Aisha Pov.
I was following Tracey and Adam when this plump women tried to grab me. Luckily a blonde man removed her hand from me and took me towards the left away from her.
Trace and Adam ran back to me, making a big deal of checking if I was alright but I caught their gleams so I played along explaining how she just grabbed me from behind and wouldn't let me go. One of the police, Aurors if I remember correctly, came over to see the commotion about.
"Hello problem here Miss..." He asked checking up on me. I shakily took a deep breathe in and out then shook his hand politely.
"Aisha potter nice to meet you sir and yes there is a problem, I was following my friends to the train station when she just grabbed me and started dragging me away. I don't even know her but he stopped her" I turned to him, Lucius Malfoy if Tracey's information was correct, "thank you sir I didn't catch your name?"
As the Auror took the woman away, he nodded blankly, " Lord Lucius Malfoy of the noble house Malfoy. Pleasure to make your aqquantice Heiress potter, this is my wife Narcissa and my son Draco and it was no problem."
"excuse me but who was that woman anyway?" Tracey asked shyly drawing attention to her, playing with her hair to avoid their gazes.
Narcissa malfoy smiled gently, "that young lady was molly weasley, ignore her and her brod they tend to get in everyone's way and are a disgrace to wizarding families. who are you two?"
Trace smiled back hesitently," I'm Tracey madame, Tracey Davis and this is Adam Prevell nice to meet you".
Their eyes widened only a fraction but non the less, they led us to the train and on the way we got to introduce ourselves to Draco. From what I could tell, he tend's to hide behind his father's name, is a bit spoiled and has alot of raw talent.
"We are going to find a compartement, would you like to join us heir malfoy?" I offered to his obvious surprise but he nodded all the same following us to one of the back compartements where one boy with brown hair, brown eyes and already wearing a gryfindor uniform was sitting.
He introduced himself as Neville longbottom heir of Ancient and Noble house of longbottom and agreed to let us all sit down. he was holding a small toad that kept whimpering about how hot it was.
"Heir Longbottom it seems that your toad is a little hot, he is an amphebian so he needs alot of water" I started, watching how 'Trevor' perked up at the word 'water', "May I?"
He curiously handed Trevor to me and watched as Adam transfigured a stone into a water tank that Tracey filled with ice cold water and how his toad brightned immediately.
"wow you all can really do magic. My gran says that I'm just a squib and won't be anything like my father" he looked down, looking defeated.
"no your not, last I checked squibs do not get letters and you are not your father, none of us will ever be our parents. I'm actually excited to show the world that I am not Lily or James, I'm just Aisha" I defended, "maybe your magic isn't reacting well with your wand because it look half-snapped"
Draco seemed to be thinking about my worlds and looked hopeful too but Neville just shook his head. "My gran said that it would honor my father if I used his wand, I didn't get a new one of my own"
Adam closed the book that he was reading and shook his head, "then that's what's wrong Heir Longbottom, the wand chooses thw wizard so the wand is fighting you instead of working with you. maybe ask your new head of house to take you down to get a new wand".
"maybe but my gran told me to go to gryfindor because that is where longbottom's go" he shook his head in denial.
I frowned, "what do you want then? you are not frank longbottom or Augusta Longbottom, you are Nevielle. its like saying that the past death eaters children are going to follow in their footsteps, they are not their parents and we all make our own decisions. Honestly I heard one kid in the hall screaming 'death eater' at people unless 2 year old can take down adult wizards they are innocent. Slytherin is the 'evil' house just because the last dark lord came from there. does that mean that any wizard with eyes or an arm is evil. what next because someone has a white beard they are going to be the next merlin. stop following what other people are saying and make your own choices because if you don't then your worse then sheep."
Tracey Pov.
While raising Draco and Neville's confidance she was also making the students who were evesdropping think about what she was saying too. I knew for a fact that they were very powerful and that they just need a bit of help to get there.
Seeing how Draco was about to open up to us, I silently had Adam ward the door and silence us so no one can hear us.
"Do you really think that?" He sounded scared and hopeful.
I nodded, "yes we all do, I promise, if you would like, we two seem really cool. would you like to hangout sometime?"
They both looked so hopeful that it was obvious people had played them for fools before. That in itself made me want to strangle anyone who hurt them.
"you can call me Draco then," Draco held out a hand of friendship to Ash and so did Neville which she accepted.
"then you two can call us Aisha, Tracey and Adam" Aisha nodded ad with that we all got into the converstion of houses when we saw one of the red heads from before kick a bushy redhaired girl out of the compartement into the hallway, calling her a mudblood.
Draco was there before any of us, looking questioningly at us if he could invite her inside. we all nodded and Neville looked sympathic at her pradicament.
