Kisa woke up to light streaming in her face through the window. She sat up in bed and looked around; no one else was awake. They must've stayed up pretty late, thought Kisa as she stepped out of bed. She quickly changed and made her bed, then walked out of the dorm and down the stairs to the common room. There she found Marcus, who was reading a Potions textbook and writing down notes. Kisa crossed the room and sat in the plush chair opposite him and watched him.
"Potions?" she asked and he jumped, startled.
"When did you get here?" asked Marcus as he slammed the book shut and looked up at her. He nudged his glasses higher onto his nose and Kisa chuckled.
"Trying to hide something?" she asked, grinning. "I got here a few minutes ago. Why are you already reading into your Potions book? We haven't even started classes yet."
"I know, but I'm worried." Marcus rubbed his arm nervously. "My older brother, he's a fifth year, says that Professor Snape's class is hard. Not only does he pressure you, but he's very cruel."
"My dad says he's just bitter that he hasn't gotten the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position," Kisa said, a bit of authority in her voice.
"Ah. Where does your father work?" Marcus asked.
"My father works in the Department of Magical Transportation," Kisa said proudly. Marcus nodded and looked a bit uncomfortable.
A few more people trickled into the common room while Kisa and Marcus continued their conversation. Kisa looked behind Marcus to see the twins sleepily stumbling down the stairs. Blake tripped over his foot and almost fell, but held onto Jake at the right time and his twin pulled him back up. Behind Kisa, Elizabeth, Marie, and Victoria walked down the stairs, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Marie skipped to Kisa happily and took a seat by her feet, since all of the chairs around the table were now occupied by the twins, Elizabeth, and Victoria.
"What time to we go down to breakfast?" Marie asked and Kisa shrugged.
"7:30 is whenever breakfast starts. First class starts at 9," Jake said.
"Then we better get down there," Kisa said. The seven quickly hurry downstairs to breakfast.
Whenever they get there, everyone was chattering loudly. Kisa waved goodbye to the three girls, then followed the twins and Marcus down to the end of the table where they sat the night before. Kisa sat down and sighed, waiting for the prefects to pass them their schedules. A girl prefect finally handed Kisa her schedule and she looked down at it. First period was Herbology, second period was Transfiguration, third period was Potions, fourth period was Defense Against the Dark Arts, fifth was flying, sixth was History of Magic, and Eighth period was Charms. And then Wednesdays at midnight, Kisa had Astronomy.
Porridge and scrambled eggs appeared on their plates and Kisa happily ate them. She took a sip of juice and looked across the table at Marcus, who was too busy reading his textbook to eat. She sighed and tapped the top of his book with her fork. He looked up, slightly annoyed, but his expression relaxed whenever he saw that it was Kisa and not one of the twins.
"You need to eat if you want to stay awake in class," Kisa said. Marcus sighed and nodded, then closed the book and began to eat.
At 9:00, the bell chimed to start first period. Kisa and Jake walked towards the Herbology gardens, excited.
"What do you think we'll do?" Kisa asked, slipping a bit on the muddy path. It had rained through the night, and now water droplets shined in the sun on the leaves.
"Since it's our first day, we'll probably do something easy," Jake answered, shrugging. "But, I'm not a psychic, so I don't know for sure."
Kisa chuckled and the two finally reach the greenhouses. They were told on their schedules that they were to have class in the first greenhouse, since they were first years and that one held the least threatening plants. The two enter the greenhouse, Kisa a bit nervous. She hoped she'd do well, but then again, she'd never really had a green thumb. The two walked inside and immediately bumped into a crowd of maybe eighteen others, mixed from the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw houses. Kisa looked over the shoulder of a tall Hufflepuff girl in front of her to see their professor, who was grinning.
Professor Sprout was a squat little witch who wore a patched hat over her short, grey, wavy hair. There was an usually large amount of earth on her clothes, and under her dirty fingernails. Professor Sprout was smiling and instructing for everyone to have a seat against the far wall, where twenty or so mis-matched chairs were propped up. Kisa grinned; she knew her dad would be offended if told to sit in such horrid looking chairs. But, fortunately, she was hardly like her father. She walked across the greenhouse with the others to take a seat. She sat beside Jake and looked up at Professor Sprout, who was standing in front of the class. The greenhouse was a bit humid and Kisa heard a Ravenclaw girl behind her complaining that her hair was going to frizz up.
"Today, we're going to do something easy because it's your first day," Professor Sprout began, and the students sighed with relief. "You guys will be reading chapters one through three of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore. It introduces a few of the plants we'll be studying over the next few weeks."
A few people groaned and a curly haired boy raised his hand, stating that he forgot to get his book.
"Very well then," Professor Sprout said and walked off to a cabinet, which when opened, was shown to hold a few textbooks. Their covers were enclosed in a thick layer of dirt, and the boy looked a bit appalled whenever Professor Sprout handed it over to him. "Alright! Get to reading!"
"You were right," Kisa said and chuckled, Jake looking at her funny. "Maybe you are psychic."
"I'm pretty sure I'm not, but I'm a good guesser," Jake responded and Kisa smiled.
She looked back down at her book and began to read, but her mind soon began to wander. She thought about Marcus's reaction whenever he learned about her father's position. Did he hear about what happened in the past concerning her parents? She wondered how many knew about her parents, or if anyone did at all. She sighed and shook her head. No, she needed to focus. She looked back down at her textbook and ran her finger under the words as she read them.
