Luella Rencor, Petunia Pyge and Zofka Svagahar

"What's this? A little party, why weren't we invited?"
A very tall girl and two other girls walked into our carriage. The tall one had a cuel sneer and a mocking tone.
"Who are you then?" She said as she turned to face me,

"I've never met you before, for that matter, I've not met any of you. So tell me, Who are you?"
I didn't like the look of her, she towered over me. She didn't seem like a very nice girl.
"Answer me, or you may have to answer to Zofka here." She pointed at a very short, rotund looking girl who was twitching in anticipation of what looked like the starts of a punch-up.

" Well, I am Annie, and this is Laurie," I gestured to Laurie, "and this is Tash."

"I'm Luella Rencor, this is Petunia Pyge and this is Zofka Svagahar."
None of them looked like a particularly nice lot. Petunia Pyge had the look of someone that could not be trusted, she had shifty eyes and a smile that looked as though she knew something dangerous about you.

"Luella, you said ve vere going to haf a punch-up, yes?" Zofka said to Luella, she appeared to be from Russia or Bulgaria or somewhere that had funny accents. At the sound of Zofka's accent, Laurie snorted and had to stop quite suddenly as Zofka cracked her knuckles menacingly.

"Do you think her name's funny do you? Well let me guess, with your looks and that hair, I'm guessing that you are a Royal? Nothing royal about you though." Petunia then started to laugh a high, shrill laugh.

"Shut up about my family!" She drew her wand out and pointed it directly at her nose. It was so close that her wand could have gone up one of petunia's nostrils, which appeared to be very big.

"Petunia, stop making a fool of yourself! No need to with this type." As she said this, she reached for a chocolate frog.

"Avis!" Tash conjured up a small bird, which proceded to peck at Luella's hand.

"You three have made some powerful enemies. You will regret this." With that, Luella, Petunia and Zofka left.

"What was Pyge talking about when she said there was 'nothing royal about you'?"

"You see, my father used to work at the ministry of magic, but he didn't get payed much. He worked in the section of Rights for Lesser Creatures department. But he became too outspoken about his beliefs that House-Elves should NOT be made to work, even though Hermione Granger has brought this out of the shadows, he got fired. He now works at the Magical Menagerie."

"It doesn't matter, you're still our friend. I think we've learned one thing from this encounter with Loo-seat Luella, she's not going to like canaries anymore!"

After saying that, we all rolled round laughing for ages. We hadn't even noticed that it was getting dark. I then remembered that I had a bag of Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes canary creams. So I ate one and immediately turned into a canary! The others were screaming with laughter, it was possibly the best day of my life. We were having so much fun that we hadn't even realised that we had pulled into the station.

The Sweet Trolley

As we were talking, a nice looking old lady came up to our compartment and asked if we would like anything. Having never tried any wizard sweets, Tash and I immediately went to go get anything that took our fancy. I was determined to make good friends with Laurie, so I decided to get sweets for all of us to share.

I bought 3 boxes of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans ,

5 Chocolate frogs each

and a bag of Drooble's Best Blowing gum each.

We spent the rest of the time eating our sweets and discussing what we were most interested in about Magic.

The Conversation soon turned to Houses.

"What house do you guys hope to be put in when we get there? I would like to be in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff doesn't sound all bad though, Ravenclaw would be great I suppose. Just as long it's anything BUT Slytherin!!!" I said.

"I hope to be put into Hufflepuff, they sound like a right nice lot. But Ravenclaw would be nice I suppose." Tash said, with a wistful look in her eyes.

"Well, both of you are right about one house, Ravenclaw will be the house I want to be put in! Have you never heard the sorting hat's song?"

"Well, I've read the Potter Books, but I can only remember Gryffindor..."

"I know it Laurie, Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind."

"Precisely! Now I really want to be there. Just as long as we promise each other this: No matter what house we're in, we're gonna have fun and maybe cause a bit of mischief!"

And to punctuate her little speech, she set off a Filibuster Firework. We all raised a chocolate frog card and said together: "To Mischief!"

