Author's Note: Oh my gosh! I thank everyone that reviewed SOOOO much. I really appreciate it. I even got reviews the day after I posted! Sorry if I sound excited, but this is my first fanfic.
Disclaimer: Forgot this in my first chapter, but I don't own Harry Potter. Sadly.
"I welcome all new students and welcome back the rest." McGonagall started, "And in tradition of keeping the speech short: good bread, good meat, good school, let's eat." She smiled faintly and sat down at the lengthy staff table.
Allie watched amazed as food suddenly appeared on the golden plates before her. She took some chicken legs and a pile of mashed potatoes. It was the best chicken she ever had tasted, and the rest was also beyond compare. The curly haired girl next to her smiled when she finished.
"Hi, I'm Andrea. My friends back home call me Andie, though."
"Hi. I'm Alice, by the way. Allie." Allie spoke softly and her shyness was showing.
"This is so amazing. My twin sister and I," she gestured to the girl on the other side of Allie, "are muggle-born you see."
"Cool. I've never met anyone muggle-born my age." Allie glanced back at Andrea's sister, "You don't look anything alike."
"I know. We don't act alike either. Sometimes I truly wonder if we're related. But I'm glad, it's weird to spend time with your twin and because we're so different we don't hang out much." Andie smiled, but it somehow seemed fake.
"You know," said the boy with glasses across the table, "twins supposedly can tell what the other is thinking sometimes because they're so closely related."
"Cathleen and I are more distant then people who live on the other side of the world from each other."
"Did someone say my name?" Andrea's twin spun around.
"Yeah, that was me, Cathy. I was just mentioning us being twins."
"Oh." Cathleen looked embarrassed. She directed her gaze towards Allie. "I'm Cathleen Ana Kerstly. Pleased to meet you." She smiled a faultless toothed smile with full lips. It had to be the most perfect smile Allie had seen in her life. It vanished quickly and turned to the boy with the glasses. "You are?"
"John Hembry."
"And I'm Allie. Er- Alice Louise Longbottom."
Tyler's eyes widened. "You're Neville Longbottom's daughter? The Neville that killed the snake?"
Allie was completely befuddled. "What are you talking about?"
But Allie was interrupted by McGonagall. "Well that was certainly a lovely feast. Now, back to business." McGonagall pulled out a long list. "Banned Items."
"Fanged Frisbees,"
Allie really wasn't that interested. Gwen had told her most of the forbidden stuff. Her thoughts turned to the people sitting around her. Cathleen also seemed to think this list unimportant, and was studying her reflection in the smallest mirror Allie had ever seen. It was round and fit in the palm of Cathleen's hand. Allie was sure she'd be caught when the mirror gave her its opinion on her looks. But this mirror, however, didn't seem to talk. How unusual.
"All Weasley Products,"
John was drinking in every word that McGonagall dictated as if it were the words of his idol. He even seemed to be taking mental notes. Andrea seemed to be listening vaguely, but was too distracted by what the magical world around her was doing.
"Entering the Forbidden Forest,"
Allie directed her stare to Albus and Hugo. They were hiding their laughs behind their hands. Someone had obviously told a funny joke. Allie yearned to be there too. She saw McGonagall give them a strict glare, and they ceased chortling immediately. There was something about McGonagall that urged Allie to stay on her good side.
"Very well, then." McGonagall rolled up the parchment. "Now that you know the rules, it's time for the Prefects to escort the first years to their new dormitory."
An older girl and boy Gwen's age got up from each table. The ones from Allie's table shouted out to get in an orderly line and follow them.
"Hurry up! Let's get there before midnight shall we!" The boy bellowed.
"Don't be so mean Kevin. Come now; let's get a move on please!" The girl yelled in a much gentler tone.
Allie trotted behind John in line and noticed that he was taller than her.
"Well, it's nice to know I won't be a giant." She mumbled to herself.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing."
They seemed to walk on for miles with all the twists and turns they took, and Allie seriously doubted whether or not she would be able to find her way around even with a map. She stumbled a little a few times, but was determined to keep from falling on her first day in front of her new classmates. But, of course, her balance completely collapsed when they had to jump a trick step and Allie missed. Her right foot landed in it instead, and she fell back knocking two other people over. The girl prefect, who said her name was Renee, came back to help Allie get unstuck.
"Don't worry; I'll get you out easily. Releashio!" a jet of blue light came out of Renee's rather short wand, and Allie was freed.
"Thank you." Allie muttered softly, her cheeks as red as Hugo's hair.
"You're welcome."
Allie and Renee stood back up.
"Wow, you're tall." Renee said while sizing up the younger girl who was just as tall as she was.
"Er- Thank you?" Allie said wondering whether or not that would be considered a compliment.
"Come on, we should catch up with the other Ravenclaws." Renee started walking in the direction the rest had gone. As soon as Renee had said Ravenclaw, Allie's heart sank. Realization that she wasn't going to see her best friends tonight flooded through her, and as she followed Renee her smile vanished.
Higher and higher they climbed the moving stairwells, until they reached an immobile circular set. They trudged up the steps until reaching a door with a silver knocker in the form of an eagle. Renee knocked twice, and a woman's voice sounded.
"Which came first: Wizard or Muggle?" Allie, expecting to be asked for a password, was completely shocked. Renee, however, answered coolly.
"I think that they came together, as equals. Both of them have a part of the other inside."
"Good interpretation." The knocker answered, and the door swung open.