Chapter 2

Albus led Donna down the end of the train, to a compartment where a pretty red headed girl of their age was sat. As he walked in, she leapt up and hugged him. "Whoa, Rose, you only saw me this morning!" Albus laughed, as he hugged her back. "I'd like you to meet Belladonna. Belladonna Lestrange. Donna, this is my cousin."

Rose looked a little surprised, perhaps at Albus' choice of friend but she realised how she must've looked and she smiled warmly, beckoning the girl in. "I'm Rose Weasley," she said, and she helped Albus hoist Donna's trunk up into the rack once more. "You'll have to look out for James, he can get a bit hotheaded."

"Yeah, I think we met…" Donna replied faintly, sharing a look with Albus. "I don't think he likes me all too much. Then again, it's not like our parents ever got on with the whole, constantly trying to kill one another thing…" She shut her eyes, and rubbed her temples. Trust Bellatrix to ruin almost any chance she had of friendships. She had hurt so many people, and now Donna had to pay for it.

"Exactly, Belladonna our parents hated one another. Not us," Rose said, softly. "Just because you're her daughter, it doesn't mean that people can treat you like I imagine James did."

Donna smiled. "Call me Donna. Belladonna reminds me of my mother." She shuddered slightly.

It wasn't long before Albus and Rose were chatting away like old friends. A couple of hours into the journey, the sweet trolley arrived outside the door, and Albus leapt up, buying what seemed like half of its contents. He spread them out on a table that had materialised sharing them round.

"Wow, it looks like Uncle George has a load of Weasley Wizard Wheezes products on here!" Albus sighed, picking up a Ton-tongue Toffee. "He gave Uncle Dudley one of these years ago, when Dud's hated Dad, and he nearly choked on his tongue! Of course, he's corrected these…" he added hastily at the look on Donna's face, but she put the brightly covered toffee back down onto the table and tucked into a safe liquorice wand instead. The chocolate frogs were another popular purchase, and soon the three of them were exchanging cards.

"I've got Severus Snape!" Albus said, holding up a card with a photo of the hook nosed Potions master on the front. "I was named after him, you know."

"He turned traitor against You-Know-Who," Donna murmured, smiling at the thought.

"A little like yourself, I don't suppose?" came a sneering voice from the door. Donna looked up to see a tall pale boy with silver grey eyes and shockingly blonde hair standing in the doorway. Flanked behind him was a short, yet slightly overweight boy, with dark hair, and a tall and skinny red head.

"Scorpius," Donna exclaimed in surprise.

"Well, well, well. Won't mummy be so proud to hear that precious Belladonna has gone and made friends with Potty and the Weasel?"

"What are you even doing here, Scorpius?" Donna asked fiercely. "I thought you were supposed to be studying at Durmstrang!"

"Father and Aunty Bella decided that it would be best for us all if we stayed in Britain. She told me to check up on you. I don't know how please she is going to be when she hears about all of this," he replied, gesturing to Albus and Rose.

"I'll make friends with whomever I choose to make friends with!" Donna said angrily. "Just leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone!" And with that, she walked over to her cousin, pushed him out of the compartment, and slammed the door in his face. She was positively fuming when she turned around and returned to her seat.

Scorpius had ruined her mood for the rest of the journey. He was supposed to be going to Durmstrang, not Hogwarts, not here! She had spent that last few months, living in the hope that she might actually be free from her relatives for the best part of the year. She should have known it would be too good to be true!

"What house do you want to be in?" Albus asked, trying to brighten the mood a little. "I obviously want to be in Gryffindor! 'Where dwell the brave at heart!'"

"Yeah, me too," Rose agreed.

"I'll be happy in any house, as long as it isn't Slytherin. Then again, Mum would murder me. I'd be breaking the family tradition or something stupid," Donna said. "Man, this is going to be awful… If I'm a Slytherin, then everyone is going to think I'm just like my parents, but if I'm not, mum's gonna hate me! And Scorpius will be a complete nightmare." She groaned.

"Let's just promise one thing," Albus said, pulling out a pack of exploding snap cards. "Whatever house we get sorted into, we're staying friends, okay?"

Rose and Donna smiled. Friends.

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