Chapter 4, Woot Woot! I hope you enjoy and if you do please review and if don't still review. PLEASE! I like to know what people think of mywork! So anyways

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THE TRAIN RIDE

Sillenna bit her lip nervously as she walked along the platform looking for 9 ¾. She glanced over, visually checking over her things again. There were her trunks, Decin, her owl, a satchel of books and things for the trip, and a small locked chest that contained the medicine she needed to help her with her back pains. She grimaced at the thought of the burning liquid. It was better then the pain though.

"Where is it?" Melhina asked looking back and forth between the platform 9 and platform 10 sign.

"Oh, Hermione told me you have to walk through the wall." Torkin and Melhina just stared at her. "It's some sort portal." Sillenna explained quickly. They still looked at her skeptically.

"Oh come on!" Sillenna exclaimed as she walked toward the wall. "Where's your sense of adventure?" But inside she was thinking, "Here goes nothing," as she took a deep breath and walked through the wall. On the other side stood a brilliant red train with the Hogwart's emblem and a billowing cloud of smoke flowing from it's black smoke stack. The horn sounded its boarding call and Sillenna turned and smiled weakly at her two guardians who had just appeared cautiously from the wall.

"Well I guess you better be going," Melhina said with a misty look, "wouldn't want to get left behind." Sillenna nodded, trying not to cry. She was leaving behind her only connections with her old life and two dear friends. The only reminder of her old life she was taking with her was her mother's family ring that she always wore and the special necklace Melhina and Torkin had given her so they could communicate easily.

"Come here, you!" Torkin said as her pulled her into a bear hug. She felt Melhina's petit arms enclosing around her, making a human sandwich. Sillenna didn't want to let go. She was scared but she felt her body prying itself lose and walking toward the train. She cast a longing look over her shoulder, but had to turn and run onto the train to keep the heavy tears from falling. She rushed down the corridor looking for an empty compartment to hide in and cry. She was oblivious to the people staring at the beautiful new girl. In her hurry, Sillenna ran head on into a boy with shaggy black hair.

"Sorry, just looking for a compartment." Sillenna mumbled bashfully while staring at her hands.

"Well this is the only one left, so I hope you don't mind sharing," said a warm voice that brought Sillenna's focus away from her hands to his handsome face with his round glasses and those gorgeous green eyes. Those eyes…those sparkling orbs that danced and shimmered. "They could belong to a Dragonna," she thought, but out loud she said "wow…" in an airy voice.

"Er…" the boy said nervously. He looked like he expected her to start squealing like those kids on TV who meet their favorite celebrity.

"Oh, sorry," Sillenna apologized quickly when she realized she'd been staring. "It's just your eyes are so pretty." The boy looked both relieved and puzzled at the same time.

"I have a weird fascination with shiny, sparkly, things," Sillenna explained. The boy laughed and stuck out his hand.

"I'm Harry Potter," he introduced himself while closely watching her face for her reaction. Nothing but a radiant smile.

"Nice to meet you Harry Potter. I am Sillenna Miller." She replied. "Better go in before somebody else claims this compartment," she said walking in the door.

Harry followed her and set down opposite her. He couldn't help notice how pretty she was. He had noticed her raven black hair with what appeared to be silver flecks in it while he was walking down the corridor. It wasn't until they collided that he realized he had changed his course and headed straight for her. He wanted to see her face so bad, he had to see her face. When she had looked up at him the first time, his breath caught in his throat. She was so beautiful. And her eyes were staring intently into his own. They were moist and slightly red as if she had been crying but they were still beautiful and captivating. Yet they seemed to be veiled, like the real Sillenna Miller was hidden under them some where. Harry yearned to find her. As they sat there, they began to talk about various things and Harry began to relax. She treated him like a normal boy, not the-boy-who-lived like most people did and Harry was glad because he hated being treated differently. In the back of his mind there was a sneaking suspicion that she had no idea who he was, but he pushed it out of his mind, every witch and wizard knew about Voldemort and what had happened in his past.

At that moment the compartment door flew open and a handsome redheaded boy stumbled in, slightly out of breath.

