A/N: Shout out to Potterhead Budgie Lover for my first review!
Albus looked up to see the Headmistress of the school Professor Collins move onto the main stage, after the famed Professor Dumbledore's death the position of Headmistress was offered to Professor McGonagall, as she was the deputy Headmaster. But she rejected the post, with the belief that she was fine in her current position, after that the spot was up for grabs for anyone with a powerful wizarding history, fortunately a good candidate was found in a matter of weeks, she was the cousin of Dumbledore, and very powerful, almost as much as him, with a very similar mindset too, a little on the side of crazy.
"A few reminders before we dig in, the Forbidden Forest, is as you all know, forbidden, also our Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Professor Trudeau has retired, and Professor Oakes from The Salem Institute of Witchcraft and Witchery will be taking over." The Headmistress told them, "With all that said, I have one last announcement,".
"Dig in!"
In front of Albus empty plates and platters simultaneously filled up with food. Albus took a look at his yearmates, who were grabbing food and stuffing it in their mouths, with the exception of Rose. Albus followed in suit grabbing half a dozen of his favourite sandwiches and piling them up on his plate, he took a large slice of pizza (The hogwarts kitchen had begun making foods the Americans usually ate in honor of Professor Oakes) and threw it down besides his sandwiches, he then started stuffing it all down his mouth, he was famished as he had eaten nothing except for a few snacks on the train, but that was hours ago.
As they finished the last of their food a student with a shiny badge that said 'Prefect' on it started yelling, "First years with me, please!"
Albus followed the Gryffindor prefect, who Scorpius pointed out as Allen Carter, out of the Great Hall, through a many large number of stairways and stopped in front of a portrait of a very fat lady.
"Alright first years, this is the entrance to the Gryffindor common room," The prefect told them pointing at the portrait, "Every week we have a code word to enter the room, tell the code to the Fat Lady and she'll let you in, Shriveled fig,"
The portrait swung open to reveal a large room about one tenth the size of the Great Hall, even a half blind fool could tell this room boasted massive banners of maroon, gold, and lions, the insignia of the Gryffindor house. Carter motioned the amazed first years to continue following him, he led them up (another) staircase, and stopped in front of a door. These will be your dormitories, your beds are assigned to you by the luggage on the beds. Albus turned around to find only 6 of his yearmates remained with him (the girls went with the female prefect).
Albus found his luggage had been put on a bed he went and sat down.
"So, what're we going to do now?" Scorpius asked him.
"I think we're supposed to go down to the common room for our Timetables," Albus replied.
Albus's first day at Hogwarts wasn't the most memorable one, but it was far better than he had hoped for...