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6/18/16

Chapter 6

Mia awoke early on the first of September. She was so excited she just couldn't sleep another moment. She quietly got out of bed and grabbed the clothes she had set out the night before for her first day, and snuck into the bathroom. After showering and cleaning her teeth, she French braided her long black hair back with a blue ribbon and got dresses. Mia dragged her feather light trunk into the entrance next to the front door, and went into the kitchen to wait for 9 o'clock to approach. It was only 6:30. She was so excited she just couldn't sit still. She wasn't hungry so she pulled out one of her potions books and read for a few hours. She had already finished all of her books in the month before summer ended but her potions book was definitely her favorite subject so far. She had already read the book through a few times, and couldn't wait for classes. She just knew she would love her potions class.

At 8:30 Mrs. Hefner came into the kitchen to make sure Mia was all ready to go and to wish her luck. Mrs. Hefner may not have liked Mia and her weird tendencies very much, but she had still raised the child since infancy and felt she owed the girl some words before she left the orphanage forever. "Amelia, I just want to wish you well as you go off to that school of yours. I know you will get great marks and have no fear for your schooling, but… if you ever do find yourself in a tight place and need a friend, know you can always call on me."

Mia knew that wasn't likely to ever happen and that Mrs. Hefner probably secretly prayed she never did call, but the sentiment was nice all the same. "Thank you Mrs. Hefner, for everything." Not liking the touching moment with the young girl, Mrs. Hefner simply nodded and started putting things on the stove to get breakfast ready for the other kids. As a few kids started waking up and trickling into the kitchen to find food, Mia decided to grab her trunk and wait out on the front lawn. None of the other kids really thought of her as a friend and would want to say bye to her. She had a few friends in the past, but they had always gotten adopted to quickly. The one person she truly didn't want to see on her last morning was Bradley. He usually slept late, but Mia wouldn't put it past him to wake up early just to give her one last torment.

It was 8:46 Mia only had 14 minutes to go. She sat down on her trunk that she had dropped at the foot of the stoop and opened her book back up to read. A few minutes later she was fully engrossed in her book and didn't hear the door silently open up behind her. The next thing Mia knew she felt something hard collide with her back and sent her flying forward. She picked herself up off the ground and turned to see Bradley standing there with his arms crossed smirking at her.

"Hey arse face! What do you think you're doing trying to leave without saying bye to me?" Mia chose to ignore him and picked her book up out of the dirt and brushed it off. Mia noticed a slight rip in the knee of her jeans and saw her knee bleeding, staining her jeans. This was the nicest pair of jeans she owned, and she had wanted to look good for her first day of term! Her anger was rising, but she promised herself she wouldn't fight back. "What's wrong arse face? You gonna cry because you ripped your pants? You know you should really be more careful next time!" Bradley walked up to her while he was talking and standing in front of her started shoving her back. Mia started to see red as her anger flared. She wasn't a chicken and she didn't back down. Bradley knew this since the day Mia had given him a black eye, but he also knew that she didn't fight back since Mrs. Hefner said if she did one more time, she would be sent away to a detention facility.

Bradley kept shoving her as he taunted her. "What's the matter arse face, afraid of getting in trouble and being rejected from that stupid school of yours?" Finally after he punched her in the stomach hard, Mia snapped. She looked up at Bradley as she tried to catch her breath and all of her anger towards the boy started to seep out of her.

Eyes glowing ice blue Mia looked Bradley in the face and large boils started to form all over his face. Growing larder until they popped and reformed, Bradley let out a cry of anguish as the look of horror on his face grew. A black car had pulled up in front of the orphanage and a tall skinny black haired man in a black suit and top hat stepped out of the car in a rush. He ran up to the two kids and pulled a stick out of his jacket pointing it at Bradley. He muttered a few words and the boils on his face healed suddenly and then he muttered another word that sounded like "Obliviat" A look of dazed oblivion appeared on Bradley's face. The wizard looked down at the boy and spoke, "Alright son, you've said your goodbye now go back inside and eat your breakfast." And just like that Bradley turned around and went inside closing the door with a click. Then the wizard turned to the still fuming young witch and placed his hands on her shoulders looking into her icy blue eyes. "Girl, I need you to calm yourself. Contain your magic before the muggles notice! Miss Black! Calm your mind!" Finally snapping out of it Mia's eyes returned to their normal bright blue hue, and she looked away from the wizard ashamed.

