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Chapter 3

"I'm Max! Alex's younger brother by a year!" Max says excitedly.

"I'm Justin Russo. I'm 17" Justin chuckles, "Alex is 15" Hermione and Luna nods as Harry and Ron stares out the window. For Harry he is staring at Alex's reflection.

"Luna is 14 and me, Harry and Ron are 15" Hermione tells the siblings.

"Cool. Is Hogwarts cool?" Justin asks as Alex closes her eyes and puts her earbuds of her iPod in her ears. Max is talking to Luna who is next to him.

As Hermione and Justin talks about Hogwarts, Luna and Max talks about animals.

"Where are you from?" Hermione asks.

"New York in United States" Alex answers, as the 'candy lady' as Max puts it, arrives.

Alex, Justin and Max climbs off the train with Harry, Ron and Hermione, as Luna walks away to get on a carriage.

"Where do we have to go?" Alex asks as she shrinks her bag and puts it in her pocket and Justin and Max does the same.

"Ask Hagrid" Ron snaps and walks away.

"Who?" Max asks.

"The half giant you idiots!" Harry growls, obviously in a bad mood. Alex rolls her eyes.

"And people call me rude" Alex smirks.

"You are rude" Justin points out as she slaps him.

"Sometime I am, and sometimes I'm not" Justin and Max snorts and she hits both of them again. Alex then sees a REALLY tall guy, "is that him?" Alex points at the tall guy.

"Yes, that's Hagrid. We will see you at dinner" the three Russo's nods as Hermione and Harry walk away in the direction, both Ron and Luna went.

As the Russo's arrive to the tall guy, since Alex is shorter than the two boys, she bends her head back further.

"Ahh, the Russo's right?" Hagrid asks them. They all nod and smiles.

"I'm Justin" Justin holds out his hand and Hagrid shakes it, shaking his whole arm.

"I'm Max" Hagrid and Max does the same.

"I'm Alex" Alex smiles and Hagrid grins and shakes her hand gentler then the guys.

"Come into the boats and we will get you up to the castle" Hagrid tells them. They all climbs into the boat next to Hagrid's and watch as the boats move and the castle comes into sight.

~A&H~

As they arrive to the great hall entrance, Alex, Justin and Max are all talking to one another.

"Alex, how are you doing?" Justin asks his little sister by 2 years.

"Ok" Alex whispers looking down, "who do you think knows?"

"The teachers and headmaster" Justin answers. Alex nods and wipes the tears that are beginning to fall. Just then, there is a tap on Alex's shoulder. Alex turns around to see an old lady standing there.

"They are ready for you. Come along" the lady leads the group into the great hall and up to a little platform. Alex takes notice that there is a stool and a hat. All of a sudden the hat starts to sing. Alex blocks the hat out and gets a flashback of the shooting. Alex stumbles back and falls to the floor with a bang. Max and Justin run over and help her up.

"Are you ok?" Max asks Alex. Alex starts to sob and curls up in a ball shaking.

"No, no, don't kill them... please!" Justin and Max knew right then and there, Alex is in a flashback.

~A&H~

With Hermione, Ron and Harry, Ron is laughing quietly.

"Wow, what a wimp" Ron laughs. Harry chuckles and nods. Just then, Hermione smacks both boys in the head, since they are across from her.

"What's that for?" Harry whines.

"Being a jerk" Hermione wishes she can go over there and help the girl, but there is already a crowd of Dumbledore, McGonagall and her two brothers. Hermione takes a deep breath, stands up and walks over. Once Hermione makes it to the group, Hermione goes on her knees in front of Alex and stares at her, "Alex can you hear me? It's Hermione, remember?" Alex nods staring at Hermione with her hands covering her ears, her knees to her chest as she cries, "good. Now do you know where you are?" Alex shakes her head, "what do you remember last?" Alex looks confused for a moment.

"School" Alex whimpers, "hurt. Fear. Guns. Cops. Killing" Alex whispers. Hermione looks shocked and worried for a moment.

"When was that?" Hermione whispers.

"June" Hermione looks at the two boys.

"There was a shooting at our old school and we are the only survivors" Justin whispers, "do not tell anyone" Hermione nods and looks back at Alex.

"You are not there Alex. You are with me, your brothers Max and Justin at Hogwarts" Alex blinks a few times as Hermione helps Alex come out of her flashback. Alex covers her face and waits a little while longer as she clears her head. Hermione rubs Alex's knee gently, keeping her in the present and not the past, "are you ok now?" Alex nods and looks at Hermione.

"Ya" Alex whispers as Hermione stands up and pulls Alex up.

"Good. Try to get into Gryffindor" Hermione smiles and walks back to her seat, as things get back on track. Alex wipes her tears as Justin and Max hugs her.

