Author notes: Hullo! this is my first fic, so please be nice, and sorry
about the spelling not a brit speaking (actually I'm a spanish
speaker...tee-hee), hope you like this! THANK TO: TIGGY!!yay! my
wonderful beat reader! thank you!

Chapter one

Kate walked down Platform Nine and Three quarters. She could hardly move her loaded trolley. She looked around. Most of the kids were already dressed in their school uniform. She sighed as she looked at the huge and red train with Hogwarts Express engraved at the side.

Being 15 wasn't an easy matter, and being Kate made everything worse. It's not everyday you move from America to Europe in order to attend to the best school of witchcraft and wizardry. She sighed once more as she tried to relax

Things are going to be tough, I mean, this a whole new start. All these people have known each other for a long time, and my stupid surname, God, I.... she was thinking to herself, when suddenly : BAMF! She crushed onto someone.

" Oh, Sorry," said Kate, gathering some books up. "I didn't see you!"

" No, I'm sorry ; I should be more careful," someone, obviously a boy said.

Kate stood up and saw a tall pale boy with silvery blond hair standing in front of her. He was really handsome, his grey eyes, though hard and cold had certain charm. He smiled slyly at her.

He looked at her. She was pretty. Long red hair, slender figure, slightly tanned skin and bright azure eyes. The girl smiled at him awkwardly.

" Here you are." She handed the books back to the pale boy.

Kate started to walk away when a tall man, stopped her. He looked a lot like the pale boy.

" Good evening," he said.

" Uh...good evening, sir," Kate replied, stranged.

" I assume you are Kate, am I right?" he asked.

" Yeah, I'm Kate, how did you..."

" You look just like your grandfather. Had anyone told you that before?"

" Only all the time," she said while pulling and incredibly fake smile.

" So where do you come from Miss..." he was about to ask, for he had noticed her strong American accent, but Kate interrupted.

" From the Estates," Kate answered quickly. "May I ask who you are sir? I'm afraid I haven't seen you before."

"Why, I'm Lucius Malfoy, a pleasure to meet you." He nodded slightly. "And this, here is my son, Draco."

While Kate and Mr. Malfoy talked, Draco had been standing quietly next to his father. Kate had almost forgotten about him.

"A pleasure to meet you, Kate," Draco said, smiling charmingly.

"Pleasure's mine." Kate smiled. She was really uncomfortable, although, she tried hard not to show, she was a bit nervous about Draco. She looked at her pocket watch. " Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Malfoy, but it's almost time to go, and I still have to get this to the train," she said pointing her trolley.

" Well if you want I can..." Draco was interrupted ,suddenly by a boy with black hair and bright green eyes.

"Hello, you must be Kate, Hagrid told me all about you...I'm Harry." the boy said.

"Ah, yes! Harry, Hagrid told me you'll be waiting for me! So glad to meet you!" said Kate ,shaking hands with Harry, amused by The boy who lived.

" Well, I guess we better put your trolley inside the train...." said Harry, glaring coldly at the Malfoys. Both father and son glared back equally.

"Yeah, you are right.." she said. "Well, a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Malfoy, Draco, I guess I'll see you in school."

"I hope so!" Draco called out as she left with Harry, much to his dismay.

"I assume, you are not letting Potter take away that girl from you, Draco," Mr. Malfoy said, once Kate was out of sight. " She is an interesting young woman, you know, she could be...very...useful."

"Of course not, father," Draco replied quite annoyed.

"Good... well Draco, is about time you leave," he said as he hugged his son, both felt a bit awkward.

----Later, inside the Hogwarts express----

Harry and Kate sat inside an empty compartment. Ron and Hermione were in the prefect's compartment, but had promised Harry to visit him as soon as they could.

"They should be here any minute." Harry looked through the window. "Anyway , Kate, what were you doing with Malfoy?"

"I don't know, he seemed pretty nice," the girl replied carelessly.

"Nice?!" asked Harry, impressed. "You don't know him, Kate, really, he isn't at all nice, believe me, you can ask Hermione or Ron about that...."

Just then the compartment door opened, and Ron and Hermione came in, arguing about something, as usual. They walked in, and didn't notice Kate was there. They sat down and began talking to Harry, until they noticed the girl.

Ron just looked at her and mumbled something . Hermione was quicker to react.

" Hello." She stretched her hand out to Kate. "I'm Hermione."

