My room at the place she called "The Leaky Cauldron" was not as expected. I thought of a magical room with food waiting to be eaten and beds that make themselves. One bed, and a bathroom. That was it, all that was in my room. No t.v, nothing to do except read my textbooks (ugh). They were actually kind-of interesting, I found magic to be amazing! All of this going on, without any moogles or miggles or whatever Professer McGonagoll said non-magic people are, knowing any of it.
I found out how to make stuff levitate or turn into other stuff, I couldn't wait for September first. I wanted to practice, but Professer McGonagoll said that I would get expelled before school even started.
I spent days reading the educational books (my favorite was still the book all about owls), practicing the wand movements, and having fun with my new best friend, Kayla, my new pet owl. On the first of September, I was walking with McGonagoll in Kings Cross Station, I was looking at my ticket and it said Platform 9 3/4. I looked around and saw nothing but platforms 9 and 10. McGonagoll saw my confusion and pushed me into the wall. I was expecting the pain of a lifetime, but when I opened my eyes I saw a glimmering, shimmering red train that said the Hogwarts Express. I said goodbye to my future professer and she apparated away. Then I showed the conductor my ticket and tried to find a seat. Only the last car in the carrige was empty, so I stepped inside and started to fall asleep. Before I was able to drift into sleep, I heard somebody come into my compartment. I opened my eyes and saw a boy around my age with a pet cat.
"Hey, I need a place to sit. Can I sit in here? By the way my name is Hudson," the young (cute) boy said, "and this is Bianca, my sister named her," he said pointing to the cat.
"I'm Ashlyn, this is Kayla, and of course you can sit here," I said feeling that I had met a new friend (or maybe a boyfriend). We talked forever about what we liked until the food trolley came around.
"I'll take a cauldron cake, a bottle of pumpkin juice and a chocolate frog, do you want anything?" he said asking me.
"I don't know any snacks you have in this world. I'm a muggle born," I said kind of embarrased.
"Oh, well then. You'll need to try everything! Two of everything please!", Hudson said to the waiting woman at the food trolley.
"I'm a pureblood, that means I come from a family entirely of witches and wizards. I grew up with all of this food and wizard fairy-tales, but I've always wanted to know about the muggle world. Will you teach me?"
We talked for even longer about my favorite fairy-tales of the muggle world, and the food my mother makes for dinner. When I saw that we were getting close to Hogwarts, I left to go change into my robes. I came back and saw Hudson in his robes too.
"Beautiful," he said looking at me,"the robes I meant, hehe."
We walked off the train and onto the boats, and I saw my first glimpse of the castle. It was just as beautiful as I had seen in the pictures. As we walked into the Great Hall I saw the ceiling and almost cried. It was so beautiful that I forgot why I was there.
"Hudson Cirst" I heard Professer McGonagoll read off a list of new students. She placed a hat on his head which immediatly yelled "GRYFFINDOR!" After a few more people were sorted I heard her call my name. I took some deep breaths and sat on the stool beneath the hat. A few moments of deciding later and then I heard "GGGRRRYYYFFFIIINNNDDDOOORRR!" I ran towards the table where all of the Gryffindor students, new and old, sat. I met the prefects and Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost of Gryffindor house. Of course I sat next to my new best friend Hudson, and found out that he is single, good for me. Then some wizard food just appeared on the table, but there were some foods more fimiliar to me, pizza, chicken, etc. After I was so full that I could barely move, our prefects took us up to Gryffindor Tower, where the dormitories are. The girls dormitory was beautiful and there were only three other Gryffindor first years that were girls so I had plenty of space for my stuff. We stayed up until midnight getting to know each other, my three roommates are Alison Blu, Jenna Goonis, and Miranda Cirst. I am the only muggle-born out of us four and two of them are half-bloods (one muggle parent and one magical parent), the other one of course is a pureblood (and Hudson's twin sister!). Then I showed them some magic that I already learned from our textbooks, they were amazed that I already read all of the textbooks.
Later I snuck down to the common room where Hudson and I agreed to meet. "Are you there?", I called out in a whisper.
"Yeah, I have something to ask you. I couldn't do it at the Great Hall becaused I was embarassed," Hudson said, "I don't know how to say this. You're so smart, and pretty and kind. You look amazing in your robes and today on the train, I chose your compartment because you looked so beautiful. Ashlyn Shifferd will you go out with me?"
"Of course. This castle has so many hiding places where we can go to escape teachers and the stress of school work. I have to confess something, I wanted you to sit with me on the train."
We went to classes every day and I exelled in each one, especially transfiguration with the help of Professer McGonagoll. My favorite place to be was the owlrey, I could spend hours at a time looking at the beautiful owls. I was in the owlrey mostly to send letters to my mom once a week. Even though I spent hours in the owlrey, most of the day in class, and a bunch of time at the library for homework, I found time to hangout with Hudson.