Disclaimer
As you all know, Harry Potter is not my idea...which is a shame really. The
only characters/things I have introduced are Trinity Narcia, Kristi Lazuli,
Aurora Moonstone, Joel, The Mummy and George. You know who you all are....
;-)
Chapter 1
As the train rolled into Hogsmeade Station, a thick fog enveloped the small
village. It was September 1st, and the Hogwarts Express ground to a halt.
The beginning of a new year....
Inside one of the carriages sat three girls- Trinity, Kristi and Aurora. They were now 5th years at Hogwarts, and after having spent the summer together in a field, they were very tanned and happy. During the first week of the summer holidays, as previously mentioned, they had found themselves in a field in deepest, darkest Essex. Although they had passed each other in the corridors and in the form room during the previous term, on the first day, only Kristi and Aurora knew each other. Trinity, or Trin, as she liked to be known, had joined in the madness on the second day. Despite being students at Hogwarts, all three were immensely keen on archaeology, a subject that, although not taught at the school, was improved infinitely, when knowledge of magic was involved... That was how Kristi and Aurora had met, just before they started at Hogwarts. At the end of the summer term, they had been sitting in the library late one night, when they had discovered a book of spells and incantations which would allow them to find things of interest when out in the field. However, things had gone horribly wrong, and they had found nothing of substance, and narrowly escaped expulsion by having to take 3 fellow students to Madam Pomfrey in matchboxes.
When Trinity had joined them on the second day of the dig, work was pretty much forgotten, being replaced by Ogling sessions, focussing on some of the other, male students working on the site. Much to their disappointment, it seemed that all of them were muggles. This had no impact on anything though, and the girls could often be found to shout "Wahey", "Phwooooar" and "Hooha", whenever one of the boys came into a 1 mile radius. By their last day on the site, the three girls just sat and discreetly (yeah right!) watched the said boys, and that evening, as they left, all three had felt annoyed that they had been unable to talk to the boys. Aurora, due to her fathers punctuality (or lack of, as the case was) was one of the last students to leave at night. This meant that she had to sit and talk with the people camping on site until he arrived. One of the nights saw her dad being later than usual, so she sat with the campers. For some reason, on this night, most of them decided to retire to their tents or go down the pub, except for two boys. They were Joel and the Mummy. Both were extremely cute, and as luck would have it, also quite young. Much to her embarrassment, they sat down outside the hut and started chatting to her about what she had found in her trench. Much blushing was saved by her decision to drink some coffee (to steady her nerves) But to drink it, she first had to MAKE it. So she disappeared into the hut. Whilst trying not to burn herself on the kettle she distinctly heard the two boys 'whispering'. Much to her surprise, and interest, it turned out to be about her :-s "She's really nice, erm, when you talk to here isn't she. How old do you think she is?" "I'm not sure, but I reckon she's around 17?" "Yeah, probably about that"
They were interrupted by her re-emerging from the depths of the hut. Once again, they carried on talking about stuff. As can be expected, her dad chose to arrive at the most inconvenient moment- just when she was relaxing around these two people- grrrrrrrrrrrrrr (Note: Dad, if you read this, you know who you are....) Two weeks later, the girls had met at a cinema to see Pirates of the Caribbean on account of it a) Looking good, and b) having more than a couple of cute (MALE) actors in it. The film was great, and at one point, the conversation was directed to boys from the dig. This time it was one called George, an immensely cute 18 year old, who coincidentally looked somewhat like Orlando Bloom. He had, most probably unwittingly, embarrassed himself during one of the finds talks. The subject of the talk added to what he had done, made it nigh impossible for the girls to keep a straight face. This outing was followed a couple of weeks later by a final visit to the site, for the Open Day, and more importantly, the party that followed. All three had, the night before cast spells in order to ensure that the 3 cute boys would attend the dig on that day. Sadly, as with most of the spells they cast, they didn't entirely work. The Mummy turned up on site with his parents and younger brother in tow, which suggested that he was only about 18. Much to Aurora's disappointment, Joel didn't turn up. In his place though, was his hat which was good enough. George was also absent, but a photo on a noticeboard featured him working, and looking extremely annoyed, so in effect he was there too.