"thank you, I'm Hermione Granger" she was very shy and from her trunk adored reading too.
we all introduced ourselves and included her in our conversation.
"they say that gryfindoor is the best house but won't tell me why? do you guys know?" she asked, " I read every book I could but none could give me a clear answer"
Draco furrowed, "gryfindoor is the best for brainless, reckless idiots who like to think they are heros, they have no loyalty to each other, steal people's possessions without permission. None of them care about their education or reading. If you enjoy that then ravenclaw or hufflepuff is better or even slytherin."
she looked curious so I explained all around, "Slytherin is the house for ambitious and cunning people who will stop at nothing to acheive their goals, hufflepuff value loyalty and hard-work so they always stick together like a family, ravenclaw are for those who are always after knowledge and value creativity. they are always studying and learning new things. gryfindoor is considered the best because the headmaster is known to favour them and was one in his school days."
"What houses are you all going to aim for?" she asked, "from the looks of it Heir malfoy is right, I'd probabaly go to ravenclaw"
"you can call us by our name if you want to be friends?" Draco smiled, " I'm going to slytherin because I hope to prove that I'm more then just my father's son but in slytherin you need to hide your emotions or else they are used against you"
"I'm also aiming for either slytherin or ravenclaw" I agreed with his statement
"Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw for me, I do not like drama and those two other houses cause alot of it" Adam dramatically collapsed into his seat drawing a large amount of laughter around.
Aisha nodded in agreement, "Gryfindoor more then anything, some are not worth the air they breathe or food they concum"
We continued playing around,getting to know each other until the train stopped infront of a lake with boats.
"Nomore the' four in one boat" the giant hollared surprising thoe who weren't expecting it.
Aisha, Adam and I got inside a boat with pureblood Daphne greengrass while Draco, Neville and Hermione all joined one of Draco's best friends Blaise Zabini.
The ride was extremely fun and showed us how magical hogwarts was from all sides. The giant who I later learned was named Hagrid, led us to the gates where a stern professor was waiting for us, dressed in deep green and red robes with an old witch hat sitting on her head.
"First, years Professor McGongall" he proudly introduced, as if it was a great acheivment.
"thank you hagrid, now welcome to hogwarts academy of witchcraft and wizardry, you have the four houses gryfindoor, hufflepuff, ravenclaw and slytherin. your houses are your family while you are here in hogwarts studying to be the best you can be. please give yourselves a moment to clean yourselves up while I greet the hall" she looked at the plump, ugly redhead with dirt on his nose.
Later we were led into the great hall which had a star pattern on the ceiling and floating candles. A brown old hat sat on the stool at the front of the hall and with a long dinner table were banners of each house and its animal.
The hat began singing which shocked some more then others with a student saying something about fightning a troll.
"Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep yourbowlersblack,
Yourtop hatssleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong inGryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong inHufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise oldRavenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps inSlytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
Everyone clapped and I zoned out until it was some of our turns. Neville went up calmly and after a while the hat shouted out, "HUFFLEPUFF"
Neville smiled and headed towards his table that welcomed him with open arms and no ill intent. Then was hermione who immediately went over to "RAVENCLAW"
Draco headed to Slytherin and nodded at me hopefully as a coldly walked up to the stool and put the hat on.
"well, you certainly have a cunning that can rival Salazar himself young lady and a two-time heiress of hogwarts too. you are full of surprises Miss Nightgale. beware of the headmaster and his games Heiress slytherin and do visit me later I have plenty to tell you" He cackled, "oh and my name is Alaliter thatt being said, Better be, SLYTHERIN".
I sat down next to Draco and watched as Adam headed to hufflepuff and finally it was Aisha's turn.
Aisha Pov.
Once my name was called, I walked up gracefully towards the front ignoring everyone's gasps at how I 'looked different and hot' as the hat fell on my head.
"hello heiress gryfindoor but you do not have the skills for gryfindoor you like your friends are too cautious for that reckless bravery, you certainly have a thirst for knowledge and creativity, cunning and hard-work, but your creativity is above everything else, like I told your friend summon me later, I have much to tell you all, better be, 'RAVENCLAW'.
It was completely silent as I sat down by Hermione with a smile and waited for the chatter to come by again. The table was very polite once they realised I was just a normal student.
"Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words, first no wands in the corridors, second do not enter the forbidden forest and thirdly the third corridor is off limits anyone who enters will die a painful and terrible death. please enjoy the feast and here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" the Headmaster stated before several dishes appeared. "thankyou"
Later we were shown the way to the common room, shown how to get inside and met our head of house before being showed to our rooms. I was a roommate to Hermione. we both unpacked, organised our supplies and slept until morning.
Who knows that the next day will bring?
