Tori walked into the train station nervously, her mother was right behind her and was holding her yellow cat she called Blonde. Tori was going to Platform 9 ¾, and also to her first year at Hogwarts. Her nerves were completely out of whack, she wondered if she was going to get friends, she wondered what house she'd be in. She just prayed that she'd be in any house then Slytherin.

Her mother reassured her if she was placed in Slytherin it was nothing to be ashamed of. "Some of the greatest wizards came from Slytherin. Not all Slytherins are bad you know," she told Tori. .

She finally reached the barrier between Platform 9 and 10, she ran at the barrier with closed eyes. When she opened them she saw a huge scarlet train, she grinned, this was now going to be the train that took her to her happiest years! At least that what she thought.

She turned to her mum who had watery eyes, Tori sighed. "Well…I should get going?" she asked her mother. Her mother nodded sadly, she leaned down and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"You be good, behave and keep your grades up," she said weakly. Tori nodded, she took her luggage and hopped on the train. She found an empty compartment, she would have gone in the compartment next to her but the girls in there were chatting away nonstop and she thought it would be best to leave them to it.

She waved to her mother through the window. These days it was rare to see her mother up and about, and it seemed that she was getting paler everyday. Tori's mother had a bad sickness, Tori had a cold feeling that her mother wouldn't recover this treacherous sickness.

Tori was about to pick up her new Transfiguration book when her compartment door slid open…

James Potter stood near his parents, his mother was going on and on to BEHAVE! "I don't want ANY letters except telling me how good your doing," she told him. Finally she stopped and kissed him on the lips, "Behave, I love you!" she called as he was gathering his stuff and turning around to leave. "By dad, by mum!" he called. "And don't worry I'll try to behave!" He sniggered as his mother looked reproving at him.

He saw a boy, his age, talking to his mother sarcastically. His eyes rolling every so often and muttering something under his breath that James couldn't hear.

"Yes mum, I'll stay with Bellatrix, I know mum 'don't talk to muggle-borns,'" he said heavily. He rolled his eyes, his mother looked at him sharply with her beady eyes, she was about to say something when the boy cut her off. "I know, make sure I stay with Bellatrix's friends-yeh right! -Ok, ok! Bye mum-yes I know! –Bye-no mum I-got to go! Yes I'll remember BYE!

The boy lifted his trunk into the train and disappeared. James followed interested. He finally spotted him searching for a compartment, James walked over and said friendly, "Hi, I'm James Potter."

The black-haired boy look around, seeing James he smiled and said, "Hi, I'm Sirius Black."

"Can't find a compartment either eh?" James asked smiling. He hadn't really looked a lot but he could tell everywhere was full.

Sirius shook his head. "No, not one."

James looked around, he spotted a compartment that looked like only one girl was sitting inside. "What about that one? There's only one person?"

Sirius nodded and said, "Yeh I guess your right. Let's go then." So he and Sirius walked over and pulled the door open. A girl sat there just about to reach for one of her books. She had dark brown hair that fell in her face a little and she had a few cute freckles around her cheekbone. Her eyes were stormy grey and she had tan skin. She quickly looked up and gave a lopsided smile.

James spoke up. "Could we sit here? Everywhere else is full," he asked politely. Sirius nodded still watching the girl.

"Er…sure," she said uncertainly. She brushed back her hair and pushed her bag towards her to make room.

James and Sirius sat a little bit away from her and closer to the window. "I'm James Potter by the way. And this is Sirius Black," James introduced.

The girl gave her lopsided smile as if uncertain about what to say. "I'm Tori Gonzales," she said shyly. Her lips pursed together but it seemed more in a nice shy way rather than an unapproving way as most people used this expression. To James her smile was weird, it seemed as though she had just sucking on something sour and was trying to smile rather than spit it out.

Sirius finally spoke up. "Nice to meet you Tor-" He was cut off, the compartment door slid open. Two boys, one was skinny and had short sand colored hair. The other boy was plump with mossy hair and rather wide watery eyes. Both boys were looking at James and the others carefully (probably to see if they weren't going to talk with weirdoes).

"Hi, can we sit here, everywhere else is full," the sand-haired boy asked. James looked at the girl who originally had the compartment first.

She had the lopsided smile again and was eyeing them shyly. "I guess-I mean of course!" she added hastily, James guessed she didn't want to sound rude. The two boys sat down next to the girl called Tori and the friendly sand-haired boy told them, "I'm Remus Lupin and this is Peter Pettigrew." The plump boy called Peter gave a nervous smile, he obviously didn't feel comfortable. Sirius spoke up this time. "I'm Sirius Black and this is James Potter. And…" he looked at Tori as if he already forgot her name. She raised her eyebrow as if annoyed. "Tori Gonzales," she finished.

"Nice to meet you," Remus said smiling. "This your guy's first year at Hogwarts too?" he asked. James shook his head, so did Sirius and Tori.

The rest of the trip the five of them talked enthusiastically, Tori and Peter talked the less. But it seemed when the conversation started to go towards muggles she was starting to get heated. They instantly stopped, but Sirius pushed it a little farther.

"Are you a muggle-born?" he asked curiously. The four boys listened, they had all said they had been pure-bloods and thought maybe that had offended her.

"No," she said defiantly. "But my dad is, so I'd appreciate it if you left muggles out of the conversation please," she said, her voice has now edgy. They didn't talk about muggles the rest of the trip.

They finally arrived at Hogwarts, James was pumped and his heart beating hard with excitement. Sirius seemed to be hypnotized to the castle. Remus seemed to be nervous but still trying to smile. Peter was sweating badly, it was no question that he was nervous. Tori was biting her nails and her lip and smiling lopsided, James guessed this was her way of being nervous.

They got inside the boats and watched the castle as it drew ever so nearer. This was James's home practically for seven years and he loved it already!

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