Our last month with the Dursleys is what I expected. They didn't want to interact with us, heck even shut us in the cupboard. Dudley was also so scared of us.

We named our owl Hedwig. We found it in one of our new school book 'History of Magic'

Me and Harry tried to keep ourselves entertained with almost nothing to do except take care of Hedwig and reading.

On the last day of August, we needed to ask our aunt and uncle about getting us to King's Cross, on platform 9 3/4 which I'm pretty sure is none existent. When we came down to the living room Dudley ran away.

"Er- Uncle Vernon," Harry said, scratching his head.

Our uncle just grunted

"Er- We need to be in King's Cross tomorrow to- to go to Hogwarts."

He grunted again. I supposed that meant yes

"Thank you." Harry and I greeted him.

After that, Uncle Vernon asked more questions.

"Where is this school anyway?" Uncle asked, slamming his newspaper down on the table.

We shrugged

"The ticket says to take the train to platform 9 3/4 at 11 o' clock," Harry stated

He argued again that there is no platform 9 3/4. Usual Uncle Vernon. The Dursley were going to London anyway, they had to take Dudley to the hospital because of his pigtail Hagrid gave him.

I woke up at 5 am and I couldn't sleep anymore. I looked down at Harry's bed, he was wide awake too.

"Mornin', Harry!" I smiled at him while being upside down in my bed to see him.

"Excited?" he asked. I nodded

"Me too. Let's get ready?" he suggested. I smiled at him and got down.

We decided not to wear our robes, not until in the train anyway. We checked our list, all complete.

2 hours later, we packed our large trunks in the car and made sure Hedwig was safe. We sat beside the terrified Dudley. We arrived at the train station at half past ten.

Odd, Uncle Vernon helped us to put our trunks in the trolley. He also left us smiling between platform 9 and 10

"Have a good term." He gave us a nasty smile and left laughing in the car

"What're we going to do?" I bit my lips. It was a nervous tick.

We asked the guards, none of them helped, trying tapping random things like Hagrid, nothing too.

"-packed with Muggles of course." A plump woman said in the distance

I raced to them in hope of them helping us. She had 4 boys and a little girl with her. After the 3 older brothers (I assume) ran through a barrier, Harry asked the woman about how to get to the train. I was so amazed about the wall I didn't notice them talking

"-Ron's new too," she pointed at her youngest son

I finally paid attention to them.

"Hi dear-" the woman was talking to me "-Saying goodbye to you older brother?"

Before me and Harry could talk, the little ginger girl said "Mum said we're not allowed until we're 11. For once someone knows how I feel." the mother nodded

"Er- Oh- Oh no, I'm going to Hogwarts too. I'm his twin sister."

"Yeah." Harry agreed

The three strangers were flushed, especially the younger girl, she was about my height.

"I- I'm sorry dear, so to get to the platform-" she explained to us what to do.

The woman also suggested that my brother, she pointed to Harry, should go first. He ran through the barrier, Harry was gone. I was left astonished. It was my turn, she said. While I prepared myself I heard the little girl complained again,

"Why does she get to go"

"Because she's older than you," her mother explained to her pouting daughter.

I finally pushed my trolley and ran to the barrier, I was ready for impact, it didn't come. The other side was packed with witches and wizards. A scarlet train also appeared. I saw most of the carriages were already filled.

I met Harry and pushed through a crowd until we found an empty compartment. One of the red-headed twins we saw earlier offered us to settle down our luggage and called his twin to also help. I sat down across Harry. One of them noticed Harry's lightning scar, they recognized him and Harry assured them that he was Harry Potter.

"Then you must be his twin, Carly Potter?" one of the ginger twin asked and I nodded.

"Fred? George are you there?" their mother called and we were left alone at last . The whole family talked about us, I felt that I was red.

I switched my attention to a small creature. It looked like a house elf- (I've read about them in the book shop in Diagon Alley) -with a dark red haired girl, she was entering our carriage.

"Thanks Lollie" the girl said

"Lollie was welcome to watch Ms. White while Ms. White's parents was not here" The elf smiled and snapped her bright pink bags gone, presumably placing them in the train.

The girl entered our compartment, Harry was still looking at the ginger family we met. He was surprised when the red haired entered.

