Changes at Hogwarts

Chapter One

The Beginning of a New Year

Its is the beginning of a new year at Hogwarts, and the dining hall is filling up with many eager students who have been anxiously awaiting the start of the new term since the end of the last.

Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Neville all take their seats at the Gryffindor table and take a look up at the long professor's table. The first thing that their eyes wander to is the seat that the new defense against the dark arts teacher usually sits at, and come to find that their new professor is none other than Professor Lupin! Harry is overjoyed to see that his favorite professor has finally returned.

After a couple of minutes, the first years finally begin to file in.

But it is not the first years that everyone has his or her eyes on. It is a girl that looked like she was around the age of 15 or 16, at the very back of the line. She had long brown wavy hair, and hazel eyes.

She made her way up to the front of the room with the first years, and the sorting ceremony began.

As soon as the first years had all been sorted, Professor Dumbeldore stood up and began to speak.

"Welcome everyone to Hogwarts. Before I begin my announcements, I would like you all to take notice to the girl standing in front of me. She is a foreign exchanged student from America. We normally do not accept students who are not from the UK, but we have made an exception for her. She is here for classified reasons that are not to be discussed. Her name is Natasha Smith. Now, before we move on with the ceremony, Natasha will be sorted."

Natasha walked up to the platform and carefully took a seat at on the stool, and placed the sorting hat on her head. After about 3 minutes, the sorting hat opened its mouth and shouted "GRYFFINDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!"

All of the Gryffindors cheered as Natasha took a seat at the Gryffindor seat next to Ron.

Dumbeldore continued with all of his announcements, and when he finished he said, "May the feasts begin!!!"

Food appeared on all of the tables. Everyone began to eat. everyone except for Ron. Ron could not keep his eyes off of Natasha.

While everyone else was stuffing their mouths, Ron stared wide-eyed at Natasha. She finally looked over at him and noticed that he was staring at her.

"Hi," she said. "I'm Natasha," and she held out her hand for him to shake. He stared dumbfounded at her hand and did nothing.

Hermione (who was sitting next to him) noticed this, and slapped him on the back of the head.

"Don't mind him," she said. "I'm Hermione. He's Ron. Nice to meet you. What year are you in? We're in sixth."

"I'm in sixth year as well. is he OK?"

"Him? He's always like this."

"Oh, OK."

"Oh! I almost forgot! Natasha, this is Harry, and this is Ginny. Ginny is Ron's sister"

"Nice to meet you," said Ginny, holding out her hand and shaking Natasha's.

"It's a pleasure," said Harry.

"Are you and Ron twins?" Natasha asked Ginny.

"No, I'm one year younger then he is."

Just then, Ron got up without saying anything, walked to the teachers table and started talking with Lupin.

"OK.." Said Ginny.

This is only my first chapter, but I hope you like it so far. Trust me - IT WILL GET BETTER!!!!!!!!!