Sudde nly their came a nock on the carrage door and a tall slim green haired boy entered the compartment. 'Hi, I is Blingy' he said pleasently to Diamantiae. 'That's a strange anme' said Diamantiae looking at him couriously. Blingy had almost greenish skin and orb like green eyes like leaves and a very long nose. He reminded Diamantiae of a very tall house elf although she thought it would be rather ude to say so. 'Blingy doesn't like to be stared at so mamm' said Blingy turning red and taking a seat. 'Excuse me for asking, but I was just wondering why your hair is green' asked Diamantiae, who was feeling a bit too shy to also ask why his skin was kindof green among other things. 'Why I is just wondering the same thing about you - why your hair is long and red' said Blingy scanning her long red tesses that fell down to the floor while she was sitting.'Are you trying to be funny?' asked Diamantiae since she knew her hair is abosolutely normal. 'Sorry' replied Blingy, 'I was, and I is half house elf amongst other things. 'Cool' said Diamantiae. 'What else are you?' 'I is also half human and half merperson, hence the green hair' said Blingy pointing to his wavy green hair. 'I is getting my hieght from my human side, and my nose and eyes from my houseelf side. 'You also seem to get your way of speaking from your houseelf side' observed Diamantiae. 'How do you mean' aksed Blingy? 'My grandfather has houseelfs at the school and they talk just like you' said Diamantiae. 'They force houseleves to work at Hogwarts?' said Blingy shocked. 'I is going to have to stop that - they don't desever to be treated as slaves' 'I agree' said Diamantiae, they don't'.

Suddenly the train came to a stop and Blingy and Diamantiae gathered together thier bags and hopped off the train. Diamantiae decided she liked Blingy and hoped to make a few more friends like him. They were soon hustled with all the other first years to the boats and Blingy and her boareded the boats with 3 other students. One had messy black hair, glasses and brown eyes, the other was very handsome with black hair and blue eyes, while the last had cute sandy locks but looked very pale and sick. She wondered what was wrong with him and spent much of the jorney across the lake trying to look at him without looking like she was looking at him. She noticed he was staring mournfully at the sky, and looked up to see if she could see what it was he was staring at. There was a nealy full moon up and when Diamantiae looked at his pale shivering frame again she realised what it was that was bothering him. He must be a werewolf. 'That's interesting' she said to herself under her breath and decided to ask him about it later when his friends werent there.

After getting off the boat they were hustled inside by Proffessor McGonegall who was a tall strict looking witch with glasses and her hair in a tight looking bun.

Proffessor McGonegal showed them into the great hall after telling them they were going to be sorted by a sorting hat that would do occumency on their heads to see if they were slytherins, gryfindors, hufflepuffs or ravenclaws. When Remus put his hand up to ask what those were as he came from a muggleborn household and had no idea, McGonegal said that Slyterin was the house where dark wizards went like all the black family (she said looking at Sirus), and also cunning people. Sirus looked rather definant at this statement and when her back was turned did the fingers at her which made James laugh. McGonegal also explaned that Gryfindor was the house that brave ppl went such as Dumbledore the headmaster. Ravenclaw was for brainy ppl and was founded by Rowena who was very academic. Then there was Hufflepuff wich is the house for loyal people. Diamantiae heard Sirus say he'd either like to be in Gryfindor like James would or Hufflepuff since he was loyal. James then replied that he hoped Sirus would stay and keep him company in Gryfindor since he was his freind. Sirus nodded andDiamantiae was impressed at Siruses loyalty to his new freind games and decided she would like to be in Gryfindor too.

When the sorting hat was finally dropped on her head she was put into Gryffindor so heaved a big sigh of relief as she had been very nervous. Now all she had to be nervous about would be her first day of class the next day...