Throughout the castle, there was a buzz over the fact that someone they thought had died or was kidnapped, was now back and ready to face the days. Some of the students had tried to get into the infirmary to see the witch who has been missing for the past six months, but Madam Pomfrey would tell them to scatter and go to their classes. Madam Pomfrey had ended up magically locking the door so she can tend to her patient. A couple days later, that witch who is the talk of everything ends up walking out of the infirmary and into the Great Hall for breakfast. Just imagine, a house sized room with floating candles and tables the length of the whole room, well that was the Great Hall. It also had a ceiling that would be an exact replica of the surroundings outside.
"Sydney!" a group of people yelled at the same time while running into the fifteen year old girl.
"Hey guys," Sydney responds while smiling at the group, "How has everything been?" The group of teens all walk to their table, which ends up being for the house of Gryffindor.
Oh did I forget to tell you that Hogwarts has four houses. My bad, so let me give you some information about Hogwarts and the houses inside. So long ago, there was four magical beings who created a school for other witches and wizards to learn how to hone their talents using a wand, as well as some other classes that would be needed to help them survive. Those four creators were named: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff, and last but not least Rowena Ravenclaw. Each of the four founders built the school with their powers, as well as created houses for students. Godric Gryffindor founder the house of Gryffindor; the house's mascot is a lion; and they value bravery, daring, nerve, and chivalry. The Gryffindor house is covered in red and gold to show their house pride. Salazar Slytherin founded the house of Slytherin, which their mascot is a snake; the house of Slytherin values ambition, cunning, and resourcefulness. As well their colors are green and silver. The third house was founded by Helga Hufflepuff, and by now you should know that she is the founder of the house of Hufflepuff. The mascot for the house of Hufflepuff is a badger, sporting the colors yellow and black. Hufflepuff values hard work, patience, loyalty, and fair play. And of course the fourth house is a representation of the founder Rowena Ravenclaw. By now you should definitely know what the house is named, but just in case Rowena Ravenclaw founded the house of Ravenclaw. They sport blue and bronze and have the mascot as an eagle. The house of Ravenclaw values intelligence, knowledge, and wit. To make the houses have a fair amount of students in the houses and to make it easier for the future students to be placed in a house, they all created a hat called the 'Sorting Hat' which is able to read the minds of the students it is put on, and then place them in the house they belong. So enough about the houses and founders, let's get back to the story.
"Oh so wonderful worrying about where you have been!" a redheaded seventeen year old responded.
"Hey it's not my fault, I had to deal with family problems and I wasn't allowed to contact anyone," Sydney sighs, "And Georgie you don't have to worry about me. I can take care of myself, unlike yourself". She laughs at the end.
"Whoa don't dis my twin!" the second redheaded seventeen year old responds in mock hurt. He messes up Sydney's hair.
"Bloody hell you three, already back to messing with each other," the third redheaded, but this time he is fifteen, responded.
"Ronald, they can all they want," a brunette bushy haired fifteen year old responds, "Well we should go sit down and eat, as everyone is staring". She turns around and strides to the table.
"Well Fred, George, Ron, Harry let's go before we get yelled at," Sydney laughs and follows the bushy haired girl, "Hermione are you still not use to people staring at you?" she asks as she sits down next to her.
"I am but I can be annoyed with it as well as not like it. Plus this way we can talk without being overheard," she points out.
"So why were you gone Sydney?" a brunette, green eyed fifteen year old with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead asks.
Sydney sighs and responds, "Like I said earlier I was dealing with issues on my dad's side of the family, Harry".
"Why do I not know about this family and why can't I at least stay there during the summers?" Harry asks.
Sydney closes her eyes for a second before responding, "It's complicated. Maybe later I will be able to take you with me, but for now I can't". Just as they all finish their breakfast, the first bell rings for their first period, "Um, whats our schedule?" she looks over at Harry, Ron, and Hermoine.
"We have Defence Against the Dark Arts first," Ron responds and groans.
"What's wrong with the class? Hasn't it been pretty interesting the past couple years?" Sydney asks seeing all of them in a distant and hateful look.
Hermoine was the first one to break out of the stance they were in, "It would be, but the teacher this year is horrible. Just wait and see for yourself," she stands up and takes Sydney's hand, dragging her out of the Great Hall. As soon as the Golden Trio and Sydney walk into the class, everyone was watching Sydney, noticing the new scars and the look of war in her eyes. Sydney sighed and sat down next to Hermoine and in front of Harry and Ron.
"Good morning class," the toad like professor walked into the class.
"Good morning, Professor Umbridge," everyone chorused in a tired voice, except for Sydney who had no idea who the professor was really.
"Well it looks like we need to do that again, as someone decides not to do it as she miraculously returned," Professor Umbridge glares at Sydney, "as well as thinking she is above everyone to not say 'good morning'".
"I'm sorry I don't know who you are as I just showed back up to this school!" Sydney responds irritated that she has the atrocity to blame her for not knowing who she is. "You just expect everyone to know who you are, well news flash you have to introduce yourself to someone new. The world doesn't know who you are, and for someone who has been out of this world for almost a year, I am definitely not going to know who you are as I have had better things to worry about then names".
Professor Umbridge walks right in front of Sydney's desk, "Who do you think you are to speak to me like that?" she says in a sweet tone, that is obviously a pissed off voice.
"Someone who has had more things to deal with in a shorter amount of time then you have. Someone who doesn't want the fame that has come with this world. Someone who would rather learn than fight over a dang 'good morning' as that is pointless since you don't say that on a day to day basis," Sydney glares right back. "How about you teach instead of lecturing me on saying good morning. You just ask us to say good morning to make yourself feel better".
"Detention Miss Potter!" Umbridge screeches as Sydney shrugs. "Come to my office tonight at six sharp," Umbridge responds, turning around and writing the lesson on the board, "Get to work!" she says in a strict tone.
Sydney sighs and looks at the board, trying to decipher the cursive, "Read chapter 5 of the book," Hermoine whispers into her ear.
"How did you know I was having trouble reading the board?" Sydney whispers back.
"It was obvious you were staring at it for ten minutes. Oh and this is all we do during class," Hermione whispers back as Sydney sighs. Sydney opens the book and stares at the first page of chapter five, trying to decipher the words on the page. She wasn't able to get her book change into Ancient Greek by Professor Dumbledore yet, so at the moment she had to suffer her Dyslexia taking over. Every single student in the class were extremely bored and just wishing that class would be over. As soon as the bell rang, they all bolted out of the class, Ron complementing Sydney on shutting Professor Umbridge out while Hermoine was still trying to pry into why Sydney was gone for so long.