"There you are Harry," the boy said breathlessly, "I've been looking all over for you. Have you heard about the new gi…." In mid-sentence he had caught sight of her and proceeded to choke on his words.

"The new girl?" she offered with a smile. He promptly turned bright red and Harry burst in laughter.

"Ron, this is Sillenna Miller, Sillenna, this is my best pal, Ron Weasley," Harry said when his laughter died down.

"Nice to meet you," she said extending her hand which Ron took sheepishly. He set down beside Harry who seemed to realize something and turned to his friend and asked; "Hey Ron, have you seen Herm…?" But he didn't get a chance to finish his question because just then Sillenna saw a bushy head of brown hair come into view and pounced on it with a squeal.

"HERMIONE!"

"SILLENNA!" she squealed back returning the hug. The two girls immediately began to chatter away, oblivious to the confused stares they were getting from the two boys.

"Hey, you two know each other?" Ron asked when they stopped to take a breath.

"This is the girl I was telling you about, the one I met in the bookstore."

"Oh…"

"You've met Harry and Ron?" Hermione asked turning to Sillenna slightly puzzled.

"Just now. We were getting acquainted when I saw you." She explained.

"It's a small world after all," Hermione said as she plopped down. Sillenna chuckled knowing that Hermione had no idea of exactly how small as she joined her on the seat. The four were soon talking about Hogwarts and Sillenna's "life" before. While they were talking, something on Harry's face caught Sillenna's attention. A scar on his forehead. "What could have caused that," she thought. A thought nagged in the back of her mind but she pushed it aside and concentrated on thinking of something that could have caused such an odd shaped scar. Harry must have noted the meditative look on her face because he broke through her thoughts when he asked;

"What's the matter?"

"What? Oh. Sorry, I was just trying to figure something out," Sillenna explained.

"What?" he asked

"Well…" she hoped that the cause of his scar wasn't a sensitive subject, "I was trying to figure out what in the world could have given you a scar that shape."

The others stared at her in stunned silence. Did she just ask what they think she did? No. She couldn't have.

"Beg your pardon?" Hermione managed to get out.

"His scar…." Sillenna was confused. She couldn't tell what she had done wrong.

"He's HARRY POTTER!" Ron exclaimed with at look of pure disbelief.

"I… know that, we introduced ourselves earlier." Sillenna said pensively.

"But he's HARRY POTTER!" Ron exclaimed like she was supposed to understand what that meant.

"You don't know who I am?" Harry asked coming out of shock.

"Harry Potter…." Sillenna offered timidly. She didn't like this. She didn't like this at all.

"You don't know who … Voldemort is?" Harry asked in a barely audible whisper. That sounded familiar. Where had she heard that? She couldn't place it. "Somewhere…" She mumbled to herself. Ron looked like he was about to faint and Harry and Hermione just stared at her like they couldn't comprehend what was going on. OOHH! Now she remembered where she had seen that name before!

"In the newspaper!" she exclaimed triumphantly, "I remember reading something about him in the newspaper…though I remember thinking he sounded kinda silly at the time." The second she said that last part, she wished she could have taken it back because Harry flew out of his seat like a monster unleashed from its cage.

"SILLY? SILLY?" he screamed as he jumped up and landed so close to her that her body's defenses mistook it for an attack and threw him back in his seat. Sillenna pressed her eyes shut for fear of the looks she knew must be on their faces. "Stupid reflexes," she thought. She always forgot how strong she was. She had always been able to take on anyone, even her robust older brothers. Her brothers. Just the thought of them pushed her brimming emotions over the edge and she felt a lone tear slip down her cheek. Sillenna cautiously opened her eyes to be greeted with three utterly shocked faces. She quickly found her self staring at her hands for the second time that day.

"I'm sorry," Sillenna whispered, breaking the tense silence, "It's just that I … and you… it's just…. I'm sorry." She waited for them to start yelling but instead a hand reached out and grasped her own and another lifted her chin until her eyes were met with shimmering green ones. Harry was kneeling before her with a look of compassion and remorse on his face.

