Author's Note: This chapter should be much longer than the last. It will be the first chapter at Hogwarts! Keep on keepin' on:))

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After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, Hagrid and Andie came for me. We mounted the motorcycle in the positions we had established during our Diagon Alley adventure, and we were off. Once we reached King's Cross Station, Hagrid led us through the throng of people to a regular looking wall. "Where the bloody hell is Platform 9 and 3/4?" I politely inquired. "Hush, Josephine. But I was about to ask the same thing, just with a little more decorum," was the reply of the ever proper Andrea Rodriguez. "Just run through that wall with your trolley, and you will be there." My only thought before running full speed ahead was 'that giant's bloody bonkers.'

I came to an abrupt stop on the other side, but not before running over some poor bloke. "Shit! Are you okay?" I reached down to my victim to see that it was a girl around my age with long white blond hair and ethereal blue eyes. "Oh, it's no trouble, I'm more concerned with all of the wrackspurts flying around your head." She said in a voice more ethereal than her eyes. Ignoring the strange comment about wrackspurts, I said "I really am sorry, would you like to join me and my friend Andie on the train?" She replied simply with, "Sure, my name's Sapphirre Lovegood." Sapphirre and I moved out of the way so Andie and Hagrid could come through. Andie glided through, graceful as ever and looked around for me. "Over here!" I called. "Hey Josie, who is this?" Andie asked as she politely shook Sapphirre's hand. "This is Sappirre Lovegood, she's going to share a compartment with us." Andie smiled and said, "How lovely. Now, let's get on that train."

After searching tirelessly for an empty compartment, we finally found one towards the back of the train. After settling ourselves into the compartment, we started talking and learned that Sappirre, who goes by Sapph, had a brother in Ravenclaw named Xenophilius. When Andie was in the middle of giving her story, there was a diffident knock on the door. "Come in." Said I, and in came a thin girl with periwinkle hair in a short pixie cut. "Do you mind if I join you? There isn't room anywhere else," was her timid request. "We don't mind at all, have a seat," replied Andie. "I'm Andrea Rodriguez, but you can call me Andie. This is Sapphirre Lovegood, she goes by Sapph. And lastly, that lunatic in the corner is my best friend, Josephine Hayworth, Josie for short. What's your name?" The newest oddity in our compartment replied, "Priscilla Elizabeth Manson, but I prefer Lizzy."

After getting to know each other a little better, a girl with red hair barged in with a greasy looking boy. "Um, excuse me, but why did you just barge, rather rudely I might add, into our compartment?" Asked Andie. "We were trying to escape two terrible boys who made fun of my friend Severus, so excuse me if we were too 'rude' for your liking." The red head replied with an attitude. "Well, you can get out, I don't care if some 'terrible boys' made fun of your greasy friend, he was probably asking for it. You can't just come in here and expect us to help you out when you have an attitude like that." "Well," she huffed, "We will be on our way then." "Geez, she was a bit of a git now wasn't she?" I asked my newly formed group of weirdos. A chorus of agreements greeted me.

Suddenly, Sapphirre jumped up and said, "We are almost there. Put on your robes!" We all scrambled to our trunks and put on our robes. I went to the bathroom to put on mine. Once I got them on, I made sure to check the make up that I had stolen from Rita to hide my bruises with. It was working divinely. I then daydreamed my way back to our compartment, but was rudely interrupted by a two bony things crashing into me. It was two boys, my age by the looks of it. One with long, shaggy, black hair and the other with short, messy black hair that was sticking up in every direction. They were giggling about someone named 'Snivellus', who I guessed was Severus. I stood up and waited for an apology, it never came. I don't even think they noticed that they ran into me. 'Oh, well' I thought, 'Just another moment of invisibility.'

They soon went into a compartment and I resumed my journey. Upon entering the compartment I was greeted with the sight of my friends trying to get Harold to drop Lizzy's pet toad, Warhol. "Harold!" I shouted in alarm. "Drop that amphibian this instant!" He, of course, complied seeing as he is the best cat ever. "Well, now that that little fiasco is done with, I think we have arrived." We all looked out the window, to see if we could catch a glimpse of the castle. No such luck, but we did see the station.

