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-"Students!" Dumbledore started his 'goodnight' speech, in which none of us listened to.
I stood abruptly and followed Pansy to the common room of Slytherin which was deep below the first floor of the castle, and she called them the 'Dungeons'. Hopefully they didn't actually keep children enslaved here, but I kept close to her just in case.
"Mudblood" Pansy announced at a portrait of a very odd looking man with a short grey goatee. The man nodded, and the portrait swung to the side revealing a doorway. Pansy and Astoria stepped inside and just as I was about to follow them, the portrait slammed shut, missing me by inches.
"I don't remember you the last 5 years!" He snarled.
"New transfer student. From Beauxbatons?" I stared at him in disbelief.
"Do old Croony is accepting french monster here, is he?" The portrait turned up his nose.
"French monster?! Excuse me, I am ¾ human, thank you very much, and my father was British. As a matter of fact, he was a Slytherin!" My temper was starting to boil.
"Was he? And who was this?" He asked.
"Tristen Allard." I answered in a sophisticated manner. The portrait sighed, and said
"I always thought he had so much potential! He joined the Death Eaters in his last year, you know. I guess even great wizards make wrong choices." He looked distraught.
"Wrong choices?!" I asked, my voice getting dangerously high.
"Well, any wizard idiot who marries a veela and has a child has made a wrong choice obviously." My hands started to heat. I tried to calm myself.
"Oi! Allard! Don't let him get to you, he's just a painting. Salazar was known for being tricky." I heard one of the boys as they turned the corner. I took deep breaths as the portrait opened with a smirk. She stormed in, just as Nott called out to her.
"Not going to thank me? Plus, I wanted to know about that cur-" I interrupted by shouting at him; "Shut up! I'm not in the mood!" I heard Draco mutter to Nott "And out comes the Slytherin Side." as I stormed up the staircase the the right.
"Allard." Nott called out again. I spun around on my heel as I was about to slam the door at the staircase open, and I knew my hands were going a low orange, and my pupils dilated.
"WHAT?" I roared glaring at him.
"That's the boy's dormitory. The girls is to the left." I glanced back at the door and sure enough, it said "MALE" on gold plating. I rolled my eyes, and ran down the stairs, then pelting up the female staircase. The boys were sniggering and I turned back just as I opened the door.
" You want to hear about the curse, eh Nott? Well that's not gonna happen any time soon. Wait- How about never." I snarled and turned, slamming the door shut behind me.
"I swear that boy is going to be the death of me and it's only the first day!" I opened the door that was titled "5th Years" to find Pansy, and 4 other girls camped out on the floor, in a big heap of onesies, blankets, pillows and surprisingly stuffed animals. They all looked up in the middle of a sentence.
"Hey… I'm Louise. Transfer student from Beauxbatons." I gave a small sideways wave and stood awkwardly in the doorway. Almost immediately a girl with slightly curly, almost warm colored chocolate brown hair and vibrant blueish eyes broke the silence;
"Hi! I'm Addie! I heard you're a half-blood from Pansy!" She beckoned to me to sit down along with the other girls.
"Yah. Part Veela." I rolled my eyes as Pansy shot Addie a look that said 'Why did you have to tell her I told you?!'
"That's so cool!" Another girl, with shorter blonde hair with brown roots, a slender neck and muddy green eyes exclaimed loudly.
"I'm Annie, by the way." She added. Suddenly, Addie suggested we did introductions.
"Obviously you know Annie, Pansy and I. That," She pointed to a girl with long straight, glossy black hair and large brown eyes, who stared at me curiously " is Madison" she then looked over at the last girl, the one with light brown hair, and a couple of light blonde streaks, and big, faded blue eyes " Is Allie." I laughed inside of my head thinking ' Addie, Allie, and Annie"
"So, do you know someone by the name of Fleur Delacour?" Addie inquired. I nodded eagerly and responded with
"Oh yes, quite well actually. She was who I was a shadow of." I added in a matter of fact tone.
"You were a Shadow?" The girl Madison asked rudely. Addie gave her a look, then looked at me to tell me to respond.
"A shadow has a specific mentor whom they can go to class with a couple of times. Normally mentor and shadow become friends like Fleur, Cami and I." I explained as best as I could. I stifled a yawn, and glanced around. The room was relatively large, 6 four poster beds, one on each side of the three windows on each wall. I looked back to see once you entered the room, there were three stone steps down into the room, where a large green and grey rug,where we currently sat. The floor of the room was marble, and I could see under the lake. A green glow was in the room, and I noticed my chest was at the foot of the bed on the right wall, furthest from the door, on the left side of the window.
