Again, I do not own anything so here we go! We made it past the first chapter I'm waiting a few days to see if I receive any reviews or feedback. I have not received any reviews yet but, I think you all just need time to warm up to the story. Shoutout to alaskanwoman25 for following your support is much appreciated! This next chapter I will be announcing her house so, if you want to vote between Slytherin or Ravenclaw please leave me a review. I have guest reviews on so, you can drop me a line there. As I said I will have lyrics or quotes at the beginning I'm super excited I hope you all are too! let's get on with it.

They all need something to hold onto

they all mean well

pay your respects to society giving me hell

you could never feel my story

it's all you know- Scotland by The Lumineers

Cedric was by far the kindest towards me, he had asked me many questions about my home life never judging the responses I gave him. The others seemed interested but pretended otherwise, I could catch them turning their ears in our direction every so often.

"so, you've lived a muggle life? How was the school system in America? none of your siblings were magical? What is your favorite thing so far?" Cedric didn't ask me about my family tree, he didn't care. He asked me how I felt, and other things about my life, not my alliances. It wasn't as though my family was evil obviously but, to some my parents running away might be cowardice.

"I lived completely muggle, never even knew about any of this. My older brother and sister knew they were magical, she uh, she left. My brother was at Hogwarts? Then he fell in love with a human and they're together now, having finished his schooling last year. My nieces and nephews live with my sister who moved away, my two other sisters they had no magic in them so, yeah. I think my favorite part is the fact I have a lot more career options now?" I couldn't help but laugh at my response, I learned magic is real and the career options is what excites me most. Cedric simply nodded but went on to agree and talk about all the career ideas he had, there's a law system called the ministry pretty much like our government in a way.

Things were going smoothly that knot in my stomach was slowly loosening, I was explaining to Lee how human school was structured when increasingly people began staring in our compartment, one had even tossed the door open.

"so, it is true, a Black is among us." said a girl with a Gryffindor crest on her robes, she had black hair and an intelligent face, it's hard to notice though under her disgusted face, she continued to look at me in distaste.

"yes, my family name is Black. My name is Viesnya and you are?" she pulled back from my extended hand, and I didn't mind I expected as much from some people.

Cedric began sternly "Anna, Visenya is a friend."

She laughed aloud in response "Cedric you hardly know her, none of us know her. She's a Lestrange they serve him you know." She looked to the others in the compartment as if trying to convince them. "She's probably already serving him, it runs in her family!"

The others held their heads down as they tried to scoot farther from me. What did they mean? Serving who?

Cedric began to protest on my behalf but, I didn't want to stir the waters any more than I already had. I grabbed my trunk and headed for the door, before I made it though she tossed her hand in front of me preventing me from leaving "you're a Black, don't forget that. No one will ever trust you, you're in our world now, a stranger among us don't ever think otherwise." I gave her a cold look and continued out, I could hear Cedric's voice in the compartment but, I pressed on with my head high.

There wasn't much room left, and in one compartment I saw students pressed against the glass I heard something about a flying car but, didn't linger.

I was almost in tears when I finally reached a compartment that had no one in it, I hurried in and closed the curtains and silently let the tears fall. I was angry at my mom, at that girl, and me for crying. I started crying even harder when I realized I was letting my mascara smudge and probably looked ridiculous. I didn't even try to deny her accusations or defend my families name but, how could I? I hardly knew my family, mother didn't tell me a lot I got the feeling she was ashamed.

The only things she did tell me though was that there was a dark wizard by the name of Voldermort who had started a war and greatly disliked humans. He sounded a lot like Hitler to me, and she had told me a lot of people supported him, a lot of people who shouldn't have. Shortly after the war started my parents took off and decided to leave it all behind them to keep us safe. Members of her family supported him and had gifts like reading people's minds, and predicting the futures. They believed I possessed an ability he might want, and he would search for me until he got it so, I had to go to Hogwarts where he could never reach me.

It was hard for me to know how to feel, magic is I my blood but, this isn't my world. I had only known my human life, and now I have to hide in a world I never knew existed, against an enemy I didn't even know. I wiped my eyes, and decided I would just make the best of what I was handed, and embrace it as best as possible.

I decided it was time to fix my makeup and maybe start putting on my robes, I was a little nervous about what house I would be sorted in. I didn't like the sound of Hufflepuff simply because it just wasn't my personality, I thought I might be a Gryffindor but, was I truly brave? Was I as wise as a Ravenclaw? I didn't think I was cunning? I continued to think about this the remainder of the ride, I didn't know where I belonged, I was raised as a human and thrown into this world, a world I don't even understand.

As the train began to lose momentum I put on my robes and gathered my stuff, there was an exit just right outside of my compartment so, it wouldn't take long for me to get out. I was ready when the train stopped, and students began exiting their compartments. I carried my stuff off the train, and followed what everyone else was doing.

I left my luggage in the pile and followed everyone to the carriages that were lining up. I quickly jumped into an empty one so not to cause any trouble like in the train. People had walked by my carriage but made it painfully obvious they were staring at me, finally a few students clambered in with me. They were three girls, they seemed to realize I was there when they sat down.

"oh, pardon our intrusion we hadn't seen you." a girl with fine brown hair had said, as the other two stared at me. I didn't want to offend them so quickly I assured them "no, I uh, I wasn't saving these seats for anyone."

They seemed to just stare for a moment until another with unruly black hair gasped "oh! You're the new girl! You rendered Oliver Wood completely speechless."

