Disclaimer: I do not own HP in any way, shape, or form. I am not making any profit off of this work. I do not own the original HP characters but I do however own my original characters.
Rated: M for sexual content, language, adult themes
A/N: The first few chapters of this story are in desperate need of a re-write so just grit your teeth and get through them. I promise it gets much better later.
Chapter
One
"Coming Home"
Bella Grundy was not your normal run of the mill eleven-year-old girl. For one thing she was a descendent of Witches and Wizards and a Witch herself. Well, not really but she would be soon because she had just been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Bella stood stock
still at the platform for the Hogwarts train. Her coal-black hair was
stick straight and fell in rigged lines across her pale face. Her
white hands clinched in fist around the handle bare of her luggage
trolley.
If she stepped on that train, if she went to Hogwarts
then…
"Bella! What are you doing! Don't just stand there
get on the train!" screeched Bella's grandmother who had just
walked though was seemed to be a soled brick wall. She started
pushing Bella forward towards the train.
"Grandma, don't
push! OUCH! That hurt!" yelled Bella rubbing her
shoulder.
"Well, if you don't want me pushing that get on the
train yourself!" cried Bella's grandmother.
"Fine!"
with that Bella pulled her luggage onto the train, found a place for
it, and began looking for a seat. She quickly found an empty
compartment and flopped down on one of the seats. She wanted to be
alone for awhile to clear her head. Bella turned her head sharply as
she heard an "Erm," come from the direction of the
door.
"What!" she snapped.
A young boy with freckles
and red hair was standing in the doorway. "Can I sit there?"
he asked pointing to the seat opposite Bella.
"No." said
Bella stiffly.
"Oh--er--sorry..." and with that the boy
disappeared down the thin hallway.
Bella made a noise close to a
"Hmph." as she snapped the door shut. She starred out the
window as countryside sped by. But it wasn't long before she heard
the door slid open again.
"Have you seen a toad?" said a
girl with bushy brown hair and a stuffy air about her.
"No I
have not. Go away." said Bella shortly.
Without another word
the girl left closing the door behind her.
Bella sniffed in an
irritated way and shifted a bit in her seat.
It wasn't long
before an old woman came buy with a trolley of sweets and opened the
door.
"Anything of the trolley, dear?"
"No."
said Bella not even looking at the woman or the trolley loaded with
mouth watering sweets.
The woman left but Bella could hear her
trolley squeaking down the hall. Bella closed the door again and
pulled on her Hogwarts robs.
Bella was in a foul mood by the
time the train stopped at Hogsmead Station.
"Please, leave
your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school
separately." called a voice through the train.
Bella stood up
stiffly and walked out into the crowed hall. Students were everywhere
and Bella found it quite hard to breath with so many people in one
space. Bella pushed her way out of the train onto a dark and shadowy
platform; it was very dark out probably past eight. Bella was fixing
her robs when she heard a booming voice say,
"Firs' years!
Firs' years over here!" Bella barley heard the next part, "All
right there Harry?"
Did he really say Harry? Bella
looked around for the person who had spoken but she didn't have to
look far. The voice had come from a man who was at least two times
taller then a man and several times as wide. "He must have giant
blood," muttered Bella as she pushed her way over to
him.
"C'mon, follow me—any more firs' years? Mind yer step,
now!"
Bella sighed. "Yes, we know we're not stupid."
she muttered.
"Firs' years follow me!"
"You said
that already and we all heard you." breathed Bella bitterly. She
and the other first years followed the giant man down a dark, narrow
path. Bella noticed that they were now in front of a great dark lake
that stretched across for a long distance.
"Yeh'll get yer
firs' look o' Hogwarts in a sec," called the giant man.
But
it didn't take long for the yellow glowing light of a distant castle
to take Bella's breath away. Many people around her "Ooooohed"
and "Aaaahhhed" but Bella just starred at the castle with
wonder in her deep blue eyes.
"No more'n four to a
boat!"
Bella was brought back to her sense and quickly saw
the little boats in front of them. Bella climbed into a boat and
glared at the three girls that followed her.
"Everyone in?"
shouted the giant man, who took up a whole boat by himself. "Right
then—FORWARD!"
And the little boats began to move towards
the castle ahead. Bella still was unsure of going to Hogwarts but as
she gazed at the castle she couldn't help feeling that she was coming
home.