The Hogwarts express

You can find the Hogwarts Express Here.

As soon as the Train had pulled out of the station, and I could no longer see my parents, I sat down and started "Quidditch through the ages" and "Flying with the cannons" which were some extra books I had picked up at Flourish and Blotts. I had already changed into my Hogwarts uniform and was completely oblivious to what was happening around me. I completely shut my self out. After about 10 minutes or so, someone asked me if she and her friend could come and share the compartment with me. They sat down opposite me, and started to talk, I hadn't looked up until I heard the other girl talking. Her voice was strangely familiar... as though I already knew her. I looked up at the precise moment that she had looked at me, and it turned out to be one of my best friends Tash!

"Tash! What are you doing here??? You told me you were leaving the school to go to a new boarding school in the north!" I said.

"Well this is the new school I'm going to!"

" Wow! Whod'a thunk it!!! I thought you were all muggle!"

"Oh no! I started to show signs of magic when I was about 7, my parents kept it quiet. Turns out that my mum is a pure-blood witch! Anyway, why are you here? I thought you were a muggle."

"Well, I'm a muggle-born. I showed some signs of magic the week before the letters were sent out. This is quite amazing isn't it!"

"Yeah it is! Oh, I almost forgot, Laurie, you're here with us! How stupid of me! Laurie, this is Annie, one of my best friends from school, Annie, this Laurie, I met her in Diagon Alley a month ago in Madam Malkins, and we kept in contact."

"It's nice to meet you Annie. I'm a pure-blood, but don't hold it against me, I don't care about blood purity. I hope we'll be good friends this year."

Soon after, we all started chatting, showing each other our new stuff we had bought in

Diagon Alley. It turned out that Laurie had bought a box of Filibuster fireworks and set them off in our compartment! It was great fun.

Soon the Sweet trolley came.

Diagon Alley

As soon as we arrived, I dashed off to look at Quality Quidditch Supplies, I marvelled at how many different brooms and robes there were. I decided that when I could, I would get myself a nice Nimbus 2000, it was beautiful. You can find this Nimbus 2000 here.

I was very sad when I realised that I wouldn't be allowed on the House team or a broom... oh well, it gave me something to look forward to.

Once we had gotten my muggle money converted and got a vault in Gringotts, we first went to Ollivanders wand shop to get my wand. It didn't take too long to get my wand.

My wand is: Oak, 13 3/4 inches, Dragon Heartstring, whippy and nice for Charms work.

After that, we went to Flourish and Blotts to buy my school books. I also admit to having bought some other books which were of great interest.

After buying all of my school things, as a present for getting into Hogwarts, my mum and dad bought me an owl from Eyelops Owl emporium. They bought me a beautiful Tawny Owl, whom I named Albus, out of respect of the late Albus Dumbledore.

Picture taken from Wikipedia.

We bought my school supplies a few days before my departure and put most of my stuff straight into the trunk. I read a bit about Magical Passtimes and discovered how to make pictures move. So I created a potion to make the picture animated and took a photo of my parents and framed it for them. I practised a few spells from my books and practised writing with my new quills.

Soon enough, the time came for me to depart for Hogwarts. My mum and dad took me to kings cross and saw me onto the train after our goodbyes.

Pure-Blood, Half-blood or Muggle-Born?

I am a Muggleborn. I was very surprised when I got my letter and didn't think it was true and thought that my parents or friends were playing a hoax on me.

You can find these letters here.




I thought it was really amazing when I entered the Wizarding-World for the first time. Although I had read all of the potter books (that had come out) it was more spectacular than anything I could ever have imagined!
I loved every minute of it.

Introduction

Hello, My name is Annie and I attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I started attending Hogwarts in the autumn of 2005. I am going into my 3rd year in Hogwarts.
I really enjoy it at Hogwarts, it's just like a home away from home.
I have really good friends at school and we do all sorts of things, we don't often get into trouble but when we're not causing trouble, I appear to be a goody-goody and a know-it-all, kind of like anothe girl who went to Hogwarts about 7 years before I started. It is very fun!