A/N: Whee, it's finally here, the fic we've all been waiting for.. not. This is the fic without a name and without a plot. =D I'll call it The Randomness Of Hogwarts for now, if somebody knows a LOGICAL title, tell me!
Disclaimer: I don't own any original HP character, but the characters you don't recognize are mine or my friends'.
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Chapter One
"Station Hogsmeade, next stop," the train conductor called out as everyone hastily looked outside to catch a glimpse of Hogwarts.
"Whoopee," an un-interested Amy called out, rolling her eyes while her friend, Virginia, jumped up from her seat and almost bumped against the window. "Really, what were you expecting to see? It's just a big building with lots of windows with a little 'School' sign in front of it," Amy said, Virginia turned around.
"Just shut up. You're always being so negative about everything, I'm just happy because I'm going to be a witch. Don't ruin my fun, okay? Thanks," she said while she threw an angry look towards Amy. "... Okay," Amy replied, looking like she didn't even heard what Virginia just said.
Five minutes after that, the train slowly stopped. Everyone took their bags and exited their compartments, to see an enormous space with loads of students. Lots of first years, but older ones too. Amy and Virginia exited the train and looked around. Virginia's jaw dropped when she saw a giant castle in the distance, while Amy was looking as bored as ever.
"First years! This way please!" A loud voice called out, Amy shrieked as a man of at least twelve feet stood there, holding a lamp. Loads of small students, the first years, stepped towards him with a bit of fear in their eyes. Two boys, one with red hair and lots of freckles, and one with black hair and glasses, stepped towards the man.
"Hi, Hagrid," The boy with the black hair said with a smile. The large man smiled back at him, while the red-haired one let out a little "Whoa!", while looking at the size of the man compared to the rest of the people that were on the station.
"Oops, sorry," A girl that just bumped into Amy said, gaining a deathly glare from Amy. She dropped to her knees and got the things that she dropped; a bunch of chocolate frogs and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. Amy snorted. "Hello, I'm Virginia Paltry," Virginia said while she smiled at the girl, "Nice to meet you." The girl smiled back and looked at Amy with a fearful face. ".. Hello, I'm Kelly.. Kelly Hooning," she said while she hurried towards the man with the lamp.
Amy watched her back and snorted again. "Hmpf. Some people can be too nice. I don't like people like her," she said while she observed Kelly's back. "She seems pretty nice to me," Virginia said while she turned to Amy, "But you need to work on yourself. You're way too bitchy, you scare everyone away!" she hissed.
"Do not!" Amy replied, looking slightly annoyed.
"Do!"
"Do not!"
"Do!"
Amy looked around. Every single person was looking in their direction. She turned slightly pink and snorted again, then followed the man with the lamp. He led them towards a lake, with some boats in it.
"A'ight.. Them boats 'ere will bring yer all to 'ogwarts over there," He said while pointing at a huge castle. Amy's jaw dropped for the first time that night. The castle that Virginia spotted earlier seemed to be quite larger when seen from their current location than from where they stood ten minutes ago. "Y'all go in them boats by four.. They 'ill bring yer to the castle by 'emselves."
Virginia stepped into a random boat, relieved to see Kelly was in the same boat. With them was a boy with rather long, black, straight hair and yellowish-brown eyes, and another boy with short, dark hair and green-yellowish eyes. The first one smiled at Virginia and sat next to her.
"Hi, I'm Blaise, Blaise Zabini," he said while Virginia observed him.
"I'm Virginia Paltry, nice to meet you," she replied while she quickly flashed him a smile. She scanned around, looking for Amy.
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".. Tell me again, why exactly do we have to make a grand entry in some boats to a SCHOOL?" Amy asked while she was eyeing the other three people in her boat. It were two girls, who were sitting next to eachother, and one boy, who was sitting next to Amy. One of the girls was looking extremely bored and had long, dark-blonde hair and brown eyes, she introduced herself as Nyssa Sager. The other girl had rather short black hair, and the same shade of eyes with an unpleasant look in them. Amy didn't like her, nor did she asked her for her name. The boy, who was looking around very arrogantly, had slicked back blonde hair and rather cute gray eyes. The unknown girl was gossiping to Nyssa about everyone she had seen, it was quite annoying.
".. And that boy, the small one, he was SO ugly! He was like a mini-midget! And that girl with the pink hair, HORRIBLE! And then there was--" she spoke, while no one was really listening. Suddenly the boy turned to her and started to speak. "Parkinson, just SHUT THE FUCK UP," he said, while turning over to the lake.