Relaxing slightly the wizard straitened up. "That was a close one; the power radiation off of you was strong. It's a good thing I showed up when I did or you might have blown the house up." The wizard looked a little hesitantly at the young girl but pointed his wand at her bloody knee and muttered "Episkey" The cut on Mia's knee healed. Then the wizard muttered "Tergeo" followed by "Reparo" and just like that all the blood on her knee was gone and the rip in her jeans was mended.

The wizard turned on the spot and picked up Mia's trunk. He frowned at the light weight but then carried it to the car and put it in the trunk. Finally finding her voice Mia looked up. "Sir, thank you for healing my leg, but I must ask, who are you exactly?"

The wizard frowned again after closing the trunk. "I'm simply an employee of the Ministry of Magic, and I've been enlisted to take you to the Hogwarts Express. Now if you would please get in the car. And don't forget to latch that belt thingy on the seat. Muggle police are very big on those."

Mia climbed into the car with her potions book still in her hand. After she bucked her seat belt, the ministry official pulled away from the house and Mia never looked back. "Now Miss, I know that the magic you performed on that muggle boy was what we call uncontrollable underage magic, and given that you haven't been trained yet you won't be punished for. But do keep in mind in the future that from here on out you are fully responsible for controlling your magic in front of muggles, especially given the amount of raw power I just saw you possess. You will need to make sure you get that under control. And also remember you are never allowed to perform magic at all outside of Hogwarts until you are of age. Now with that said I must ask you. The weight charm on your trunk, did you perform it?"

It took Mia a moment to realize what he was talking about. "Oh, no Sir. Professor McGonagall put that one on it for me while we were shopping to make it easier to carry."

"Good, because that kind of magic you would be punished for if you had done it outside of school." And with that the conversation was over and Mia and the Wizard spent the rest of the drive in silence.

When they reached the station, the wizard pulled up to the curb and hopped out of the car. Grabbing a trolley he loaded Mia's trunk onto the cart and gestured for her to take it. "For appearance sake," he muttered before giving her a small bow and jumping back into his car and driving away.

Mia pushed the trolley through the doors into the train station. The building was beautiful, with a tall ceiling and tall pillars spaced about. Mia had plenty of time left before her train was to leave so she looked for the right direction and slowly started to make her way towards platforms 9 and 10. As she got closer to the platforms she noticed that mixed in with the crowds of regular people she saw, there was also occasionally a strange looking family mixed in with a kid pushing a trolley just like hers, sometimes with an owl in a cage perched on top.

Mia followed them and watched as an older blond girl of about 16 positioned herself in front of the wall separating platforms 9 and 10 and started to run towards it. Right before she collided with the wall she was gone with a flash. Her parents following behind calmly walked through the wall and disappeared behind their daughter.

A few moments after the family left, Mia got up her courage and started pushing her cart towards the wall. She thought running would be a little obvious to the muggles around the station so she just calmly pushed her trolley up to the wall and pushed through. As her face passed through the illusion she closed her eyes tightly, but felt nothing. When she opened them again there was a beautiful scarlet steam engine on the track stretched out in front of her.

There were people all around her bustling about and saying their goodbyes to each other. She saw a pure white haired blond boy about her age being kissed all over by his pretty mom, much to the boy's obvious disgust. Mia made her way onto the train. Most of the kids seemed to still be on the platform waiting for old friends to come through the barrier or saying goodbyes to their parents.

Mia walked towards the back of the train and found an empty compartment to claim as her own. She walked into the little compartment and easily stuck her feather light trunk into the rack above the seat. Then she took the seat by the window and curled up with her book again, alternating watching the people come through the barrier and reading her book. It was funny to watch the people come through the barrier as most of the younger kids had looks of horror on their faces as they went running through. She noticed as a flock of boys with bright red hair came poring through the barrier one after another, followed by a black haired boy with glasses and a red haired plump witch and her daughter who looked just a little too young to be starting school. She went back to reading her book not wanting to see the goodbye hugs she desperately wanted to experience.

