A/N: Hey guys, I'm so so sooooo sorry that I didn't update sooner. I was on a trip for two weeks, and wasn't able to get my story up. Again I am so sorry. I am planning on updating once a week and hopefully my update day will be Monday from now on. I hope you guys can forgive me. ~ Piper
"Hey Isabella!" Albus said.
"You know Isabella?" Rose asked.
"Yeah, I should have known you two would be friends," Albus replied.
And then the reunion of friends was ruined.
"So I see we just keep adding people to the mudblood loser party," a cynical voise sneered.
"When will you learn to just sod off Malfoy?" Rose asked.
"When I feel like it, and you know what I just don't really feel like it right now."
"Will you just please shut up and leave?" I asked him.
"I will since you asked soooo politely," he retorted, " But first I have one last thing to say to you. I really think that you have what it takes to be in Slytherin. So I think we're going to have a fun year together just you and me little witch, just you and me."
Once he left I was a mess. Tears were threatening to fall, but I couldn't let them because I was in front of my new friends. I couldn't show them my weakness.
"Oh Isabella it's going to be okay, really. I know that we're going to be placed into Gryffindor together. The Sorting Hat will realize that he can't separate us," Rose said consolingly. she came over and hugged me tightly while I cried into her shoulder. Then the door opened again. I didn't want anyone to see me crying, but I couldn't stop. Before I turned around I knew who it was.
"Awwwwww... Did sweet wittle Bewwa get hew heawt bwoken? Or is she just being a huge baby again?"
"I don't know who you are, but you should just sod off. Can't you see that she's upset?" Albus said.
"Please leave Harry. It would be nice if you wouldn't make fun of me in front of my friends."
"What are you gonna do to me Bella? There's not much you can do to me."
"Get out of our compartment you little git!" Rose screamed at him, furious that he was picking on me.
"Fine, but soon Bella you won't have your friends to protect you," Harry said as he walked away from the compartment.
A few minutes later the door opened again. I was just sitting there with my knees pulled up to my chin staring out the window.
"What's wrong with her?" an unfamiliar voice asked, "And who is she?"
"Isabella, and we don't know. Malfoy came in here and told her she was going to be in Slytherin because she "has what it takes", and then this random guy that we don't know came in here and started making fun of her," Rose said sympathetically, "Then she just curled up into a ball like that and quit talking."
"He's my brother," I said quietly.
"Dude, he shouldn't be treating you like that, that's cruelty not just teasing. By the way I'm James."
I just nodded.
"Well I just wanted to make sure you two," he said pointing at Albus and Rose, "Were okay. Since technically us older kids are responsible for you guys."
"We're doing just fine James," Rose said.
"Well when the trolley comes around I would advise getting this girl some candy."
"Okay James, you can go back to your friends now," Albus replied.
"I'll see you three at the table later tonight," he said as he walked away.
"So do we need to go get your brother back?" Albus asked me.
"No," I said as I kept staring out the window.
It was silent for the next fifteen minutes.
"I just thought it would all stop. I thought that the teasing and joking would all stop until the holidays," I said, breaking the silence.
"It will be okay. You have us for the whole school year, and most likely for the holidays. We are allowed to invite people for our giant family holidays so all you will need is your parents consent," Rose said.
"Yeah like they would give me consent,"I reply my voice full of sarcasm.
"Well if they don't then I will just let my family know that I can't come home for the holidays, and we can spend a great holiday here at Hogwarts," Rose replies.
The trolley then came up and I took out my three galleons. I bought myself a chocolate frog and sat back down. When Rose and Albus came back they didn't have much in their hands. In fact they each had only one chocolate frog. I smiled at them.
"You guys don't have to sacrifice buying candy for me."
"Then we wouldn't be real friends," Albus said.
I smiled at him, and he smiled back.
We sat down and waited. Soon it was time for us to put on our robes so we sent Albus out while we changed, and then we switched places with him so he could change as well.
When we pulled into the station we walked off of the express.
"Firs' years over here! Firs' years!" A deep voice bellowed.
"Hagrid!" Rose and Albus yelled simultaneously.
"Well, 'ello there my dear little friends, and who is this?" Hagrid asks.
"I'm Isabella Gregory," I told him.
"Welcome to Hogwarts. Now you all need to go to the docks and get on a boat."