Chapter One

"Hurry Dylan, you'll be late for the train!" Dylan Wheeler's mother, Katharine, told her daughter. Dylan, Katharine, and Dylan's father, Ben, were running through King's Cross station.

"Let's see…platform 6…platform 7…platform 8…platform 9 and platform 10!"

Ben said, rushing Dylan forward, "You first honey," he said "Your mother and I will come after you,"

"O.K. Dad, I'll see you at the platform," Dylan said. Dylan had dark brown hair and grey eyes. Her hair was pulled back in a pony tail to keep it out of her face. Dylan looked exactly like her mother, except for her face. She had her dad's face.

Dylan looked at the wall that separated platforms 9 and 10. Taking a deep breath, she pushed her cart the help Dylan's school thing, a large trunk filled with her books and clothes, and a cage that help a calico cat, toward the wall. Dylan closed her eyes and ran through the wall. She would smell the exhaust of a train and a loud whistle. She opened her eyes and saw the Hogwarts Express, steam billowing from the stack and a sign that read Platform 9¾.

"Come on Dylan, the train's just about to leave!" Katharine said, running through the magical barrier to Dylan. She ushered her daughter to the nearest train car, while Ben took Dylan's trunk and Merlin's cage, and put them in an empty compartment,

"Now, have a good term," Katharine said to Dylan, when she poked her head out of the compartment window to say good bye to her parents. Katharine kissed Dylan softly on her forehead.

"I know you'll have fun," Ben told Dylan "I did," He winked at his daughter. Conductors started closing car doors, and even more steam gushed from the train stack.

"Promise you'll write!"

"Listen to the Professors!"

"Have fun at school!"

"We'll miss you!"

Dylan's parents seemed to have a hard time letting go.
"I know, Mum, Dad, I'll be fine!" Dylan promised them. The train started to pick up speed.

"Bye Dylan!"

Soon, Dylan could not see her parent's waving hands. She sighed and slumped back in her seat. This was it; she was finally going to Hogwarts! Yes, like any normal person, Dylan had read the Harry Potter series and had fantasized about attending Hogwarts. But for her, that fantasy was becoming a reality.

Merlin was meowing loudly from inside his cage. He sounded so pitiful, that Dylan just had to let him out. Merlin curled up on Dylan's lap and fell asleep

"You know, you could have done that in your cage." Dylan said fondly to her cat. She started petting Merlin, looking out the window of the compartment, watching the hills and scenery go by.

"Um, excuse me? May I sit here?" A voice came from the doorway. Dylan turned around to see a girl. She had blonde hair, bright green eyes and was somewhat freckly. The girl was oddly familiar…

"Cassie?"

"Dylan?"

Dylan's jaw dropped as her eyes scanned Cassiopeia Potter, her best friend from camp. Cassie was the daughter of the famous Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood Potter, the host of Not-So Mythical Monsters. Cassie looked just like her mom, long dirty blonde hair, a misty far away look, she had even had her mother butterbeer cork necklace dangling from her neck, everything except her eyes. Cassie had her dad's eyes. Cassie wasn't wearing her Hogwarts robes, like Dylan was, but she wore a pink collared shirt under a blue tank top. She also wore a black skirt and pink high heeled shoes with socks.

"Dylan! I had no idea that you were a witch!" Cassie said, bemused.

"Neither did I." Dylan confessed, blushing a bit. "But after I got the letter, dad told me that he was a wizard too!" Dylan remembered feeling angry with her parents for not telling her such an important secret.

flashback

"Why didn't you tell me?" Dylan whined. She knew she sounded like a child, but she had a right to know her family heritage.

"Because Dylan, we wanted to protect you!" Ben said. He, Katharine and Dylan were in their living room. Dylan was sitting in Ben's big arm chair; Ben and Katharine were standing above her.

"Please Dylan! We were trying to do what was best for you!" Katharine tried to reason with her daughter. She knelt down and put a hand on Dylan's cheek. Dylan turned away from her mother, and Katharine's hand fell limply on the seat of the chair.

"You still should have told me," Dylan said.

"O.K. you're right," Ben said, sighing and putting his head in his hand. "We should have told you, not telling you seemed rational at the moment." he explained.

"Oh, honey! If we knew it was going to disappoint you, we would have told you your father is a wizard!" A tear slid down Katharine's cheek, she was crying. Dylan sighed.

"So, when do I go to…?"

"Hogwarts," Ben said

"Wait, Hogwarts? As in-"

"Harry Potter, yes that Hogwarts."

"So…are you saying that Harry Potter was actually real?" Dylan said excitedly.

"Yes, I went to school with him, actually, but you know his daughter."
"I do? Who?" Dylan sat up in her seat.

"Do you remember Cassie Potter from camp?" Katharine asked, "Well, her parents are Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood." Dylan's mouth dropped

"Really? Wow, I can't believe this is happening! Do I get to go to Diagon Ally?" Dylan asked. Her dad nodded.

"Yeah, we need to go soon, maybe this Wednesday. I think I can get a day off from work." Ben said.

"Oh wow, thanks!" Dylan jumped out of her seat, "I can't believe it! I'm going to Hogwarts!"

end flashback

"What's the matter? Wrackspurt got you?" Cassie asked Dylan, as she remembered the night when her parents told her that she was a witch.

"What?" Dylan looked at Cassie.

"A Wrackspurt, it's a-"Cassie started.

Never mind," Dylan said. She now remembered what a Wrackspurt was. "So, is it your first year at Hogwarts?" Dylan asked Cassie, she nodded

"Yes, and this is obviously your first year at Hogwarts too, because you didn't know you were a witch before your letter came." Cassie predicted promptly. She sat down on the seat across from Dylan.

"So, what house do you think you'll be in?" Cassie asked. Dylan shrugged.

"I dunno, you'll obviously be in either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw." Dylan told Cassie. "I hope I am in the same house that you're in."

"Me too," Cassie nodded. The twosome continued to talk until noon, when a fat witch pushing a cart full of sweets looked in.

"Anything off the trolley dears?" She asked.

"Yes please," Dylan said, taking a small drawstring pouch out of her trunk. She produced a number of sickles and knuts, and walked out of the compartment to examine the trolley.

"Two Chocolate Frogs and a Licorice wand, please." Said Dylan, she handed the correct amount to the witch, who exchanged it for the sweets.

"Want some?" Dylan asked Cassie, who didn't buy anything. Cassie nodded and Dylan tossed her a Chocolate Frog. Cassie and Dylan sustained conversation until the sky became dark.

"We should be there, soon." Dylan said "You should change into your robes." She told Cassie. After Cassie was dressed in her black Hogwarts robes, a disembodied voice said

"We will be arriving at Hogsmeade Station soon, please leave all of your belonging on the train, they will be taking up to your dormitory room later." Dylan looked at Cassie

"Well, our first time at Hogwarts…" she said quietly.

"Do you feel like you're going to hurl?" Cassie grinned at Dylan.

"Oh yeah."

"Dad said you had to fight a dragon to get in, but then mum said he was being a prat."

She had forgotten who Cassie's parents were for a moment. For people so famous, they seemed so… normal.

"Firs' years over 'ere…"