Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series
The last 2 weeks with the Dursleys were awful. They were now treating me just as bad as they had Harry. If not worse. Dudley was now terrified of me, and vernon would mutter under his breath 'not another one' every time I came anywhere near him.
By now I had come to the conclution that Harry was a wizard, that would explain the pudding, the flying car, and Hedwig.
The days slipped by slowly, but finally it was September 1 and Vernon had dropped me off at the station. I pulled my trunk through the crowded station until I came to the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. Remembering what professor McGonagall told me, I walked directly at the barrier. I closed my eyes, and when I thought I should have hit the barrier I kept on walking.
I opened my eyes and I was standing on a platform in front of a scarlet steam engine. The platform was crowded with people. I made my way up to the train and loaded my trunk in a compartment then sat down and watched the other people on the platform, I watched a family fooling around and saying goodbye to each other. I imagined what my parents would have said if they were alive, my father probably wouldn't care in the slightest, but my mother would have been thrilled.
I sighed and leaned back as the train began to move, a few moments later a girl with red hair came to the door of the compartment
"um do you mind if I sit here, everywhere else is full." she said nervously I shook my head and she sat down
"My name's Ella. whats yours?" I said smiling
"Ginny" she smiled back " so are you muggleborn? or is your family magical?"
"um... muggleborn I think" I answered
Just then twins with red hair, who seemed awfully familiar came into the compartment
"hey gin" one of them said
"have you seen Ron or Harry? we cant find them" the other one said
Then it clicked, I remembered where I had seen them before
"hey your the people with the flying car!" I cried
They all looked at me
"how do you know that?"one of the twins said
"because I have been staying with the Dursleys for the past 6 months and I saw you take Harry away in that car!" I explained
All three looked at me surprised
"your Ella! Harry told us about you!" both twins said at the same time
"I knew your name sounded familiar" muttered Ginny
"so, Harry was right!"exclaimed one of the twins " he thought you were a witch!"
"yeah" I said
"well, anyway Ella my name is George" said one of the twins
"and I'm fred" said the other one " well, if see Harry or Ron we will tell him your in here"
I nodded "thanks" they left
"so what house do you think you'll be in?" Ginny asked me
Confused I asked "what do you mean by house?"
Before she could answer we were interrupted once again.
This time it was a boy who looked like a first year.
"can I sit here?" he asked very quickly
I looked at Ginny, then nodded "sure"
He sat down and began to talk a mile a minuet
"my name is Colin Creevey. This is my first time to Hogwarts. Is it yours? I'm so excited, I cant wait to learn all about magic! Are your parents muggles. My dad is. I promised to take lots of pictures and send them back so he could see what its like here at Hogwarts."
I noticed a large camera dangleing around his neck.
"my mother told me all about Hogwarts and when she came, They were very excited when I got my letter, because they thought I might not be magic and in a couple of years my little brother might get to come! and then after him my little sister! she is only 2 but she can already do magic and Dennis is 8 and we are pretty sure he gets to come." he took a deep breath and prepared to go on, but I cut in before he confuse me even more.
"Hi colin, I'm Ella and this is Ginny" I said motioning at the girl across from me who looked as though she had been run over by a train. her mouth was open and she was staring at Colin as though she had never seen anything like him before.
"so Ginny what were you saying about the houses?" I said
She snapped out of her trans, I could tell she was still trying to recover from colin's speach he had made earlier.
" oh, yes, well the school is divided into 4 sections according to the persons traits or character." Ginny said " They are Ravenclaw, slytherin, hufflepuff, and Gryffindor. Ravenclaw is for the people who study a lot, and have the top grades on every thing"
I knew I was not going to be a Ravenclaw
"Slytherin is for the sneaky people who are ambitious, but theres not a wizard who went bad who wasn't in slytherin, but between us" she lowered her voice "most of them are somewhat evil, they put a lot of store in blood status and I wouldn't trust any of them."
I knew I was not going to be in Slytherin either
"you couldn't pay me to be in Slytherin, but anyway, Hufflepuff is for the people who are hardworking and loyal."
"I might be a Hufflepuff" I said thoughtfully
Ginny continued on "and last is Gryffindor. Gryffindor is for the people who are very brave. I have to be in Gryffindor."
"why" I said
"well, my whole family has been in Gryffindor for generations, but I don't think I have to worry about that, my brother Ron said the hat didn't even consider him for any other houses because he is a Weasley."
I nodded " I'll probably be in Gryffindor too."
"I might be in Gryffindor" said Colin
The food trolley came by and I bought each of us a pumpkin pastie.
After that Ginny tried to explained the sport called Quiditch to us, neither Colin or I understood very well.
About an hour later Fred and George came by again.
"Hey guys" Fred said "guess what!"
"what" Ginny and I said at the same time
"we have checked every compartment on this train" George said
"and Harry and Ron are not on the train!" Fred finished
"Mum probably had a fit when they missed the train" said Ginny shaking her head
Ginny, Colin and I spent the rest of the train ride talking about our home life. Colin was very impressed that both Ginny and I knew Harry, and both were shocked when I told them about the Dursleys, Ginny had known it was bad, but she had not known it was that bad.
Soon the train was slowing down and we all exited the train dressed in our new robes, and we, with all the other first years, climbed into some boats and began to float across the lake towards a magnificent castle.
AN: so how am I doing? I think this is one of my better chapters. Please review!
