A personage peaked from under the covers of his slumber. Soft morning light was invading the room he was in through a small gap the curtain had failed to cover of the window.

Charles Walters woke up slowly feeling a slight pain in his whole form. The sleeping potion he consumed every night because of his rapidly growing insomnia sure did give something in return.

He looked at the calender hanging on the wall of the room of the apartment their family owned on Downing Street in London. It was 1st of September the new term had to start today.

Severus Snape had been made the new Headmaster of Hogwarts after Dumbledore. On 1 August 1997 the minister of magic Rufus Scrimgeour had been interrogated and when refused to reveal any whereabouts of Harry Potter, then had been killed. He was replaced by Pius Thicknesse. The Ministry was now clearly under the control of people working for the Dark Lord. Maybe they were just so quick in saying that the mynistry won't bow down in any conditions.

This was no surprise for him. This was bound to happen to the damned mynistry because of the lethargic way they took control of things and probably this was better than what more could have happened.

He glanced at his trunk. a Green and Silver colored flag was pasted on it was shining on top of it.

He quickly left the bed and esemnled it. After cleaning up and following basic procedures of getting ready he made his way to the semi modular kitchen with a poor wood work. He quickly grabbed some ramen from the pantry and cooked some spam and two fried eggs to go with this . It was an unhealthy choice of a breakfast but that's what his mother craved for longingly including pickles of every sort.

He remembered the way she was laying limply on the couch unconscious with her clothing looking torn and the state of the window stated that there had been intruders in the house who had ravished his mother forcefully.

There was a severe fracture and muscle rupture diagnosed in her leg after that as if she had been hit there several times with something heavy as an attempt to make her unconscious.

He opened the door of her bedroom slowly and entered without noise . He opened the curtains and gently shook the woman on the bed to wake her up.

She opened her eyes and squinted as if trying to come back to senses. Then she spread her arms smiling indicating him to come and hug her. He kept the plate of her breakfast on the side table beside her bed and embraced her in a warm hug. "Do you really have to go to school this year? I'd be terribly lonely without you. Besides I don't think it's..." she started but he interrupted her in the middle and said "Yeah it really is necessary this year. Grandma would be here after I'm gone , with her nurse to take care of you. "

"Fine then . But promise when you'll be back you'll make me ramen again and have you eaten anything for yourself?" she asked

"No actually. I got some money, will eat something on the train and yeahI will make ramen again for you . I promise" was his answer.

The steam from the prodigious Hogwarts Express came out in abundance taking the air around completely in its embrace.

Ginny Weasley fiddled with here money that she was going to use on the train to have a munch. She did not want to attend the school year but her fate had its own ways.

She climbed on the train at 10.53. There were still some minutes for the train to completely run from the platform as it's last of passenger's boarded it in a jiffy.

She walked past full compartments with her heavy trunk as a mysterious unwillingness entwined her body in its tangles. She stopped finally when the handle of her worn out trunk was halfway done with its journey to finally come out. Her pockets ruffled as her pygmypuff made some noise inside, happily munching on the dose of chocolate she had given him. She did so because she decided that she would lock the little creature in its cage at school. She grunted in frustration as passengers after passengers pushed past her and made their way forward.

Then she heard a compartment which was located in the middle of the small hall open. Grabbe and Goyle came out and stood halfway in the middle of the corridor laughing to some conversation that had been going on inside the compartment they had been in.

"Snape's our Headmaster this year. He was the head of our house for soo long I'm sure some things are going to change this year for Slytheris" Ginny heard a girl giggling and saying .

"Some? They have to be! I mean i can feel the air change around the platform only. I can feel the fear in the eyes of these Gryffindors . They won't look you in the eye now and remember how they used to walk around tge corridors with their chests high . I hate it" she heard someone boast about her house from inside of the compartment.

"Yeah then let's test out" she saw Crabbe licking his lips devilishly and saying. A first year Gryffindor made his way by pushing past Ginny. He walked silently forward as Crabbe clearly inserted his foot in between and watched merrily as the fell down.

A loud laughter of several people escaped the compartment as the child brushed his clothes and knees and looked quite bothered and agitated. He walked away.

Ginny stood their and watched the scene with wide eyes. Was this really happening?

