September 1st, 1991

Y/Ns POV

Surprisingly, I enjoyed the last month before the term began. For the rest of the summer, I read up on all of my books for Hogwarts and played with my new kitten Gracie. A subject I'm really excited for is Transfiguration which is the magical study of turning one thing into another. I really can't wait to get to school and start learning magic!

The month of August as well as my 12th birthday went by without delay and eventually the calendar turned to September. I woke up early on the morning of September 1st since the train was departing to leave at 11am. I've always been an early riser so it really wasn't much of a problem for me. Throughout the morning, I thought about how new this is all going to be for me.

I've never really had the opportunity to leave the sanctity of my home and go explore a new place. I'll be meeting lots of new people and learning new things. It's both scary and exciting at the same time.

I really hope I can make some new friends as well like I did with Hermione. Speaking of Hermione, I've been thinking about her a lot for the last month. Theres something about her that I really can't figure out. She was the first friend I ever made and the thought of seeing her again made me very happy.

Me and Uncle Thomas arrived at Kings Cross Station by apparating there. Which is pretty much like teleporting from one place to another. It was really brilliant!

Another thing I learned over the summer is that my Uncle works as an Auror for the British Ministry of Magic. Aurors are law enforcement individuals who apprehend dark wizards and witches and investigate crimes pertaining to the dark arts. Probably explains why he leaves for long periods of time quite frequently.

As we arrived at Kong's Cross Station, I began to look for a Platform 9 3/4, come to think of it, why the hell would there be a Platform 9 3/4 there's no sign of it anywhere. I looked at my Uncle very confused "Well we can't have any muggles finding Hogwarts now can we" he chuckled as we went to face a wall.

"Now all you have to do is run at the wall between platforms 9 and 10, and whatever you do don't try and stop"

"Have you gone mad, I'm not running into a bloody wall!" I exclaimed

But before we could continue the conversation, I noticed a large family of gingers bustling through the
Very active train station. At the head of the group was a very plump woman with flame like hair, much like the rest of the family. Most of which my Uncle seemed to recognize.

"Molly?, Molly Weasley?" He exclaimed

"Thomas L/N! It's been so long! It's wonderful to see you again!" Molly says as she goes in for a hug

"How are you and the family doing" Uncle Thomas says as he separates from the hug

"Me and the family are doing just fine, it's those two that can be a bit too much trouble" as she points to a set of identical twins

"Speaking of family, I don't think you've seen Y/N here in quite a long time have you?" As he brought me up forward with him.

"You are quite right I haven't, my word Y/N I haven't seen you since you were a baby! I'm Molly Weasley dear"

"It's a pleasure to meet you ma'am" I reply with a smile

"Oh and so kind just like his mother, may she and Steven rest In peace"

I feel like this isn't going to be the first time I get these comparisons

"These are my children!" as she brought her kids over so I can meet them "this is Percy one of our oldest, our set of twins Fred and George, our youngest son Ronald, and our youngest and only daughter Ginny"

"Ronald will be starting his first year at Hogwarts just like yourself!" She exclaimed

Ronald came up to me and held his hand out to shake "You can just call me Ron, it's much better than Ronald"

"Simple enough, I'm Y/N L/N, it's a pleasure to met you" I say as I shake his hand

After getting to know the other members of the Weasleys it was time to go into the platform. I went first because just as Percy was about to go, a raven haired boy came up to ask Molly a question.

I was still very confused as to why I was running into a wall, so I put Gracie on top of my trolley and slowly but surely went into a jog towards the platform. As I got closer and closer I closed my eyes and braced for impact.

That impact never came and instead, I was graced with the presence of a Scarlett red steam engine. This must be the game at Hogwarts Express.

"Wow" I exclaimed in awe

"Wow is right" I heard my Uncles voice behind me " I haven't seen the damn thing since I was in school"

The rest of the Weasleys including the raven haired boy I saw earlier came out a little while later as Molly left with Ginny.

Before I got on the steam train, Uncle Thomas kneeled down to my level.

