The rest of the week went by fast. Finally September 1 came and Sev had told me ALOT of things. Sev set a port key to take me to the train station. When I got there the place was pretty crowded. As I made my way through, some one stepped in front of me. "Need help with your trunk?" he asked. It was the guy from the broom shop. "That would be wonderful, thanks." I replied. He lifted my trunk and put it in an empty carriage. Then he sat down across from me. "So, new third year?" he wondered." "Yes. What house are you in?" I asked. "Slytherin. Personally, it's the best house." he replied. "I've been told that. I'm actually hoping I get sorted into it." "Well I hope you do. We could become good friends. So what's your name?" "Olivia. And yours?" "Draco. Draco Malfoy." came his reply. "I'm also a third year." he added. Just then the doors opened. "Can we sit in here?" a boy with dark hair and glasses asked me. "To late Potter, some ones in here." Drake replied coldly. "Potter?" I asked. "Yes, the Great and wonderful Harry Potter." Draco replied mockingly. But Harry just held out his hand. "Harry Potter. And your name?" he wondered. "Olivia." came my reply. "Well Olivia, guess I'll see you around." And with one last glare at Malfoy, he left. "So, never heard of the great Boy-Who-Lived?" Draco asked. "Heard of him one or twice. What house is he in?" "He's in Gryffindor. There a big rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin. You have to be in Slytherin. You can't be in Gryffindor. Hufflepuff, either. Ravenclaw, well I might still be your friend." With that he laughed. "People have told me Slytherin is for powerful people. And Snape is the head of it." I said. "Yes, Snape, the potions master. He's okay." Draco said. "So I guess he's not the greatest" I stated. Draco looked at me. "He's okay. Potions is my favorite class." "I think I'll like potions" I said. We talked about a lot of things on the way. I laid my head against the window. No sooner did do this when the window became freezing cold. "Whoa!" I yelled as the lights went out. "What's happening?" I asked Draco. "I don't know. But the train stopped." He peeked his head out the carriage door. There were a lot of people out there yelling and screaming. He closed the door and came back in. "That was weird." I stated. "Yeah. I wonder what that was for." Draco agreed. The rest of the way was pretty boring. When we got to Hogwarts, we streamed out with everybody else. We stopped after getting through the doors. I saw the half-giant, Hagrid as Sev calls him, was looking for some one. His eyes fell on me. "Olivia!" he shouted. "Your supposed to ride in the boats with the 1st years for sorting." "Okay!" I answered. "See you later." I told Draco. I ran through the crowd toward the boats. I had to sit in the middle of all the 1st years. As we got closer, I saw the outlining of the castle. All the 1st years started gasping and it got really annoying. Finally we got there and everyone hurried out of the boats. Hagrid took us to the big doors and knocked real loudly. The doors opened to show a strict looking woman, McGonagall. She lead everyone inside and started explaining everything. She got us in a line and took us to the Great Hall. We went in and saw a huge room full of people. I started to get really nervous. But I looked over and saw Draco. He gave me a smile. I gave him a small smile and turned back to the front. I noticed someone had taken an old looking hat and put it on the stool. And the hat was singing! When it finished everyone in the Hall clapped. Then McGonagall started explaining that she would call us up to get sorted. She called name after name until I was the only one left. "Potter, Olivia!" she called. As I went up to sit, I saw everyone was looking at me curiously. But then all I saw was the inside of the hat. "Ahh." a voice purred in my ear. "The other Potter. I see you don't want to be in Gryffindor like your brother. But you got as much bravery as him if not more. Your intelligent, too. But unlike your brother your powerful and you want to show it. The perfect house for you would have to be SLYTHERIN!" On the last word the hat yelled out to the whole Hall. I took off the hat to see everyone clapping. But that was nothing like what was coming from the other end of the room. I turned to see Draco smiling and cheering. I smiled one of my biggest smiles and made my way over there. "I wondered why you only said your first name." He said in my ear. "But you know your extremely famous now, right?" I only nodded. "People were wondering why the Potters weren't together in the first year. And now that your in the opposite house than he is. This is going to be big!" I nodded again. "Only a few people ever knew about you. They were wondering when you would come. They of course thought you would be with your brother. But this is big. It didn't look like Harry even knew about you." I looked over at Harry and saw he was staring at me. Sitting by him was a girl with rather large teeth and very bushy brown hair. There was also a tall boy with ginger hair. It looked like he was talking. He caught my eye, then glared at Draco. "What's up between you two?" I asked Draco. "We're not the best of friends. Since first year we've hated eachother. I don't know what his problem is." came his response. "But your not like him. So I don't judge you because of him." I looked at him and smiled. "Thank you." he turned and smiled back.