chapter four

year one part 1

Sitting on the train was an exciting and horrifying eperience for Dahlia, the day before was so exciting yet now she wondered who would talk to her, who would be her friends, what house she would be sorted into. As her favorite figures faded off into the distance her thoughts began devouring her happiness away and she sank into her seat, peering out the window letting the scenary try to break her thoughts. She than heard her cart door slide open with a hard slam into the fixture. Startled by this she turned her head fast allowing her hair to frame her face when it landed. Two figures were in the door way an odd looking pair to boot, one boy with dark short black hair, and bright blue eyes with a green cloak, which was clearly from slytherin house. He also was clearly older than the other boy, at least a year or two. The other boy had long platinum blonde hair and blue eyes not as bright as the first boy but still pretty, and similar robes to dahlia with no crest on them.

They both tryed to walk through the door at the same time letting out an awkward grunt, ultimately the black haired boy walked through the door way first and than the blonde haired boy. The black haired boy spoke up first "excuse me but all the other carts are full o you mind if we sit with you?" not being able to speak she nodded fast and awkwardly. The two boys sat down and she squeezed herself next to the window as tightly as she could and sank her head down hoping to find the right words to introduce herself, and attempting not to be completely awkward but to no avail. The black haired boy spoke up again and said " umm i'm sorry I must have offended you in some way, my name is tom, tom riddle." " AND i'm Lucious Malfoy. remember that name it will be popular!" screamed the blonde boy nearly crawling over Tom. Tom looked at lucious with disgust and pushed him off Dahlia looked alarmed for a moment " no no! you didn't offend me I just... I've never talked to anyone before, my... my name is Dahlia." as her head sunk into her chest. Tom leaned forward and gently lifted her chin, peering into her brilliant eyes and admiring her features for a moment. " What a beautiful name, for such a beautiful flower, by the looks of it you to are a first year like my friend lucious here right? I guess that also means i'm the first one to have complimented you as well" Dahlia looked away out the window as her pale cheeks lit up red she put her hand to her face and fealt its warmth something she has never fealt before. She shook her head and managed to mutter through a stutter " y yes I am a first year" Tom looked very confident and than spoke again " well I sure hope your in Slytherin that just means more of my time will be spent admiring those eyes of yours dahlia." blushing again this time she put up her hood and tryed to escape her own blushing.

Upon arrival Tom was a complete gentleman and escorted Dahlia out Lucious attempted to act the same way but to no avail. All though one girl did take notice of him and he took notice of her but ended up just being clumsy and played it off as a joke. Dahlia sat in the boat and Tom grabbed her hand and looked into her eyes one last time. "This is wear we part for now, but I will keep an eye out for you during the ceremony." he kissed her hand and disapeared with another group of boys. Lucious sat in the boat and looked rather queezy noticing the girl he admired was now looking at him and than qiuckly turned away very angrily. Lucious sunk his head to his chest and muttered " why do I always do that?" when the boats started moving Lucious really turned green, Dahlia looked over and put her hand on his knee and said. " well I guess we know what house you'll be in." Lucious laughed and forgot all about the fact he was on the boat. " just try to relax and enjoy it look theres the castle now isn't it beautiful." she looked up and her eyes were agleam at the astonishing site that was hogwarts. Taking notice of her enthusiasim he to looked up in amazement and was comforted by this, comforted by Dahlia. He knew than they would be great friends.