That was a week ago. Now, as night fell on the remote village of Hogsmeade, all they could do was reminisce, and collapse in peals of laughter at the prospect of the bone talk. The three girls stumbled out of the train, and into a waiting stagecoach. As the coach set off up a dark lane, the three girls sat, and fantasised about how funny it would be if it turned out that the boys they had met a month ago, were not actually muggles.
Ten Minutes later, the girls seated themselves at the Slytherin Table. Despite being in Slytherin, they were actually very well behaved, polite, studious girls. So well behaved in fact, they had been made prefects together! Unsurprisingly, the Slytherin table was the less well attended than the others. The doors opened, and in came Malfoy, protected upon either side by Crabbe and Goyle. Kristi looked shocked, and leaning over, she whispered to the others "Crikey! doesn't Goyle seem familiar! You don't think it was him the other week was it?" To which Trinity replied "Bloody Hell! it is Goyle!!! I didn't think it could have been him, but there can't be two of that!" Aurora nodded in agreement. Malfoy sat down next to Trinity who blushed a deep shade of red. However, she soon found herself talking to him as if nothing had happened. Unbeknownst to most of the people at the Slytherin table, Trinity and Malfoy had been a couple for the past week. On Sunday night, whilst staying at the Leaky Cauldron, she had received a text message. It was common knowledge that they both liked each other, and in the last few weeks prior to the holiday, they had become close friends. The text message had read:
Hi Trin. How are you?
I hope that you are ok
and you've had a gd hol.
was wondering if you were
doing ne thing on sat nite.
I'm in London n I wan2 know
if you'd like 2 cum out wit me,
without your m8s? txt bk, luv ya,
Draco xxx
This had been a surprise to everyone, especially Trinity, who was, unbelievably oblivious to everything that people were saying to her about she and Malfoy making a great couple. Anyway, Trin was talking to Malfoy, which meant that Kristi and Aurora could talk about things that Malfoy had said to them about her. Again, the doors opened, and the new intake of first years, with some remarkably tall people at the front, marched into the hall. Professor McGonnagal Stood at the front of the line, and placed the sorting hat on its stool. As usual it sang its song. At the end, McGonnagal stood up and spoke (for she had been briefly seated at a nearby table, where she was having a crafty cigarette!) She turned to the 5th years who were all seated at their respective tables in the corner of the room. "Girls and Boys. Before we start the sorting, I have a few announcements to make. We have some new students joining us this year. They have been sorted into Slytherin, so would it be possible for the Slytherin prefects to make their way into the entrance hall to greet their fellow students." "Shit" muttered Aurora. "There was nowt in the job description that said about meeting students!" "Bugger" answered Kristi "You'd better get Trin to leave Draco alone, it's becoming a bit too obvious" Aurora happily, but nervously obliged, and the three girls left the room and made their way to the entrance hall. As they were about to open the door, McGonnagal sidled up to them and whispered "There are 4 boys, and unfortunately no girls, so you'll have to be nice to them. Because there is no room in the male dormitory, they are going to have to share the prefect's dorm with you three. I hope you don't mind. Professor Snape will be along later on this evening to talk to you" There was some hesitation before the girls pulled out their mirrors, and sorted their hair and makeup (you never know what they'll be like) Trinity, being the most confident of the three opened the door, and let the girls out into the hall. When McGonnagal turned away, she ran back to the table and carried on chatting to Malfoy. That left just Aurora and Kristi.... they hoped for the best and walked into the hall. The four boys were sitting on the stairs, not talking to each other, but sticking together nonetheless. They all looked somewhat familiar. 