Mayia~As I walk towords the barrior between the muggle and the wizerding worlds, I realize for the third time, what my parents meant. On the first year, before I was sorted, they had brought me here, waved goodbye, gave me advice and love. When I had been chosen as a silly Hufflepuff, the house that meant least to me. 

I grit my teeth and push my trolly through the barrior.  When I come through, the noise of a hundred plus students, parents, owls and cats greet my ears.  I want to curl into a courner and put my hands over my ears, but I push on and get load my things into a train compartment. There is nobody in it and I stare out the window as all the children slowly trickle into the train. Once or twice, people try to sit down in my compartment, but I have prefected my deash stare andn they don't stay long. 

All of a sudden the train whistle blows, loud and shrill. The doors close and all train starts to pull away from platform 9 3/4. I see all the parents wavig at their children and their youger siblings racing the train and for one second, I wilsh I belonged to a family that really loved me. But then i dismiss the thought as weakness. If an enamy was here, it would be easy for them to exploit it and overcome me.  I must be strong like all the past Grimms before me. 

When I am sure that nobody is going to come in and try to join me, I reach down into the basket beneath my seat. From the outside, it looks like something that would hold a kitten or maybe a small cat But then I open the door and a low dry hiss comes from inside. I put a bit of rabbit meat in my palm and hold it out. Slowly a large snake, jet black exept for a white diamond on it's head slithered out. It took it's time, then all of a sudden, it's head struck foreward and in a flash the meat was gone. I lifted him up and let him slither up one arm and down another. Then he currled up in my lap in a spot of sunlight. I stroked his diamond hard scales. 

All of a sudden, the compartment door slides open.

Legolas says Exam!  I really need to study. I forgot!

I know I'm a little late, but I want to join.

Name: Rosie Evans

Age: 12

Gender:  Girl

House: Ravenclaw

Role: Student

Personality: Intelligent, and talkative.  Even though she's in Ravenclaw, she has a kind of Hufflepuff personality in her.

Appearance: Tries to look orderly.  Black hair with hazel eyes.  Hair is short, and it goes up to her shoulders.  She likes to put it in a pretty braid down her back, though her hair is short.

For or Against Lord Voldemort: Against 

Molly~

I drag my trunk down the isle looking for Molly. Even though she was a year or two younger we were best friends. She was the only person I knew who didn't care that I was a Slytherin. The griffindors, on the other hand, booed and shouted as I walked past. It sucked that just because of my hous, everyone assumed that I supported lord Voldemort.  Molly wasn't here yet apparently so I sit down in an empty compartment to wait. Mousse climbed out of his basket and flopped on my lap purring. At least he didn't care whether or not I wore green...

Rosie:

I shuffle around the train station, looking for platform 9 3/4.  

"Almost there, honey," my mother says, frantically looking for the platform herself.

"We turn this way, I remember.  I always went this way when I was a kid," my father says. 

My father is correct.  The way leads straight to the platform.  It looks like a brick wall.

I ask,"I'm supposed to go through that?"

My father replies,"Trust me!  I did it when I went to Hogwarts."

"You should go now, I think.  There's no one around.  Make it quick!  We can't let people see us." my mother asks.

My parents hold onto my cart, holding my owl and luggage.  We run into the platform, and we go through to the train.

"Goodbye, Rosie," my parents say.

My parents houses are showing out from them.  My fathers Gryffindor personality, and my mothers Hufflepuff personality is showing.  I guess I'm a little of all four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw.  My brother is a Slytherin, and he's already at Hogwarts because he's a prefect.  

"Goodbye," I say.  

I grab my stuff, and run up the train.  I'm excited, but nervous at the same time.  I'm scared about finding a seat.  Almost all of the seats are taken.  I finally plop down in a seat.  It's filled with children I don't know.  Maybe they will eventually be my new friends.  

Ooh, I want to join! I'm sorry I'm so late!

Name: Sophie "Poppy" Gayle

Age: 13

Gender: F

House: Ravenclaw

Role: Student

Personality: Quiet, but is more talkitive when around friends or her older brother. She's observant and doesn't like conflict, but she's also bold and very curious.

