Sora sighed and slumped a little. "I guess things don't really change, huh?"
The red headed Weasley laughed. "Nope, sorry. Anyway, we'd better head over. People are going to begin to wonder if we're away much longer."
"Yeah…"
Smiling, the duo headed back over to the curious group. Despite drilling Rose for answers, she didn't say a word, leaving Sora to explain what the Gryffindor Head wanted from them.
Chapter 4 - First Day
"Sora… wake up."
The voice broke through Sora's dream, leaving him frowning in annoyance as he rolled further into his pillow. "Five mor' mins' mum…" he mumbled and attempted to get back to sleep.
"I'm not your mother Sora, and you're lucky it's me waking you up at the moment."
The voice clicked in his addled brain and the brunette scowled. "Go away Riku," he grumbled and pulled the covers over his head.
"I'm not Riku either," came the amused response. "Sora, you need to get up now, otherwise you're going to miss breakfast and your first classes. Not a good start to your first day at Hogwarts."
Hogwarts? What was this loon going on about? He'd never heard of Hogwarts.
"Sora, up, now, otherwise I'm going to give you a very sore arse."
"Go away," he moaned and buried his head under his pillow. "It's too early."
"It's 8:25 Sora. You need to get up, now."
The blankets were tugged at and the brunette held onto them valiantly. "Noooo…."
"Right… You have until the count of three before I shoot a stinging hex at you."
The blankets were released and Sora smiled with his victory, ignoring the comment about a stinging hex, whatever the hell that was. There was no such thing. "Meh…"
"One…"
"Is he up yet?" another voice asked, this one female.
"Not yet," the male replied. "Two…"
"Go away, all of you," Sora moaned miserably and curled up under his covers.
"Three."
Yelping, Sora's eyes flew open as his rear end suddenly felt like it had just been electrocuted and he twisted away from the source, suddenly wide awake as he landed on the ground with a thump, everything suddenly making sense as Albus's amused expression loomed into view. "Holy darkness, I'm late!" the brunette yelped and struggled to get free, somehow only making himself get even more tangled.
"He's awake," Albus called back to someone over his shoulder.
"The others are getting impatient so we're going to head down to breakfast. We'll see you there Albus."
"Sure."
"Albus, help me!" Sora whined as he attempted to tug the blanket restricting his breathing away from his neck.
Sighing, the raven-haired wizard waved his wand and extracted the keyblade wielder from the blankets, sending them floating back onto the brunette's bed. Another wave of his wand and the sheets and covers made themselves neatly, leaving Sora gaping on the floor.
"Wow… can you teach me how to do that?"
"Not now Sora. Hurry up! You're late as it is, which means I'm late," the Potter replied in amusement, watching his new dorm mate's blue eyes widen in realisation and he jumped up, pulling his uniform on over the top of his pyjamas. "Uh…"
"Darn it!" Sora suddenly swore once he was fully dressed and looked contemplative before shrugging and grabbing his bag. "Oh well. Let's go."
"You're not brushing your hair?"
"I never do. It looks worse that way otherwise. Come on. Bye Baubles!" Waving to his black cat, Sora took the stairs out of the dormitory by the railing, stopping at the bottom to wait for Albus who hurried after him.
The green-eyed Potter led him out of the Gryffindor tower and down to breakfast.
Sora was gifted with almost a hall full of curious eyes as soon as they entered, and he blinked in surprise at the number of Wizards and Witches sitting and eating in what Albus called the Great Hall.
"Come on," Albus said and grabbed the sleeve of his robes, pulling the brunette along. "Just ignore them. They're just trying to confirm the rumours."
"What rumours?" Sora asked curiously as he followed Albus down the corridor.
"About whether there's a new Wizard at Hogwarts."
"Oh…"
Albus suddenly slid into a seat beside Hugo and started piling his plate full off food. Sora sat down in the space beside him and did the same, shaking his head at the large amount of food on the silver trays. He supposed it made sense.
Munching on some bacon, eggs and toast, he blinked as an unfamiliar blond with green robes slid himself into the space opposite Albus and Sora, meeting stormy grey eyes as they flicked over him curiously.
"Morning Score," Albus greeted brightly, prompting a greeting from the rest of the Weasley and Potter clan.
"Morning," he replied quietly, eyes still fixed curiously on the brunette. "I'm Scorpius Malfoy," he introduced suddenly, sticking out a hand.