3 of them were wearing prefect badges. They immediately stood up and the tallest spoke "Hi, I'm Joel...you look familiar" A marginally shorter boy, with curly hair, a squint and glasses (and beneath the cloak, a navy blue Kickflip Hoody) stood next to him muttered "1501....hi from us 3" and then, coming back to earth "I know you! Hi! I'm George!" The third prefect extended his hand towards Kristi, and then to Aurora "Hi, I'm Pete" Aurora looked down at his hand, which was covered in scars and bandage marks. The fourth boy also extended his hands with the words "Hi, I'm Tom, alright" He was quite tall, not as tall as Joel or George, but tall nonetheless. He had short spiky blond hair, and beneath his shirt was a Red Dwarf T-shirt. Kristi turned to Aurora, who, at the sight of the fourth boy, had buttoned up the top of her shirt. "Jesus! Who'd of thought that they were Wizards?" "I know! Shame Trin went back to Malfoy eh? Silly move that ;-) Oh well, looks like its just us two" "Wahey!" Turning back to face the boys, both girls were now smiling nervously. Incidentally, Aurora was still holding the top of her shirt tightly. Tom picked up on this and could distinctly be heard to mutter "worm wars" He grinned at Aurora, who tried hard not to smile back, but as with a majority of her spells, it didn't work. "Are you lot hungry?" "Yeah we bloody are!" With that, the two girls re-entered the Main Hall, with the boys in tow. The table that they had been sitting at 10 minutes earlier, was now occupied by the first years. Instead, the group headed over to a small table in the corner of the room and sat down. Aurora sat between Joel and Tom, whilst Kristi seated herself between Pete and George. As the food appeared on the table in front of them, they began to talk. "So.is this your first Wizarding School?" "yeah" "and you've been made prefects?!" "yeah its great isn't it" "damn right it is" Kristi whispered to Aurora laughing. "where you all from then?" "I'm from Essex" said three of the boys. The fourth said "I'm from Buckinghamshire" "Cool! We're from Essex too!" said Kristi, "well, Aurora isn't anymore, but she was a few weeks ago" "Wow!" said Joel, "Where abouts?" "I live between Coggeshall and Braintree" "And I'm from Southend, but now I live in Ipswich" "So am I" Joel and Pete said together There was a thud from beneath the table, and Aurora grimaced in pain (she had just kicked herself extremely hard) Kristi realised what she had just done and burst out laughing "So Tom, where are you from?" "Colchester" came the reply. Aurora was now clutching her ankle and swearing hard under her breath (she really did kick herself hard!) Tom was turned to face her and was asking if she was ok. "So" said George "Is it just you two who are prefects then?" "No, there's Trinity as well, but she's talking to her, ahem, friend Draco. She hangs around with us a lot, but she's started hanging around with Draco all the time, so sometimes she is a prefect, and then she isn't" "oh rite, so in effect, it's just you two then" Aurora sat up, the pain in her ankle having subsided. "Just out of curiosity, what did you three do last summer?" Almost simultaneously the three boys replied "We went on an archaeological dig" "so did we!" "I did last year" said Tom "where abouts?" both groups asked Together, all six of them said "Cressing Temple" "when?" "we were there in week 1, as usual" "so was I" "and me!" "I was there for the whole four weeks" At this point, Tom turned to Aurora "Sorry about the worm thing last year.it really freaked you out didn't it?" "yes it bloody did! You knew how much I hate them, and then you put it down my shirt!" Kristi burst out laughing, remembering what had happened. When she had calmed herself down, she kicked Aurora to warn her that the other three boys were listening eagerly. Aurora immediately turned to face the other three boys. "how comes you and that other girl got to share a trench together?" "Because, we've been paying Clover's wages for the past 4 years, and we work better in groups" "Of course you do" said Joel, smiling at Aurora, who was blissfully unaware that he was doing so. "we wanted a bigger hole though she said, like NETM's! Now that's what you call a hole!" "My trench was a bit of a beast" said George, I liked your trench to be honest- you had loads of finds and everything" "but they were crap finds, and incredibly predictable" Kristi nodded in agreement. At that moment, Dumbledore stood up and said, come on you lot, time for bed. Prefects, can you show the first years to their dormitories" The small group stood up. "Tom you can