Disclaimer: I only own my OCs. Everything else is J.K Rowling's
Once the feast had ended, the prefects for each house called their first years to them.
Bianca and the other Slytherin first years were all gathered around their prefect.
"Come on first years this way to the Slytherin common room." He said as he led them down some stone steps away from the other groups of students who were mainly heading up different flights of stairs. "Our common room is down in the dungeons. And you shouldn't tell other houses about where it is and never tell them the password."
As they went down the stairs the air got steadily colder.
Eventually they reached a seemingly nondescript stretch of stone wall and halted in front of it.
He said "Try not to forget the location of the door, as we don't advertise the entrance with an obvious portrait like the other houses do."
"If need be you can use this to help you tell which bit of wall it is." He said gesturing to a small elegant S engraved into a brick in the wall directly opposite to the hidden entrance.
He then turned to the blank side of wall once again and clearly said "Anguis." Instantly the wall opened inwards allowing them entry. "This will be your password for the first term of the year and you will be informed of the new password on your return after the Christmas holidays. If you forget the password then you should find one of our prefects or another of your housemates."
He then stood to the side of the opening to allow the first years past him, and followed the last one in afterwards.
Bianca looked around the room which was lit with large hanging lanterns which made flickering patterns of light on the walls and on the faces of the people within. There was a large glass window on one side of the room which confirmed the suspicion that the Slytherin common room was underneath the black lake by giving them a clear view of the bottom of said lake.
"Okay, the girls dormitories are to the right and the boys are to the left. There is a sign on each of the doors saying the year group and the first door is the one for the first years. Your luggage has already been placed in your room by the house elves." The prefect said while indicating the corridors which lead off to the right and the left of the main common room area.
All of the first years went off to see their new rooms and to claim beds etcetera.
Looking around the girls' dorm, Bianca was silently thankful for whoever had the insight to install a large bathroom which had five separate shower cubicles – one for each girl. She didn't want to have the stereotypical daily fight over the shower every morning for the next seven years of school, so the showers were much appreciated.
Each of their trunks had been placed at the end of a bed and none of the girls wanted to attempt to move the heavy objects just to change which of the identical beds they would sleep in. They all decided that it was more trouble than it was worth to move their belongings. So Bianca ended up with the bed that was adjacent to Jacquelyn's and Moria's beds, while Nina was next to Moria and Lavina was on the other side of Jacquelyn.
Slumping down onto her bed, Bianca admired the soft silk bedding which was in elegant Slytherin colours – like most of the other things in their common room – cool metallic silver and glittering emerald.
With the thought that she would finish unpacking her things the next morning, Bianca decided to just change into her pyjamas. After doing so, she said goodnight to each of her roommates and curled up underneath the plush sheets; holding the thick winter duvet close to her chest, she soon fell asleep.
The next morning
As morning approached, the charmed ceiling light gradually became brighter in an imitation of the sun. Looking up at it from her bed, Bianca supposed that the charm upon it was a sort of simplified version of the one that the ceiling of the great hall had upon it. She then thought that although the light was useful and quite practical, it could be rather unpleasant when wishing to lie in on a weekend.
Realising that she should probably be following her roommates examples of getting ready for the first day of lessons; Bianca got up and dressed after a quick shower – making sure to not allow herself to stay under the inviting hot water all day long.
Bianca ran a brush through her hair and joined her roommates in going up to have breakfast.
On entering the great hall, Bianca led the small group to a spot in the centre of the Slytherin table a few spaces away from the first year boys, who were already busy digging into the large spread of food that was laid out before them.
When the boys noticed their presence, Darrick and Rhett seemed insistent on dragging Albus and Scorpius over to where the girls were sitting and so all of the boys picked up their heavily laden plates – as they were against leaving them behind – and their school bags and sat down next to the girls. "Good morning girls." Rhett said cheerfully, looking at Bianca in particular.
They each greeted the boys in turn and then began to fill their own plates with some of the various dishes in front of them.
Jacquelyn leant over and whispered in Bianca's ear in a hushed voice "I meant to ask either at the feast or later last night but I didn't get a chance to. Are you part Veela by any chance? The other girls think so too but we all weren't certain."
"I'm a full-blooded Veela. The first that has been at Hogwarts as far as I am aware though." Bianca replied.
"Oh wow. I wouldn't have guessed that, that's really cool. I can't wait to see all the guys here when you get to your 'full inheritance' at 16. It will be so funny. You probably won't get a moments peace though." Jacquelyn said.
"I know. I'm kinda glad that my brothers will be in their 6th year when I turn 16. So hopefully they will work as an incentive to leave me alone." Said Bianca.
"Well that is useful. Who are your brothers? What house are they in?" Jacquelyn asked.
"Their names are Lorcan and Lysander. They are twins. Lorcan is a Gryffindor and Lysander is a Ravenclaw" answered Bianca.
"That's unusual. For one thing twins are almost always in the same house. And families most of the time are as well but all three of you are in different houses. Also they must be Veelas as well right? So you aren't the only pure Veela." Said Jacquelyn confused.
"No, they aren't Veela. I'm adopted, so that makes the different houses thing make a bit more sense." Bianca said.
At that moment Professor Lima came over to their group and proceeded to hand out their timetables. He told them as he did so that he was their head of house, if they had been so inattentive the previous evening to not listen to him saying so before.
Bianca read her schedule - which seemed pretty standard and wasn't completely different from what she was expecting, from what she remembered of her brothers' tales.
Monday: Double Charms – Break – Transfiguration – Lunch – Herbology
Tuesday: Defence Against the Dark Arts – Free – Break – Potions – Lunch – Transfiguration
Wednesday: Double Herbology – Break – Charms – Lunch – Defence Against the Dark Arts
Thursday: Double History of Magic – Break – Transfiguration – Lunch – Potions
Friday: Potions – Defence Against the Dark Arts – Break – History of Magic – Lunch – Free
On Tuesdays she had a flying lesson at 3:30. And on Fridays she had Astronomy at midnight – which Bianca didn't look forward to having to get up for.
It said for each subject which other house would be in the same lesson as the Slytherins.
They were paired with Gryffindor for Defence Against the Dark Arts (DADA) and Charms.
With Ravenclaw for Potions, History of Magic, Flying and Astronomy.
And with Hufflepuff for Herbology and Transfiguration.
After taking a few minutes to look at their timetables and discuss some of the subjects, the bell rang – signalling that they should head towards their lesson.
So Bianca led the way out of the great hall towards their first ever Charms lesson.
AN: Sorry for the late update, and it looks like I was a bit too overly ambitious with the four day updates. So I'm going to update once a week now. Apologies for any confusion.