Shortly there was a loud train whistle and all of the kids on the platform piled onto the train. Just then the compartment door slid open to reveal 4 kids looking for a seat. "Mind if we join you?" The speaker was a blond girl of about 13 followed by a younger girl who looked like she could be her sister and two boys. The first boy was also younger, was a bit chubby and had light brown hair. The second boy had dark hair and looked about the same age as the older girl.

Mia smiled at the new kids hoping they would be her new friends. "Yes please come in." She helped them stick their trunks in the racks and every one took a seat as the train began to move.

"My names Christy Abbott and this is my sister Hannah." Hannah was sitting next to Mia and gave her a small smile. Mia was so excited to be making new friends but she tried to play it cool as she shook the hands of the people in the compartment. "This is my boyfriend Kevin MacMillian and the other boy there is Neville."

"Nice to meet you all, my name is Amelia Michelle, but you can call me Mia." Mia had decided to introduce herself without her last name in the hopes that people would get to know her for who she was before they knew of her hated family.

"Are you gonna be a first year this year? Me and Neville are and I'm super nervous to find out what house I will be in!" Hannah did look quite nerves, she didn't seem like one who was good at coping with new changes.

"Yeah I'm a first year! I'm really curious to find out what house I will be in as well. I hope it's Ravenclaw since that's the house my Mother was in"

"Oh Ravenclaw would be nice. As long as you aren't in Slytherin you would be fine I think. That house is horrible!" Neville seemed to shiver internally at the thought. Neville had a toad in his hands and was holding it as if for protection. The two older kids had pulled away from the younger kids and seemed to be whispering romantic things to each other completely ignoring the other kids.

The first years spent the next hour or so just chatting about how they thought school would go, and even talking about Quidditch. Mia was extremely thankful she had read all of the books giving her the back story on the wizarding world, otherwise she would have been lost in the conversations. A few times Neville realized he had lost his toad and had to look around for it; one time it even hopped outside the compartment some how. A little while later an old witch pushing a trolley of sweets stopped by their compartment and asked if they wanted to buy anything. Mia didn't want to spend any of her money, but then she saw Pumpkin Pasties on the cart! She bought a few of them and was shocked to see that they were exactly the same as the ones she had gotten for her birthday years before. Did this mean that RJL was someone in the wizarding world? But the packages always came by muggle post!

The conversation changed to the feast they would have that night and Hannah told the other two everything her sister had told her about Hogwarts, But eventually to Mia's horror the discussion got onto the topic of families. Neville was from a pure blood family but he was also an only child and lived with his grandmother. Hannah came from a muggle family but her sister had gotten a letter a few years back much to her parents surprise. Mia listened intently hoping they wouldn't ask her any personal questions. But it couldn't be avoided. "What about your family Mia?"

"Oh well my mother was a muggle born but my father was a pure blood." She didn't want to tell the kids, but she refused to lie to her new friends.

"Really? What's your father's last name?" Neville, being from an old wizarding family knew most of the other families by name and reputation and was happy to have some kind information on the other muggle born students since he knew he probably wouldn't excel much in classes.

"Oh, well, my f-families last name is Black." To state the other kids in the room were shocked would have been an understatement. Hannah being muggle born didn't know the significant, but her older sister had certainly heard of the murderer, and Neville looked positively terrified.

Kevin was the first to find his words. "Certainly not Sirius Black!" Mia didn't even respond, she just looked down at the floor in silence. "But he's a mass murderer and was one of You-know-who's best followers!"

Finally understanding the significant Hannah let out a small shriek. "But I've never even met my father, and my mother died when I was a year old!" The kids didn't seem to care.

"Yeah your dad was probably the one to kill her! He hated muggle borns! Or maybe you killed her as a baby and just didn't realize the gene was already in you!"

