Chapter one

Kings Cross Station always full of magic in the hours leading up to 11am on September 1st and yet muggles are so blind to things they don't understand and so self-absorbed that they rarely even notice that people suddenly disappear through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.

I always loved the looks on the faces of muggles as they watched children with their parents pushing trollies stacked with luggage and occasionally strange animals like owls and ferrets and the less strange animals like cats. To them it was strange that a boarding school would ever allow children to take such pets to school with them, never understanding why on earth anyone would allow their child to have an owl as a pet.

I always felt nervous going through the gate to platform 9 and ¾ so I took it at a run thinking the sooner I get onto that platform the better. This year was my first time getting onto the platform on my own usually my brother River accompanied me on to the Platform, but this year he was spending the time I was at Hogwarts working with wild magical creatures.

As always the Platform was full of parents saying goodbye to their children and reminding them to write and that they'd see them at Christmas or telling them to be good and look out for their younger siblings.

I smiled at the excitement of another year at Hogwarts. Suddenly I was tackled to the ground I looked up to see Ella quickly standing up and brushing herself off. She then stuck out her hand to help me up. "Merlin's beard El anyone would think you missed me this summer" I laughed as I took her hand. "Well that would probably be because I did." She said grinning like a maniac.

We made our way to the baggage car where we left our luggage taking only our pets-my ginger cat Uriel and Ella's black Barn Owl Gabriel- and our backpacks with important stuff in them with us to find a compartment. We slowly made our way through the crowd of students looking for places to sit as the train started the annual journey from Kings Cross to Hogsmeade station. Unfortunately for us we missed out on finding an empty compartment, we managed to find one with three people inside.

All three inhabitants of the compartment looked up as we opened the door "Mind if we sit here everywhere else is pretty much full." I asked as Ella slid the door shut behind us, each of them shifted slightly allowing us to put out bags and animal cages in the baggage holders above the seats. As Ella and I sat down I realised exactly who the three red heads were. The oldest girl was Rose Weasley, a 5th year student like me and Ella, loved to read books and was and excellent student, the red haired boy was Rose's brother Hugo, 4th year student that's all I really knew about him, the other red haired girl was obviously Lily Potter sister of James Potter famous for his Quidditch playing abilities and was an amazing Chaser like his mother and grandfather-I guess you could say he was living up to his name- and Albus Potter famous for being the first Weasley/Potter family member to be in Slytherin and for being friends with the son of a man his father once despised.

Rose was the first to speak "So you're the female Slytherin prefect for this year" she asked me looking at the shiny silver badge pinned on the t-shirt of my muggle outfit I smiled nodding in response. "In that case we should probably head off to the prefect's carriage and get our schedule of what nights we're patrolling the halls of the school and find out who the other prefects are." She said pulling me out the door.