When Nico woke up he saw an odd mix of teenagers staring back at his with what could only be described as curiosity in their eyes. Feeling slightly self conscious Nico sat up straight and began to introduce himself.

"Hi, I'm Nico. I'm new. Who are you?" Nico was surprised at his own politeness.

"Ginny Weasley" A smiling ginger girl answered. Following her lead the others started to introduce themselves.

"N-Neville Longbottom" Neville was a obviously embarrassed boy with large teeth and sticky out ears that looked a little older than Ginny. Nico held back the urge to laugh at his name.

"Luna Lovegood" she was a blonde girl with a wispy voice and a mysterious aura.

There was another boy in the compartment that had extremely messy black hair, round glasses and pretty green eyes that hadn't introduced himself yet. It seemed to Nico like he felt he didn't have to. Nico thought this was quite rude so he looked at him expectantly, inviting the boy to answer. At first the boy looked a little confused but he stuck out his hand anyway.

"Harry Potter" Nico felt like face palming. Of course he should know who he his, Harry is famous in the wizarding world. However, he thanked his luck for ending up in the same compartment as the boy he was looking for.

Nico was a little worried when as soon as Harry's hand made contact with his Harry winced and pulled his hand back to clutch at his forehead but Nico brushed it off as a coincidence.

"Nice to meet you, Harry." Harry smiled at Nico kindly but it had a hint of suspicion.

"You sound kind of foreign, where are you from?"

Nico readied himself for the lies. "Well, at the moment I'm living in America with my cousins." That wasn't really a lie.

"I didn't know there were any wizarding schools in America." Neville said.

"Don't be stupid Neville." Ginny shook her head at Neville. "Of course there are wizard schools over there. You think there are no wizards in America? Or they all come to Hogwarts? And plus I've heard of the school over there. It's meant to be good. Not as good as Hogwarts though of course." Neville ring his hands in embarrassment.

"I was homeschooled for most of my life and my family decided it would be better to send me to a proper school for a while." There it was. The script he had rehearsed over and over in his head. He had almost every aspect of his fake life planned out already. Nico hated lying to people. Especially people he would be spending at least a year with but it was necessary for the quest. He always tried to not differ from reality too much but sometimes it was hard when reality was so absurd.

"Cool, what year will you be in?" Harry asked

"Five, I think."

"Same as us. That's great. Wasn't expecting that -I mean- no offence but you don't really look our age." Nico resisted sending a glare at Ginny for that comment but he managed to restrain himself and give a small shrug instead.

"Anyway, what house do you think you'll be in?" Harry asked, leaning forward in his seat.

"No clue."

"Well, it's Griffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw for the wise, Hufflepuff for the loyal and Slytherin for the cunning. Well they say all that but they have bad sides to every trait. Griffindors can be reckless, Ravenclaws can be stuck up, Hufflepuffs can be too trusting and Slytherin can be downright evil. We're Griffindor."

"I'm Ravenclaw." The girl Nico remembered being named Luna called out from behind an upside down magazine.

Nico realised then that if he ever wanted to be friends with these people he probably shouldn't go into Slytherin.

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Harry was worried about the new boy. There were so many bad signs. One: he just looked creepy with back muggle clothes, black hair, dark eyes that were only a shade away from matching his pupils and not to mention that sliver skull ring that just screamed death eater. Number two: he had a frightening aura around him. Harry didn't know what it was but he just felt... Dark. And three: probably the most suspicious reason Harry didn't completely trust Nico was that as soon as he had took his hand to shake it a sharp pain ran through his forehead like an electric shock.

He would definitely have to ask Ron and Hermione about this.

Thank you for so many people reading this. So sorry for the long hiatus. I talk about it in the last chapter. Also I went back and edited and improved on stuff so it should be better.

This chapter might not be as good because I'm very out of practice I'm writing. This is basically just an early version and will probably edit it more but I know if I don't put it up now and like this I'll never put it up and It seems like people do like this story.

Reviews for my self confidence and constructive criticism is encouraged

Angel xx