From this day on

by my name lestat

A young woman is accepted on HOgwarts after reseving a pendant from het passed away uncle. But is all as it seems

2. Hogwarts

getting to Hogwarts and meeting the teachers

She smilled as a couple walked by. then she went to the trian station. She saw several children with trolleys. The kids holidays were over, like they always were as she just started having them. She heared a boy talking bout Hogwarts and listend in. They seemed normal. she walked by them and followed them with her eyes as they walked past her again. She saw them go trew a wall and walked to that wall. She looked at it and sat down on the ground uppeset fromit. Nobody even noticed her as a few more schildren simple walke trew. She stood up and ran to the wall. She came trew and saw a train with Hogwars express on it. She simple stepped in. She would see were it would lead her. If she had stepped on to the train her pendant had started to glow again. She smilled as she already noticed that as she did something right the pendnt would glow. She foudn a coupe with only three kids in it and sat down. They looked at her. She smilled. " hello my name is Lilian Collins" she said. The three smilled back. " I'm harry Potter" one boy said. " Please to meet you Harry" Lilian said. Th three looked ta each other. " I'm hermoine Granger and that's Ron Weasly" the girl said. Lilian smilled at them,. " Which year do you go" Lilian asked. " We are in the sixt year now" Harry said. The train left and Lilian wonderd if she had relly done the right thing. The three kids had stopped looking a her and were talking about some teachres. She didn't know the names till one spoke of Profeesor Snape. Lilian instantly went on alert. They didn't seemed to like him very much. She never had liked her teachers but the one she had hated the most had become a close friend and a mentor to her after she had left the school. She had realised he ha been the one she learned the most off.she went sad as she rememberd when the call came that he had been in a traffac accident and had died. A lot of former student were there and they had all written down how they would miss him and how they had learned so much of him. She felt some tears well up in her eyes as she looked out of the window. " Miss Collins" a voice said. she looked up . the boy called Ron was looking at her. " Oh i'm sorry, what did you say" she asked. " why are you going to Hogwarts?" he asked. Lilian looked at him and smilled.

" Well to be honost, i don't know" she said. She looked up. " But the three off you can help me i think. " If we arrive could you take me to ypu're proffesor Snape" she asked, The three looked at her. " Ypu're sure you wanne go to him" Hermoine asked. Lilian nodded. " Why do you need him" Harry said. " I rather discuss the first with him" Lilian said and the three nodded. The four of them talked aboyt Hogwarts as the found out Lilian didn't know anything about it. As they arrived Harry saw Hagrid standen out-side and walked over. " We need to go to our rroms but Hagrid here will take you to the Proffesor" harry said. lilian nodded and shook the giants hand. She wasn't scared of him. " Miss collins" Hagrid said. Lilian smilled. " Please do call me Lilian Hagrid" she said as the two walked to the school. She looked at amazement as they entered. Hagrid walked to a bog room were there was a table filled with adults. hagrid walked further. The one with the black hair and bad look is Proffesor Snape you're sure you wanne talk to him" Hagrid asked. Lilian nodded. " He can't be worse then my uncle" she said. Obe of the proffesors rose as the saw Hagrid approge with Lilian. " Hagrid who mith this be" he asked. " A proffesor Dumbledore, this is Lilian Collins, she came with the train and is looking for Proffesor Snape" he said. snape looked up and looked at the woman. " What you want" he snapped at her. Lilian smilled. " Good evening Proffesor Snape, my name is Lilian Colins as Hagrid said, my Uncle Samuel Collins, left me something and with that a note that if i had any quastions i should go to you' she said. She didn't seemed to be afraid of him. Hagrid said down at the table. Snape looked at her. " So you are his niece" he asked. Lilian nodded. He looked at her. " I don't have time, to answerd quations" he said and rose. he walked up to her. " You may be his niece but i'm busy" he said. The he walked of towards a door. " And they said you weren't nice, you just like my uncle" Lilian said to his back. snape stopped and turned around. " I am nothing like you're uncle" he said. " That's what you say" she answerd. Snape turned again and was gone. Lilian smilled. "he looks like David" she sid to herself. " David ?" proffesor Dumble dore asked. Lilian looked at him. " long story" she said. The proffesor offerd her a chair and Lilian sat down. " So how did you ome here, you don't look like you know much about the wizard word, i am proffesor mcgonnegle" female proffesor said. Lilian smilled. " You are right.i don't i was raised in what you call the muggle word by my aunt and uncle. i went to school there and graduted cum laude, after warts i started walking till i reseved a letter that my uncle had died and had left me the pendant. I worked for two more days and i have vacantion now. I reserved and strange letter from a owl of teh ministery of magic that tehy would help me. I don't know why i went to teh train station today but i accidentely heared a boy talkong about hogwarts so i followed him and got on the train." she told them they all listend with amazement. " so how do you like it" a proffesor called Lupin asked. Lilian smilled. " Strange, new, exciting but somehow familier to my old school" she said and looked at the door were Snape had left by.