stay with us, seeing as we have to share a dorm" Kristi went over to the first years. Trinity was still talking to Malfoy, and was obviously oblivious to everything, apart from Malfoy. Slowly, with the first years close behind them, the made their way to the Slytherin tower. At the portrait hole, they were asked for the password "Porli" Kristi said. George gave her a strange look. "Who is Porli? You were talking about him an awful lot on the dig" Both girls tried not to laugh, this time succeeding. After depositing the first years into their respective dormitories, the group made their way up to the top of the tower, which is where the prefects dorm and bathroom was. It was the first time that any of them had seen the Dormitory. It was luxury, with thick drapes at the windows, and lovely double beds, eight of them. Kristi and Aurora chose beds opposite each other by the window. Trinity could have the one next to Kristi. In the first row, was Aurora, Joel, and Pete. In the other was Trin, Kristi, George and Tom. Despite lights out being at midnight, the group sat up into the early hours of the morning, discussing what subjects they were doing. As it turned out (yesssss) they were all doing the same things- Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, History of Magic, Transfiguration and Divination. And it was soon decided who would be sitting with who. Trin was going to sit with Malfoy (no surprises there!) Kristi with George, and Tom and Pete would be sitting together. Because they were in Slytherin, there would be no problem. It was common knowledge that Snape favoured Slytherins, and there was no doubt that he particularly favoured prefects from his house. At about 2:30am, the door opened, and Trinity walked in, looking very untidy!?! As planned, the others were carefully hidden behind their drapes. Trin was completely unaware that the boys from the dig were at Hogwarts and sharing a dorm with them. The next morning, the two girls would go and talk to her about the dig, and carry on the conversation from the previous night (about the boys from the dig) and as they got their stuff ready, George would walk out of the bathroom. Everything went to plan, and Trinity almost passed out when she realised who was sharing the dorm with them. What she didn't know was that, Tom, Joel, and Pete were also with them. A perk of being a prefect meant that they only ever had to leave the room was for lessons, and feasts. Meals could be eaten up there at a little table in the corner. The next day saw the beginning of lessons.
TIME TABLE |Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday |Thursday |Friday | |POTIONS |TRANSFIG. |FRENCH |DIVINATION |FRENCH | |POTIONS |FREE |ENGLISH |POTIONS |STUDY | |DIVINATION |C.O.M.C |DIVINATION |FREE |FREE | |FREE |C.O.M.C |POTIONS |TRANSFIG. |FREE |
"Great!" shouted Aurora "Free Lessons!" A small cheer erupted around the table. Because it was double potions first, they were instructed to wear old clothes (to avoid any disasters) upon reading this, everybody disappeared from the table, and dressed themselves in what they considered old clothes. When they re-emerged, it was hard to tell whether it was the first day of school, or the first day of the dig. Everybody was wearing the same as they had 1 month ago, with a few additions. Aurora, Trinity and Kristi were wearing make-up, and all the boys, except for George were putting gel in their hair. By the time they were ready to make their way down to the dungeon for their lesson, all 6 looked as though they were going out to a party. Potions was predictably tedious, upon arriving in the dungeon, Snape stood up. "I would like to welcome the new students to the school. Normally, your dormitories are in another dungeon, but unfortunately, Longbottom here (he gestures towards a boy at the front) decided to gut it whilst doing a detention, so we are now residing in the tower" Across the room, sat three people- Harry, Ron and Hermione, who despite being in different houses, were remarkably good friends with the girls. However, they disagreed on one thing. Snape, for reasons known only to Harry, despised him and his friends, but favoured the girls. This led to many heated discussions, and more than a few break ups. At the moment, the atmosphere between the two groups was icy. The girls didn't care though, because they were getting to know each other really well..
