Seven Futures, One Destiny

by: Harrison and the Cow Chain

Chapter One: The Arrival: Trouble Brews.

Once again, as usual, it was that time where all those gifted wizards had to pull out their trunks, pack them with books, quills and ink and head out the door for the old faithful train: Hogwarts Express.It was fifth year and things were getting really weird. Most, if not all of the students had changed, and a few new people popped up along the way. Everyone was getting on the train.Harry, Hermione, and Ron had just squished into their trusty reserved compartment when a boy's head popped in and said, " Hey I'm Zac!" he had a american accent. " There's no other compartments left, and me and my cousin have no where to sit. Can we come in here?" he said.

" Sure." Ron said as Zac and Aerial sat down. "I'm Hermione Granger and you are?" Hermione said. "Zac Cloninger" The boy replied, "Pleasure." At this, Zac felt pretty stupid and Aerial saw it." So what year?" Aerial asked. "Fifth" Harry said. "YOUR HARRY POTTER!" Aerial screamed.

"Yep that's m.... Wait a sec. your not gonna jump me are you?" He told her. "Ummm..no, it's just nice to meet you. That goes for all of you." She added. So, they talked for a while and non-other than Draco Malfoy popped up. When he saw the new girl his eyes shot open. "Who do we have here?" he asked.

" Go away Malfoy!" Ron spat, pulling out pig, who hooted stupidly and nipped at ron's hand. " No" Draco said, " I'll think I'll stay and find out who these two mudbloods are!" he said. Zac laughed. " Were not mudbloods, you git! We come from a great wizarding family named Cloninger! I bet it's by far better than that family of yours!" he said with a snarl and gave his cousin Aerial a look. Aerial gave Malfoy a look of dislike and his eyes narrowed. " How are you to know that? You don't know me!"

" And you don't know us!" Aerial said, " So leave." Malfoy grunted low and murmured something that sounded suspiciously like " I'll get you for this." and walked out.

"I hate that bastard." Zac said and Hermione's eyes widened. "Well, I had to go to school with his cousin. Aerial, don't you remember that kid named John? Yeah, I used to call him John Draco Jiginhamen Smith." At this, everyone laughed and Draco walked back in. Harry stood up. "So, you are the kid my cousin beat up." Malfoy spat and Zac died out laughing. "Your joking, right? I mean, Draco, come on! I put him in a trash can like four times a day." Malfoy went red and turned to Aerial. His face turned from mad to..just weird and he stared at Aerial for like five minutes until Ron pushed him out of the compartment.The ride to Hogwarts was slowly coming to an end.

"What was THAT about?" Aerial said as she talked to Hermione. Hermione shook her head, "That's Draco for you. He always goes around looking for trouble. Its in his blood." then she told Aerial about his father Luscious. Then the whole crowd got to talking about Quidditch. " I hope we beat the bloody hell out of Slytherin this year!" Ron said looking at Harry. " Everyone knows they could use with a good beating. Even if they do have, Nimbus 2001's" And he said the last part with a mock tone. Everyone laughed. The train was slowing down and everyone stood up to grab their stuff. Ron stuffed Pig in his pocket.

After the sorting took place, the feast had begun. Ron saw Zac reading a book, "What's that?" he asked, taking a bite out of a peice of chicken. "it's a book about a magicail place, but I don't think the place exists." Zac said." It's called the Shadow of Luclin" He added. "Eww Hermione! He might be your type." Ron said with a smile on his face. " Shut it, Ron." Hermione replied, going red. Harry and Aerial didn't notice, they were too busy watching Malfoy stare. He was staring at Aerial. It made Harry uncomfortable.

Aerial took a drink from her goblet. " Harry? What's Malfoy doing?" and Harry just growled while him and Malfoy glared daggers at each other. Dumbledore got up to give a few words and dismiss the class. " Everyone, I would like you all to know, " he said with open wide arms, " that this year things will be slightly different. We will be grouping off two houses together, and for each class, you will be with that house. Now, if Professor McGonagall will come and read off the pairs, we'll be off to bed and have a nice early start in the morning!" And so Professor McGonagall stood. " Not with Slytherin!!!" Ron prayed silently, along with everyone else at each table. But just as he finished his prayer she said, " Gryffinndor and Slytherin". His head hit the table. ( Ravenclaw went with Hufflepuff obviously) And after all was taken care of, they were dismissed and everyone walked out.

"NO!!!" Zac shouted along with Ron and Harry. "Well, the way I see it, is that we should just stay away from them." Hermione added and with that, they went inside the Common Room. Everyone sat down. Ron, Harry and Aerial sat down on the big couch, and Zac and Hermione sat down on the smaller chair like thing. "So, what's it like here?" Zac asked curiously. That started Hermione into her speech about all that had happened and what it was like and how her, Ron and Harry had been best of friends. She also talked about summer vacation with Viktor Krum, which made Zac roll his eyes. After about 45 minutes of talking, everyone went to their dorms except for Hermione and Aerial.

"Well, " Hermione said tucking a thick book under her arm, " How do you like it so far, Aerial?" she said. Aerial smiled, " I like it! Harry and Ron seem really nice! And the food was great! But, I don't know how I feel about the Slytherin pairing. From what I heard, being with Slytherin is the worst. But Hey! What do you think about my cousin zac? He's a nice guy , huh?" Hermione went pink and nodded. They talked a while then walked up to their dorms.

------------------- Yeah, we know this is short! But the next chapter will be MUCH longer, trust us! Review us and tell us what you think, so we can get an idea of what you thought about it. Give us a break, this is our first fic, so it's not gonna be like NORMAL fics * which a boring* so bare with us. Next chapter soon!!

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