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 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.