Inside one of the carriages sat three girls- Trinity, Kristi and Aurora. They were now 5th years at Hogwarts, and after having spent the summer together in a field, they were very tanned and happy. During the first week of the summer holidays, as previously mentioned, they had found themselves in a field in deepest, darkest Essex. Although they had passed each other in the corridors and in the form room during the previous term, on the first day, only Kristi and Aurora knew each other. Trinity, or Trin, as she liked to be known, had joined in the madness on the second day. Despite being students at Hogwarts, all three were immensely keen on archaeology, a subject that, although not taught at the school, was improved infinitely, when knowledge of magic was involved... That was how Kristi and Aurora had met, just before they started at Hogwarts. At the end of the summer term, they had been sitting in the library late one night, when they had discovered a book of spells and incantations which would allow them to find things of interest when out in the field. However, things had gone horribly wrong, and they had found nothing of substance, and narrowly escaped expulsion by having to take 3 fellow students to Madam Pomfrey in matchboxes.
When Trinity had joined them on the second day of the dig, work was pretty much forgotten, being replaced by Ogling sessions, focussing on some of the other, male students working on the site. Much to their disappointment, it seemed that all of them were muggles. This had no impact on anything though, and the girls could often be found to shout "Wahey", "Phwooooar" and "Hooha", whenever one of the boys came into a 1 mile radius. By their last day on the site, the three girls just sat and discreetly (yeah right!) watched the said boys, and that evening, as they left, all three had felt annoyed that they had been unable to talk to the boys. Aurora, due to her fathers punctuality (or lack of, as the case was) was one of the last students to leave at night. This meant that she had to sit and talk with the people camping on site until he arrived. One of the nights saw her dad being later than usual, so she sat with the campers. For some reason, on this night, most of them decided to retire to their tents or go down the pub, except for two boys. They were Joel and the Mummy. Both were extremely cute, and as luck would have it, also quite young. Much to her embarrassment, they sat down outside the hut and started chatting to her about what she had found in her trench. Much blushing was saved by her decision to drink some coffee (to steady her nerves) But to drink it, she first had to MAKE it. So she disappeared into the hut. Whilst trying not to burn herself on the kettle she distinctly heard the two boys 'whispering'. Much to her surprise, and interest, it turned out to be about her :-s "She's really nice, erm, when you talk to here isn't she. How old do you think she is?" "I'm not sure, but I reckon she's around 17?" "Yeah, probably about that"
They were interrupted by her re-emerging from the depths of the hut. Once again, they carried on talking about stuff. As can be expected, her dad chose to arrive at the most inconvenient moment- just when she was relaxing around these two people- grrrrrrrrrrrrrr (Note: Dad, if you read this, you know who you are....) Two weeks later, the girls had met at a cinema to see Pirates of the Caribbean on account of it a) Looking good, and b) having more than a couple of cute (MALE) actors in it. The film was great, and at one point, the conversation was directed to boys from the dig. This time it was one called George, an immensely cute 18 year old, who coincidentally looked somewhat like Orlando Bloom. He had, most probably unwittingly, embarrassed himself during one of the finds talks. The subject of the talk added to what he had done, made it nigh impossible for the girls to keep a straight face. This outing was followed a couple of weeks later by a final visit to the site, for the Open Day, and more importantly, the party that followed. All three had, the night before cast spells in order to ensure that the 3 cute boys would attend the dig on that day. Sadly, as with most of the spells they cast, they didn't entirely work. The Mummy turned up on site with his parents and younger brother in tow, which suggested that he was only about 18. Much to Aurora's disappointment, Joel didn't turn up. In his place though, was his hat which was good enough. George was also absent, but a photo on a noticeboard featured him working, and looking extremely annoyed, so in effect he was there too.