"Sora," he replied, taking the hand with a smile.
"Last name?"
"Hikari."
"Ah… odd… is it Japanese?" Scorpius asked suddenly, looking curious.
"Um… maybe? I don't know…" Sora replied, attempting to figure out what Japanese meant.
"Don't mind him. Score has a thing with names. If it's unusual he'll try and figure it out until he knows all about it," Albus said with a teasing grin, directed at the blond.
"Do not," came the scowl in reply.
Another body plonked themselves down further on the bench, this one in blue trimmed robes. "Hey Teddy," Lily greeted with a smile.
"Yo. Who's the new kid?" he asked with a grin, brunette hair spiky. What really got Sora though were the older wizard's eyes. They were purple.
"Teddy, this is Sora. Sora, this is Teddy," James introduced with a grin, taking in the new fourth year's expression of disbelief.
"Hi, nice to meet you. So you're the new kid in the rumours."
"Uh… I've seen people with orange eyes before, even yellow, but I've never seen someone with purple eyes," he remarked, stunned.
Teddy grinned and Sora yelped as the brunette's eyes changed to a bright cat coloured yellow right in front of his eyes.
"HOLY SHIT!"
"Hey, shh," Albus hissed, turning an accusing glare on Teddy. "Teddy, don't scare him."
The brunette shrugged, his yes flicking back to a deep amethyst purple. "What?"
Sighing, Albus turned to Sora, who was still staring, wide eyes, smiling slightly. "Teddy is our father's god son, and he's Scorpius' dad's cousin. His parents died during the war and his grandmother raised him. Teddy inherited his mothers' metamorphmagus abilities. Essentially he can change his features at will to create another look, or to copy someone."
"My mum could change into a completely different person apparently. At the moment all I can change are my facial features, but I'm working on it," Teddy replied with a grin. "Anyway, I'd better shoot off. I've got potions next."
"Ugh… go," James grumbled and shoved the brunette away. "Ruddy Ravenclaw."
"Hey, at least I look good in blue," Teddy teased, grinning and dancing out of the way as the eldest Potter took a swipe at him.
"You'd better run while you still can," James replied with a grin.
"You haven't got me yet Jamie and I doubt you will anytime soon," the metamorphmagus teased as he took the advice anyway and left the great hall.
"Both of you hurry up and eat, we're going to be late otherwise," Rose grumbled as she put her book away.
"Right…" Sora murmured and quickly began shovelling food into his mouth while Scorpius and Albus kept up a steady conversation about an assignment they'd obviously been doing.
The sound of someone clearing their throat had Sora looking up and he blinked as he found Professor Vane looming over Scorpius looking unimpressed. "Mr Malfoy, this is the Gryffindor Table, not the Slytherin table. I suggest you either move back over to your own table to eat or you head to your first class for the day."
"Professor, we were just talking about our assignment," Albus retorted in annoyance.
Sora noted the scowl that crossed the blonde's face before fading.
"Regardless, Mr Potter, Mr Malfoy is a Slytherin and as such should be interacting with his own house. Be on your way Mr Malfoy please."
"This is such bullshit!" Albus snapped angrily, glaring furiously at the Arithmancy teacher. "You don't care about any other house! Just-"
"Albus, stop," Scorpius said firmly, grey eyes meeting burning green. "It's not worth it. Sorry Professor, I'll be on my way now. I'll see you two in class."
"Bye Scorpius," Rose murmured as the blond picked up his bag and left the great hall.
"Mr Potter, I did not appreciate that little outburst and I certainly do not want it to happen again, otherwise I will deduct house points."
Looking like he was about to argue, Albus suddenly met Rose's heavy gaze and he nodded. "Yes Professor," he murmured quietly.
"Good. Mr Hikari," she began, turning to Sora, who blinked in surprise and looked up at her. "Instead of attending classes straight off today, you will spend the first half of the day with Professor Flitwick, who will take you through the first years curriculum, and then after lunch you will join your classmates in their afternoon classes. This will happen for the next three days. Is this understood?"
"Yes Professor," he murmured with a nod.
"Are you finished? If so we can head to his office now."
"Sure," he replied, picking up his bag. "I'll see you guys later," he replied with a nod and followed the professor down the side of the table and out of the Great Hall. She immediately began heading towards the upper floors.
