Chapter 1

The train crash

A/N: I have rewritten this chapter, excluding the OC I had in it, because it didn't seem right. Thanks to my wonderful beta Muggleborn Fairy! Enjoy! Oh and please review! Pwease!

It was once again the first of September. Harry Potter, who had had a very boring summer at his muggle relatives, was waiting for his friends on platform 9 ¾ where the Hogwarts Express was waiting.

In less than a few minutes he heard his name being called and turned around. A tall redheaded boy and a bushy haired girl were running towards him.

"Harry!" Hermione Granger all but yelled, hugging him.

"'Mione, give him some air!" clucked Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend since his first train ride to Hogwarts.

"I see you woke up on time this year Ron," Harry teased his best friend.

"Shut up smart ass!" Ron growled angrily, blushing crimson. "Anyway how was your holiday?"

"Fine," said Hermione.

"Boring!" Harry said yawning. "Yours?"

"Pretty wicked, if you don't count being sun burned three times…"

Mrs. Weasley, a redheaded woman, along with a bunch of other redheads headed towards them.

"Hello dears," she said hugging Hermione "I'm so glad to see you again Hermione, oh and you too Harry!" She embraced Harry in a motherly hug.

"Good morning Mrs. Weasley," the two said in unison after the hugs ended.

"Hey guys," greeted an Irish accent as Seamus Finnegan, another boy in his house, neared them; beside him was his best friend, Dean Thomas.

"Hi, Seamus, Dean, nice to see you guys again" said Ron, shaking hands with each of them.

"You should better get into the train dears, it's about to leave!" smiled Mrs. Weasley.

"Yeah, come on!" said Dean, carrying his trunk.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dean, Seamus and Ginny started climbing onto the train, whilst Mrs. Weasley and the twins said goodbye to them.

They found a free compartment and made themselves comfortable. Not long after that there was a knock at the door, it opened to reveal none other than Draco Malfoy. He didn't wait for anybody to say anything; he simply walked in and placed his trunk in the empty space in the luggage compartment. When Harry couldn't bare it any longer he asked, "What the fuck are you doing in here, Malfoy?"

Malfoy turned calmly to face Harry and answered, "Tacking a seat in the compartment, what does it look like?"

"I see that but I think you entered the wrong compartment, Malfoy," sneered Hermione.

"From what I see, this compartment has a free place, and I don't see what is wrong with me taking it…" said Malfoy, who was still very calm.

"There wasn't anything wrong with it until you came!" Ron roared.

"That's right," agreed Harry, "Malfoy, you have no right to stay in this compartment so get the hell out!"

"Harry, stop it!" Hermione said, half shocked, half annoyed.

But Harry didn't answer, because he didn't quite trust his voice. Malfoy quietly took his trunk and exited the compartment. But before he got out Harry thought he saw something in Malfoy's eyes he had never seen before. Hurt. Why was Malfoy hurt for? He probably just wanted to play a prank on them. But that look on his face… it looked too true to be false. Harry almost felt sad for yelling at him. What? He was regretting yelling at Malfoy? Malfoy of all people? His intern monologue was interrupted by Hermione, who almost yelled angrily "Okay, what got into you all? Well?"

"What are you saying Hermione? That we should have left him stay? Are you nutts?" Ron shouted.

"First: stop that fucking yelling: second: Don't ever doubt Hermione's sanity and thirdly: That's exactly what she's implying! Do you even know what happened to him this summer?" Seamus growled, pretty pissed.

"Why would we care?" said Harry angrily.

"What's the hell is wrong with you? You're not the Harry I know!" Hermione squeaked.

"So wha…" Harry stopped in mid sentence. What was wrong with him? He surely wasn't like this. "I'm sorry. I guess I got carried away."

"Seamus, what exactly did happen to Malfoy?" asked Ginny, who had been quiet until now.

"Dad has a lot of influence in the Ministry, even if he is a muggle, and can easily get information from there…"

"Get to the point!" Ron growled.

"Well, because of the incident at the Ministry, Malfoy senior and Narcissa were arrested for serving Voldemort. The Malfoy Manor was confiscated. I don't even know how Malfoy survived the last month. I guess that without his daddy he isn't the Slytherin Prince anymore and the other Slytherins finally got sick of him and now they wanna kick his ass."

"Then where did he stay all summer?" asked Hermione who seemed to pity him.

"I don't know," said Seamus, looking at the ground.

The rest of the ride, they hardly spoke, all lost in their own thoughts.

Harry was thinking about what he had heard about Malfoy. He wouldn't have thought that Malfoy would end up with nothing. Time flew unnoticed and before Harry finished thinking it was night.

"We better get dressed," said Hermione in a tone that left no room for arguments.

Just then a very red and terrified looking Neville Longbottom ran into their compartment.

"Guys they're attacking…I mean we're getting attacked…I mean …"

"Who Neville who?" Ginny yelled, shocking everyone.

"D…d…de…"

But just then the lights went off and the train started humming. People started yelling. Harry fell off his seat and tried to get up, but suddenly there was a loud crash and Harry was sent flying into the wall. Everything went black.

A/N : Pwease review, for me??? 