Chapter 4: Hogwarts
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The Hogwarts express was moving at a steady pace through the countryside of Great Britain. Sachi, who at her own request to Fred and George, was in her own compartment. The twins had met their friend Lee Jordan and had wanted to play around with fireworks and such while all Sachi had wanted was to lie down. So while listening to the slight explosions in the compartment next to her she continued to morph her hand back and forth until her compartment door opened. She looked up to see him standing there with two others, the pompous prick.
"There you are. I've had to search most of the train to find you." Malfoy sneered before inviting him and his friends in and sitting down across from her.
"Who are your body guards?" Sachi asked with a bored expression. She didn't want to be bothered right now but knew that she couldn't get away from him.
"This is Crabbe and Goyle." He said first motioning to the tall then short one.
"Nice to meet you…." Sachi held her hand out, trying to be polite, but they didn't return the favor. Slowly she pulled back and sat up. A slight tinkling could be heard from down the corridor, which Sachi knew to be a trolley full of food. She had no money though so she had sent the pleasant witch on her way.
"You hungry?" Malfoy asked her. Sachi merely shook her head but then her stomach growled in protest. A smirk crossed his face before he turned to his two cronies.
"You two go and get one of everything off that cart. Pay her with this," and with that Malfoy tossed them a large bag of money. Sachi felt a twinge of jealousy at this.
"After you buy that, check out everyone on this train. I want to know who I'm going to school with." Malfoy said sternly while the two closed the door behind them. This left Sachi alone with Malfoy, a situation she would have preferred to dodge.
"What do you want?" she spat as soon as she knew that no one could hear them. He glanced at the door before leaning towards her.
"Well you did say you'd do anything as long as I didn't tell anyone about your little secret." He paused to glance up at her now normal head. "I'm just holding you to that promise, unless of course you want me to tell everyone." He smirked once again. Sachi silently regretted ever saying this but knew there was no way to back out of it.
"What do you then Malfoy?" she asked again as he leaned back casually.
"Well for one I'd like you to call me Draco from now on, and without the attitude." He laughed a little when he saw the face she made, knowing that it would drive her insane to be forced to do that. "Also I would like to get to know you a little more. I'm sure my father would be extremely interested in you." Sachi recalled how she had felt around his father, and wondered exactly how interested his father would be and for what reasons.
"I have other friends you know who I like a lot better than you. Why should I spend time around your family when I'm much more at my leisure around them?" The question she hadn't meant to ask, it had simply slipped out. Oh well it was too late now. Surprisingly though all Malfoy did was burst out laughing.
"Do you mean the Weasley's?! Those blood traitors are nothing but the scum of the wizard world!" His face had turned red.
He would have continued laughing had had Sachi not grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up with her normal hand, while the other transformed and pulling his hair back. How dare he speak about these people like this! She had met the rest of the Weasley family at the platform, along with a black haired boy whom she had missed the name of. That family had been nothing but courteous and kind to her, and Fred and George she found hilarious.
"You ever say that about them again and I will rip your throat out personally." She growled in his ear. Suddenly she felt a poke on her stomach and looked down, only to see his wand pointed at her.
'Crap….'
"Rictusempra!" Malfoy called out and abruptly Sachi was sent back on the other side of the car. It felt like twenty people were all tickling her at once, and she couldn't stop laughing. Malfoy looked on with enjoyment.
"P-Please st-stop!!" Sachi cried out and to her relief he ended the spell. She gasped for breath before pulling herself back onto the seat. His smirk was still there.
"I'd be careful if I were you. Threatening me ends badly for all those who try it." He sat back again while she glared at him. "So what house do you expect you'll be in?" His change of subject caught Sachi off guard, but she had no clue what he was talking about.
"Huh?" was all she managed to say. His head tilted slightly to the side with a look of complete shock on his face. For one moment she was proud that she made him look like that.
"You mean to tell me that you don't know anything about the houses?!" he asked, his expression returning to the normal know it all look. "Personally I would want to be in Slytherin, that's where some of the most powerful wizards have come from." He glanced out the window.
Malfoy no doubt would have continued had not Crabbe and Goyle returned, their arms full of half eaten food. They closed the door behind them before sitting down next to their leader.
"The conductor said we're to arrive soon and that we should start getting ready, but not before you hear the news!" Goyle said while Crabbe continued to stuff his face.
"And that would be…?" Malfoy drawled with a bored sigh. This did not hinder Goyle though.
"Harry Potter is in his first year at Hogwarts too!" he practically screamed. Malfoy was halfway through opening a chocolate frog, but at this news he dropped it almost as fast as his mouth dropped open. Sachi though, was once again lost.
