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Alice, Hallee, and Mr. and Mrs. Prewett had just Floo-ed back to the Prewett home. This time Hallee had been expecting the spinning feeling as well as the dizziness, but that didn't stop her from falling flat on her face as soon as she stopped spinning.

"Will you never be able to walk without falling?" Alice asked, her eyebrow raised.

"Walk, yes. Spin through a multitude of fireplaces? Probably not."

The girls laughed and Alice helped Hallee up, which only gave Hallee the opportunity to pull Alice down onto the floor next to her. Alice Punched Hallee in the arm, and Hallee elbowed Alice in the ribs. The girls were soon laughing and fighting until Mrs. Prewett told them to stop because, "You might actually hurt each other this time!" Alice and Hallee stopped fighting, but continued laughing. Finally something normal. Hallee and Alice were always play-fighting, and they always would because Witches and Wizards can never keep Hallee and Alice apart.

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Hallee walked up the front steps of her home. She had just left the Prewetts, after promising Alice to come back tomorrow and plan their outfits for the first day of school. Hallee had rolled her eyes at that. They were wearing a uniform, for heaven's sake! But of course Alice was talking about what they wore onto the train, and their hair for the rest of the day.

Hallee didn't care much for fashion. She didn't like to follow what other people said was 'cool' so she often mismatched. Well not only did she mismatch her socks, earrings, and occasionally shoes just because no one thought it was cool, she also did that because she liked how it looked. Hallee liked colors…a lot. She wanted to be an artist when she got older.

Hallee reached out and turned the door knob, it was locked. This was not surprising. Her mom always locked the door, being the safety freak she was. Hallee removed a chain from around her neck and took off the charm: A house key. She stuck it in the lock and opened the door.

"Mom! I'm-"Hallee's greeting was cut short by the sound of Josh's voice from the kitchen, "Look Martha (Hallee's mother), I don't care how much she will learn to control her 'powers' alright! That girl is dangerous! She could have us both critically injured the next time she throws a temper tantrum."

Hallee could only guess who he was talking about, and rolled her eyes at the 'temper tantrum' part.

"She has gotten mad before Josh, and nothing bad has ever happened. You liked Hallee before! She is still the same girl, it's just that now we KNOW about her powers."

"I don't care! I don't want you to get hurt! I don't want HIM to get hurt."

Hallee could only imagine the two looking at Martha's stomach.

"He won't get hurt! Why can't you be happy for her?"

"Because I don't get proud over the fact that my soon-to-be-daughter is a monster!" Hallee couldn't take any more. She quickly snuck away to her room. The last thing she heard before quietly shutting the door was, "Josh, I realize you don't like her, but Hogwarts is a boarding school, you won't be seeing much of her anyway."

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A few days after the trip to Diagon Alley, Hallee awoke to a screaming 11-year-old girl.

"AAAH! HALLEE! WAKE UP!" Hallee grumbled and rolled over, reluctant to open her eyes.

"ARGH! HALLEE! COME ON!" Hallee could detect something familiar in the voice, but didn't care. She didn't even know what time it was. All she knew or cared about was that she was tired, and needed to sleep more.

"HALLEE AMELIA KING! SIT UP THIS INSTANT!" Hallee gave whoever was screaming at her the bird, and buried herself even deeper under her sheets. Suddenly a heavy weight landed on Hallee's chest, making her finally open her eyes.

"OOFALICEGERROFME!"

"I am sorry darling, but you are going to have to annunciate." Hallee could practically smell the smirk on Alice's face.

"Shut up Alice Prewett. Get off of me, this instant!" Hallee yelled, carefully pronouncing every word.

"Oh fine!" Alice laughed and jumped to the floor.

"How did you get in here, anyway?" Hallee asked, staring at Alice who was standing in the middle of her room.

"Oh, your mom let me in. Now hurry up and get dressed! We have a train to catch!"

"What?"

"The Hogwarts Express, idiot!"

"WHAT? THAT'S TODAY!? Why didn't you tell me?"

Alice rolled her eyes and sat on the floor. She was already dressed in a pair of dark skinny jeans, and a red polo shirt with matching red converse. Her hair was flipped as usual, but she also had red clips holding her hair back.

