"Dad why are you coming with me to school?" Ella asked as she stood at the train station. Her belongings consisted of a large trunk and a white owl that Harry had bought her, he suggested the name Hedwig which she surprisingly thought was cute. Harry often shook his head whenever she mention something was cute because the goblins were not exactly pretty.

"You don't want me to come with you?" he asked with a sad look.

"No! No i don't mind you coming with me, i just want to know why." she answered hurriedly.

"Because i want to see what Hogwarts is like, you know i have never been to it." he smiled seriously, which was mostly true as he had never been there in this universe.

"How come you never went to school, did grandpa and grandma teach you?"

"I guess you could say they did, but anyway remember to keep it a secret that i am your father, you wouldn't want to ruin the fun now would you?" he asked with a devious grin.

"No" she cheered as they made their way down the platforms.

"Where is platform nine and three quarters?" she asked as she stopped between platform nine and ten.

"Try guess, i don't want to ruin the surprise." he said as he gestured for her to go ahead.

"Well it's closer to ten so it should be on the right side?" she questioned as she glared at him, she really didn't want to run into a brick wall before she got to the train.

"If you think it is than give it a go." he smirked.

She was about to go when she stopped immediately, "Wait a second! magic is never logical, you just wanted to see me run into a wall, didn't you?"

"That i will not deny Ella" he pouted as he put away the camera he was hiding behind his back.

"I won't fall for that" she said as she made her way to the other side, walking at a run she disappeared through the wall to the Hogwarts train followed closely by Harry.

Harry walked out of the wall to see the familiar red and black steam train, grinning widely as he smelled the smoke. Even when he was headmaster they kept the train for the novelty, though they had runes that could teleport them long distances, the Hogwarts train was special. Looking through the crowd he saw the familiar bushy haired girl that was his friend in another time, waving his hand discreetly he casted a minor compulsion charm on her before walking towards the train.

"Come on Ella, we have to get on the train." Harry didn't want to particularly meet the younger Weasley's, he didn't want Ron as her close friend because he would abandon her in jealousy at the drop of a hat and the thought of him trying to date Ela was disgusting. Harry would not want to wear goggles when he was eating at the table to protect his eyes from the projectiles that came from Ron's mouth, plus Ron as a son in law was very unappealing he thought as he shivered.

Walking with her onto the train, many girls looked at him thinking he was the handsome new transfer student with his sister. Harry did his best to avoid them, making his way to the back of the train where it was the most empty. Finding an empty compartment he placed her baggage on the upper shelves and sat down after Ella, making her sit up against the window away from the unfavorable boys he did not want her to meet.

"Dad, how long is the train ride?" she whispered.

"I think it is around five hours, it gives first years the opportunity to make friends." he answered.

"Is this cart fr-" a girl asked before she stopped and saw Harry.

"Ella leaned forward into view, yes it is, please take a seat" she called with a smile.

The girl in question which Harry recognized as Hermione, came and sat down across from him staring at him with reddening cheeks, while Harry lifted her luggage up and placed it on the top shelf beside Ella's. Sitting down beside Ella "My name is Harry and this is Ella" he answered as he waved his hand in front of her to get her attention.

"Ella… you mean Ella Potter?" she asked curiously. "I'm Hermione Granger, i'm a first year just like you, i read all about you in the Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Modern magical History."

"It's nice to meet you Hermione" Ella responded awkwardly, "though i think the books are probably wrong, i don't remember fighting a dragon or saving any princes in distress."

Hermione looked saddened at her texts she bought before smiling anyway, "It's a pleasure" she said before turning towards Harry, "So are you in your seventh year Harry, can you do any spells?" she inquired with interest.

"Yes, i can do many spells" he alluded while gesturing with his wand.

"I have only read a few in the book but that's all, though they have all worked well."

"You're lucky my dad wouldn't let me do spells on my own, he was afraid i would burn the house down" Ella pouted.

"He was right, you would have burned the house down, you took the seventh year spell book and started playing with those" he responded sarcastically. Harry remembered finding her in his room looking at some of the books he had acquired the day after she got her wand, unfortunately the first spell she stopped on was the reducto and if she wasn't careful there would be a new doorway on the second floor. The most worrying part was the page after had the fiendfyre spell and Harry didn't want to deal with one of those things before he got to school.

"No i wouldn't, i just wanted to see what it would do" she crossed her arms as she glared out the window.

"Are you to related or something?" Hermione inquired suspiciously.

"I guess you could say we are relatives, i know the people she stays with" he responded with a small grin. Ella just stared at him with a suspicious look.

