Chapter 3: Off to School

- 4 Privet Drive – 1 September 2011 -

"Your not going!" Eve hears her uncle yell as he slams the door shut. Not that she cared, 'Did he really think That would stop me?' She thinks to herself as she looked over her packed trunk she checked everything over one last time. 'Books? Check, Clothing? Check, Cauldrons?' She made them herself. 'Check, Scientific weight scales? Check, Wand? Check, Striker Unit?' They said no broomsticks, There was nothing about them in the rule book and she managed to get it registered as a family heirloom through a loophole. So they couldn't take it away from her. So that was a definite check.

'High Powered Telescope? Check.' She made sure to get that one the day after she dropped her first one off at a recycling center. Closing her trunk she went over to her window and opened it up, Making sure one last time that her mother's trunk was hidden she grabbed her own and jumped out of the window.

As she fell she turned on her propulsion systems and started to fly up and towards the far off train station. As she did she wondered how many would see her as she dropped her glamour's. At least this should spread her urban myth. She could already see people taking photos with their phones, She could easily go faster. But she liked the feeling of flying so she was just barely going at any real amount of speed.

It was interesting how her mind had changed with her well change. She now found it uncomfortable to walk on the ground like before and she felt more comfortable to float above the ground. Sadly it seemed her glamour's would glitch out if she did that. So she was forced to walk on the ground.

She soon made her way to the station it took some time to find somewhere out of site to land. She eventually found a spot on top of an empty parking garage after putting on her glamour's again she dragged her trunk in the station past a family of redheads as who she assumes to be the father waves them off before heading of to his job apparently. That's all she got from the way he was talking, She wasn't really paying attention

She started to look at for the apparent secret entrance It was a quick scan later she found it. But it was a wall.. Hagrid didn't say how she was supposed to get inside. Shrugging she decided to use one of her other Neuroi abilities that she rarely used. Teleportation while it is a lot more short range than apparition, There wasn't any wards that could stop it, It also felt a lot better too, No squeezing through a tube feeling.

As soon as she reappeared she was on a platform with an old red steam engine. She briefly entertained the idea she traveled back in time, But there's no way time travel would been that easy so she dismissed the idea. As she went and found her self a compartment.

She checked and made sure she locked the door with the shades on the windows down before dropping her trunk and disguise, Now in her true form she hovered over the floor and stretched out. After awhile she saw the red headed family walk in with the mother looking dejected and the kids annoyed. Well it was probably some family matter so no reason to get herself in involved.

She started working on the magic circle she found in the journal. Apparently her mom was trying to make a spell to send her back to where she came from. But two things got in the way, The first was there was some kind of barrier between dimensions that she couldn't find away around and secondly there was no way for her to navigate where she was going.

The good news however was that she had found a work around on the second problem, Beacons these devices would allow the person who made them, to zero in on the universes they have already been too before, So while using this spell blindly would most likely end with the caster being in some random universe, They could freely go between ones they've already been too.

But that was worthless unless she found a way to get past the barrier. She had checked again and again, But she couldn't find anything wrong with the spell. So was it the power? That could be it mom could just have been to weak to break through it.

And since Eve is or at least was her clone. That means there magic power should be the same or at least very close. So she would most likely have the same problem. She already thought of different ways she may be able to get her magic stronger, But they took time and the power up she would get from them would be negligible.

So that's why she got the one bottomless sack. If she could duplicate the charms she may be able to weaken the barrier enough to get passed it. She was so caught up in this she didn't realize people have been trying and failing to get her to open her compartment door and came and left.

It was a pretty relaxing trip and they got there after the sun had set, And while this has been nice she wasn't planning on doing this again. She quickly put back on her disguise and used the GPS satellite network to find her coordinates she was going to fly here next time.

Getting out she saw the youngest of the red heads boasting about something, She walked right past him and heard. "That's right I'm Harry Potter's best mate and will be going to Gryffindor!" Well she knew were she wasn't heading now. Not that she was planning on going there in the first place.

And thanks to her mom writing about the sorting hat she knew how to get in where she wants to be. She was half tempted to change her appearance into that of another students and see what they'd do when she doesn't show up.

But it would probably be too obvious something was up when some students end up with an identical twin they never knew they had. So that plan wasn't viable, Oh well she was already with the rest of the first years, At least she gets to see Hagrid again even though he was to busy to say more than a simple greeting.