Soon, the class was over and Jake and she were making their way back up the slippery path, holding up the edges of their robes to not get them muddy. She waved goodbye to Jake as soon as they made it back up to the school. They parted and Kisa walked down the hallway, looking for the Transfiguration classroom.
"It's bound to be around here somewhere… Or at least, that's what my schedule says…" Kisa muttered to herself before she felt a sharp jab in her back. She turned around and saw a smirking Malfoy, who then walked around her and walked ahead. Kisa glared at the back of his head until a flickering light caught her eye. Draco must not have seen it, because at that time, he had met up with the pug-faced girl who Kisa had found out to be named Pansy Parkinson. The girl's eyes looked at Kisa and she could see the sour expression prominent on her face before she turned on her heel and began talking to Draco animatedly as they walked. Kisa rolled her eyes and looked at the direction of the flickering to see a slightly ajar door. Behind it was the light source.
Her curiosity getting the best of her, Kisa started moving closer to it, but then remembered that if she did go to investigate, she'd be late for her next class. Sighing, she moved away and followed after Draco, who just entered the Transfiguration classroom. She vowed to try and check it out during lunch.
The rest of the morning went by quite quickly- she ignored Draco and his rude slurs in Tranfiguration, calmly sat through Potions as Professor Snape nitpicked at her potion they were practicing that day, and sat through a lecture in History of Magic while Marcus quickly scratched away notes on his parchment while Blake was whispering to her and making her laugh silently. Kisa rushed into the Great Hall at lunch time, ready to scarf down her food and go to check out the room that had been clouding over in her mind since before Transfiguration.
Whenever she reached the Great Hall though, there was a big hold up at the entrance. Kisa impatiently crossed her arm and tapped her foot on the ground while the crowd gasped. She looked over the shoulder to see two red-headed twins standing there, grinning and showing off a weird looking contraption. It was small and it blinked and whirred around, snapping at a nearby girl, causing her to jump back and yelp.
"This my friends is a Twirling Tindel," the one standing on the right said.
"It blinks, twirls, and snaps at someone who has been lying to another person," the other, who was holding the object, said and grinned at the girl, who was looking a bit ashamed. "You'll never have to be lied to again."
"We'll be selling them for 50 knots," the first one said and immediately people started holding their hands up so they could buy one. Kisa skirted around the edge and finally reached the door whenever the twins turned to face her.
"Oho, so you don't wanna buy one?" the one holding it said. "Forge, she is ignoring our genius."
"I know Gred, it's a shame." The other one nodded sadly.
"What kind of names are Gred and Forge?" Kisa asked, turning to look at them.
"It's really Fred and George," Fred said and laughed. Kisa nodded and turned to walk inside the Great Hall as more people overtake the twins to buy their invention. The two left it at that and turned around to start selling their product.
Once inside the Great Hall, Kisa rushed towards a spot at the Ravenclaw table. Not many people were there, because lunch had barely started and many of them were outside, spending their money. Food appeared on Kisa's plate and she shoveled it into her mouth, not bothering to taste it. Only when she almost choked on a bite of pork did she take a deep breath and drink some of her water out of the goblet.
"Hurried to get somewhere?" a voice behind her asked and Kisa turned to see Jake and Blake grinning down at her.
"Yes," answered Kisa truthfully, turning back around to face her food and continuing the uncivilized method of eating.
"Well, where are you off to?" Blake asked as the two twins sat beside her, each giving her a questioning look. She muffled a reply as she finished her food and gulped down her water. Coughing a bit before she stood up, Kisa smiled down at the boys.
"That, my friends, is a secret I'd like to keep to myself for the time being."
And with that, she left each of them looking at each other, befuddled expressions on their faces. Once again, Kisa quickly skirted around the thinning crowd and rushed down the hallways. She tried to slow her walking and become quieter so she wouldn't be caught roaming the halls, but her excitement got to the best of her and she picked up her pace. Her footsteps gave off a slight echo throughout the halls and Kisa frowned. But her frown quickly dissolved whenever she found the door. The green-tinted light was still flickering behind the door and Kisa made her way to it whenever a loud 'ahem' was heard from behind her. Cringing, she turned to see Filch, the caretaker, standing there with a smirk as his cat, Mrs. Norris, walked and weaved her way through Filch's legs. Kisa could've sworn she saw a smirk on the cat as she looked up at her.
"What do you think you're doing here?" asked Filch rudely, raising an eyebrow. He walked around Kisa and shut the door and Kisa saw a brief expression of worry cross his face.
"I- um, well- you see-" Kisa stuttered, not able to think up a good enough excuse to why she was just about to intrude into a flickering classroom.
"Exactly. Now, go somewhere else before I give you detention," Filch said, staring her down. He obviously wasn't about to leave before Kisa had, so defeated, Kisa sighed and turned on her heel. She stalked off and turned the corner, but stopped and pressed against the wall, praying Filch wouldn't be coming that way. She waited until Filch figured he was by himself, and heard him murmuring nervously to Mrs. Norris. "If Dumbledore knew I had let a student see what's in here, I'm sure either him or the Ministry would've had my head."
Even more curious than before, Kisa peeked around the corner once more to see a worried looking Filch standing guard in front of the now-closed door. Kisa's face faltered and she turned and made her way back to the Great Hall.
She wanted to know what was behind that door, and she was determined to find out.
Hello everyone! Well, here's the next installment of Kisa Sinclair and the Eternal Flame. I guess I should mention I don't Harry Potter, but I'm pretty sure that's obvious considering my writing is no match to J.K. Rowling's. Anyways, review and I hope you enjoyed this!