Chapter 1

She stood on the platform surrounded by screaming and over excited children and pure loathing piled on top of her like a lead weight.

I can't believe I have to be here for another stinking year. She grumbled internally.

Claudia Weisemann was beyond peeved that she had to go back to that school.

Her family were originally from Austria and her great grandfather was even the brother to the last Kaiser but she still had to visit this bloody school for a whole year.

She hated it there. It's not that she hated the lessons or even the teachers, the most common reasons for people to hate school. No she just hated everyone else around her.

Claudia had always been an obstinate child even when she was younger. She had always hated playing with dolls or toy animals like most little girls did. She always wanted to play with her brothers toy dragon or to ride on a broom rather than the pony her mother had got her when she'd turned 10.

When she'd got her letter for hogwarts she wasn't excited she wasn't even remotely pleased. She had thrown a hissy fit, lost control of her magic and had blown the roof off the conservatory.

The last 5 years had been hell for Claudia.

OK that's an exageration she just didnt get excited about it like the other girls in her year. She liked her lessons but there was nothing else in that castle for her. It was just boring.

She could see them now all smiles and hugs with their parents while she stood, less than mellow next to her far too rigid parents.

Her mother put her hand on her shoulder and Claudia sighed heavily and looked up to her obediently.

"Are you going to have a better year this time love?" Her mother asked, all to patronisingly for Claudia's liking.

"Mother you've asked me that every year for the last 5 years and every year i've said the same thing. I won't repeat myself." Claudia replied exasperatedly.

"I just want you to have some fun thats all. Just because you're a slytherin doesnt mean fun doesnt exist you know." Her mother replied.

"I will try my best." She said, having to repeat herself after all.

The whistle blew and her parents nodded her off and she wandered towards the carriages. It was always like that. No hugs no real goodbyes. She prefered it that way she found.

Claudia quickly found herself a carriage and sat down heavily gently banging her head against the back of the seat behind her.

"You look about as happy as you did last year." Came a voice from the doorway. Claudia didnt even flinch in surprise, she'd been waiting for this.

"You know me, always the joyous clown Pans." Pansy Parkinson, the girl now sitting across from Claudia, was the one true saving grace of Hogwarts. Pansy and Claudia had been best friends since their first day on the train.

While everyone around them had been laughing and joking around Claudia had been sitting in an empty carriage with her arms crossed and a petulant look on her face.

That was how Pansy had found her not long before the train pulled in to Hogsmeade.

"As the bar man said to the horse, why the long face?" Was all Pansy had said but it had bought a begrudging smile to Claudia's face and they'd been close ever since.

Pansy was the polar oppisite of Claudia in looks and in personality but the complimented eachother well. Pansy often referred to them as ying and yang.

Pansy was taller than Claudia at 5 foot 7 inches. Everything else about her was petite. There was nothing to the girl at all but skin and bones but she wasn't unhealthy looking. She looked like a bustless Victoria Secret model Claudia thought but Pansy would most likely be highly offended if she told her that. She had long blonde hair which fell to her waiste and light hazel eyes which usually had a mysteriously wicked glint to them. Her skin was fair but perminently tinged pink on her cheeks which gave her an illdeserved innocent look.

Claudia on the other hand had a typically Austrian look about her (so her mother said). She was short at 5 foot 3 inches and was what Pansy called 'curvatious'. She was no more than a size 14 in muggle clothes but she had wide hips and large breasts giving her an hourglass figure. She has dark blue eyes and her skin is paler than Pansy's. Her hair is a deep chocolate brown and cut short around her face in what the hairdresser called a 'pixie cut'. Not that she cared about things like that. She had long ago given up on how she looked. Or at least just didn't bother as much as Pansy did.

Pansy was in front of the mirror of their joint dorm room for at least 45 minutes before she left for breakfast every morning. Claudia took about 20 minutes drying her hair and applying a small amount of make up before she left. What was the point looking nice if no one ever notices you anyway, she always thought.

The train ride was spent mainly in silence with Pansy occasionally striking up conversation about something that had happened over the summer or popping out of the carriage to talk to some of her other friends.

Pansy had always been far more sociable than Claudia. She always sat in the middle of the dinner table with a large group of people around her chatting and having fun. Claudia would always be there but would usually be off to the side just watching and not talking to anyone. That's the way she liked it. Pansy always came to Claudia when she'd finished socialing though and always sat with her by choice. They were best friends and as much as Pansy was popular she would always choose talking to Claudia over talking to anyone else.

"Come on Claud, the train is slowing down." Pansy said poking her head through the door.

The girls got off the train when it stopped and made their way to the carriages to start a new year at Hogwarts. Their sixth year. Oh joy. One more year left after this then i'm out Claudia thought as the horseless carriage trundled on.