So this is from the other transfer students POV. I'm trying to make it most like each character thinking as I tell it. So Riley is very sarcastic and blunt. Enjoy.

Disclaimer : I own nothing but the two transfer girls and plot.

Part Two (The Train)

"Damn it all to hell. Where are those bloody boys when you need them?" I was really starting to get angry and it didn't help when Melody told me to watch my language. The uniforms that she had insisted we put on before we got here sure didn't help my mood. They hadn't had a skirt small enough for my size and so Madame Malkin had to make some for me. And wouldn't you know it, they were all really short. A little past mid-thigh. Mel insisted that she would make them longer when we got to school, but what bothered me the most was the shirt and tie. Just a black tie since we hadn't been sorted yet, but I wasn't a bloody playboy school girl. At least I could take comfort in the fact that Melody's shirts and skirts were too big as well, and that we had to pin the skirt in place.

"What I don't understand, "Melody pondered, "Is where this 9 and ¾ platform is supposed to be. I only see platform 9 and platform 10."

"You know Twiggy, it might be 'Magical'" I flared my fingers dramatically as I said the last word dripping with sarcasm.

"Ha Ha." She replied, as sarcastically as I had. Gotta admire the girl for not getting pissy with me. She knew I was only in a bad mood. "Maybe we should ask someone for help. They look like Wizards." She had raced up to a blond couple and their son who looked to be about our age before I could say anything.

"Excuse me, is there anyway you can help us to find the platform? We're transfer students and I'm afraid that we are completely lost." The parents stood up straighter and started to sneer while the boy glared.

"Are you mudbloods?" He uttered the incredibly offensive term as though it were nothing. This had been a bad idea. Note to self: Yell at Melody later.

"Not even close buddy. Rather offended that you would ask though. Pure blooded, thank you very much" I replied hastily and as offensively as I possibly could. This was a dangerous time to be half muggle, and poor Melody was just that. Luckily Melody shut her mouth and just nodded with a raised eyebrow. Thank goodness she knows when to shut up and follow my lead.

"My humblest apologies. I deeply regret having to ask such a question, but with England the way it is now, I had to know." He then bowed to us. Bowed! Talk about odd. Roll with it though Riley. Roll with it. "My name is Lucius Malfoy."

"Fine, you are forgiven. I'm Riley and this is Melody. Now show us to the platform." Hopefully demanding was the way to go with this guy. Apparently it was, because he grinned at me and offered us each an arm.

Melody took it. Rather creepy, but I guess it was for the best. However, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I just stared at the offered limb like it was offensive.

He got the hint and walked off. Not before saying, "Goodbye Parents" Talk about how not to raise a child. He then strolled off towards a brick barrier and, as if it was the most natural thing in the world, walked right through it. Now I am rather clumsy and often walk into walls myself, but really? What if a muggle fell through that? Not the best plan.

Right then I heard a yell from behind me. "Riley! Hey, Wait up!" I casually shoved my trolley through the barrier and turned around to see one of the boys from yesterday running up to me.

"Hey, Peter, right?" I grinned up at him.

"You remembered. Cool." He smiled and turned and yelled over his shoulder, "Hey guys! I found her!"

Within a minute I saw the other three run into view with similar trolleys to mine. I grinned at them, stuck out my tongue and made the mistake of leaning back onto the barrier. Dumb idea. I managed to make an awful sounding 'yelp', crack my head off the ground and make an utter fool of myself in front of a million strangers and one of the cutest boys I had ever met, all at the same time. This was already starting to shape into an awful day.

"Need a hand Twitch?" I looked up at the sound of a very relieved best friend. Obviously she didn't like the creepy guy either.

I yawned and stretched leisurely. "Nope. I think I'll just lie here for a minute." I grinned wickedly at her as she glared at me. Man she was vicious.

"Amusing though it would be to watch, if you stay in the barrier, you are bound to get run over by the next person that comes through." the blond boy drawled. What kind of a name is Lucius anyway?

I begrudgingly sighed and pushed myself up. I was about to step out of the way however, when I was hit, rather painfully by a trolley and ended up flat on my back once again in only two minutes. Yup, gonna be a bad day.

Melody had the nerve to laugh at me, laugh at me while I lay there in pain. "That actually really hurt you know." I moaned as I once again pulled myself up and turned to see who hit me.

