She was in a deep meditation this morning and hero had to nibble on her ear until she would wake up this time. She was really exited. Today she would go back to Hogwarts on the train. She grinned and petted Hero and got up from her bed to change into her favorite t-shirt and jeans that she had laid out on a chair near her trunk. She slipped them on. The shirt was one she made herself. Paris inspired her a lot, and she often had a notebook with her and a quill and she would often sketch out ideas when they struck her. This design she loved. It was a white shirt, and the sleeves were so long that only the tips of her fingers were seen, the end of it ended at the bottom of her hip And it was tight fitted. Her jeans were worn out and a light blue color and rips at the knees. Her green army bag was packed with things for the train ride to Hogwarts and on top of her huge trunk. She let herself fall onto her bed and daydreamed about her first day in school. And was soon called down by her father for breakfast. She ran downstairs and got a bowl of cereal out and sat down watching the television, she didn't like television much but it was something to do.

She heard her father carry down her trunk to the car outside in the front. The car was normally only used by her mother and her little brother and it was messy, but was cleaned within seconds when her father took out his wand (shielding it with his other arm to keep neighbors from seeing it) and muttered a few spells under his breath.

They were on their way to the train station soon after Gabrielle finished eating. She ran up to her room to check if she had everything first. She found one of her favorite necklaces and smiled, glad that she came back to check if she left anything. She put it on and admired it in the mirror it was on a thin gold chain with a pendant made from a stone that changes to match her mood. Right now it was a pearl, but she wasn't sure why. She ran downstairs.

The car was hot so she opened her window in the front seat. She stuck her head out the window so her hair was pushed behind her face, and he necklace dangled from her neck. They had soon arrived at the train station. It was busy, and full of muggles. Gabrielle liked the action that was going on there. As she went to get a cart she watched the people rushing back and forth to get to their train. She helped her father put her trunk on the trolley and took out of his cage Hero and let him sit on her shoulder; holding the empty cage in her hand. People walked by looking curiously at Hero on her shoulder, but she ignored it. When they reached the barrier between platform 9 and 10 she stopped, and looked to see if her father was coming. The ticket said platform 9 ¾, she had to walk right through the brick barrier to get to the Hogwarts express. She took a deep breath and walked casually towards the platform. She walked right through it and was surrounded by Hogwarts students and their parents.

She let Hero go so he could fly ahead of them to the school. She made sure that her trunk was in a lower compartment of the train, to be stored until their arrival at Hogwarts. Then went trough the huge crowed of Hogwarts students and their families looking for friends of hers.

Soon enough she greeted some fellow Gryffindors, whom she was friends with and some people from Morgain's house whom she knew. Her father was greeting his old friends that had children that were going to Hogwarts as well. (Most of witch her father was trying to set her up with because they're "respectable boys" while her mother looked for "normal boys" or muggles) He was talking to the Potters, with their son. His big head was her excuse for not dating him. She shook hands with James politely before she left him for a short while to look for Morgian. She found her humming to herself with a grin that was unmistakably because she was leaving her family. The reason was that Morgain and the rest of her family had different ideas of what was right and wrong. Her family was of pure blood, or pure wizard blood, and they believed that they were better than others because of it. Morgain had a best friend that was half-blood, of blood mixed with muggle blood, but her family didn't know that of course. Otherwise, how were they supposed to spend time together?

Gabrielle walked up to her and greeted her. Morgain told her parents she was going with Gabrielle and said goodbye quickly, not waiting for a reply. They headed back to her father who was still talking to the Potters.

Gabrielle said goodbye soon after and left for the train right before it left the platform. Gabrielle and Morgain walked up the isle in between he compartments looking for a seat. They were all full. They went to the very last one and as soon as Gabrielle saw who was in it she turned around right away, but was pulled back by Morgain.

There were two seats free in their compartment, but to Gabrielle's disadvantage James Potter and his friends: Serious black, Remeus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were sitting in it. She rolled her eyes but forced a light smile when she was introduced to his friends, whom she only saw in classes but hadn't come in contact with very much. She sat across from James, but couldn't help admitting to herself that he was very attractive. Soon after that thought she had every intention of banging her head on the wall for that thought to get out of her head. She wouldn't give her father, or anyone else the satisfaction of liking him. She got out her Transfiguration book after a while of looking out the window. She was disturbed after a while when James and serious went to the compartment beside theirs.

"Where did they go?" She asked.

"Oh. They went to the compartment next to ours, they want to start a fight with Snape." Lupin said. Gabrielle went to the compartment after Peter. He didn't make it through the huge crowd, but she did. She saw the two boys both hit snape with the same curse at the same time. She was confused.

"What did snape do to them?" she asked a red haired boy from Ravenclaw.

"Apparently he was born "the boy said jokingly and he watched them both in awe. Snape was James and Sirius's worst enemy, and James and Sirius had fights with him all the time. This was the first time this year.

That was enough to make Gabrielle sick. She was about to step between them and give them a piece of her mind but was interrupted by the Potions teacher, Professor Gurrow who took points away from Gryffindor and shooed the on lookers away. Professor Gurrow was the meanest teacher in the school, but favored her own house (slitherin)

Fair enough she thought to herself and she walked back into the compartment. She filled Morgain in on what happened (in French) and finished the book she was reading. Soon enough they changed into their school robes. Gabrielle then didn't feel as angry at Serious and James as she was earlier; they had gotten what they deserved.