After unloading ourselves and our things, we walked over to Hagrid. "Hello Hagrid, old friend, old pal. How are you doing?" I asked the friendly half-giant. "Very good little Josie, very good. I am here because I have been given the task of taking all of you first years across the Black Lake, into the castle." "YAY!" I shouted, looking at my friends. "Well," I said, "Shall we proceed onward or not?" I guess they chose onward because we were soon loaded into a boat and on our way to the castle. "My brother told me that there is a giant squid in this lake," said Sapphirre. "Oh, that's probably just a load of bull honky!" I scoffed. "See," I said leaning over the side. "There's nothing in the water...SPLASH!" I fell into the bloody lake! "Josephine! Are you okay?" Yelled a worried Andie. "Help me out you wankers!"

Once I was back in the boat, I silently fumed for a few moments until Lizzy poked me on the shoulder and said, "If you would like to stop pouting, I think I see the castle up ahead." Reinvigorated, I looked ahead, and there it was. The most magnificent and amazing thing I have ever seen. Hogwarts Castle. "Wow," was the collective gasp of every first year in the boats. It was so big.

Soon, we were out of the boats and ushered into a large stone room, and greeted by a stern looking woman with her hair in a tight bun. "I am Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor and Transfiguration teacher to all students. Come with me." She led us out into the Great Hall where she told us we would be sorted into our houses alphabetically.

The sorting was very long so I will just highlight a few key people. Sirius Black, the boys with the long hair, was sorted into Gryffindor, as was his messy haired friend, James Potter and two other boys they appeared to be friends with, named Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin. Lily Evans, the rude girl, was sorted into Gryffindor and her greasy friend Severus Snape, was sorted into Slytherin. Lizzy was sorted into Slytherin as well. Sapphirre was placed in Hufflepuff, Andie in Ravenclaw, and then there was me.

I shyly walked up to the hat, not knowing what to expect. Placing the hat upon my frizzy mane, I jumped as it spoke to me. "Oh, dear. It seems that you have had a hard life, a hard life indeed. You are smart, but not enough for Ravenclaw. Kind, but too sarcastic for Hufflepuff. Not cunning or mean enough for Slytherin. It will have to be...Gryffindor!" I quickly walked over to my new house table as everyone applauded politely.

After listening to where my friends were placed, I listened to Dumbledore's speech about rules and whatnot. Turning to the table, I watched in amazment as food appeared out of nowhere. I grabbed some chicken, and what I assumed was potatoes with green beans, but I couldn't bring myself to eat it. I was all alone. My new, and old, friends were all in different houses. 'Oh, well,' I thought, 'at least I won't bring them down. I can just fade into the background and they will forget all about that weird girl they once knew.'

Sighing, I looked around the table to see everyone happily eating and talking. That horrid Lily girl was looking angry while speaking to that rude James Potter. At least someone else wasn't having a great time. That other friend of James and Sirius, oh what was his name? Remus Lupin! That's it. Well, he was sitting next to me and seemed nice enough. I soon began to daydream about my future at Hogwarts, but I was interrupted by Remus Lupin gently poking my arm, gentle as it was, I still winced in pain. He apologised quickly and said, "I didn't mean to hurt you, I was just tyring to tell you that the feast is over and we are about to be led to our house." "Oh," I replied shyly,"Thank you, I don't think anyone else would have told me." He smiled and said "Come on then, I'll make sure you don't get left behind." It's decided, Remus Lupin is my hero!

We were told the password and led to a portrait of a rather large lady dressed in a garish dress. "Oh, look at the little first years! Would you like to hear me sing? I am quite marvelous!" The head boy replied nicely with "I would love to her you sing, but right now I have to show these first years the ropes." "Humph. Well then, password? He gave her the password and we were herded into the most cozy looking room I have ever seen. The head boy, Matthew Wood, informed us of the house rules and all that jazz. A seventh year girl then led us to the first year girl's dorm room. I had to share with Lily Evans, Mary Macdonald, and Alice James. They all ignored me and began gossiping together on what I assumed was Lily's bed. I put my things at the end of the bed furthest from the door and laid down. This was going to be just lovely.

Authors Note: Whew! That was a long chapter, for me at least. I hope you lot liked it! I am sorry it took me so long to write this one, but I am a lazy bum. I will try to have the next chapter out next week. Thank you for reading:))