AN: Chapter 2! How exciting! ¬.¬; Ah, I couldn't be bothered waiting for people to review, so here's the second chapter!

'. . .' Thoughts

* . . . * Memories of the past

". . ." Speech

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Harry Potter.

Summary: HP/SM. After her death when she fought Pharaoh Ninety, Hotaru is accidentally sent to another world, with another family, and even Pluto is having trouble finding her. Now she has to cope with visions of a strange past and a boarding school full of witches and wizards. Stranger still, she has become one of them!

Of Witches, Wizards and Royalty

Chapter 2: Shopping for School and the Hogwarts Express

After the frantic cart ride back to the main hall of Gringotts and meeting Ron, Molly and Hotaru (both feeling slightly sick) set off for a wand. It was late afternoon and the sun was beginning to set, the long days of summer were ending fast.

"Mother, where are we going again?" Hotaru asked.

"Ollivander's Wand Shop to get you a wand, dear." Molly answered, looking at the school list.

"Cool! I always wanted a wand! Now I can get back at Fred and George!" Ron shouted happily. Hotaru smiled at her brother. The amount of times Fred and George had used Ron as their spell-testing guinea pig was far too many to count.

"Ah, here we are! Ollivander's!" She said. Hotaru looked around as they entered. It was like a library. She blinked. For some reason it reminded her of the blue-haired girl and the woman with that garnet orb staff from her dreams. Hotaru frowned. This was really getting irritating.

"Ah, Molly Weasley. A fine wand you had, Maple and phoenix feather, 11 inches, flexible, excellent for charms and defence spells, if I remember." An old man appeared from the shadows. Molly smiled.

"Yes, that's the one. Now, I need a wand for Hotaru and Ron here. Which of you wants to go first?" She asked. Ron stepped forward.

After a few quick measurements, the man tried out a few wands with Ron. None were effective.

"Holly and dragon heart-string, sturdy, 10 and a half inches. Try this one." Mr Ollivander said, giving Ron the wand and getting ready to pick a new one if this one didn't work. But as Ron waved it, a few red and gold sparks shot out of the end and the other wands fell on the floor.

"Finally! Now, how much do we owe you?" Molly asked.

"10 galleons, please." Molly handed over the money, and gently pushed Hotaru forward.

"Your turn, Hotaru."

And so the wand trying began again. Hotaru felt a bit stupid as she just stood and waved a bit of wood around. Another pile of wands built up on the solitary desk as Hotaru tried more and more ineffective wands.

"Ebony from the Petrified Forest and Saturn crystals, 15 inches." It was a black wand with a purple crystal in the centre and it was covered in shining dust. Mr Ollivander gave her the wand and Hotaru waved it through the air. It emitted a handful of dark violet rose petals.

"Wow!" Hotaru said with a smile on her face. She looked like a child at Christmas.

"Strange combination. . .10 galleons, please. Thanks you, have a nice evening." And with that, the three Weasleys left the shop.

"Mum, I'll go get the books for us." Ron said, before running off and getting two copies of his booklist. Mean while, Hotaru was looking at the robes shop.

"Mother, I'm going to get my robes fitted, OK?" Hotaru said.

"Right, I'll get the potion ingredients. Meet me at Florean Fortesque's when you're done."

"OK!" And Molly gave Hotaru a bag of galleons and walked off to the apothecary.

Hotaru walked into Madam Malkin's and saw a black haired boy and a blonde boy talking about Hogwarts.

"Hogwarts uniforms, dear?" A woman asked. Hotaru nodded and was told to stand on a stool whilst she was measured.

"Just one minute and I'll get your robes." The woman said and bustled off, leaving Hotaru with the two boys.

"Hey, are you going to Hogwarts too?" The black haired boy asked while the blonde one looked to see who he was talking to.

"Yes. I'm Hotaru Weasley."

'Tomoe Hotaru, Princess of Saturn, bringer of Death!' A voice in her head said gloatingly. Hotaru put a hand to her temple to try and shut the damned voice up.

"You don't look like a Weasley. You don't have freckles and your hair is. . .it's. . .well, it isn't ginger!" The blonde said. Hotaru smiled.

"I was adopted as a baby and I'm classed as a part of the family. I don't know who my parents were." Hotaru said with a look of sadness on her face.

* A man with white hair, Dr Tomoe. . . the sandy blonde, Haruka Papa, the teal haired girl, Michiru Mama, the forest haired woman, Setsuna Mama. . . *

"I didn't know mine either, they died in a car crash when I was a baby." The black haired boy said.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She said. She knew what it was like. She had a family, but they weren't blood relatives.

"Don't worry, it's OK. Well, I'd better be going, I've got my robes. Bye Hotaru, I'll see you at Hogwarts." The black haired boy said, and it was then she realised she didn't know his name.

"There, you're all fitted, young man." The woman said to the blonde and he left as well, joined by a man with long blonde hair outside.

'Must be his father.' Hotaru thought.

"Now little miss, we have your school fittings, but you can choose the colour of your winter robes. What colour do you want them to be?" The woman asked. Hotaru thought about it for a second.

"Indigo with violet fastenings." She said it like it was natural.

"Right, there we go. 15 galleons." The woman took the money and gave Hotaru a bag with the robes inside.

"Thanks!" Hotaru said as she walked out into the night.

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"There! Now Ron has his robes, we're just about done!" Molly said. It was 9pm and they had finished shopping for the day. They stepped into a fire place and went home.