Upon arrival the first years walked up a very long flight of stairs to be greeted by a woman with round glasses and a tall pointy hat. She greeted the first years and than addressed what was to happen, vanished into the hall and said " they are ready for you now." walking down the middle of the room Dahlia tried her hardest to avoid eye contact with Tom but was unsuccessful, and ended up peering right into his eyes, he took notice and waved at her. she kindly and qiuckly waved back, and than went back to her original misson in finding the dark haired boy from the wand shop. She was about average height so she could see most people but some rather tall boys were standing in front of her so she couldn't see the front row, She however was very slim and managed to wiggle through them into the front. The proffessor from before started listing off names, and with each name her eagerness grew to see the person it belonged to, there was a weasley and a James Potter, Sirius black, Lily Evans who was the girl who had gone into the shop before, Reamus Lupin, Lucious Malfoy, and than "Dahlia Dumbledoore" she was shocked at her name being called and she jumped at the mention of it by the proffessor. She walked up to the sorting hat and she placed it unto her head. the sorting hat began to speak to her " ah right than, a sharp mind, ambition, book smarts, a bit weak with pshyicality but that can be improved, plenty of yearning to prove yourself, I have it..." there was a breif pause and her anxiety took over anything but "... SLYTHERIN!" oh no the slytherin table went beserk as they had with others including tom who had launched out of his chair. She walked over to the table but sat close to the front where Lucious was sitting. She kept her eyes locked on the front of the room for the boy. Than the last name she heard was Serverus Snape, she looked forward and saw him she finally matched the name to a face, it was the dark haired boy from before.

She hoped with all her heart that he would be in Slytherin house with her so that she could talk to him, thank him, befriend him. she listened carefully for his house and she heard the hat scream " SLYTHERIN!" she had never been more elated in her life she let out a squeel but qiuckly recovered herself and continued to clap with the others. But he looked sad and defeated, as he walked by the red headed girl lily he waved good bye to her and continued his solemn walk to the table, nearly plopped down beside another student adjecent from Dahlia, she tried to gain his attention but to no avail, for after he sat down Dumbledoore started speaking about the rules and such of the year and than everyone burst into cheers one last time and thus the feast began. She was very hungry after all so she filled her plate and starting eating, she noticed Serverus wasn't eating he was kind of plucking at his food with his fork. when she leaned forward to try to cheer him up Tom came and sat next to Dahlia and started to brag about his grades and such. Dahlia didn't want to be rude so she listened but the only real thing she gathered from the conversation was that he was a third year and he liked to talk about himself and his amitions in life. Dahlia shook her head and was polite but her attention still shifted to serverus from time to time.

When it was time to walk to the dorms she attempted to tap on serverus but every time she got close Tom would get in the way and point out different things as they passed them. Dahlia had never seen these parts of the castle so she was very intrigued with Tom talking about them, so much so Serverus faded in her mind for a moment and was consumed by her curiosity. As they got to the dorm the prefect in charge told them their belongings were already there and that the girls dorms were to the right and boys to the left. Tom wanted to help Dahlia unpack but he was caught by the prefect and was sent to his side of the dorms. She was rather relieved at this and went to unpack her belongings. after she was down she walked down into the common room and Serverus was sitting there on the lounge chair prodding the fire with a poker. Dahlia sat across from him and looked at him and tryed to speak to him but the words wouldn't form, Luciuos came and sat down next to Dahlia and they started talking about a few different things such as spells they had learned, what classes they were taking, matching there schedules, which they had 4 classes together, this releaved Dahlia because at least she knew one person in most of her classes. They also talked about some of their hobbies and such, why they talked so much Dahlia had forgotten her original purpose and before long she looked over when Serverus stood up with a deep yawn and walked up to his room. Lucious replied with " oh im in the same room as him! I guess I should probably head to bed as well." " I might as well myself, see you tommorow Lucious have a good night!"

She walked up to her room and stared out the window the other girls in the room were already asleep, one girl was very odd her name ws Bellatrix Lestrange and boy was she ever strange, and the other was narcissa she was kind and to herself the fourth bed was not filled in the room because apparently there weren't enough students to fill the last bed. Dahlia continued watching the moon as she sank into her bed and reviewed the day in her head. She made two friends in Lucious and Tom, and she was in the same house as the boy she wanted to thank and befriend. She just hoped that they were in the same classes together at least one so she had an excuse to talk to him. but for now sleep was the best thing to do as her eyes slowly shut a smile formed on her face and she shifted into a deep sleep.