"I'm so sorry Riley! I didn't mean to. I thought you had moved by now!" Poor James. Not his fault really.

"No worries." I groaned while rubbing the small of my back. "Its what I get for smashing into you yesterday."

"Potter. You may leave now." growled an icy voice from behind me.

'Malfoy. Do yourself a favour and get out of my sight right now." James glared, his stare icier then Lucius' tone had been.

Just then, another trolley smacked into James from behind as Sirius shoved his was through the barrier. You think this would have changed the situation, but no. Sirius stopped dead and glared at Lucius.

"Lucius. Wanna go now? That would be great. Hi girls!" His mood changed like lightning when he saw us, and then started to completely ignore the blond.

"Hey. You should move before a third person gets hit by someone coming through the barrier." I laughed. It had been rather funny. Too late though, as Remus shoved through.

"Oops...sorry Padfoot Why didn't you move?" By now Melody, Lucius and myself were all doubled over laughing. But Remus had the good sense to move out of the way and end our joke. It had been pretty good though. Poor Peter had no idea why we all were laughing when he came through the portal.

Still laughing, Lucius turned to us and asked, rather politely, "Shall we go ladies? I can help you get your things onto the train if you like."

I was dumbfounded by the change of character, and almost agreed before Sirius stepped in front of me and snarled, "They're with us Malfoy, thank you for the offer though."

"Don't be rude! He can help if he wants." I chimed in, despite myself. No reason not to accept his help. Bad idea though. All four of the boys eyes bulged out of their heads and their jaws dropped. "It's not like I just accepted his marriage proposal guys. Calm down. " I rolled my eyes and went to grab my cart.

Sirius grabbed my arm as I walked by and pulled me close to him. Damn he smelt good. Like chocolate and wood shavings. "Don't. Tell. Me. You're. One of them." He then shoved me away roughly and stalked off muttering "You-Know-Who is recruiting younger and younger these days/" My jaw dropped. What the hell? How dare he!

"You don't even know her asshole!!" My shock increased when Melody screamed after Sirius as he stormed off. First off, Melody never yells. Secondly, Melody never swears.

"Don't talk to my best friend like that! You have no right to when she's allied with them." James threatened menacingly. "To think we thought you two weren't half bad." And he stalked off as well. This left us with the two rational people and Lucius Malfoy. However, I still couldn't say a damn thing and Melody was now furious.

"If you agree with them, then you should go too." She sneered at Peter and Remus, who, thankfully, said nothing as they turned after their friends.

One of them? He thought I was a Death Eater. A Bloody Death Eater! I was the most Un-Death-Eater-Like person I had ever met. Ever! How Rude! And to think I ever thought he was cute.

My musings were interrupted as Melody came up to me and gently pushed my still hanging mouth shut. My lower jaw met upper with a click as she said, "Who needs them?"

Lucius had the grace not to say anything as we walked to the train. In stony silence he lifted all three of our trunks into the storage area and offered his hand as we stepped up to the train. It was actually quite polite and I'll admit I had completely forgotten what he had said earlier. Only then did anyone speak.

"Would you girls like to sit with me and some of my companions for the ride?" Yes, he was quite gracious. At least we had met someone nice. That's what I get for sliding down stair railings into strangers. Not gonna happen ever again. I 'll see to that. And if it does, I'll bolt.

Melody had apparently agreed, for they walked away down the train and I was left to follow. We stepped into a near compartment and were greeted by quite a few stares. Lucius introduced us to everyone and even announced that we were, in fact, pure blooded. Thats when I remembered his earlier comment.

We rode with the group for a few hours, Melody answering all kinds of questions about Salem, and America in general. Except for the nagging 'pure blood' comment in the back of my head, it would have been quite an enjoyable time. There was one boy in particular, Severus; he was one of the sweetest kids I had ever met, and we actually talked for most of the time.

"He's not that bad you know." Severus quietly pointed out to me after noticing that I was glaring at Lucius who was leering at Melody again.

"Then tell him to put his eyeballs back in their sockets." I whispered playfully as he laughed softly. Now would be a good time I think. "Hey, I got a question, and don't answer too loudly okay?"

"Sure, whats up?' he smiled.

"Well...everyone was kind of eying us oddly until Lucius told them we were pure blooded. Only then were we alright to talk to. And when I said that it was okay for Lucius to help us out at the station, Sirius and James, I don't know if you know them, but they thought we were ...well..." He looked at me expectantly as I paused. "Death Eaters." I finished in a whisper.

