Chapter 4 now yay! Finally! Nothing really to say now so on with the story!
It was finally time to go to Hogwarts. I'd been so excited I couldn't think of anything else, I kept getting my wand out and just staring at it, and I'd probably worn my uniform everyday since I bought it. My trunk had been packed ages ago and I woke up too early. So there I was, sitting on the couch with my trunk on the floor next to me. "Allison! I found your tie!" I shouted to my sister holding up the red and gold tie. Then in a flash my sister had snatched it from me and it was in her trunk.
"Thought I'd lost it." She muttered to herself, as she sat next to me with her trunk.
"Get up! We've got to go now!" My mum shouted from the hallway. I heard Allison sigh and get up, so I followed her close behind.
When we go to the train station we got some trolleys put our trunks in with Lucy, my cat, and Allison's owl. As we were walking I started thinking to myself. Oh my god, I'm nearly there, my heart was beating so fast I thought it would burst. In just a matter of hours I would be sorted and officially a Hogwarts student. But what house would I be sorted in? I'd think Ravenclaw if it wasn't for the fact that I'm definitely not smart, I don't think I'm very good for Gryffindor either seeing as I'm not very courageous. I stopped thinking when I saw platforms 9 and 10.
"Allison you go first." My mother ordered. Allison nodded and ran straight into the wall and going through it. "We'll go together then." She then said to me. I nodded and we both ran into the wall. I shut my eyes tight even thought I knew what would happen.
When I heard loud chatter I looked up and saw the platform. It was so cool, there families everywhere, mothers kissing their children goodbye and students talking happily to their friends. I saw a rather large family walking, there were about five of them and they were with a black haired boy who I guessed wasn't related. Though I only knew this because he was the only one in the group who didn't have flaming red hair. The youngest looked up and smiled shyly at me so I smiled back and looked away.
"Come on Lana!" My sister said, "The train's leaving soon."
I'd got on the train and waved goodbye to my mother out the window. I made my way to an empty compartment. I looked outside and sat there for a while until I heard someone say, "Excuse me? Can I sit here?" I looked up and saw a girl slightly taller than me, though that isn't much of an achieve since I'm so short, with wavy ginger hair that was at her back. She had freckles because of her hair, dark blue eyes and was very pale.
"Uh.. yeah." I replied slightly awkwardly. The girl grinned and sat down across from me.
"Hi, I'm Emeline Harris." She informed me, holding out her hand.
I shook it and answered, "Lana Greenlaw." Now feeling a bit more confident.
"What are you? I'm muggle-born." She inquired, the grin on her face never faltering.
"I'm muggle-born, though my sister is a witch too." I responded smiling.
"Really? That's cool, I didn't know that could happen!" She said. This girl seemed very confident, and because I'm really shy with new people, I liked her a lot.
I was so excited to go to Hogwarts. I'd read every book I had trying to catch up with the students who'd grown up in the magic world. I had packed all my things for Hogwarts and me, Mum and Dad were sat on the couch, in my mother's house, waiting for Bertie to take us to the station. We heard a knock at the door and my mum shot up to answer it.
"Hello Mrs. Harris! Is Emeline ready?" Bertie inquired, my mother nodded in response. "Come on then, I'll escort you there."
We walked out of the door with my dad holding my trunk and we all got in the car. My dad sat at the wheel, Bertie was in the passenger seat and me and mum were in the back while my trunk was in the boot. We drove for a while, it would've boring but Bertie kept pointing out thing and asked what they were and it was very funny.
"What is that?" He said pointing at a traffic light, a mix between confusion and delight on his face.
"A traffic light. When it's red you have to stop the car, when it's orange it means it about to turn green and green means you can drive." My mother explained sighing slightly as this was the seventh time he asked her something.
"Amazing." He muttered as it turned green and my father drove on.
"...and then you're on Platform 9 3/4!" Bertie said, explaining how to get onto the platform.
Me, my mum and my dad just stood there, as shocked as when we first saw magic. "So, we have to... run into the wall?" My father asked, staring at Bertie as if he were a madman. But the wizard just nodded.
"Just copy what I do." He ordered, and with that he ran straight into the wall and disapeared.
"Okay," I muttered to myself, "this isn't the weirdest thing I've seen. You can do this." So I pushed the trolley and ran straight into the wall. I kept my eyes closed and expected to hit it wall and fall over but I didn't. I opened my eyes and saw a big scarlet train with word on the front that said Hogwarts Express. I turned around and saw my mother and father come through the entrance and marvel at the scene.