That was a week ago. Now, as night fell on the remote village of Hogsmeade, all they could do was reminisce, and collapse in peals of laughter at the prospect of the bone talk. The three girls stumbled out of the train, and into a waiting stagecoach. As the coach set off up a dark lane, the three girls sat, and fantasised about how funny it would be if it turned out that the boys they had met a month ago, were not actually muggles.
Ten Minutes later, the girls seated themselves at the Slytherin Table. Despite being in Slytherin, they were actually very well behaved, polite, studious girls. So well behaved in fact, they had been made prefects together! Unsurprisingly, the Slytherin table was the less well attended than the others. The doors opened, and in came Malfoy, protected upon either side by Crabbe and Goyle. Kristi looked shocked, and leaning over, she whispered to the others "Crikey! doesn't Goyle seem familiar! You don't think it was him the other week was it?" To which Trinity replied "Bloody Hell! it is Goyle!!! I didn't think it could have been him, but there can't be two of that!" Aurora nodded in agreement. Malfoy sat down next to Trinity who blushed a deep shade of red. However, she soon found herself talking to him as if nothing had happened. Unbeknownst to most of the people at the Slytherin table, Trinity and Malfoy had been a couple for the past week. On Sunday night, whilst staying at the Leaky Cauldron, she had received a text message. It was common knowledge that they both liked each other, and in the last few weeks prior to the holiday, they had become close friends. The text message had read:
Hi Trin. How are you?
I hope that you are ok
and you've had a gd hol.
was wondering if you were
doing ne thing on sat nite.
I'm in London n I wan2 know
if you'd like 2 cum out wit me,
without your m8s? txt bk, luv ya,
Draco xxx
This had been a surprise to everyone, especially Trinity, who was, unbelievably oblivious to everything that people were saying to her about she and Malfoy making a great couple. Anyway, Trin was talking to Malfoy, which meant that Kristi and Aurora could talk about things that Malfoy had said to them about her. Again, the doors opened, and the new intake of first years, with some remarkably tall people at the front, marched into the hall. Professor McGonnagal Stood at the front of the line, and placed the sorting hat on its stool. As usual it sang its song. At the end, McGonnagal stood up and spoke (for she had been briefly seated at a nearby table, where she was having a crafty cigarette!) She turned to the 5th years who were all seated at their respective tables in the corner of the room. "Girls and Boys. Before we start the sorting, I have a few announcements to make. We have some new students joining us this year. They have been sorted into Slytherin, so would it be possible for the Slytherin prefects to make their way into the entrance hall to greet their fellow students." "Shit" muttered Aurora. "There was nowt in the job description that said about meeting students!" "Bugger" answered Kristi "You'd better get Trin to leave Draco alone, it's becoming a bit too obvious" Aurora happily, but nervously obliged, and the three girls left the room and made their way to the entrance hall. As they were about to open the door, McGonnagal sidled up to them and whispered "There are 4 boys, and unfortunately no girls, so you'll have to be nice to them. Because there is no room in the male dormitory, they are going to have to share the prefect's dorm with you three. I hope you don't mind. Professor Snape will be along later on this evening to talk to you" There was some hesitation before the girls pulled out their mirrors, and sorted their hair and makeup (you never know what they'll be like) Trinity, being the most confident of the three opened the door, and let the girls out into the hall. When McGonnagal turned away, she ran back to the table and carried on chatting to Malfoy. That left just Aurora and Kristi.... they hoped for the best and walked into the hall. The four boys were sitting on the stairs, not talking to each other, but sticking together nonetheless. They all looked somewhat familiar. 