"Whoseawhatnow?"
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The remainder of the train ride was mostly just the boys babbling about something that Sachi had no clue about. She merely changed into her robes before sitting back down and enjoying whatever food Crabbe and Goyle hadn't stuffed down. Soon enough they all left the train and were placed in small, self moving boats with two other people. Sachi didn't even get to know the two girls in her boat, she was too amazed by the castle. Never in her life had she ever seen anything like it. Massive turrets erupted from the top while a forest surrounded a good part of it. Only magic could have made something like this.
Soon enough they were out of the boats and marching up the front stairs into the great hall. There, they were stopped by a stern looking witch whose this mouth was in a small smile as they all kept gaping at their surroundings.
"Welcome to Hogwarts!" she nodded curtly around them. "In just a moment you will be sorted into your houses. There are four of them; Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Now while you're here your house will be like your family. Good behavior will earn you points while misbehavior will lose you points."
Her speech was abruptly halted when a clumsy looking boy shouted "Trevor!" and dove at a frog that had placed itself at the top of the stairs. After receiving a stern look from the professor he quickly apologized before rejoining the now sniggering group. She straitened herself up before addressing them all once again.
"Now I will be one moment in preparing the sorting before returning to gather you. Please remain here." And with that she strode away leaving the mumbling group.
"This is amazing!" Sachi whispered to Crabbe who was the closest person but he was busy motioning to Malfoy toward the black haired boy Sachi had met earlier.
"So it's true then, what they were saying on the train. Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts." Malfoy put on his best smile as he pulled Sachi up the stairs followed by his two guards. The students were now muttering Harry potter very quickly.
"This is Crabbe, Goyle, and Sachi." He said while motioning to each of them while he said there name.
"I don't really know him." Sachi sighed as she rolled her eyes. Half of the group smiled at her comment but Malfoy merely glared.
"I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." To his introduction, Fred and George's youngest brother let out a snort. Malfoy turned his glare to him.
"Think my name's funny do you? I don't even need to ask yours. Red hair, and a hand me down robe. You're no doubt a Weasley." He growled at the boy who returned the face. "You'll find out some wizarding families are better than others. I can help you there." With that he held out his hand to Harry.
"I think I can choose the right type for myself thanks." Harry coolly replied. Sachi gave him a silent thumbs up for standing up to Malfoy. The blonde boy had shut up and quickly moved so that the Professor who had just returned to usher them in, could do so without hindrances.
The great hall almost impressed Sachi as much as the outside did. It had four long tables in it, with the head table in the front of the room. There were floating candles all through it and the ceiling was replaced with the sky outside. Everywhere older students heads were turning to see the first years, and Fred and George flashed her identical smiles from across the room. She returned it.
"Now to be sorted I shall call your name, you shall come forward, and place the hat on your head. Then we will know what house you will be placed in." She began to call names and one by one the frightened students were placed in houses by the talking hat. Yes, the hat did talk. Sachi was already in love with magic. She watched as Harry and Ron (she figured out there names) were placed in Gryffindor while Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, and a odd looking girl named pansy Parkinson were all placed in Slytherin. Sachi officially knew she did not want to be in Slytherin.
"Sachi Higurashi!" the professor finally called her name and she silently gulped while moving forward. All of the eyes in the room were on her now and she knew it. The stool creaked under her and the hat fell over her eyes.
"Well, well. Aren't you a different one?" The hat mused on top of her. Sachi didn't like where this was going so she decided to remedy it.
"You say what I am and I'll rip you to threads…." She muttered under her breath but the hat stiffened so she knew she was heard.
"Well, you would enjoy Slytherin very much with all of your threats." He said to himself but now she stiffened.
"No! No! not Slytherin! I'm so, so sorry. Please don't put me in there with him….." her mind drifted to Malfoy for a moment before realizing that she would be stuck around him enough of the time without being in the same house.
"This boy angers you?" The hat questioned. "But you just met." Sachi now realized that only she could hear what the hat was saying, or else muttering would have started by now.
"He knows what he's not supposed to know and he's blackmailing me with it. I doubt we'll be best friends forever." Sachi growled as the hat sighed to itself.
"Well then, I can see you have other friends who also know but do not hold it against you." It sighed to itself again before shouting for all to hear, "GRYFFINDOR!"
A huge round of applause erupted as Sachi sprinted to the farthest table. Fred and George were cheering the loudest and made sure that she had a seat next to them. After taking her seat she looked over to Malfoy who looked slightly disappointed at the hat's choice.
'Sorry Draco' she thought smugly. 'But getting me to listen to you won't be as easy as you thought.
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