"I know I don't say this a whole lot, but I am real proud of you Y/N and I'm sure your parents would be proud of you as well. This is going to be a new experience for you that will be both scary and exciting at the same time, and it may put things into perspective"

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

"I understand Uncle, I'm excited" I replied

"Just do me a favor, try to stay out of trouble" he said with a stern voice.

"I can't make any promises on my behalf, but I can try my best" I said to him

"And that's all i ask" he chuckled

"Well you should probably get going, do write when you can"

"I will Uncle Thomas, I'll see you soon"

And after a quick goodbye, I stepped onto the train and proceeded to find a compartment.

This is where the fun begins.

As I walked around the array of compartments, I realized that all of them were full. After a lot of looking, I managed to find one that wasn't full. Ron from earlier, and that raven haired boy that I saw with them.

"Mind if I come in?, Everywhere else is full"

"No of course not!" they both said

I introduced myself to the raven haired boy and found out his name was Harry Potter, I remembered reading about him in one of the books I read, Harry was the boy who lived.

"Wicked scar mate" I said as he began to tell the story about the lightning bolt scar on his forehead. As this happened an old woman with a trolley full of sweets opened the compartment doors with a trolley filled with sweets and candies.

"Anything off the trolley, dears?" The old woman asked.

Ron in response pulled out a bag of mashed sandwiches out from his pocket "No thanks, I'm all set" I felt sorry for Ron as he was going to miss out on all the chocolates and sweets and Harry must have had the same thoughts.

We both pulled out our pouches and said "We'll take the lot" Harry paid for half and I paid for the other half. I could tell we were going to be great friends.

We ended up with four of each sweet and were eating like kings in our compartment. I picked up a box of candy and read the name aloud.

"Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans?"

"They mean every flavour!" Ron exclaimed. "There's chocolate and peppermint, and there's also spinach, liver and tripe. George swore he got a bogey flavoured one once!" Hearing those last 3 words I cringed my face in disgust, but I decided to try it anyway.

I put one in my mouth and immediately gagged

"You all right mate" Ron asked me

"Vomit" I said while coughing

We laughed at my reaction for a bit until Harry picked up a blue and gold package that said chocolate frog.

"They aren't real frogs are they?" He asked and Ron responded, "Its just a spell. Besides it's the cards you want, I got about 500 myself." Harry opened the package, and to both of our surprise, the frog came to life, hopped out of the box, and then jumped out the window.

"Rotten luck." Ron said. They've only got one good jump anyway"

Harry then pulled out the card and said "I've got Dumbeldore!"

"I got about 6 of him" Ron said while eating

"Hey he's gone!" Harry exclaimed "Well you can't expect him to stay around to long right" Ron replied

A squeak was heard to reveal a rat "This is Scabbers, by the way." Ron said as he held up the rat. It must be his pet. "Pathetic, isn't he?"

"A little" Harry says

"I'll say" I said bluntly

"George gave me a spell to turn 'im yellow. You guys want to see?"

I was very ecstatic to see a spell up close as was Harry. Ron whipped out his wand which looked really beat up in places and had a unicorn hair sticking out of the top.

As Ron begins to say the spell, the doors opened to reveal a very familiar girl.

Well speak of the devil

It was Hermione, the girl I met in Diagon Alley

"Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Nevilles lost one" she asked

We all replied with a no and she turned to face me with a smile.

"Oh hello Y/N!" "It's great to see you again" she said with a smile and what looked like a faint blush on her face.

"It's nice to see you too Hermione" I replied with my face blushing as well.

We just looked at each other smiling and not blinking for awhile before we both realized what we were doing.

"Oh I'm sorry" I said flustered

"It's alright I'm sorry too" she responded

"Oh, are you doing magic? She said as she spotted the wand in Ron's hand "Let's see then." She said with a very bossy tone that didn't even matter to me. In fact I thought it was kind of cute.

Ok seriously, what the hell am I thinking

She sat down right next to me which made me smile ver unwillingly, and her face to go deep red once again.

Ron cleared his throat and said "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow. Turn this stupid fat rat yellow!"

Scabbers was zapped, but that was all that happened. I was very disappointed.

"You sure that's a real spell Ron?" I asked

"Well it's not very good, is it?" Hermione replied with a smirk as I laughed to which she let out a really cute giggle.