3 of them were wearing prefect badges. They immediately stood up and the tallest spoke "Hi, I'm Joel...you look familiar" A marginally shorter boy, with curly hair, a squint and glasses (and beneath the cloak, a navy blue Kickflip Hoody) stood next to him muttered "1501....hi from us 3" and then, coming back to earth "I know you! Hi! I'm George!" The third prefect extended his hand towards Kristi, and then to Aurora "Hi, I'm Pete" Aurora looked down at his hand, which was covered in scars and bandage marks. The fourth boy also extended his hands with the words "Hi, I'm Tom, alright" He was quite tall, not as tall as Joel or George, but tall nonetheless. He had short spiky blond hair, and beneath his shirt was a Red Dwarf T-shirt. Kristi turned to Aurora, who, at the sight of the fourth boy, had buttoned up the top of her shirt. "Jesus! Who'd of thought that they were Wizards?" "I know! Shame Trin went back to Malfoy eh? Silly move that ;-) Oh well, looks like its just us two" "Wahey!" Turning back to face the boys, both girls were now smiling nervously. Incidentally, Aurora was still holding the top of her shirt tightly. Tom picked up on this and could distinctly be heard to mutter "worm wars" He grinned at Aurora, who tried hard not to smile back, but as with a majority of her spells, it didn't work. "Are you lot hungry?" "Yeah we bloody are!" With that, the two girls re-entered the Main Hall, with the boys in tow. The table that they had been sitting at 10 minutes earlier, was now occupied by the first years. Instead, the group headed over to a small table in the corner of the room and sat down. Aurora sat between Joel and Tom, whilst Kristi seated herself between Pete and George. As the food appeared on the table in front of them, they began to talk. "So.is this your first Wizarding School?" "yeah" "and you've been made prefects?!" "yeah its great isn't it" "damn right it is" Kristi whispered to Aurora laughing. "where you all from then?" "I'm from Essex" said three of the boys. The fourth said "I'm from Buckinghamshire" "Cool! We're from Essex too!" said Kristi, "well, Aurora isn't anymore, but she was a few weeks ago" "Wow!" said Joel, "Where abouts?" "I live between Coggeshall and Braintree" "And I'm from Southend, but now I live in Ipswich" "So am I" Joel and Pete said together There was a thud from beneath the table, and Aurora grimaced in pain (she had just kicked herself extremely hard) Kristi realised what she had just done and burst out laughing "So Tom, where are you from?" "Colchester" came the reply. Aurora was now clutching her ankle and swearing hard under her breath (she really did kick herself hard!) Tom was turned to face her and was asking if she was ok. "So" said George "Is it just you two who are prefects then?" "No, there's Trinity as well, but she's talking to her, ahem, friend Draco. She hangs around with us a lot, but she's started hanging around with Draco all the time, so sometimes she is a prefect, and then she isn't" "oh rite, so in effect, it's just you two then" Aurora sat up, the pain in her ankle having subsided. "Just out of curiosity, what did you three do last summer?" Almost simultaneously the three boys replied "We went on an archaeological dig" "so did we!" "I did last year" said Tom "where abouts?" both groups asked Together, all six of them said "Cressing Temple" "when?" "we were there in week 1, as usual" "so was I" "and me!" "I was there for the whole four weeks" At this point, Tom turned to Aurora "Sorry about the worm thing last year.it really freaked you out didn't it?" "yes it bloody did! You knew how much I hate them, and then you put it down my shirt!" Kristi burst out laughing, remembering what had happened. When she had calmed herself down, she kicked Aurora to warn her that the other three boys were listening eagerly. Aurora immediately turned to face the other three boys. "how comes you and that other girl got to share a trench together?" "Because, we've been paying Clover's wages for the past 4 years, and we work better in groups" "Of course you do" said Joel, smiling at Aurora, who was blissfully unaware that he was doing so. "we wanted a bigger hole though she said, like NETM's! Now that's what you call a hole!" "My trench was a bit of a beast" said George, I liked your trench to be honest- you had loads of finds and everything" "but they were crap finds, and incredibly predictable" Kristi nodded in agreement. At that moment, Dumbledore stood up and said, come on you lot, time for bed. Prefects, can you show the first years to their dormitories" The small group stood up. "Tom you can