Hannah scooted away from Mia in fear and that hurt Mia the most. "Listen, I am not my father and I don't deserve to be treated like this. I thought you guys were my friends but if not I will just leave!" Mia was getting angry at their stupidity and fear.

"Oh yes please do leave! I wouldn't want you blowing up my girlfriend or her sister just because you're a Death Eater!"

Mia was so angry she stood up and her eyes started turning an icy blue. The other students flinched. "You are such an ignorant arse! I have half a mind to hex you right now!" Mia pulled out her want for emphasis and pointed it at the stupid boy. There was another shriek of horror and Mia's eyes flared with anger. And with that she stormed out of the compartment and slammed the door shut behind her.

Mia leaned against the wall trying to calm herself as her eyes returned to their normal color. Those kids had been so stupid. She was 11 years old and Voldemort was dead! How could they think she was a death eater? Oh well, she had read up on Hufflepuff and it didn't seem to hold the smartest students. Both Christy and Kevin had been in Hufflepuff and Hannah hoped to follow them there as well. Neville as well just figured he would be placed there, although he wanted to be in Gryffindor like his parents. If only Mia could get a hold of her temper. She had backed down to Bradley for years so she didn't get kicked out of the orphanage but she refused to do that any longer! She wasn't at an orphanage anymore and she was going to stop walking on eggshells and be her own person! But if she hadn't lashed out to the kids in the cart maybe she would have been able to salvage their friendship. I have half a mind to hex you right now? Ha, yeah right. She had never performed a spell in her life! Those kids sure where gullible.

Just then one of the compartment doors near her opened up and out walked a very pale blond boy flanked by two large plump boys. They didn't look like people Mia wanted to know. The blond boy looked Mia up and down and smirked at her before walking towards the front of the train and disappearing. Hoping the cart they had just left was now empty she opened the door up a crack and slipped inside.

She turned around to see two young wizards looking at her in shock. The first was a skinny boy with dark hair and round glasses and the second was a redheaded boy with a load of freckles and a licorice wand hanging from his mouth. "Oh sorry, I didn't think anyone was in here." The boys just kept staring at her as if she had something growing from her nose, but Mia wasn't backing down. "Do you mind if I join you?"

The boys were snapped out of their shock. "Oh, of course not! My names Harry and this is Ron."

"I'm Mia." And with that she sat down and opened the book she still had in her hand. Perhaps the best way to make friends would be not to. These boys didn't seem like the type to be friends with girls yet anyways.

The two boys just shrugged and went back to talking about Quidditch, and Mia pretended to read as she sat thinking. A while later it started to grow dark and their compartment door was slid open and a bushy haired witch entered followed by Neville. Luckily he didn't notice her so she just pulled up the book in front of her face. "Have any of you seen a toad? Neville here has lost one." The boys both said no, but the girl wouldn't leave that easily. "Well anyways, my name is Hermione Granger." She stuck her hand out to Ron who looked less than thrilled. Didn't this girl take a hint?

Ron stuck his hand out and shook. "Ron Weasley, and this bloke is Harry-"

"Oh god! It's her!" Mia had let her book slip as she watched the exchange between Ron and Hermione, as Neville had seen her. The look of horror on his face told her that losing her temper and pulling out her want probably wasn't the best idea. She sighed and closed her book.

"Neville please, I was only joking! That prat Kevin made me mad! I wasn't really going to hex anyone!"

Neville didn't seem to care. "That's the daughter of Sirius Black!"

At this Ron seemed to choke on the candy he was cramming in his mouth. Recovering he tried to explain for Harry and Hermione who didn't know who the Blacks were. "Black was one of the most deadly convicts of all time! He was a major supporter of You-know-who and blew up a street 10 years ago killing a load of muggles! He's now locked up in Azkaban." A look of fear appeared on Hermione's face as she realized her family was all muggles and could have been targeted. Even Harry looked shocked at the mention of one of Voldemort's followers.

