Chapter 2: Welcome to Hogwarts
The first of September rolls around and Kassidy has found her way to King's Cross Station. She looks at her ticket.
"Platform Nine and Three Quarters?" Kassidy asks to herself. She looks at the pillar ahead. "There is no 9¾ here," Kassidy said. She saw a red-haired woman with a few kids walking towards the pillar. One of the kids started running his trolley into the pillar, and he disappeared. Kassidy gasped, but not to where anyone could hear her.
"Excuse me, how do I get to Platform Nine and Three Quarters?" a boy asked the red-haired woman.
"Harry Potter!" Kassidy said. The boy turned around.
"Kassidy?!" he said, his eyes widening in fear.
"Harry, just run your trolley through the pillar," the red-haired woman said. Harry grabbed his trolley and took off, going through the pillar.
"Hey, I'm George Weasley," one kid said from behind her.
"I'm Fred Weasley," said another from right next to George. Kassidy turned around.
"And I'm-"
"Kassidy Williams. We know," Fred said.
"Trying to get to Nine and Three Quarters, are we?" George asked, catching a glance at Kassidy's ticket.
"You see, to get there, you simply run your trolley through that pillar between nine and ten," Fred said.
"Try it," George said. She simply looked at each of them before she tried it. She expected to hit the wall but she never did. She looked up and there it was, the Hogwarts Express.
"Great, isn't it?" George asked. Kassidy turned around.
"I'm going to find my seat," Kassidy said, getting on the train. She walked down the train, looking for a spot.
"Kassidy!" a voice called. Kassidy turned to see who it was, and there was Draco.
"Wanna come sit with me in my compartment?" Draco asked.
"Sure," Kassidy said, and then followed Draco to the compartment Draco went to. It was empty, save for Draco's carry-on baggage. Kassidy swung her carry-on bag onto the rack above the seat and sat down.
"Why were you with Snape that day?" Draco asked.
"He was explaining everything and helping me get my things."
"But you were in a home for girls. I'm sure the headmistress there had to have a few girls there who had to buy that stuff so she would know about it."
"No, I was raised in a Muggle orphanage," Kassidy explained.
"No," Draco said.
"Yes. Why is it such a big deal?"
"Because you're a pureblood witch. How could they let Muggles take care of you?"
"I don't know. I was never told a word of it until the day I got my letter."
A few hours passed, and Draco and Kassidy were talking about a variety of topics. They arrived at Hogwarts, and got off the train.
"Leave your things on the train. They will be brought in," a teacher said.
"Firs' years! Firs' years!" a very large man with a very large beard said. All the first years walked over to him and boarded boats. Kassidy was in a boat with Draco, and two kids, Crabbe and Goyle. They rowed across the lake to the school, and went into the foyer. the same teacher who had instructed them to leave their things was there. She had a scroll in her hands.
"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. My name is Professor McGonagall. In a few minutes, we will go into the main hall and you will be sorted into your houses. You will either be Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, or Ravenclaw. Best of luck to you."
Professor McGonagall then opened the doors to the main hall and led the first years in and to the front where the staff sit.
"You will now be sorted into your houses," she said, before reading names from her scroll.
"Potter, Harry," she said after a few names were called. Kassidy scowled as he went up there and the hat was placed on his head.
"GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted, and cheers erupted from the Gryffindor table.
"Malfoy, Draco," Professor McGonagall said. Draco went up there, and the second the hat touched his head, the hat shouted, "SLYTHERIN!"
"Granger, Hermione."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Weasley, Ronald."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Williams, Kassidy."
Kassidy went up to the stool and the hat was placed on her head. After a minute of consideration, the hat shouted, "SLYTHERIN!" Kassidy ran to the Slytherin table and sat next to Draco.
After the sorting, Dumbledore had a few words to say.
"First years are informed that the forest is off-limits to any and all students. And, to all students, please stay off the third floor if you don't want to die a horrible and painful death," he said. He then held his hands out and food appeared on the plates on every table.
"Let the feast begin!"
After the feast, the prefects led their house members to the different houses.
"The password is floo powder," the prefect said. The wall opened to reveal a passage into the common room.
"Okay, first years, this is the common room. That way is the boys' dormitory, and this way is the girls' dormitory. You'll find your luggage in the rooms. Wherever your things are, the bed nearest it is where you sleep," the prefect said. Kassidy found her stuff and located her bed. She shared a room with four other girls, Octavia Steensen, Katelyn Bazzoli, Clarisse Mulryan, and Kyra McKowen.