"Oh my!" I heard my mother exclaim.
"How strange..." My father murmured.
The scene was breathtaking. Hundred of people were walking around, talking chatting and laughing. I saw a group of student wearing red and gold jumper and holding brooms, they must've been the quidditch team for Gryffindor. I can't believe this is happening, I was grinning so much, but I couldn't stop this was so cool.
"It's still so weird, isn't it?" I heard my father say. I smiled turning to him, but it immediately faltered when I saw he was crying.
"Dad? Are you alright?" I asked him worriedly.
He chuckled and nodded, "Yeah, it's just I'm not going to see you for ages now, and you'll be here when you visit for the holidays."
I went up and hugged him, "But you'll be visiting all the time when I'm home," I said reasonably, "and I'll write to you, every week! I promise!" He smiled weakly.
"Honey, you should get on now, it's about to leave." My mother informed me. I nodded and dragged my trunk on the train, then stopped turning to get one more look at my parents and carried on.
I walked up the isle for a while looking for someone to sit with, though everyone seemed to know each other. I kept looking until I saw a girl who looked a bit shy and awkward. She had straight light blonde hair that was in a pixie cut.
"Excuse me? Can I sit here?" I asked. The girl looked up and I saw she had pale green eyes.
"Uh... yeah." She replied looking even more awkward. I grinned and sat opposite her.
"Hi, I'm Emeline Harris." I introduced myself, holding out my hand.
The girl shook it and answered me, "Lana Greenlaw." She looked a bit less awkward now.
I wondered whether I should ask her blood status. Most of the books I read made it sound quite important, though I don't see how. I decided to go for it anyway. "What are you? I muggle-born." I asked.
The girl smiled"I'm muggle-born, though my sister is a witch too." She responded.
"Really? That's cool, I didn't know that could happen!" I said, it wasn't in any of the books I'd read about blood status. The girl smiled again. She seemed very kind.
Suzie had been up way too early on this particular day. Usually she would sleep until ten or eleven o'clock. But today she slept until five o'clock. So why did this happen? Because this particular day would be her first day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She had packed her trunk and re-packed it, checking she had everything she needed.
She had read through every school book numerous times and now she couldn't think of anything to do. So she decided to sit on her bed and, being the patient girl she had always been, waited for her parents to wake up. Time went very fast considering she was doing nothing but staring at the clock. Soon her parent had woke up, gotten dressed and were ready to leave.
The family got to the station by tram. Being a wizard Mrs. Willows very fascinated about many things she had to stop at everything. But Mr. Willows, being muggle-born, was very used to many of these things and took it upon himself to drag his wife away whenever she thought is necessary to stop.
Suzie was used to these kind of things happening whenever they went out in public but was never bothered by the strange looks and muttering. Usually she thought it wasn't their business to judge them and would confront the person, but her father always scolded her for being bad mannered so she tried to avoid it.
When the family finally made it to the station they were late and had to run through the wall together. When they finally got through it was too late to for Suzie to say goodbye to her parent properly but she managed to say, "Bye! Love you!" to her parent before she lept onto the train just in time aswell because the doors shut right behind her as soon as she pulled her trunk on-board.
"Really? That's cool, I didn't know that could happen!" I heard a girl exclaim as I walked past the first compartment with room for me.
I slid open the door and saw a two girls. One had long wavy red hair and the other had long light blonde hair. "Can I sit here?" I asked them.
"Hello! I'm Emeline Harris," The redhead told me, "and this is Lana Greenlaw." She added, pointing to the blonde one.
"I'm Suzie Willows." I replied. I took a seat next to the blonde girl and sat there in silence
The two girls looked at each other awkwardly before Lana one said to me and Emeline, "So, what house do you think you be in?"
"I don't know really," Emeline answered, "I would like to be in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw I guess... What about you, Lana?"
"I kind of wanna be in Gryffindor too, though I don't think that would happen. But I know I'll like whatever house I'm put in." Lana replied. She then turned to face me, "What would you like to be in?"
"Ravenclaw." I responded simply. I knew that was the house I belonged in, I felt I wouldn't fit well in any of the others.
Whoo, slightly longer chapter, sorry I was quite slow to update but I was quite busy and sorry in my the next chapters are late too, the half-term holidays are over tomorrow so I'll be slower. But I refuse to give up!