Authors Note: Ok new chapter up, I love my reviews so please do review. I disown HP, I own the Nickel family, and the plotline. I also consider Teddy as part of the Potter/Weasley clan.

The wizard had a kind rounded face, and was wearing some fancy robes. Hagrid then left the hall and the wizard waited for all the first years to pile into the hall.

"Hello there, I am Professor Longbottom; I teach herbology and am the Head of Gryffindor House. Shortly we will enter the Great hall and you will be sorted into your houses; Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin, after the Sorting Ceremony the feast will be served and the Prefects from your house will take you from there. Alright the boring long speech done, let's go" said Professor Longbottom before leading them into the Great Hall.

Carter thought it was the most amazing thing she had ever seen, the candles and the ceiling that was bright and sunny, the amount of students there in the hall. Suddenly they came to a halt facing the staff table, with Hagrid smiling and waving, and a stool with a manky old hat on top of it. Unexpectedly for the first years the hat started to sing:

Welcome to Hogwarts,
I am the Sorting Hat, who will sort you into your house either;
Gryffindor, where the courageous and
loyal dwell
Or maybe you belong in Hufflepuff,
where you may find more than you expect
Maybe you belong in Ravenclaw,
where the intelligent and logical belong
Or you may possibly belong in Slytherin;
where the cunning and ambitious lie.
Some of you have faced more than others but you need to pull together to succeed.
So come on and see where you belong

Then the song was finished, and Professor Longbottom rolled a long piece of parchment consisting of all the people's names. Slowly the list went on making Saraphina Ewbank the first Slytherin, the list went on until Professor Longbottom called "Scorpius Malfoy" he went up to the hat and a few seconds later was placed in Gryffindor to the surprise of many.

The next name that was called out was Carter Nickel, she approached the hat and jammed it on her head, and then it started to speak only to her.

"Hmm…Interesting, a challenge, where to put you, you posses attributes from all houses, but you have too much courage to ignore considering recent events in your life, I will place you in Gryffindor. GRYFFINDOR" it shouted and Carter ran to join Scorpius.

Many names passed until "Albus Potter" and he was sorted into Gryffindor and sat next to Carter. Finally Rose joined Gryffindor.

After all the first years had been sorted the food magically appeared, and everything you could imagine was laid out; steak, pork chops, roasts of different varieties, mashed potatoes, lasagne, salads, etc. Not wanting to miss out Carter grabbed what she liked while Rose stuffed her mouth full of chicken leg. Soon the ghosts put on their show, and dessert appeared, Carter took some chocolate mud cake, lemon cheesecake, a lemon sherbet and chocolate mousse.

After all the plates had been cleared away the Headmaster gave a speech, and then the First Years were lead up to the dormitories. Carter and Rose shared a dorm with some other girls in their year, there were four beds in the room, surrounded by a heater, Carter had the bed next to the window and Rose's bed. There were two doors in the room, one leading to the common room and one to the ensuite bathroom.

Carter was going to ask about Rose's opinions on Hogwarts but she had fallen asleep. Carter then decided to sit by the window and look through her photo album. She saw photos of: her grandparents (muggle and wizarding), her parents at Hogwarts, her parents through their childhoods, her parents wedding, and her sisters. When Carter got to a photo of her whole family unharmed she couldn't stop looking, it was a photo of her parents, muggle grandparents, her grandmother, Kayla, Ariel and herself the day prior to the attack. She spent hours looking at it and she fell asleep by the window, photo album in hand.

When she woke up, she continued looking through the photos of her parents, and her, up until a week prior to the attack, it was just her, her mother and her father who were left at that point, and none of them had known what was coming. Carter also couldn't help but stare, but she continued looking through, it had only one other photo, which was her birthday party. Carter then heard Rose starting to stir, she thought about returning to bed, but she wasn't tired, and decided to go into the common room, and she left her photo album in her trunk, not to be disturbed.

Everything was going well until Carter reached the bottom of the stairs to meet Scorpius and Al, but then the pain washed over her worse than any of the relapses before, and the memories flashed before her eyes, her family's screams, and the blood. She fainted, and cracked her head on the stairs. Al and Scorpius had no idea of what to do, then Rose appeared, and was about to scold them for the noise until she saw Carter on the floor unconscious bleeding. Quickly she dashed up the stairs to go and get any cousin that was awake currently, unfortunately it was James.

"James can you please come downstairs to the Common Room now, and you can bring Fred if you really need to." Said Rose before running out the room to get another cousin

"What, no hi now Rosie-Posy" He yelled to her.

"Don't call me that" she replied

James arrived with a sleepy Fred, downstairs and saw Carter "I didn't prank this one, I know we didn't. Al isn't that the girl who asked us for directions to the platform, and said that her guardian was snogging his girlfriend senseless." He said quickly

"Yes James she is the girl who asked for directions and said that her guardian was snogging his girlfriend senseless, and it is kind of obvious that you didn't prank her because she was fine then she just fainted." Albus replied "WHAT DO WE DO?" he shouted at his older brother.

"Take her to Madame Pomfrey, duh." Replied James in a mock serious tone

"How?" asked Scorpius

"Oh I have no idea" He replied

Suddenly the rest of the Weasley clan (minus Teddy, Lily and Hugo for obvious reasons) arrived and circled the unconscious girl on the floor. The ones who knew who she was stayed quiet, and the others, then Victorie decided to talk.

"Who is she, and why is she on the floor, Fred, James what did you do?" she said getting angry.

"Vic, she was like that when I got here, we didn't do anything." Said James and Fred in unison

"She is my friend, her name is Carter Nickel, and I came down to the noise and found her in this state." Said Rose

"Albus and I were down here, Carter came down the stairs, and she fainted, and we can't get her to the hospital wing." Said Scorpius receiving questioning looks "I'm Scorpius Malfoy"

"Alright then, give me a minute." Said Lucy conjuring up a stretcher and levitating Carter onto it, while Molly ran to get Madame Pomfrey, she appeared and took Carter to the hospital wing.

Authors Note: So do we like it? R&R please. I am sorry but the reference to AVPM had to be there.