Aria: Hi sorry for the sort of late update and THANK YOU to Jooliagoolia for reviewing so far, thanks to all who have followed and favourited so far as well and thank you to anyone who reviews or favourites or follows after I post this :) I really appreciate it :) This is my longest chapter yet and I really liked writing it so I hope you enjoy it :)

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter world but I do own my plot line, my OC's and some of the description of places :)

Chapter 3 – Which house? Are you brave, ambitious, loyal or wity?

The door to the Great Hall swung open to reveal the four tables with each of the four houses seated at them. The Sorting Hat was placed on a stool out the very font of the Hall – however just in front of the Professor's table. The first years were led up the centre aisle to gather in the space just before the Sorting Hat. Then one of the Professors proceeded in announcing each person's name for them to be sorted.

"Jackson Codelan…." the Professor pronounced.

"HUFFELPUFF!" hollered the Sorting Hat without much discussion.

"Abby Hallson…."

"GRIFINDOOR!"

"Serena Mashel….."

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Scorpius Malfoy…."

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Albus Potter…"

"SLYTHERIN!"

This process continued for the next couple of minutes as the teacher read the list aloud in alphabetical order. Having the last name Weasly meant that when it came to being in alphabetical order Rose's name was near the end of the list. Am I, brave, loyal, witty or ambitions? I never really put any real thought into that…

Abruptly breaking the flow of Rose's thoughts was the Professor calling, "Rose Weasly…"

Rose pushed past a few other first years to get to the stool after she sat down the Sorting Hat began its judgement of her ability to be in each house.

"Hufflepuff….or Ravenclaw…..which one…." the Sorting Hat whispered the general statement.

Suddenly the hat shouted, "RAVENCLAW!"

The Ravenclaw table gave a cheer as Rose hopped of the stool and headed toward the table to take a seat. As soon as she had sat down she started reading her favourite book yet again.

Now that the sorting was over the Headmistress could give the welcoming speech.

"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts let us have a productive and eventful year, as always the forbidden forest is out of bounds and Quidditch for the second years, and above, starts. Now let us start the feast," said Professor McGonagall, the Headmistress.

As the welcoming speech finished the delicious platers and appealing foods began to appear on the tables.

When the feast was over Professor McGonagall stood and said, "Now would the prefects please escort the first years of their house to their common room."

All the first years stood nearly at the same time before gathering into house groups ready for the prefects to lead the way.

One of the prefects spoke up and announced, "Hello and welcome to Ravenclaw, my name is Lucas Duewton, and this is Helena Forest," he gestured to the girl standing beside him who offered a cheerful "Hello," with a warm smile.

Lucas then continued to say, "We'll be your 5th year prefects for this year. Now we had been get moving to the common room which is it Ravenclaw Tower, let's go."

The Ravenclaw first years then started to chat among themselves as they made their way to the tower. Halfway up the stairs of the tower some of the first years began to complain of sore feet or were too tired to continue. They all finally arrived at the top after much encouragement and bribing. Helena knocked on the door which then seemed to come alive.

The door then asked, "What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?"

Rose had been reading right up until halfway up the stairs when she started to become tired and had to stop reading to focus on climbing the rest of the stairs. Now Rose was short of breath and could only focus on steadying her breathing. Suddenly one of the first year boys shouted, "I've got it! It's the letter 'M'!"

The door replied, "Correct."

The door then swung open to reveal the Ravenclaw common room. There was a gentle fire dancing in the fireplace spreading light throughout the room. The colour scheme of blue and bronze dominated the room displaying the Ravenclaw colours with pride. Rose was amazed as she surveyed the room; it was even better than she had imagined. The group was led to two archways but came to a stop just before them.

"To your left is the boy's dorm and to the right is the girl's dorm. Please as a note the boys are unpermitted and unable to enter the girl's dorm at all. The first door you come across when you go up the stairs is the first year's dorm; this is the same for girls and boys. The doors after that work in a numerical ascending order. So for example the second door you walk by, which is right next to the first one, is the second year's dorm and so on," Lucas explained occasionally gesturing to his left or right.