I know I was blushing because they all started to giggle, I might as well ruin the moment. However, they beat me to it. The girl with brown hair gestured to herself, "I'm Katie Bell" gesturing to the girl with black hair "this is Alicia" and finally the girl with smooth black hair "and this is Cho"

I mustered up my courage and stated without fear or hesitation "My name is Visenya Black" much to my disappointment they seemed to deflate at the name, I turned my head not wanting to see their reaction or judgement. All but Cho seemed to know all about my family, I could hear them whispering to her that my family serves YouKnowWho and that my parents fled in shame.

I started to tune out not wanting to hear gossip, I noticed the carriage behind us was carrying the boys I had met at Kings Cross station. The girls all started giggling when the guys started hollering over to them, it was when Katie was going to cross to my side which was closest to them that she realized what she was doing. She sat down promptly as if I might attack her and started whispering to Alicia.

The boys went back to what they were doing when I noticed Oliver kept staring and even shyly smiled at me while turning a beet red. I giggled and had to look away from him, when I turned back facing the girls they were all giving me a strange look. They all began laughing I wasn't sure whether they were angry with me or were laughing at their previous conversation.

Katie came to sit on my side "so, Wood huh? I hear you guys met at Kings Cross?" I guess in the case of gossip I was nothing to be feared of. "yeah, we bumped into each other there we didn't talk at all, just introductions." She stared at me a bit longer trying to see if I was lying or not, she dropped the stare and they continued their conversation.

"so, what house are you hoping to get into?" Alicia asked as Cho and Katie finished up their conversation and turned to hear my response. I hated being put on the spot but, answered as honestly as I could.

"I don't really know, they all seem good. What do you guys recommend?" I would soon regret asking this question, I was bombarded with advice and tall tales of which house had the worse kids or the best view in the castle. They all seemed to greatly disliked Slytherin, and recommended I avoided it.

"it would help people not judge you as harshly if you were in anything but Slytherin." Alicia said casually as she brushed through her hair.

Deciding not to respond to this I turned my head to look at what the boys were doing I could see all their heads were together as if planning a strategy in some sport, and off to the side was a little red head, I couldn't quite see all of the person.

I turned back and that's when I saw it, Hogwarts in the distance, it looked so beautiful and grand. I was so awestruck I couldn't look away, even when all the students began shouting in excitement about something near some Willow. We got closer to the castle and the carriages stopped, I guess we continued on foot from here. I began to walk alone when I heard someone call from behind me "Visenya, girl wait for us!" it was Katie, she was now with the boys from the carriage behind us all laughing. I saw Oliver glance at me and put his hand on his neck as he looked down at the ground. I walked over to them and joined in the conversation, I felt like we should be going towards the castle not having a social outside.

I had a constant blush on my face between Oliver and one of the red heads constantly staring at me, I felt like the blush would never leave. Alicia noticed this and whispered to Katie, she smirked at me and winked "hey, Visenya, you look red, are you cold?" it was the middle of August I doubt she thought I was cold.

I was going to respond when I heard a voice shout my name "Visenya!" I recognized McGonagall and smiled sheepishly at the group, they all began telling me their good byes, biding me good luck and hopes of seeing me at their table.

I headed towards her rushing not wanting to keep her waiting, I respected her, and I didn't want her to think me ungrateful for all her help over the summer. I stopped in front of her and she smiled excitedly "you passed your exams! And your tests you will be able to be a fourth year! I've already owled your mum. She was so excited for you, you worked tiredly for it. Oh, the ministry said you are always welcome to use the time tuner should you like to expedite your educational process." I couldn't help but squeal with glee and even hugged McGonagall, she returned it of course surprised.

We headed down some corridors and after some twists and turns we arrived to some empty space, I was confused when suddenly she opened a door and there were dozens of first years waiting nervously. I was trying to get the knot out of my stomach when I bumped into a little red head girl, she politely apologized and went to her position. I assumed this was Ginny the younger sister of the twin boys, I think I might have seen her in the carriage with all those boys now that I think about it. They were speaking about her when we were standing outside, she was nervous about being sorted into a different house as them. It made me feel bad for her, it would be awful to be sorted in a different house as your family.

I almost forgot that I had been nervous until McGonagall announced everyone to follow her. The little kids around me seemed really confused by my presence but, I tried to comfort them while we were waiting in the back room. I think it worked because the kids I spoke to didn't seem so nervous anymore, the problem is there was no one to comfort me.

We were walking out into what Cho and my mother described as the Great Hall, I felt my cheeks turn warm as I noticed people staring at me. I looked over and saw Katie waving her hands wildly trying to get my attention, next to her was George, Fred, Alicia, and Oliver. I wondered where Cho was when I felt someone tug on my robes, she was sitting at the Ravenclaw table I was passing. I forgot, I hadn't even looked at any of their crest on their robes, they mostly introduced themselves as Gryffindor so, I just assumed they all were.

I was beginning to fidget as McGonagall read through the list of names and children were sorted… "Artie Ankie" and followed "HufflePuff!" after a while I zoned out and stopped paying attention to the named but, I would catch some sometimes.

"Margarette Belle" … "Gryffindor!"

After so many names and the same routine, I lost the knot in my stomach and started counting my teeth. I think I have twenty-three but, I kept messing up so, I decided to- "Visenya Black!"

And cut! Well, I wanted to leave you all on a cliffhanger now, if you want to vote on Visenya's house please leave me a review. I plan on updating on 12/21 so, there's a few days to vote in. I just might hurry up if I get some reviews (: Thank you to all who have read my story, also let me know what you guys want, I'd like to be engaged with you all!