"Oh, I'm sorry that I'm the only one here who's actually amusing herself, Draco," she replied while she death-glared the boy's back. Amy and Nyssa eyed eachother and shot some annoyed faces towards eachother. The other girl started her little gossip-talk immediately after Draco's outburst again.
"Yes, and that boy in that boat with three other girls, he's really annoying. The only thing he can do is being annoyed and run to daddy if something bad happens," she said while she casted a quick look towards Draco.
"Shut UP, Pansy!" Draco called out.
"Or else?"
"Or else I'm gonna tell my d--"
"Aww, Little Drakey is gonna call his daddy," Pansy said with a teasing tone in her voice. Amy just grabbed Draco before he jumped towards Pansy to hit her in the face, like he was planning to.
"Can't you all just SHUT THE GODDAMN FUCK UP?!" Nyssa suddenly yelled, everyone eyed her and immediately everything went silent.
Pansy just looked around the three people in her boat and casted them some looks after she fully observed them. Draco still looked like he could beat the shit out of Pansy any moment, but stared at the lake while doing that. Nyssa was throwing some angry faces towards Pansy, and Amy just stared into the lake.
"What's that?" Amy suddenly said while pointing at something in the lake. Pansy and Nyssa ignored her, Draco looked over to the place she was pointing to.
"I dunno, must be a creature that's living here I guess," he said. Amy looked deeper into the lake while trying to see what it was that she saw there. Draco just went back to his staring position, but the thing that seemed to be circling around their boat caugt his eye as well. He too bended over the back of the boat and looked at the water.
Suddenly, Pansy smirked. She walked over to Amy and Draco's backs and pushed the both of them into the lake. Nyssa immediately got up and ran over to the side of the boat and peered into the water to see if they were alright.
As soon as Amy and Draco reached the surface, Pansy bursted into a big, creepy laughter. Nyssa rolled her eyes and pulled both Amy and Draco back into the boat. Draco immediately ran at Pansy and tried to strangle her, but Nyssa stopped him.
"Tell me," Draco said when he finally sat down, "Why is it that that cow over there gets to push me in the lake," he pointed at Pansy, "And I don't even get to kick her ass for it?"
"Yeah, I was wondering the same," Amy followed up, "Strangling her would be just the thing that would lighten up my mood."
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"So, Blaise.. Do you know what's going to happen when we arrive at Hogwarts?" Virginia asked, she didn't have the slightest idea of what would happen to her in that enormous building.
"Well, I heard they're gonna sort you into one of the four houses, and you gotta follow lessons and blah. You gotta earn points for your house by doing.. good things, and you can lose points by breaking rules. At the end of the year, the house with the most points earns a trophy or so," Blaise responded.
"And the houses are?"
"Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin."
"Which one are you going to be in?""I don't know, I guess Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. I'd hate it to be in Slytherin, Slytherins are evil.."
".. They are? Oh. Guess Amy will end up there afterall.."
Blaise looked at Virginia questioningly. "Oh, Amy is my sort-of friend. She's kinda evil and stuff so she'll be in Slytherin I guess."
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"Yeah? And you?" Kelly asked while she looked expectingly at the boy next to her, Seamus.
"Nope. I'm a halfblood, my mom's a witch. My dad's a muggle." Seamus replied.
"And do you have any brothers or sisters?" Kelly asked.
"Nope, you?"
"Yeah, I have a little sister. She's a nightmare, honestly,"
Seamus grinned and peered at the lake again. He was bored.
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Then, all the boats stopped at the shore. Everyone got out and gaped up at the giant castle in front of them. The man, Hagrid, told them to follow him to the entrance. The kids walked in and followed a hall, turned around a corner and went up some stairs, to see a woman in green robes with square-glasses standing there.
"The doors behind me contain the Great Hall. The sorting ceremony will be held here soon," she said, while entering the giant doors behind her.
Suddenly, Draco walked up to the boy with the glasses.
"So it's true then.. What they were saying on the train," he smirked and looked at the boy, "Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts." Some kids started whispering and looked up to Harry in awe. Draco pointed at two large boys behind him.
"This is Crabbe, and Goyle. And I'm Malfoy. Draco Malfoy," he said, the boy with the red hair couldn't help but laugh. Draco casted an angry look towards him.