Ironically, Gabrielle found herself in the same horse-drawn carriage going up to the school as Serious and James. The ride wasn't very long. They talked a little, but not much. And when they reached the school Gabrielle was relived. She met up with her friends Jamie and Shannon who were going into the school, followed by Morgain. When they entered the great hall they saw it was the same as it had been last year, and the year before that.

It was beautiful, with its ceiling enchanted to look like the night sky (a navy blue with faint whips of white clouds hiding the distant stars from view) and candles floating above the heads of the students and teachers. Morgain didn't go to the Ravenclaw table like she was supposed to instead she went with Shannon, Jamie and Gabrielle and sat at the Gryffindor table. They waited a while for the new first years to come out and try on the sorting hat.

The same old routine: Professor McGonagall, their transfiguration teacher, would take out the sorting hat. The sorting hat would sing a song that it had been preparing for the whole year that it had not been used. The song was normally about the school, and its history. After the song one by one the students would put it on and the sorting hat would shout the house name they would be placed in for all to hear.

Gabrielle enjoyed about the first couple of minutes of the sorting ritual, and then it got too dull for her liking so she would daydream, hoping no one would notice she was not paying attention. One by one students have walked up to Professor McGonagall with the sorting hat, put it on and went to the correct table and everyone would cheer.

After a few of those Gabrielle was looking at the ceiling trying to
remember what she had learned about Astronomy over the past few years,
creating her own predictions and such. She looked down after a while and
saw the headmaster, Professor Dumbledore looking at her with the twinkle
in his eye. She didn't know what he meant, because he normally had that
mysteriously comforting look on his face, she smiled back hoping it was
the right thing to do. He was her favorite person in the school, and
maybe even in the world. He was sweet and he was brilliant. Plus he was
odd which kept things interesting.

After everyone was in their appointed house Dumbledore stood and said a
couple of words and the plates in the grand hall suddenly filled with
food. Gabrielle along with many others ate until they couldn't any
longer.

She talked to her friends for a long time and noticed another new
teacher, and it seemed like he would be teaching defense against the dark
arts this year. It was not surprising that there was a new Defense
against the dark arts teacher because the job is said to be cursed, so
they didn't have the same teacher one for very long.

The teacher this year was an older man whom somewhat reminded her of
Dumbledore because he had a long white bared much like Dumbledore's, and
looked maybe even older than Dumbledore was. She wondered how he could
find enough strength in him to fight off a boggart. He would have to do
much more than that to be the defense against the dark arts teacher.

"Did you notice the new teacher?" Gabrielle asked Williams, beside her.

"Yes, looks like he would snap like a twig if you shook his hand" he said
in reply. Gabrielle nodded. He did look like it.

"Wonder how were going to learn anything this year, I hope he doesn't
make us learn from the book the whole year while he sleeps at his desk"
she said

"Given that you've probably read the book a hundred times already" Sirius
chimed in (he was sitting a few seats away). Followed by his comment were
snickers from many around them.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" she wasn't answered; she didn't need
to be. She knew very well that it was obvious in classes that she spent a
lot of time on school work, with her giving immensely long and thorough
answers to all of the teachers questions. And she knew that she was
intimidating to other students, and not just because of her knowledge;
but she still needed to learn like everyone else and she didn't
appreciate them all mocking her for it. While everyone else had smug
looks on their face she ignored them and finished her desert (strawberry
tart, her favorite). She suddenly had the best comeback, but it
definitely seemed too late. Just then it started raining, the ceiling of
the grand hall showed the rain falling, but luckily they were inside. It
began thundering and Gabrielle saw lightening. She looked up at the
ceiling and suddenly felt the rain on her. It was raining inside! The
rain, warmed up from the summer sun, poured onto the tables, still with
unfinished deserts and drinks. She heard girls squeal, attempting to
shield their hair and faces from being ruined from the rain. Girls also
covered their white blouses with their cloaks, four obvious reasons, and
Gabrielle and her friends did the same. She liked the rain, and stood
up, with Morgian. Dumbledore was smiling and watching the students,
while all the other teachers tried to settle the students down. Jamie
and Shannon had makeup on were shielding their heads from the rain, but
Gabrielle made hers disappear. She laughed at Shannon and Jamie, and
conjured up an umbrella for them. Then stood on the chair she was
sitting on, Morgian was already o the table, dancing. Gabrielle joined
her. The whole hall was in havoc; some people were dancing around in the
rain, as well. Most of the students ran to the doors, trying to get out
of the room. The rest of the room had few students in it; they were
having fun in the rain. Jamie and Shannon tried to get Gabrielle and
Morgian out of the room. They tugged on the end of her sleeve, telling
her to get off the table. She jumped down into a puddle (not noticing
her skirt went up a bit). The puddle splashed onto Jamie and Shannon.
She looked At Morgian who was laughing at them. Her eyeliner was running
down her face, which was the only makeup she wore. They squealed and
threw the umbrella away and started splashing Gabrielle, attempting to
get back at her. They didn't notice their makeup was running and their
hair was all over the place any more. Her competitive friends were after
her. They ran around the hall splashing each other, and randomly
throwing things like unfinished deserts at each other. Then Professor
McGonagall shooed them out, and they walked out of the room. When they
left the room, they stood in the clean, dry entrance hall. The Janitor,
Flitch, was eyeing them. They were wetting the floor her obviously just
cleaned. Gabrielle got out her wand and made warm air some out of it and
dried herself off.
"Hmmm I wonder whose doing all this was." Gabrielle said aloud, talking
about the rain. They heard laughing at the end of the hallway. Curious,
they walked towards the sound. James, Sirius, Peter, and Remeus were all
at the end of the hallway laughing hysterically. The girls could now
guess the rain was the boys' doing.