Chapter Two

The cool breeze hit Ella as she heard yelling downstairs. Rubbing her eyes she rolled out of bed and slipped on her clothes as she woke up all the way. She saw that Ginny and Hermione were already packed and downstairs. Startled and wide-eyed Ella rushed with her packed trunk and went downstairs. The past week was very busy; they went to Diagon Alley where they picked up their new books and things. And Ella got in plenty of fights with Hermione after she found out that Ella was not far behind at all, actually the newbie was ahead in certain areas. They found out that she could fly a broom with the boys, and was good in potions.

The car ride was chaos as the twins, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, herself, and Mrs. Weasley sat in the car. The early morning light hit everyone's face as they reached the train station. Frowning, Ella loaded her cart with her trunk and Ginny's trunk. Mrs. Weasley, "Muggles everywhere again this year, something every year." She commented. Ella raised an eyebrow to how people here were more open to magic than her hometown, at least vocally. Sighing, she followed the others... nothing phased her as they entered 9 ¾ Platform and entered the train. The train finally left the platform; they were heading to Hogwarts. The four of them found a compartment, as they sat down the trio started talking about their previous years, all Ella could do is sit there quietly.

Ella looked out the window; her golden locks fell over her green eyes as she faded into the background. Soon enough the sky grew dark as Hogwarts Express entered a storm cloud. Ella shivered, as the compartment grew cold.

"Ella, are you ok?" Ella turned when she heard her name being called; she saw that Ginny was right next to her with worry in her face. Ella smiled and watched Ginny sit next to her; the trio was gone to put on their robes. Ella noticed that Ginny was wearing her robes already, "You should really change into your robes..." Ginny commented.

Ella nodded and headed into the train's bathroom- bumping into a boy with a slightly long but bleached hair before entering the bathroom. "Watch out, Are you retarded or something." The boy looked up and was taken by the beauty and bright green eyes of the girl, and took a small step back. Ella watched the boy step back, but she too was curious about the boy.

"You're the new girl aren't you, the American." Draco added. Ella could only nodded her head- she was lost for words. Draco swallowed his nerves as he noticed that awful Potter was coming. "What was Hogwarts thinking, enrolling an American... bloody worthless I notice." Ella just stared at the boy, on the verge of tears the young girl stared him down coldly. But in her mind she had mixed feelings, one was to like the guy and the other was to grab the guy around the throat and take him out of this world and to the next- if there was one.

"Ella, you ok?" Harry asked as he gave Draco the evil eye. "I'm ok." She turned towards Harry, leaving Draco to think what he has done- he made an enemy out of a very nice girl. She walked back to the compartment as Harry followed. "Did that awful ferret say anything to you?" Harry asked, but Ella just shook her head.

Draco sulked back to his compartment, sitting next to Crabbe and Goyle. He was very quiet until the train shook violently. He heard a few screams as the train felt like it was rolling down a hill. The train was derailed and falling swiftly. The first thought was that American girl... was she ok? He thought as he held into to anything from flipping himself, he saw his 'friends' flipped all over the space. Draco slipped himself under the seat and held on tightly. Frighten but suddenly the train stopped, by using a tree. The train was quiet but the students weren't at this time, screams... sodding and talking happened all over the train. Draco peeled himself out from under the train, looking at the bodies laying all over the place, most were just knocked out but a huge number were dead. He walked slowly thru the train to the compartment were the Trio and Ella were. Ginny and Neville stood just outside of the train. The side of Ginny's head was red with blood and Neville was cradling his arm, since the bone broke thru the skin and poking out. He went over to them and looked into the compartment, the trio was scratched up pretty badly and also Ella- she had a huge gash across her forehead. But he didn't say anything as they looked at him.

Ella looked wide-eyed like the boy she ran into earlier, her head hurt as she looked at everyone- even with everyone hurt, they at least were alive. She looked at the boy again, noticing that he was bruised on his neck and thru the white shirt that they wore under their robes she could see that his back was bruised also. "Everyone ok?" They heard from the driver of the train. They nodded, "Dumbledore will be here shortly, just stay calm." He said as he walked off. Ella looked tiredly around the area, noticing the dead bodies that laid all over the place, "This is horrible."

The group walked away the train a bit, so they aren't seeing the mangled bodies of their friends... they were survivors. Ella sat on top of a large rock, Ginny sat next to her and the other sat around on the ground, even the boy sat down. Ella smiled at the two boys she didn't know their names. Harry noticed that Ella didn't know them, "Ella that Draco and Neville." He said quickly.

As the night went on, and the darkness surrounded them- they heard shouts and chaos from just down the tracks. They were near the school, and from the sounds of it... there wouldn't be a lot of people alive from this attack.