Appearance: Thick, curly blonde hair that goes down to a little bit past her shoulders with blonde streaks. She has big hazel eyes, fair skin, and freckles everywhere.

For or Against Lord Voldemort: Strongly against.

Other: Abigayle and her brother are both adopted into a family that was into magic. Her brother is fifteen, so he has been at Hogwarts longer than she has.

Name: William "Willie" Gayle

Age: 15

Gender: M

House: Ravenclaw

Role: Student

Personality: Brave, funny, sarcastic, and can easily make friends with anyone. He's also athletic, as he is the Ravenclaw Quidditch team captain. 

Appearance: Short blonde hair with some of it brushed to the side, darker hazel eyes, pale skin, and a little bit of freckles on his face. He's tall, lanky, and has an athletic build.

For or Against Lord Voldemort: Strongly against.

Other: Same as Abigayle, for the most part.

Someone can be William Gayle is they want to. Otherwise, for the time being, I'll play him. 

Abigayle~

Willie and I step into the compartment, where a shorter girl with brown hair and freckles looks up at us and smiles. 

"Good day."

Willie sits down and I slightly glare at his rude behaviour. 

I look at the girl and shyly smile back. "Hullo."

"What's your name? What house are you in? Are you a mud blood?" she asks, her sudden questions filling the compartment.

The train jerks and I sit beside Willie while he answers all of the questions.

"I'm William, and my sister here is Abigayle. We're pure bloods, and we're both in Ravenclaw."

She smiles again. "Cool. Anyway, I'm Molly. I'm a Slytherin. William, weren't you in Quidditch last year?"

Willie nods when I notice her cat beside the bags.

"What's it's name?" I ask.

Molly smiles. "Mousse. Do you have a pet?"

I nod. "I have rabbit named Juniper, or Juni, and Willie has an owl named Sir Rambuscus." 

At the mention of his name, Sir Rambuscus flutters his snowy white wings and cranes his head towards us.

We giggle when the train jerks again and starts its ride to Hogwarts. 

Sorry, guys I kind of forgot about this!

Olivia-

As I sit down and open my book, I watch through the compartment window out of the corner of my eye. A couple of times, some people peek through the window at me before changing there minds and deciding to sit somewhere else. Actually, I feel like people are evoiding me. Filthy little mudbloods. But still, they'll be sorry one day when I become a death eater like my parents. I'll show them...

I watch as the country side rushes past my window. I cant wait to get to Hogwarts!

Abigayle-

I walk back from the bathroom on the train when I walk past an empty compartment. But it's not empty. A girl sits inside, menacingly looking back at me.

So mean looking, but also lonely. And what fixes that? Friendship, kindness, and PUMPKIN PASTIES!

I open her compartment and hold out my hand, offering one.

Her glare turns worse, so I leave the Pasty on her seat and walk away, the door closing behind me.  

Abigayle~

I walk through the compartments, about to reach mine, when I feel a hand on my shoulder. 

I turn around and see the girl from the other compartment, with the pumpkin pasty in her hand. 

"Look, I'm sorry I was so rude," she says. "Would you mind coming to sit with me, and I can start over?"

"Well, I- er...." I say. Willie won't mind too much, right? "Sure."

I walk with her back to her compartment. It's pretty roomy, which is nice. 

"Anyway, I'm Olivia," she says.

Suddenly it all makes sense. Olivia Wright. She's the muggle-born hater from last year. She called Zetty Jones a mud blood, and we think that she somehow quit Hogwarts. Either that, or we'll see her again this year.

"Oh," I croak out. "I'm Abigayle."

"Oh, I know you!" she says.

Ditto.

"You always competed with your brother for Ravenclaw Quidditch team captain, right?"

I nod. "Right. But he got it again. I'm chaser now."

"Cool!" she says.

As we talk, I can see she has an easier side to her, and that she's actually pretty friendly.

"Are you half blood, pure blood...?"

Her sudden question startles me.

"Oh, um, pure blood."

She nods, still keeping a snake's gaze.

Finally we make another pass on the train, and I can see that we'll be at Hogwarts soon.