Natalie sat down in one of the empty compartments on the Hogwarts Express. She was completely alone, except for Calandra. When she shut the door of the compartment, she couldn't even hear the sounds of the other students, making her feel even more isolated. She curled up near the window and watched the countryside speed by.

Suddenly the door slid open. Natalie turned and looked to see who was coming into her compartment.

Ayla opened the door of the compartment and stepped in. She glanced around it and when she noticed Natalie she smiled.

"Hi! Can I sit here? Everywhere else seems to be full."

Valisilwen hurried through the corridors on the train looking for a place to sit. Somewhere quiet, somewhere alone.

She passed a compartment and heard a girl saying, "Hi! Can I sit here? Everywhere else seems to be full."

The train started moving and Valisilwen tripped forward falling flat on her face.

"Are you alright?"Ayla asked, holding out a hand to help her up.

Alxa wandered down the corrider on the train looking for some one she can talk to but everyone seemed to have friends already and she didn't want to go up to a group. These students all looked much older than she was. She grapped on to a handle the wall as the train lurched to a start. She saw ahead of her that a girl had fallen and a group of boys were laughing at the girl. She rushed forwards to help her up

"Are you OK?" she aked the Girl

"What's your name? I'm Alexa, are you first year too? How about we go into this compartment?"

And she dragged the girl she had just met into a compartment with 2 other girls in it.

"Um, hi. Thank you for helping me. My name is Valisilwen. It's nice to meet you Alexa and the rest of you. I'm sorry if I caused anyone any trouble. I don't want to bother any of you," Valisilwen said softly glancing around at the people that were infront of her. Her face was becoming redder every second. She was glad go be out of the hallway with everyone laughing at her.

"It's nice to meet you Valisilwen" Alexa replied "I really love your name"

She turned round to the two other girls in the carriage;

"Do you mind if we sit in here?" she asked apoligetically "It's just that all the other carriages are full"

"Yeah, sure I guess, if its ok with..." Ayla looked to Natalie, "I was just asking if i could join her when everything happened." she smiled, holding out her hand

"I'm Ayla."

Nat smiled at the three girls standing in the doorway of the compartment. "Sorry, my mind was somewhere else for a second there. " She noticed one of the girls had dust down her front, as though she had fallen down recently. "Are you alright?" she asked the girl. "Oh, I'm Natalie Armitage, by the way...who are you lot?"

Jollivan asked if he could sit with everyone and told them that his name is Jollivan and that he was pretty scared about going to school.

"Hey Jollivan! Course you can sit with us." She smiles, "I'm kinda scared too, what house do you reckon you'll be in?"

Oh i'm not sure." Jollivan then shakes and says "I hope I'm in Ravenclaw, I don't know but I kinda like birds. But i like cats."

Jamilian, his cat, jumped on his lap.

" What do you want to be in Alya?"

"I'm hoping Gryffindor! But i wouldn't mind being a Ravenclaw either..."

"Yeah, Gryffindor wouldn't be bad, what does everyone else want to be?"

"I don't really mind which house I'm in but I'd be a little worried if I was sorted into Slytherin, I've heard some bad things about that house," Valisilwen said. She glanced around the carriage thinking it was getting rather crowded.

"Yeah! Slytherin is bad!" Jollivan said and started shaking again.

"Does anyone know what the classes and the teachers are like? I mean how do you know unless you have a brother or sister in Hogwarts," stated Valisilwen. She had no clue what Hogwarts was like and the only reason she knew what classes she was taking was because of the books she was told to buy.

"I have no idea because I am a only child." Jollivan said wishing he had a brother. :oh well, I hope I have defence against the dark arts because it sounds good from everyone who knows me. He looked around and sees how full it is.

Alexa looked around the carriage too and saw that it was getting very crowded. However she was glad that she was getting to meet lots of people before starting at Hogwarts.

"I don't know anything about the school" she answered Valisilwen. "I hadn't even heard of it or witchs and wizards until I got my letter."

"So what are the different houses? And what's so bad about Slytherin?"

"My dad told me a bit about Hogwarts, he didn't say much though..." She sat back in her seat. "There's Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin - that's the house where most wizards that turn about bad start off...its all about pureblood etc."

She gets up and shuts the door before sitting back down again.

"Ah I see - well I definitly don't want to be in Slytherine then, I don't want to become an evil wizard" Alexa replied

"I'm also not pure blood - that's when both your parents are wizards isn't it? My Mum's not a witch and I don't really know about my dad..."

she trailed off.

Alexa suddenly heard a noise in the corrider

"Oh I think that might be the food trolley coming round - I can't wait to try wizard food, I bet it's wonderful"

Ayla's stomach rumbled loudly in reply. Digging in her bag, she pulled out a purse.

"Food time! It's great, there's chocolate frogs, bertie botts every flavour beans..." she trailed off as the door opened and a trolley full of food filled their view.

"What do you exactly mean by Bertie Bot's Every Flavour Beans?"

Valisilwen asked critically as she looked at the trolly. There were things she had never heard or even seen before. She agreed with Alexa wizard food was probably wonderful but she wasn't very exploritive in the food department unless she knew what it was.

"OoOo chocolate frogs! Don't tell me they ARE frogs because i don't want that to jump around!" Jollivan said.

"When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour!" She tosses a packet at Valisilwen. "Try one, they're usually good!"

Picking up a chocolate frog, "they aren't real frogs, they only have about one good jump in them. It's the cards that count."

Now Valisilwen was c0mpletely clueless.

"Cards?" she asked.

When she asked she took a few Bertie Bots Every Flavour Beans. Reductuly she put a red colored one into her mouth.

"Weird! It's apple tasting," she said suprised.

"Yeah, each card has a picture of a famous witch or wizard...I'm always gettin Merlin though, i have about 10 of him now."

The sky which had been growing darker was now a deep blue. Perhaps they would be there soon.

"Those clouds look freaky! Can I go hide?" Jollivan asked.

"Um, you could hide where you want, I guess," Valisilwen said looking at him weirdly.

She aboslutely loved thunderstorms and thats what the clouds looked like they might bring, but who knows.

"Should we change into our robes? I think we might arrive at Hogwarts soon"