HEY EVERYONE! TO ALL OF MY 91 READERS: YOU ARE COMPLETELY AMAZING! I'm just wondering, but has anyone favorited/ followed this story? If so, I am BEYOND Honored and if not: I don't really blame you. Anyway. I have put up a poll about who your favorite character is. Please vote, so I know who to include more of. If you want more humor, Ill make Greyback enter the story line more, if you like the violence, Evelyn will probably go on more angry rampages, and so on.

THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO MY REALLY AWESOME BIG SISTER WHO CAME HOME FROM COLLEGE ON FRIDAY! Review please!

*Note* Draco is mad at me right now, so he might not visit for a while.

Evelyn: *snort* Serves you right…

Vampyress: SHUT UP!

I stood in front of a ginormous mirror while a woman whose name I can't remember fluttered around me, taking my measurements so that she could make my school robes.

I looked over to the platform next to me, and saw that a boy who looked to be around the same age as me. There was another woman flitting around him the same way what's-her-name was around me.

"Hello, are you going to be attending Hogwarts in the fall, too?" I asked, curious if this was what my fellow students would be like.

He nodded. "Yeah. I hope I get sorted into Gryffindor; it's by far the best house of them all… I mean, no offense if you're aspiring to be a Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. They're okay too, I guess."

"What do you mean, house?" I was thoroughly confused. A house was a building. What do houses have anything to do with a school that was a castle?

The boy chuckled. "So I guess that you're a muggle born, then? There are four houses, or groups I guess you could say, in Hogwarts. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Gryffindor is the best house though. It has the bravest and coolest people in all of Hogwarts. My mum and dad were both Gryffindors. But I guess that it wouldn't be horrible if I were sorted into Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. Anything but Slytherin." He shuddered "I'm Thomas McMillan, by the way. Who are you?"

I had been listening intently, absorbing all of this new information. "Oh, um, I'm Evelyn eStrange."

We shook hands just as Narcissa came storming in. "Evelyn! Come along! We haven't time for you to be socializing. You can make friends on the train. Now, however, we still need to get your books, cauldron, a set of brass scales, and if you plan on bringing a pet to Hogwarts, we are going to have to purchase it as well." Cissy grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the store, calling over her shoulder to tell the young woman we would be back in an hour to retrieve my robes.

First stop was Flourish and Blotts, the wizarding book store. If you think that college books were expensive, you should see the prices for some of the wizarding books there. I saw one book that cost 1,300 galleons. Luckily, that book wasn't on my list. The books that WERE on my list were Beginners Potions, A Young Wizard's Guide to Transfiguration, A Study of Muggle Life, One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Magical Theory, and History of Magic. We paid for my books and left the shop.

Next we hit up the Magic Emporium, where we purchased a pewter cauldron, a set of brass scales, and a whit gold telescope with emerald inlays in the shape of a snake. The telescope wasn't on my list, but I have always enjoyed star gazing, so I purchased it anyway.

We headed across the street to a wizarding pet shop called Eeylops Owl Emporium & Magical Menagerie. I had only ever been to one pet shop before, and it had sold things like dogs and goldfish, with the occasional parakeet. This one sold things like cats, toads, and owls. I ended up getting a black cat with red markings on her fur, so I named her Blood Star.

We paid for Blood Star and purchased a nice wrought iron cage for her, and headed out to our last stop, the apothecary. While I was purchasing all sorts of different ingredients I would need according to my potions book, Narcissa ran over to the tailor's in order to pick up my robes.

We met up outside of Gringotts, and from there we headed back to the orphanage

As soon as we got back, Brother Greyback hurried outside to help me bring all of my new stuff up to my room.

After all of my new possessions were put away, I lay on my bed, petting Blood Star, as I read through A Young Wizards Guide to Transfiguration. I figured it would be in my best interest to start learning this stuff, since most of my other classmates would have grown up around magic, giving them a distinct advantage over me.

Before long, I had memorized the first half of the book, and had moved on to trying to transfigure a pen into a quill.

I had just managed to turn the pen into a mottled black feather that was melted on one side when Sister Gertrude came storming in.

"Young lady, there will be no spell casting in this building until you have graduated Hogwarts! Do you understand?" She then noticed the feather. "What in the world is that?" She demanded.

I shrugged "I was trying to transfigure a pen into a quill. According to my book, objects similar in appearance and use are easiest to transfigure into one another, and since I have never transfigured anything before, I figured I should start with something simple."

Gertrude looked shocked. "You managed this on your first try, with only a book to guide you?" she asked.

I didn't understand what was so impressive, it's not like the transfiguration had turned out properly. "Yeah it is. I'm not very good at this magic thing though. Hogwarts probably sent the letter to the wrong person, and there's some other kid out there who can actually do magic who is waiting for their acceptance letter and isn't going to get one 'cause I got it instead." I frowned, "Not that I care, either way."

Gertrude sighed. "Very well. You may continue. Just make sure you inform me before you start practicing a new spell." She turned and left the room.

I found myself staring at her receding back thinking "What just happened?"

After I got past my confusion, I grinned and returned to practicing my transfiguration. I couldn't wait for fall.