stay with us, seeing as we have to share a dorm" Kristi went over to the first years. Trinity was still talking to Malfoy, and was obviously oblivious to everything, apart from Malfoy. Slowly, with the first years close behind them, the made their way to the Slytherin tower. At the portrait hole, they were asked for the password "Porli" Kristi said. George gave her a strange look. "Who is Porli? You were talking about him an awful lot on the dig" Both girls tried not to laugh, this time succeeding. After depositing the first years into their respective dormitories, the group made their way up to the top of the tower, which is where the prefects dorm and bathroom was. It was the first time that any of them had seen the Dormitory. It was luxury, with thick drapes at the windows, and lovely double beds, eight of them. Kristi and Aurora chose beds opposite each other by the window. Trinity could have the one next to Kristi. In the first row, was Aurora, Joel, and Pete. In the other was Trin, Kristi, George and Tom. Despite lights out being at midnight, the group sat up into the early hours of the morning, discussing what subjects they were doing. As it turned out (yesssss) they were all doing the same things- Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, History of Magic, Transfiguration and Divination. And it was soon decided who would be sitting with who. Trin was going to sit with Malfoy (no surprises there!) Kristi with George, and Tom and Pete would be sitting together. Because they were in Slytherin, there would be no problem. It was common knowledge that Snape favoured Slytherins, and there was no doubt that he particularly favoured prefects from his house. At about 2:30am, the door opened, and Trinity walked in, looking very untidy!?! As planned, the others were carefully hidden behind their drapes. Trin was completely unaware that the boys from the dig were at Hogwarts and sharing a dorm with them. The next morning, the two girls would go and talk to her about the dig, and carry on the conversation from the previous night (about the boys from the dig) and as they got their stuff ready, George would walk out of the bathroom. Everything went to plan, and Trinity almost passed out when she realised who was sharing the dorm with them. What she didn't know was that, Tom, Joel, and Pete were also with them. A perk of being a prefect meant that they only ever had to leave the room was for lessons, and feasts. Meals could be eaten up there at a little table in the corner. The next day saw the beginning of lessons.
TIME TABLE |Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday |Thursday |Friday | |POTIONS |TRANSFIG. |FRENCH |DIVINATION |FRENCH | |POTIONS |FREE |ENGLISH |POTIONS |STUDY | |DIVINATION |C.O.M.C |DIVINATION |FREE |FREE | |FREE |C.O.M.C |POTIONS |TRANSFIG. |FREE |
"Great!" shouted Aurora "Free Lessons!" A small cheer erupted around the table. Because it was double potions first, they were instructed to wear old clothes (to avoid any disasters) upon reading this, everybody disappeared from the table, and dressed themselves in what they considered old clothes. When they re-emerged, it was hard to tell whether it was the first day of school, or the first day of the dig. Everybody was wearing the same as they had 1 month ago, with a few additions. Aurora, Trinity and Kristi were wearing make-up, and all the boys, except for George were putting gel in their hair. By the time they were ready to make their way down to the dungeon for their lesson, all 6 looked as though they were going out to a party. Potions was predictably tedious, upon arriving in the dungeon, Snape stood up. "I would like to welcome the new students to the school. Normally, your dormitories are in another dungeon, but unfortunately, Longbottom here (he gestures towards a boy at the front) decided to gut it whilst doing a detention, so we are now residing in the tower" Across the room, sat three people- Harry, Ron and Hermione, who despite being in different houses, were remarkably good friends with the girls. However, they disagreed on one thing. Snape, for reasons known only to Harry, despised him and his friends, but favoured the girls. This led to many heated discussions, and more than a few break ups. At the moment, the atmosphere between the two groups was icy. The girls didn't care though, because they were getting to know each other really well..