Hallee jumped out of bed and ran to her closet. She put on a grey and navy horizontally striped tank dress that went to her knees, as well as red leggings and brown cowboy boots. She left her hair down and wavy to her chin and finished the look with a denim jacket. Of course the entire ensemble was planned by Alice, who would have been mortified if Hallee had shown up on the first day of school in her usual clashing style.

"Ugh. I feel so…matching."

"Good. That's the way you're supposed to feel."

Hallee rolled her eyes at Alice's attempted lesson in fashion and grabbed her trunk, "Come on, you said so yourself! We have a train to catch!"

Alice stood up and followed Hallee downstairs and out the door, where Mr. and Mrs. Prewett were already loading Alice's trunk into their car, "Hey Hallee! Alice!" Mr. Prewett called, running over and taking Hallee's trunk.

"Hey Mr. Prewett!"

"Okay girls, you have five minutes to say goodbye, then come back here and we'll head off to King's Cross!"

"Yes sir!" Alice yelled, as the girls raced back to Hallee's house.

"Mom?"

"In here, sweetie!"

Hallee's mother was so busy planning for her and Josh's wedding, she rarely ever left her computer.

"We're leaving."

Mrs. King turned around and motioned for Hallee to come over, "Oh, don't you look nice and…matched?" She looked at Alice and nodded, putting two and two together. "Hallee, I'm really going to miss you."

"I'll miss you too."

"It's not going to be the same without you. And then with the wedding coming up, I just can't believe you're going to miss it!"

"Don't worry mom, I'll be there in spirit." Hallee smiled and hugged her mother.

"I know, I know. Now." Hallee's mother pulled out of the hug and gave Hallee a 'this-is-business-now-do-what-I-say-or-else' look. "You WILL write to me once a week. Dumbledore said there were school owls you could use, just be careful, owls can bite you know. Dumbledore also said there were a lot of staircases. Don't fall down them." Hallee looked at her mother with a raised eyebrow. "No Hallee, I'm serious! If I get a note home saying that you got a broken leg from tripping down a staircase I WILL embarrass you in some way in front of your friends, though you should be embarrassed enough seeing as you broke your leg on a staircase! But this brings be to a new topic-friends. NO boys. Do you hear me?"

"Yes mom." Hallee sighed and rolled her eyes, then recited in a near-perfect imitation of her mother's voice, "They will break your heart! Stay away from boys until you are AT LEAST 14! I don't want to hear about my only daughter getting pregnant at age 11, do I? Of course not! This is a BOARDING SCHOOL Hallee! Things happen when you place hormonally stressed-out boys and girls in the same building for a year!"

"Good, I am glad you understand." Mrs. King smiled and pulled Hallee into a hug, "I will miss you, you know. And you too Alice"

"And I will miss you to mom. I will write every week, I promise!"

"Good."

"Um Hallee? Mrs. King? It's time to leave." Alice said.

"Yea mom, I better go." Hallee kissed her mom on the cheek before leaving.

"Those letters you send me better be at least two pages Hallee Amelia! AT LEAST TWO!"

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Hallee and Alice waved goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Prewett as they approached 'Platform 9 ¾' or really just a column between the Platforms 9 and 10. Mrs. Prewett said that the first time she went to Hogwarts, she had wished her parents would leave already so she could explore, and so she left the two girls right outside the barrier rather than walking them to the train.

Hallee stared at the barrier. It seemed rather solid.

"Erm…Alice?"

"Yea?"

"Are you sure we won't be hurt."

"Honestly? No, I have no clue what will happen." Hallee looked over at Alice and saw that she was just as scared of the brick column.

"Well, it's now or never." Hallee gulped and walked forward. Just as she was nearing the barrier, a tall boy with messy black hair and glasses gave out a war-like yell and ran towards the column. Hallee watched in astonishment as he simply melted through, as if he had never been there. Alice caught up to Hallee, ".God."

"What the hell was that?" Hallee asked.

"I have no idea, but maybe we should give it a try, eh?"

"Awesome!" Hallee's eyes glittered as she imagined scaring the group of muggles about her with a loud scream, but no one would find her because of her disappearance.

"But my parents didn't mention anything about yelling." Alice looked at the barrier with a raised eyebrow, "Maybe that boy was just a tad overexcited."

"Aw…" Hallee's face fell at the lack of opportunities to create a scene.

Alice just laughed, "Okay, well because I am far too scared to give this barrier a try, why don't you go first?"

"Uh…maybe you go first because you know more about this whole magic thing than me?"

"But you're braver!"

