Melody was overwhelmed by all the magic around her. She noticed a lot of it coming from these sticks. "What's this?" She picked up the sleek walnut brown stick sitting beside Gwen.

"Uh, my wand" Gwen quickly took it back.

"Did you not get a list of supplies?" Rhys took out his wand. "Mine's spruce with a phoenix feather core. 12 inches."

"I did get a list but I just haven't found the time to go shopping." Melody rolled her eyes at an attempt to cover for her confusion.

"But you don't even seem to know what a wand is let alone where to get one." Mickey gave her a gotcha look. Rory nudged his friend and shook his head no. It was pretty obvious to Rory that Melody had no money and no one to help her. Her shoes were being held together with tape and the only luggage she had was that old black worn out duffel bag. He was a bit more intuitive than the usual 12 year old.

"Well, classes start tomorrow so you'll have to figure something out for the first couple of days. Maybe in Hogsmeade we can find you something to get started." Rory gave her some comforting words knowing she was hiding her fears under her tough attitude.

"It's ok if you're a little lost. I was my first year." Amy leaned in excitedly. "So are you all muggle borns too?" She saw Gwen and Rhys shake their heads yes while Melody stared blankly not knowing what that word meant. Amy squealed excitedly. "Finally! I'm one of the only people in the school who is and it's so great to see more kids from non magical families coming in!"

"There's you, Craig and Sophie" Rory pointed out.

"And plenty of half bloods." Mickey just stopped short of announcing Rose was a halfblood. She was down the hall in another compartment completely ignoring him. She'd rather be with Matthew.

"Wait.." Melody felt like she needed more clarification. "So there's people who are born and raised with magic and everyone in their families does magic and everything?" She watched as Amy and Rory shook their heads yes before she continued. "So why are we here? How is it we have magic without anyone else in our family having it."

"Some say it's a mutation." Gwen explained.

"But who cares why, right? I mean isn't this exciting. I never would have believed in magic before this." Rhys jumped in.

"But out of the whole school only 6 of us are muggleborn?" Melody pointed out. "Doesn't that mean that we'll be at a disadvantage or that we'll be considered disabled or something for being magically deprived." Melody was used to being considered as underprivileged but she was hoping this new start would change all that. Sadly, she'd been mistaken.

"Well, some people might try to say bad things about muggle borns but Amy's muggle born and she was one of the top students in Charms class last year and she's amazing a quidditch. So your blood has nothing to do with how good you are." Rory complimented Amy as he explained. "I'm a pureblood and not very good at anything so..."

"You're really good at herbology" Amy nudged him noticing the way Rory always seemed to talk down to himself.

They arrived at Hogwarts and were quickly sat at their house tables while the first years were told to stand in the front while the sorting hat made it's decisions on where they should be placed.

"Uh! I'm so glad to be back!" Clara grabbed a chocolate souffle sitting at the Ravenclaw table and began to eat. "I've always thought this place was so beautiful." Her friends, Martha, Sally and Rita sat around her all in their Ravenclaw robes. "With my beautiful friends"

"Here's to an excellent year" Rita Afzal proposed a toast with a glass of pumpkin juice and they all joined in clinking their glasses and giggling.

Melody was sorted into Slytherin and walked into the common room with a confident smirk on her face and a mean glint in her eye. She'd heard the stories on the train. She knew all about Slytherin's reputation for teaching pureblood supremacy. She was determined to prove them all wrong. Melody was more then ready to destroy anyone who stood in her way.

For the Hufflepuff boys; it was an awkward first night back at Hogwarts. Matt and Mickey were trying so hard to avoid one another that they usually spoke to each other through Rory or Craig. It was all rather useless since the 4 of them shared a dormitory and weren't more than a few feet from each other.

Mickey was sore over Rose dumping him to spend more time with Matthew but Matthew hadn't done anything on purpose. Rose made her decision and Matthew hadn't twisted her arm. Matt liked Rose very much but he knew it wasn't going to work.

"What's a girl to do?" Rose propped herself up by her elbows on her bed as she spoke with her roommates in the Gryffindor dormitories.

"Well, I think all this unnecessary drama needs to end!" Donna wasn't the sort to hold back punches. "It's all stupid! That's why I dumped Lance. Love is a damn hassle. Who needs it?"

"Don't you already have your eye on some other guy?" Amy crossed her arms.

"I didn't say it was love, did I" Donna laughed.

Wednesday night after astronomy class; Matt worked up the courage to break it off with Rose. He looked up at the stars and took a deep breath. "As much as it hurts; I'm doing you a disservice to string you along. Just as much a disservice as you would have been doing for Mickey by pretending you had feelings for him that just weren't there."

Rose ran off and ran into her Astronomy professor. "Oh, sorry Professor" Rose tried to hide her urge to cry.

"Is something wrong?" Professor Tennant knelt down to better speak to the girl.

"No" Rose sniffled.

Professor Tennant smiled. "If you're not too tired you can come with me and I'll show you some of the equipment I don't let even the 5th years use."

"Really?!" Rose became suddenly excited.

"That is, if you think you can handle it." He winked.

"Please, of course I can. You wouldn't have asked if you believed I couldn't." Rose spoke with her usual confidence while forgetting her tears.

"If I believe in anything; I believe in you, Rose Tyler." Tennant smiled as they went up to his study.