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CHAPTER TWO IS NOW UP!

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Chapter two

Light shone into the girl's dormitory, illuminating on each of their faces. Everyone was still asleep. Nobody woke up at the crack of dawn.

Except someone.

Thalia stared at the wall in front of her. She couldn't sleep. The words Dumbledore had said was echoing in her head. She closed her eyes, trying to get control over the bizarre situation.

She tried to hold back the tears that threatened to erupt from her, but she couldn't help it.

Tears flowed down her face, and Thalia held back a sob. She hated them. She didn't understand why she was thrown aside by her mother. She knew that her mother was about to marry James Potter, yet she couldn't help but resent all of them.

The hatred she held in her heart felt like it could burst. Her mother didn't even bother to visit her. She had distanced herself from her muggle father, preferring to keep a distance. Year after year, they drifted further apart.

And that year. When he died… Thalia didn't feel like crying. She had used up a life time supply of tears crying about her mother.

She could vaguely remember an early memory when she had asked her father innocently about her mother.

"Daddy, how come Lizzie has a daddy and a mummy, but I only have you?"

That question echoed in her head, and Thalia managed to chuckle to herself.

At that time, her innocence seemed refreshing. Her father had always avoided that subject, yet, as a seven year old, she had never suspected anything.

Thalia glanced at the flames, trying to understand what it all meant. Was the gods playing a joke on her? Or was it destined in the stars for Thalia to get shunned aside, to be tormented for her whole life?

"All this thinking is giving me a headache." She muttered to herself and got up from the armchair. She was in the Gryffindor common room alone.

Nobody else had gotten up yet and Thalia stretched her arms over her head and yawned lazily. The night she spent in the girl's dormitory was hell. She couldn't sleep, and visions of herself being teased and tormented mercilessly came every two seconds.

Her stomach grumbled and she wondered if breakfast could be served earlier. She had already changed into her robes an hour ago. She walked out of the common room, trudging down the steps warily. Was it against the rules to get breakfast early?

She reached the ground floor and navigated to the Great hall when she heard footsteps. She stopped momentarily. Was she even allowed to be here at six a.m in the morning?

Thoughts raced past in her head and Thalia immediately ducked behind a pillar, hoping that whom she would see would be a friendly face. "Meow." A cat purred and Thalia froze. That cat looked familiar. Dumbledore had mentioned a cat who helped the caretaker in Hogwarts. Was it Mrs Tibbles or Mrs Dumbo or something like that?

"Shoo, kitty, shoo!' The cat stayed where it was, glaring at her with it's large black eyes that looked like it contained no warmth. "What do we have here?" A raspy voice asked.

Thalia could have hit herself. That stupid cat's name was Mrs Norris! And that meant that she was caught by Argus Filch.

She spun around. "Urmm... Hi?" She said, waving her hand.

"You are in big trouble now, Potter!" He said, practically laughing with glee.

Anger burned in Thalia's insides, and she retorted, "I may be his half sister, but my last name isn't Potter, Filch. Or is it Filth?" She said mockingly.

Filch turned positively purple.

"Wait- I got it now. It's squib right?" She said, pretending to think hard.

Filch seemed to explode. "POTTER MUST HAVE TOLD YOU THAT RIGHT? HE THINKS HE IS SO SMART! WELL, MS. - WHATEVER IS YOUR LAST NAME, YOU ARE GOING TO SPEND DETENTION SCRUBBING THE HOSPITAL BEDS!"

"Yeah yeah." She said. And walked back to the dorm. It wasn't until she reached the Gryffindor common room, when she realised that she was in big trouble.

Her second day at Hogwarts was already a disaster.