They eventually stopped outside a classroom and Romilda Vane stopped, turning back to face her newest Gryffindor. "Now, I'm not normally one for neat and respectful, but please make sure you're looking more respectful tomorrow Mr Hikari. You look abysmal at the moment."
"Sorry Professor. I was in a rush this morning and I'm not the best on lack of time," he mumbled, tugging at his jumper sleeve.
She sighed and flicked her wand, and Sora jumped as his clothes straightened themselves and his tie did itself up properly around his neck. "There, much bett… where are your shoes?"
Sora blinked and stared down at his feet, wriggling his toes, which were covered in dark blue bed socks with clouds on them. "Um… I forgot?" he asked with a wince, trying to make the response sound light.
She sighed and rubbed her forehead. "Well, you're late already so make sure you get them before lunch, do you hear?"
"Yes Professor," he replied, ducking his head in relief. "Sorry Professor."
"It won't happen again, will it?" she asked firmly and he shook his head.
"No, it won't happen again."
"Good."
She knocked on the door and it opened of its own accord. "Fillius, I've brought Mr Hikari," she said as she walked in.
"Oh, excellent! Now come in Mr Hikari, come in, and let me get a good look at you!" a male voice said Sora entered the room, blinking at the white haired teacher that with looking at him with a wide grin. "It's a pleasure to meet you dear boy! Come in, come in. Thank you Romilda. He's in good hands."
"I have no doubts," she replied with a smile and gave Sora one last meaningful look before leaving the room.
"Come in, sit down, sit down," the elderly man said as he hobbled towards a table and grabbed a large number of books.
Sora winced at the pile of books but sat anyway.
"So, how much have you done so far?"
"Um… nothing?" Sora replied in confusion.
"That's alright dear boy, we'll start with the first years curriculum." Professor Flitwick gave the brunette a book and Sora read the cover. It was called The Standard Book of Spells. "Open it to the first chapter and I'll just summarise what the spell is supposed to do, and then we'll try it, yes?"
Sora nodded and turned to the requested page. "Wingardium Leviosa?" he asked curiously as he saw the picture of a feather under the title, blinking as the picture suddenly changed to a smiling witch that flicked a wand with a swish and levitated the feather. "Whoa, it moves!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, it does. Now, we'll start with this one. This spell levitates anything…"
Sora listened, completely engaged as they went through each spell one by one, and at the end of each summary, he got to try the spell.
This went on until lunchtime, and by that time they'd almost gotten through the entire book.
"Excellent!" Professor Flitwick said with an approving smile. "At this rate we'll have you caught up in no time. Now, I want you to attempt that last spell with Miss Weasley tonight and practice the others that we've done today. Remember them, because I'll be testing them on you tomorrow."
Sora groaned. "You're kidding, right?"
"Not at all," he answered cheerfully before he got down off the chair and hobbled back over to his desk. "Now off you go. Go and eat. You've got a big afternoon ahead of you and you've done exceedingly well today."
"Thanks Professor," he replied as he stood up, blinking as the cold stone suddenly registered with his feet. "Um, Professor Flitwick?"
"Yes Mr Hikari?"
"How do I get up to the Gryffindor Tower from here?"
"Ah… now you need to make your way out this door, turn left and walk to the end, turn left again and then take the first right. That will get you to the stairs. You then need to make your way up to the sixth floor and when you get off, walk down the corridor there, take a right and continue following it until you find another set of stairs. Walk up those and you'll be right in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady. You remember the password, yes?"
"I think so…" Sora murmured, eyes narrowing in thought as he attempted to memories the directions as well as recall the password. "Something about fruit loops?"
"Possibly. Unfortunately I'm a Hufflepuff teacher, so I wouldn't know. Anyway, I'm off for lunch. Good luck."
The short charms teacher waddled out of the room, leaving Sora no choice but to collect the Charms book he'd been given and make his way to the Gryffindor Tower.
Finding his way up there, Sora grinned and did a little victory dance when he found the Fat Lady.
"Oh, it's you," she said in surprise. "How's your first day been?"
"Okay," he replied with a shrug, smiling back at her as she smiled at him.
"That's good. I'm glad. Did you want to go in?"
"Um… yeah… please."
"Password?"
"Um… Fruit loops?"
"Wrong."
"Um… Fruit cereal?"
"Wrong."
"Fruit…"
"Toffee Pancakes," a voice said from beside him and Sora jumped in surprise, turning to find an older Gryffindor student standing beside him.