The three chatted about where they stayed and various questions about the school, before they heard yelling outside the door.

"What the hell do you want?" a woman yelled.

"Come on i just want you to change into this woman here" a man said pleadingly.

"Not in your life you disgusting pig" she yelled which was followed by a loud girly scream and a loud thump of someone falling over.

Immediately the doors to the cabin opened and Nymphadora Tonks quickly slipped in and shut the door behind her. "Hello, can i stay here for a bi-ugh" she began and proceeded to fall on her face.

Harry immediately stood and helped her up but he failed to stifle the building laugh. "You… can come in… here" he finished between breaths. Harry still remembered Tonks' tripping over air but seeing it again was especially funny.

Tonks eventually took a seat beside Hermione and glared at him while blushing. "What happened outside, why were they asking you to change?" Ella asked curiously along with Hermione as they stared at Tonks. Tonks herself just shifted uncomfortably at the attention.

"Come on, change into Ella here and show them" Harry urged with a grin.

Tonks almost got angry before she heard who he was talking about, a few seconds later a clone of Ella sat beside the shocked Hermione. "My name is Tonks, just Tonks" she said with her arms crossed.

"My name is Harry, this here is Ella and she is Hermione." Harry greeted.

"What are you?" Hermione asked as she leaned in closer.

"I'm a Metamorphmagus, i can change my appearance into anyone i want" Tonks said. Though the tone in her voice suggested she hated it.

"So a boy was asking you to change into another woman?" Hermione asked curiously.

Tonks refused to answer as she gritted her teeth in disgust. Only nodding her head.

"You wouldn't ask something like that would you?" Ella asked harry as she turned to him. Both Hermione and Tonks turned towards him to hear his answer, both had a frown at the expected answer.

"Well, i don't think i would want to date someone who hides who they really are so no i don't think i would" Harry answered. Thankfully the woman's society of the train cabin thought it was a suitable answer as they seemed pleased.

"So Harry, are you a transfer student or something? i haven't seen a seventh year around like you." Tonks asked.

"You could say i am" Harry grinned. "Why? is there anything i need to know about.

"Not for you, unless you took potions, both of you are first years right?" she asked and got nods in response. "Well your professor will be Snape and he hates all the other houses except his own" she warned.

"Thats not fair" Hermione exclaimed.

"It's not but the headmaster lets him get away with it, the only house he is nice to is the Slytherins because they are his own."

Hermione and Ela pouted while Harry stayed indifferent, He already knew he would have to fix up Snape's attitude.

"What house do you think we'll be in?" Ella asked.

"Definitely not Slytherin, you seem to innocent" Tonks remarked, "Though it is up for the sorting hat to decide but i am in Hufflepuff, the house of the loyal."

"I want to be in Gryffindor" Hermione announced, "because that is the one where Dumbledore went to."

"Well, the house is chosen based on your character traits and what you would be suited for, just from looking at you i can tell you're a Ravenclaw" Tonks answered. Hermione only pouted as she took in Tonks words.

"Has anyone seen my toad?" a boy asked as he opened the door. There stood Neville Longbottom, someone Harry would trust around Ella because he would be to nervous to do anything. Though meeting the boy brought up sad memories of his parents, he met them and talked to them after they woke from their comas, but only after Neville had died.

Shaking his head to clear his depression he looked at the boy, still the same with a posture that indicated he wasn't sure if he should be anywhere here or even on the train for that matter.

Harry often wondered where the toad went but now felt that someone had taken it. "What is your name?" Harry asked as he pulled out his wand.

"Neville... Longbottom" he answered hesitantly before glancing back into the hallway.

"Accio Neville's toad" Harry said before he put his wand away, glancing at the others, Ella and Hermione looked on with interest at the spell they never saw.

"What spell was that?" Hermione asked as she gave into her curiosity.

"It's a summoning char-"

"Hey get back here-" a boy yelled.

"Yeah you, we're not done with you yet" another boy with a similar voice yelled.

The footsteps got louder before a pink polka dotted toad flew into their cabin and landed on Harry's lap. Followed closely behind were both Fred and George.

"hey that's ours-"

"Yeah ours." the other continued before they noticed the look on Neville's face.

"We didn't steal it though-"

"Yeah we didn't, it came to us" the other finished.

Harry could honestly say that was one of the creepiest things he ever saw. He could never figure out how they did it but they just did and it was incredibly weird, he always came back to some sort of soul bonding ritual thing but could never prove it.

"How do you do that?" Hermione asked.