Severus started laughing. Just laughing at me. Thankfully it was quietly and so no one really noticed. Melody was deep in conversation with some guy named Rudolfus. Weird name actually.

When he finally stopped laughing, he answered. "You know that there's a dark wizard terrorizing England right now right?"

I nodded. "The school administration almost didn't let us take the transfer here, but I guess we blew up one too many things and they just had to let us go." I grinned. What a great last day.

He smiled at that, "Well, he pretty much wants to kill everyone who isn't straight up muggle or pure blooded wizard. Though he doesn't much care for muggles either. Point is, I hate to say it, but most of the Slytherin crowd was raised by pure bloods. Most of the people in this room are actually Death Eaters, or will be inducted on their 16th birthday."

My jaw dropped, but he continued. "Now, not all of us will be. I myself want nothing to do with it and plan to get into teaching. But I can't help what house I was put in right? And I am proud to be a Slytherin, don't get me wrong. But not for the reasons that everyone else here is. This all, of course, makes everyone who isn't into dark magic overly cautious of anyone who might even possibly be associated with the dark arts. Does that clear everything up a bit?"

"Oh." Now I understood. And I couldn't say I blamed Sirius and James for coming to their conclusion, but boy was it premature. "Yeah, I guess...kinda sucks though."

"You don't strike me as the Slytherin type unfortunately. Any ideas on what house you would get sorted into?"

"Well, Melody the book worm has been reading Hogwarts : A History, and seems to think that she will be in Ravenclaw and that I'm destined for Gryffindor. Sucks that we might get split up, but what can we do?" Severus blanched visibly at this and sighed.

"Oh...I see." he didn't seem to happy to hear that.

"Whats wrong, different houses can't be friends?"

"Not Gryffindors and Slytherins. There's a huge rivalry there." I was pretty confused. "A vicious rivalry" he clarified.

"Oh...well...can you still talk to me if I get put there? Because I think it would suck royally if you didn't and I doubt I can choose my house."

"You would talk to me even if you do get put in Gryffindor?" He exclaimed with a surprised grin.

"Gryffindor? You think you'll be in Gryffindor?"

"I thought you said she was pure blooded!"

"So is Black but he's still a blood traitor!"

"Doesn't mean anything Boys and Girls! She hasn't been sorted yet." Lucius explained calmly as a hush settled over the students. Like a dog obeying their master. "Obviously, you don't know anything about the houses love. You see, only pure blooded witches and wizards get placed into Slytherin. Black is the only known exception to this rule, so clearly you shall both be in Slytherin." He smiled a chastising smile at me.

"Melody won't then." I corrected him. Dumb, dumb, dumb idea Riley. Everyone understood at once and suddenly wands were drawn.

Yells of shock and fury erupted in the compartment as I realized my mistake. "I think you two need to leave now" Severus whispered apologetically starting to shove me out of the room.

"Promise me you'll still talk to me, no matter what" I whispered back as he pushed Melody out and reached for me. "Promise!" I insisted while gripping onto the door frame with all my might.

"Okay, I Promise" he laughed as Lucius made a growl and screamed,

"GET OUT TRAITOR!"

Melody and I booked it, as several jets of coloured light zoomed over our head.. We finally came to a stop when we could no longer hear the screams or jinxs.

"Well that sucked," I exclaimed, leaning against a compartment door.

"I wasn't too comfortable pretending I was pure-blooded anyway." She shrugged and laughed. "Guess we know what people to avoid, huh?"

"So many enemies in just one day...well...Riley made a friend!" I grinned hugely as I thought about Severus' promise.

"And I bet you two will be the first Gryffindor-Slytherin Friendship" She smiled at me.

"Don't say that. We haven't even been sorted yet! You have no idea where I'll go."

"Well...either way, talk about too many enemies at once." She sighed, leaning against the wall behind her. "And we haven't even gotten to school yet."

"Well...I'm in a yelling mood. Shall I go sort out James and Sirius for us? No need to not unleash my bottled frustrations on the jerks who had the audacity to think I was a Death Eater." I grinned wickedly and proceeded to start searching through compartments for the unsuspecting boys as Melody laughed just as wickedly. She knew I had a fierce temper.

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