And here is chapter four! Finally I feel like I've made progress in the story. Have fun! ;)
-"Okay, Dawn, you should know that some witches or wizards are born with some abilities… Anyway, there are some who can talk to snakes, others that are able to see the future, and others that are capable of changing their bodies, and do anything they want with it, those are what we call metamorfamagus…"
-"So this isn't a cruel nickname and you were not being mean to me… But I can't control it!"
-"Well, maybe that's because you never really tried to control it while knowing what it was..."-said Sirius.
-"Or because you never thoght of it as a good thing, only as something you wish could be removed." -said James.
Dawn looked at them making faces while thinking: "that could make sense… I should try to control it… AND THEN IT WOULD BE SUPER COOL! I'll never have to dye my hair! Or use contacts! Hahahaha life will be so much more easy! I'm excited! I wanna try it now!".
-"Okay, I think that could be the case! So… where are the rooms? I really wanna go there try it now!"
-"Considering we are all first years, none of us know where sre the dorms, and also, you didn't eat anything Dawn… you should eat something before going to bed…" - Said Remus.
-"You can try it now! We will tell you how it is!" - James suggested excited.
-"Agreed, also, I'm curious about your hair so... win win?"
-"Absolutely not! I wasn't prepared to let anyone see my hair ever… so it is horrible! I just put it on a way it would definitely fit inside the cap without showing any of it! So… It's definitely a NO! - She said while crossing her arms forming and X.
-"Oh, come on! No one cares about that! They would be paying attention only to the color change…" said Remus.
Dawn really didn't want to show her hair at that moment, she wanted to cause a good impression on everyone, and her hair was definitely not a good impression, it was rather like an animal's nest… An animal's nest that had been destroyed by bears and then thrown at the ocean. That's why she decided she needed a change of topic. She searched around and found a perfect distraction! Peter Pettigrew was there, he had followed the boys and had been listening to the conversation since the beginning but didn't say anything, he looked like he admired the boys and wanted to be part of the group, but didn't know how to include himself. "AHÁ! This will be good for both of us!".
-"So, Peter, you didn't say anything the whole time, what do you think of hogwarts?" - then she kicked James under the table and whispered:
-"I think he wants to be part of the conversation but you guys keep letting him out!"
And her plan worked! James looked at Peter with guilty eyes, and encouraged him to answer Dawn's question, saying everyone wanted to know his opinion. After that they kept creating topics for Peter to speak and started a wizard kind of conversation, that Dawn couldn't follow, so she just said a quiet bye that no one heard and went to seat on a vacant seat she had seen earlier beside Lily and near Alice and Marlene.
-"Hey Dawn! I loved your sorting, it felt so… colorful!" - Marlene joked when she got there.
-"I think it is wicked! Your ability I mean… Have a sit!" - said Alice.
-"The girls told me about witches like you… It's really cool! I've never seen it thogh, besides today of course! Could you do it again here?" -Asked Lily looking at Dawn with enchanted eyes, like she was some kind of fairy or something.
-"Oh well, I'm sorry Lily, but my hair is a mess 'cause I didn't intend on showing it to anyone ever… But I can show it to you in the room! I'm going to practice keeping it in just one color!"
-"It's ok, I understand, but such abilities… why were you trying to hide them?!-Asked Lily and the girls nodded their hesds in concent to Lily's question. Dawn explained everything about being a muggle-born and not knowing anything and bla bla bla. The girls laughed and then Marlene commented:
-"And well, it is understandable she doesn't want to show her messy hair here… - the girls laughed and Marlene looked at Dawn -"When you arrived, we were talking about the upper class boys and how they are so handsome! We all have our crushes already, so it's your turn Dawn!"
-"That one over there, is Lily's crush, and mine is beside hers. Marlene's crush is that tall guy over there at the Ravenclaw table, now you can choose yours!" - said Alice.