"Trade secret" they both replied as they made the hush sound. Together they both sat down in the cabin with them, making themselves comfortable. Neville eventually took his toad from Harry and said his thanks before going back down the hall towards his cabin.

"Hello my name is Fred, and this is George" one replied beside harry.

"Hang on i'm Fred and you're George" the other replied beside Tonks.

"And we're the twins" they finished together with incredulous looks. Both Harry and Tonks chuckled at the expressions of Hermione and Ella, they looked completely confused as they narrowed their eyes hoping that it was all an illusion and there was only one of them.

"Blimey" the one twin stared, "she is."

"Isn't she" the other continued as he stared at Ella.

"What?" she asked confused.

"Ella Potter, thats who" they chorused before turning to Harry.

"So are you new to Hogwarts?"

"We haven't seen you around and we know all the seventh years."

"Yes i'm new" he responded.

"Have you heard of the new DADA professor-"

"-Yeah the new one, they say he is a prodigy."

"He will be just as useless as the last one" Tonks scowled.

"What happened to the last one" Ella asked.

"He… he got done in by a boggart" Tonks informed in annoyance.

"You see here-"

"-Tonks wants to be an Auror-"

"-but every year the DADA-"

"-professor gets killed or quits-"

"-it's been happening for years-"

"-they say it's cursed-"

"-yeah cursed."

They all stared at the twins as if they had somehow attached themselves together by their head, the longer they did that, the creepier it got by exponential levels.

"Well we got to go now-"

"-yeah, we got trouble to make." the two finished their piece before leaving the cabin to go find someone else to freak out.

Eventually they all recovered from the weirdness, "So Tonk's you don't like the DADA professors?" Harry asked seriously, though inside he was smirking.

"Yeah they're all useless, the lot of them can't stay around long enough and the rest aren't good teachers at all. Don't know which side of the wand to point at the enemy" she growled.

"I am sure this year they will have a better one" Harry assured.

"Not a chance, with my luck we will have professor Quirrell, the muggle studies professor" she scowled as she thought of the man. Harry could understand as Quirrell was pathetically weak, even after Voldemort possessed him. "Well i gotta go now, we should be arriving at the school soon" Tonks replied before making her way out of the cabin towards her own.

Just before they arrived at the school, the cabin door opened once again and Draco Malfoy sauntered in with an arrogant smirk on his face followed by the chubby Crabbe and Goyle behind. Harry almost got up and punched him but held back because Draco was still innocent of any crimes.

Looking around his eyes settled on Ella, "Hello I'm Draco malfoy… a pureblood" he answered with an arrogant sneer.

"I'm Hermione Granger" holding out her hand expectantly.

"I won't shake hands with a mudblood" he scowled, Hermione flinched back in response. "I came here to see Ella Potter, i thought we purebloods should get along and make friends with the right sort of families" he finished confidently.

"I don't want to get to know you Draco Malfoy" Ella said in anger.

"Oh i see the mudbloods have already corrupted you now haven't they?" he sneered in mock shock and disgust.

"Draco Malfoy, i will remember you" Harry said warningly. He officially hated Draco Malfoy again, the boy would be the same no matter the universe.

"You wouldn't do anything, my fat-" Draco never finished his sentence, with the wave of Harry's wand, Draco was out the cabin and down the hallway along with his bodyguards.

"What did he mean by mudblood?" asked Hermione in depression.

"it is what idiots call witches and wizards who have muggleborn parents" Harry answered. "I wouldn't worry about it too much, he just isn't smart enough to understand how the world works yet."

Hermione seemed to accept the answer but her feelings were still hurt, "Come on were almost there, you two get changed and leave your baggage on the train. Someone will come and take it to your rooms" Harry said as he walked out, flicking his wand quickly to transfigure his robes into a seventh year Gryffindor outfit.

"Good bye Ella, Hermione" he called before he exited the train with the throng of second year and up students.

Harry walked with the students, casting a notice-me-not charm on himself to hide from the professors. Most definitely Mcgonagall and Snape because they would recognize his appearance and call him on it. It was strange sneaking into Hogwarts, he could feel the wards as he passed through them, the only reason he could enter so easily was because of the magical form Nicholas had given Dumbledore.

Smirking he entered the crowd and went straight to the Gryffindor table scowling briefly when he noticed Quirrell at the professors table. 'He must have had another position in the school before he took up the dark arts class' turning back to the table he sat beside the twins, who were near the three chasers, Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson. Though they never noticed him, coincidentally they started talking about him.

