A/N: Sorry for everyone who has stuck to reading this story i have been rather ill over the last few months and recovering from surgery. But im better now so i will have more chapters being uploading now. Thanks for sticking with me :)

Disclaimer: All this marvellous work belongs to JK Rowling.

Vela's last month with at the Orphanage wit the children hadn't been fun. True, the children were scared of him like always. The matron had made him do more cooking than usual, and really he couldn't kick up a fight. Vela was so relieved to be leaving the Orphanage. Vela kept to his cold room, with his new twin snakes for company. He had named them Vera and Valerie. Yes, his school books were rather interesting, he was often told off by the maids for reading up late but then again, that wasn't new. Vela had a small calender pinned on the side of his wall beside his bed, where he had been ticking of the days to leave for hogwarts. On the last day of August he had everything packed in his leather and silver layered trunk, he was completely ready to leave the Orphanage.

Vela had climbed out of bed that morning at only five, putting on his black pants, green vest and combed his black hair neatly covering his pesky scar. He checked Vera and Valerie before he carried his trunk down the stairs towards the Orphanage doors. Matron Philips had been instructed to take him to the train station, so Vela sat down on his trunk and waited for everyone to wake up.

By the time the Matron had everything packed in the boot, and they had arrived at the station she turned to Vela with a rather nasty smile.

" Well, there you are, boy. Dont you dare come back for Christmas, keep your ungrateful hide away till you have to come back. "

Vela sighed as he climbed out of the small yellow mini, grabbing his trunk, and carefully lifting Vera and Valerie's cage with it, Matron Philips drove away. Leaving Vela dumped on the side of the road, he sighed and dragged his belongings into the station as he made his way through the crowd. He sneered as a young boy rudely pushed past with his trunk racing by.

"-Packed with Muggles, of course-" The woman outrageously shouted out loud, how thick was she? she looked scruffy as well and obviously didn't bother to clean up herself. Vela swung around, she was a rather plump woman with curly orange hair. What looked like the oldest boy in the family marched towards platforms nine and ten. Vela watched, careful not to blink in case he missed it- but just as the boy reached the dividing barrier between the two platforms, a large crowd of tourists came swarming in front of him and by the time the last backpack had cleared, the boy had vanished. Vela scowled, how was he to know if the secret gateway actually worked like Snape told him.

" Fred, You next" the plump woman said.

" I'm not Fred, I'm George" said the orange haired boy " Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Cant you tell I'm George?"

Vela snorted at that, it seemed this boy had sass. Vela quite liked him, nobody in the orphanage was like this.

" Sorry, George, dear"

" Only joking, I am Fred" said the boy, and off he went. His twin called him to hurry up, and he must have done so, because a second later, he had gone. So that was good Snape was telling the truth, it was really a gateway. It would have been horrible if it wasn't, he would have made such a fool of himself.

Now the third brother was walking briskly toward the barrier he was almost there- and then, quite suddenly, he wasn't anywhere. Vela waited for the family to go, and when they had finally left he smirked and ran towards the barrier. People jostled him on their way to platforms nine and ten. Vela ran more quickly, Vela didn't blink as he ran through the barrier. When Vela came out the other side a scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform packed with people. A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express, eleven o'clock. Vela looked behind him and saw a wrought-iron archway where the barrier had been, with the platforms nine and three-quarters on it. Smoke came from the engine and drifted over the heads of the chattering crowds and waves of people, while cats of every colour wound here and there between their legs. Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and scraping of heavy trunks.

The first few carriages were already packed with students, some hanging out of the window to talk to their families, some fighting over seats Vela scowled at that. Vela pushed his cart down the platform in search of an empty seat. Vela pressed on through the crowd until he found an empty compartment near the end of the train. He put Vera and Valerie inside first and then started to shove and heave his trunk towards the train door. He just managed to lift it and slide it in.

When the train finally managed to pull out of the train station, Vela pulled out a good book to start reading but not for long he was rudely interrupted by the ginger boy that pushed him at the station.

" Are you really Harry Potter" blabbed the ginger kid, Vela looked over him and gave him a cold look, showing him he certainly wasn't welcome.

" It's just I saw your scar" he blurted out yet again, sighing, obviously this boy couldn't take a hint.

" Look, cant you see I'm reading. So if you could go and annoy someone else" snapped Vela, his green eyes flashing with a promise of pain. Ronald gulped nervously and ran out from the carriage, Vela huffed and started reading his book yet again. Vela was glad to get some peace finally, even though children were storming past quite loudly. Vela was sure at some point he saw sparks lighting the corridor. He shook his head, but unfortunately was erupted yet again.

Another young student had stormed in, he seemed to notice she was already wearing Hogwarts uniform.

" Have you seen a toad? Neville's lost one" she said. She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large front teeth.

" And? What does that have to do with me?" he snarled at her, glaring at her for interrupting his reading time.

She seemed to ignore the fact he was snarling at her, then noticed his book her eyes lit up with recognition. Vela tried to avoid groaning, she was obviously a complete swot.

" I've tried reading all the books. Have you? Nobody in my family is magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I mean, It's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard- I've learned all our course books by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough- I'm Hermione Granger, by the way, Who are you?" Vela for one of the first times just stared at her not unkindly just in wonder. Was she worth keeping around? She did seem highly intelligent, lot more than that brat that had stormed in here.

" I'm Vela Volans, you may stay here if you want?" Vela politely offered.

That was how the friendship between Vela and Hermione first started, and that one friendship would later change the history of the wizarding world.