Wrote this months ago. I changed it a little. There are many chapters, but they're really SHORT, only about 4KB each. Please R&R, I love receiving reviews!
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Hello, I'm Tom Marvolo Riddle.
I will be starting my fourth year at Hogwarts in a few hours.
I am at the Station 9 and 3/4 at King's Cross, waiting for the Hogwarts Express.
My friends haven't arrived yet. I can't wait to show them I'm Slytherin Prefect this year!
I heard that Anna will be Hufflepuff Prefect this time. Ha ha ha, Anna Let's-Sneak-around-the-castle-at-night-and-find-ten-more-secret-passages-and-passwords Snowden, a Prefect. The staff obviously doesn't know about her nighttime wanderings.
She is one of my four best friends (which happen to be all girls).
Lila Boyd is another one of my friends. She's in Hufflepuff.
Rosemary Mayer is in Gryffindor. And *Magnolia* is in Hufflepuff.
They're all sneaky, pretty fourth-years who are really good at school. They explore out-of-bounds places in the castle at night and know the passwords to everywhere. They know dozens of secret rooms and passages.
Me? You'll never catch me roaming at night. I always stick to the school rules.
This year might not be very different to them, but it will be to me, because I finally built up the courage to ask sweet, lovely Magnolia out. I like her more than Anna, Rosemary, and Lila.
If I'm lucky, Magnolia might feel the same about me...
Slap. Back to Earth, Tom.
Here comes Anna. With a Prefect badge on her sweater. Really, I can't believe she's a Prefect. I could have told the Professors about my four friends sneaking about when it's dark, but I couldn't, because they're my friends and I do not want them expelled.
My four friends are crossing the barrier between Station 9 and 10 to get to this Station, where I am waiting.
Anna received a Pegasus from an Anonymous person last year. She had to let it at Hogwarts over the summer with the groundkeeper.
Anti-Muggle security's the reason why. And also, it couldn't possibly fit in the train.
Lila's coming.
Lila has a pet turtle. She got it from the Forbidden Forest two years ago. She says the turtle was too small to survive and she felt sorry for it. So, she kept it.
Rosemary just came with her pet phoenix on her shoulder (it is a baby phoenix). What was she thinking, bringing a magical beautiful bird in a Muggle city?
Finally, Magnolia came with her pets lizard and rabbit.
They are all pushing their trunks over here.
Magnolia let her trunk down and sat on it, holding her rabbit in her hands and the sleeping lizard on her shoulder, next to me.
Rosemary got tired of pushing her heavy trunk and whispered, "Movos!" She really knows she's not allowed to use magic at least until aboard the train. Her trunk magically moved next to Magnolia's and she came and sat on it. "No one noticed, so what's the big deal?" Rosemary said.
Lila's trunk seemed too burdensome for her to push, so she kicked it until it reached us.
Anna used a Muggle thing that helps pushing heavy things to get her trunk next to our trunks. I read in Muggle Studies that that thing is used in airports too. Muggles have the silliest ideas!
"Hello! Had a nice summer?" I said.
"Oh yes, my family and I explored the pyramids of Egypt, it was very educational and interesting. There are so many curses on them..." Lila said.
"Yup, it was fun. My family and I went to the Quidditch World Cup in Transylvania. And we visited Dracula's castle while we were there... Oh, guess who won the Cup? France, 430 to Italy, 380." Anna said.
"Summer was great, we swam with merpeople off the coast of Ireland." Rosemary said.
"I stayed at my uncle's house for three weeks. He had hundreds of animals, Muggle and Magical, from all over the world and I helped him take care of the lot. I learned more about Care of Magical Creatures in three weeks than I did in three years." Magnolia said.
The Hogwarts Express had arrived. We pushed our trunks into a compartment we had to ourselves.
We talked for two hours, then we got hungry and bought Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans.
I didn't want to ask Magnolia yet. I didn't want to ask her in front of the whole group.
