The castle

When the train pulled into the station, we heard a voice over the loudspeakers saying:

"Please do not leave any rubbish on the train, please take any purchased sweets with you and please leave all luggage on the train, it shall be taken up to the castle seperately. Thank you."

So we put all our rubbish in the bin and quickly got off the train. We were trading our chocolate frog cards when we heard a voice saying

"Firs' years, firs' years over 'ere please!"
We instantly knew that it was the half-giant Games-Keeper Hagrid, who had told Harry Potter 14 years ago, that he was a wizard. We rushed up to meet him. The first years all followed him to the lake where the little fleet of boats were waiting for us. We clambered in; Tash, Laurie and I all shared a boat with another girl called Sam, who was looking so excited that she might burst. We saw that Luella, Zofka and Petunia were all in a boat together.

"Hi, I'm Sam. I'm really excited to come here. I'm a muggle-born. Who're you guys?" She was talking very quickly, she was so excited.

"I'm Laurie, pleased to meet you. I'm a pureblood, but don't hold it against me, I hate the prejudice surrounding blood-purity."

"I'm Annie, I'm a muggle-born too. Nice to meet you, I hope we'll all have fun together this year."

"And I'm Tash. I'm a half-blood. We're gonna have lots of fun us four, but a word to the wise: Don't ever feed me sugary stuff, or I may go crazy..."

"Like you did on the train?"

"Yeah, she was sooo hyper after two chocolate frogs, that we had to tie her to the seat, using a charm that Annie knew."

Sam laughed at this, she laughed so hard, that the boat started to rock when we were half way over the lake, then Tash joined in too! The boat was tossing and turning and Laurie wasn't helping. In trying to keep her balance, she flailed her arms everywhere, she caught me on the back of my head and I toppled into the water!!! It was absolutely freezing! Hagrid stopped the fleet to help me get back in. I saw most of the other first years looking sympathetic, but one group of girls were laughing. Yes, need I say more? Luella and the Luella-ettes, found it hilarious that I had fallen in!
"Did you see her face? She looked so stupid!!!"
"I'm glad that I'm not the sap who fell in!"
"Vell done to zat girl wat pooshed her een. I just sorry zat it vas not me!"
They were absolutely paralysed with laughter.

We soon got to the castle and went into the entrance hall. I was still sopping wet. Hagrid gave me a towel to dry myself off. He then left us to go get the teacher who was to bring us into the Great Hall.
Whilst we were waiting, I slipped out my bag of Fever fudge from Weaseleys' Wizard Wheezes, and dropped one on the floor by Zofka, she picked it up immediately and ate it greedily. It had an almost instantaneous effect. She had great big boils all over her face! Luella supected that it was me who dropped the sweet.

"Give her the antidote sweet right now!"
"I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about. But I do wonder who gave Zofka that sweet."
"Oh don't play coi with her, Bolt! I saw it was you!"
"Well you should keep your long nose out of this, Pig!

Luella rounded on me, she then forced her hand into my pocket and pulled out my skiving snackbox. She got the antidote and dropped the whole box on the floor. Tash and Laurie helped me to pick it all up. No sooner than we had put the skiving snackbox into my pocket, the Proffessor turned up. It was the old Herbology teacher, Proffessor Sprout.

"Welcome to Hogwarts first years. In a few minutes, we will be going into the Great Hall for the sorting ceremony. You will each be sorted into a house. The houses are: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Is that all clear? Yes? Well, let's go then."

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!

Legal stuff.

I do not own Harry Potter, Hogwarts, Quidditch or any other thing in the Potter-verse. This is merely a fansite of what I think life at hogwarts would be for me. Any pictures that I put on this site that do not belong to me will be acknowledged. Any music/videos will be treated likewise.