A growling was heard in the dorm where the five girls slept, waking them all up.
"What is that noise?" Jean mumbled into her pillow.
"Arget." Zora groaned waking up. "Come here." And the small creature glided from her perch on the window to her bed. She proffered a few pieces of fruit to the small creature and stroked her while she was eating.
"Time to get up anyways." Paige said as she drew back her curtains and went to the bathroom. Everyone else got out of bed and pulled out their clothes.
"What classes do we have this morning?" Sam yawned.
"Let me grab the schedule." Melissa stumbled over to her bag. "Charms and Double History before lunch, then tonight we have Astronomy."
"Awesome. So how about this afternoon we start on our essays for next week. Get them out of the way?" Zora asked uncertain.
The other girls looked at each other, making her feel uncomfortable. "What?"
"Just that is what we normally do."
"Oh, so yes then?" She smiled and they all laughed. They took turns in the bathroom and met Kyle and Zach in the common room and headed down to the Great Hall. After breakfast, they went up to the 2nd floor to Charms. The Gryffindors were already there and the two groups co-mingled. Percy immediately went over to the group Zora was with.
"Hi Zora."
"Percy, how are you?"
"Fine, and yourself?"
"I am decent."
There was an awkward silence then. "How are you classes going?" Percy then asked after looking at the floor for a moment.
"They are well, the whole one day of them." She smiled slyly up at him.
His face turned as red as his ginger hair. He reached a hand up to rub the back of his neck, "Ummm right. Have you worked on the Potions essay yet?"
She exchanged a quick glance with her friends, in which they gave a very slight nod.
"No, not yet. This afternoon we will be working on them in the Library if you would like to join us."
"Oh, well um, sure. When do you plan on being there?"
"After lunch. We don't have any classes."
"Well, I have Transfiguration until 2, but I will go there right after?"
"Sounds great Percy. See you then." And he was saved from answering by the door opening.
"Please enter class," a high pitched voice came out. The students traveled inside and took seats at the tables around the classroom. Everyone quieted and took out books, parchment and quills.
"To start of this year, we will revise some of the material from last year. Today we will start with the Hover Charm and Fire Charm, Wingardium Leviosa and Incendio respectively.
"The Hover Charm is a very useful little charm, which has numerous uses. Later in the year, we will learn variations of this charm. The Fire Charm is a warm flame that does not catch things on fire. You will also learn a variation of this charm. Now you all have your feathers? We will start with those, and the Hover charm, and work our way up for the first part of class. Second half we will do the same with the Fire Charm."
The class all took out their wands and started the basic movements, swish and flick, with the feathers. Once a person's feather was in the air, they got switched out for scrolls, books, and up to large textbooks. The people who got the furthest were lifting cauldrons filled with water. At the halfway point, Professor Flitwick called out, "Ok, please gently lower whatever you are hovering, Miss Archae and Mr. Weasley, for progressing the furthest both of you get 5 points. Now pick up your feathers again and put them on the floor, and use the Fire Charm. Whoever gets the furthest, another 5 points. Proceed." And everyone was able to light their feathers on fire, as well as scrolls and branches. When it got to the less flammable substances, it decreased. Only five people were able to do light the liquids on fire. "Ok, Mr. Weasley and Miss Archae, both of you another points each; as well as Mr. Wood, Miss Cyan and Miss Brush.
"For next week, I want a foot on why simple charms are good to have on hand. Dismissed." Everyone left the classroom and Melissa and Sam, along with Zora, were congratulated by their friends for the extra house points. They made their way up to the 4th floor and waited outside the classroom. A few minutes before class starts a Hufflepuff student opened the door and everyone went in.
Zora sat in between Kyle and Jean, and whispered, "Where is the teacher?" They both smiled and responded,
"Wait." Zora was confused, and waited, and nearly jumped when a ghost came out of the chalkboard. She wasn't afraid of ghosts by any means, just didn't expect one in the classroom.
"Who is that?"
"Professor Binns." Was all that was supplied before the ghost started his lecture on a Goblin Rebellion. The whole hour was him lecturing and Zora saw many students falling asleep. She was shocked, and took diligent notes. Afterwards, on the way to the Great Hall for lunch, her friends explained to her that many people fall asleep everyday in his class, because of his speeches.
"Zora, it isn't that big of a deal. Half the names you can make up and they would be right."
"The principle of the matter is that you don't need to pay attention, you just need to borrow someone's notes before the tests."
"What if someone doesn't let their notes be borrowed?" She asked coyly, knowing she was the only one that took notes the whole class today. They looked scared for a moment before they relaxed.
"Well, you wouldn't have found your way to your classes yesterday without us. I think you owe us a little bit." Paige smiled happily.
She sighed, knowing that she was right. "Fine, just this once though, since after the tour Charlie gave me yesterday I don't need help." It was then that they reached the Ravenclaw table and sat down. They talked about meaningless stuff during lunch, when the conversation was cut off by Don.
"Hey, Zora, I was wondering how your tour went yesterday?"
"It went well, Charlie was really helpful."
"That's good to hear. You know I would've given you the tour if you asked?" He said with a small smile.