"So, Kassidy, I saw you being friendly with Draco Malfoy," Octavia, a girl with olive skin and silky black hair, said.
"Is that a problem?" Kassidy responded.
"No, but if you get any friendlier with him, You'll be vomiting slugs for a week."
"Friendlier isn't a word!"
"You know what I mean."
"What Octavia said goes for us too," Clarisse, a girl with nut brown hair and pale skin, said.
"So you lot are a bunch of jealous bitches, then? I get it. Just because I'm the lost girl doesn't mean that I'm going to steal your 'man.' Draco and I are just friends so leave me alone. Besides, we're only eleven," Kassidy explained before leaving.
She went down to the Slytherin common room to find Draco there by the fireplace.
"Kassidy! Over here, I want to talk to you," Draco said. She walked over to him. He invited her to sit down in the adjacent chair, which she accepted.
"By now, I'm sure you've met some people giving you threats if you get too close to someone. Don't worry about them, they won't do anything. They're only first years, they can't do anything yet," Draco said.
"Yeah, my roommates all threatened that I'd be vomiting slugs for a week if I got 'too close' to you," Kassidy explained.
"They wouldn't do anything," Draco said with a little snort. "They'd be too chicken."
"Yeah, I'd love to see them try."
"Anyways, I'm going to bed. Big day tomorrow," Draco said before he left for the boys' dormitories. Kassidy didn't really want to confront her jealous roommates so she just sat staring at the fireplace until she fell asleep.
She was awakened the next morning by the rush of students through the common room on their way to the main hall for breakfast. She ran up to the girls' dormitories to get dressed, and joined her house a minute later. She sat next to Draco again, as they were becoming fairly close after only a day of being at Hogwarts. They received their schedules for the day. The Slytherins had double Potions with the Gryffindors today, which meant Kassidy had to deal with Harry Potter.
"Welcome to your first year of Potions. In this class, you will learn to brew up all kinds of things. Healing potions, forgetfulness potions, etcetera. But don't expect this class to be easy. If you get one step out of order, the brew could go from a healing potion to liquid death," Professor Snape said. "Open your books to page 42. We will be brewing cure for boils first. Go ahead and begin. Follow every step precisely. You have forty-five minutes. You'll need every second."
Forty-five minutes later, Kassidy had a successful Cure for Boils, as she has always been great with following directions.
"A perfect brew, Miss Williams. Ten points to Slytherin," Professor Snape said. He went to the next table, where Ron Weasley and Harry Potter were brewing their own stuff.
"A rubbish brew, Potter. Ten points from Gryffindor," Professor Snape said. "If anyone drank this, it could kill them."
Once he finished with examining the potions of the rest of the class, he began lecturing on the many uses of dragon's blood.
"And that is all the time we have today. I need a two foot long essay on what could happen if you brew a potion incorrectly," Professor Snape said before dismissing the class.
"Didn't we tell you not to get too close to Draco Malfoy?" Kyra McKowen, one of Kassidy's roommates said as she, Octavia, Katelyn, and Clarisse ganged up on her in the Slytherin common room after dinner.
"You never defined the parameters of 'too close,'" Kassidy said before Octavia's fist collided with Kassidy's face.
"Shut up, mudblood!" Octavia shouted.
"I'm not a mudblood you idiot!" Kassidy said, punching back.
"You will regret that," Octavia said, backing up.
"Impedimenta!" Kassidy said, waving her wand at Octavia, who fell to the ground. She pointed her wand at the other girls.
"You'll be barfing slugs if you come any closer!" Kassidy said. The other three girls put their hands up in surrender.
"Kassidy!" Draco called from the entrance to the boys' dormitories. "What happened?"
"These four girls, my roommates, threatened to attack me," Kassidy asked.
"Yeah, I heard you shout a spell."
"You four will not try to attack me again or you'll be barfing slugs for a week, do you understand me?" Kassidy said. The four girls nodded.
"Now get out of here." The girls nodded and ran to the girls' dormitories.
"Are you okay?" Draco asked.
"I'm fine, go back to bed," Kassidy said.
"I wasn't in bed, I was writing that potions essay we have to write," Draco said.
"Then go do that, then. I'm going to beg for a different set of roommates," Kassidy said before leaving the common room.