Hogwarts 10 Years Later

Chapter 9-First Day Part One

A/N: Hello! No, I have not dropped off the face of the Earth. The laptop was gone for a couple of days, then I couldn't get internet so it couldn't get uploaded. It wasn't fun. But here is this chapter! Enjoy and see you at the bottom!

Disclaimer: Don't own. :'(

I woke up the next morning to the sound of people talking. I rubbed my eyes and looked around the room. Multiple beds, drapes, oh yeah! I was at Hogwarts. I sat up and stretched my arms. My roommates were already getting ready.

"Hey, we were just about to wake you up. At least you got up before Clara, she takes forever in the bathroom. Rose and Alexis are in there right now." Val said nodding to the bathrooms. "You can go in next, I'm done."

"Thanks," I smiled back. I got up and grabbed a bag from my trunk. I went to my dresser and put my contacts in. I'm blind with out them. I blinked a couple of times before looking at Val sitting cross-legged on her bed. She clapped her hands and pointed at me.

"So you're the Family Who Disappeared," she said dramatically.

"We have a title?" I asked confused. Val laughed.

"Just within our family. I think it's supposed to be a joke, I'm ignoring it for time reasons." I started giggling as she said that. "What? What did I say?"

"That," I laughed harder. "Is an excellent question!" After I stopped laughing, I sat up and explained it to Val. "So there is a movie called Meet the Robinsons and it just came out. You just quoted it. It's one of my favorite movies right now. Maybe over Christmas, I'll show it to you. I haven't seen any electronics in the castle so far." I mused thinking.

"Sure, why not? But," she looked down. "What is a movie exactly?" She looked embarrassed to ask the question. I was slightly stunned, I know it's the wizarding world but don't they have TV?

"Well," I said trying to explain it. "It's like a picture but the people, move, talk, and tell a story."

"Like this but with noise?" She asked while handing me a picture. I looked at it in shock. It was one of Val, Clara, and David right after they had gotten their Hogwarts letters. The thing that shocked me was the triplets were waving and messing with each other in the picture.

"Uh yeah," I said slowly still looking at the picture. At that moment, Rose came out of the bathroom.

"Hey, good thing you're up. Val kept going on about Clara and how she would take forever. Hop in," she said while brushing her hair.

About forty-five minutes later, after Clara freaked out about us not waking her in time, we headed to breakfast. We weren't sure where the Great Hall was exactly, but a second year named Paige showed us the way. We sat down at the Hufflepuff table next to Teddy and a few of his friends. Around ten minutes later, Professor Sprout came around with our schedules for the year.

"Let's see," Rose said while unraveling the parchment. "We have History of Magic first with the Gryffindors today." Groans were heard around the table.

"What?" I asked.

"History is taught by a ghost," Teddy explained. My eyes got wide.

"A ghost? That's so awesome!" Wow, a ghost. Could this get any better?

"Not awesome at all," Val said shaking her head. "He hasn't changed his lesson plans since he died. And rumor has it that he isn't even aware that he is dead."

"I heard from my siblings that he's really boring," Rose chimed in. I decided to let it drop. "What other classes do we have today?" Rose asked changing the subject.

"Double potions and double charms," I said looking at the schedule. "In fact, we have a class with each house today." Yes! This means I get to see all my other friends.

Twenty minutes later we got up and headed off to class. We got lost a couple of times and narrowly avoided Peeves. Lucky for us he had other victims at the moment. When we finally got to class, we only had a few minutes to spare. I noticed Trixie waving to me.

"Violet! Over here!" She called. I went over there and took the empty seat next to her. "This is awesome! We have our first class together. I was worried we wouldn't see each other ofter being in different houses and what not." She rattled off in one breath.

"Yeah, it's great!" I replied. I then noticed the girl on Trixie's other side. "Who's that?" The other girl leaned forward. She was Indian and had her hair in a long braid down her back.

"Hi, I'm Jeevanjot Rai. But call me Jeevan or something. I don't really care. Whatever cranks your invisible tractor."

"Invisible tractor?"

"It's a phrase I made up. I'm trying to see if it will catch on. Who are you?"

"I'm Violet Ruben and-" I stopped as I heard a small shriek. It came from Rachel, one of the girls in my dorm. A ghost had just floated through the blackboard. She must not have known ahead of time about him. Some others looked started as well, but no one else screamed. The ghost introduced himself as Professor Binns. He then took roll, called all the names incorrectly, and said what we would cover during the year. It sounded very interesting, learning about giant wars and such, but his voice made me want to go back to sleep!

"Pst! Vi, want to join our hangman game?" I looked over at Trixie and Jeevan. They had a blank piece of paper and a small wooden object.

"My brother told me all Binns does is drone on. Word for word from the book. You and Trixie should like this version of hangman, though. It's different than the muggle kind." Jeevan whispered over to me. I shrugged.

"Why not?" The concept of the game was the same, but if you lost a little wooden man would hang himself. We played until the end of class. Luckily, Binns didn't give us any homework. After history, I said goodbye to Trixie and Jeevan and headed down to the dungeons.

When I finally made it to Potions, I was glad I brought my jumper. It was freezing down there for September. I looked at my schedule to see what class we were with. It was the Ravenclaws! I saw Hanna sitting at an empty table across the room.

