Sorry its been so long. Its been awful trying to find fillers for chapters. I want the story to sort of flow the same way until Halloween, I'm hoping to write in Harry's noticing of Ron and his stupid ways. Hopefully I can figure this out.


Hermione felt confident when she turned to Harry and struck up a conversation. "Hello, my name is Hermione Granger."

She held out her hand and he took it shakily, "I'm Harry Potter." His hand was tiny for his age. She could feel his bones and it was extremely scary to see and to feel.

"Where do you come from Harry?"

"I live in Surrey with my Uncle."

"I know a few people from Surrey."

"What about you, Hermione?"

"I'm from London."

Harry smiled, before he picked at a piece of bread and put it in his mouth. Hermione noticed this. The array of food spread before them and the scrawny boy next to her was picking at bread. She held her fork up with a bite of shepards pie and took a bite. Once the bite was gone, she looked back at Harry, "Take some Shepard's Pie, its so good. Better than my... mom's"

She mumbled the last bit, knowing she couldn't say help, or needed to stay as low key as possible, 'This will take some getting used too.'

He did so and took a couple bites. The red head across from them was completely stuffed with food, a drumstick in each hand. His cheeks were pouched with food, puffing them out. "'Arry, zis is 'mazin. 'Tho much 'ood.

Harry chuckled and Hermione let out a snort. "Oi, Ronnikins, has become..."

"...a gerbil."

"So much food..."

"...yet so little mouth." The two red-headed boys next to Ron, were twins.

"We are Fred..."

"...and George Weasley,"

"Pleased to meet you, Harry..."

"...Potter, and Hermione Granger."

"Nice to meet you both." Hermione chuckled.

"Yeah, nice to meet you both."

Hermione noticed Harry had begun to take a little more food, but the way he ate was weird to her as if he was afraid to eat it. She passed him a drumstick and he thanked her quietly. She spent the rest of the meal trying to persuade him to take bites of everything.

Almost as soon as they had begun eating, the plates had cleaned and the tables looked beautifully reset, not a crumb of food remain. Harry looked full but sick from so much, Hermione was not full, but good. However across the table, Ron's face was sadness and shock, after realizing the food had disappeared.

At the head table, A man in purple robes with white hair stood and held up his hands, "Now that the feast has finished, a few start of term announcements. The Forbidden Forest is off limits to all students, also the third floor corridor on the right hand side is out of bounds to all those who do not wish to die a most painful death."

All the students had a look of confusion at this statement, and it certainly did not pass unnoticed from the ears of Hermione, she listened as the Headmaster continued.

"Now I hope you all sleep well, prefects please escort your houses back to their dormitories, classes commence tomorrow."

"Gryffindors, follow me." Hermione stood and saw yet another red headed boy calling for the Gryffindors to follow out into the castle. Hermione stayed close to Harry and Ron as they walked up stairs and through the corridors.

After reading Hogwarts:A History, quite a few times, Hermione knew where most of the things in the castle were placed but seeing it in person was completely different. It was pretty much a sight to behold.

"The stairs move?" Harry asked quickly.

"Yeah, they are bewitched to move, I read about it in Hogwarts: A History." Harry smiled at Hermione as Ron started to roll his noticed this and kept walking attempting to ignore it.

The portrait they came up on, was of a huge woman in an ugly pink dress. she suddenly began to move when everyone came up on her. "Password?"

The red head spoke up quickly, "Caput Draconis."


The common room was cozy but Hermione went upstairs and found her trunk next to a bed surrounded by four others. She smiled, the feeling of having so many people so close that were just normal made her heart so happy.

Kneeling by her trunk, she opened it and saw her teddy bear that her mother gave her, she put it on the bed. Looking back down she saw a photo of her and her parents. She missed them terribly but the power of normalcy beat any other feeling. She put the photo back into the back of the trunk and locked it up, the photo had to stay hidden in case anyone recognized the King and Queen.

Tomorrow classes would start and she decided that even though people were getting to know each other downstairs, she wanted to be ready for the day for tomorrow, so she decided bed was the better option.

R/R