Dolores Umbridge Takes the Hogwarts Express
Dolores (Dee) Umbridge-Mockenridge was nervous, excited, and sad all at once. She was about to board the Hogwarts express for her first year. She was excited to go to Hogwarts, she was nervous about how she would fit in, and she was sad to go to Hogwarts and miss out on spending time with her just-younger brother Charlus (Charlie) Umbridge; her youngest brother, Harold (Harry) Mockenridge; and her god-brother, James (Jamie) Potter.
She had been very happy that her birthday was just after the September 1st cutoff. If she was only a month and half older, she would have missed the birth of James. Dorea Potter had become her godmother when she was a baby and her godfather had become Tom, her mother's husband. They had another son together, Harry. He was four.
Dolores smiled as she did the math. There would be at least one of them in Hogwarts for at least the next 11 years. Her brother would be a first year when she started her second, her other brother would be a first-year when she was a seventh-year, and James would be a first-year when Harry was a fourth-year.
She had grown up knowing that Tom was not her original father. Her father had done something awful when she was a baby because he had been drunk. He had, she had been taught, owned up to it and accepted his punishment.
This was one reason she didn't like to see wizards who drank too much – ironic as that was with what her Mum and Dad (as she called Tom) did for a living.
The five-minute warning sounded and she collected herself. She turned to say goodbye to everyone who had come to see her off. Charlie was a bit sad, but promised to watch out for the younger ones. Harry was crying, but she promised to write letters and that she'd be back for Yule. Jamie was fussy but under control. Charlus and Dorea were both affectionately formal (her Godmother and her husband were of Noble birth and had to maintain "decorum") as the said their goodbyes. Mum and Dad had gotten someone to watch the Cualdron so that they could see her off. Uncle Charlus had provided the portkey (her Mum couldn't come in through the barrier, being warded against Muggles). Both were teary-eyed as they saw her finally enter the Hogwarts express. They waved to her as she almost hung out the window as the train pulled away.
She heard the snatches of the argument that the adults had been having since she got her letter.
Aunt Dorea called out, "Do well in Slytherin!"
Uncle Charlus called out, "No! Gryffindor!"
Dad laughed and yelled, "Forget them! See you in Hufflepuff!"
She just shook her head and laughed as she waved. Each one of them had tried to convince her to go for their own houses. She smiled as she decided that she'd hope for Ravenclaw so as not to upset any of them.