Hotaru placed her new clothes inside her suitcase tried to figure out where to put her potions ingredients, quills and spell books when the door opened.

"Hi Hotaru, have you seen my prefect badge?" It was Percy. Hotaru shook her head.

"Damn, I bet Fred or George has it!" Percy said angrily and stormed out of the room. Hotaru stifled a giggle. Those two were professionals when it came to getting on each nerve of Percy's and snapping it.

Putting her potion ingredients at the side of her suitcase, her books underneath her clothes and her quills and parchment on top, she closed the suitcase and got ready for bed, lay down on her feather mattress and waited for sleep to come.

*~*~*

A dreamless sleep and a night later, Hotaru woke up feeling refreshed. She sat down at her desk, picked up her brush and ran it through her hair, freeing it of tangles. She went into one of the bathrooms, washed her face and ran downstairs to get breakfast.

"Well, today's the day! Your first day at Hogwarts!" Molly said tearfully. "My babies are growing up!"

"Hey, you never said that to us!" George said.

"That's because neither you or Fred have grown up yet. I want a perfect sheet from both of you this year! If I get one owl, just one owl, saying you've disrupted ANYTHING, then there will be hell to pay when you two get back, mark my words!" Molly said dangerously. George shut up.

"So, are you all packed and ready to go?" Arthur Weasley asked from the living room. There was a chorus of yes's from the Weasley clan.

"Good! It's a quarter to ten now, if we leave in a few minutes we should get there with time to spare." Arthur said, coming into the dining room. "You don't want to miss your first day back, eh?"

After breakfast, the children left for their bedrooms, got their luggage and brought it downstairs. Fred and George were plotting something, Percy was trying his hardest to look impressive and Ron and Hotaru were looking nervous. They loaded their things into the boot of the small (from the outside) blue Ford Anglia and got inside, Percy carrying his screech owl like it was a protection charm, or something like that.

They set off from the house and Hotaru looked back at it. With the money from Arthur's promotion, they were able to afford a larger house. It was three storeys high, and was made of white brick. It looked sophisticated and expensive. The garden was large, full of trees and exotic plants. There was a large pond somewhere, and during the summer at night, Hotaru loved to sit on the branches of a willow tree that overlooked the pond.

Turning back, she rested her head. She didn't want to leave the comfort of her mother, her father and her home life. But another part of her wanted to learn magic, to make new friends, to have adventures. . .

Hotaru sighed. This was going to be the start of something big, she could feel it.

*~*~*

They arrived at King's Cross Station with time to spare, but wasted none of it lounging about. The black haired boy from Madam Malkin's was there as well, and before Hotaru passed through the barrier, she heard her mother talking to him, telling him how to pass through to Platform 9 ¾. Hotaru went through the barrier and looked at the large scarlet engine that was the Hogwarts Express. Fred and George hauled their luggage onto the train, helped the black haired boy with his and then ran off to a friend of theirs.

Hotaru and Ron got help with their suitcases from Arthur, and then they ran onto the train. Arthur and Molly waved their children off then disappeared whilst Hotaru and Ron looked for a free compartment.

"Hey, this one looks empty. . ." Ron and Hotaru walked into the compartment and saw the black haired boy from the robes shop.

"Hi, can we sit with you? This looks like the only free compartment." Ron asked. The boy nodded.

"Hey, aren't you that girl from Madam Malkin's?" The boy asked. "Hotaru Weasley?" Hotaru nodded.

"Yes, and this is my brother, Ron."

"Oh. I'm Harry Potter, nice to meet you." The boy said.

"Wow, you're Harry Potter? Do you have the. . .the scar?" Ron asked in awe. Harry lifted his fringe to show a little lightning bolt on his forehead.

"Cool!" Ron murmured.

The rest of the train ride was pretty uneventful. They talked for a while, and when the lunch lady came through with food, they pretty much bought all of it. A couple of people came into the compartment, a round-faced boy named Neville Longbottom, who was looking for his pet toad with a bushy haired brunette girl called Hermione Granger. When they left the compartment, Ron started laughing.

"Honestly, if I had a pet toad and I lost it, I wouldn't bother looking for it!" Hotaru and Harry grinned. It was the start of a close friendship, and with the events that were set to happen that year, their friendship would be needed.

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End of chapter 2! God, I never knew I could write this much for one chapter!

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Chapter 3 - The Sorting Ceremony

The boats set off across the still lake. Hotaru was still looking at the castle. It was so big!

They went through an entrance in the wall and deep into the castle, to be greeted at a docking bay by an old woman. She looked like a strict teacher.

"Good evening. I am Professor McGonagall and I am to take you to the Great Hall where you will be sorted into one of four houses; Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin."

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"Weasley, Hotaru." McGonagall read out her name from the sheet of parchment. Hotaru shakily walked up to the Sorting Hat on the stool. She saw Ron, Hermione and Harry looking at her. They were in Gryffindor, where she wanted to be. But deep inside, a small part of her shouted to be in Slytherin. She sat down and put the hat on.

"I sense a great deal of wisdom inside of you, perfect for Ravenclaw, you are loyal, an ideal Hufflepuff. Yet you also possess courage and bravery, Gryffindor traits, and darkness, you seem to be cunning, the qualities of Slytherin. You could be in every house, yet you must be in one. I think I'll put you in. . ."