Most wizards and witches would be thrilled to go to Hogwarts. Even Muggle parents wished they had a bit of magic in them and went to that wonderful school to learn everything and anything, just like their sons and daughters. People, taking the Weasley family as an example, felt proud to say they went, go, or will be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They would speak highly of it or anything at all that had to do with it. They would praise Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster. They'd respect that man until their last living breath. People like Molly Weasley, who so happily would take her kids every September to Platform 9 ¾ with a bright and warm smile on her face. People like Bill Weasley that when already graduated from Hogwarts, would go side-by-side with his brother Charlie, who was about to start his sixth year. People like Charlie Weasley, who thought of making his last two years the best of his life rather than make them the most nostalgic ones. People like Ron Weasley, who would go hand-in-hand with his mother and eight-year-old little sister, Ginny, to visit the Platform for what would be the fourth he could remember and still beg his mother to let him go now just like he did the very first time. People like Ginny Weasley, who still had around three years left to start and experience it all by herself, the school his brothers talked to her so much about, the school she wanted to make a home of just like her brothers and parents had.

Or people like Fred and George Weasley, who did not sleep the night before and ran with their carts and trunks the second they got to King's Cross, talking non-stop with one another about the great things they would do together once they arrived. Jokes and pranks included, of course. It was people like them that ached to go to that school.

But unfortunately, that unbelievable joy was not something everyone shared.

It was people like Emmeline Warmsley that felt sick and tired of listening to cheery people like the Weasleys go on and on about Hogwarts. People like her weren't able to see the greatness that others saw in the school. It was people like her that knew of magic, were surprisingly good at it, and practiced it daily, but never really considered Hogwarts a happy and magical place. It was with great discontent that Emmeline had to stop far from the Weasleys as one by one crossed the barrier. Fred and George had just crossed the barrier, following their brother Charlie, with the brightest and biggest of smiles. Emmeline sighed and pushed her cart, standing right next to Molly Weasley and her three children, Ginny, Ron and Bill and said, ''The flamed-hair pack all together here as always. Where's Arthur?''

The four of them turned to look at her and the only two that smiled widely at her were Bill and his mother.

''He's been quite busy with some Muggle things. This month's obsession's the television''

''Your father is not obsessed, dear, he's just very dedicated'' defended Molly.

''He's obsessed, mum'' chuckled Bill. Ginny looked up at her and tilted her head to a side and tugged on her mother's sleeve.

''Who is she?'' she whispered to her as though Emmeline wasn't there.

''And here is where I leave'' Emmeline smiled. ''It was very nice seeing you all'' She leaned up and kissed Bill's and Molly's cheeks.

''It is always a pleasure seeing you, dear'' Molly's eyes started watering slightly but before a tear rolled down, Emmeline ran towards the barrier and soon found herself in the Platform, avoiding getting emotional too. The big scarlet train in front of her and a sigh that left her lips got lost with the smoke the engine let out. It took her less than two minutes to find a compartment for herself, her trunk, and her new tawny owl, Mr. Hoot. She rested her back against the wall and raised her legs up on the seat. She watched as the train rounded the corner and houses flashed past the window. Usually, most students would feel the excitement run through them, make them smile for no apparent reason, make an unexplainable nervous sensation in the pitch of their stomach suddenly start, and make them ramble through all the journey about what House they would be in, at what time they would be able to visit Hogsmeade, when they will be able to fill their stomachs with Treacle Tart and Pumpkin Juice while playing some Wizard's Chess.

Instead of being like most students, Emmeline felt rather hollow. The corners of her lips instead of being almost near her eyes were closer to her chin. They were only soft sighs supposed to be shrieks of happiness and excitement which tarnished the window next to her head. She touched her left wrist, where a white piece of ribbon was wrapped tightly around. The letter L engraved in gold in the corner of it. ''You have no idea how much I miss you...'' she whispered to herself.

''Miss who?'' someone had opened the compartment door and poked their head inside. Emmeline jumped slightly and immediately sat up letting go of her own wrist, hiding it behind her back. She looked up and a girl standing with the door now fully opened looked at her apologetically. ''Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. It's just- you were alone so-''

''It's...all right. You didn't''

The blond girl sighed in relief and said, ''Good. I'm Katie Bell. You?'' She smiled.

''Emmeline'' she watched a frown on Katie's face and frowned herself too.

