The Hogwarts express pulled into Hogsmeade station and Cory and Lily got out and went with everyone else. The crowds of yelling teenagers all were making their way in one direction. They were caught in a conversation and didn't mind the yelling surrounding them at all. People yelled from one head of the massive line to the very back things like, "OH MY GOD!!!! IT'S YOU!" or there was the very entertaining "You did what over the summer!? How could you??!!"

Lily saw some of the girls she knew and Cory recognized from pictures Lily would bring to camp. The pictures were taken at quidditch parties or in the town of Hogsmeade that Lily loved. The first girl that spoke introduced herself as Bethany and said she was honored to meet the great Cordelia Ash, very jokingly. Apparently Lily talked about Cory as much as Cory talked about Lily. Bethany was a tall girl who had medium length black hair and whose brown eyes were shielded from by oval shaped glasses. Cory and Bethany became very quick friends because their senses of humor were very similar; witty and very sarcastic. The other girl went by Emma and had curly blonde hair and was so genuine Cory was waiting for her to say 'psyche!'. Really, Cory couldn't imagine Emma ever saying a bad thing about anyone. She could probably, in Cory's mind, pass for becoming the Hogwarts Welcome Wagon. Once they we're all laughing and chatting, they made their way down the path with everyone else. "Hey Lily." Came a voice from behind the girls and all four of them turned to face those people from the train.

And there he was, possibly the most sexy and sinful guys Cory had ever seen. And Cory had seen in her time plenty of fine looking guys, but this guy in front of her had to be the most gorgeous. Cory eyes glued upon his and his upon hers. Soon Cory was completely faint and entranced with him. She knew she was being pathetic about this but that was really how she felt. Also it seemed that he was entranced with her as well. Cory couldn't help but think What is going on with this? God, I feel like I'm in a romance novel...

"What do you want Potter?" Lily said impatiently. But then Lily took her eyes off of James and looked at Cory clearly ready to tell her something but then stopped. Slowly Lily realized what was happening. She gaped at Cory. Quickly everyone in the little group too realized what was happening. But Cory and the guy in front of her didn't seem to noticed the stares they were getting. The three trouble makers all exchanged looks. They knew what was going on. Their fourth best friend had found his first prospect for the year. Soon the two would date. She would fall head over heels for Sirius and then he would leave her because he feared that she would want to learn about his past. This would leave the fallen prospect hurt, in some cases angered, but most of the time they would still if you asked say that Sirius Black knew how to treat a girl when he dated her and would say that they would do it again in a heartbeat. It was a cycle. A very vicious cycle, which none of the girls at Hogwarts had caught on to yet. But that hadn't started yet. At the current time, Cory and Sirius were completely absorbed with each other and that was all that seemed to matter.

Lily's eyes, still practically bulging out of her head. They went from Cory then to Sirius and quickly her eyes, if even possible, widened with even more shock. After about a minute in which no one spoke, Lily had had enough. She grabbed Cory forcefully by the arm and quite literally dragged her towards their transportation to the castle with Bethany and Emma in toe. Before long, the grisl were all sitting in a carridge and were being moved up to the castle.

Bethany was the first to bring up the think they were thinking about, "Alright, Cory spill. Now. How do you know Mr. Gorgeous?"

Cory was about to speak when Lily cut in, "She doesn't. It's not possible. She has never been to England before yesterday. There's no possible way they could have met…."

"Then…Oh…OH!" Emma said, "You like him, don't you?"

Cory felt herself turn red. "You do!!!! YOU DO!" Behany said and Lily fake gagged. All the girls laughed and Cory nodded. She did.

"But", Cory exclaimed, "I don't even know him! My God. I just moved here and already I'm into a guy. This is so annoying. I don't need a guy! I'm so sick of guys right now. I don't want a boyfriend. Wait, scratch that, I don't need a boyfriend. I mean, really, I don't even know his name how can I like him!?'

The other three girls all looked at each other. They all just shook their heads. "He's done it again." Lily said

"What?" Cory questioned.

"Yea. I wonder when he'll ask her?" Emma said. "I'll say it right now, I'm sorry."

"Hope you have a good time." Bethany said.

"Will someone please explain to me what the fuck you guys are talking about!?"

"Sirius Black. A.K.A. your new love. Yeah, well he…." Bethany said but trailed off.

Luckily Lily picked up. But her voice was a little angered, "He in the last four years and he probably will continue to, use women. He has at least dated forty percent of the female population of Hogwarts. He seduces then."

