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Chapter 15
About an hour later, a loud bell rang, and Harry started. "What was that?" He asked.
"That is the bell they ring when a meal starts for the first few weeks. After that, they expect you to be able to keep track of time by yourself. The bell also rings when class begins and ends, along with one at curfew. You are also expected to wake yourself up in the morning." Zeb explained.
"That makes sense. At Hogwarts, there wasn't anything to tell us when curfew was, so every year, for the first few weeks, a lot of people would get detentions for being out."
"Ouch!" Zeb said as he started rummaging under his bed for something. HE made a sound of success and pull the thing out- a pair of shoes. "I hate unpacking. Things never go where they're supposed to, and you find things in weird places for about a month." Zeb grimaced as he pulled the shoes on.
"Packing is worse, though." Harry argued "Things get spread out everywhere, and you can never find the one thing you need, and by the time you find it, you had forgotten you had ever needed it!"
Zeb laughed, and walked out the door, with Harry following. Once they were out of the room and in the hallway, Zeb waved to someone. Two people waved back, and walked over to them.
"Harry, these two idiots are David Williams and Percy Newell. Guys, this is Harry Potter, my new roommate."
"Hey." David grinned "Don't believe anything he says about us- it's all lies."
"He never says anything good about us." Percy smirked, shaking his blonde hair out of his eyes. "I think he's just jealous." he stage- whispered.
"Oh shut it." Zeb grumbled. "Anywhere, where is Archer?" he asked.
Both boys winced "Probably dead." Percy told him "He got paired with John this year, because Mike moved to Idaho."
Zeb winced, then turned to a clueless Harry "Archer is another friend of ours, and John is one of those people who likes to annoy people for the fun of it. He was my roommate last year. I think they put you in with me because Archer can put up with him better then I can, and the teachers didn't like the fact that we fought at least once every week."
"Yeah, I know some people like that." Harry grimaced, remembering Dudley's gang.
"Anyway, we better get down to the dining hall." David said. "Archer is either already down there, or he can catch up later." With that they joined the mass exodus leaving the dorms and common rooms. David lead the way out of the boy's dorms, and towards the large door that Harry had noticed before. However, unlike earlier, the door was open, and students were flooding into it. When Harry got into the large room, he realized it was very different then Hogwarts was. The room was filled with tables that were round, and each could hold 12 people. There were about thirty tables spread out throughout the majority of the room. At the end of the room opposite from the door, there was a platform raised about a foot off from the rest of the room. That was were a group of teachers sat, in a long table not unlike the one that the Hogwarts staff used. However, there were people sitting on either side of the table.
While Harry was taking in everything, Zeb and his friends had been scanning the tables, before waving at someone. A group at a table about half full waved back, and he lead the group towards them.
"Hey everyone!" David grinned, sitting down next to a blonde girl.
"Everyone, this is Harry Potter, my new roommate. Harry, the girl that David is sitting by is Sophie, then there is Jessica, Diana, Isabelle-" Zeb said, ducking the ball of paper the last girl threw at him.
"It's Izzy. He is the only one brave enough to call me that. And no calling me Belle or Sable or anything like that." she said glaring at Zeb.
"And on the end is Archer." Zeb finished with a grin as they all sat down. A few minutes later, Mrs. Jennings stood up, and there was near instant silence. Harry was instantly reminded of Professor McGonagall's ability to do the same.
"Hello, to all students, new and old, and welcome to California Magical Academy!" She said, and students cheered. That lead to a huge amount older students chanting '19 what?' '1996' and 'Seniors! Seniors! Seniors!' and 'Go bears! Go bears!'
Mrs. Jennings just stood there and waited for them to calm down, which took a while. Neither she or any of the other teachers looked at all surprised at the yelling, which lead Harry to believe that this was a yearly occurrence. "Yes, yes, thank you seniors." she said dryly, which lead to the loudest group of seniors cheering. She waited for them to quiet down again, then said "I am obligated to remind you that all of last year's rules still exist. If you do not know those rules or have forgotten them over the summer, you all have a copy of the rule book in your dorm room, and there are a few in the library. That said, enjoy!" she said, and sat down, with food appearing on the tables.
Harry and his group immediately started eating, and he noticed the food was very different then Hogwarts, before internally scolding himself for relating everything to his old school, whether it was the same or different. "So, Harry, what was your favorite class?" Diana asked.
"My favorite class was either Defense Against the Dark Arts, or charms. What are yours?"
"My favorite is Defense." she smiled.
"My favorite is Creatures." Zeb said.
"Mine and Jessica's are charms." Izzy said.
"Mine is transfiguration." David said.
"Mine is History of magic."
"I like both defense and potions." Percy said.
"Ditto." Archer grinned.
"Guess what!" Zeb exclaimed. Without waiting for anyone to say anything, he continued "Harry was a seeker on his house quidditch team, and he said that if he could, he would play on ours!"
David had a very relived look on his face. "Thank you!" he said to Harry. "I like watching quidditch, but I don't really like playing it, and I'm not that good either."
"You're better then John was." Zeb scoffed.
"That's cause John was pure awful. And that he had to many detentions to go to practice, and to many demerits to play on a team."
"How do you even do that?" Harry asked, amazed.
"You be John." Diana deadpanned, and the entire group laughed.
Later, Harry was sitting on the chair from his desk and staring out his window. It was late at night, and Zeb was already asleep. Suddenly, Hedwig fluttered up to the window. Harry quickly unlocked it, and swung it open. She stepped onto his arm, and he shut the window most of the way, enough so that she could push it open by herself, but not enough that the cold ocean air could get in.
Hedwig had made it to the house only about two weeks before school started, and was tired from the long trip, but had still wanted to fly to school instead of getting locked into her hated cage. Harry glanced at the clock, and winced at the time it showed. He carefully stood up, and used his free arm to put the chair closer to the desk, then let Hedwig step onto it's back. "Night, girl." He whisperer, stroking her head, before climbing into bed. He was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
Hey everyone! Sorry about yesterday's chapter 15, no chapter 15 mix up! I had accidentally posted the chapter to another story on this story. I'm just glad I realized I did it, about 20 seconds after I posted it! Anyway, I hope you liked this, and please review!
P.S. All of you need to give a huge thank you to my sister! She asked me if I had finished this chapter, and if I did, why hadn't I posted it? I then looked at it, and realized that I had uploaded it to the Doc manager, but hadn't posted it! So that's why this is four days late!