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.