"Hey Fred, have you seen Harry, i know he was wearing the Gryffindor outfit but he isn't anywhere at our table." George had asked as he continued to glance along the table ad in some cases the others.

"No George i haven't seen him either, maybe Snape found him already." he responded as he snuck a glare in at Snapes direction.

"Who're you talking about?" Katie asked as she overheard them.

"A new Gryffindor seventh year, i think he was a transfer but we haven't seen him at the table" Fred said.

"Yeah nice bloke, his name was Harry, never got a last name though" George finished.

Just then the doors opened at the back of the hall and a large crowd of first years started walking in. All of them were looking around the hallway at the ceiling and the staring faces of the upper years. Harry smirked as he saw Ella excitedly walking beside Hermione and surprisingly Ron Weasley and Neville as well, he frowned as he started to think why Ron would be friends with a girl because he really didn't like Hermione the first time they met.

Ella was ecstatic as she made her way with Hermione towards the boats, the giant man named hagrid was kind of cute to her but Hermione just stared at her weirdly. Following him the two got onto the nearest empty boats.

"Can we come with you? he said in a group of four" a boy asked, Ella turned to see a boy with red hair, she instantly knew he was related to the freaky twins. Beside him was Neville Longbottom, Ella thought he was the nervous type as he never met her eyes.

"Yeah you can, i'm Ella Potter and this is Hermione Grangers" she answered politely. She quickly held back her expression of annoyance at the boy staring at her forehead.

"Do you… you know really have the… scar?" he asked nervously.

Ella sighed, "Yeah i do, see" she moved her bangs out of the way to show the faint scar, knowing full well the boy would never give up if she refused.

"It's awfully faint" he remarked.

"My dad healed it, he… he said a scar shouldn't mar a beautiful girls face" she mumbled as she smiled.

Ron didn't seem to hear her, "Well, i'm Ron Weasley and this is my friend Neville Longbottom."

"We have already met" Neville replied.

"Really, when? i was with you the whole time" Ron quirked.

"Re… remember when i went to look for my... toad, the guy named Harry found it for me" Neville mumbled.

"Oh, you mean that good looking seventh year you were on about?" Ron grinned.

"Good looking?" Ella asked, but inside she had a sinking feeling she wouldn't want to hear it.

"Yeah, Neville came back saying a good looking seventh year helped him find his toad."

"I don't think he was that good looking" Ella replied hurriedly.

"That's because he was your relative Ella, but to be honest he was very handsome and i think Tonks thought so to because she stayed around for so long" Hermione replied honestly with a slight blush.

Ella could only sit in embarrassment as she covered her ears, her new friend thought her father was hot. It was weird on so many levels.

The four of them travelled on the boats in the water chatting amicably, Ella noted that Ron didn't like Hermione's know it all attitude but she thought Hermione would be a good friend despite that. Neville was quiet, only joining in when the conversation strayed to plants and the like.

As they waited out in the hall they avoided Malfoy and his goons, but it seemed he was still seething from Harry's treatment. He didn't like getting thrown from the cabin when he was speaking. There was only a single professor hagrid introduced that was staring intently at the crowds until she caught sight of Ella, the smile she had on her face and the relief in her eyes was enough for Ella to know that she knew Ella before. Her father had told her that it was likely Dumbledore and some professors would think she had been kidnapped but she didn't really care, the Dursley's were horrible and the Flamels were the only family she wanted.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, before you take your seats and enjoy the banquet you will be sorted into your houses, the houses are like your second, classes will be with your house and you will sleep in your house dormitory" Mcgonagall said.

"The four houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw, you will all have a house head and i will leave it to them to explain the house point system" pausing as she still had their attention. "Now come along children" she said as she motioned them through the large doors.

Entering the hall, all the first years stared upwards to the ceiling, the clouds were moving and stars could be made out in the dark sky along with floating candles.

"How do they do that?" Ella asked.

"Some sort of magic projection i think, i read about it in one of my books" Hermione said.

All the first years looked back down to find hundreds of upper year students staring at them, half of them grinning at the spectacle of first years staring at the ceiling. All the students were sitting at four long tables that stretched down the hall towards what she assumed was the teachers table. All the professors looked average age, except the man in the middle who looked incredibly old, the age she thought grandpa would look if he wasn't immortal.

At the very middle of the hall in front of the teachers table was the old ratty hat Ella knew to be the sorting hat her father told her about. She never believed him when he said it could talk but she was proven wrong when it started to sing a song (insert song).

After the song finished all the students clapped.

