The first years exited the Transfiguration classroom in a huge clump. Daphne Greengrass had her head in a book. Gregory Goyle (Greg to his friends) and Vincent Crabbe were complaining about how McGonagall took points off for them two being late for class and was biased (Daphne didn't think so), Vincent blabbing stupid excuses about getting lost, which Daphne thought was an extremely simple problem to solve. She wished they would just shut up about it, but was too shy to tell them. Luckily, Tracy Davis and Draco Malfoy did it for him as they, too, were annoyed to death. She knew that logic explained that if your school is in a massive castle and it is your first day and likely to get lost, you should head out fifteen minutes early in case one gets lost. Draco and Tracy shared the same logic but headed out ten minutes early instead of fifteen. She could not blame them; as they knew the school much better than she did.
"Hello, Tracy," greeted Pansy Parkinson, a bossy Slytherin in their year. "Your tie is loose, did you know? You should fix it and I don't want any points off because of you."
Tracy rolled her eyes but fixed her tie anyways, as she knew the consequences when she disrespected Pansy. She would most likely get in trouble with their head of house, Professor Snape, Pansy's parents, and many others.
"Hey, Daphne, what are you reading?" teased Gregory. He snatched the book, still holding the page she was on and chuckled. "Hogwarts, a History. Well, well! Didn't your parents already tell you all about Hogwarts?"
"Hey! It is extremely fascinating! Did you know that the name 'Hogwarts' was Rowena Ravenclaw, a founder's idea!? She believed that a Hoggy Wart- wait, no that's not right- a Warty Hog, for goodness-sake, led her to this place, this cliff over a lake? I bet you didn't know that. Plus, my parents only told me about the luxurious Slytherin common rooms." retorted Daphne.
Tracy laughed "As much as I strongly encourage you to read, don't get me wrong, I like reading as well, I don't however, recommend reading in an extremely busy hallway where you can bump into people and-"
Too late. Daphne rammed straight into Vincent, who screamed like a little child who stubbed his toe on some carpet. He fell backward onto Tracy, who crashed into Pansy. Daphne toppled onto the ground, with her book ripped, pouting.
She lifted her wand to the book and chanted "Reparo!"
Daphne crossed her arms with the book inside them, getting up off the cold, hard ground.
Greg snatched the book (again) and sniggered "There are better uses to this heavy book than reading!" and dropped the book on Vincent's foot.
They burst into laughter as Greg gave the book back before Vincent could process (or realize, for the matter) what heavy object had suddenly dropped on his foot while he was busy complaining.
"Okay Gregory, that is almost a better use of the book than reading" chuckled Daphne, watching Vincent hop and sway all around the hallway in random directions, clutching his foot and howling.
"Still, you should not read in the halls." the others persisted.
Daphne huffed, declared that she was 7 seconds late for Charms and stalked off, skirt billowing out behind her.
"Mental, that one," grumbled Vincent, still clutching his sore foot. Then, he fell over.
In Charms, the class was learning the levitation spell, Wingardium Leviosa. One idiotic Slytherin, (in Daphne's opinion) could not understand the pronunciation, so she really couldn't stop herself from correcting the idiot.
"You could really take someone's eye out. It's LeviOsa, not LeviosAAAAAAA. Make the gar nice and long."
"Then you do it then, if you're so clever!"
If looks could kill, Vincent (and many others) would've been dead. She rolled up her sleeves and chanted "Wingardium Leviosa!"
Tracy narrowed her eyes in concentration and felt like throwing her feather into the air. Fortunately, she didn't, but she did manage to levitate her feather for one second before it fell onto the ground.
Daphne was now steering her feather around the room. She was tickling all the people whom she thought the most annoying and making them think that she couldn't control her feather, when in fact, she could do it ease.
Professor Flitwick almost fell off his stack of tomes in excitement and announced: "Miss Greengrass and Miss Davis have done it!"
Pansy clapped along with Draco and Gregory, all three of them glad for the excitement. Even though she didn't dare admit it. Pansy was almost jealous of Daphne for learning the charm so fast.