A/N: Golly golly gumdrops, I'm all excited just IMAGINING being in the Harry Potter universe! I'm so sad! :'D
DEDICATION: To Rowling's mum. Thanks dude.
And to Rob Thomas, that pansy-boy from Matchbox Twenty.
DISCLAIMER: Sue me. Just you try.


In my opinion, the Hogwarts Express was incredibly bias. Not the driver or the people on it, the actual train. I mean seriously, (siriusly XD), red and yellow = Gryffindor. Um, hello, there are OTHER houses at Hogwarts too! How must the Slytherins feel, hopping on a train painted the colour of their enemies. The least they could do was change colours each year, so it's only red every four years, which would be fair. And if I was the Death Eaters in control ages ago when Voldy was in power, I'd re-paint in green straight away.

Anyway, I'd found an empty compartment pretty easily which saved me the awkwardness of polite conversation, thank god.

I was getting a book out to read when someone burst into my compartment without knocking.

"Oh, hello. What are you doing in our compartment?" He asked when he saw me.

I looked up at him, he was average height with mousey hair and hazel eyes. Fifth or Sixth year by my guess.

I raised my eyebrows.

"Your compartment?"

"Yes, we sit here every year."

Craning my neck, I peered past him. No one else was there.

"We?" I asked in a flat voice. I always attract the loonies, I've no idea why.

"My friends will be here in a moment."

He came in and sat across from me.

"I'm Andrew."

"Shona."

He squinted at me, and looked at the book I was still holding.

"You are…Sixth year. Ravenclaw." He said, guessing.

I shook my head.

"Fifth year, and I don't know what-"

I was interrupted as someone came into the compartment, once again without knocking. It was a confident looking red-head, her hair pulled back into a hair tie looking every bit the popular sporty girl.

"Hello, I'm Ginny, I was given a note from-"

"Ah yes, little Ginny! No need for introductions, I know you don't i?" Andrew grinned at her. She narrowed her eyes at him, but didn't retaliate, even when he winked at her. She turned to me.

"I got a note from McGonagall, you're Shorna Edwards?"

"It's Sho – na, actually, there's no 'r'. Yes, I am." I said, trying to control the same grin which had taken over when I was in the Weasley's shop.

It was going to be so weird. I knew all the characters as if I'd been their best friends for years, but as far as they knew I was a complete stranger. If I tried to hang out with them, I might accidentally come out with something I'm not supposed to know.
Argh, I absolutely hate new schools, even new classes. Making new friends, it disgusting.

I blinked quickly, moving away from the world of my thoughts, to Ginny talking to me.

"I'm in fifth year too, Hermione Granger, a prefect, was supposed to collect you but shes busy so I offered to take her place." She smiled and ushered me out of the compartment, away from Andrew's scoffs.

"I know how it is, being new," Ginny said, smiling at me, she seemed to be doing that alot. I tried to smile back but I was pretty sure it just came out as a painful grimace. "So at least i'll be one friendly face for you to recognize."

We didn't get far down the train before a voice called out in a sarcastically polite way;

"Ah, Weaslette, such a pleasure to see you again! I missed you so much in the holidays."

Ginny whipped her wand out, and pushed me out the way.

"Back off Malfoy or you'll be in a lot of pain very soon." She said in a low threatening voice.

"Malfoy?!?!" I cried, spinning to see the tall blonde sneering at Ginny and I. He was my second favourite after Fred! I looked at him over Ginny's shoulder, fascinated by his gorgeous hair.

He glanced over at me only for a second before turning back to Ginny, taking out his own wand. But Ginny was too quick, firing a bat-bogey hex at him before he could blink. He only just managed to block it, and I burst out laughing at the look of shock and confusion that crossed his face. Malfoy's face flushed with anger and his curse only missed me by inches. I hardly noticed, I was still laughing.

Ginny sent another hex, and this time it was blocked perfectly, but Malfoy was looking surprised, and looking past us, so I turned to see too.

And there was Slughorn, his face scrunched up in what I think was an attempt at looking stern, but he was looking too amused for it to have any effect.

"My, what a very competent hex young lady. But I must remind you, hexing other students is against school rules." He said, walking closer. I pressed up against the window side to let him pass, that man was huge!

He looked at Malfoy. "Young man, you can run along now, you're not harmed as far as i can tell, besides your pride maybe." He chuckled and winked at Malfoy, to the boys disgust. "And I think I can take care of these girls."

Malfoy didn't need to be told twice, and he strode away after one glare at Ginny.

I tell you, that man really DID look like a Walrus, it was almost unbelievable. If I wasn't looking at it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. The way I'd imagined it when I was reading the book, it was a slightly grey average moustache, but that thing was like a man-eating caterpillar attacking his FACE!

"Now, girls, I hardly think that it was fair to be ganging up on the boy like that." Slughorn chuckled. Ginny was about to say something, but I kicked her, and she looked at me in surprise.

"Usually, I would punish you, BUT! That was a wonderful spell," Ginny raised her eyebrows in amusement. "If you would be both kind enough to follow me, you can come along to my club meeting."

Ginny looked confused, but I was shaking my head, this was just too good!

"But sir, Shona is new, I need to tell her things, and – and…."

"And we haven't changed clothes yet!" I chipped in.

"Yeah, that too!"

A few minutes later I was sitting a compartment with the boy who lived.