Short chapter about Emily Potter's first year at Hogwarts. Read more about Emily in "The Girl Who Lived"
After the Sorting Ceremony the Gryffindor prefect, Bill Weasly who was the elder brother of Percy, led the new Gryffindors to the common room. The Gryffindor common room was a very comfortable place. It was located in one of the castle's towers behind a portrait of a fat lady in a pink dress. The prefect directed girls and boys to different dormitories where I found my bed and my trunk. I fell asleep at once.
The most annoying thing about whole Hogwarts were definitely the staircases. They liked to change a lot. There were many of them, in all kind of shapes and styles. It often made you come late for classes.
I enjoyed all subjects at school. They were all different and interesting on their own way. Even History of Magic, taught by a ghost, seemed to annoy everyone except from me. During Potions I did everything wrong, still I enjoyed it a lot. Professor Flitwick was very enthusiastic about my charmwork. In my flying lessons I found out that I was terrible at flying. I fell of my broom a lot and brought a visit to the hospital wing every lesson. Though my father was a historical Seeker I would never even try to play Quidditch with flying skills like these.
"Miss Potter", Snape called after Potions. I blew up my cauldron today so I expected he would now tell me I had detention the following weeks.
"You don't look like your parents that much", he said instead. I looked up surprised. Has he known my parents?
"I suppose that's a good thing, I cannot think what would've become of you when you would look like your father." I shocked. What gave him the right to talk about my father like that. He now came closer to me and looked me straight in the eyes.
"You have the eyes of your mother", he whispered. I stumbled backwards and ran out of the classroom. What a creep!
The sunlight hurt my eyes when I came outside.
"Where were you?", Rose, one of my new Gryffindor friends, asked me. Rose was a tall girl with short, blonde hair and she had a lot of social interests.
"We were already worrying that Snape might locked you up in the dungeons", she laughed. I followed Rose and Oliver Wood, also a Gryffindor and a very determinate one. We sat down in the grass with a view on the Dark Forest. The forest was forbidden to all students. It had a strange and dangerous look. I heard a third year telling there would be living mysterious and dangerous creatures in it.
I didn't see Olivia often anymore, but we decided to go home with Christmas so we could spend the holidays together.
"See you've packed", Rose said.
I nodded.
"I'm going to spend some time with Olivia. Now she is a Ravenclaw I don't really see her often anymore."
Olivia and I told each other about our amazing experiences at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry whole days long.
Exams passed easily. I tried not to fail too hard in Potions, but on a mystical way it end up very good.
Gryffindor didn't win the house cup that year, Slytherin did. All Gryffindors were really mad saying that Slytherin had no right for the cup. In the train back home everyone concluded that it was Snape who always found something to give Slytherin points for and that he always took points from Gryffindors, just because he didn't like us. But I didn't care who won the cup or not. I had a great year and I was already looking forward to my second year.
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