Sarah Grant
Chapter 3-Gryffindor Common Room
Disclaimer-I do not own any of the characters, Hogwarts, or anything else. I only own Sarah Grant.
The next morning when Sarah woke up, she was wide awake. It was the first day of classes and she was very excited to start meeting more of her teachers and fellow classmates. She quickly got showered and dressed then she waited a few minutes for Padma to finish getting ready so that they could go to breakfast together.
Sarah ate a quick breakfast and talked mainly to Padma, Cho, and Roger. She liked these three people the most out of her entire house. It was not like she disliked all of the other people in Ravenclaw, she just connected better with Cho, Padma, and Roger. They reminded Sarah of some of her friends from Swansing and they had a lot in common.
After breakfast Sarah went to her first class, Transfiguration. She had liked Professor McGonagall when they first met, and was looking forward to seeing what her class was like. When Sarah walked into the classroom, she saw Dean and Seamus and waved at them. They waved back and were given curious looks by some of the other people in the room. The other students undoubtedly wanted to know who she was. Dean and Seamus called Sarah over to their table and introduced her to some of the other people from Gryffindor. She met Neville Longbottom, Parvati Patil (Padma's twin sister), Lavender Brown, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter.
Sarah knew that when she told some of her friends at Swansing that she had met Harry Potter, they would freak out. Sarah's best friend Danielle would probably faint dead away, if she even saw him, much less talked to him. But Sarah was different than most people, she thought of Harry as an actual person, not just a celebrity. She liked him and his friends Ron and Hermione. They were all very friendly to her and Sarah was hoping she'd get to know them better.
Professor McGonagall's class was going to be challenging but Sarah liked being pushed to do her best. She would have to study more than usual to get good grades in transfiguration even though she was extremely smart.
Sarah listened attentively all through the class answering questions when she was called on and taking pages of notes. The class was over soon and she had a while before her next class so she decided to take a walk around the school.
Sarah saw where the owls were kept and the library while she was on her walk. Hermione Granger was in the library absorbed in the book that she was reading but Sarah decided to talk to her anyway.
"Hi Hermione, do you remember me from when when Seamus introduced us?" Sarah asked.
"Yes I do, I was going to stop you and talk to you the next time I saw you but I guess you beat me to it." Hermione said.
"Yes I guess I did," Sarah said. "So what are you looking for?"
"I have care of magical creatures next and I was just reading up a little bit, I like to be prepared." Hermione said.
"Can't you study in your common room?" Sarah asked.
"Haven't you heard of Fred and George Weasley?"
"No, why?" Sarah asked.
"Come with me, I'll show you." Hermione said.
They walked up a couple of flights of stairs until they got to a door with a picture called the Fat Lady on it. Hermione said, "Hippogryff," and the door opened revealing the Gryffindor common room. There were about fifty students in the room. In the center of the room were two good-looking twin boys that had red hair and freckles who were fighting with fake wands.
"Those two in the middle of the room are Fred and George. Now can you se why I go to the library to study?" Hermione asked.
"I sure can, our common room is quiet compared to this." Sarah said.
Just then Dean and Seamus walked up to her and said, "Hey Sarah, what are you doing here?"
Sarah said, "Hermione brought me here when I askede her why she was studying in the library instead of here."
"I thought she ought to meet Fred and George before they tried to offer her some candy or something," Hermione said.
Dean said, "Yes, never take any kind of food from Fred or George. They love to find new people to try out their experiments."
"Experiments?" Sarah asked.
"They want to open up a joke shop and are always inventing things for it, but don't worry, I'll make sure they don't do anything to you." Seamus said, giving her a big smile.
"Thanks," Sarah replied.
"Anytime," Seamus said.
"Who is this pretty girl?" Fred asked when he walked over to where they were standing.
"That's Sarah Grant," Hermione told him.
"Hey George, get over here," Fred called to his twin.
"What do you want?" George asked.
"I wanted you to meet Sarah Grant," Fred said.
"Nice to meet you, Sarah," George said.
"Nice to meet you too, George." Sarah replied.
"So Sarah, are you a Gryffindor?" George asked.
"NO, I'm a Ravenclaw 5th year." She said.
"Well, it's a good thing you aren't in Slytherin," George said.
"Yah, I know." Sarah told George, "I'd hate it."
"I hate to break this conversation up but It's almost lunch time. Are you hungry Sarah?" Fred said.
"Um," she said looking at her watch. "Yes, I better go, I said I'd meet Padma in ten minutes. Nice to meet you Fred and George. Bye everybody."
"Bye," They all said except for Seamus.
"Do you know how to get to the Great Hall?" Seamus asked.
"Well, not exactly," she replied.
"I'll walk you, come on." Seamus said.
"Thanks Seamus," Sarah said.
They left the room and started off toward the Great Hall.
"So, do you like everybody in your house so far?" Seamus asked her.
"Yes, everybody's really nice, I talked to Cho Chang, Roger Davies, and Padma Patil at breakfast today, they are really friendly."
"Well, I'm glad that you like them. I was kind of hoping you'd be sorted into Gryffindor so that I could see you more often."
"You'll get to see me a lot," Sarah said.
"Not as much as I'd like to, though," Seamus said.
"What do you mean, Seamus?" asked Sarah.
"OH nothing, never mind," Seamus said looking a little embarrassed.
They walked the rest of the way without talking much. When they finally reached the Great Hall Seamus said, "Well, here we are."
"Thanks for walking me, I'm not really very good with direction," Sarah said.
"No problem, I liked walking with you." Seamus said.
Maybe we could go for a walk later, I'll show you around the grounds." Seamus said.
"That sounds like fun. How about tonight?" Sarah said.
"Seamus smiled and said, "How about 5:00?"
"That sound perfect," Sarah told him.
"Well, I'll meet you at the marble staircase then," Seamus said.
"Alright, see ya." Sarah said.
"Bye," Seamus said.
Sarah walked over to the Ravenclaw table where Cho and Padma were giving her questioning smiles and Roger was looking at Seamus in an odd sort of way.
A/N-Okay here's the deal, I've only gotten one review on this story. I'm so depressed right now. If I don't get any more review, I'm going to quit writing on this story. I want to know what you people think of my story. I don't care if you hate it, tell me, okay? I know you people want to know why Roger was "looking at Seamus in an odd sort of way." I'll tell you in the next chapter.
Oh, and thanks to my one and only reviewer Tinka.