"Think my name's funny, do you? No need to ask for yours. Red hair, and a hand-me-down robe? You must be a Weasley," he said, the boy's smile vanished. "You'll soon find out that some wizarding families are better than others, Potter, you don't want to make friends with the wrong sort," he casted the red-haired boy a meaningful look, "I can help you there." he said while he held out his hand.
Harry looked at Draco and simply said, "I think I can sort the wrong sort for myself, thanks."
At that moment, the Great Hall's doors opened and the woman stepped out. She poked Draco, who turned around and walked away towards the back of the crowd. "We're ready for you now. Follow me," the woman said while she entered the Great Hall, with the students this time.
As soon as they entered those big doors, their jaws dropped. The room they were in was huge. There were five tables in it, all filled with people, mostly students. Everywhere they looked, candles flew. The roof was gone; they could all see the night sky.
"It's not really the ceiling. It's just bewitched, to make it look like the night sky. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History," A girl with bushy brown hair whispered to the girl that was walking next to her.
"Amy! Where were you?" Virginia almost yelled when she spotted Amy, walking next to Draco and Nyssa. ".. Why are you so.. wet?" She asked when she saw Amy's clothes and hair were still dripping with the lake's water.
Amy turned towards Pansy, who was walking before them. "Oh, it's nothing really, just a certain someone pushed us out of the boat," she said, Pansy turned around and smirked. She wanted to give Amy a big outburst, but Nyssa stepped in, "Yeah, but maybe you kinda asked for it? Weren't you the one who was giving her death glares all the time?" she said towards Amy.
"Yeah, maybe I was, but that does NOT give her the right to nearly drown me!" Amy shot back.
"It doesn't?"
"No!"
"Why not?"
"Because.. erh.." Amy thought about it a while and decided that she should shut up. Virginia, who had saw this whole scene, threw an evil glare towards Nyssa, who unfortunately for Virginia, saw this.
"Yo," she started as she walked up to Virginia. "'sup? What's your problem?"
"Oh, uh, nothing really," Virginia replied while she did a few steps backwards.
"Right. And your name was?"
"Uh, Virginia. Virginia Paltry."
"Right," Nyssa said while she took out a notebook and scribbled something on it, "You're now officially the first one at this school that annoys me with her presence," she gave the note she was writing to Virginia.
Virginia took the note and read it. "Congrats, you're now officially hated by Nyssa Sager. This will mean that I, Nyssa, will ruin your life by any means from now on. Have a nice day." Nyssa smiled broadly at Virginia and started to laugh. "Goodbye, sucker," she said while walking towards the front of the line of students.
Suddenly, they stopped walking. Kelly did not notice, bumped into Amy again and gained another annoyed look. Everyone looked at the front of the Great Hall, the woman stood there with a small stool and a big, old, black hat."Now, when I call your name, you will come forward. I shall place the Sorting Hat on your head, and you'll be sorted into your houses," she said, while opening a roll of parchment. "Hannah Abbot," she said, a girl walked up and sat down on the stool.
"Hmm.. Hufflepuff!" The hat yelled after a few seconds, Hannah ran over to the cheering table. "Susan Bones," the woman read from her parchment, a girl walked up to the stool and looked a little scared.
"Hmm.. I know.. Hufflepuff!" the hat yelled, while Susan sat next to Hannah at the cheering table.
"Terry Boot," The woman said, a boy came up and the hat spoke, "Ravenclaw!", the table next to the Hufflepuffs bursted into applause.
"Mandy Brocklehurst," a girl walked up and sat down, to be sorted into Ravenclaw and sit down next to Terry.
Next, Lavender Brown was the first one to be sorted into Gryffindor. Millicent Bulstrode and Vincent Crabbe became the first Slytherins.
Mike Dorn was now being called. He walked up to the stool, fake-tripped over his feet, noticed no one laughed, turned slightly pink and sat down. "Ravenclaw!" The hat yelled.
"Justin Finch-Fletchley" was called, and ran over to the Hufflepuff table a few seconds later. "Seamus Finnigan," the woman called, Kelly's friend ran over to the stool and got sorted into Gryffindor. After him, Gregory Goyle got sorted into Slytherin and sat down next to Vincent Crabbe.
"Hermione Granger," the woman called out, the girl with the bushy brown hair stepped forward and slightly panicked. "Gryffindor!" the hat said, Hermione sighed with relief.
"Shakira.. van de Hoek?" the woman said, a small girl with long blonde hair and a pink dress stepped to the stool. "Hmm.. Gryffindor!" the hat yelled, Shakira walked to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Hermione.