Helens then broke in to say, "And girls don't worry in each room there is a bathroom which can only be accessed through one door, that is situated on the inside of the rooms."

There were very quiet murmurs of relief from some of the girls. Rose however was beginning to become nervous. She didn't really like taking to people she didn't know but the only people she knew at Hogwarts were her family, who were not in her house. Even though her mum did say "the only reason you don't know them is because you haven't had the chance to get to know them yet" she couldn't help feeling it wasn't quite that simple. People often mistake her lack of talk to be a self-centred attention seeking act, a stuck up snobbish attitude or to be flat out ignoring them, which all three impressions are just misunderstandings. Rose hasn't spoke to a single person outside her family for the past 5 months but didn't speak a single word to anyone, not even her family for 2 years and 7 months before that. Therefore she only recently started talking and was still not comfortable in talking to strangers. She didn't want to misplace her trust; not like she did the last time.

"Also your luggage and belongings have already been taken to your rooms and your Ravenclaw scarf and robes are also waiting for you there. Don't forget to get to get a good night sleep for your first day of classes tomorrow," Helena added.

The prefects then stated they were now free to go and check their luggage and start to get to know each other. Rose waited for the rush of people to go up to the dorms before walking up there herself. Hesitating for only a moment before turning the handle and opening the door. It was a circular room with eight beds evenly spaced against the wall with the blue and bronze drapes. The door to the bathroom was directly opposite the door she just stepped through; this separated the beds into two groups of four. The only bed that wasn't occupied yet was right next to the bathroom door on the right side. So she silently made her way over to the free bed as the other girls just chatted and introduced each other. Just as Rose put her trunk down on the bed the girl whose bed was right next to hers approached her.

She was about the same average height as Rose, however instead of ginger hair this girl had flowing blond hair that was just passed shoulder length that curled slightly at the ends and she had sky blue eyes. With a cheerful and polite smile she said, "Hello, my name is Rebecca Opal, what's yours?"

Rose simply looked up and gave a small forced smile. Even though Rebecca was slightly taken back by Rose not responding she didn't seem fazed by it and just kept smiling. Then the two other girls that had their beds beside Rebecca's on this side also came over.

One of them was tall for their age and she had long dead strait black hair at about waist length. The other girl was shorter than rose only by an inch or so though and had hazelnut brown hair that was reasonably short tied up into two high pig tails either side of her head.

The tall girl was the first to speak, "Hi, I'm Amelia Lakes, a pleaser."

The girl with pig tails then continued, "And I'm Elli Morsberry, let's be friends."

Rose yet again gave a force smile and nervously stared down at her trunk feeling slightly guilty that she was not willing to be so open yet. Then again Rose did have her own reasons for avoiding people she thought that was fair enough. Elli so noticed that Rose had her name on her trunk and gave an excited squeal.

"You're Rose Weasly aren't you. A Weasly. Wow! It's great to meet you!" she expressed energetically while vigorously shaking Rose's hand. Rose noticed Elli's eyes were the warm colour of caramel and were full of affection and kindness.

"Nice to meet you. Do you mind if we call you Rose?" Amelia asked; her voice had a natural sweet tone that all the guys will fall for no doubt. Also her mysterious violet eyes that didn't reveal what she didn't want seen had a very strong air about them or at least that is what Rose felt. In response to the question Rose nodded.

"Ok then how about we start getting ready for bed because we are definitely going to need our strength for tomorrow's classes. Otherwise we'll be like zombies and I don't think people take meeting a person for the first time as a zombie as a positive first impression," Rebecca joked. Both Elli and Amelia laughed and Rose tried very hard to stifle a smirk. Just as Rebecca had suggested they all went to sleep and the last thought that Rose had in the drowsiness just before she fell completely asleep was "Rebecca, Elli and Amelia are all nice, I think I am going to like this house after all."

Aria: Getting interesting isn't it well say tuned for chapter 4...And yes I know I haven't introduced Scorpius yet but that will happen when the time is right :) (This is definitively a ScorpiusxRose fanfiction after all, I just need to introduce certain characters first) :)