"It was just a hat all this time…" Ron frowned, "Fred was on about we had to wrestle a troll."

Hermione, Ella and Neville looked at Ron with a raised brow, obviously he didn't use his brain too much. Though they all agreed wearing a old hat was a lot better than taking down a troll with a magic stick. All of them gathered into a group at the end of the table on the side near the professors desk. Once again she noticed the oldest man she had ever seen stare at her like professor McGonagall had, though she was slightly more displeased about his actions to her.

"When your name is called please come up and place the hat on your head to be sorted" McGonagall said over the crowd. "Abbott, Hannah!"

The girl came up nervously towards the stool, sitting down she placed the hat on her head, a second later…

"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat cried.

The rest of the sortings continued on, taking different amounts of time for each. Her friend Hermione ended up in the Gryffindor house like she wanted along with Neville Longbottom. The horrible boy named Malfoy ended up in Slytherin and Ella made her choice to never be placed in that house.

"Potter, Ella!"

As Ella took her first step, she heard the whispers from the tables behind her, she expected this because her father told her about it. They had some ridiculous notion that she was responsible for killing Voldemort but it was her mother that had.

Walking up to the stool she sat down and placed the hat on her head, never shying away under the complete attention she now had of the entire hall.

"Ah, Ella Potter," a voice whispered into her head. "i wondered when i would see you, you really caused Dumbledore an aneurism when he found out you were gone."

"Did i make the right choice going with my father?" she asked curiously, only for his opinion as she would never doubt her father.

"That is not for me to answer, you clearly love him as a daughter should and from what i see he loves you back, though it looks like he set up a surprise for you" he said as he chuckled.

"A surprise?" she questioned excitedly. Her mind immediately strayed to a broom she had seen in a store.

"No he won't get you that broom unless you join the quidditch team so don't get your hopes up, the surprise is of another sort."

"Can you tell me?"

"Now where would the fun be in that… Now the house for you… the heart of a lion but the soul of a snake… you would do well in either Slytherin or Gryffindor" he mocked. "The loyalty like no other and… the mind of a ravenclaw, your father has taught you well Ms. Potter."

Before she could voice her argument, "Yes, i know about the Malfoy child but you won't have to worry about him… lets see what else… The lion seems to be the most prominent so i will have to let you go, that Granger girl is waiting for you and i pale to think what she will be like if her first friend isn't in the same house."

"GRYFFINDOR!" he yelled and the silence was broken when the Gryffindor table erupted into cheers. Ella noticed Professor McGonagall looked incredibly pleased with the choice because of the smile present on her face.

Ella walked to the Gryffindor table and sat beside Hermione and the twins she met on the train, the rest of the sorting continued with Ron joining the Gryffindor table and sitting across from her and beside Neville.

"Good job Ron" another Weasley said as he came forward. Ella started to wonder if they replicated by mitosis or something because there were always more of them coming from somewhere and they all looked similar.

"Hi Percy, this is Hermione, Ella and Neville" Ron introduced them all.

"Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts now before we begin i have a few announcements, first Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" he boomed the rest of the hall cheered except for the first year muggle borns as they thought it was incredibly weird.

"The last announcement is about the new DADA teacher, i know many of you requested a competent teacher after the last ones…" coughing into his hand along with half the student body, "unfortunate accident with his mother we have a new professor."

The crowd all went silent, the silence was soon filled with whispers of who they thought it was, a few mentioned Snape but they all hoped it wasn't.

"I know you will all have misgivings about his age but i can assure you that he is perfectly qualified as he got the highest marks in the O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s in history as well as the best review from the Auror training program since it's founding" He finished.

Ella immediately had a frown in her face as she had the gut feeling about the surprise her father had.

"Our new DADA should be here somewhere around here…" pausing for dramatic effect as he looked around, "Harry Flamel!" he yelled. Everybody looked stunned, Ella glanced at Tonks to find her staring directly at her with bug eyes in suspicion.

Before Ella knew what was going on she finally noticed her father was standing up from the seat beside her. She had never noticed him there, in fact she had never really looked. The expressions on the twins were looks of shock and a lot of respect.

Draco Malfoy himself looked absolutely horrified, he had insulted a professor. As the students finally noticed the incredibly young professor walk up to the staff table, most of the women stared in interest at the young handsome professor. McGonagall looked stunned along with Snape, Dumbledore and Flitwick when they noticed the similarities between Harry Flamel and James Potter.

The whispers were soon broken by a single word dropped in the great hall by none other than Ella.

"Dad!" she exclaimed as she stood up pointing.