Ok, disclaimer: If I owned HP, shouldn't I be super rich? WELL I'M NOT!!! So I obviously don't own HP. And I'm sorry it took so long to update, please don't hurt me! Also, I need people to be in the story! Yes, it's very possible you readers can get in it do to the lack of them. I need:

3 Ravenclaws (my house thus main characters)

2 people to be in Hufflepuff

4 people to be in Slytheirn and hate the new Maurders guts

3 people to be in Gryffindor

If you do want to do so e-mail me with the part you want and to following info:

Wand (if you don't know one will be provided)

If muggleborn

If not, what's your team (if you don't know one will be provided.)

Favorite three animals

Name

Description

Favorite class

Don't worry if you don't get the part you wanted, there'll probably be more spots latter! In fact it's almost guaranteed.

Chapter Three

The Hogwarts Express

            After saying goodbye to her mom (she had to leave so she could be on time for work) Carmen boarded the train with her trunk, Merlin in a basket, and a sad heart. How was she going to make friends? She never had friends before, at lest not really close friends. They were more like, acquaintances if you will. Merlin meowed loudly to the other cats. Ignoring him, she heaved her heavy trunk onto the train and rolled it down the corridor until she found an empty compartment near the end of the train. She went inside and closed the door behind her. She let Merlin out, before opening her trunk and getting out Muggle to Magic, sat down at the seat closet to the window, and continued reading about the history of Quidditch. Within a few minutes however, a girl walked in.   "Excuse me, do you mind if I sit here? There's nowhere else to sit on the train." She asked. She was the average height, with light brown hair, moss green eyes, and a lot of freckles while a tawny owl sat on her shoulder. Carmen nodded and she dragged in her stuff and seated herself as far as possible from Carmen, but that was fine with her. Next thing they knew the train was speeding off towards Hogwarts. Out of the corner of her eye, she was pretty sure she saw a boy with red hair look in before moving on (A/N: if your all brain dead right now, that was Ron).

            Although Carmen really wanted to talk with the other girls, she knew she couldn't. They seemed to be were the kind of people who were in a group and stayed there, no one in, no one out. It just stayed. So she wasn't going to make herself their friends. Suddenly Merlin jumped into her lap, so Carmen started to pet him absentmindedly.

            "What kind of cat is that?" asked the girl, trying to make a stab at conversation.

            "Hmm? Oh, he's a Himalayan, why?" asked Carmen.

            "Just curios." she said.

"What's that you're reading?" she asked.

"Muggle to Magic, I was raised as a muggle." replied Carmen smoothly.

"So you don't know any Quidditch teams?" said the girl, her eyes wide with shock.

"Well, I do. I got a WWN when I got all my school stuff.

"Do you have it? 'Cause the Appleby Arrows are playing today." She said happily. "I don't think I've introduced myself yet have I? I'm Laurie Connelly"

There was a pause; obviously she expected Carmen to introduce herself.

"Oh, sorry. I'm Carmen. And yes I do have it, let me get it out." She said before getting her trunk down and fishing it out. Within the next half hour they were talking and listening to music and Quidditch, not to mention arguing which team was the best. Once or twice a boy came in asking if they had seen his toad, only to find out they hadn't. (A/N: Yes I know that's what happened to Harry and Ron but Neville probably asked everyone he could. I'm trying to keep as much to the book as possible. At least I'll try at the beginning. -)

When the train seemed to be slowing down, they changed into their robes. They were just about to grab there stuff when a voice echoed through the train: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately." Carmen looked around, hoping she wasn't the only nervous one. She smiled faintly when she realized she wasn't the only one. Everyone out in the corridor looked nervous, the first years anyway. Carmen and Laurie exited the train as a huge man was yelling for all the first years. They walked up there and got bumped into a lot.

"C'mon, follow me – any more firs' years? Mind your step now! Firs' years follow me!" the man boomed. The followed him down a path way until they saw it. It was beautiful, with windows like little fireflies. There was a huge lake below it, dark and massive, like a shadow. When the reached the lake, the giant called out again telling everyone to get into the boats with no more then four to a boat. They scrambled into the boat and Carmen got really wet because she tripped and fell but first into the water. Isn't that great? Next thing the first years knew they were being lead into the castle by some lady who looked like she would give you detention as soon as look at you. And through the double doors they went into a sea of pointed black hats.