"That's where you're going to sleep. I sleep to the right of that, and Addie is on the wall." Annie told me, nodding over to my new bed.
"Talking about living circumstances, can I like change or something?" I asked uncertainly, shifting my weight from foot to foot. "Sure! Do you have a onesie? It's onesie night on Fridays." Allie looked up, holding a big pillow shaped like a bean on her criss-crossed lap.
"What?! You guys wouldn't let me join in until the last few months of last year!" Pansy exclaimed, looking in shock at the other four girls. Annie rolled her eyes and retorted;
"Yah, but you were friends with Millicent, Crabbe and Goyle." She and the others shared a look of disgust.
"She was hanging out with Draco, Zabini and Nott." Pansy objected, as if I wasn't standing right there (or rather walking to my chest to pull out my onesie).
"And? We don't have problems with them." Madison gave Pansy a look that said 'stop arguing or you won't be joining in on Onesie night anymore'
I drifted away from the conversation and hauled my trunk open. Inside, everything was orderly folded, the shirts in color a color coated pattern from white to blue to green to purple etc., my jeans in the right top corner, the other pants to the bottom. I grabbed my onesie that was sitting in the very top of my chest- a tan, red, turquoise and black pattern, with black rims.
"Um.. where am I supposed to change?" I glanced around the room uncertainly. Annie laughed and replied
"Oh, behind the curtain." I spotted a green curtain to the left of the door covering the corner. After I had changed, I sat down between Addie and Madison on the mound of pillows.
"So, since you're new, we're gonna have some fun. What do you know about Hogwarts?" Annie inquired, leaning forward.
"Nothing really, except the extremely obvious stuff, like where it is, what it look lie, the houses." I had this really bad habit of talking with my hands and I did so while I was talking.
"Ok. How about we start from scratch." Allie advised, shifted on her pile of pillows.
"Fine. Hogwarts is a school of witchcraft and wizardry. It's residence is in a castle next to a lake, and a forest, and to muggles it looks like a big pile of ruins. They have four houses- Slytherin, which are cunning and proud. There house colors are green and silver. The snake represents them. Their main rival house is Gryffindor, who are brave. They are the Lions with the colors are red and gold. Next is the Hufflpuffs, who are badgers and known to be calm, collected fair, so on an so forth. The colors are yellow and black, like a bumblebee. Truthfully, they're a whole load of duffers. Their 'rival' is Ravenclaw, who are known to be witty. The colors are blue and bronze, with the hawk as a mascot. The houses have points which are gained and lost by doing both good and bad things. Only teachers and the Heads (Head boy and head girl) can give and remove points. The house with the most points at the end of the year are awarded the house cup. Another the way the houses compete is through quidditch. This is the only extra curricular activity with teams and such.
The mandatory classes that you have to take are Potions, Defense Against Dark Arts, Flying (unless you play), Charms, History of Magic and Transfiguration. Then you have the extra classes, which I hate to say were most likely chosen for you, like Care of Magical Creatures, Divination and Ancient Runes." Madison explained the basic aspects of life at Hogwarts.
"This year, we have to take our O.W.L.S, which basically says how well you are doing and career options. Now, to try out for quidditch, you better consult with the captain, Graham Montague, a sixth year. I'm not sure he'll accept any girls, you have to be really good. Also, we need to explain the rivalries in a little more depth." Annie looked over at Addie for help on this.
"Here are the rules;" Addie handed a piece of parchment to me. On it were a couple moving picture with captions next to a list in curvy handwriting. I read along as she read aloud;
Never, at all costs, associate with Gryffindor girls.
Don't talk to people like Crabbe, Goyle and Millicent, it might lower your brain comprehension.
Try not to lose house points- an occasional loss with justified reason is O.K.
Don't associate with most Hufflepuffs, we don't want them to rub off.
If Addie says no, then she says no. You can always argue, but if she hears you out and says no again, it means no. It is O.K. to question, but no excessive back and forth arguing.
Try not to socialize with anyone less than 4th year.
Consult the group before making a family plan- we want to be able to be together.
Onesie night is a privilege. It can be taken away, like a warning, and it can be gained back.
Study Buddies is a privilege. You can refuse it, but then the night after, you can't use it.
We have daily rounds to the kitchen. Don't go when it isn't your assigned date.
Secrets shared in the group, stay in the group. If you tell a secret you swore by, you're out. Officially.
