[1] Back to Hogwarts

Chapter 1

I am known as the unofficial Weasley triplet, or the girl with wavy black hair that hangs just below my shoulders, or as the girl with a tan slim body and long legs, or even for my pale blue eyes, but above all, I am known as Madeline Taylor, the Gryffindor in Slytherin, don’t get me wrong, I love being in Slytherin, but growing up with the Weasley’s I had rather hoped that I would be in Gryffindor like them. Although I am the same age as Ron, I never found it quite as fun to hang out with him as I did the twins. “Oi, Madi!” I get snapped out of my daydream and back to the compartment we are sitting in, on the one and only Hogwarts Express, “So, what do you think of Lee’s idea?” Fred questions, “Oh yeah, I definitely agree, great prank!” I answer despite not listening to the last 10 minutes of conversation, “So, you think it would be a good idea to shove dung bombs into McGonagall’s mouth while she’s sleeping again?” George mockingly asks, trying to hold back his laughter, I bite the insides of my cheeks trying not to laugh, thinking of the last time we tried to do it, earning ourselves a month’s worth of detention and a Howler each from Mrs. Weasley, Fred had gotten his one first, and tried to smother it in the milk in his cereal, to stop it from screaming at him, but it instead exploded the bowl, covering us all in milk and coco pops. The howler had then flown up towards the ceiling, proceeding to yell at us at least, 10 times louder than your usual howler for a good 5 minutes, let’s just say when me and George got ours, we opened them pretty quickly. “You better get into your Robes then Mads” Lee mentions I grab my duffel bag making sure to hit George on the head and walk out of the compartment. ••• I emerge from the bathrooms in my rumpled white shirt with the top couple buttons undone, my Slytherin tie hanging loosely around my neck. Despite the girl’s uniform having a grey skirt, I had chosen to wear the boy’s black pants, with my green lined robe sitting on my shoulders. I start to head back towards my compartment when I noticed the train had stopped, and the windows had started to get frosty around the edges. I turn around to find a rotten looking hand reaching out towards my face, and before I can scream my eyes close and fall to the floor. ••• I lie on the floor, clutching my ears, as I hear a woman give a loud piercing scream, then a bright green light flash in front of me! ••• I wake up lying across one of the cushioned seats in one of the compartments, I sit up facing the window and notice the train had started moving again, I turn around expecting to see the twins, but instead came face to face with Draco Malfoy. I squeal and jump into the seat next to him hugging him, “Jesus Taylor, calm down” he chuckles. I pull away frowning “Why didn’t you reply to any of my letters?” I demand He stutters and goes red; I roll my eyes a small smile on my lips, god he is such a bad liar amongst his friends. “Anyways don’t you want to know how you got here,” he says “I know you’re making excuses Malfoy, but I will let it slide just his once” I smile “Well you fainted because of the dementors” he starts, Yeah, no shit I think to myself, shivering at the thought of the cloaked figures “When you fell, you hit your head pretty hard onto the door of our compartment, making a loud bang, so I slid the door open to see you lying there, I carried you into here and you have just been lying there since” “Great,” I say sarcastically, “You are worse than Potter!” Pansy pipes up, in her annoying whinny voice, I jump not realizing she was in the carriage as well, she had been staying suspiciously quiet since her loudmouth was usually droning on about something even more boring than Professor Binns Lectures “He fainted as well, but at least he got up soon after” she finishes “You two really do have something out for Harry, and how do you even know that,” I say in a bored tone now that I am talking to Pugface, “You have been out cold for 15 minutes and I went to the bathroom to see if anyone else was there and heard that younger Weasley and Longbottom talking,” She says in a snobbish voice. I open my mouth to retaliate when the door gets roughly pushed open to reveal an angry-looking set of twins, “MADI!” they say in unison “Jeez we have been looking for you the last 15 minutes,” George tells me “We must have opened at least 80 compartments” Fred dramatically sighs “Oh, the lengths you two would go for me” I giggle The twin’s eyes then travel to Draco, “Malfoy” they stiffly greet him giving a nod in his direction Draco lazily looks at them and arches one of his eyebrows, I hastily give Draco another quick hug then step out of the compartment. “Why do you hang out with him, he is such a git” George complains “Why do you think I hang out with you two?” I reply laughing “Because you live with us obviously,” Fred says “I honestly wonder why I hang out with you two rather than Ron,” I say as I step back into our compartment “We know you love us” Fred states “Unfortunately, I can’t disagree with that” I laugh grabbing Hunter out of his carrier to let him stretch his legs. The twins cheer and high five each other at my answer. “I still can’t believe you beat me in the number of house gnomes to throw thanks to that ruddy cat of yours” George complains “I’m not going to apologize if that’s what you’re expecting” I sweetly smile at him snuggling up to my fluffy black cat “Where did Lee go anyway?” I ask “He saw Alicia then followed her to her compartment, looking like a lovesick puppy” Fred laughs. I get thrown out of my seat and onto the twins as the train stops, “We better be at Hogwarts this time” I grumble, earning myself a laugh from the twins. ••• I grab Fred’s hand to steady myself as I jump off the train and wander towards the carriages, I smile to myself and start to stroke the Threstle standing in front of me, “I wish I could see those creepy winged horse things; you keep going on about,” George says slightly frowning as he comes up behind me “I could kill Fred for you right now, then you’d be able to” I offer “Hey, I just helped you off the train” Fred yells grinning as he carries Hunter’s now empty carrier over to the carriage. “I reckon I’d have to pass you up on that offer or Mum would be after our heads” George reply’s trying to hide his laughs from Fred, “Who did you see die anyways, Taylor?” Fred asks me “Like I said last time you asked, I don’t know,” I say frowning to myself as I clamber up onto the carriage followed by Fred then George. Before I could start wondering about it again, I look up to see Hogwarts looming in front of us and a smile creeps onto my face as the carriages head closer to my second home. ••• A/N This is the first-ever fanfiction I have ever written, so please excuse me if this is bad  I wrote this chapter and maybe the next two without the book to reference so try and ignore any weird plot changes Last but not least, what do you think of the chapter length? I have given each chapter around 1200- 2000 words. Let me know if you think that's too long, short or if it's a good length xoxo -Izzy