Hello! I'm Dannifaith, but you can call me Danni. This is my first fan-fiction ever, so I would love some feedback. This includes my own character Caitlin Morrow and some others, and the wonderful Marauders. I, under no circumstances, own this world or the characters associated with JK Rowling's books.


From Day One

The conductors at the London train station were starting to catch on that something very strange was going on that day. One of them swore they were seeing ghost, the other plead witchcraft. It always happened on the same day every year... This particular year they noticed a group of rowdy "ghost" pushing trolleys between platform nine and ten. The handsome one, who seemed to be leading the group, was talking loudly about how he and Potter would win the cup this year.

After they disappeared behind the barrier, the conductors saw a small, defiant looking girl with long strawberry blond hair and bright green eyes, running ahead of her parents. "Cat, wait up!" They called after her, pushing a cart filled with strange things and a cat carrier after the girl. Both what they assumed to be parents and the girl, Cat, were gone. They would swear for years to come that if you pressed your ear up to the barrier, you could here people rattle on about a place called 'Hogwarts'.

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Caitlin strode confidently down the train looking for an empty compartment, her kitten Raid poking his head up out of his basket every time she asked, "is this compartment full?" Sadly, it seemed no one wanted to spend their train ride with a new first year, or the first years had already made enough friends. Letting out a big sigh, she knocked on the glass of the last compartment before poking her head in. Two really attractive boys looked over first; one with shaggy black hair, grey eyes and a perfectly chiseled face, the other looked tired and over worked, with almost as shaggy brown hair with blue eyes. Caitlin's heart jumped in her throat. She hardly noticed the other two boys, one with black hair and glasses, the other short and chubby.

"Hello," she said, trying out the whole flirting concept, "is this compartment full yet?" She looked at them with her large emerald eyes, her thick, lush lashes creating the perfect frame. The chubby boy looked like he was about to say, "yes!" but was cut off as the darker haired boy said, "certainly not!" before scooting over for her to sit.

She was being closely watched now, like something that was rare, like she was intruding. "My name is Caitlin, but please, call me Cat." Her eyes dared them to ask what year she was. Eleven now, but soon she'd be older. ... Well, not soon, but they couldn't be much older than her. Her new favorite, the dark hair boy, started to introduce his friends.

"I'm Sirius Black," his goofy smile widened. "Over there is Mr. James Potter, the one next to him is Peter and -" but Sirius was cut off by the other pretty boy.

"I'm Remus Lupin, pleasure to meet you." His blue eyes staring right back at her before going to his book again. James looks extremely amused at the interruption.

"Yeah, that's Remus," Sirius continued anyway, probably feeling like his light was lost... But not for long. "We're in our second year at Hogwarts," he said proudly.

I knew they couldn't be much older than me, Caitlin thought to herself. "I'm a first year," for some reason she felt so... young.

"Don't worry Darling, I'm sure Sirius would like to show you around," Potter said slyly before pushing his glasses up. This caused Remus to look up again and scowl before taking a really good look at the girl. She was young, you could tell, but she had long strawberry blond hair and naturally thick black eye lashes. Her lips looked soft and light pink, like pretty pillows, and her skin had a pretty milky look to it. Not to mention her large emerald eyes that seemed to hypnotize.

No wonder they're acting strange, Remus thought, she's already pretty and obviously going to grow up to be attractive. Sirius was having the exact same thought. "Look!" All the heads turned to look out of the train window, the Hogsmeade Village station coming closer.

The four boys and the girl all hurried into their school robes, finishing up right before the Hogwarts Express came to a complete stop.

"Have fun on the boats, Kitten." Sirius winked, while James and Peter walked away towards carts with no horses.

"You can tell them to behave themselves," Remus whispered in her ear out of no where. "And here's to hoping you're in Gryffindor."

The next thing Caitlin knew she was standing in the Great Hall with all the other first years. It seemed like this would be the most important day of her life. This was the day that determined who you'd be best friends with, who you ate with, everything. Eventually her name was called

"Caitlin Morrow." She walked confidently to the Sorting Hat, not knowing what to expect.

"GRYFFINDOR!" The Hat called and the hall erupted with applause, especially from Sirius Black... Although you could see a look of pure happiness on Remus' face.