"You have caused enough trouble here in Durmstang, I'm sorry Miss Adams but you are expelled." Professor Jones told the young girl.

"Professor it wasn't me! Besides that where am I to go? I have no family or a home," Arcadia Adams said to her headmaster.

"You have your older brother, Jag, in Colombia," Professor Jones said.

"He's studying dragons! You're willing to risk a student's life by sending them with fully grown dragons?" Arcadia asked.

After a few moments and a deep sigh Professor Jones spoke once again, "I will contact Professor Dumbledore at Hogwarts School until his response you can stay."

"Thank you Professor Jones," Arcadia said before leaving his office.

Arcadia walked the cold hallways to her dorm. Most students were already sound and asleep in their dorm beds. Her dorm common room was empty though the flames were still lighting the room. She made her way downstairs into the girl's dorm and plopped down on her bed. Sleep came only after she sang herself to sleep just as she had for nine years. Arcadia didn't wake in the morning when she was shook and yelled at by her friends. Arcadia finally woke up when Professor Jones came in and woke her up with the life changing news.

"Arcadia, Professor Dumbledore has agreed to accept you at Hogwarts. Do you have your things ready?" Professor Jones asked.

"Yes I did that last night. I'll change into some regular clothes," Arcadia said crawling to the foot of her bed.

Professor Jones left the room as Arcadia closed the bed curtains. She slipped out of the flannel pajamas she wore and dressed in one of her favorite outfits. She stepped out of the shut curtained bed wearing a pair of worn light blue jeans flared like all girls wear their jeans and a simple black t-shirt she drew her name on in silver and a metallic crimson color. She sat down on the carpeted floor rubbing her black eyes free of sleep as she slipped on a pair of sneakers and ran her hands through her cherry red, mid-back length hair untangling it. Arcadia drug her chest filled with her wand, clothes, parchment, and quills out the door and stood waiting for Professor Jones' instructions.

"You will be traveling by floo powder tonight," Professor Jones said handing Arcadia a sachet filled with powder. "You've been such a asset to this school and its wrong for you to be leaving on these terms."

Arcadia nodded leading the way down to the common room fireplace.

Sunset. Everyone was down in the cafeteria eating dinner. Arcadia thought of those she'd became close to over the three years she spent here. By now she knew not to get close to anyone, because once you got too close something went wrong and they'd disappear. Professor Jones hugged Arcadia before she stepped into fireplace. She reached into the sachet and pulled out a handful of the silvery floo powder.

"Thanks for everything Professor," Arcadia told her favorite teacher before yelling, "Hogwarts!"

In a flash Arcadia was gone and traveling at a high speed to the Hogwarts castle. Green flames surrounded Arcadia as her stomach fell and she felt as though she was about to be sick. With a thud Arcadia was in a part of her new school. The young girl brushed the soot off her clothes and skin as she looked around her new surroundings. Weird gadgets and portraits of former headmasters lined the walls of this circular room. The door opened and an elderly man stepped through the portal into the room. His white beard reached his knees and mixed together with his hair that seemed to go on for miles. His blue eyes twinkled as a soft smile formed on his face.

"You must be Catherine. I'm Professor Dumbledore," the old wizard said extending his right hand.

"Hello Professor Dumbledore and its Arcadia not Catherine," Arcadia said shaking his hand and shuttering at the name.

"All right then, Arcadia let's get you sorted and into a house," Professor Dumbledore said.

"A house sir?"

Professor Dumbledore explained the four houses and the point system to a clueless Arcadia. Once everything was explained Arcadia found herself with a raggedy hat on top of her head. The two had a bit of an argument as to where she should go. Arcadia told the hat in her mind Hufflepuff sounded as though it wasn't for her but the other three were all right. In return the hat told her she was a complicated mind and that it needed time to think.

"It needs time to think? Can I please see that hat?" Professor Dumbledore asked.

Arcadia handed the thing over and watched as Professor put the hat on. A puzzled expression came over his face for a moment and he took off the hat.

"For a trial period you will be sorted into Slytherin while the Sorting Hat has had time to think this over completely. I will escort you to the Slytherin House entrance," Professor Dumbledore said leading her out to a corridor.

A few students walked to their destinations stopped momentarily to look at the new girl. She wasn't the same like the rest, her hair was brighter and redder then the Weasley's, her eyes looked so many emotions it was hard to tell what she was feeling, and her face was still and stone like showing nothing. Even with these strikes against her she still looked exotic and refreshing. Professor Dumbledore stopped in front of two pillars and turned to Arcadia.

"This is the entrance to Slytherin quarters. I shall speak with your housemaster, Professor Snape, about your arrival. This is your daily schedule," Professor Dumbledore said handing a piece of parchment. "Good luck Miss Adams."

"Thanks," Arcadia said as the wall between the pillars split making an entryway.

Arcadia dragged her chest into the frame way and gasped at the sight before her. The common room was filled with students both boys and girls and was about twice the size of her old dorm. One by one the students' eyes, the conversations quieted, and everyone's attention was on Arcadia. Arcadia looked them over without a scared or frightened look on her face, she was accustomed to these kinds of stares.

"I transferred from Durmstang," Arcadia said breaking the silence.

"Hello I'm Pansy Parkinson! Nice to meet you! What's your name?" a chipper little girl said to her.

"Arcadia. Where's the dorm at?" Arcadia asked wanting to stop dragging the heavy chest around.

"Up those stairs and to the left," Pansy answered as the commotion slowly returned to the room.

Arcadia quickly opened her trunk and pulled out her wand. She placed a little levitating spell on the chest and she went up the stairs, the trunk following. She opened the door and beds lined the wall just like at her two other schools. An empty bed was at the end of the line and Arcadia settled herself in. After she was done, Arcadia made her way down to the common room.

"Mind if I join you?" Arcadia asked Pansy's small group.

"Not at all. So didn't Draco look just simply scrumptious?" Pansy asked giggly.

"Who's Draco?" Arcadia asked.

"Only the cutest guy in Slytherin! Oh I'm Claire Zabini," a blonde said.

"Hello," Arcadia responded as the three other girls chimed into the conversation.

Arcadia now knew Pansy, Claire, Arwen, Liv, and Elise. This is going to be a long year, Arcadia thought looking at the girls. Arcadia asked where the bathroom was and excused herself from the chatty group. She walked down the hall as directed and found the lavatory. After five minutes of pacing the tiled floor, she made her way back to the Slytherin entrance. She found the two pillars but couldn't get the wall to split like it had. After numerous tries Arcadia slid down one of the pillars to the floor until she heard footsteps coming her way.

"Who exactly are you?" a cold sounding voice asked.

"I'm new and I can't get in this idiotic doorway," Arcadia answered just as cold looking down into her hands.

"Are you a first year or did you transfer?" he asked.

"I transferred. Can you open the door now?" Arcadia asked impatiently.

The boy didn't answer but only mumbled the password making the wall split. Arcadia quickly got up and walked in surprised of the vacant common room. She made her way up to the girl's dorm as she quietly thanked the boy. She changed quickly and hopped into her bed drifting to sleep after only half a verse of her lullaby.