"I've tried a few simple spells for practice and it's all worked out for me". "For example" she aimed her wand at the bridge of Harry's slightly shattered glasses.

"Oculus Reparo"

A piece of tape then flew off of his glasses and they were good as new.

"Holy cricket your Harry Potter!" She exclaimed. "I know all about you of course"- you're in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts as well as Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century!"

Wow, I've read all of those books, this girl is something else.

"I'm Hermione Granger, and you are?" She turned towards Ron

"I'm...." he said with a full mouth "Ron Weasley"

"Pleasure" Hermione said with a clear look of disgust in her face. She then turned to face towards me.

"Yes I remember you Y/N!" She said with a smile and a slight blush.

"Hello again Hermione!" I replied "How have you been since the last time I saw you?"

"I've been really well, I was hoping we could continue our conversation from when we met in Diagon Alley, that is if you want to?" she asked shyly

"Of course!" I enthusiastically replied

She beamed at my response as I could see out of the corner of my eye Ron glaring at me.

We continued to talk about our interests in books and our lessons for the coming year at Hogwarts.

"I do hope they start straight away," "I'm particularly interested in Transfiguration, you know, turning something into something else, of course it's supposed to be very difficult."

"Have you started reading Standard Charms Grade I?"

"I'm very interested in the books written by Bathilda Bagshot, shes one of my favorites!"

"Don't even get me started on that Gilderoy Lockhart bloke, in my eyes he's a complete fraud!"

A/N: The amount of hate for that man we're going to have is insane

We continued to converse for about 30 minutes until she leapt out of her seat.

"You three should get your robes on, we'll be there shortly, "goodbye Y/N, it was wonderful to see you again." She smiled and walked off

"It was nice seeing you too again Hermione!" As I was smiling like an idiot

"She seems bloody annoying" Ron said with disgust

"Quite the contrary, I think she's quite brilliant" I replied

"I think you might be in love Y/N" Harry said

"What?, no it's not like that! I mean she is really pretty, but I don't like her!" I said as heavy red appeared on my face.

"Oh she's pretty now?" Ron replied with a smirk on his face. "Care to continue?"

"I mean I like her, but not in that way, uh, erm, you know what, we should probably get into our robes we'll be there soon!" I said very quickly as I dashed out to put my robes on.

When I came back the smug looks on Harry and Rona faces remained

"Shove off guys" I said while laughing. Very relieved that this conversation was over for the time being.

The train finally came to a stop and alongside Harry and Ron, as well as everyone else all I unloaded myself off the steam engine.

Not even a minute later we came across a very giant man with a booming voice

"First years over 'ere"

He guided us towards a peer with lots of row boats and we began rowing towards the Hogwarts castle. I sat in a boat with Harry, Ron, and another first year boy Seamus Finnegan who cracked a few jokes along the way.

Harry explained in the boat that the giant man was named Hagrid, the groundskeeper at Hogwarts

A/N: I f*cking love Hagrid, goat character

The Hogwarts castle came clearly into view and quite honestly, it was the most amazing sight I've ever seen.

"Oohs" and "Ahhs" and a couple of "Wows" were heard from across the lake as we all took in the view of this amazing castle.

The boats stopped and all the first years scrambling out and onto the rocks and pebbles leading to the castle.

"Oi, you there! Is this your toad?l said Hagrid who was checking the boats for any lost possessions inside them.

"Trevor!!" The boy known as Neville cried out as he held his hands out to take the toad from Hagrid.

That's Neville? Poor kid.

After that strange event, we all walked through the caves and found ourselves on smooth grass and facing a very large door.

Hagrid knocked on the door three times. Eventually the doors swung open to reveal an older witch wearing emerald green robes and a point hat. She had a 'dont f*ck with me' kind of face and had an air of authority about it.

I knew exactly who this woman was from reading Hogwarts a History. This was Professor Mcgonagall, the Transfiguration professor as well as Deputy Headmistress at Hogwarts.

"The firs' years, Professer Mcgonagall" Hagrid joyfully introduced

"Thank you Hagrid, I shall take them from here."

A/N: Next chapter, the Sorting as well as meeting a certain self centered Daddy's boy.