Chapter 1
My name is Carina Malfoy. It is my first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. When People think, Malfoy they picture blonde hair and blue eyes. I am the odd one out, I have black hair and green eyes. My parents have always favored my younger brother Draco and mostly ignored me. So after going through the barrier at Platform 9 I rush to get on the train and get away from my family. I found an empty compartment towards the back of the train and I loaded my stuff in. Just as I am getting my owl off the trolley my mother Narcissa finds me.
"Carina dear please behave and don't give the professors any trouble. We will be getting weekly owls from Professor Snape." She says.
"Don't forget that the Malfoys' have been in Slytherin for generations." Her father tells her.
"What if I'm Not in Slytherin though?" I ask.
"Nonsense ALL Malfoys' get put in Slytherin. Or do you want to end up like your uncle Sirius?" My mother says.
"Yea if you don't get put in Slytherin mom and dad will disown you." My younger brother says.
"I have to get on the train now. I'll see you at Christmas." I say as I grab my Owl and get on the train.
As the train pulls away from the station Carina looks out the window to wave goodbye to her family to see them walking back towards the barrier so she just sits back and starts reading her school books again. For the remainder of the train ride Carina is left alone in her compartment. When she notices the sun going down she changes into her uniform and waits for the train to stop. Once the train stops she gets off of it with the rest of the students and sees a huge man with a lantern calling all the first years to the edge of a lake where they get in and head to Hogwarts. As the first years were being led into the great hall, Carina kept her head down and stayed towards the back of the group. As the sorting ceremony proceeded Professor McGonagal
called first years up one by one iand placed the sorting hat on their heads and sorted them. "Carina Malfoy." Professor McGonagal called out. As I walked up and sat on the stool I heard the murmurs of the students. I feel the hat get set upon my head and I hear a whisper in my ear. Well you are an interesting one, you are brave and humble. But at the same time you want to uphold family traditions, although I don't think the need for family traditions isn't good enough to put you in Slytherin. So you better be "GRYFFINDOR" the hat yelled for everyone to hear. I feel the hat lifted from my head and I go sit at my house table. I got some welcomes and how do you dos. But as the sorting ceremony finished up I found myself sat in between two young gentlemen. On my right was Lee Jordan, on my left was George Weasley. As I ate my dinner I stayed quiet and tried to let everyone talk around me. I managed to avoid conversation throughout the feast. After the first years made it to the Gryffindor common room. I decide to head up to the girls dormitory and found myself blocked by the two other girls i had heard the sorting hat put in Gryffindor, Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson.
"They let a Malfoy in Gryffindor?" Alicia said.
"Look, I didn't ask to be put here, the sorting hat decided that on its own now please let me pass i just want to get to my bed." I said politely.
"You should write to your parents and ask them to transfer you to a different school you're not wanted here." Angelina said shoving Carina backwards away from yhe staircase.
Carina was caught by a boy with red hair she had to blink for a moment because she thought there were two of him. Then she remembered that the 2 red haired boys from the feast were twins.
"What's going on here Angie?" One of the twins said.
"She's a Malfoy. She doesn't belong here."
"Well the sorting hat disagrees with you otherwise she would have been put in a different house." Said the twin that caught her.
"Look, I just want to get to my bed and sleep. That and my parents are probably going to pretend that i don't exist anyway. I was never their favorite. I don't look like them. I dont act like them. Sometimes I wonder if they really are my parents. Now I am going to ask one more time. Please let me pass so I can go to bed." Carina said, slightly aggravated. "And thank you for catching me."
"No problem. I'm George and that's my twin Fred. It's nice to meet ya." He said, giving her a sweet smile that she wasn't used to seeing.
Carina looked at the twins and gave them a shy smile before turning back to the staircase to see the other two girls going off to talk to other Gryffindors. She gives the boys one last smile and wave before heading to her dormitory. She lets her snowy owl out of his cage. And writes a letter to her mother to let her know about the sorting ceremony and she was placed in Gryffindor. When she finished her letter she gave it to her owl and said "Take it to my mother Orion." She watched him take off out the window. She finds her trunk and changes into her pajamas and climbed into her bed and fell into a restless sleep.
