To Love an Outcast

To Love an Outcast

A New Start

Everything around her was new and terrifying. She was a little nervous, but she pushed her nervousness aside. Alexandra Sawyer was a seventeen year old girl with long black hair with a few strands of blue near the front. She wore a tan shirt with a camouflage star in the center. Her jean pants were dark blue with holes at the knees. Though she was no ordinary girl. In fact Alexandra Sawyer was a witch attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Alexandra took her trolley and stared at the wall between platforms nine and ten. She was told by her brother's friend Matt that she had to walk through it. It was true that she was in her seventh and final year of school, but she has never been to Hogwarts. She and her brother Donnie moved to London from America.

Alexandra took a deep breath and then ran towards the wall as she closed her eyes. When she opened them she was relieved that she wasn't splattered on the wall. When Alexandra got all her stuff on the train she went to find an empty compartment.

As she was walking down the hall she noticed a group of kids that looked to be around her age and they did not look very friendly. As she walked past one of them put out his foot and made Alexandra trip; the group laughed.

Alexandra could feel her face turn red from embarrassment. "You should watch where you're going?" One of the boys said.

Alexandra wanted to run away and hide. Already things were starting out bad. The group left into a compartment and Alexandra was still on the floor.

"Are you ok?" Someone asked.

Alexandra looked up and saw a boy around her age with brown hair. "Uh…yeah." Alexandra answered.

The boy held out his hand to Alexandra and Alexandra took it and stood back up. "Those guys can be jerks. I'm Remus by the way."

"Alexandra."

"You can sit with me and my friends if you want." Alexandra just nodded.

They came to a compartment that had three other people in it. One boy had messy black hair and he wore glasses. Another boy had black hair and the last one had brown hair.

"Hey guys, this is Alexandra. Alexandra this is James, Sirius and Peter. Lucius and his gang were picking on her."

"Too bad I wasn't there." James said as Remus and Alexandra sat down. "I could have hexed them."

"So Alexandra, I haven't seen you around. Are you new or something?" Sirius asked.

"Yes, my brother and I moved here from America during the summer."

"Well, I hope you like it here."

"Thanks."

"You and your brother moved?" James asked. "What about your parents?"

"Oh, um…" Alexandra put her head down. "I don't have any."

"Oh, sorry."

Alexandra looked at James. "That's ok. It's not your fault."

James and the others started talking while Alexandra took out a book from her camouflage book back and started reading; she was always shy when meeting new people. Occasionally James or Sirius would try to bring Alexandra in to the conversation though she would only give short answers and go back to her book. Alexandra didn't understand why they were talking to her. At her old school she was always teased and didn't have many friends.

After what seemed like hours the train finally stopped and everyone hurried out. Alexandra felt out of place with so many people she didn't know and also she wasn't quite sure what to do.

"Hey Alexandra." Someone said.

Alexandra looked around and saw James in a carriage and motioned for her to come over. Alexandra walked over and entered the carriage and sat next to a girl with red hair.

"Alexandra, this is Lily." James introduced. "Lily, this is Alexandra. We met her on the train. Lily is going to go out with me."

"In your dreams, Potter." Lily looked at Alexandra. "It's nice to meet you."

"You too."

"You're from America, aren't you?"

"That's right. I think London is better though."

"Why's that?"

"Because it has us." James smiled; Lily rolled her eyes.

Alexandra found out that Hogwarts students were sorted into four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherian. It was much different from her old school. She also found out that James and the others were in Gryffindor.

They finally reached Hogwarts castle and Alexandra thought it was amazing. She was soon separated from James and the others by Professor McGonagall who said she needed to be sorted into a house. She hoped she would get in Gryffindor.

They soon met up with a group of first years and headed into the Great Hall. Alexandra could feel everyone's eyes on her. She probably looked out of place though she tried to keep her eyes ahead, but every once in awhile she would glance around. They all stopped as McGonagall went up to a stool that had a hat on it. She said to come up when their name was called and much to Alexandra's discomfort she was called up first.