Hi guys! Here's the Hogwarts Express, the Sorting Hat, and the Forbidden Forest! Enjoy!
Kelly and the other Hogwarts students were bustled into King's Cross station and on to Platform 9 3/4 after lunch that day, and from there Kelly got on the train, lugging her trunk behind her, with Padfootsnuffling around and exploring in front of her.
She found a compartment that was empty, settled her trunk in the luggage rack and plopped in one of the seats.
She pulled the magically shrunk bundle Ms. Chatfield had given her out of her pocket and tossed it carelessly into her trunk as well.
Soon the train started to move and a tall girl with reddish- auburn hair stopped in the compartment doorway.
"Hi, Do you mind if I sit here?" she asked, sitting down opposite of Kelly.
"Not at all! I'm Kelly Golden." Kelly said, smiling.
"I'm Michelle Tyler, are you a first- year too?" Michelle said, shaking Kelly's hand.
"Uhh... Yeah I think so. What house do you reckon you'll be in?"she said cheerfully.
"Well, my mum was in Slytherin but my Dad was in Gryffindor, so there's no way of telling really. I just hope we get sorted together so we'll know someone in our House." said Michelle as two nearly identical, dark-haired boys popped in the door.
"James! Sirius! This is Michelle Tyler." Kelly said happily, as the duo stowed their trunks.
"Hi, we're-"
"James and Sirius Potter." James finished, cutting off Sirius.
"Nice to meet ya." Michelle said, staring apprehensively at Kelly's big black dog, James' and Sirius' grey owls, and her own tabby kitten.
"Oh- this is Padfoot." Kelly said, scratching Paddy's ears.
"Oh look. I guess we can't sit here at all, as this compartment is full of traitorous, smelly, idiotic, can't-see-what's-right-in-front-of-them darn foolscum." A drawling voice proclaimed from the doorway.
"Who? Moi?" Michelle said, looking around at her newfound three friends.
"No, the cat." A boy with short, pale blonde hair and a pinched-up expressionsaid sarcastically.
"Michi's kitty's a traitor? I didn't know that." Kelly said, acting stupid.
"No, you idiot. I'm Salazar Malfoy, and you and your idiot pals are the blood-traitors..." Malfoy said quite snottily, leaving the compartment.
"Yeesh!" James said, as Sirius exhaled slowly and winced with everyone else as Padfoot decided to sit in the middle of the compartment floor, on everyone's feet.
"Anything off the cart, dears?" A plump, middle aged witch said, stopping by their compartment with a trolley.
"YES!" They all chorused.
"Um, four pumpkin pasties, eight Chocolate Frogs, and two boxes of Every Flavor beans." Kelly said, as they quickly pooled some money to pay for the sweets.
James paid the trolley witch, being nearest the door, and they received their candies.
"Yum. I wish Mum would keep these around the house." Michelle said, taking a huge bite out of a pumpkin pastie.
"Well, dunno why she dosen't." Sirius said, opening a Chocolate Frog and chasing the little bugger across everyone's laps for the better part of ten minutes.
James finally caught it and handed the chocolate treat, still wriggling, to Sirius.
"Don't lose it again, mate. Yours must have been over-enchanted." Kelly said, sniffing a bright red Bertie Botts' bean carefully, before plunking it in her mouth and promptly gagging.
"Blood-flavored." She explained, spitting it out the open compartment window.
"Ick." Michelle said, polishing off her pastie and grabbing a Frog as well, catching it by the leg before it could hop away, and swallowing it in one gulp.
'Are you a werewolf?" James asked Michi curiously.
"No, my mum took so much Wolfsbane potion while she was pregnant with me it got neutralized." Michelle said, burping.
Padfoot gave the doglike equivalent of a snicker.
"Oi! That was rude, Padfoot!" Kelly said, nudging him with her foot.
"Don't be silly. Dogs don't talk." Michelle said, plopping an electric green Bean in her mouth and grinning.
"Yum. Acid." She said, causing everyone's jaws to drop.
A tall, red-haired boy stopped in the door of their compartment.
"You'd best get you robes on, seeing as we're almost at Hogwarts." He said, polishing his Prefect badge self-consciously.
"Alright, Zach." James said, waving his wand and causing the compartment door to shut with a BANG right in Zach Weasley's face.
"Nice." Sirius said, giving James a high-five.
"Who was that?" Kelly asked curiously.
"Zacharaias Weasley, Uncle Ron and Aunt Padma's oldest pratson." Sirius said dismissively.
"Ooh! The dirty great idiot that Mum talks about all the time?" Michi said, casting a glance toward the door, and turning James and Sirius around by force.
"We're girls, we change first. NO PEEKING." Kelly said, grabbing her robes out of her trunk and throwing them on quickly, buttoning them up before Michelle was done.
Michelle buttoned her last button, poking James on the shoulder.
"We'll turn around now." Kelly said, throwing her sweater in her trunk.
"Okeydokey." Sirius said, as Kelly and Michelle sat down on the opposing bench backwards.
