heads and they will be put in that house in the year that is appropriate to their ages."
First off the hat was put on Shane's head.
"Gryffindor" it yelled.
Shane smiled at me and walked down to the table Dumbledore pointed to.
Next the hat got put on my head. It took about 3 minutes for the hat to say anything.
"I see great things, great things." the hat yelled then paused "Slytherin" It finally yelled.
"But I want to be with Shane." I said turning around.
"I'm sorry but the hat put you in Slytherin." said Dumbledore. He pointed at the Slytherin table and I huffed then walked to the Gryffindor table.
"Miss Potter go to your correct table." said Professor McGonagall.
"NO" I said crossing my arms across my chest.
"Poppy go to your table." said Dumbledore.
I stared at him for a minute then got up and walked over to the Slytherin table and sat down.
"I already fucking hate this school." I muttered.
"Join the club." muttered the girl next to me.
"I'm Poppy." I said.
"I'm Dayn" she said.
I really like Dayn. We talked throughout dinner and near the end a boy got up and sat next to her. The boys friend sat across from me.
The friend winked at me and I yelled, "EW"
"What?" said Dayn.
"Your friends friend just winked at me." I said closing my eyes.
"Oh he's not Vincent's friend. That's Garson he likes everyone and everyone hates him." she said.
"Oh okay." I said turning back to my food.
"Poppy?" yelled Dumbledore.
I ignored him and turned back to my food.
"Wednesday Pepper!" yelled Dumbledore.
"What?" I yelled turning around.
"Come here." he said.
I walked over to the Gryffindor table were Dumbledore was talking to Shane and some other kids.
"What?" I hissed. I was still angry at him for not putting me in Gryffindor.
"This is Harry Potter, your cousin." said Dumbledore.
"He's quite nice Poppy." said Shane. It was his way of telling me to be nice.
"Hello." I said to him giving him the best smile I could muster.
"Hello Poppy. I look forward to getting to know you and your brother this year. These are my friends." Harry said pointing across the table to a boy and a girl.
"I'm Hermione Granger." the girl said smiling.
"I'm Ron." said the boy.
"It's nice to meet you." I said. "I should get back to the table because I have no idea where I am going. Talk to you later." I left without waiting for a reply. I try to be nice but I don't do so well with people. I'm not a people person.
When arrived back over at the table Dayn told me it was time to head off to our room. She was the same year as me so we would be staying in the same room.
She led me down the hallways and then to a painting. She whispered something to it and then it opened up into a door that we passed through into a room.
When the picture was shut behind us she turned to me and said, "The password to get into the room is snifflewort. Don't forget it or you won't be getting into the room. The girls rooms are up there and the boys over there. Our room is right here." she told me all this and then finished off by opening a door at the top of a set of stairs. When she opened it it revealed a room with several beds. "this is your bed." she said pointing to an empty bed with all of my things next to it. Even some of my things from back home.
"Thanks Dayn. I'm so tired I think I might just go to bed right now." I told her while sitting on the bed.
"Me too. The other girls should be coming up soon." she said.
I changed quickly into some black silk pjs and then crawled in bed.
Hogwarts might not be so bad after all.