~Around a month later~

Amelia looked up at the large train station. She had done this many times before. She quickly entered the station and got a trolly to put her stuff in. She did look quite odd with a large cage with a beautiful midnight black owl in it on top of a very shabby trunk. She slowly wandered around the station before she reached platform 9 and platform 10. With a sudden rush of adreneline, she ran forwards pushing her trolly straight into the barrier and out she popped on the other side, at platform 9 3/4.

She looked at the giant clock located right above her and saw that she had a few minutes before the train departed. She quickly boarded the train and searched for an empty compartment. She found one in the denter of the train and put her stuff into the carriers above her. She prefered to sit in the middle of the train. The back was to loud and ful of chaos and the front was full of snobby kids who enjoyed bragging. Yes, she definitetly prefered the middle.

She sat down and pulled a thick book out of her bag. She then started to read and submerse herself in its wonder. She loved to read. It was an escape from the world and the people that she lived with. She could be anyone and do anything in these stories. She had a book with her everywhere that she went. She would constantly fall in love with the characters and wish with all of her heart that they were real and not just a word on a page. She may live in a world that was literally full of magic, but it wasn't the magic that Amelia wanted. She always managed to emerge from her books though, because no matter how much she hated it, she belonged in this world. The real world.

But enough of that, as she was reading her rather wonderful book, a boy with black hair that stuck up in all directions popped his head into her compartment. This was James Potter, you remember him yes? He noticed that the only person in there was a girl with dark brown curly hair reading an incredibly large book. He couldn't see her face because her hair had fallen in front of it. He decided that this girl wouldn't mind if he and a couple of his friends sat in there, since they were rather wonderful, all except for Peter, he wasn't much of a looker.

He went back outside and found his friends.

"I found us a more or less empty compartment. The only person that was in there was a short girl who was reading a huge book."

This seemed fine to the other boys so off they went. After They put there stuff in the carriers they went inside. True to his word, there sat a rather small girl with the curly brown hair reading a rather large book. She didn't even look up when the boys entered. They didn't really seem to acknowlage her presence. They equally ignored the other as if the other simply did not exist.

Sometime during the train ride, the girl started to cry. It was silent crying, for she never made a noise with her mouth which would include bawling and sobbing, and the tears were streaming down her face in rivers. She gave a little sniffle and one of the boys noticed her crying. He signaled the other boys to look at the girl who was now crying. The boys didn't know what to do. She wasn't crying out of sadness, but out of love and happiness for her favorite character had finally found love, but the boys didn't know this. They thought that something was horribly wrong with her. She of course could not tell them this, for obvious reasons being mute.

With a final sniffle and a wipe of her face with her sleeve, She stood up slamming her book closed with a loud thud. She then left the compartment. She had left to change into her school robes but the boys didn't know this. They really didn't know anything about this girl since she hadn't said a single word to them. They also had yet to realize that she was the girl that James had socked in the face. They were about to though, not all at once but one of them was about to figure it out.

"Does that girl look familiar to you?" Remus, the smartest one of the four asked.

"Yeah she does, but I don't know where we've seen her." James grumbled.

"I haven't seen her around so do you think that she is a transfer? It's rare but not unheard of?" Sirius asked.

"No, I don't think so. I feel as if we have seen her before now." Remus stated.

The others mumbled and grumbled their agreement, including Peter who didn't really feel like talking.

A few moments later, the girl entered the compartment in her robes. The boys just looked at her, fully aware of her this time. All four of the boys trying to figure out where and when they had seen this girl before. Amelia knew exactly where she had seen them. She knew that they had been the people to hurt her in Diagon Alley. She didn't bother to look at them as she entered the compartment, only to walk back to her side of the small compartment and pick up her book and continue reading.

Sirius, being the major flirt that he is, got up and sat next to the girl. He decided to try and flirt with her. Big mistake.

"Do you have a sunburn, or are you always this hot?" He said to her with a grin.

She didn't even look up at him, completely absorbed in her book. Sirius tried some other cheesy and rather stupid pick up lines that failed every time since she didn't even notice him. This was beginning to infuriate Sirius as he was used to every girl fawning over him.

James, Remus, and Peter were silently laughing at Sirius and the girl. James was laughing the hardest and Remus was making comments to Sirius and his flirting ability.

"It looks as if she would rather converse with that book than with you, mate." Remus chuckled.

The girl's head immidiatly snapped her head back to look at them when Remus mentioned her book. She stared right into Remus's eyes. Her storm grey eyes piercing his soul. It was as if she could see all of his haunted childhood and horrible past. It was as if she could see through the layers he kept and straight into his heart and soul. It was a little unnerving to have those eyes placed upon you.

She gave him a solid nod and went back to her book.

"What's your name?" James asked the girl.

She merely sighed and pulled out her wand. She started to spell something in a beautiful shade of blue.

"Amelia Grey is my name. Will you please kindly refrain from speaking to me. I am mute. I would like to read my book. Please do not bother me."

The boys were now shocked. It was then that Remus remembered where they had seen her.

"Hey! You were that girl that James socked in the face back in Diagon Alley!" As he said it, he knew it was true, as did the boys. Amelia just sent him a look that could awaken the dead. She gave a sharp nod and winced as if it pained her. She then looked out the window at the neering castle. She gave a small smile that you wouldn't see if you weren't looking, the boys weren't looking.

She got up as soon as the train pulled into the station and left knowing that her stuff would be transfered to her dorm. She rushed out as quickly as possible with only herself, a wand, a book, and the weight of the world upon her shoulders.

A/n Let me know what you think. Was this a good chapter? Is it a good story so far?