"Am not! Remember the haunted house incident last Halloween? And the scary movie incident soon after?"

Alice and Hallee both shuddered at the slightly repressed memory.

"Well fine, I'll go first, but only because I'm nice." Alice sniffed.

"That makes one of us."

Alice rolled her eyes and walked towards the barrier. She took a deep breath and broke into a run. Hallee cringed when it looked like she was just about to hit the barrier, and then like the boy before her, Alice melted into the column, as if she hadn't just been standing next to Hallee.

"Holy crap." Hallee stared at the barrier. Now she had to go through. Alice would torture her for years if she chickened out. Hallee backed up and braced herself for impact. She sprinted towards the barrier and shut her eyes when it looked like she was just about to hit the column. Suddenly she felt as if she were running through a cool waterfall, and then the sensation was over, replaced by the sound of screaming and laughing children. Hallee opened her eyes and saw she was facing a large scarlet steam engine.

Alice ran over to Hallee, "Isn't this great?" She gushed, looking around. Cats, owls, and toads were running loose around the platform. "Nothing interesting is really here, unless you count the bloke over there who keeps on ranting about Crumple horned snorkies, or whatever they're called." Alice rolled her eyes, "Come on! Let's go onto the train!"

"But we just got here! What if I want to look around?"

"At what? The train tracks?"

"Well…fine, you win."

"I always do." Alice grinned and led the way to the Hogwarts Express as the two girls pushed though large crowds of students and crying mothers.

Alice and Hallee were a few of the first people on the train, and so they got first pick of the compartments. They chose an empty one and placed their bags on the overhead bin.

"So…." Hallee looked around the compartment in a bored manner.

"So…" Alice sighed, looking around as well.

Hallee grabbed a quill from her bag, as well as an inkwell (It was slightly ridiculous how the students couldn't just use pens.) and began to doodle on her arm. It hurt a little, seeing as the quill was quite pointy, but not much.

Alice began talking about how excited she was about school, and which house she would be sorted into. Neither of the girls noticed the train whistle, or start to move down the tracks.

Suddenly a knock at the compartment door cut off Alice's speech. When Alice opened the door she saw a rather old woman pushing a trolley filled with sweets. "Anything from the trolley dears?" She asked kindly.

"Hmmm…" Alice thought, and then a mischievous glint came into her eye. "One box of Bertie Botts Every Flavored Beans, and two chocolate frogs please."

"Of course dear."

Alice received the candy and walked right over to Hallee, who was too busy inscribing her name in a fancy curly script onto her arm to notice anything that had just taken place.

"Hey Hallee, a lady pushing a trolley came by. I got us some candy."

Hallee perked up, "OOOH! What kind?"

"Well, I got one chocolate frog for you, and one for me." Alice tried to hide the box of Every Flavored Beans behind her back, also making sure Hallee saw her movement.

"What's that?"

"Oh, this?" Alice asked, holding the box innocently.

"Yes that! What is it?"

"Oh, these are just a wizard form of jelly beans, you probably wouldn't like them."

"Hey! I resent that! Hallee King is anything but a picky eater!" Hallee puffed out her chest in pride.

"Fine, but I warned you." Alice grinned to herself and handed Hallee a rather suspicious looking grey bean.

"Why is it grey?"

"Why don't you taste it and find out?" Alice asked, grinning evilly.

"Fine! I will!" Hallee pushed the bean into her mouth, chewed and swallowed in less than a second. Soon she was having a full on sneezing fit. "Bloody Hell! That tasted like…like pepper!"

"Well duh! These are Bertie Bott's EVERY FLAVOR Beans, so yeah, expect pepper. Black pepper to be exact" Alice rolled her eyes, examining the box.

Hallee just glared at Alice, still sneezing. "I greatly dislike you."

"You and I both know that's a lie." Alice grinned.

Now it was Hallee's turn to roll her eyes. She had recovered from her sneezing fit, but her nose was still a bright red.

Suddenly the door to the compartment burst open and a girl with bright red hair ran in. She was pulling a greasy-haired boy behind her.

"Hello. I'm Lily Evans, and this is my friend, Severus Snape."

Lily Evans was unfairly beautiful. She had long wavy red hair to the small of her back, almond shaped green eyes, and a small splattering of freckles over her nose. She was also probably 6 inches taller than Hallee, 7 inches taller than Alice.

