Chapter 3: The New Students

The next morning

"Attention students!" Dumbledore shouted. "I have something to announce!" Before he could say anything, four children burst into the room. "Are we late?" the boy asked panting heavily. "No, no. Just in time." Dumbledore stated. "This is Daniel Stephen Sky, Tamara Marine Riddell, Danielle Cortez & Rowena Diadra Lepus," he pointed. "over there is Prue, Pieper & Phoebe Halliwell, Cole Turner, Leo Wyatt, Sabrina Spellman & Salem Saberhagen. Those of you in muggle studies would know who they are." The Slytherins sneered. They hated halfbloods, mudbloods & worse of all muggles. Cole glared at them. "Before we sort them out, I have something to announce. Our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher will be Professor Severus Snape." The Gryffindors gaped in horror. "Noo..." moaned Neville. Snape glared at him. Neville cowered under the table. Daniel felt sorry for him & wished that he was in Gryffindor. "I shall now sort out the First Years." Professor McGonagall called out. While she was doing it, the four of them were discussing. "I have a Whirlwind!" Daniel said. "Me too. All of us do." "My wand is Willow, 10 inches, 2 unicorn tail hairs." Rowena said. "Oak, 13 inches, 1 phoenix feather." Danielle added. "Yew, 11 inches, 1 unicorn hair." Tamara muttered. "Redwood, 12 ½ inches, 1 phoenix & 1 unicorn hair." Daniel grinned. You can't be jealous of anyone's wand as it was the wand that chose you. "Sky, Daniel Stephen." Professor McGonagall called out. "I'm a First Year?" "Yes." Daniel walked up to the stool & sat down. The sorting hat was placed on his head. "Aah..yes. Alot of courage." the sorting hat muttered. "Gryffindor!" Daniel ran off to the Gryffindor table at the side where the Weasley's welcomed him. "Second year, Ridelle, Tamara Marine." Tamara moved to the stool & sat down. "Hmm... where to put you? Gryffindor or Ravenclaw? I see.. okay." the sorting hat grinned as much as a sorting hat could. "Ravenclaw!" Cho stood up & clapped. She liked Tamara since she walked in. "Hi! I'm Cho." she grinned. Cho was a sixth year, one year older than Harry & co. "Fourth Year, Danielle Cortez." Danielle shuffled to the sorting hat & put it on. "Hufflepuff?" teased the hat. Danielle shuddered & thought 'no'. "Hmm...surely? Er...Gryffindor!" "Fifth year, Lepus, Rowena Diadra." "Hmm..." murmursed the hat. "Are you sure? Well... Slytherin!" "No!!" Ravenclaw, Gryffindor & Hufflepuff chorused. The only Fifth Year had gone to Slytherin, & a girl too! Not many girls were in Slytherin. Pansy Parkinson looked very displeased. Dumbledore sorted the witches into house 'teachers'. Piper & Leo were Gryffindors, Prue was a Ravenclaw, Sabrina & Salem were Hufflepuffs & Phoebe & Cole were Slytherins. Everyone took it really well except the Slytherins. "Well, what have we here?" sneered Goyle. "Halfbloods? Mudbloods maybe?" "For your information," an angry Phoebe started, "my father was a muggle. All the men in our family were muggles. We onlu had witches. It's not like we had a choice." "And what about him?" Crabbe asked, pointing at Cole. "You don't wanna know kid." Cole added pointedly. "I'm a half demon. Not categorized I hope. You really don't want to make me angry." A cold drawling voice called out to Rowena. "Draco, Draco Malfoy." he said, offering his hand. She just looked at it & didn't even bother to shake it. "Pleased." she muttered. "That's Crabbe & Goyle." he pointed out. "Oh charmed, I'm sure." she said in the same silky drawl. *** Ravenclaw table "So Tamara, do you play Quidditch?" Cho asked, casually. "Er.. Quidditch?" she wondered. "You don't know what it is?" Tamara shook her head. "I'll tell you all about it." *** Gryffindor Table "Hi!" a boy stuck his hand out at Daniel. "I'm Colin Creevey. That's my brother Dennis." "He's not a menace is he?" Danielle asked jokingly. "What do you mean?" "Oh I know!" Hermione quipped. "Dennis the menace. It's a muggle show!" "Oi mate!" Fred shouted. "Any of you play Quidditch?" "Yeah!" George went on. "We're short of a keeper. Oliver Wood, our keeper left last year." "All you gotta do is sit on yer broom & guard the hoops. Eh George?" "Yeah, Fred. Fred & me are beaters. We beat the crap out of em bludgers & send them to the other team. Angelina, Alicia & Katie are the chasers. They score the goals. Harry over there," George pointed, "is our seeker. Youngest in a century." "Can't beat Chang or Malfoy!" Daniel & Danielle looked interested. Both were considering the position... ***