Dumbledore looked at her. " You said David, who was that?" he asked. Lilian smilled and turned slitly red. " Well in my school we had a couple of teachers that were on the black list, wich ment dat we didn't like having them . The ranking went from 0 till 10 , 10 meaning he was the worst teacher you could't have. david ranked 11, we put it up just for him. I think this proffesor Snape will have about the same ranking here. I must say i my whole time i went to school i always tried to come up with a excuse not to attend his class but like always his class was the one nobody could skip. I were a hellish few years and we often wonderd why he even became a teacher. but inmy last year something strange happend. My aunt died and i was broken by it because my uncle wasn't often there nd i saw her as my mother. David was the only teacher who really cared but also didn't pittied me. He was the one i could go to if i needed to talk but he still ecpected from me that i did my homework and have good grades. I thank him that i still graduated cum laude and best of that year. I included that in my speech. Some students couldn't believe it that David even had a caring site but most of his student all passed his exam. david and i got closer as friends and he became a kind of mentor for me. He was there when i needed someone to talk to or if i needed some one to see clear. He never said something easy and calm he simple stated things as a fact. I don't know if i learned more from him after i graduated or before but i never wil have a friend like him again. He died about half year ago in a car accident and again i held the speech.

Most all of his former student were there and they ll sid that they would miss the greassy bat but they had learned from him what other teachers couldn't. i think you're proffesor Snape is also a lot like David" Lilian said. She had felt the tears as she talked about David. They all listend to her without saying a word. Lilian looked behind her and saw Proffesor Snape standing there. " i am nothing like that David of youres" he said. Lilian smilled . " That would be the first thing David would have said but i willbed everything you have a bottle of whiskey in you're room" she said. Dumbledore smilled. " Why is that" he said. Lilian smilled. " Just a little thing David said" she said. Snape went back to his chair and sat down. The students have all arrived" he said. Dumbledore looked at Lilian. " well you are at a school and you need to learn about magic. I will put you trew a different kind of test to diterment which classes andyear you should be in later today" he said. Lilian nodded. I will also put you trew the sorting rituel with the first years to see which house you would have been in" he added. Lilian just nodded. " in teh meantime go with Minerva here and stand at with the group of first years you will be sorted last" he sid. Minerva stood and Lilian walked with her she smilled at Snape. as they walked to the group of children Minerva looked at her. so what is this Cum Laude, you spoke about" she asked. Lilian smilled. We have a grading system wich simple means a complete score wil be a a or a+ if you donme extra credit.

You go down to a F wich means you failed horrible. Cum laude means you have a report wit only A and a+ on it, being best in year means no other student has a better score then you had. I was a real know it all and so my grades we perfect all the time" she said. minerva nodded. You know i think i like talking to you" she said.

Lilian smilled. " Yeah like you to proffesor" she said. They arrived and Lilian walked in with the other. She stood in the back and watched the other students being sorted while the higher years were looking as tehy could see potential for thier classes. As the last of the first years was srted everybody looked at Dumbledore for his useal speech as Lilian aspected. he winked her and she sat down on the sorting chair. " This time we have a special gast among us. She will be attending some classes and thereby she will be sorted. This is Lilian Collins" he said. He placed the hat on her head and she waited what would happen. "Difficult,difficult the head on top of herhead said. You're not the useally student. You have potential for al l houses. You can study very well, you are brave, loyal but you also have a dark site. I place you in Griffendore but you would also make a good Slyherine" the hat said. Lilian smilled. she rose and looked at the students. They all looked at her with a quation on thier lips. She looked at Dumbledore you pointed to the griffendore table. she say, harry, hermoine and Ron and walked to them. " i didn't kow you would become a student here" Hermoine said. lilian smilled. Dumbledore decided about half an hour ago" she said. They all laughed and food apeared. lilian didn't have a big appetide shenever couldn't eat much in de company of others. After dinner she had a meating with Dumbledorer, Minerva who would be her head of the house was there too. They gave her a few books and she opend them. You will have the change to read them till tomorrow then you will have and test wich will show us wich year you should be in" dumbledore said. Lilian nodded and Minerva took her to the common room of griffendore house. Lilian sat down on a seat and opend the first book. She didn't find it really a challange and moved onto the next one. The last one had potions on it and Lilian was interessted from the first page. She finished it when all other had already gone to bed. She wasn't sleepy so she decided to go and see the school grounds.