''Do you mind if I call you Emmy?'' she giggled a little bit. Emmeline shrugged and she carried on, ''Are you all alone here?''

''Not really. My owl's here too'' She glanced at Mr. Hoot.

''What I meant was if someone were sitting here with you, since you were talking-''

''Well, if there was...you would've seen them sitting there, wouldn't you?'' Emmeline motioned to the empty seat across from her. Katie sat there, closing the door behind her just before she did so.

''Now you're not alone'' smiled Katie.

''I didn't really mind, but-''

Emmeline turned her head and stared out the window, avoiding Katie's silent stare. ''Why are you so sad? You should be happy! Just like every single one of us! Even the seventh years are happy and it's their last year! If it were mine I would be super sad, you know. I mean...it's Hogwarts!'' Katie grinned widely.

''So what...'' Emmeline looked back at Katie, pressed her back once again against the wall and stretched her legs across her seat, her right hand around her left wrist.

''So what? So everything! Hogwarts is the best place there is in the whole...universe! We're going to learn magic properly, learn how to control it-''

''I know what's done at Hogwarts-''

''-Learn new spells, new charms, new creatures, and so much more! I just can't wait!'' Katie continued like there hadn't been an interruption by Emmeline and kept a big dreamy smile on her lips as she looked out the window. ''Hogwarts is going to be our second home, our safe place... It'll be perfect. And the Professors! I've heard wonders of them! Especially about the Headmaster, Professor Dumbledore, and... Well, not so great things about all of them. People tell me Professor Snape is quite a rough bloke-''

''I heard he's the best one there's ever been'' snapped Emmeline. Katie looked taken aback.

''Where have you heard this from? Knockturn Alley? They tell me he's awful, terribly unfair, especially to Gryffindors, which is where I want to be sorted in. But, who knows, right?'' shrugged Katie. Emmeline looked at her incredulously. ''We'll find it all out once we're at Hogwarts''

Emmeline opened her mouth to snap Katie out of her dreamland but barely said a vocal when the compartment's door slid open again. Two girls with dark brown hair stood right outside. One was taller than the other. The taller one had a little tan that was fading away and long straight dark brown hair that reached her waist. The other one had long brown hair and bangs that reached her eyebrows, her skin was slightly paler than the other girl, and her look was much more of an innocent one.

''There you are! We've been looking all over for you'' the taller one said.

''Yeah, we found a compartment! But...there's boys in it'' the other said, looking miserable.

''Doesn't matter!'' beamed Katie. She looked to her side and said, ''This is Emmy. She's a first year, too''

''Hello'' the taller girl said. ''Angelina Johnson''

''Alicia Spinnet'' grinned the other.

''Hi...'' Emmeline said quietly, feeling very uncomfortable by the excited and happy air that was washing away her depressive state inside the sad little compartment.

''Would you mind if we stayed here at your compartment? There are three annoying boys in the other'' Angelina rolled her eyes.

''Technically it isn't my compartment, but-''

''Perfect!''

With that, the low mood in the compartment raised a surprisingly whole lot. Unfortunately for Emmeline, the 'little compartment' had somehow enlarged itself and now the four girls sat together, two in each seat, and there still was enough space for probably four more of them. The trolley had passed by and between the three other girls they bought what looked like half the trolley. Emmeline had limited herself to a couple of chocolate frogs and ate them in silence next to the window while the other three rambled excitedly, every once in a while trying to get her to talk. Emmeline groaned when Alicia shrieked as her frog jumped on her face and Angelina snatched it and ate it. Emmeline hit her head repeatedly against the window while staring at the landscape before her. The train ride to Hogwarts felt eternal so far.

And they weren't even close to reaching the school.

''Oh no, hide me!'' Angelina had suddenly said. Emmeline snapped her head up just in time to see a boy with dreadlocks slide the door open for what probably was the third time that day.

''There you are, Johnson! I've been looking all over for you! We thought you got lost looking for your friend'' said the boy, looking up to glance at all the other girls in the compartment. ''Seems like you found them''

''Actually, her'' Emmeline spoke pointing motioning with her head to Katie. ''She's the friend''

''I see. And you are?'' frowned the boy.

''Emmeline''

''Lee Jordan. Nice meeting you!'' he said in a sudden cheery voice, making Emmeline flinch slightly. Just before she said something else, letting a vocal escape her lips for the second time, two familiar red-haired boys appeared on Lee's sides.

