Kris Kringle stood up. "Now that everyone has been sorted. I need to maek the announcements. But since you seem so hungry, I'll let you eat and I talk." Kris snapped his fingers and all eating equipment and the food appeared in front us, but we had to serve ourselves. Now let me tell you, the food isn't as appetizing as it seemed to be in those books. I barely recognized any of it. Kris started up again, "Ok, first off, we have decided to make a few changes in the students we have here at Hogpillows. Instead of just accepting British students, we've added people from different English speaking countries, such as the United States and Australia," That explained a lot. No wonder Carmen and I were accepted here instead of some school in the U.S. and the other girl that seemed American and of course Jeremy sitting right next to me. "Nextly," Kringle continued, "First years will have everything explained to them when we go back to our common rooms. Just follow the people with the red hats on and they will show you were it is. 4th years and 7th years should know where your new places are." I had no idea what he was talking about but that was alright. "Quidditch tryout dates for each level and house will be posted outsdie the Great Hall tommorow. And I have a special announcement," My ears perked up. "As you may have noticed, we have the daughter of famous Quidditch player, Joe Openque," Many nodded. Katie Openque must be who he was talking about and that explained everyone's looks and expressions when she was called up. "I am pleased to anounce that he will be teaching Physical Education here this year---," Everyone broke out into cheers. "---for the 1st thru 3rd years only." finished Kris Kringle and everyone above those years broke out into groans. That was all the announcement and the talking started. Somehow, Harmony and Harry managed to move down by us. "Wow," Rod said. "Joe Openque, a proffessor," "Where is he?" I asked. "Don't you see? Right there," Rod pointed to a muscular tall man, sitting next to a very old man with long gray hair. I nodded as I tried some pudding only to quickly spit it out. It was the nastiest thing on Earth. "Did you see that Sarah girl? Now she's hot." said Timothy Rankin, who was sitting on the other side of me. Harmony, the girl Jamie who was sitting next to Ron, and I rolled our eyes. "Not really my type," said Harry and then he broke out into a wide grin. "Too slutty," "I don't know, Harry," said Rod. "I can overlook that," Harmony sighed, "That's the only thing that attracts you to her and you know it. She's really not that pretty at all." Turns out, Slytherin table happens to be right next to us. Sarah Kamsel was sitting right behind us and so was Mayfol. It was weird because they should've been sitting a little further up. Sarah turned around and faced Harmony. "Me? Not pretty? If you want to see not pretty, you shold take a look in the mirror," snapped Sarah and Mayfol gave her a high five. "Back off, whore," snarled Jeremy. Everyone who heard gasped and Sarah quickly turned around and went back to her eating. Harmony smiled at Jeremy and he smiled back. He was really nice. "You showed her," said Harry as he slapped Jeremy's hand. Just then, an older guy, who I recognized as Rod's brother came up to us. "Hey Jake," Rod greeted. Jake nodded a greeting, "Hey, y'all might want to tone done your arguing and stuff. Kringle doesn't appreciate people calling others "whore" and "slut"," I pointed accusingly at Sarah Kamsel. "She started the whole thing. Coming here dressed like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera." "Who?" All the pureblooded wizards said. "That's beyond the point. I'm worried about Gryffindor, not Slytherin. We've got to keep up our rep. Remember, Gryffindor starts with "G" and so does good. Slytherin starts with "S" and so does stupid." explained Jake. We all nodded, except Rod, who rolled his eyes. * * * * * After we were done eating, Headmaster Kringle announced that it was time to go. We all got up and searched for the person in red, who happened to be Tom Thompkins. We all lined up behind him and followed him On my way out, I spotted Carmen in the line next to us. "Your lucky," she whispered quickly as she was walking by. "Why?" I called back., straying slightly from the line. "You've got Tom as you leader," she managed to say before she was out of sight. I rolled my eyes and ran to catch up with Harmony. "Hey," I said as I popped up next to her. "Hi!" she said back. "Shame Carmen could'nt have been a Gryffindor. She seemed really upset that she couldn't be with her friends." I smiled, "Nah, she was only upset because she couldn't be with Tom," I pointed up at him. "Yeah," Rod joined in. "When we were introducing ouselves, she must have said "boys" as her interests at least 20 times." I laughed. It seemed like Rod had Carmen's personality down. Soo, we arrived at a huge potrait, which I concluded as the entrance. "PasssssssssssWORD!" The man on the potrait said. (It was a picture of on of those naked men that had the shell or whatever held over their--- well, you know.) "Tawny Foul," Tom said as the thing swung open. I peered inside and saw a large room filled with chairs, a TV, computers, and some soda machines. "This," Tom said, "is the main common room for the 1st through 3rd year Gryffindors." We walked up to a staircase and motioned for us to follow him. We walked up the stairs and got off at the first floor and entered a slighty smaller room that could easily fit twenty people. "This the common room for your year," annouced Tom. "Please have a seat and we will get started." We all took at seat. I sat between Harry and Harmony. Rod was on the other side of Harmony and Jeremy was on the other side of Harry. Tom cleared his throat and started, "First, I will pass out a packet which will have all the information I'll be telling you about today." Magically, a packet appeared on my lap and the laps of the others. On the top it said, "Hogwarts: First Years Information Packets". The first heading said "Classes". "You will have six mandatory core classes and 3 optional encore classes. You will all go to your core classes together as a house and sometimes you will be joined by other houses. Actually, you will only have one class with the Gryffindor house alone. The enocre classes, however," said Tom, "will be mixed, if you choose to do one, that is. You