Chapter 6
Professor McGonagall stood up, and the room fell silent. The respect for McGonagall was so obvious. I had the fleeting thought she is a good choice to lead our school.
McGonagall cleared her throat and said, "I know everyone is looking forward to the meal, so without further ado, let's eat!"
Immediately food appeared on the table. Unlike the rest of the first years, I was not surprised by this fact. No, what I was surprised by was the fact I was not surprised and I immediately tapped my foot on the floor in a thank you to the house elves I knew had made the food. How did I know that? That was strange. I looked up and met Frank's eye and I knew he had the same reaction to the food. When I looked at Lily and Cael they seemed to have the same reaction as well. How odd.
After everyone had eaten their fill of unbelievably delicious food (including dessert), McGonagall stood again.
"Welcome first years, and welcome back upper years. As always I need to remind you that the Forbidden Forest is thus named so people understand they are forbidden to enter it." At this she sent a short glare to the Gryffindor table. "Also, Angus Rupert, our new caretaker, would like to ask students not to use magic in the hallways."
Suddenly, McGonagall looked around the room to make sure everyone was listening. "Now, we are making a few changes this year. We are still trying to build inter-house unity since the Second Wizarding War finished. This year we have decided that instead of attending classes with your house and one other house, each year will be broken into groups of students from every house. There will be 3 students from each house making up the groups. Your groups will be labeled on your timetable that you will get tomorrow before classes. Secondly, we are encouraging students to eat breakfast and lunch at any table they wish, but to eat dinner at their house table. That is all for now, off to bed with you."
There was chattering immediately following McGonagall's speech. The prefects immediately called the first years and headed out, but I held back. I saw that Frank, Lily, and Cael had done the same. We immediately ran up to each other.
"Isn't this great, we still get to spend time together!" Lily cried as she hugged me. The boys laughed at us but we didn't care.
"What table should we sit at for breakfast?" I asked immediately. Some of the older students that had stayed behind simply stared at us in shock. Not only had we only known each other for a few hours, but we had been sorted into different houses, and we just assumed that we would sit together at breakfast tomorrow. They shook their heads and walked away, not that we noticed.
"We can sit at my table" Lily said excitedly, "I know that Cael's table may need time to warm up to the rest of us and Frank's table may need time to warm up to Cael. But my table shouldn't care too much."
"I think that's a good plan Lil," I said, still hugging her. The boys nodded before joining in on our group hug.
"Great, now we should all go to bed," Cael said, always the level headed one. But we all agreed. As we were about to leave Professor Longbottom came up to us.
"You 4 missed the prefects, would you like me to show you where your common rooms are?" He asked politely.
We looked at each other and had a silent conversation, which seemed to be natural for us, before we shook our heads no.
"Thanks Dad, I mean Professor, but we're fine," Frank said confidently. Without waiting for a reply we left the Great Hall. We walked together until we got to the stairs. We had another group hug before we split up and walked confidently to our common rooms, still unsure how we knew where they were without help, but we did.
When I entered the common room the other first years were sitting around chatting. I walked over and sat down. For a moment they all stopped talking and stared at me. I felt a bit self-conscious, I got the feeling they weren't happy about me being friends with the others.
"Hi," I said quietly, "I'm Ellani. I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier, but I would like to be friends with all of you."
"Hi Ellani," a girl with light brown hair said, "I'm Jessa, it's lovely to meet you." And just like that all the tension left the room and we were all chatting like a true family. I knew that I was going to love it here.
Meanwhile, in the headmistresses office, McGonagall was having a conversation with an old friend.
"I don't know Albus. What does it mean? What are these kids walking into?" She asked the painting.
"Well, Minerva, they are walking into a future clouded in mystery. However, these are the true children of light. Did you know all of their wands are exact replicas of the founders? These kids are going to be exceptional one day." Albus Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye.
"But why now? Why would they come now in a time of peace unparalleled in our world?" McGonagall asked with a touch of fear.
"I'm afraid, Minerva, that the 'peace' is only skin deep. There is still darkness fighting in this world, and there will always be need of those in the light. I hate when students are the ones tasked with bearing the light, but I'm afraid you are going to need to be there for them like I was for our Harry. They are going to rely on you." Dumbledore said, and all McGonagall could do was nod and hope that she could help these four students who she knew were about to change everything.
A/N: Thank you all for reading, following and favouriting! This is a bit of a filler chapter, sorry guys. The next chapter starts Hogwarts so it should pick up again soon. I am going to try and update twice a week, but I start a new job this week so I won't make any promises.
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