"Excuse me miss" she heard someone say quietly behind her as they gently pushed their way past her. A boy in the same black jacket and blue muggle jeans she had seen last time made his way forward.

Meanwhile Crabbe inserted his foot again in the way of the boy and he fell down.

"Ooooppps " all of the people in the compartment uttered out in laughter as they saw the boy Ginny finally recognized as Charles Walters as he picked himself up.

Crabbe grabbed the glass of water from the table in the compartment and dropped it on his shoe. "Look what you did, you dropped water on my shoe . It was new" he uttered in a fake agitated voice.

Ginny heard all of the others in the compartment loudly and audibly snigger at this as Crabbe played his game of white lies.

"Well really? Let me clean them up for you then " the boy said smiling almost tiredly as he obliged and bent down .

What he did next , shocked everyone. He took the shoe off of Crabbe's foot and slammed it hard and angrily on his fat face. "How dare you , you raging fat meat ball! " he loudly as he angrily slammed it again straight on his nose. When he was done he dropped the shoe and said again in a low voice "Stop behaving like pubic hair stuck on a shitpot and DO something about it " he said grabbing the fat on the giant Slytherin's belly painfully.

"And you damned idiots, drown your bottom in arsenic for once the Earth will be pleased. " He said angrily and walked away.

Ginny finally found herself seated in one of the last compartments with this boy Charles Walters , Neville and Luna.

Luna , Neville and Ginny chatted for a while with each other, completely ignoring the other occupant of the compartment who had his nose stuck in a book.

After a while when they were out of topics Luna bluttered "Magical brain parasites and their origins. Interesting " they all looked at the book in the hand of the boy to which Luna was referring .

"This was the supplementary for first years to read before coming to Hogwarts last year. Why are you reading it now?" asked Neville raising his brow.

"Why are you fiddling with your chain and constantly fidgeting ?" thr boy asked pleasantly . He gave a small smile to Neville which Ginnh could see was sarcastic .

"Which house you're in ? I suppose I talked to you last time if I remember correctly " Ginny said almost out of curiosity.

"Slytherin " he answered plainly without looking up from his book.

Before anyone could say anything, the train stopped with a thud. The lamps in the train suddenly went off and a deathly silence fell over for everyone had stopped talking.

They heard voices and gasps from the corridor outside ss footsteps descended forward. They were slowly making their way forward as if intending to invade their compartment. Ginny gulped as she felt a gush of fear run down her spine . She felt herself grab something hardly when she heard the footsteps finally stop outside their compartments door.

The door opened and two death eaters dressed in all black, their dark marks visible invaded their compartments and held their wands at Neville and Luna.

"We got information that you both are associated to Harry Potter . We checked the train . He isn't here . We want to know his whereabouts" one of the death eaters said threateningly.

A tear fell from Ginny's eyes as she feared that they could kill Neville , they could kill Harry.

"I don't know where is he. He isn't my brother or personal teaching assistant that he would always be sticking around me like glue and telling me where he is going and he isn't here so you can damn off you last minute losers" said Neville.

Ginny heard someone blow a small fractured whistle. The one that you intend to blow when you're impressed with someone's statements.

Others didn't seem to hear it but Ginny did as she looked at the black haired boy with his mouth in the shape of an O watching the scene as if it were a movie.

Ginny raised his brow at him as if asking if he really found this funny and saw him cover his mouth with his hand and look down at the floor.

"You'll be dealt off at school" they said and walked away leaving the compartment.

When they were gone she felt something move under her hand by which she had grabbed something. She looked down to see she was holding this boy's hand which he quickly removed as he seemed to notice it at the same time as she did but he did not look at her at all.

After a long while when everything became quite normal again the black haired boy started to get up as Ginny chatted away with Demelza who had joined them.

"Where are you going ? Did you find that funny ? " Ginny said angrily suddenly.

"No. I'm just going to change my clothes as I don't want any other elite presence on the train" he answered and started to walk away.

(pls don't think it's a cringe fest I'm a baby and I'm sure there are other cringy things as well out there)

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A/N ~ The story is not dead . It just started. Please review and vote if you liked .Also I already mentioned and I'll mention it again this story is not completely based off on the original HP plot .

Also please ignore the minor errors I'm sure they were auto correct.

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