Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and anything that has to do with the Harry Potter Book Series. However I do own, Ryleigh Parker, Chloe James, Anthony Carter, and Jared Stallone.

Chapter 1

Harry's eyes wandered around the dark and gloomy hallways, of Hogwarts. He'd be spending the next 9 months of his life here. But he didn't mind, in fact, he was ecstatic about the whole idea. Nine months without those Dursleys, who were related to him. No more of Aunt Petunia's disgusting cooking, no more of Uncle Vernon's temper, and best of all, he didn't have to stare at Dudley's fat face!

He glanced next to him and saw his new friend, well actually his only friend, Ron Weasley. He was new to the school, too. Although, he did have 5 older siblings that have attended Hogwarts in the past; three of which still go there. Fred and George who were twins and spelt the word, 'TROUBLE' and Percy who defined the word, 'Teacher's Pet'.

Ron turned to look at Harry, but he didn't seem as nervous. They were on their way to the Dining Hall to figure out which house they were going to belong to for the next 7 years. Ron and Harry were both hoping to get into Gryffindor, because that's the house that Ron's brothers were in.

"That Hermione! She just makes me so mad," Ron was saying.

Harry finally turned to him, "Who? What?"

"Hermione! That girl from the Hogwarts Train. She's just so-ugh!" Ron could

feel his anger rising.

"Ok, Ron, let's calm down here." Harry smiled a little.

Ron followed the rest of the first years through 2 large doors; Harry was at his side. It was very noisy, most of the kids were already there patiently waiting for the Ceremony to begin. There were four long tables. Harry guessed that each table contained a house. The first one off the left was Gryffindor. Next to that was, Hufflepuff, then came, Ravenclaw and finally, Slytherin. Harry shuttered. Out of all the houses the one he definitely didn't want to belong to was Slytherin. Volder-You Know Who had been in that house.

Harry could hear a bunch of people whispering as all the people stood in a line; things like, 'Is that THE Harry Potter?', or '*gasp* Harry Potter' and then, 'Look at the scar on his head!' Ron and him sat down. Harry noticed one girl with long, light brown hair starring at him with intense blue eyes. They creeped him out as much as they annoyed him. Since he didn't know which he felt more he let anger bubble over into her face.

"What? Are you staring at my scar, too?! Get your own life!" The girls eyes widened with shock when she realized he was yelling at her. Then her face clouded over in anger.

"Fine! If your gonna be mean about this I won't ask you about you living with Muggle's!" She got up and walked to the other end of the line.

Harry's mouth dropped with guilt. Her face really looked hurt.

"Some people." Ron shook his head. But, Harry felt bad.he didn't know she was going to be nice to him. He hadn't thought.well, she was probably just trying to cover up embarrassment he reassured himself. His gut said differently, though. Before he finished his thought process laughter erupted throughout the Dining Hall. Harry and Ron looked over to see what everyone was laughing at.and then they saw him. The blue eyed, blonde haired goof off. Anthony Carter. Ron made a disgusted grunt. Anthony was one of Fred and George's friends. If you encountered a joke of any kind that involved the twins you often found Anthony in the mischief, too. Harry sighed slightly. Why couldn't he be as carefree as that?

Then the Sorting Hat started his business.

At the end of the Sorting, excited whispering and laughter was taking place among the tables. Ron and Harry were very happy they were in Gryffindor with Ron's older brothers, even if they had Hermione and the girl with the blue blue eyes. She kind of creeped him out for reasons he couldn't explain. Harry took his attention away from the girl's back when he heard snickering and realized it was about him. He started at a bunch of people, his age probably, in expensive cloaks pointing to the scar on his head. He sighed loudly.

"Don't mind them," Ron comforted, "They have nothing better to do."

"Yea, I guess." He made eye contact with another girl that seemed to be apart of the "populars" but she wasn't laughing with the rest of them. Instead she seemed to be giving him a sympathetic smile. This girl had green, cat-like eyes and gave him goose bumps, like the other girl, so he turned his attention to Fred and George. They were having an excited talk with Ron.

"Guys," Harry interrupted, "Do you know who those people over there are?"

Fred and George looked over along with Ron.

"Oh, well, Those two are our age; their names are Klara Stallone and Matthew Parker. Her brother is Jared and Matt's sister is Ryleigh. She has the coolest eyes! They're first years." Fred said.

"Yea." Harry said absently.

"Don't sweat it. Who cares what they say." George chimed in, "Klara and Matt don't know anything."

"Hmmm," Harry turned his head to the back of the girl with interesting blue eyes, "I think you might have some competition with those cat like eyes, though." Fred and George followed Harry's gaze.

"Wow." They both said at the same time, "I wonder who she is." But, at that moment the feast started and the twins' minds went to concentrating on their food. Halfway through the meal Harry and Ron heard more snickering and glanced over just in time to see Ryleigh with her cat like eyes hit Jared in the gut for pointing towards Harry. He felt a tug of appreciation for her kindness, even though she didn't say anything to him.

*~~Ok! That's the end of Chapter One! Please Review!~~*