This is my first attempt at this so I hope that it comes out right! Please review! The story is based in Harry and co.'s 5th year.

All these characters belong to J.K ….thanks for your great work



Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall discussing the new year.

"I cant wait for the Quidditch start!" exclaimed Harry.

"We'll win for sure," replied Ron confidently, "with you as our Seeker how can we loose! Right Hermione?"

"huh?" said Hermione rather distractedly.

"Quidditch!!!!!" burst out Ron.

"whose that new girl?" asked Hermione, ignoring Ron's out burst.

"don't know maybe she's new," Suggested Harry.

The new girl was fairly tall with hair as black as the night but with skin as white as a ghost. She was wearing a long black dress and thick leather boots. Behind her professor McGonagall was talking to Dumbledore. Presently professor McGonagall and the new girl left and Dumbledore called in the first years for there sorting.

Kerial followed McGonagall up corridors and down stairs, at first she tried to keep track of where they were going but soon had to give up. She had just come to England, her parents lived in Romania and had decided to send her to Hogwarts on her own. She didn't care, she had never seen much of her parents before anyways they'd always been off on holidays or at conventions and stuff like that, she was actually happy to be away. They stopped abruptly at a Stone Dragon.

"Gremlins!" she commanded and the dragon moved to reveal a long winding stair case. They walked up and found themselves in Dumbledore's office. There Dumbledore was waiting with the sorting hat.

1.1 "Now let me see, Oh yes….Miss Kerial Dark, we've been expecting you," said Dumbledore, "well lets get you sorted into your house and then we can work out your timetable!"

1.2 Dumbledore reached for the old hat and barely placed it on Kerial's head when it screamed,

1.3 "Slytherin!"

"Well that's that Welcome to Hogwarts," and with a wave of his wand Dumbledore conjured up a timetable for Kerial, "Professor Snape will escort you to the Slytherin quarters, see you around Miss Dark,"

Kerial turned around to see a tall man with a grim but satisfied expression on his face.

"follow me," he told her.

They wandered down some more corridors and eventually came to a painting.

"slithering snakes" he told the picture and it swung open to reveal the Slytherin common room. It had a fire in one corner and someone's Owl was perched on a chair, apart from the owl everyone was gone. Probably still at the feast she guessed.

Snape turned towards her smiling, "this is the Slytherin Tower the password for this week is slithering snakes, it always changes so ask the prefects if you get stuck. I'm in charge of this house so if you have any queries come straight to me. Your things are in the girls dormitory, stair case on the left."

Then he turned and walked of. She stepped inside the door and immediately felt at home in the place, the walls were decorated with interesting tapestries of battles and dragons and there were silver and green snakes decorating the fire mantel. She sighed softly,

"yes," she thought, "this year is going to be very interesting."