"Amiel Zalman"

"RAVENCLAW!" "Lauren Natania" "HUFFLEPUFF!" "Kalista Okalik" "HUFFLEPUFF!" "Chad Xenos" "SLYTHERIN!" "Bededict Yaron" "RAVENCLAW!" "Hedda Rashida" "GRYFFINDOR!" "Iona Quinlan" "SLYTHERIN!" "Damon Weston" "GRYFFINDOR!" "Gaille Sapphire" "HUFFLEPUFF!" "Elliot Vern" "RAVENCLAW!" "And Fidelio Urbain" "HUFFLEPUFF!"

The tables exploded with applause whenever someone entered their house. There was a small amount of first years this year, but no one paid attention. Everyone was waiting for Dumbledore to say. "Let the feast.begin!"

The plates filled with food right before their eyes, and they all dug in happily. Then the prefects led sleepy, full students back to their dormitories.

~*~

The next morning, the students filed into the Great Hall, taking their places at the house tables. Draco and Ryo walked in, stunning everyone. They looked like the perfect couple, and all Harry could do was sit back and watch it. As Ryo walked past the Gryffindor table to get to Slytherin, her eyes met with Harry for a split second, and she smiled. Then everything was back to the way it was before.

Hermione could see the hurt in Harry's eyes at the sight of them together.

"Harry, it's alright. If she's a Slytherin, you don't need her anyway." She told her, setting her arm on his shoulder. "Yeah, then why do I feel so bad about just letting her walk away? She's not like the rest of the Slytherins." Harry said, staring on at the two of them laughing and talking. Hermione just looked on Sympathetically.

~*~ Ryo walked through the doors with Draco at her side. She was a very happy person, finding someone to be with on the first day. She was already the most popular girl in Slytherin house, and hadn't even been here a day. She had always been good at getting people to like her, but she didn't know exactly how good.

As her eyes locked with Harry Potter's for a split second, she wondered why she didn't just look on in disgust. There was something about him.

~*~ Adri sat at Ravenclaw table, chatting with the guys who were all smitten with her. She instantly became best friends with a girl named Cho Chang.

"Tryouts for the Quidditch team are next week. You should try out! We need a new keeper." Cho told her. "I think I just might. I was keeper on my last team!" Adri replied. "Hey, Adri, there's this café in Hogsmead. and I was just wondering if. maybe. you might want to get a latte or something when we go?" A tall boy with blonde hair asked her shyly. "That'd be great Josh! I'd love to!" Then she began talking with Cho about tryouts again. Josh looked like he was going to melt into a puddle, but eventually got to his seat. His friends all gave him high-fives and patted him on the back.

~*~ "Hey Annie!" Armella said to the girl she had met on the bus. "I didn't know you were in Hufflepuff! You should have told me!" Armella said to her, sitting down. "Wow! You're actually talking to me?" Annie asked. "Yeah, you're my friend.why wouldn't I?" Armella asked, quizzically. "Oh my god. You're Armella, right?" A tall girl with red hair asked her. "Yeah.why?" Armella asked back. "I'm Chyenne Delores. I'm sure you can do much better than hang out with her. All we have to do is change your look a little and you've got it made with the popular girls." She said, looking Armella over.

Armella noticed that Annie was looking down at her feet, sadly. "Okay, let me tell you something. Punk isn't just my appearance, it's my personality. And if anyone tries to take the appearance away, I'll have to fall back on the personality part, and that won't be pretty. It'll mean a bruised hand for me and black eye for miss prissy pants." Armella said, rolling the sleeves of her robes up. The girl and her friends backed away, leaving Armella glaring, and Annie looking up in amazement. "Wow! I can't believe you gave up a chance to be popular!" Annie said, obviously inspired. "No one tells me to change my look, or more importantly, my friends." Armella said, smiling at Annie.

~*~

Kaeria had been sitting alone for awhile, when two girls walked up to her. "Hey. I'm Parvati and this is Lavender. We were wondering if you wanted to walk to class with us, you know, let us show you where you're going?" The girl said hopefully.

"Sure! I'd like that!" Kaeria said, smiling. "Great!" Just then, a tall boy with red hair walked over and sat down on the bench next to Kaeria. "Hi. I'm George Weasley. My brother over there, Fred, thinks that you seem like an interesting person, and he'd like to get to know you better." George said to Kaeria. "I dunno. I think I want to get more used to the school before I make any commitments to anything." Kaeria said, honestly. Parvati and Lavender looked on in amazement. George smiled and said, "Okay, maybe some other time." Then walked off smiling.

"I can't believe it! You got asked out your first day! How cool!" Lavender said, her mouth falling open. "Yeah.really cool." Kaeria said to herself. ~*~

"Hello. I'm Hermione Granger. I was wondering if you needed any help with anything?" Hermione asked Nika D. "Only one thing. Is Harry Potter seeing anyone?" Nika asked, hopefully. 'Not technically, but he's seeing your sister in his mind.' Hermione thought to herself, but said, "No, he's single. Why?" Hermione asked her. "I just think that he's cute, and he seems really nice." She said, looking at him. "I don't think he wants a girlfriend right now." Hermione said quickly.

"Oh.well, do you think I should maybe ask him out sometime later?" Nika said, still looking at Harry. "I don't know.I just don't know." Hermione said, almost sadly.

~*~ Nika sat at the Ravenclaw table, reading her apparation book. "Hi!" A girl called out to her. "Hey." She said, folding the corner of the page she was on. "I'm Jennifer. I was hoping that maybe we could be friends? I noticed that you like to read, just like I do. I mean, we don't get many people like that in Ravenclaw, they're mostly in Hufflepuff." "Sure. That'd be great!" Nika said, looking at her pull her dark brown hair behind her ears. She noticed that she was wearing a pair of wire framed glasses over her aquamarine eyes. "So.What class do you like the best?" Jennifer asked her. "I love transfiguration. In my fifth year, I worked one on one with my transfiguration teacher, and now I'm a registered animigus." She said, proudly. Jennifer just stared on in amazement.