"Hey Hanna!" I called. She turned around and waved. I went down and sat with her. "SO, how is life as a Ravenclaw? How are your roommates?" She looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Well, the common room is brilliant! Its full of books and couches and plenty of tables to work at. Getting into the common room is strange though. You have to answer a question. The prefects said they'd help us the first week, then we would be on our own." So not all common rooms have the same method? They probably fit the house.

"That's cool, our common room is down near the basements. It's actually very cozy and the yellow isn't blinding at all so that's good." Hanna laughed.

"Just don't go wearing black and yellow all the time, you'll look like a bee!" I giggled.

"Ha, bumblebee. OH MY GOSH!" I suddenly screamed.

"What?" Hanna asked.

"Black and Yellow!" She looked confused. I sighed and started chanting/singing. "YOU know. Black and yellow, back and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow." she started giggling too.

"Ha ha, very funny," we sat laughing and talking a little longer. Rose then came over with Val to our table.

"Hey can we join you?" Val asked.

"Why not?" I shrugged guesting to the other seats. "Oh! Hanna, Rose and Valerie. Rose and Valerie, Hanna. Rose and Val are my dorm mates and Val is most likely my cousin." I took a breath. "And Hanna here has been my best friend since kindergarten." 'Hellos' were exchanged as Rose and Val sat down.

"I wonder what Slughorn will do on the first day?" Hanna said as she pulled out some parchment.

"Dunno, but what I don't get is why we have to use parchment and quills."I grumbled while pulling out my supplies. "Why not pen and paper? It's probably cheaper anyway."

"It's tradition!" Val exclaimed with a slightly outraged look. "You don't change tradition!"

"Blimey, calm down! It was just a thought." I moved my hands in the universal 'calm down' guester. Rose seemed to have lost it since she burst out laughing. "What?" Val and I asked together. This just made her laugh harder. She gasped for breath.

"It's just...you...Val...expressions...freaking out..." she lost it laughing again. Val and I shared a confused look. Hanna was barely containing herself.

"Did we miss something?" I asked.

"She's laughing at you two! Your expressions ad the way you talk. You have got to be related in some way. Honestly!" Her laughing was dying down now. "Rose! Stop laughing," Rose started taking deep breaths.

"Alright, I'm fine now. But your FACES! It was..." she then lost it again. Hanna just shook her head. Rose did calm down after a few minutes. Lucky for her it was right before the teacher walked in. He was rather portly and was wearing green robes.

"Ah, welcome new students! I am Professor Slughorn, potions master here at Hogwarts. I bet you're all excited to get going so lets begin! Now, open to page 222 and make the potion. Don't dally!" Most of the class looked at him in shock. A few Ravenclaws opened their books, but they soon shook their heads in defeat. Meanwhile, Slughorn was wiping a tear from his eye.

"So sorry, but I do that with all my first year classes. Gets them every time." He clapped his hands to get our attention again. "But children, today, and for the next few lessons, we will learn about the art of potion making. We still have a while before you actually make a potion. Now, how many of you have read the introduction?" Everyone raised their hand. I bet half of them didn't, unlike me. Okay, I skimmed over the fifteen page introductory, sue me! "Then you won't mind a pop quiz, would you?" Half the class groaned, though only one Ravenclaw groaned. I bet almost everyone of them read the introductory, and maybe even the first couple of chapters.

"Let's start with... Lewis Harwick. Would you please tell us..." It went like this for a while. Slughorn would call on random people and ask them a question. Correct answers would gain house points. Wrong answers would gain embarrassment. In the back of my mind, I knew he would call on everyone, but that didn't stop me from hoping he might forget me.

"Ms. Ruben?" Darn! "Could you please tell us why potion making requires little to no wand work for simple potions?" Good, it wasn't a completely right-or-wrong type of answer.

"Well," I started trying to figure out what to say. "In potions, most ingredients have magical properties, right?" Slughorn nodded and I continued. "So, the magic in a potion is in the ingredients. More powerful potions need more magic, hence the wand. I think that's it." I let out a deep breath. It could have been worse.

"Well said, my dear! Five points for Hufflepuff. Now Mr. Rose, what..." I sighed. Thank goodness I didn't make a fool of myself. The rest of class time was taken up by the pop quiz. For homework, we had to look at the ingredients of the first potion we'll be making, and write down the uses of said ingredients.

"Ugh," I groaned as we walked out of the classroom. "I like primary school better where the classes are shorter." Hanna nodded in agreement.

"The class just dragged on, didn't it?" Teddy had come up behind us. "On the bright side, it's lunch time!"

"Thank God, I'm starving!" Rose exclaimed.

When we got to the Great Hall, we bid farewell to Hanna who went over to the Ravenclaw table. She sat down to Natalie and Trixie, wait. Natalie and Trixie? I walked over.

"Can we sit anywhere at lunch?" I asked.

"Yeah, same with breakfast, but most people don't move around much." Natalie said looking up at me. She said this a little slower than normal, as if I wouldn't understand. I've only known her two days and I'm not really liking her. I invited the others to come eat with us as well. Clara and Val declined saying they wanted to sit with their brother. Teddy said he was sitting with some of the guys, but Rose took me up on the offer and joined us. Jeevan came over a little later. My first day at Hogwarts was going great!

A/N: There it is! I would like to say that since school will be starting up soon (we start in September) I'm not sure of the speed of updates. I'll try once a week, but the wait shouldn't be more than two weeks. Reviews would be great! Or even a PM...