Chapter 3
Aboard the Hogwarts Express
Allison Snape entered King's Cross very nervously on September 1st.
The letter she had gotten was indeed very odd, not at all like the ones her brother's and sister's, but she had still been accepted.
She looked around the barrier and quickly boarded platform 9 ¾. Allison had been here many times before, but this was her first year to be boarding the train. She loaded her trunk onto the train, and chose a compartment near the end, occupied by the three other girls who looked her age, and just as worried as she did.
"Can I sit here?"
"Sure," said Courtney McGonagall.
They went around and introduced their selves, and were surprised to find they all had the same birthday, and all had relatives who worked at the school. Technically they all had aunts and uncles working at the school.
Suddenly Jennifer Black spoke up.
"Were your letters a bit odd?" she asked, pulling out her own.
There were nods in the compartment, each girl pulling out her own.
"Well, we'd better stick to the back of the group then, and wait for Professor Snape to come get us. Wait a minute, Allison, isn't that your uncle?"
"Yeah, but I've never met him."
"Oh."
After a while, a cart selling different foods came by.
Each girl purchased some food for lunch, and then some for snacks, putting them in their bags, but leaving out a few cauldron cakes.
Jennifer opened her trunk to pack the extra snacks, and Courtney got a glimpse of light gray robes.
"That's odd," she said to her friends. I thought all our robes were going to be orange-red."
"Mine are tan," said Allison.
"Mine are light blue," said Katelyn, "Odd. It must symbolize something. I expect we'll find out soon enough."
And she was right for a moment later they heard a voice telling them it was 10 minutes to Hogwarts. The four quickly changed into their black robes, and huddled together.
Though none of them would admit it, they were a bit nervous.
The Hogwarts Express came to a halt in Hogsmeade station, and they loaded off the train (but not before smuggling a few snacks into their pitch-black robes).
They headed toward the half-giant who was yelling for all the first years to follow him.
The four girls headed down the dark path to where the boats were docked, and of course the girls got into the last boat, and were therefore the last to get their first glimpse of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A/N - I know my chapters have been pretty short, but the next one is almost guranteed to be longer, as it is their MEETING WITH DUMBLEDORE.