He started to lead them down an old path that looked to be barely maintained, That wouldn't be a problem to her most of the time But when the path was crowded with nervous and/or excited kids with no problems shoving each other in an attempt to make the other go faster.

While this was normal human child behavior, For a Neuroi who are very solitary. This was unbearable she had to keep herself from shoving them back as with how strong she was that could easily break a grown man's bones, She didn't want to think what it would do to them.

This is why she didn't like being around others of her age, They were to loud and unpredictable for her. Finally they got to some old row boats, She was lucky enough to get one all to herself. There seemed to be a lot of empty boats, More than was strictly necessary especially with how small the group she was in. Is the school having a shortage of new admittance?

She had to wonder before the site of Hogwarts pushed that thought to the back of her mind. It looked marvelous! Unlike those ugly cookie cutter houses she was so used too, She could tell the castle was not only painstakingly made by hand or at least magic. It was wholly unique and the builders took pride in their work.

It was soon after that she felt a wave of wild magic that if it was exposed to any normal electronic would have fried it, She was just glad she made sure to shield her school supplies from this when she was modifying them to be powered by the miniature solid state batteries she designed for them.

After all while normal muggle technology has gone far in the past hundred years, It was all pitifully obsolete to her. But then again humans are incredibly innovated, After all they somehow managed to make her core which is why she is the way she is today. It still boggles the mind how they managed to get a Neuroi core to take commands from them let alone how they were able to reprogram it with a computer that worked on vacuum tubes and magnetic tapes.

They finally got to the small dock were she followed them from behind to keep from getting crowded again, When they got to the front door Hagrid handed them off to a Professor McGonagall, The same one that was on her letter.

After being ushered in a small side room, She was able to listen in on some of their conversations. Like one were a bushy haired girl was talking about how she read about everything in a book called Hogwarts a History. She added that to the books she should read as she then tuned to hearing the redhead talk about fighting a troll, Did he honestly think that was true? If it was then she was sure the school would have been closed down years ago.

As the chattering kept up the arrogant boy from the alley started to strut like some kind of peacock towards her with two goons behind him. She kind of hoped that it was just a coincidence they were just headi- "I take it your Harry Potter?" Well there went that, She wanted to just say no but with that overly superior look in his eyes, It wouldn't be a surprised if he'd take anything she said that wasn't a yes as some form of insult.

"You are correct, And you would be?" She asked in the most polite way she could while just wanting him to go away, While so far he's been cordial she has the feeling that it won't take much to set him off. "Draco Malfoy, Heir to the noble house of Malfoy's." Noble? Like from the old caste systems? Her mother never wrote about a caste system, And while the history books she got did mention them they talked events hundreds of years ago she wouldn't think they would still be in place after all this time.

Now that she thought about it, Those books had almost nothing else in them other then the many goblin rebellions, Maybe that was the main subject for the first year? But that made no since it seemed way more important to talk about more recent events or at least throw in some stuff like their government It was weird there wasn't even a mention of it other then some footnotes.

Before she could continue that train of thought she heard a scream, She had to stop herself from firing at the ghosts who flew in, She would have to get a hold of her new found hair trigger which she normally doesn't have… At the very least that seemed to get Draco's attention somewhere else. After everyone calmed down Professor McGonagall came back and ushered them into a big dining hall.

It felt like they were on display as all eyes where on them, A moment later a stool with a hat on it came out and names started to be called. While most were looking at the people who were called up their she was looking right at the hat, When she was finally called she walked right up there and not even a second later the hat yelled out a bit louder then it should have "Ravenclaw!"

And she was off to her new house's table it was almost silent as they just looked at her in shock before they seemed to snap out of it when she finally sat down next to the busy haired girl that was talking about the book earlier. Finally people started to clap for her, But it only seemed to come from her own house and the Hufflepuffs, The Gryffindors seemed to be in some form of disbelief.

Author's Notes:

Hi again everyone, Just got done with this chapter and as you maybe able to tell I was intending there to be more dialogue, But that didn't work out. I'm trying to write Eve as more of a passive character that likes to be off doing her own thing. So interacting with others is kind of not her thing. But don't worry with the upcoming classes she'll have a harder time not having to interact with those around her.