With You

Chapter 1

It was Friday, September 2nd, and Cody Wilshire found herself walking into the large castle known as Hogwarts, a school for witchcraft and wizardry. She sighed and used her left hand to heft her black multicolored Luis Vuitton purse up her arm while her right hand cluctched her matching multicolored Luis Vuitton travel bag as she follwed Hagrid to the Headmaster's office. She knew that there were people looking at her curiously but she had gotten used to it seeing as she was raised in the muggle world with billionaire's for parents. She stood next to the gargoyle's as the giant quiety whispered the password and watched in interest when the stone creature hopped to the left to present the twirling stairs.

Cody watched as Hagrid knocked on the door and listened as a voice, that sounded much like her grandfather George, tell them to enter. She walked in behind Hagrid and was surprised to see the way in which the Headmaster was dressed. Apparently the people in Europe were more old fashioned when it came to the state of dress in the Wizarding world. Her last school let them dress in whatever they wanted, as long as it wasn't too revealing, and appropriate for the weather. She shook her head at the thought of her old life and turned her attention to the headmaster.

"Well Miss Wilshire, you have come at the best time. The term doesn't start until Monday so you have a few days to get accustomed to your housemates and fellow classmates. I'll do the sorting now," Headmaster Dumbledore said before grabbing an old hat and placing it on her head.

The hat coughed causing Cody to jump a bit and it chuckled at her reaction before searching through her head. 'Umm. Great potential, this one. You have the thirst to learn but you aren't overbearing in your opinions. You're fiercly loyal and would fight for a friend without a thought about you're own safety. I think you'll do best in...' "GRYFFINDOR!"

Cody noticed the smile on the Headmaster's face as he took the hat off of her head and placed it back on the shelf. Cody grabbed stood up as she was handed a premade schedule, she had sent an owl with the electives that she wanted, and was shown to Gryffindor towers with Headmistress McGonagall, who just happened to be her head of house. As they walked through the grand castle Cody looked around her surroundings and had to admit that everything looked like something out of a fairytale. They walked through the castle until they came up to a large portrait of a f...full figured woman. McGonagall cleared her throat and the lady stopped talking to someone else who was in her portrait and said, "Password Please."

"Emerald," McGonagall said loud enough for the portrait and Cody to hear.

The portrait nodded and swung open and Cody followed McGonagall in. McGonagall lead her through the large, somewhat empty, common room until they got to a set of stairs. "The right pair is to the girl's dormitory's and right left is for the boy's. When you go up the stairs to your dorn room you will find that there is a floor for each year. When you get to year six go down the hall until you find the door with your name. It will likely be the last one on the right end seeing as the rooms are given in alphabetical order. Since there is an odd number of girls in your year you are in a room by yourself," McGonagall replied before turning and leaving the room. Cody sighed and made her way up the stairs so that she could settle in.

It took Cody fifteen minutes to get to her floor and find her room but when she did she immediately opened her door and headed inside of her room. She smiled when she saw the beautiful room. Since it was a single room the bed was enlarged to a king sized and her sheets were a beautiful gold satin as were four of her pillows. An embroidered white comforter and matching skirt also adorned the bed and two pillows that were placed over the gold pillows. She floor was covered in plush cream carpet and the four postered bed was made of mahogony wood that had matching furniture. Her clothes, from what she could see, had been placed in the appropriate places by the house elves and the small but conventional bathroom eleoquently done in a bergundy red and gold motif.

She sat her black multicolored Luis Vuitton duffle bag and purse down on the side of her bed before kicking off of her matching sandals, locking the door, and headed into the bathroom. She smiled when she saw the somewhat large whirlpool like tub and turned it on, making sure the water was warm, and poured a bit of her Vanilla Lace bubbles into the running water before going back into her room and peeled her black tunic and matching pants and put them in the dirty clothes bin, placed her shoes in the wardrobe, and pulled out a gown to wear before heading back into the bathroom.

She grabbed a hair clip and pinned her long light brown, almost dirty blonde, hair into a messy up do and sunk into the hot bath water and looked out the window in the bathroom and stared at the night sky. The stars sparkled with life and she smiled, thinking that her father could be looking at the stars at the exact same moment. She loved her father and would miss him terribly but it wasn't like she hadn't been away from him before. She sighed and closed her eyes and relaxed in the warm water as she thought about all the people she had left at home to be able to live with her father in Europe.

After her bath she wrapped a towel around her body and towel dried herself as she made the transition from her bathroom to her bedroom. She unwrapped her towel when she got to her bed, laid it on her comforter, and sat on it while she smoothed her lotion over her skin. Once her skin was moisturized she rolled on her deodorant and slipped on her black lace-up satin slip and smoothed it over her body before pulling back the covers of her bed and getting in. She had heavy jetlag from flying to London from California and then taking the excruiatingly long train ride to Hogwarts and all she wanted to do was sleep in a comfortable bed.