As soon as everyone was dressed, the train ground to a halt and Kelly grabbed her wand and Padfoot's leash.
Everyone got off the train and made their way over to a huge, tall man with a slightly graying dark beard who was shouting "Firs' years over here! Over here!" Over and over again.
"Now, four of yeh to a boat." He said, as Kelly & co. slid down the muddy bank toward a jetty and climbed into a random boat together.
Soon they were in the Entrance Hall, soaked but alive.
Harry Potter was there to greet them.
"Hi guys! Welcome to Hogwarts. The Sorting shall commence soon, and I hope a goodtowerful of you get into Gryffindor!" Harry said cheerfully.
"You lot can call me Professor Potter, yes, even you James and Sirius." Professor Potter said, guiding them into the Great Hall.
A tall, severe looking woman in emerald green robes with her hair pulled back in a bun started calling the names.
"Abercrombie, Sarah"
A tiny blonde girl walked up and jammed the Sorting Hat on her head, her eyes squeezed shut.
"RAVENCLAW!" The hat shouted, and Abercrombie happily skipped off to the Ravenclaw table, which was cheering.
"Alcott, Will!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Soon it was Kelly's turn.
"Golden, Kelly!"
Kelly walked up to the Sorting Hat and shoved it on her head.
"Hmm... what have we here? You could do very well in Slytherin, but I think... Better be GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted, and Kelly ran over to the cheering Gryffindor table, seating herself between Zach Weasley and another first-year the Hat had identified as "Connolly, Douglas!"
Finally there was "Potter, James!" ("GRYFFINDOR!"),
"Potter, Sirius!" ("GRYFFINDOR!")
And the twins came to join the Gryffindor table.
Soon there was "Tyler, Michelle!" (GRYFFINDOR!)
And lastly "Zimmerman, Laura!" (SLYTHERIN!)
Finally everyone was Sorted and Professor McGonagall stood up.
"As usual, the Forbidden Forest is off-limits, bedtime is at ten, and I have only one thing to say-" after a pause, "Don't go near the Whomping Willow!" she smiled, as the students and Professors cheered.
Food magically appeared on all the plates, and Kelly grabbed a chicken breast, some peas and rather a lot of mashed potatoes.
Suddenly, James chuckled. "Let's have a club! Just the four of us!" He said in undertones to his three friends.
"What will we call it?" Michelle said, frowning.
"The Idiots!" Sirius said gleefully.
"The Masqueraders!" James countered.
"The Scroogumfooglits!" said Michelle.
"Future Quidditch Captains!" suggested Kelly.
"Supreme Rulers Of The Universe!" said Sirius.
"Socrates and The Nymphos!" James said, struggling to keep the laughter in as everyone made grossed-out faces.
"Hmmm... The Flying Frying Pan of Doom!" said Kelly randomly.
"No, Socrates and the Nymphos!" James said, the friendly discussion degenerating into an all-out argument.
"The Flying Frying Pan! it could be, you know, kind of a new-agey name!" said Kelly.
"Socrates and the Nymphos!"
"Frying Pan!"
"Nymphos!'
"Frying Pan!"
"NYMPHOS!"
"I know- the Marauders!" Michelle said.
"The Marauders it is!" James said, slapping Kelly on the back and making her choke on her mashed potatoes.
"And what exactly are you going to do in your stupid baby club? Have singalongs and slumber parties?" Said Jedicia Malfoy as she stalked in a rush of highlighted hair out of the Hall.
"What was that about?" Michelle asked, as Jedicia walked off.
Kelly mumbled something about going to bed and then streaked out of the hall, ready to pound Malfoy to bits, but decided a walk would probably be a better idea.
She ran as hard as she could until she was at nearly the heart of the Forbidden Forest.
"Okay, crap." Kelly said aloud, glancing up at the full moon.
She started walking, figuring that she'd come out at one side of the Forest, somewhere.
Suddenly a bloodcurdling howl rent the air.
"Doggone it! A werewolf!" Kelly said, pelting through the forest now, notaware of thebranches scratching her face or underbrush tearing at the hem of her robes.
There was another howl, closer this time.
Suddenly a large grey wolf burst out of the trees and into the clearing Kelly was standing in.
The beast gave another howl and closed in on Kelly, who was trying to climb a tree completely unsuccessfully.
The werewolf bit her leg. "EAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY!" Kelly screamed, falling out of the tree, blood gushing from her calf.
She hit the ground hard and lapsed into unconsciousness.
The wolf curled up next to her happily, having found a friend.
Soon the daylight filtered through the trees, and Professor Remus Lupin picked himself up off the ground, noticing a small, pale girl withdeeply ravenhair curled up by his feet in tattered, dirty Hogwarts robes.
Lupin swore.
He scooped up the girl gently and set off at a run for Professor Dumbledore's office.
"Albus! I have a problem!" he panted, setting the girl down in a violet chintz armchair.
"I think I may have bitten her." Lupin said, looking at Dumbledore's concerned face.
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