Severus Snape was not as breathtaking. He had a long hook-nose, and greasy hair to his chin. It looked as if his clothes were 5 sizes to big on him. He didn't seem to be the talking sort, either. He just glared at Hallee and Alice as if it was their fault he was pulled into the compartment.

"Um…hi. I'm Hallee King, and this is Alice Prewett."

Lily looked at them both, and then sat down, "Is it alright if Sev and I hide in here for the rest of the ride?"

"Hide?"

"Well a certain boy-"

Severus made an odd noise that sounded like a combination of scoffing and gargling

"-doesn't really like Sev, and I don't really like that boy. He tends to follow us around a lot, so I must ask again-can we hide here?"

"Er…sure…"Hallee answered. She knew exactly what was going on. Typical. Some boy thought Lily was pretty, so he picked on her and her best friend to avoid showing his emotions.

"Thanks." Lily looked gratefully at Alice and Hallee. "So you are first years as well?"

"Yea." Alice piped up. "What house do you want to be sorted into?"

Lily looked nervous, but with a look from Serverus she straightened up, "I would like to go to Slytherin."

"Oh? Lovely…" Alice tried to smile, but it was turning into more of a grimace, "And why is that?"

"Well Sev says that Slytherin is for those with great cunning. All good witches and wizards go to Slytherin."

"Well Hallee and I are going to Gryffindor."

Severus sneered at the two girls, "Why would you two ever want to go to Gryffindor? Excited about being in the same house as James Potter?" He spat.

"Sev, stop it. I doubt these girls even know who Potter is."

"Well you're right about that one. Who is James Potter?"

"The arrogant toe-rag who has been following Sev and I around all day." Lily harrumphed.

"Oh." Hallee and Alice exchanged a look.

"Well, we're almost there, maybe we should change into our robes?" Lily asked, uncertainly.

"Sure." Alice stood up and grabbed her and Hallee's uniforms and then glared meaningfully at Severus, who quickly gathered his things and ran into a different compartment while the girls changed.

Once the girls were finished changing Lily looked at Hallee, "You're muggleborn, aren't you?"

"What does it matter to you?" Alice asked, trying to shield her best friend from the soon-to-be Slytherin.

"Well it's just that I'm muggleborn as well. I could tell you were because of your braces. They don't have those in the wizarding world."

Alice's stern expression melted. Maybe she wasn't so bad. You can't exactly hold grudges against yourself, can you?

"Really? What do they use?"

"I think they use magic. As soon as I found out about me being a witch, I asked Sev all sorts of questions. He's got wizard parents, so he could answer most of them."

"Oh, cool. Do you know if it will be weird that I have braces in this school? You know, because everyone is magic?"

"Probably not." Lily said, shrugging, "Most people at Hogwarts are half-bloods anyway, and probably know about or have braces."

Hallee relaxed. She was about to respond when a strangled cry came from a compartment next to theirs. The three girls ran out to find the messy-haired boy who had screamed and run through the barrier holding Severus Snape in a headlock.

"Say that again." The boy muttered to Severus threateningly.

"She. Will. Never. Love. You." Severus gasped.

With a loud thud, Severus was thrown against a compartment door.

"POTTER!" Lily screamed as she ran from the compartment towards Severus.

"Ah! Evans! So wonderful to see you!" The boy looked up and an arrogant grin became plastered on his face.

So this was James Potter? Hallee and Alice looked at each other and then back at the scene in front of them. No wonder Lily was hiding from him. He seemed like a huge prat.

"Shut up Potter! How could you do this?"

"Snape is a git! Why can't you see that?"

Lily helped Severus up and moved him into the compartment. Unfortunately James followed. He took the seat next to Hallee, and smiled at Lily, who was directly across from him.

Suddenly three more boys were at the door to the compartment. One was rather plump and short with watery eyes. The next was tall and thin with dirty blonde hair and an air of someone who hasn't slept for weeks. He seemed to be the only boy looking around apologetically. The third boy made Hallee's eyes widen in shock. He had dark hair to his chin and grey eyes. He was also the boy she had run into in Diagon Alley. He looked at her and sat down between her and Alice.

"Hello ladies." He smirked. "I believe I already have had the pleasure of meeting you both before. I am Sirius Black. And you are…?"

Hallee and Alice just glared. Why did this boy, the son of the woman who had screamed at Hallee because of her blood status, friend of royal prat James Potter, care who they were?

