"I hope everyone had a good first day of class!"

He looked straight at me.

"Seeing as today was the first day, detentions will not be given for missing one class. Those students who missed more than one will recieve a detention."

Me and some third year guys groaned about missing only two classes. Sirius told me that I should be proud; something about having the first detention of the whole first year. I ignored him.

"Any homework given today must be completed by tomorrow, no other comments there.

"Now, I would like to congratulate The First of the Firsts." People started clapping.

"Okay, starting with the first year... Lily Evans for being the first to change a match into--" (She's got the first detention too! Sirius exclaimed to the clapping crowd. They clapped louder.) "--a needle, James Potter for being the first to transfigure a quill into a Muggle pen, and Melissa Elverada for being the first to complete a successful Color-Changing potion. Please stand."

More clapping. I noticed that Melissa was a Hufflepuff who looked quite smug and might I add preppy. James and I did a Broadway bow, where we held hands and brought them up while we bowed. Then we sat.

He went all the way through the seventh year, three students each year. I noticed that a lot of Gryffindors were called. Out of the rest of the names, I recognized only one person: a third year named Kyle Ratazak. "That's right," Peter whispered to me, "It's Ian's older brother." I realized that he had a detention, too.

Weird. I wondered if Ian wondered what his brother did in school.

"Now, I would like the heads of the Houses to step up here." McGongall, Seedling, and two others stood next to him. Sirius pointed out Behrens and Togepi, the female Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. "It is time to sing the school song! Choose your favorite tune and sing along!"

He twitched his wand and this ribbon thing flew out of it. It formed words and we sang. Kyle and some other Gryffindor fourth years quickly silenced the crowd with their rock version of the song, complete with air guitar and drums--which, surprisingly, actually made noise. It was hilarious. Even McGongall had to laugh.

The speech and dinner were soon over. I yelled to grab a word with Kyle as we left the Great Hall.