"No, I'm the one who should be sorry," he said sitting down beside her gently but not letting go of her hand. "I've spent most of my life wanting have a friend who didn't know about my past, who didn't treat me different because I was the-boy-who-lived, one who didn't expect me to save the world," he said in a soft whisper, "and here I find what I've been looking for. And what do I do? I yell at you for not knowing and I'm sorry." He wrapped his arm around her in a small hug and she gave him a small smile. He wished he could go back and take back what he had said, it seemed to have hurt her so much.

"I'm still sorry for shoving you like that, it was just automatic," she said with a sniffle.

"Well you should be sorry," Harry retorted, which caused the other three in the compartment to snap their heads in his direction, "you hurt my manly pride." He said with a fake hurt air. Sillenna smiled and laughed lightly. Harry loved her laugh; it sounded like music of the stars.

"What manliness?"

"Well I never!"

"Yeah, Harry, I want to know where this manliness is you're talking about cause I've never seen it," Ron joined in. Harry started to retort but Hermione beat him.

"I wouldn't go criticizing Harry's manliness if I were you Ron."

And soon the three old friends and their new one were laughing and joking around. Ron and Harry even got into a friendly fight to prove who was the "better man" but had to stop because of the lack of space. They lost track of time and became so absorbed in their conversation that they didn't even notice the compartment door open.

"Well if it isn't Potty and his pets," the handsome blonde haired boy sneered causing the four's attention to snap to him. Sillenna immediately felt her companions tense but couldn't figure out why. He wasn't that powerful nor could she sense any strong evil in him.

"Well who is delicious creature?" the boy said snapping her out of her revere. Before the others could answer, Sillenna stood up and offered her hand. "I'm Sillenna Miller, the new girl," She offered with a smile.

"And I, Sillenna Miller, am Draco Malfoy," the boy replied bringing her hand to his lips but never taking his eyes from hers. She blushed. She had been used to being treated like this back home; politely, courteously and with the outmost of manners. No one, not even her guardians, had treated her thusly since her arrival on this planet and it made a small part of her feel at home. Draco was obviously pleased with the beaming smile he got in return.

"Layoff Malfoy." Just then Ron leapt to his feet; not able to control his anger at Malfoy and in the process bumped up against him.

"Watch it Weasley," Draco growled, "Now I'm gonna have to burn my new cloak, thanks a lot." Draco took a step back as if repulsed by Ron and proceeded to bump into Hermione.

"Oh great! Now I have to burn my pants too to get the Mudblood off," Draco stormed but immediately realized that was a bad choice because the hand he had been holding a few seconds ago was snatched from his grasp. He turned back to Sillenna and smiled, but got only a glassy stare.

"Sorry about that," he said smiling coyly at her. "Now where was I?" he asked reaching to retrieve her hand but she placed it behind her back and out of his reach. Her other hand she placed firmly on his chest.

"You were leaving," Sillenna said coldly, pushing him out the door with her hand and slowly shut the door in his stunned face. She turned around to three beaming faces.

"You had us scared there for a minute," Ron said giving her a congratulatory pat on the back. She shook her head and set back down.

"And I thought he was a gentleman," she said huffily, "that's what I get for thinking."

"Malfoy? A gentleman? PLEASE!" Ron said. The other's snickered and proceeded to tell Sillenna all about Malfoy and all the things he had done other the years. This only made Sillenna want to slap herself for thinking he was anything close to a gentleman.

"Do any of you guys have a large knife?" Sillenna asked her friends who looked at her in slight horror.

"Why?" Hermione asked fearfully.

"So I can cut off THIS hand," Sillenna replied holding up the hand that had received the "Deadly Kiss" as they came to call it. The others replied by snickering loudly.

"No, but there are bathrooms if you want to try and scrub the filth away. But I don't think it'll help," Ron said smirking and Sillenna made a dramatic gesture of death and doom.

