NOTE- Please note that I'm aware that the time line for some of the characters I've used isn't correct (i.e Snape and Lucius Malfoy were not in the same year. Snape started in 1971 and Lucius was in his final year in 1971). But I wanted to use all of my favourite 'grown-ups' from the Harry Potter books in my fan fiction. The majority of my characters are from the time that James and Lily were at school, with some pre-James/Lily characters thrown in :)

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Chapter One - The first day.

Mina looked down at the toes of her Converse. Her mother was kneeling in front of her, her make-up starting to run down her cheeks like little black rivers.

“Now, you have everything you need, don’t you?”

“Yes, Mother,” Mina replied politely.

Her mother dabbed at her pale grey eyes again with a dark green handkerchief, “If you need anything you just write home, ok? Use one of your brothers’ owls.”

Mina nodded and her mother burst out into another wave of tears. Casting her dark grey eyes around the platform, Mina saw quite a few other mothers were doing the same thing and breathed a sigh of relief. Her mother had never acted like this when they’d dropped her brothers off for their first year at Hogwarts. Then again, Mina’s father had come with them that time. Mina scowled. She obviously wasn’t important enough for her father to lower himself to coming here to see her off like he had her brothers.

Mina’s mother seemed to have calmed herself a little, and was starting to fuss over Mina’s appearance.

“Are you sure you want to go in your muggle clothes dear?” Her mother asked, looking down at Mina’s ripped jeans and black hooded jumper, “I can send for a House Elf to bring you a nice dress robe.”

“No thank you mother,” Mina replied, “I have my uniform to put on before we arrive at Hogwarts anyway.”

She’d already decided that if she was going to have to be stuck on the train for hours, she’d rather be comfortable.

Mina’s mother started fussing over her hair, which was an unusual orangey colour and hung in soft curls down her back. Mina had tied it up as she usually did, in two high pigtails. Her mother reached into her handbag and extracted another dark green handkerchief and Mina took a quick step back before her mother could do the whole, “you have dirt on your face” routine.  But her mother pressed the green silk into Mina’s hand. Mina noticed it had coins in it.

“For the trolley on the train,” she smiled sadly, “They even have chocolate frogs.”

Mina smiled and gave her mother a hug as a loud whistle sounded from somewhere. Her mother tried to compose herself a bit, and stood up.

“You’re brothers have your trunk with theirs,” she said, as Mina stepped up into the door of the train, “And don’t forget to leave your backpack with your trunk, ok? They all get moved to your dorm rooms for you. Don’t take it into the Great Hall.”

Mina nodded and the door to the train carriage slammed shut. Mina pulled the window down and her mother stood on tiptoes to speak to her through it.

“And Willamina,” she said in a hushed voice, “Please don’t worry about making it into Slytherin for the sake of your father.”

Mina felt a lump rise in her throat, and nodded as she didn’t trust her voice not to betray her.

The window of the door started to roll itself back shut and Mina stood and waved to her mother as the train pulled out of King’s Cross station. She stood there for a while, watching the backs of the buildings turn into the suburbs of London before turning into the leafy green countryside. There was no going back now.

Below are the links to the various chapters of my first fan fic, "It's not easy being a Slytherin girl". 
Enjoy!

• Chapter one - The first day
• Chapter two
• Chapter three
• Chapter four
• Chapter five