Hi everyone! I'm so excited about this piece. It's going to have romance, adventure, lots of Hogwarts. It just makes me happy.
Anyway I don't own any Harry Potter characters, just Campbell but I did take some minor liberties with them.
I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think.
Theodore looked at his sister sitting across from him on the train to Hogwarts. Campbell and him were twins and you could tell. They had the same dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, but Theo know there was more to it than that. They had the same tilt of their head when they found something interesting. They had the same gleam in their eyes when there was something they wanted.
"Bell, you should change into your robes," Theo tried calmly. Campbell was in a mood. She hated change more than most people and living away from the estate for the first time in her young life was a rather big change.
"You should mind your own business Theo," she snapped back. Their father, Theodore Sr had made it clear that Theo was to look after her while at Hogwarts, make sure she didn't stir up trouble.
Campbell, even at 11, knew that her father favored her brother just because he was a boy, and after their mother passed away it had only gotten worse. She was bitter and angry and Theo was the only saving grace. They were thick as thieves.
Campbell stood suddenly. "I'm going for a walk," she declared and stomped out of the compartment. She had absolutely no plan other than walking until she could forget to be angry.
She ran right into a girl her age already in her robes. Her hair was twice the size of her head and her teeth were huge. Compared to Campbell's glossy straight hair, and her perfect white teeth, the girl seemed less to anyone who was looking, but not to Campbell and not to the girl either.
"Pardon me," she said abruptly, "I was just looking for a toad," she explained. "A boy named Neville has lost one."
Campbell looked around her feet as if she could have missed the creature in her anger. "I haven't seen it. I'm Campbell Nott by the way."
"I'm Hermione Granger." Granger wasn't a name she recognized so Campbell didn't think her parents were friends with her father. The girl looked kind enough, her chin held high.
"Nice to meet you. I hope you find the boy's toad," Campbell said and meant it. She would have spent time looking for the thing with the Granger girl but she was still angry and unwilling to distract herself from it yet.
"Thank you Campbell Nott." Then the girl was gone.
A compartment door slid open next to her and four head looked at her then. Two girls and two boys. The girl looked like opposites. One with long blonde hair, the other with black shoulder length hair. The boys were similarly different. There was a coffee skinned boy next to a moon clear one. The one with the skin like moon light looked almost transparent at times. They all made an interesting group.
"Did I hear you were Campbell Nott?" The black boy asked. Campbell just nodded. He extended a hand towards her. "I'm Blaise Zabini." She recognized that name but barley.
The blonde girl spoke next. "I'm Daphne Greengrass." She just waved.
"Pansy Parkinson," the dark haired girl said with boredom lacing her words. She didn't even look at Campbell.
"I'm Malfoy." I recognized all the names. They were all pureblood children like her and Theo. She nodded at all of them, then turned on her heels and left them without saying a word. She was meeting too many new people for one day. She decided to go back to her compartment and the comfort of her brother.
She huffed when she sat down. Theo looked at her with a small knowing smirk. "Lot of people?" Campbell nodded and a tear slipped from her eye. Theo's smirk fell instantly and he got up and closed all the curtains to the outside world then came to sit next to his twin who refused to meet his eye. "Hey hey Bells, no crying okay?" She just nodded. "I'll be here for you no matter what okay, right next to you." She looked at him then. "Father would not be happy if other people saw this okay," his voice was soft. He wasn't scolding her, just reminding her what a Nott was meant to look like in public.
Campbell wiped her eye. "You're right." She straightened her back. "I'm gonna change. Will you get candies from the trolley?" Theo nodded and stepped out of the compartment leaving her.
The most interesting thing that had happened after they took the boats to Hogwarts was a strange standoff between the Malfoy boy and Harry Potter. Everyone knew Harry Potter. He was the boy who lived. Theo and Campbell had stood on their tiptoes to see him. Campbell was a bit irked that the trolley was completely out of sweets, but the fact that Harry Potter was right there, talking to the Malfoy boy was so interesting that she had forgotten about it.
An elderly Scottish woman named McGonagall took them into the Great Hall and had explained that they would all be sorted into one of the four houses of Hogwarts. Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Gryffindor.
They were all gathered into a large clump and their names were read off a sheet of parchment in McGonagall's hands. "Hermione Granger." The Scottish accent was actually nice to hear. The bucked-tooth girl who Campbell had bumped into on the train stepped forward. She seemed nervous but steadied herself before she sat on the stool in front of the entire Great Hall. The Sorting Hat was placed on her head and it was silent for a while before shouting, "Gryffindor!"
Campbell twisted her fingers next to Theo. He grabbed her hand to stop her from doing it. "Draco Malfoy," McGonagall called next.
The smug boy ponced up the steps to the stool. The Hat didn't even land on his white blond head before it shouted, "Slytherin!" There were cheers coming from the Slytherin table but also boos coming from the Gryffindor table. Campbell furrowed her brows. She didn't really like the Malfoy boy but she didn't think he deserved to be booed.
Potter was interesting to watch. Theo noted how long the hat was on his head before finally deciding he belonged in Gryffindor. She saw the smug look on their faces as he walked over to sit at that table to sit with all the other 11 year olds.
Theo was called up next and Campbell felt her heart drop when he dropped her hand. Suddenly a new figure came up beside her. She looked over to see the coffee colored face of Zabini. "Are you nervous?" He asked her. She didn't answer. "I am," he continued. "I mean, we spend seven years in this house with these people. It seems big." She didn't know what to say.
Suddenly the Hat shouted, "Slytherin!" Theo looked pleased with this. Campbell hadn't given it much thought to what house she wanted to be in until now. She needed to be in Slytherin with her brother. She didn't know how to cope without him.
Before she knew it, it was her turn. The crowd disappeared once the Hat was placed on her head. It was so big and musty but also warm and comforting all at the same time.
There was a voice running through her head then. "Another Nott," it said as if it knew her. "Perhaps Slytherin with your brother then, but is that truly what is in her heart?"
Campbell shouted back at it in her mind, Yes!
"Such a strong mind. You'd do well in Ravenclaw."
Slytherin. Please. She pleaded with the voice in her head.
"Hufflepuff could use you as well. You're kind and loyal to your core."
Slytherin. Do not separate me from my brother you mangey old hat!
The voice scoffed at her. "Well if you're sure." Then out loud it shouted "Slytherin!"