"What was that?" Ron freaks out.

"She needed help Ronald" Hermione ignores Ron as the sorting begins.

"Russo, Max" McGonagall calls up. Max skips up to the stool and sits down. Max does a B-boy pose waiting for the hat to decide.

"Barely any fear. Caring for family. Bad past... GRYFFINDOR!" the hat calls out.

Max stands up and takes a seat beside Ron.

"Where's the food?" Max stares at the empty table, thinking of food until Justin's name is called.

"Russo, Justin" Justin walks up and takes a seat.

"Ravenclaw"

Justin looks sadly at Max and Alex before walking to the Ravenclaw table and sits down next to Luna. Luna rubs Justin's arm, knowing that he wanted Alex and Max together with him.

"Russo, Alex" Alex walks up nervously and takes a seat.

"Hmm... this one is a hard one. You are sly and can be evil, but brave and intelligent. You want your family together, and never be apart. You put up an act to make yourself look tough. But where to put you? You are not smart enough for Ravenclaw. You are too brave and loyal for Hufflepuff. Does your bravery overpower your evil ways?" the hat says in thought. Dumbledore looks at Alex secretly hoping she won't get Slytherin, "better be... GRYFFINDOR!"

Everyone cheers as McGonagall removes that hat. Alex looks up at McGonagall to see her smiling. Alex looks at Justin sadly, to see him grinning. He gives her thumbs up and Alex runs over to Hermione. She takes a seat and her and Max gives each other a high five.

~A&H~

After dinner and Hermione explained that the Ministry of Magic is taking over the school, Alex and Max walks over to Justin.

"Professor Dumbledore would like to see you three" McGonagall says walking over to the three Russo's. They nod and look at McGonagall weird.

"Who are you?" Max asks without fear.

"Professor McGonagall. I teach Transfiguration and is Head of Gryffindor house" McGonagall leads the Russo's up to the entrance of Dumbledore's office and opens the door when she knew the three teenagers are distracted. As they all walk up to the door, McGonagall opens it.

To their surprise, there is... Professor Crumbs, their old Wiztech headmaster.

"Cookie crumbs!" Alex squeals and makes a water balloon appear. She throws it at Crumbs and he turns around in time to get hit in the face with it. Alex bites back a laugh and hides her wand in her boot again. Max bursts out laughing as another teacher appears with two others.

"Delores" Dumbledore greets.

"What kind of name is that?" Alex asks out loud. This 'Delores' person looks at her with narrow eyes, "is that like... an old name for a big fat toad?" Alex looks confused to her brothers at Max snorts.

"Maybe" Max shrugs his shoulders as Justin covers Alex's and Max's mouths.

"Sorry for my siblings" Justin apologises, "they have a habit for speaking their minds" Dumbledore nods in understanding.

"That's quite alright Mr. Russo. I would like to introduce you to some teachers" Dumbledore stands up and lays a hand on a guy's shoulder. The guy has black hair that looks greasy. Alex pulls Justin's hand away.

"Dude! You remind me to my ex boyfriend Dean. He worked with cars! Do you ever wash your hair? Or do you just use too much gel?" Alex smirks as Justin covers her mouth again.

"This is Severus Snape. He teaches Potions" Dumbledore rests his hand on 'Delores' shoulder. Alex drags her tongue across Justin's hand before Dumbledore could start.

"Dudette!" Alex points at 'Delores'; "are you related to a toad? Because you look like you are" Alex looks at her outfit, "maybe you are a pink toad that works in the Ministry, which has tons of toads" Dumbledore bites back a laugh as Justin covers Alex's mouth.

"Alex, could he get through this without you saying a comment?" Justin asks Alex as she shakes her head. Justin rolls his eyes. Dumbledore sighs.

"This is Delores Umbridge..."

"I'm going to call you the 'pink toad' or if I am in a bad mood, it will be 'Umbitch'" Alex breaks away again and runs away from Justin. She ends up beside McGonagall.

"Umbridge teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts" Dumbledore lays his hand on McGonagall's shoulder and his other on Alex's, "This is Minerva McGonagall and she teaches Transfiguration" Alex looks at McGonagall.

"Can you turn into animals?" Alex asks.

"Yes" McGonagall smiles.

"Can you turn into a cat?" McGonagall turns into a cat and Alex grins; "I'm going to name you Black Panther" Alex picks McGonagall or 'Black Panther' up and walks out of the office. McGonagall changes back and Alex walks back in, "I want a cat" Alex complains and glares at McGonagall, wanting her to go back into her cat form.

"No"

"Fine Black Panther" Alex walks to Justin and yawns, "can we go to bed?" Dumbledore chuckles and dismisses them. McGonagall leads them out as Umbridge starts to complain about Alex to Dumbledore.

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