"Speaking of bathrooms, we better get changed into our robes," Hermione said realizing the time. The four headed out into the corridor, walking two by two with Sillenna and Harry in front and Ron and Hermione behind. Up ahead there was a large group of girls that overflowed out of their compartment and into the corridor. At the sight of Harry they all began to stare and giggle nervously. "Of course, why wouldn't they," Sillenna thought, "he's gorgeous and apparently famous." At this point the group noticed the very pretty new girl walking beside him and their stares became ice cold. Sillenna couldn't help but laugh quietly, which caused Harry to look at her questioningly. She indicated the group with her eyes and Harry also had to laugh at the looks they were getting. He turned to her with devilish grin on his face. She could tell he was up to something.

"Oh Sillenna, I'm soooooo glaaaaaad you're going at Hogwarts this year," he said in an overly flirtatious voice.

"Oh, me toooo Harry, me too," Sillenna replied in an airy tone while smiling back at him with the silliest grin she could muster. She could almost feel the girl's eye daggers being thrust at her. Behind them, Ron and Hermione were trying very hard to control the urge to bust out laughing. The four slipped into the changing rooms as quickly as possible and tried to laugh as quietly as possible. When she exited the room, Sillenna noticed the group of girls was still hanging out of their compartment but now they were staring at Ron's receding figure and whispering and giggling. "This should be fun," Sillenna thought as she walked up quietly behind the girls as Ron disappeared into the compartment.

"Isn't Ron just the dreamiest?" Sillenna said with the same airy tone she had used earlier with Harry. The girls spun around, shocked to find someone so close. Their looks of shock turned to confusion and then to hate. Sillenna simply sighed and walked down the corridor and into the compartment. Hermione was lecturing Ron about actually doing homework for once. Ron looked like he had heard this one a million times. As soon as the door shut behind her, Sillenna sinked into the seat beside him and let her laughter lose. Hermione stopped lecturing and Ron stopped looking bored as they turned and gave her puzzled looks. She was too tickled to explain what happened and about the time she calmed down enough to talk, Harry came through the door with a feigned look of hurt on his face.

"Is it true Sillenna that you're cheating on me with Ron?" he asked in a fake dejected tone. This only caused Sillenna to laugh even harder and Hermione and Ron to look even more confused. Well Ron now looked very uncomfortable on top of confused. In between breaths Sillenna managed to get out what had happened in the hall and Harry said that when he came out of the changing rooms the girls had bombarded him with tales about how terrible Sillenna was and that he deserved someone better. They had informed him that she was not faithful and in fact thought his best friend, Ron was "dreamy."

"And I must say, I'm deeply wounded by this," Harry said mockingly. The four began to laugh uncontrollably and then something dawned on Ron.

"Wait a minute. Did you say they were staring at ME?" Ron asked wide-eyed.

"Yes Ron. Apparently Harry's not the only one with a fan club," Sillenna said rolling her eyes slightly and then giving Ron a seductive grin, "and for very good reasons." At this Ron turned bright red but continued to smile at the thought of a fan club. The others laughed at this.

"Don't start in our fan clubs now Sillenna," Harry said, "yours has already started forming and it's said that every single boy in the school and even a few with girlfriends have signed up." Now it was Sillenna's turn to turn red. She gave him an "Are you serous?" look which caused them all to laugh.

"Don't look so shocked," Harry said, "it was bound to happen to a pretty girl like you." When he realized what he said, Harry also turned red. Hermione began to laugh uncontrollably.

"You guys look like you fell asleep on the beach," she said in-between fits of laughter. They shot her daggers that made her laugh even harder until Sillenna got up and whispered something in her ear. Whatever it was Hermione very quickly joined her friends in their world of red. Now it was their turn to laugh at her. Around this time the train came to a stop.

"Well, now that we've all been to the beach and back, I guess we better go to school," Harry said getting up to leave.

As they climbed into a carriage and headed toward the breathe-taking castle in the distance, Sillenna couldn't help but feel little butterflies doing flips in her stomach. "Now this is low," she thought, "the High Princess of the Universe is nervous about going to a low-class magic school on a low-class planet." She scolded herself and then turned around and mentally slapped herself. "Why shouldn't I be excited? Why can't I have fun, even if I'm on a low-class planet?" And so Sillenna resolved to do just that; to enjoy her new world and her new friends.

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