Kelly was called out next. She looked kinda nervous and was shaking a little bit.
"Oh Merlin, does this sorting thing have to take THIS LONG?" Amy said while she rolled her eyes, and Kelly ran over to the Slytherin table. "I mean, they're just calling some names and some blah with that hat, that doesn't have to t-"Amy stopped when Virginia poked her.
"Whàt?" she asked.
".. It's your turn," Virginia said while she pointed at the woman who was waiting unpatiently. Amy turned a bit red and stepped up to the stool.
"Slytherin!" the hat called out immediately, Amy ran over to the table, relieved that she could at least sit down.
"Hiya Amy!" Kelly said, Amy did not noticed she sat down next to her.
"... Hello," Amy said in a bored voice, she turned around to watch the sorting ceremony.
"Neville Longbottom" was sorted into Gryffindor, and réally tripped on his way to the stool. After him, Ernie Macmillan got sorted into Hufflepuff, and Draco got called. He walked up to the stool and before he even sat down properly, the hat yelled "Slytherin!". Draco ran over to the Slytherin table and sat down between Amy and the Goyle kid.
"Virginia Paltry," the woman called out.
"Oh, I hope Virginia gets sorted here too.." Amy said.
"I don't think so, she's a goody-goody. Gryffindor, I know it almost sure," Draco replied.
"Hmm.. Right.. Gryffindor!" The sorting hat yelled, Virginia walked over to the Gryffindor table and looked around dissappointed.
"See?" Draco said with a smirk.
"Pansy Parkinson," the woman called, Pansy walked up to the stool.
"Not Slytherin, Anything but Slytherin!" Amy said, but unfortunately for her, the hat yelled "Slytherin!", and Pansy sat down between her and Draco.
"Yo Parkinson, bugger off, you're blocking my view," Amy said while she tried to push Pansy off the bench, unsuccesful.
"Don't touch me!" Pansy yelled, while she poked Draco. "Drakie! That ... thing is touching me!"
"So?" Draco said while he wiped the spot where Pansy poked him.
"Padma Patil" got sorted into Ravenclaw, and her twin, Parvati Patil into Gryffindor.
"Harry Potter," the woman called out, the entire Hall went silent. "Harry Potter?" was whispered around by two or three people.
"Hmm.. Difficult, very difficult.. Plenty of courage, I see.. Not a bad mind, either.. There's talent, oh yes.. And a thirst to prove yourself.. But where to put you?" The sorting hat spoke. Harry closed his eyes and muttered a little 'Not slytherin'.
"Not Slytherin, eh?" the hat spoke. "You could be great, you know, it's all here, in your head. And Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness; there's no doubt about that!" Harry still was muttering the two words, and the hat finished with "No? Well, if you're sure.. Better be.. Gryffindor!"
The Gryffindor table's applause was the loudest one yet that night, and for the first time that night, the headmaster applauded.
"Nyssa Sager," the woman called out, Nyssa stepped towards the stool and sat down. The hat immediately yelled out "Ravenclaw!", Nyssa joined the others on the Ravenclaw table. "Dean Thomas" was the next Gryffindor, and now Harry's friend, Ron Weasley, stepped forwards.
"Ah! Another Weasley.. I know just what to do with you.. Gryffindor!" The hat yelled, Ron sighed with relief and sat down next to Harry.
"Ava White," the woman said, a girl with long, curly brown hair and dark green eyes stepped towards the hat. It yelled out "Gryffindor!" before it even touched her. Ava joined the rest of Gryffindor and sat down next to Virginia, who greeted her with a little 'hi'.
"Evie Wilson" was called out now. She arrogantly walked up to the hat and sat down. "Ravenclaw!" it yelled, Evie joined the other Ravenclaws.
"And final, Blaise Zabini," the woman called out. Blaise was relieved that it was finally his turn, he was standing there all alone and the entire Great Hall was gaping at him.
"Hmm.. Let's see.. Slytherin!" the hat yelled after a few seconds, Blaise cursed it under his breath and sat down between Pansy and Amy, who were still arguing about nothing.
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A/N: Yay the first chap is done.. go me ¬¬ Nothing really happens here, promise chapter two will be more.. eventful. This was just a little.. eh.. introduction.
A/N 2: Yeah, I .. redid the 5 feet thingie.. Thanks Werewolf's One, for noticing it