Look at the calendar. You can overlap dates with the group plans, unless it is obvious you are using the relationship as an excuse to not do our grouping thing.
No 'in cahoots' with the teachers. Ever.
We shouldn't have anything to hide from each other, especially after rule eleven.
Wake each other up, it's just annoying when left asleep.
Gifts are to be given. It isn't the amount of money, but the though that counts.
This isn't really a rule, but friends stick together, and therefore try to sit together when possible.
Most important of all, we are friends. Some better than others, but still friends.

Some of the rules were put in the list for obvious reasons, and some questions that emerged were answered by the embarrassed faces. Addie got up and grabbed a backpack from a poster. She took up a calendar, and brought it over.
"Ok, so, every Friday night we have Onesie night." She scribbled a couple words in.
" Study Buddies starts in The Perch at 8:00." She scribbled something else in the Margin.
" When are this years birthdays?" She looked expectantly at her friends. I don't know why, but felt like this was where my life was going. I always had loved organization, but that's not really possible with Cami as a friend. Don't get me wrong, I love Cami, but sometimes, we don't fit together like a puzzle piece like best friends should.
"Mine is on a Monday, the twenty ninth of September." Madison volunteered, pointing at the bottom of the paper.
"I guess the party'll be on the twenty seventh, the saturday before hand, and then our mini party of just us will be on October 2nd, the following friday." Allie spoke up.
"Isn't that one of the only weekends we have off of astronomy?" Pansy pulled a scrunched up paper from her back that was spilled all over the floor.
"And?" Annie asked, looking up from the tassels on the pillow she was holding.
"Well, shouldn't we do something more... I don't know, exciting?" She asked in an uncertain ton. They all looked coldly at her.
"My birthday isn't exciting enough for you?" Madi asked in a deadly soft tone. She shared a glance with Addie who shook her head and gave her a look that said 'not right now'
"Whose is next?" Annie uncertainly interrupted the silence.
"I think mine is. It's the sixteenth of October." Allie said awkwardly, trying to break the tension between the black-haired girls.
"That's a Thursday. How about the mini party is the night after, and the real big one is on Saturday, the eighteenth." Addie derived the attention away from Pansy, back to the calendar.
"I think mine is next. It's in December." I said nervously, while the other girls but Pansy nodded encouragement towards me.
"The date?" Addie asked, her quill twitching in her hands.
"The sixth." I reported. "Saturday." Addie reported, and then daintily nibbled on the end of the feather.
"That's a Hogsmeade weekend." Annie announced, scanning over a small booklet in her hands.
"Great! How about since all Hogsmeade weekends are the day after a quidditch game, we celebrate your party during the quidditch one, since more people are probably going to come. Then, we'll go shopping, go out to eat and have a mini party in the dorm." Allie calculated. A quidditch match? This was going to be interesting.
"Mine is after that, the second day of the new year." Addie, flipped the page.
"What are we doing for christmas?" Annie asked eagerly.
"My house. Skiing." Addie grinned at her friends eager expressions, then turned over to me.
"You don't have anything planned do you?" She looked thoroughly worried that I might have to go home to France.
"No. My mum has to go to Russia to see some distant aunt." I shrugged, a small pang piercing my heart in my chest.
"Great-" Addie was about to go on when Pansy interrupted;
"My family is going over to the Malfoy's, so I can't." She looked distraught, but the other girls exchanged glances that said
' Another excuse to make her leave!' (From Allie)
'I know, I know. But, lets give her another way to slip up. It'll happen before Madi's oh so boring birthday.' (From Addie)
'Can you believe her nerve! I'm actually ecstatic she isn't coming on the trip. That would be pure torture.' (From Madi)
' Ya'll, I think Louise understands the occlemency.' (From Annie)
' Hey Louise, can you hear us?' ( From Addie)
' Yah. I think it has to do with being able to read emotions as a half-veela' I thought towards them. They nodded.
"You're doing it again!" Pansy wailed loudly.
"Doing what?" Addie asked, putting on a fake innocent look.
"Somehow communicating without talking!" She squealed angrily.
"Well, I guess best friends can just do that." Addie answered calmly.
"No! Louise understood. I could see it by the way her lip curved like you all's." Pansy glared at me accusingly.
"And?" Addie gave her a glance that dared her to go on.
"You met her like five minuets ago!" She sneered, and then added
"I'm probably better friends with her than you all."
"Louise?" Addie looked at me and said in my mind 'I know, she's annoying. Say something that'll throw her off' I grinned.
