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Chapter 2: BREAKFAST!
My first night at Hogwarts was probably the best night I ever had. The food at the feast was delicious, I had a very good conversation with a fellow Hufflepuff, and to top it all off my bed was huge and comfy. I got so excited when I saw my bed, because there was a canopy thing over it. That means privacy. I like privacy.
When I got up that next morning I was really happy. Usually when I wake up I'm like a zombie, just grunting my way around and barely moving. But that morning I woke up feeling fully rested and ready to begin my day. Nobody else seemed to be awake, so I quietly tiptoed towards the round door and open it. I walked down a little tunnel and arrived into the common room. Last night I never really got a good look at it, I was much too tired. But now that I was awake I was able to see that it was very nice. Big arm chairs and everything is black and yellow. It kind of made me feel like a rich young lady.
See, my whole family may be wizards but we're not exactly rich. There are of course rich people in my family, like my aunt and uncle, but they decided to buy a mansion in a muggle neighborhood. They really like muggles, I think it's because they like to look like they have a big secret and be scary to everyone they live near. They find it funny.
Anyway, my immediate family is not very rich at all. My father is from a really rich wizard family but they believe in making your own money so he didn't get any money to work with. My mother on the other hand comes from a very poor wizarding family. She's half Italian, so that half of her came from Italy without too much money on hand.
The common room was so pretty and rich looking that I almost didn't want to sit down on the sofa. I was way too scared that I would ruin it some how.
I slowley walked around the room taking everything in. I stopped at the fireplace and stared at it in awe. I almost never see fireplaces, even though they're very useful to travel by. Not that I would, there are way too many things that could go wrong. But mostly it's because my Grandma's never liked them. Everyhouse she's ever lived in she's taken out the fireplace, no matter how pretty it looks. My family's house right now used to be my Grandma's old one, so there's no fireplace mainly because we've never felt the need for one. We usually just use portkeys to travel, unless we go visit my aunt and uncle. Then we just rent a car and drive it. They want to seem a little normal around their neighbors so we help them there.
My stomache growled, telling me that I should probably go eat breakfast. I got up to the common room door and stared at the paper next to it. The Hufflepuff house puts that paper there with the password on it, that way we don't forget it. For now it's "Huffalump". I don't think I'll forget the password any time soon.
I walked out of the door and closed it behind me. The door to the Common room is a painting of fancy people at a table. They're quite freindly too. Thankfully I don't have to walk very far to the Great Hall. I just have to walk up a staircase to the Entrace Hall and BAM! I'm at breakfast.
When I entered the Great Hall I was suprised that there was barely anyone there. Then I remembered that it was still kind of early. I looked over at the Hufflepuff table and saw that there was one other person over there. They were reading a book so I sat a little further away so I wouldn't bother them. I also sat where I could see the most of the other tables, that way I didn't have my back turned to them. I don't like people staring at my back...
When I sat down I looked at all the breakfast food in front of me. Now usually I love sweet things, exspecially chocolate, but in the mornings I can never eat anything sweet. So I grabbed some toast, eggs over easy, and hash browns. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to have any other kind of breakfast while I went to Hogwarts. I also grabbed a large cup of coffee. Of course I can't drink coffee black so I put about 5 spoon fulls of sugar and quite a bit of creamer. I may not eat anything sweet but drinking sugar I can handle.
I sipped at my coffee and smiled. I was going to get so hyper by the time I get to my first class. I looked over at the Slytherin and Ravenclaw tables that were in front of me. There was quite a few Ravenclaws and about six Slytherins. Behind me there was two Gryffindors. Two of the Slytherins were my ex-boat buddies, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe. It looked like they were being typicall boys, which intitled them to shove their faces with food. I smiled thinking that they really couldn't be all that bad.
Last night at dinner, Cedric Diggory, a third year student, was telling me and the other first years about the Slytherin reputation. Apparently a lot of bad wizards came from that house, also a lot of Slytherins like to mess with people. Mainly Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors. He told us to tell him if we ever get picked on by them. He said he'd talk to them about it and get them to stop. Apparenlty the best way to deal with a Slytherin is to not get mad. If you just talk to them about it in a calm like manner then they'll get bored and stop picking on you for the fear of having to listen to that again. I think that's why they leave Ravenclaws alone. They don't react to Slytherins all that much, making them very boring targets.
Gryffindors on the other hand have very violent reactions. Most of them get really mad pretty fast and don't know how to ignore insults all that well. Hufflepuffs aren't great at ignoring insults either, we just get over them at record time. Some of us have learned to not react but it's hard. Slytherins like to mess with Hufflepuffs because we take their abuse without too much of a fuss. Not enough to cause a problem, but enough so that they wont get bored. Also Hufflepuffs generally wont go and tell a professor when they mess with us. Other houses think it's because we're too scared, but mostly it's because we don't want to make a fuss over something like that.
The Great Hall doors opened revealing my other ex-boat buddy, Draco Malfoy. I watched him strut towards the Slytherin table and sit between Crabbe and Goyle. I kept watching untill I saw Gregory Goyle raise his eyes which met mine. I quickly looked down realizing that I probably looked like a creeper.
"Who were you staring at?" I jumped and whipped my head around to see who scared me. It turned out to be Hannah Abbott, another first year Hufflepuff. Apparently I was so focused on watching the Slytherins that I didn't notice her sit right next to me.
"Woah! Ninja! you scared me!" We became friends pretty fast.
She shrugged. "You just scare too easy" I pouted in a joking manner then got back to my food. I love hash browns. I soon felt a poke at my side, which of course made me jump. I really need to work on not jumping.
"You didn't answer my question!" She said as she poked me again. I scowled at her then sighed.
"Just the Slytherins" She raised her eyebrow at me.
"Why?"
"They looked interesting" I shrugged. She rolled her eyes at me and started to eat. I just smiled.
After about an hour a lot more people started piling up in the Great Hall. Then Professor Sprout came and gave us all of our class schedules. I looked down at my schedule and gulp. First lesson is Potions with Slytherin. I look over at Hannah and Susan, who came in the Great Hall later. They also looked at their schedules with a bit of fear.
Micheal Stebbins(1), a second year, had told us that potions was probably the worst class we would take. But with Slytherins it would be even worse.
Oh me and my luck.
End Chapter 2
OK! two chapters done! now lets see if I can stick with it untill this whole story is over!
(1)ok There was definetly a Stebbins but it doesn't tell me what his name was, just that he was a guy so i made up a name for him.
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