1 Chapter 2~ her first day

The next week went by in a blur. The next thing hypothia knew, she was at king's cross station.

"but dad! There IS no platform 9 and 3 quarters!" she exclaimed.

"yes there is. Its right there." He said pointing to the wall inbetween platforms 9 and 10. "all you have to do is run straight at the wall. Don't worry, you'll make it." he gave her a hug and a kiss on theforehead.

"we'll miss you!" her mother said giving her a hug. "hurry, or you'll be late!"

hypothia lined up her trolley with the wall and ran. She kept running until she was standing infront of a train with a sign that said "hogwarts express". She put her bags in the luggage compartment and boarded. She walked down the corridor and peered into a room. She was looking for harry, but instead she found two girls already 4in their school robes. They looked at her and one of them said, "hello."

"oh, sorry, I was looking for someone else." Hypothia said and turned to leave.

then the other girl piped up, "wait! Who is it? Maybe we can help you find them."

"oh.um.harry, that's his name." She said as she took a seat.

"harry POTTER?" the first one asked exited.

"yes, I think that's his name." hypothia replied. "I'm his cousin."

"WOW!" the 1st girl said. "well, I don't think he's here. We'd have heard something if harry potter were on the train. You can sit her if you want."

"thenk you." hypothia replied. "my name's hypothia, and you are.?"

"I'm claire." The first girl said. "and this is alice." She said pointing to the second girl

"are you a first year?" alice asked.

"yeah. Are you guys?"

"yup." Claire said. Claire was taller than hypothia. She had light brown hair that fell down her face slightly enough so one could see her blue eyes and freckled around her nose. Alice had short brown straight hair and looked younger than claire, but swore she was 11. "so, hypothia, what house do YOU want to be in?" claire asked.

" what house? I don't understand." Hypothia said looking confused.

"well, the school is deivided into 4 houses. They are: ravenclaw, hufflepuff, gryffindor, and slytherin. Pity if one should have to deal with being in hufflepuff. We both want to be in slytherin. That's where my brother draco is." Alice said matter-of-factly.

"well, I don't know where I want to be. I guess slytherin if you 2 are there. I don't really know anyone else. Uness you count harry."

"NO ONE should count harry!" alice said. "I mean, everyone thinks he's so greeat cuz he has a stupid scar on his forehead."

"scar?" hypothia asked innocently. "what scar?"

"well, when voldemort killed his parents, he left a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt on his forehead." Alice said back.

"oh." Hypothia replied. "I see."

The train reached Hogwarts a quarter of an hour later. Hypothia stepped off with claire and alice. They went up to the castle and up a flight of stairs where a cat was sitting. Then, infront of their eyes, the cat transformed into a fairly old woman wearing a robe and a hat. She spoke as most of the students stoof in awe. "hello first years. Come this way. Let the sorting ceremony begin." She opened the doors and inside were 4 long tables, all parallel to eachother, then another long one perpendicular to the rest. "line up." The woman said. "let's being." She pulled out a long parchment and started calling out children's names. An old hat was placed on their head and it announced on of the houses alice ahd told her about before. "hummel, claire." The woman said.

Claire walked up and saty on the stool and the hat began to talk, "well, this one's easy, slytherin." The table which hypothia deducted to be slytherin started clapping and hollering. A few more people's names were called, then the woman shouted, "malfoy, alice!"

the woman went to place the hat on alice's head, but about an inch away from touching her, it shouted, "slytherin!" alice smuggly hopped off the stool and walked to the table where claire went.

A few more students were sorted when the woman shouted, "swingward, Hypothia!" hypothia waslked up the three sairs and sat on the stool.

"let me see." The hat said. "lot's of potential, nice brain, must be, slytherin!" hypothia got up and walked over to the slytherin table and sat next to alice.

After what seemed like a never ending feast, the houses were taken to their dormitories. An older boy lead the slytherins up many flights of stairs. "come now. everyone keep up!" he said. "the staircases like to change on us! So everyone stay close!"

then he came to a halt infront of a painting of a man with a sword. "password?" the man said.

"pure blood." The boy replied. The picture opened and inside the short corridor was a room filedwith many chairs and couches. "everyone! Girls this way and boys this way!" he said, pointing his fingers in different directions. "your things have already been brought up. Get to bed, classes beging tomorrow."

Hypothia went up to the girls dorm. She changed into her pajamas and began to unpack. On the top of her tunk was a note from her father. She opened it and it read:

my dear hypothia,

I hope you are having a good time. If you want to writeto us, give it to your own and it will make it here. There is something you must know. Do you remember when I told you that people didn't appreciate wizard- muggle marriages? Well, that is not true. The thruth is that your mother IS a witch. She was a strong follower of he-who-must-not-be-named. When she fell inlove with me, be became jealous since they were together at the time. I convinced her to come live with me in the muggle world so we could be safe. Since I was james potter's brother, this made our situation even worse. Me, james, and lily had been trying to fight his for some time, but when I married your mother, it angered him even more and that is when he killed them. I know this is a lot to deal with on your first day, but I felt you had a right to know. Please write soon. All my love.

Dad

Hypothia folded the note up and put it under her pillow. She pulled out a pice of paper and wrote, "dear dad," then she fell asleep. It had been a long day.