''Looks like he's found them'' said the one on the right.

''Wasn't it just one?'' asked the one in the left.

''Girls multiplying now?''

''Doesn't sound good''

''Not at all''

''I didn't know there were clowns aboard'' mumbled Emmeline jokingly. No one seemed to have taking it as lightly as she had, gaining her two glares. She looked up at them and frowned. ''And you're Weasleys? To think that Molly and Arthur couldn't have done anything worse than Charlie'' she said as if it was another inside joke someone might understand, and instead of getting a big bark of laughter as she probably would've is someone had actually understood, she received two death glares from the twins and shocked expressions from the other four. Fred and George got almost as red as their hair.

''Who do you think you are to speak that way of our family?'' said Fred. She thought of apologizing, but was far too tired and irritated than to stay and do so. Instead, Emmeline stood up and walked out of the compartment, slamming both of her shoulder between Fred and Lee. Walking down the corridor, she suddenly remembered she did not know where the compartment was, but still kept on walking, trying to reach the end of the train. It was in the last wagon that out of the blue a hand snatched her inside a compartment and someone closed the door immediately, pushing her inside. She sighed in relief to see who it had been and started to clean the invisible dirt on her clothes.

''Merlin, Charlie. I could've hexed you''

''No, you couldn't have. You're not supposed to, remember?'' he grinned widely down at her and sat down across from her.

She sighed and shook her head, looking out the window. He frowned at her and leaned back on his seat. Nymphadora Tonks, who as Emmeline remembered, used to hang out with Charlie every September in the same compartment, asked, ''Something bothering you?''

''Yeah... I met Fred and George''

''Oooh how did that go?'' said Charlie, feeling rather sympathetic of her now.

''Not very well. Made a joke about Molly and Arthur's surprising ways of making children worse than you at cracking jokes'' Her lips twitched upward when Charlie started laughing hysterically. ''I didn't really say why, of course. I'm not supposed to know any of you''

''I suppose they didn't take it well'' chuckled Tonks.

''I'll probably pay for it later, if they really are worse than Charlie. Fred took it most offensive than George. Is he that fond of you? Looked like he could take on a dementor for you''

''Yeah, we're pretty close. Well, we all are. But Freddie for some reason looks up to me''

''Poor kid. He must be mad to do so'' joked Tonks.

Charlie laughed again and smiled widely at her, ''They're my little brothers, what did you expect?''

''To be honest, not even I know'' admitted Emmeline.

... ...... ...... ...

''Gryffindor. She's in Gryffindor! She is a Gryffindor! How is that possible?'' said Fred.

''I don't know. She looked like a Slytherin to me'' said Lee.

''She did not!'' said Katie.

''She looked like a nice girl'' said Alicia.

''Sure she did'' the twins chorused sarcastically.

The Sorting had just ended a while ago and the new Gryffindors sat at their long table with their housemates. Emmeline sat a couple of witches away from where they did and ate her Pork Chops silently next to Patricia Stimpson. Charlie sat next to his brothers, with Percy sitting across from him too. ''She isn't that bad'', he said.

''She insulted you in front of us!'' exclaimed Fred, saying it loud enough for Emmeline to listen.

''You're making it a bigger deal than what it was, Fred'' commented Alicia, who blushed when she received a glare from him.

''I bet it was some silly thing-''

''She pretty much that mum and dad make babies and each gets worse than the last!''

Fred and George shared frowns as they watched Charlie shake as he controlled his laughter. They were shocked even more when they heard a sudden erupt of laughter that came from Tonks, who sat in the Hufflepuff table and then turned to Josh Nobbs, a first year, and started patting his back as though he had been the one to say something funny. The poor buy looked bewildered. Charlie tried to cover his laughter with some coughs and then cleared his throat and said, ''And you are mad at her because of that? It's not that-''

''Charlie, come on, we have to lead these dwarfs up to bed!'' called Elizabeth Carrot from behind.

''Good timing!'' he said standing up cleaning his lips with his sleeve and rushing behind her. George glanced sideways to see Emmeline smiling down at her food and shaking her head.

I had enough with the short chapters, but putting it all together just didn't seem right. Every once in a while they'll pop up :) I apologize if when writing about the first couple of years at Hogwarts seem a bit lazy and just as though I'm skipping time, but I find it hard to write about it. For some reason.. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!