"Hi, do you mind?" she asked. When we let her sit down beside Harry, he smartened up. She examined her small toy telescope she was holding, she was minding her own business.

I was scanning my 'The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1' book then the whistle sounded. The train moved, and the ginger boy from earlier, called Ron, entered our compartment.

"Anyone sitting there?" he pointed at the seat beside me, I shook my head.

The girl beside Harry hasn't said a thing yet again. I continued to scan through my book's pages.

The older ginger twins were back again and introduced themselves.

"Did we introduce ourselves? Fred and George Weasley. And this is Ron, our brother. See you later then." the other twin said and they both left

"Oh wait," the red haired girl eventually said, looking up to me and Ron.

"I haven't introduced myself. I'm Ophelia White."

"Er- I'm Harry Potter and this is my twin sister Carly. And as the Fred and George said, that's Ron Weasley" Harry stated and I mouthed, Hi

"Pleasure. Er- right, call me Lia for short." Ophelia smiled and paused.

"Wait- Harry and Carly Potter?"

I waited for Harry to answer, but it didn't come, he was instead, staring at her, and his face tinted pink.

"Yeah." I said awkwardly.

"Cool." she got back to her bright pink telescope.

Ron started to talk to Harry and me but Harry mostly answered his questions. I offered to switch seats with Ron and he agreed.

WHAM

The compartment door opened. I at once recognized the girl with white-blonde hair, it was Tori, the girl we met at Diagon Alley. She was distressed and her usually wavy and tidy long hair was messy.

"Can-I-Sit?" she panted and we stared at her

"Er- hi, Carly and Harry." she sat down beside Ophelia

"What happened?" Harry asked

"Two third year twins happened."

"Oh, sorry those, I think were my brothers-" Ron apologized, looking down, with red ears.

"You need to tell your mum about them." she snapped with her arms crossed

"She knows, we can't do anything about them."

Tori was raging red. Lia tried to change the subject

"Hi, I'm Ophelia White, or just Lia."

"Ron Weasley. My brothers you met are Fred and George"

"Victoria Emerson, you can call me Tori."

"We met in Diagon Alley when we got our stuff, " I told Ron and Lia. I caught a glance of Harry bewildered from all my talking.

"How's the collective research you were doing?"

"It went well, after I asked you I only asked one more person, she was a Muggle-born. She knew a lot of stuff, she sounded like you." Tori grabbed her journal. I smiled and nodded.

Ron brought out his rat, Scabbers and talked to Harry about him. The lunch trolley arrived. Me and Harry bought a lot. I was interested in the chocolate frogs the most.

"These aren't real frogs, right?" I asked Ron

"No," he said "but see what the card is, I'm missing Agrippa."

"What?" I stared blankly

"Oh, of course you wouldn't know- each box has cards, like to collect- Famous Witches and Wizards. I've got about 500 of them. But I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy."

I opened mine and-

"I got Dumbledore!" I exclaimed. Everyone jumped

"She's not normally like that," Harry was straying farther away from me.

"she's comfortable with you guys now."

"Sorry, I got excited-"

"No, it's ok." Lia said and they all smiled

"So we're all friends now?!" Tori enthusiastically exclaimed

"Yeah sure, I guess." I whispered with my head down

"Congrats everyone,"

"you made my usually quiet sister talk." Harry teased, moving his head side to side on every word.

They all laughed but I gave Harry a death glare until someone knocked on the compartment door. A round faced boy came in looking rather tearful,

"Sorry," he said "but have you seen a toad at all?"

He cried that he lost his toad, again. We said that we haven't seen anything

"Well if you see him..."

The boy left, it was back to Scabbers again, he was sleeping on Ron's lap. He suggested doing magic and making it yellow, he grabbed his wand.

"Unicorn hair's nearly poking out. Anyway-"

He had just raised his wand when the compartment door opened again. The toadless boy was back but he brought a bushy haired girl with him.

"Hermione!" Tori exclaimed "Good to see you!"

"Hi Victoria, so-"

She asked us if we've seen Neville's toad again. She sounded bossy and when we said no again, she ignored and asked Ron to do some magic since he has raised his wand. Tori moved to the seat next to me so Hermione could sit with Ophelia and see Ron do some magic.

He tried turning his rat yellow but failed.

"Are you sure that's a real spell?" she said with a bossy tone.