"I wouldn't say you and I are friends. To b a friend, you have to have something in common." I smirked as I let that sink in. Her sneer fell of her face as she figured it out.
"You are saying we don't have anything in common?!" Her voice started to squeak.
" Yes." My smirk got bigger.
"Ugh! No! Name something I don't have in common with you." She snarled.
"a)I'm Pretty. b) I can argue. c) I know when to shut up. d) I don't think my relations suddenly make me amazing. e)-" I was about to go further when she shouted "Ok, I get it!". She was fuming, I could almost see the smoke coming from the ears, and I couldn't help but thing 'and this is why I'm a Slytherin'. I could be nice and mean when I wanted to be. The others giggled as Pansy tried to calm herself down.
"Back to Winter Break." Annie looked over at Addie.
"Pansy, you do realize that you just violated rule number..." She looked down at the list. "... seven." Pansy turned a sickly shade of green.
"I'm sorry, I thought that every other year you went home..." She looked down in shame.
"Every other year we go to each other's homes." Addie corrected.
"I'm not removed from the group am I?" Pansy asked, flinching as she waited for the rejection.
"Not yet, but if you slip up again..." Addie warned and Pansy nodded quietly. It was actually really amusing to see how much she wanted to be in the group and how much she didn't fit in.
"Anyways, whose Birthday is next?" Addie asked. They all looked at Pansy, who swallowed a know in her throat and replied in a husky voice;
"Mine. It's a Friday. Friday, February twenty seventh." She reported. Addie rolled her eyes.
"Since you are already on probation, you are only having a mini party. No if, ands or buts about it." Allie gave Pansy a disgusted glare.
Pansy gulped again, then nodded.
"Great. Next is mine, on April fifth." Annie tried to remove the mood of repulsion and depression.
"That's a Sunday. The Friday before that is a quidditch game, then celebration. How about we do the big party like Louise's, then the saturday night, and the morning of your birthday we have the mini party." Addie tried to sound upbeat but failed miserably.
"Pansy, how about you... go get some muffins from the kitchens." Madison suggested, obviously trying to get her to go away.
"I, um, don't know how to, um, get there...?" She indirectly asked where it was, or that one of us would come with her.
We all looked at her with a look that said ' You seriously don't know where it is?' as if was something most first years knew about.
"I don't know where it is..." She gave a helpless shrug. We kept looking at her.
"Ok, maybe I can find it..." She turned on her heel and ran out.
Addie giggled and soon enough we were all lying in the pillows giggling.
"Ok, so why did you want her to leave." Madi asked Addie.
"So, I know she's going to break rules 2,3,5,12,13,14,17 and 18. We basically built some of those rules to block her. Therefore,she's going to be kicked out soon enough. Plus, she doesn't know where the Perch is and can't get to it without us. In conclusion, she is not going to part of us in about 2 weeks time at the most." She grinned, as Annie called her ingenious. Unlike what it seemed, they weren't actually that mean. They just really didn't like Pansy, and I couldn't help but see why.
"Why do you want her out so quick?" Annie asked, leaning towards Addie. We all did the same,and I felt a surge inside of myself that told me I belonged.
"Well... If I didn't we wouldn't be able to talk about my birthday in front of her. And that would be pure torture. Plus, I would be forced to invite her, even though she isn't going to be staying with us." She let it sink in and I could see the wheels tuning in the other's brains.
"Wait, where are you celebrating it?" Allie asked.
"Well..." She said slowly. Madi rolled her eyes when she did that, realizing that her friend was trying to stretch the suspense as much as possible. "Fine. So we're going to have a masquerade ball at my house!" She squealed in a high tone, and the others repeated, in equally excited voices.
"We need to shop at hogsmeade to get our dresses." Allie decided. The rest of us nodded. We giggled some more until Pansy banged in.
"I," Pant. "Have." Another Pant. "The food." She almost collapsed on the pillows, a big mound of robes and muffins.
"Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not in the mood. Are you guys?" Madi smirked. We all agreed, and i could see exhaustion taking it's toll on Pansy. Her head dropped forward, and she collapsed, smashing the muffins.
"Well, I guess we should go to sleep." I stated, looking at the sleeping girl. They all nodded, and in a few minuets the lights were out and we were safely tucked in bed.
"Hey, Louise?" I heard a voice call out.
"Hmm?" I asked
"I'm glad you came." I heard again. A thin smile grew on my lips as I replied;
"Me too." Me too.

~SlytherinNinjaTigeress