Hogwarts Express
Steph jumped down the steps four at a time until she slammed down to the ground. Sable pulled Stephs' trunk into the waiting cab, and pushing Steph into the cab. Speeding through the streets, the cab narrowly avoiding pedestrians and other vehicles but the finally made it to Kings Cross Station, they rushed to the platform nine and ten.
"Where is platform 9 and ¾?" Steph asked gasped as she ran towards the Platforms.
"Just walk into the barrier go fast we don't have much time!" Sable exclaimed.
"Alright but if I get hurt your so in trouble." She said running towards the barrier, she squeezed her eyes shut as the cart she was pushing went through the barrier and so did she.
She slowed to a stop and looked at all the kids standing around, saying goodbye, hugging, running off to get seats and so on. She turned to see sable walk casually through the wall behind her hurry up let's get you on that train. Sable helped Steph get her trunk onto the rail car. They said their goodbyes and soon the train was leaving the station. Stephanie yawned as she dragged her trunk through the hallway searching for an empty compartment. Finally! Steph slipped through the open compartment door and slipped her trunk onto the overhead rack, and shut the door behind her. She opened the little bag she had been carrying with her and pulled out the CD player her mother had given to her she slipped the head phones on and hit play. NickleBack blared to life in the head phones, Stephanie leaned her head onto the window staring out at the passing landscapes. Fields, small orchards, and woods all passing into blurs colors, all combining to make more colors.
"Hey look there's only one person in here."
Two Red haired boys stepped into the compartment and kept attempting to get the girls attention, but she was didn't seem to hear them with that weird contraption on her ears. They looked at each other and shrugged at the same time. The put their trunks on top of one of the racks, shut the door and sat down. They were having a conversation about their newest experiment on muggle candies, when the song changed and in those brief seconds of silent Stephanie heard their voices. She pulled off her headphones and looked up.
"Where the heck did you too come from?" Her voice was incredulous.
"Our mother." They said in unison.
"Smart ass huh," Steph stated more than asked.
"Yup, who are you?" One asked.
"Stephanie, but call me Steph, and too are?" She asked with a smile.
"I'm Fred and he's George." Fred said with a smirk indicating his brother.
George nodded and smiled, "So where you from?"
"My family is originally from Britain but I've been living with my Aunt in the states since my mother died and my dad went into an insane asylum." Steph said with a sad smile on her lips.
"That's unfortunate, so is this your first year at Hogwarts then?" Fred asked in a friendly yet trying to change the subject voice.
"Yup, what year are you two?" She asked glancing up at them.
"We're third years." They said in unison.
The three of them talked until it was time to change the boys allowing her privacy and then she allowed them to change. When they excited the tracks the twins and Steph departed, the twins heading for an upper platform and she headed for the big man that she heard someone call Haggrid. From there she got into a boat with a couple other first years. The boats seemed to float across the lake of their own accord. Soon they were lead up some stairs and into a castle where they were passed off to a stern looking women with her hair pulled back into a knot, she in turn lead them up some more steps and into a huge hall full of older students at for. Each were called up to sit on a stool where they had a hat put on. After a few students were called Stephanie was called up. Slowly she made her way through the crowd and sat down on the stool. The hat slipped down over her eyes a little.
"Ahhh….another Crawfeild, it's been a very long time since one has been here. Lets smart, strong and wise, but what's this, a hidden gift. Lying, even for a good cause is still lying Ms. Crawfeild, and stealing is, still stealing. Oh well lets put you in Gryffindor." It seemed that nothing had been said loud enough to be heard except for the name of the house.
She went to her table speechless as she sat down by the twins with and sank down a bit. Someone said Harry Potter, and Steph looked around. She was astonished to see him come down and sit down at the Gryffindor table. Shortly after the sorting was done and Dumbledore made his speech, a very odd speech but it started dinner and that's all that mattered to Steph. After dinner Dumbledore made another speech informing the first years that the third door corridors, and Forbidden Forest, were off limits to all who did not wish to suffer a terrible death. Then they were led to their common rooms and given their passwords. Then Steph made her way up to her dormitory with a couple of other first year girls. Her trunk was at the end of her bed, but she didn't car all that much she just plopped down onto the bed and closed the curtains. Faster than you can say tired she was asleep.