have a choice of three as I said early. Now you will receive your schedule and a choice of encore classes you can do," A card appeared on my lap this time. I read what it had on it. Schedule For: Chanelle Jasmine Tyson, First Year Gryffindor Core Period 1 (9:00-10:00)-Tranfiguration Period 2 (10:00-11:00)-Potions with the Slytherins Period 3 (11:00-12:00)-Wand Math with the Ravenclaws Lunch (12:00-12:58) Period 4 (12:58-1:58)-Physical Education with the Slytherins Period 5 (1:58-2:58)-History of Magic with the Hufflepuffs Period 6 (2:58-3:58)-Herbology with the Hufflepuffs Hour BreaK Before Encore Classes I didn't know we had P.E. in the wizarding schools. I thought I had gotten away from tha, but I guess we had to stay in shape some how. Rod's and Harmony's schedule were the exact same as mine. I looked dow on my lap and now there was another sheet of paper which had: Choices For Encore Classes For the 1st Semester (Circle 3 or less classes that you would like to take) Quidditch (Have to tryout to get this) Band Chorus Dueling (With Wand) How to Fight if You Lose You Wand Dances With Dragons Life Skills Medevial Art Wizard Movie Making There were a few more but I really didn't feel like putting those. "What are you doing?" HArmony inquired. I looked down at the paper again. I didn't want a full schedule. "Probably tryout for Quidditch and do band, And you?' I responded. She seemed to think about ti for a while and then finally answered. "Preparing For the Future," That was one of those that I didn't bother to put. I nodded and looked over to Rod who already had his circles. Quidditch and Chorus. I went to circle mine when I realized that I didn't have a pen or pencil. "Can I borrow that:?" I asked Rod, motioning towards his pencil. He nodded and handed it to me. Right as I was circling Quidditch, Tom cleared his throat. "Now that most of you have chosen your classes and looked over you schedules, I want to continue. And before I forget, you will not have Encore classes the first week, since we have to process everything, with the exception of Quidditch which will have tryouts on Monday," (Hey, did I mention that it was Friday Proably not) "Now," Tom continued, "We shall talk about House Points. Good things earn your house points, for bad things, you lose points. And I mean the whole house, not just 1st -3rd years. At the end of the year, the House with the most points wins the House Cup and gets to have a huge party for themselves in the Multi-House Commons, which I forgot to mention," Well, I figured that Multi-House Commons were pretty self- explanatory. I mean, it was obviously commons that were shared by more that one houses. "Multi-House Commons are commons that are shared by more than one houses," Tom said. (See I told you so). "If you have friends in other house or if a teacher assigns a project and your partner is in a different house, you can go there. To find, all you need is the map, enclosed in your packet. Its the last page," I turned to the last page and there was a map of Hogpillows. Actually, five maps, for each floor. We were on the second floor, according to the little red dot which said, "You Are Here," The map had all the house common rooms labeled, the Great Hall, the clasrooms, and the Multi-House Common Room. I scooted over some and the red dot movedto the left and I scooted back and the red dot reutrned to where it first was. Cool! "Now, rooming and board. For girls, there will be 2 rooms with 4 people in each. Guys, 2 rooms, 2 in one room and 4 in the other. Rooms have already been assigned if you'll look on the fifth sheet." The room filled with people frantically turning the pages of their manuel thingies. I didn't bother, I just looked at Harmony's. I scanned you my name. Harmony Farger, Sarah Foruhee, and Chanelle Tyson (moi). I turned to Rod, who looked very happy. "Whatsup?" I asked. "Me and Harry and some other dude share this room and since there is only three of us, we have extra space." Rod said hurridly. "Harry , some other dude, and I," Harmony interjected after Rod was finished. "Wah, huh?" Rod asked with a confused look and tone. "Don't you know grammer. You said me and harry and some other dude, when its supposed to be Harry, some other dude, and I." she explained. Rod shrugged and turned his attetnion to Tom who had just cleared his throat. "That's basically it. Just remember, you're not allowed in the older common rooms or any other house's tower. I suggest that you unpack now and explore the grounds later," Tom said as he made his way towards the door and left, leaving us alone. As he left, I realized something he didn't mention. With a grin on my face, I got Harmony's attention. "What?" she asked as we got up to go to the door labeled, "Girl's Room 1". "He never said that we weren't allowed in the boy's dorms," I answered and with a snicker. "Not that I want to or anything." I added quickly. Harmony rolled her eyes as we entered the room. "Didn't you read the rules on pages 6 thru 10. The first one is no person is allowed into a member of the opposite sex's dorm room." "Really? That's too bad," a voice said. I looked up and saw two girls in there already, starting to unpack. "Hi," I said as a looked around the room. There were four beds, each in a different corner. By each bed, there was a drawer and a sink and on the floor by the remaining two beds, there was luggage. One of the sets, I recognized as my own. "Hello, I'm Elizabeth Bunker, but I go by Liz," said the girl who had made the comment about the boys not being allowed in the dorm. She was about Carmen's height, (which is about 5'0), had long blonde hair, like down to her legs, and... I looked again, but it couldn't be. She had purple eyes. "I'm Chanelle," I said slowly, staring at her eyes. She smiled at me which ade me jump back. "Like my contacts?" Liz asked. "I like the color, don't you," I nodded, glad that was cleared up as I made my way to the bed that had my bags around it. On the other bed, there sat an athletic looking girl with brown hari and eyes. She was about an inch shorter than me (I'm 5'8" with my shoes on) and had her hair pulled into a pony tail. "Sarah," she said simply, looking at me in a way that made me afraid that she was plotting to murder me. "I'm Harmony!" Harmony said rather enthusiacally. Sarah nodded. I didn't like the look fo that girl. That was definetley someone I had to be careful of.