She continued to chatter a lot of things. I didn't want to listen to any of it.

"-I'm Hermione Granger by the way, all of you are?"

We each introduced ourselves and she rambled about reading Harry and me. Then she continued about school houses, I got butterflies again.

She finally left but Tori didn't get back to her seat, I didn't mind though

"She sounds obnoxious," I said, flipping the pages on my book.

"She's ok, she just likes to talk." Lia defended, trying to be nice.

"Whatever house I'm in I hope she's not in it," Ron said, putting aside his wand.

Harry tapped my knees to get my attention, and leaned forward saying he wants to whisper something to me. I leaned forward, almost falling from my seat.

"When did you get so vocal about your opinions? With the Dursleys, you would never say that."

I hummed to tell him I don't know and leaned back. Our companions were looking at us wondering what he whispered to me but we didn't say anything.

But I think the real reason for my vocality is that I got more confidence escaping the Dursleys for an entire school year and getting to know other kids that aren't scared of Dudley's wrath.

Later on, Ron and Tori agreed on how horrid Fred and George are. Harry asked about the houses, each time they talk about that I feel sick.

"Are you ok, Carly?" Tori asked, reaching for my hand.

"Yeah, I am" I lied.

Ron said he wanted to be in Gryffindor, Lia's family is full of Ravenclaws but she and Tori don't care what house they both are.

They talked about Ron's other brothers, Quidditch, Tori was excited about that too. Then the door slid open again, this time it was 3 people, I recognized the middle boy anywhere.

It was the boy from the robes shop that was accompanied by his sister. She was gone but 2 other larger boys were with him. I saw that Lia recognizes him too.

He talked about a lot of things at last, he finally introduced himself "And my name is Malfoy, Draco Malfoy"

Ron coughed and hid a chuckle. He insulted Ron and his family. Tori came to his defense.

"Don't you dare say a word more." She stood up but the boys behind Malfoy straighten up too and she sat back down.

"I see at least you Potters, made friends with the right sort. Hullo Ophelia" Malfoy looked at her both she made a disgusted face.

"We can tell who the wrong sort is for us, thanks" I snapped at him, slamming my book close.

"Ooh- we have a feisty little girl" he said instead of going red but I saw a tint of pink in his pale face.

They continued to bully the heck out of our compartment. Until Scabbers bit Goyle, one of the goons Malfoy was with. Hermione and Malfoy's sister came.

"Draco! Stop harassing these people, go now three of you." the other Malfoy said, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle left

"What has been going on?" the bossy Hermione was back

"Sorry guys, about my brother. Anyway, I'm Larissa Malfoy."

We each then introduced ourselves. I then realized that Larissa's brown roots and pink highlights were gone and was covered by white hair dye.

"Are you his older sister?" Tori asked Larissa enthusiastically

"Yes, kind of, but we're both in the same year" she answered

"Anyways, you better get your robes, we're about to get there soon, I asked the driver about it." Hermione said with her arms in her waist.

I just now realize that I still wore 'muggle' shirt and jeans. I changed in the comfort room and came back. Tori and Lia were looking at Lia's mini toy telescope that she said was from her parents. Harry and Ron were talking. I joined the girls in their conversation. At last, it was peaceful once again.

EXTRA!:

*Ophelia, Tori and Carly talking about astrology*

Harry: I don't know much about Astrology.

Lia: Really? I could teach you all I know about the stars, the planets, constellations, galaxies, all that stuff! *holding Harry's hand with her hands, while her eyes twinkle, talking about Astrology*

Harry: I- er- uh- *looking at his hand and being extremely red*

Ron was looking at him weirdly, Carly and Tori giggled.

Carly loudly whispered, "He likes red-heads~~~" pretending to read her text book. Harry was still staring at his hand, and finally, Ophelia removed her hand from his.

Lia: Oh, sorry...

Carly: No, just keep holding him, so he can explode. *whispered*

Ron: He's not responding to anything, I think he already exploded.

Tori: Harry has a crush~~ *clapping*

Lia: No, he doesn't have a crush on me, he's just uncomfortable being too close to a girl, right?

Carly: Too close to a girl? I spent 11 years being in close proximity with him.

Harry: Ok! Change topic. Tori! What do you want to know about muggles?