Hey guys! So I hope you enjoy this. The is dedicated to a very good friend to me, Tarie. Love you3
"Her name is Ivy"
"I heard she already knows advanced magic."
"Her hair is so long!"
"I heard she has a nose ring!"
"She's weird."
"I heard she's going to be in Slytherin."
The whispers follow me around school. Its my first time here, even though I'll be picking up as a fourth year. I'm 14, my name is Ivy, and everyone is both curious and terrified of me. We moved from Finland to England for my parent's jobs. My parents are not married, I was merely a mistake after a drunken evening durin their teenage years. Dad and Mum are both aurors, and while they aren't married, they are best friends and have houses next door to each other.
"Sorting will begin momentarily!" Professor McGonogal announces. I wait with the 11 year old first years and while it is uncomfortable, I know that within minutes I'll be in my own house with others my age. Dad was in Gryffindor, Mum was in Hufflepuff.
"Jackson Anders!" A small boy with blond hair and tan skin jumps up onto the stool, closing is eyes and grasping on to the bottom of the seat.
"Ravenclaw!" The hat yells. I smile as he jumps up and runs over to his cheering table and high fives another boy who appears to be his brother. The list continues until I am about to be called, and I prepare by getting to the front of the crowd.
"Ivy N. Lupin!" I walk up to the stool and watch as a dark haired boy shuffles around to look at me, scrunching his eyes. I sit on the bench, and the hat is placed on my head.
"Ahhh, some Hufflepuff in your blood eh? And some Gryffindor. Snarky, but I also see bravery, and definitely loyalty. Hmmm….I'd say, GRYFFINDOR!" I stand, and make my way over to the Gryffindor table.
"Come sit with us!" A red headed boy yells. I look and find 3 other red headed children near by, all siblings I presume.
"Hello" I say.
"Hi, I'm Hermione Granger, nice to meet you." A girl with puffy brown hair extends her hand across the table.
"Ivy" I reach back across the table and shake her hand politely.
"I'm Ron, Ron Weasley." The red headed kid says.
"I take it the twins and that girl are your siblings?" I laugh when Ron grimaces.
"Hey, Ivy." Harry says.
"Dad didn't tell you?" I ask him. He shakes his head.
"Wait…what?" Hermione asks.
"Sorry, you guys know my dad, right? Professor Lupin?"
"Yes, but-"
"Harry was hanging out with Sirius one day and Dad and I stopped over. Have you met Mum at all yet?" I ask Harry.
"I believe I have not."
"She's where I get my dreaded middle name. The awful part is, she hates it as well, so I'm lost behind her reasoning to hand it down to me."
"So your Dad is Professor Lupin, and your Mum is who?" Hermione asks. I chuckle.
'My mum's name is Nympadora Tonks, but she just goes by Tonks. She is an auror, and a mighty good one I may add. Shes a metamaphmagus so that is helpful to her."
"You are as well, aren't you?" I hear a snearing voice behind me and turn.
"Ahh, Draco, what an…ever so unpleasant surprise." I smile at my ex-cousin. "And yes, I am as well." I then change my eye color to a vibrant red as I stare into his eyes. He turns on his heels and walks away. I laugh and Dumbledore makes his speech. The food arrives and everyone piles up. I looked over to find the Weasley girl watching me. I smiled at her and she quickly looked down, blushing.
*Later*
We got to the common room in the Gryffindor tower soon after we finished eating. The castle was beautiful, made out of stone. The Gryffindor tower was no less amazing, homey and welcome. The common room has tables and chairs for studying, two couches, a few plush chairs, a fire place, and windows that looked over different sections of the school. The staircase lead up to the different dorms, which from what I gathered are mainly for sleeping. Because of the odd numbers, the third year girls were split up so that one girl actually got her own room. The room was the same, large and fit up to 7 girls, but this was the only room for her. All other rooms were filled to a crushing capacity, and so now that I'm here, I'll share it with her.
I sat in the common room with everyone else as they asked me questions about Durmstrang.
"What was it like?" Ron asked.
"Cold." I smiled. "We were stationed there so that my Mum could keep an eye on Karkarov and dad took a job teaching, also to watch. He's a known ex-Death Eater. Last year I studied at Durmstrang while Dad was here so that Mum could finish up her station, do the paper work, and train the next person. So while, yes I did go there, I'm not like…dark. It was cold, and felt like it, the building itself, would kick me out." I shiver. "How ever, I was very good friends with a certain Viktor Krum." I waggled my eye brows. Ron's jaw dropped, along with many of the other boys.
"What were the uniforms?" One of the girls asked.
"The boys wore dark brown or red pants and red or brown jackets with a white, brown or red thermal shirt underneath. The cloaks were red. The girls wore either brown pants, brown skirt, red skirt, or brown or red dress. The shirt is a thermal, either red or white, or brown. Jacket is either brown or red. We had fur hats too, both brown and red. They kept us warm and in school colors." I laughed.
"Are the boys cute?" A girl named Lavender Brown asked.
"Some of them I guess." I shrugged, glancing at Ginny quickly.
"Are the girls pretty?"
"Very. Many of them are from Finland, Denmark, those areas. They have fair skin, light hair, and blue eyes." I say. "Some though were from Bulgaria, Russia, those areas. They had darker hair and eyes, and more of an olive tone in their skin. But it's cold, so every girl has long hair."
"Are the classes any different?"
"Different names maybe, not necessarily different subject matter." I shrugged again.
"Where were you born?" I froze at this.
"I'm not quite sure." I whispered. It's silent.
"Well, I'd say lets take this time to go to bed, it's pretty late." Hermione said. Fred and George fake yawned and I went off to shower. When I got back to my room I found out my roommate was Ginny Weasley. I blushed as I walked by her.
"Which bed is yours?" I ask her. She points.
"Because there's only two of us, our beds are bigger. They magically grow the more space they have." I nodded to see she was right, there was a queen sized bed waiting for me. I sighed at flopped onto my bed.
"So, how do you like it here? Better than Durmstrang?" I thought of my ex, and how bad of a break up it was.
"Its nicer here and its definitely better than Durmstrang." I roll my eyes. Ginny notices.
"Why's that?" She cocks her head to look at me.
"I don't have to get up and see my ex every morning for the next 3 years." I sigh.
"How long did you two date?"
"Two and a half years. She cheated on me with my best friend."
"I'm sorry. That must be- wait she?" Ginny sat upright, a small smile danced on her face before she could suppress it.
"Um…yea…" I held my breath and squeezed my eyes shut.
"Oh…." She trails off.
"I'm sorry, you probably hate me now. I can switch rooms if you want."
"No! It's fine, don't worry about it."