"But," Bethany took up again, "he is positively is one of the most sexy, delicious, – Em gimmie another synonym for Sirius Black or sexy or wait there the same thing..."

"Heavenly?" Emma ventured, Lily snorted and looked out the window, with her eyes narrowed. She was obviously mad about the topic of conversation.

Bethany nodded and continued, "Yes. Nice one, Emma. Heavenly. Defiantly. Ahh, he is so amazing."

The carriage slowed and the girls got out. They made their way up the stairs to the castle. It blew your mind. The castle was monstrous! It looked like it was most likely built two hundred years ago and was absolutely spectacular. A smile spread across Cory's face. Hogwarts. Finally. She would get to see all the things Lily talked about.

"So," Cory whispered to Bethany because Lily obviously wasn't to keen on talking about, "his name is Sirius? Like the star?"

"Yea." Bethany whispered back. "Sirius Black. He's in Griffindor. Where you better get sorted into or else I'll burn that hat. But, rea-" She didn't get to finish because at that moment a witch came up to Cory and said, "Cordelia Ash?"

"Yes Ma'am." She answered. She was always told to be polite when first meeting people. That was if the person was a teacher or at a higher position then her. If it was just a normal person she was just herself. She didn't care if people liked it or not. She was who she was and no one could change her.

"Please come with me." She said and turned her back and began to walk away. Cory looked at her friends, but then just decided to role with it and followed the witch. With more last look at Lily, Cory left. Where the witch was standing, Cory could see that Ash, Bates and Eddie were all being brought over too. Cory stood next to Ash and silently couldn't help but think of Sirius. She looked over towards the people shuffling into the Great Hall and there he was. He was listening to something James was saying and then burst out laughing. She couldn't hear over the yelling loud noises others were making, but she wished she could have.

"This way, please." The witch said and they were bought down a long hallway. They entered a classroom and the witch spoke again. "My name is Professor McGonagual. I teach transfiguration here at Hogwarts and I'm also the Deputy Headmistress. We are going to place you all in your equivalent houses. Now Mr. Jennings you will be in Hufflepuff. Mr. Bates, Slytherin, Mr. Harris, Ravenclaw and Ms. Ash, Griffindor. Now will you please follow me and we wil join the rest of the school in the Great Hall."

Cory was ecstatic! Griffindor. She was in Griffindor! YES! This was awesome! She couldn't wait to get back to the hall to see Lily and the girls. They were going to be so happy!

"Oh," Prof. McGonagual said over her shoulder, "your robed have already been brought up to your rooms so don't worry about that."

The five of them made their way into the Great Hall and they all got shown where to go. Cory made her way down the length of the table. All the girls searching her face for any way to tell which house she was in. Cory put on a blank face made her way over to the table. Lily sat on one side with an empty seat next to her and one of the guys from the train was seating in on the other side. He was the one guy whose name Cory didn't get. Next to him was the girl whose name she also didn't get. On the other side of the table was Emma and Bethany., then James and Sirius. Her heart jumped. Lily grabbed Cory's hand tightly.

"What?" she said her eyes mixed with fear and hope. "What house if it's not Griffindor then I'm going to go complain. I may be small, but I can argue. We'll get you switched. Don't worry. L-"

Bethany cut in. "Jeez, Lily, okay breath and let her speak."

Lily still held her hand and Cory looked at her friends. Then she said very mildly, "Griffindor."

But of course she dropped her whole façade and broke into a huge small. The girls all screamed and Lily pulled Cory down on the seat. Lily hugged her best friend tightly.

"Really, did you think I'd be put anywhere else?" Cory said sarcastically. "No one in their right mind would want to bore the wrath of Lily Margaret Evans? Who?"

Everyone laughed and Croy felt for some reason that she was home.

Dinner ended and the girls took Cory back to the dorm. They made their way down hallway after hallway and Cory was left astonished after each turn they took. Upon entering the Griffindor Common room, Cory fell immediately in love with it. It was beautiful. It had a great homely feel to it. The walls were painted a deep, strong red and there were brown leather couches and chairs around a roaring fire in the center of the room. There were also tables along the back walls for studying and any other activities a Griffindor could possibly do. Home. This would be Cory's home for the next two years of her life.

But they were all so tired that they decided that it would be best if they all went up to sleep. So up they went to the sleeping dormitory and there on her bed Cory found her robes. She loved them and was so excited to even be here and have her own bed! At Hogwarts! YES! This was perfect!

Or at least it would have been if her past horrors had not came back to visit her in her dreams that night.