"My father did that stuff, not me!" Mia was so angry, why did no one seem to care that she wasn't a murderer. Instead they just flinched at every word and movement she made. She let out an angry yell and stood up and walked out of the compartment shoving a petrified Neville out of the way as he screamed in horror. Just then an announcement came over the speaker telling the students they would be arriving soon and if they haven't changed yet they should put on their school robes. Angry and eyes flashing with ice, Mia stomped over to her original compartment and threw open the door. A look of horror appeared on Kevin and the Abbott sisters faces. There were a few new kinds in the compartment and apparently they had heard the whole story because all it took was a whispered that's her and their faces shown with the same fear. Not caring about making friends anymore, Mia stormed over to the trunk rack and pushed Hannah out of the way as she stepped up onto the chair so she could reach her trunk. She fished out her robes and uniform and tossed in her book before she slammed the lid closed, jumped to the floor and stormed out of the compartment.

She found a bathroom and slipped inside locking the door behind her. She was so mad she could have screamed. A few times she had felt the feeling of magic welling up inside her but she had pushed it away not wanting to get into trouble. Mia roughly changed into her school clothes and robes and had to re-do her braid. Then she just sat down on the lid of the toilet and waited with her head between her knees just trying to calm herself. She should have known she would be just as hated here as she was back at the orphanage. There she was hated because she was different in ways she didn't even know, and here she was hated because of a family she had never met.

Mia waited until the train had stopped and she could hear that most of the kids in her end of the train had left. Then she snuck out of the bathroom and headed back to her original compartment. Thankfully it was empty so she stepped onto the empty chair and reached up to open her trunk and crammed her dirty clothes in. She closed the lid and left the compartment not wanting to be late.

When she got off the train she saw the majority of students walking down a path towards carriages that were being pulled by- the most gruesome creature Mia had ever seen. These creatures faintly looked like the cross between a horse and a bat, but it had no hair and its translucent skeleton like wings were horrifying. None of the other kids seemed to care as they climbed into the carriages pulled by these creatures. No, Thestrals. Mia remembered reading about them in one of her books. But you were only supposed to be able to see them if you had witnessed someone die. Who had Mia ever seen die? She definitely couldn't let any of her classmates know about this. They would be convinced she had killed someone before.

Thankfully Mia didn't need to get any closer to the beasts as she saw a giant man with a lantern calling out. "Firs' years follow me! Over this way firs' years!"

Mia followed behind the group of kids not wanting to get noticed. She saw Neville sniffling and crying as he walked and wanted comfort him. He couldn't find his toad and had feared it was still on the train somewhere. Just then the pale blond boy and his two too-big-to-be-eleven-years-old friends saw Neville and snickered. "Oh did Longbottom lose his stupid toad? Maybe you sat on it and turned it into goo!" they laughed and pushed him into a tree before walking on and scoping out the crowd for another target. Mia lowered her head and walked on not wanting to be noticed.

"You must be the Black girl." The blond boy was in front of her walking backwards so he could watch her. "The name's Draco Malfoy. That makes you my cousin. You will find not all of us are scared of Death Eaters." He smirked at his two lackeys. "Stick with us and you will be among family." He smirked again and stuck out his hand.

"To bad for you I'm not a Death Eater you prat!" Mia was done with bullies and she was done with trying to be sweet enough to make friends. She would fight if someone provoked her, but she didn't pick on other people just for the fun of it. That's what scum like Bradley did and she was done with it. She shoved past Draco and sped up. Luckily, just then they got to the lake shore.

"Everyone into a boat. Four to a boat please! No pushing!" The giant bellowed and climbed into one of the boats by himself. Once they were all in the water the giant hollered and all the boats took off. Mia was in a boat with a few other first years who thankfully didn't know who she was. "In just a minute you'll see yer first glimpse o' Hogwarts." There were oh's coming from the first few boats and then Mia's boat rounded some trees and she saw it.

Stretched out across the lake was the most beautiful castle Mia could have ever imagined. It was enormous with several large towers and turrets. The full moon was behind the castle backlighting it so that it glowed. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life and she couldn't wait to live there for the next 7 years.

AN: Hoped you liked it! Do you remember who Mia saw die?

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