Dawn thought that was really stupid, but she didn't want to be rude or excluded so she just picked a random Gryffindor guy and then they started to talk about how hogwarts would be awesome and how they were excited for classes. After talking a lot the food suddenly disappeared and the first years were comanded to follow their monitors to the rooms. Dawn simply loved walking through the castle and she really felt like exploring every single tiny bit of it. When they were walking through the stairs, Dawn said hi to all the paintings excited cause they said hi back to her. And then when they finally arrived at the dorm, she and the girls ran to choose their beds. Dawn got the one beside the window, and she loved it, because she had a perfect view of the castle outside, and it was pretty. Then she took off her cap and the glasses and went to the mirror.
-"WOW! DAWN! YOU HAVE A REALLY PRETTY FACE NOW THAT I CAN SEE!" -screamed Marlene, jumping off her bed to take a better look.
-"Marlene…look at her hair!" -said Alice excitedly.
-"It's longer than mine!" -commented Lily amazed.
-"Thanks…" -said Dawn really lost, she had never been complimented in her whole life so she was a bit surprised and confused. She didn't consider herself ugly, she always thought of herself as someone with acceptable looks, so she wasn't expecting that reaction from her friends. Her hair changed its color, it was now light pink, together with her face and eyes.
-"wow, that's creepy… pink eyes? Try to controll it, meanwhile we will take of this braid and brush you hair!" -Said Marlene. Alice hurried to take something at her suitcase while Marlene took off her braid. Lily was beside her looking at the mirror saying encouraging words like "you can do it" or "you are the one who controls your body!". And after a few minutes she had her whole hair brushed and it was with a normal color, it was acajou. And her eyes had been a dark purple for a while, it wasn't normal but she liked it, that's why she was happy even though she was still a bit embarrassed her hair color and eyes weren't pink!
-"whoah, you look like you are Scottish!" -commented Lilly.
-"Well, if we are talkinh about hair collor, you do too!" -commented Dawn.
-"No, it's the whole thing, cause you are so white with this tiny detail of freckles, the hair and the eye color, you really look like a foreigner!" - Completed Lily. Well, Dawn stayed most of her time indoors, so that would explain her white skin, and the freckles, she got that from her mom, at least she suspected that. While thinking about it, she remembered what her mom had asked her.
-"Girls, do you know if we can spend Christmas vacation here at Hogwarts? My mom wants to know…"
-"You can, but it would be very lonely, why don't you go to a friend's house instead?" - said Alice. Dawn didn't have friends, the people from hogwarts were her first friends ever. She said that to the girls and explained the situation at her house, that she didn't go out much because of the hair and her eyes.
-"Also, I aways spend Christmas by myself, at least here at Hogwarts I'll be alone but I'll have magic!" - She smiled feeling pretty normal, but none of the girls did, they looked at her with pity… She didn't like that, she wasn't sad about it.
-"Dawn, why do you always spend Christmas alone?" -Asked Lily.
-"My mom… she had to work, so much work, but she always sent me presents!" -she lied because she didn't want them to pity her. Then she completed saying that since her mom always remebered to give her something she always felt warm at Christmas.
-"Oh, I see, but if you want to spend Christmas at my house let me know, my mom would love you! She always wanted to meet a metamorfamagus!" -commented Alice.
-"Yeah! You can also come to my house! My father has two brooms so we can fly a bit around!" - said Marlene.
-"REALLY?! We can really fly in brooms?!" - Dawn almost screamed excited just when Lily was about to invite her to spend Christmas at her house too. When marlene mentioned the brooms, Dawn remembered that when she went to Diagon Ally she had seen a broom store and thoght about the possibility of it being capable of flying, but she wasn't sure and went to buy her pet. She chose an owl 'cause the shop owner said they were really useful, being both: a pet and a mail.
-"Yes! We even have a sport called Quidditch, where the players fly around throwing a ball and making points…" -said Marlene then commenting how she didn't like sports, Lily quickly agreed but Alice didn't.
-"How can you not like Quidditch!? It's so thrilling!"
-"Well, I don't like it, and that's all. Dawn, I heard that first years always have flying classes, so don't worry, you will experience flying this week I believe…" -said Marlene.
-"OKAY! Now I really wanna go to sleep so that tomorrow arrives faster!" -Dawn said running to her bed. All the girls did the same and then the room was quiet as they all went to sleep.
Next chapter Dawn will see with her own eyes what quidditch is like... And let's just say she is tired of staying quiet without doing any exercise! .