"Oh, hi, I'm Kate." She hesitated on whether to say or not her last name. " Kate Dumbledore...." this last she said it in a whisper.

If Ron's mouth was hanging open before, now it was completely open. Hermione's looked at her stunned and thought it was obvious she was related in some way to Professor Dumbledore, they had a certain something that made them look very alike.

Harry cleared his throat. Hermione and Ron reacted.

"Oh, so Dumbledore, huh?" asked Ron." Y-yeah, you look like him, he is your..."

"Grandfather." Smiled Kate.

"I'm Ron, by the way," he said. Then a girl with the same fiery red hair came in. "and this is my sister, Ginny."

Ginny managed to say a shy hello and sat next to Kate.

"So what year are you?" Hermione asked.

"Fifth...."

"Great," Ron said, cheerfully, "we get to spend some time together!"

Hermione scowled and cleared her throat. "Anyway, have you thought in which house you would want to be in?"

"Huh? Say again, house?" Kate asked confused.

"Oh, right., there are four houses. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. All of them have their own uniqueness: Gryffindors are known for their bravery, Ravenclaws for their intelligence, and Hufflepuffs for their loyalty. Those 3 houses are the ones you want to be in. Slytherin, well that's a different story, they are known for their evil, and power hungriness."

" I don't know, my whole family has belonged to Gryffindor...." said Kate worried. Would she have to go through some sort of test, in order to get sorted?

" Let's just hope you don't get sorted into Slytherin, that's were he is...has Harry told you about Malfoy?" Just as Ron said this, the door was once again opened, this time it was Draco who came in.

"Speaking of whom...." He gritted his teeth.

"What was that, Weasley?" Draco asked. He was joined by another boy, who was tall and tanned and had an earring in the loop of his ear.

"Hello Kate," Draco said, "how are you doing?"

"Hi...um...I'm fine, how are you?" she said.

"Fine now." He smiled. "Anyway, Blaise here wanted to meet you..."

The tall and tanned boy was really good looking. He made Kate blush deeply. "Hi," he said, "wow, Draco told me you were pretty, but he never told me you were an angel." He obviously knew how to charm a lady.

Kate blushed even more turning from a pink to an intense red. "Thanks...." she muttered awkwardly.

Draco cleared his throat. Apparently he would have to be careful with Zabini, he couldn't let him get to close to Kate. "Kate would you want to join us in our compartment?"

"Uh...sorry Draco, I'm with Harry now, guess it'll be another time then."

"Well suit yourself...though you shouldn't hang out with such..." Draco, looked at Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Harry in a superior way, and the sighed exasperated. "See you later Kate," he finally said as he left.

Blaise stayed behind, waved a goodbye to everyone else and bowed before Kate. "A pleasure to meet, you, Angel," he said, then he left.

"So you've met Malfoy?" Hermione asked surprised.

"Yeah, I see what you meant when you said he wasn't nice, maybe he's nice to me just because of my ..."

"Of you surname?" Ginny asked her.

"Yeah." Kate looked at her shoes.

"Well, don't worry, Harry will take all the attention as soon as we arrive at Hogwarts..." said Ron, nonchalantly.

"Ron!" Harry punched his friend's arm.

"What? It's true!"

"Don't listen to him Kate, it's not true," Harry cleared out.

Kate laughed. It seemed she had found real friends after all.

By the time the train had arrived Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Kate became good friends. They had talked as if they knew each other since ever, eating chocolate frogs and other sweets.

Kate jumped of the train, happy to breath fresh air again. Then she took her first look at Hogwarts castle. She stared at it amused. She had never saw anything like it, she loved it but at the same time she felt scared of it. She just stood there looking at it, it was beautiful.

"We should get a carriage," Hermione said.

They walked to were the carriages were. Suddenly Kate felt someone tap her shoulder. She turned as well did the others.

"Kate!" It was Hagrid." Finally , I've found you!" He looked around him at Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron. "I see you've found yourself a good company." He laughed and hugged everyone. After he had said hello to everyone he turned to Kate again. "You'll have to come with me and the first years kids, you still have to get sorted, remember?"

Kate had almost forgot all about the sorting. Would they be tested?

Hagrid took her to where the first years were. She was nervous again. She looked around her, surrounded by 11 year old frightened kids. They stared at her and whispered, to which Kate answered with unfriendly scowls. The group walked to the boats, and then began their way to the castle.