"Correct," The Fat Lady shrilled with a smile and she swung outwards.
"Trouble remembering the password?" the older student asked with a grin as they both walked inside.
"Yeah… thanks."
"No problem."
"Toffee Pancakes," Sora murmured to himself a couple of times under his breath.
"So, you're the new kid," the other girl asked, looking him up and down a couple of times.
"Uh… yeah…"
"Changing books or…?"
"Getting shoes," he replied and wiggled his toes.
She stared wide-eyed at his feet before laughing. "You seriously forgot your shoes?"
"Yeah… I was in a rush this morning."
Chuckling, she shook her head and headed towards the dormitories. "Well, you'd better hurry up. You'll miss out on lunch otherwise."
Nodding, he quickly darted up the stairs to the boys' dormitories and, after a few seconds contemplation, changed out of his pyjama's as well. Redoing his tie, he grabbed his bag and pulled out the unimportant books for the afternoon lessons and dumped the rest on his bed, avoiding Baubles, who looked at him sleepily before stretching, yawning, and sleeping again.
"I wish I was you," he murmured and shook his head, patting his pet before darting down the stairs and out the Portrait door. Getting back to the grand staircase, he got to the ground floor and followed the crowds to the Great Hall for lunch.
Searching the Gryffindor table for the clan he was now familiar with, he found them a little further down than they were this morning and quickly headed over there. Slipping in beside Rose, he nodded a greeting to the Potters and Weasley's.
"So? How was it?" Rose asked expectantly.
"Surprisingly fun actually."
She nodded approvingly.
"Did you only just get out?" Albus asked curiously.
"No, I got out a while ago. I had to go back to the dorm though."
"How come?" Hugo asked.
"Oh… um…"
"Let me guess, you took your pyjama's off," Albus teased with a smile.
"And put shoes on," the brunette admitted with a small blush.
"Shoes… you forgot your shoes this morning?"
"Yeah… I didn't notice until Professor Vane pointed them out either."
That had them all laughing and Sora pouted before turning to his lunch. "Fine. Laugh. See if I care."
"Sorry Sora," Albus apologised, his laughs dying down.
"And I thought James was bad," Lily laughed and shook her head.
"Sora, come here," Rose said with a sigh and dragged him forward by the tie.
"What…?"
She focused and undid it, redoing the red and gold striped tie properly. "There."
"Oh… thanks…"
"You're welcome."
"What have you got next?" Albus asked curiously.
Pulling out the schedule he hadn't even looked at yet, he stared at it in confusion, trying to work out what each symbol and abbreviation meant. Before he could even begin deciphering it though it was plucked out of grasp. "Ah… hey!"
"Potions and then DADA," she reported and handed back the schedule. "Same as us."
"Oh, cool," Albus replied with a grin. "We'll see how good you are with a cauldron."
"Don't worry, you can be my partner for today," Rose said with a smile. "I'll explain things as we go."
Sora nodded and restudied his schedule. So, the symbol with the pot was for potions, and the cloud with what looked like lightening going through it was DADA, whatever that was.
"We'd better go. Professor Higgs will get his knickers all twisted up if we're late," Albus said with a sigh, his head turning to scan the great hall for someone. Obviously finding the person he was looking for, he jerked his head to the side and stood up, collecting his bag and books. Rose followed and Sora quickly stuffed another piece of chicken salad into his mouth before following. They met up outside the Great Hall and Scorpius joined them with a smile.
"Hey," he greeted.
"Hi," Sora replied with a smile.
"Potions?" Scorpius asked and they all nodded.
"Down to the dungeons we go," Albus grumbled and Sora blinked. "Let's go."
"I thought you liked Potions?" the blond teased with a grin.
"I do," Albus replied with a frown. It's the dungeons I don't like. It would be so much better if we could learn to do potions above ground, not below."
"Well… yes… but then the sunlight would affect the potions more so they'd have a higher chance of going wrong. Besides, it's traditional."
"So?"
Sora stopped and turned as something silver flittered past his vision. Frowning, he scanned the crowds of people, and not seeing what it was that garnered his attention, he shrugged and quickly turned and followed his new friends down into the depths of the dungeons.
Well, here it is guys. I hope you enjoyed it. :) Sorry it took me so long to get it up. It's been a weird couple of weeks. .
Any questions, feel free to ask. :)
Vex