"Yes, I know. Charlie offered first though." She was tapped on the shoulder. "Excuse me Don, but we are going to go start our essays due next week."
"Of course Zora. Have fun." And he went back to his friends, as the group of 2nd years left and headed towards the Library.
"Zora, if I didn't know any better I would say that Don has a crush on you." Sam smirked at her.
"And I think that Charlie has something for you too." Jean added.
At this point Kyle and Zach walked faster and passed the girls. When asked about it they responded "Girl talk."
"Girls, I would be flattered, but they are both 3, maybe 4 years older than me. I think at eleven it is too young to start dating."
"Wait, your 11 and a second year?" Melissa started, so Zora told them the full story.
"Wow, that's awesome." And by that time they reached the library and went to the table where the boys were at.
"Nah-ah. You can't sit down until you promise your done talking about boys." Zach said to the 5 girls.
"We promise. We will talk about girls now." Melissa smiled at the boys' reaction.
"Essay time," was what broke the boys out of their stupor.
"Let's start with the Transfiguration essay. It shouldn't take too long." Sam said, pulling out a book.
After a an hour and a half they finished their essays, talking about simple and complex spells for the transfiguration of animals. They also included the steps of becoming Animagus, since even though it isn't animal to something else at the start, transforming back is constituted as animal transfiguration. By the time they were done with that, they went up to get the books needed for the Potions essay about the Swelling Solution, and its antidote, the Deflating Draft. A few minutes after they started reading the main parts of the ingredients, and Zora's carefully written notes, Percy Weasley came in and sat down at the table.
"Hi guys."
"Hello Percy, how was Transfiguration?"
"It was good, we have an essay to write for that."
"We already finished that. Ready to start on the Potions essay? We have all the books we need here." Zora replied with a small smile.
"That's great. Ready for this?" Paige said with a evil undertone, and they all started in on the essay, finishing at the same time.
They said good bye to the Gryffindor as they headed back to their common room. The girls took a little while longer in their dorm, "Zora, you have three guys totally interested in you, two of them are brothers. What are you going to do?"
"There is still a lot of time to figure stuff out. See who I like."
"Don't hurt anyone, k?"
"I promise not to, not knowingly anyway." She smiled, and headed to the common room, meeting up with the rest of her friends. They lounged about discussing Quidditch and family, Arget relaxing lazily on Zora's stomach.
"Zora, do you play Quidditch?" Kyle asked.
"I am a decent Seeker, not amazing though."
"Are you going to try out for the team?"
"No, don't think I will. I told you I am not that great."
"We are trying out. Does that convince you at all?" Kyle begged.
"For what positions?"
"I am going for a Beater, Zach is going-"
"I am going for Keeper."
"I will consider it, does that make you happy?" They were content, for now, but Zora knew that they would be relentless. Conversation continued as time for dinner ticked closer. Dinner was a fun affair, joking and Astrology came up, which had very little to do with Astronomy.
"What sign are you Zora?" Sam asked.
"I am Cancer, late June."
"Leo." Kyle said.
"Gemini." Was what Jean was.
"Virgo," Zach said disinterested.
"Pisces," Melissa responded, ironically taking a bite of fish.
"I am a Taurus," Paige said while covering a yawn.
"I am a Sagittarius." Sam said patiently.
An older Ravenclaw overheard. "You guys thinking of taking Divination?"
"Not really, but there is still a long time to decide." Paige said annoyed.
"Well if you do, a good part of the time is in Astrology."
"Thanks for the heads up." Sam said, keeping Paige relaxed.
"No problem," And she turned back to the guy that she was practically snogging at the table.
They left to head up to the Astronomy Tower, walking slow and talking the whole way. Once a good distance, and in a completely opposite direction from the Ravenclaw Tower, Zora asked, "Who was that girl?"
"She is a 6th year. She is a top Divination student, meaning she is good at making up BS." They all laughed.
"So a kissass then?" Zora supplied.
"Essentially. She thinks that since she is good at Divination, she can help everyone else with it. That guy she was with, has been teasing him along since 3rd year. It's a shame too, he is a really nice guy and she is a tart." They waited outside the top of the tower until the rest of the class, the other handful of Ravencalws and Slytherins came up. There was a noticeable divide between the two groups as silver and green lined one side of the hall and bronze and blue the other. A young woman walked up the hall, she was tall and slender, short, curly blonde hair and a slightly pointed face.
"Let's go children." And she opened the door. She pulled out a stack of parchments and handed them out. "Everyone, you have the whole class time to fill out this chart. Whatever you don't finish will be homework." And she walked around, helping if needed. Conversations went on, and by the end of the class, Zora knew the other Ravenclaws. The other boys were, who were also in her other classes, were an Hispanic boy, Jose Richman, and dirty blonde haired boy with green eyes, Chris Irvin, and a boy that had long brown hair and hazel eyes, James Behre, who she found out was Ryan's younger brother. It was around 11 pm when they were dismissed . They lagged their way to their common room, wanting to sleep for tomorrow. A few minutes of changing and brushing teeth and the 5 girls went to bed, cats at the foot of two beds, and the small silver and black fire lizard on the other.
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