The kids and Kate entered the great hall. Professor McGonagall was already there waiting for them, she looked at every single one of them, and took extra time looking at Kate. Everybody was so quiet.

Finally, Professor McGonagall spoke. "You all will be sorted into the four houses depending on what the hat decides." She looked at them sternly. "Follow me please."

The students followed her into the dinning room and every one gasped at the enchanted ceiling. Kate, who already knew about this, couldn't help but stare at it impressed. They walked until they arrived the front part of the hall. Four tables stood before them. One for each house. A girl whispered. Behind them, there was what seemed the teacher's table. Sitting there Kate saw her grandfather, Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts' greatest headmaster.

Much to Kate's surprise, Professor McGonagall took an old and torn hat and placed it on a wooden stool. The hat burst into a song.

The room was filled with claps as the hat finished his song, of course there were plenty of confused and scared looks exchanged by the students. Was, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, really back?

"Now when I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool and when the hat announces your house, you will sit at the appropriate table," said Professor McGonagall.

Kate could feel her heart making its way up to her throat.

"Allerdyce, John!" professor McGonagall called out the first boy, who shakily sat on the stool.

"SLYTHERIN!" the hat announced as the boy walked to the Slytherin table.

"Annabelle, Angelique!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Carter, Amara!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Dukes, Fred!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"We also have a transfer student this year who will be sorted now. Dumbledore, Kate!" Professor McGonagall looked at Kate. "Please step up to the stool, Kate."

The once filled with claps room was now filled in whispers.("Dumbledore? Could she be related to...")

Kate sat on the stool and placed the hat on her head.

"This is ridiculous...." she muttered and as soon as she did, she heard a voice whispering in her ear. It was the hat.

"Hmmm...you are a difficult one, yes. I see courage, lots of courage, I see greed and superiority, loyalty and truth," the hat whispered, " hmmm... where to put you, Gryffindor or Slytherin? You are perfect for both but where do you truly belong? You remind me of someone...ah yes, Potter, but you are like your grandfather , and at the same time different, yes. I sorted both of them into Gryffindor myself...hmmm... a tough one, better be...SLYTHERIN!"

Slytherin erupted into clapping and whistling, mostly from the boys anyway. Some people, as Hagrid were shocked. ("Albus Dumbledore's granddaughter in Slytherin?")

Kate made her way to the Slytherin table. She was a bit shocked herself, all her family had belonged to Gryffindor...her parents wouldn't be too happy.

Draco and Blaise left a chair between them.

"Hey, Kate, sit here!" yelled Draco. Kate walked and sat between the two boys.

"See you again Angel." Blaise smiled at her. She smiled back.

" Slytherin isn't as bad as Potter and his friends told you, you'll see," Draco said.

Once the sorting ceremony was over they ate. Kate couldn't believe her eyes when she saw so many nice food. She was about to put some meat in her plate when Hagrid came over and tapped Kate's shoulder.

"Hello, Kate, " he said, as Zabini and Malfoy looked at him.

"Hi Hagrid," she said.

"Um...Professor Dumbledore wants you to sit over there with him, they arranged you a special seat and all, so if you'll please follow me...."

Kate stood up and went with Hagrid, glowing beet red. This is so embarrassing! she thought.

She ate along with her grandfather which gave them the opportunity to catch up in many things, and although Kate hated to admit it, she was very fond of her grandfather.

After a few minutes Kate recognized every teacher present and quickly made a mental note on which she should avoid. There was one particular teacher she didn't like at all. She was a bulldog-face short chubby woman (No, actually Bulldogs are prettier....) with short curly hair adorned by a pink ribbon. She wore a horrid pink jacket which only made her look like a toad dressed as a pig. Professor Snape didn't look too friendly either. His pale face and greasy black hair didn't incentive Kate to come too close to him. Unfortunately, he was the head of Slytherin.

"I can't believe Kate was sorted into Slytherin," Harry said, looking at the girl, from the Gryffindor table.

"Me neither...." Ron said as he ate.

"Maybe there's more about Kate than we think," Hermione said, looking at Kate and going back to her meal.

Could Kate be evil? Dumbledore's granddaughter evil? They'll have to wait and find out.

Author notes: ok, this is chapter one, I know Kate might seem a Mary-sue... ok, she does seem a mary sue, but I PROMISE she'll change as the story develops she'll show her nasty character...proper of every
slyth, even of Blaise who's a cutie, isn't he? oh, and please review!