A/N: Hi again! I just wanted to clear up a review I got regarding not getting enough Sheila or Ramona. The reason why this is is because I based my OCs on my friends, and the friends I dedicated Sheila and Ramona to weren't into talking about this as Ivy was, but Sheila has gotten into it again and there's definately going to be more of her...I promise! :)
Chapter 4
A Dementor On the Train
A few days later, after we all cleared up our back to school issues, like money for me to go to Hogsmeade (poor Harry couldn't get anyone to sign his slip.) and books and stuff, we were on our way to King's Cross to board the train again. I was pumped, I had all the party songs Draco put on my MP3 player going at full blast, Ivy listening in as well.
When we got to the platform and got our things into the first empty (well, it wasn't really empty, it had one guy sleeping in it, in shaggy robes.) Mr Weasley took Harry aside to talk while I went to find Draco.
I never got to see him as the train started. I hopped back into the compartment with the shaggy man and sat with everyone.
"Who's that?" I asked, pointing at him.
"That's' the new Professor, Remus Lupin. He's teaching Defence this year." Hermione said, as we sat down and began talking.
After a while…the train stopped. I shot up from the nap I fell into, looking down and realizing I wasn't in my robes yet!
"We're there already?" I asked, rubbing my eyes.
"No, this is really odd." Mione said "We never normally make pit stops…unless the train broke down?"
At that moment, my two other friends, Sheila Alexander and Ramona "She-Cat" Capodebt ran into our compartment, as the lights flickered out.
"What's going on!" Sheila shouted, looking frantically around the compartment for who was there. "I don't like the dark!"
"I don't mind it." She-Cat said. I almost heard the pride in her voice "I can see in the dark, remember? Hey, everyone." she added, looking around at all of us.
"Hi, guys." I said, starting to freak out "I'm scared. I want Draco!"
"Oh, wah, wah." Ivy snapped, sliding onto the floor for She-Cat and Sheila to sit down "No way am I letting you go find him in the dark."
I rolled my eyes as a cloaked figure swept into the carriage. I gasped as suddenly, the air in the compartment got noticeably cooler. I felt the colour drain from my face and I nearly passed out. I shut my eyes as tightly as I could, trying to think of something that didn't involve this situation, but not being able to find one thing. It was as if all hope had drained from the world.
My eyes shot open when Ivy yelled out my name.
"Wow. Must've dozed off." I said quickly, pulling my messy hair into a ponytail "What the Skinner was that?"
"A Dementor." someone's voice said. I turned around to find that Lupin had woken up and was handing everyone chocolate "And you didn't doze off, you and Harry fainted."
I felt my cheeks burn. I had never fainted before that day.
"What does a Dementor do?" I asked.
"Well," Lupin started, handing me a particularly large piece of chocolate, which I only took when Ivy said it was ok to trust him "Dementors take all the hope from a place, making the world miserable. They are supposed to be guarding Azkaban."
I gulped "You mean, the wizard's prison?" I asked, taking a bite of the surprisingly good chocolate.
Lupin nodded "I'd better go tell the conductor what went on. I'll be back." he said, standing and leaving the compartment.
"I'm gonna go find Draco." I said, getting up and following suite, then sticking my head out back in "What just happened in here…stays in here, understand?" I asked.
Everyone nodded in agreement "As long as you don't tell Malfoy that I fainted, I won't tell him either." Harry said.
I smiled "Thanks, bro." I said, before taking my bag and walking off to change.
After I changed, I made my way to the Slytherin compartment, where Pansy Parkinson was on Draco's lap as I walked in. In the compartment with the couple (as much as I hated to call them that.) was Vincent Crabbe (who I was never a real fan of) Gregory Goyle, Monique Clearwater, Rose Yaxley, Amelia Finch, Lexi McMaster, Blaise Zabini and another girl that I didn't know.
The girl was already in her Hogwarts robes, but she wasn't wearing a House tie. Her blonde hair was pulled back into a ponytail, her blue eyes sparkling as she laughed at something Goyle said.
"Hi, guys." I said, walking in.
"Hannah!" everyone minus the girl I didn't know shouted.
"How are all of you guys?" I asked.
"Fine, just a little frazzled from that Dementor that swept through the compartment." Lexi said, taking out a bit of candy "Anyone want some?"
"Sure!" the girl I didn't know responded, holding out her hand to Lexi as she dumped some Every Flavour Beans into the girl's hand.
"Who's this?" I asked.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Scarlett. I'm a year above you." the girl said, holding out her hand.
"I'm Hannah. Nice to meet you." I said, shaking her hand "I never saw you around school before, why is that?" I asked.
"Oh," Scarlett said, laughing "my mum home schooled me for the last couple of terms, this year she finally let me come to Hogwarts! I'm excited to be Sorted."
I smiled "Trust me, house isn't that important." I said, sitting down next to Draco and Pansy "I'm in these two's," I gestured to Draco and Pansy "house, and I'm friends with everyone."
"I know. I'm friends with Blaise over here." Scarlett said, giving Blaise a friendly slap on the shoulder.
"OW!" Blaise yelled "Not so hard, Scar!"
I laughed "I like you." I told Scarlett.
Scarlett smirked "Feeling's mutual." she responded, tossing me one of the Chocolate Frogs that Crabbe tossed her.
"I think we're going to be pretty good friends, Scarlett." I said, ripping open the package and pocketing the card without even looking at it.
"Call me Scar." Scarlett replied simply, biting down into the Frog.
I smirked as the train slowed down to a stop.
