A/N:  This is a little different from our other stories.  It's much more serious, and a lot less funny.  But we like it .   It's a lot about the discrimination against Slytherin, and muggleborns.  We hope you all like it.  Enjoy!

Disclaimer:  We own nothing!  We don't even own this computer.  Well, we do own Jeremy, but that's about it.

September 1, First Year

My name is Jeremy.  Jeremy Pritchard.  I have been given this "journal" by a friend of mine, Colin Creevey.  We have been friends ever since we were three, is what our parents say.  I guess it works out well that we both have brothers two years younger then us.

We are sitting in a train, as I write this.  The train to a place, neither of us had heard of:  Hogwarts.  Strange name for a school if you ask me, but no one did.

We're special you see.  Well, not as special was we thought.  We are wizards.  And so are many others.

This train is packed with people from ages 11 to 17, all of them exciting in their own way.

I bet that you, "journal", are wondering about the date and why it says "First Year."  Well, that is because I wanted to put this in the perspective that this is my first year of Hogwarts, the first year of the rest of my life.

I bet that you, "journal," are wondering why I am putting the word "journal" in quotations.  It is because, though Colin insists that journals are a perfectly normal thing for a guy to use, I know your real purpose.  You, "journal," are no more then a diary, used for giggly girls to write their secret crushes in.  I regard you no better then I would a girl.

In fact, I wouldn't even be writing in you now if Colin wasn't keeping an eye on me.  Always one to take offense, he is, that is why I love him.

Not like that!  He is my best friend and I would treat him as one would a "brother."

I quote the word "brother" because I don't see it as a good metaphor.  I hate my brother.  He's annoying and small.  And always seems to have a runny nose.

The train is slowing now, I can feel it.  So I will continue to write in this "journal" later.

A/N:  Okay.  Did you like it?  Hope so.  It's going to speed up a little in the next chapter.