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Chapter 1

Disclaimer: None of the Harry Potter Characters are mine. My characters in this chapter are Amy Thompson, Amy's mom and dad, and Sara Greenstone.

Notice: the apostrophe means thinking in my story.

The main character of this story is a 14-year-old American girl named Amy Thompson. She has been going to a school of witchcraft and wizardry but not Hogwarts. (If you've played the Quiditch video game you notice there are people from all around the world.) Her parents decided to move somewhat close to London therefore she had to transfer schools.

"Amy... Amy wake up!" Her mother said as she shook her awake. Amy sleepily opened her deep brown eyes, rubbing away her dreams.

"What?" She moaned tucking her dark brunette hair behind her ears.

"It's time to get up. Now get dressed and come downstairs for breakfast. We have to go shopping for your school supplies today," her mother told her.

"Yeah, yeah. I'll be down in a minute." Her mother left her alone and she slipped out of her covers and threw on some clothes. She tied her hair delicately up in a ponytail with a ribbon and headed downstairs.

After having a filling breakfast she hopped into her father's muggle car. This would be her 4th year but she wasn't really looking forward to it. Amy looked out the window fascinated by this new place. This was London; she originally lived in America where everything was up to date. London was so old fashioned but had some modern qualities at the same time. That's why she liked it. They soon pulled up to a wizards pub called "The Leaky Cauldron."

"Now Amy, I want you to meet me here in one hour."

"Yes mother," she sighed as she entered the run-down pub. She glanced around the room seeing that she captured no ones eyes. She walked up to the bartender and asked him to show her the way to Diagon Ally. He showed her to the back door, tapping on a few bricks and they peeled away to reveal her destination. She thanked the weird man and paid him a few gallions and she was on her way. When she realized what time it was she then remembered that she needed to get a pet.

"Oh crud, she's going to be pissed," she said under her breath. Amy turned around and was going to run but ran into someone. She blinked and looked up to see...

"That scar... you must be Harry Potter!" she said a little excited.

"I'm sorry I don't think we've ever met."

"Oh I'm Amy Thompson. You wouldn't know me because I'm from America. I had to transfer to Hogwarts."

"What is your house?"

"Ravenclaw"

"Oh, I'm a Gryffindor."

"Well I should get going. I'm running a little late. It was nice finally meeting you."

"You too." Harry said as he waved good-bye.

"Good-bye" Amy said in one last breath.

Amy continued on to the pet shop and looked at all of the animals. Her old school wouldn't let her have pets, but now that she had the chance she just had to get one! She finally decided and got a small black kitten. She finished her shopping and went home. She tried to go to sleep that night but couldn't get that incident with Harry out of her head. Day finally came and she had hardly any sleep.

"I'm late!" She screamed at her parents and they all rushed in the car to get to the station. 'Oh great' she thought 'I wanted to be early; I'm probably going to miss the train and have to go tomorrow. Just what I wanted, to miss the first day. Yeah what a great reputation I'll have. The late new girl' She thought as she ran through the portal to platform 9 and 3/4. Much to her surprise she got there just on time. Since she was so late there weren't any seats left... well as far as she could see. She was about half way down the train when the door next to her slid open. It was a blonde haired boy around her age. He looked around then glanced at her.

"Can I help you?" he says in a cocky attitude.

"Well, I don't have anywhere-"he cut her off

"Sure you can sit with me." Her eyes kind of widened and he just smirked at her.

"The name's Draco, Draco Malfoy." He held out his hand and she took it.

"Amy Thompson."

"So what's you're house?" Draco asked getting right to the point.

"Ravenclaw, I'm a 4th year." He gave her a disappointed look and the two went silent. Amy started to get tired and soon fell asleep. A while later she woke up to find that Draco wasn't there, but 'what do I care' she thought to herself. She slid the door open and looked down the hall. There she saw a freckle faced red haired boy running after a toad.

"Bloody Hell!" he screamed as the toad hopped out of his reach into her direction. she picked up the toad.

"Would this be yours?" she asked.

"Actually it's my friend Nevil's. He's always losing it." She held out her hand and helped him up.

"I'm Ron Weasly, what's your name?"

"Amy Thompson, and before you ask I'm starting my 4th year and I'm a Ravenclaw." she blurted out getting tired of people asking.

"Well I've never seen you."

"Oh well that's because I transferred from Rowlod in America."

"Do you have any friends yet?"

"No not really."

"Well it looks like you have one now." they both laughed and she followed him to his cart. She opened the door and there was Harry beaming up at her.

"Oh hi Amy, funny running into you here," Harry smiled.

"Yeah" she said blushing.

"Well gee I didn't know you knew each other," Ron complained.

"Oh yeah we met yesterday at Diagon Ally. We kind of ran into each other." The two of them laughed a little.

"It's an inside joke Ron," Amy laughed.

"Is there something I've missed?" asked Ron and everyone laughed. Then Ron introduced Amy to some people. Some of those people were Hermione Granger, Nevil Longbottom, and the twins, Ron's older brothers Fred and George Weasly. She soon went back to her cart and got changed because the train was nearing the school. Everyone was rushing off of the train in excitement and she was getting pushed and pulled all over until someone grabbed her by the hands. She looked and saw Fred and George on either side of her.

"You shouldn't let people push you around." said George

"Yeah you might get lost," said Fred and they both laughed.

"Well thanks guys," said Amy smile.