Author's note - heh. this is a shorter chapter compared to the other short chapters anyway -_- but yes. i am bored and i might put up another chapter later today.

leathertights - hahah. correct. who would take a toad ? blehhhhhh. she originally had a cat, but i am a very forgetful person and obviously have misplaced the information & the whole cat in the story. i am sorry for my forgetfulness. this is why i will definitely not become an author someday soon. i am forgetful and forget about pieces of information that are in the story in the beginning and are nowhere to be found at the end. forgive me.

You open your eyes slowly and see that you were not at a whole different place, or so it seemed. You looked off to your right, to see the boy that had entered just before you.

"Name's Max Senwell." He said smiling.

'Ah. What a cutie.' you thought.

"I'm Ileana Lasko."

"You're probably new. Never seen you around before."

"Yeah. You're right. I'm from Beauxbatons."

"Well, we should get on the train. It's going to leave in a few more minutes."

"You follow him to one of the many doors of the train, which said Hogwarts Express on the side, front, and back.

"Come on up." He gestured. You stepped up the stairs and see many students. Now you were in a familiar territory. You knew that it would be hard to get a seat now.

A flash of red sped past you and you notice twins with flaming red hair.

"Oi! Fred! George! Whatcha up to now? Train didn't even begin to move yet!" Max called and he dashed off to catch up to them.

'There goes my only resource of surviving.' you thought.

Instead of standing around, you decided to move along and find a fairly empty compartment. You passed many before you spotted one with two familiar faces. They looked over just as you got to the door. They smiled and slid open the compartment door.

"Ileana!" Janelle and Camilla cried in unison.

You couldn't help but smile as they helped with your trunk.

"we were just wondering if you were going to show or not." Janelle said.

"Yeah. We were just contemplating on going out and finding you ourselves." Camilla added.

"Thanks, you guys."

You spent about an hour talking about each other's summers. You left out the part about your family fleeing to some far off place.

"So, any guys you fancy so far, Ileana?" Camilla asked you.

"Well, there is a guy named Blaise Zambini and Draco Malfoy." you replied.

When you told them about Draco Malfoy, they nearly fell out of their seats.

"We see you have a thing towards Slytherins." Janelle said disgustingly, but with a glint in her eye.

"Is that bad?" you ask, clueless.

"Worse."

"Very bad. Terrible."

"Why?"

"Because they're known for having homed almost all the Death Eaters out there." Camilla explained. "At least the ones that went to school at Hogwarts."

"Blaise is okay, but Malfoy..." Janelle made a tsk-tsk noise.

"At least, I don't think you'll be in Slytherin. You're way too nice." Camilla said.

"How about you Camilla? Janelle? Who d'you guys fancy?"

"Well, Camilla hasn't fancied anyone yet. Pure as a person can get at this age if you ask me." Janelle said.

"Yeah well, Janelle has fancied Harry Potter before. She says she doesn't anymore though." Camilla added as an afterthought.

Someone slammed into their door, making all three of you jump like five feet in the air. You look closer and see that it's Max. You hurry to slide the door open. He stands up with a little difficulty. But you push him back onto the bench. He was sporting a nasty bruise on his left cheek. You went to touch it, but before you did, his eyelids fluttered open.

"Max! What happened?" You ask.

"Fred...George...Flying treacle tarts...blew up." and then he fainted.

"Oh dear. Fred and George again. Seriously." Janelle said.

"Are they good people?" You asked, put off by the words 'blow up' that Max had uttered before he collapsed.

"Oh yeah. They're totally cool. They're just really big trouble-makers. That's all." Camilla said.

"I think we should bring him one of the teachers." You proposed.

Janelle and Camilla looked at each other.

"What's wrong? You can't possibly tell me that there are no teachers aboard this train?" you asked, exasperated.

"Right you are." Camilla said.

'That's crazy! Especially with twins like those.' You thought.

A girl with brown, medium length hair approached their compartment. She slid open the door.

"Hey Camilla, Janelle. We're almost at Hogwarts. You guys might want to go change now." She told you three.

'You can never have too much friends,' You thought.

"I'm Ileana Lasko." you said to her.

"Hermione Granger." She replied, looking a little relieved that you were fairly decent.
At that moment, the two twins appeared on both sides of Hermione.

"You'll get to know her of course."

"She's a prefect now. She'll be everywhere!"

"She'll probably do you in if you breathe during one of her bad mood days."

"I do not! I will not!" Hermione retorted.

"Do too!"

"Her job is basically a know-it-all."

"But judging from her personality, you would say it could be a hobby instead."

"Knows almost everything, she does."

Hermione looked furious.

"You both are in so much trouble. We haven't even arrived yet and your experiment has already gone bad." She said, pointing to Max.

"Ah, well that is a risk he was willing to take."

"But we'll take him off your hands now. Goodbye."

Hermione started shooing them away. Then, she was gone.

"I'll guard the compartment." Janelle said.

"You can go change first. Take your robes to a little room marked 'changing rooms.'" Camilla said.

"Oh! and go into the correct room! Not the boys!" Janelle shouted before you closed the door with your robes.

You started towards the direction Camilla and Janelle had told you to go. Soon, you were right in front of the ladies' changing room.

You reached for the doorknob.

Then, someone grabbed you from behind and put their hands over your mouth so you couldn't be heard screaming. They put a blindfold over your eyes and took your hands. She/He led you to another place, or so it felt like it.

Then, you heard a door close. And everything got darker.