I was so happy to see my four friends again, I didn't worry about it right now.
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Hello, I'm Tom Marvolo Riddle.
I will be starting my fourth year at Hogwarts in a few hours.
I am at the Station 9 and 3/4 at King's Cross, waiting for the Hogwarts Express.
My friends haven't arrived yet. I can't wait to show them I'm Slytherin Prefect this year!
I heard that Anna will be Hufflepuff Prefect this time. Ha ha ha, Anna Let's-Sneak-around-the-castle-at-night-and-find-ten-more-secret-passages-and-passwords Snowden, a Prefect. The staff obviously doesn't know about her nighttime wanderings.
She is one of my four best friends (which happen to be all girls).
Lila Boyd is another one of my friends. She's in Hufflepuff.
Rosemary Mayer is in Gryffindor. And *Magnolia* is in Hufflepuff.
They're all sneaky, pretty fourth-years who are really good at school. They explore out-of-bounds places in the castle at night and know the passwords to everywhere. They know dozens of secret rooms and passages.
Me? You'll never catch me roaming at night. I always stick to the school rules.
This year might not be very different to them, but it will be to me, because I finally built up the courage to ask sweet, lovely Magnolia out. I like her more than Anna, Rosemary, and Lila.
If I'm lucky, Magnolia might feel the same about me...
Slap. Back to Earth, Tom.
Here comes Anna. With a Prefect badge on her sweater. Really, I can't believe she's a Prefect. I could have told the Professors about my four friends sneaking about when it's dark, but I couldn't, because they're my friends and I do not want them expelled.
My four friends are crossing the barrier between Station 9 and 10 to get to this Station, where I am waiting.
Anna received a Pegasus from an Anonymous person last year. She had to let it at Hogwarts over the summer with the groundkeeper.
Anti-Muggle security's the reason why. And also, it couldn't possibly fit in the train.
Lila's coming.
Lila has a pet turtle. She got it from the Forbidden Forest two years ago. She says the turtle was too small to survive and she felt sorry for it. So, she kept it.
Rosemary just came with her pet phoenix on her shoulder (it is a baby phoenix). What was she thinking, bringing a magical beautiful bird in a Muggle city?
Finally, Magnolia came with her pets lizard and rabbit.
They are all pushing their trunks over here.
Magnolia let her trunk down and sat on it, holding her rabbit in her hands and the sleeping lizard on her shoulder, next to me.
Rosemary got tired of pushing her heavy trunk and whispered, "Movos!" She really knows she's not allowed to use magic at least until aboard the train. Her trunk magically moved next to Magnolia's and she came and sat on it. "No one noticed, so what's the big deal?" Rosemary said.
Lila's trunk seemed too burdensome for her to push, so she kicked it until it reached us.
Anna used a Muggle thing that helps pushing heavy things to get her trunk next to our trunks. I read in Muggle Studies that that thing is used in airports too. Muggles have the silliest ideas!
"Hello! Had a nice summer?" I said.
"Oh yes, my family and I explored the pyramids of Egypt, it was very educational and interesting. There are so many curses on them..." Lila said.
"Yup, it was fun. My family and I went to the Quidditch World Cup in Transylvania. And we visited Dracula's castle while we were there... Oh, guess who won the Cup? France, 430 to Italy, 380." Anna said.
"Summer was great, we swam with merpeople off the coast of Ireland." Rosemary said.
"I stayed at my uncle's house for three weeks. He had hundreds of animals, Muggle and Magical, from all over the world and I helped him take care of the lot. I learned more about Care of Magical Creatures in three weeks than I did in three years." Magnolia said.
The Hogwarts Express had arrived. We pushed our trunks into a compartment we had to ourselves.
We talked for two hours, then we got hungry and bought Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans.
I didn't want to ask Magnolia yet. I didn't want to ask her in front of the whole group.
I was so happy to see my four friends again, I didn't worry about it right now.