"Sorry about my mum, she just likes to pick on little girls." He smirked even more, if that was possible.

"I am Hallee King, and this is my friend Alice Prewett." Hallee rolled her eyes at his cheek. Cheekiness was her thing, goddamn it! Even if he could pull it off perfectly…

"A pleasure to meet you Miss King, Miss Prewett." Sirius flashed them a smile that made Hallee's stomach drop into her knees. What could she say? He was very good looking.

"You too." Hallee smiled. She couldn't help it, he was so handsome.

"Wait a second!" Sirius leaned towards her, seemingly fascinated. Hallee tried not to blush at how close this attractive male was.

"Waiting…." Hallee mumbled.

Sirius laughed, then stuck on a look of concentration. "Open your mouth!" He commanded.

"Uh…why?"

"Because! Your teeth!"

A light bulb went off in Hallee's head. He was a pureblood, she remembered. Purebloods didn't have braces.

"You mean my braces?" Hallee asked, smiling so he could see her pink brackets, "Muggles get them all the time."

"Why? I mean they don't do anything for your looks." Hallee blinked. Had he really just said that?

"No need to hold back your opinion." Hallee rolled her eyes and tried not to look hurt as she pushed him away from her face.

"I apologize for my friend," Said the tall blonde boy, who was still in the doorway, "He doesn't really filter his thoughts. Not that braces don't look good on you, it's just that-"

"No, I get it." Hallee smiled, she knew she wasn't beautiful, and had gotten over that fact a long time ago. She didn't need some boy she barely knew to look for an unoffending synonym for the words, 'not pretty'

The boy smiled, "I'm Remus Lupin. This is Peter Pettigrew."

"Hi Remus, Hi Peter, I'm Hallee King."

Remus looked back at Sirius, "Mate, braces are used by muggles to straighten teeth. They can't just fix them with magic."

"OH! Cool!" Sirius looked back at Hallee's mouth and raised an eyebrow. Hallee rolled her eyes and smiled again, giving him a perfect view of her teeth.

"Why are they pink? Do blokes have to get pink to?"

"Erm…no, you can choose whichever color you want."

"Awesome!" Sirius looked at Hallee's braces excitedly. "Hey, guess what?"

"What?"

"I have a new name for you!"

"Oh yea? What?" Honestly Hallee didn't care how terrible the name was, she was just happy to be on a nickname basis with Sirius Black.

"Brace Face!" Hallee blanched. Of COURSE he would pick that name.

"Why brace face?"

"Because! You have braces! DUH! And it rhymes!"

Remus looked apologetically at Hallee before turning to Sirius, "Look, maybe we should go."

"Why?"

"Because we haven't been here for 5 minutes and you've unjustly insulted Hallee about 6 times."

"Brace-y doesn't mind! Do you?" Sirius looked expectantly at Hallee.

"Brace-y?"

"Well Brace Face is far too long."

"I think you should go now." Hallee said, her eyebrow raised.

"Maybe you're right." Sirius stuck his nose comically in the air, "Until next time Brace Face!" He marched out the door. Peter followed.

"Erm…sorry about that." Remus said.

"It's okay. I get the feeling this is his normal behavior."

Remus smiled again and walked out.

With three of the boys gone it was much quieter. Hallee looked around and noticed Alice looking at her questioningly.

Hallee shook her head, blushing. She looked over to Lily and James, and saw that James was delivering a speech of some kind. "Your hair shines in the sun! So long and red! Intoxicating! Your eyes are a beautiful green!"

"James! Shut up!"

"But Lily-Kins!"

"No! Leave now!" Lily gave him a look so menacing it would have sent a dragon running for safety. Needless to say James ran for his life.

"Well that was eventful." Alice said.

Both Hallee and Lily looked at her questioningly. Severus just leaned back in his seat, avoiding any conversation with two aspiring Gryffindors.

"I mean now I know exactly how our seven years are going to play out." Alice smiled.

"I honestly have no idea what you're talking about." Hallee looked at her friend questioningly.

"Good, because I think I'm just going to let you sweat it out." Alice smirked and looked out the window of the compartment door, where Sirius was making faces at Hallee and occasionally mouthing 'Brace Face'.

There, so I gave you an EXTRA LONG chapter. A chapter that may not need continuation. I will not post anything until I get AT LEAST ONE review. Even if you hate it, please tell me.