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It was late Friday night and Harry had just walked into the common room. He had been out with Ron and Hermione at a start of term party but he didn't really feel like staying out later than it was. He didn't really see a reason to be in a room of people where most of them weren't even his friends. They were the people who were so fickle as to turn on him as one would turn the page of the Daily Prophet. He had seen it happen many times during his early years in Hogwarts but since he wasn't really one to hold a petty grudge he just tuned them out and let them believe that all was good. He also didn't feel like being a third wheel between Ron and Hermione who had finally started dating over the summer.

As far as the girls went, he wasn't look for some fleeting romance having had learned his lesson earlier when he cheated on his main girl Cho, a girl who went to Durmstrang, with his girl on the side, Courtney, who told him she was three months pregnant last year. She had been attending Durmstrang at the time and, for the most part, didn't seem to care that she was pregnant. She was more concerned with him claiming the child and getting married. He didn't know what to do but thank the Goddess for blood tests because it came out that he wasn't the father. He cut off all ties to Courtney and broke up with Cho and started to live his life like he had some sense.

He was about to walk up the stairs when he heard the first and second years talking about the new girl who came in a couple of hours ago. Apparently she was beautiful and they were wondering which guy in her year would end up dating her. He shook his head and headed up to his room, that happened to be a single because of all his nightmares he used to have, and put on his night clothes before getting into his comfortable red velvet/satin bed. He took off his silver framed glasses and placed it on the ebony night stand before cutting off the lights and headed to sleep.

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It was around eight o'clock Saturday morning when Cody woke up from her dreamless sleep. She stretched her limbs as she got out of bed and headed over to the bathroom. She took off her night gown and headed into the shower stall and cleaned her body with her DOVE bodywash before wrapping her body in her white terry cloth robe and slipped her feet into some slippers as she walked over to the sink to wash her face and brush her teeth. Once she was done cleansing her body she headed back into her room and began to get dressed.

She grabbed her pink and orange lace ribbon trim demi bra and panty set and put it on before grabbing her Warm Vanilla Sugar lotion and smoothed it over her skin and rolled on her clear deodorant. Once that was done she headed into her closet to find something to wear. After a couple of minutes she grabbed her green short sleeved scoop necked Ocean Isle Abercombie & Fitch shirt and pulled it over her head. She smoothed the shirt out over her chest before grabbing her light blue Abercombie & Fitch skirt and pulled it over her hips. She grabbed a green, blue, and white scarf and looped it around the belt loops of her skirt and tied it to give her skirt a somewhat stylish look. She grabbed her green Abercombie & Fitch flip flops and slid her feet into them before going to the bathroom to do something to her hair. She pulled her mid back length hair back into a neat pony tail that she held with a green and white hair tie before rolling on her Feast of Plums shade of her Christian Dior Addict Ultra Gloss.

Once she was ready she sprayed on her Shalimar perfume and placed her wand in her white purse and left her room. She locked the door behind her, having gotten the key from the nightstand, and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast. She walked through the empty halls until she got to the large area where breakfast would be taking place. She headed over to the table that had a lion over it, which she had known was the symbol for her house. She sat in an empty seat and began to eat some fruit that was placed in front of her.

She was in the middle of eating when a guy around her age walked in the Great Hall. He was wearing a black sleeveless t-shirt that showed sculptured arms, a pair of baggy fit blue jeans, and a pair of black sneakers. There was a small diamond stud in his nose that she just managed seeing because of the way the light hit the diamond and his clear green eyes were covered with a pair of stylish silver framed glasses. She watched as he licked his lips unconsciously as he clipped two silver hooped earrings into his left ear.

When he looked up their eyes met and Cody felt a shiver roll down her spine when his soulful eyes connected with hers. He gave her a friendly smile as he walked over to her. He sat down in front of her and said, "Good morning."

"Good morning to you too," Cody said with a small smile.

"My name's Harry Potter," Harry said as he stuck out his hand for her to shake.

"It's nice to meet you Harry," Cody started, "My name's Cody Wilshire."

"What year are you in Cody?" Harry asked as he placed a few pancakes and a small helping of eggs onto his plate.

"I'm in sixth. What about you?" she asked before taking a sip of her water.

"I'm in sixth as well," Harry said as he realized that she wasn't just making polite conversation but that she really didn't know who he was.

"Well it's nice to meet someone seeing as I arrived yesterday and don't really know anyone yet," Cody replied.

Harry ate his food quietly and took her in. From what he observed in the thirty minutes they ate was that she had impecable manners, was easy going-seeing that she laughed at the stupidist things, and was just cool to be around. It was because of that, that Harry decided to ask her out and he was suddenly glad that the restrictions on their visits to Hogsmede had been lifted last year when the last of Voldemort's supporters had been captured. "Would you like to go with me to Hogsmede tonight?"

"What's Hogsmeede?" Cody asked.

"It's just a little shopping area not too far from here. It's kind of like a shopping center," Harry replied.

"Yeah. I would like that," Cody replied before people started to come into the hall. Cody smiled because she suddenly had something to look forward to.

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