Disclaimer- Yes! Yes, J.K. Rowling just sold Harry Potter to me! I hope everyone can see the sarcasm dripping off the computer. No, I don't own any thing except Katarina and all else you don't recognize. Katarina is mine!

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"So, did anyone notice that a pair of Malfoy girls were sorted into Gryffindor?" Katarina asked, tossing her mid-back length honey blonde hair over her shoulder.

"What!?" about ten people exclaimed

"Damn straight." Two voices said, "We're Athena and Cora Malfoy. Our father will hate us."

"He already hates you two," a cold, sneering voice said as they suddenly were jerked down to the floor, "And he will hate you more when he finds out you are with them." He jerked his head toward Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Katarina and stalked out of the Hall.

"Malfoy's your brother?" asked Ron

"Yup. And we hate him too." Cora answered

"I feel so bad for you. You have to live with Death Eaters." Katarina added

"I know. Ever since Voldemort rose again, Father hasn't been seen at all. And I know Draco will become one in a few years. Father has been telling him all about it." Athena said angrily

"If you hate him, why did you come to Hogwarts?" Harry asked

"Because he wanted us to go to Durmstrang. He says, 'It's got a far more sensible way about the Dark Arts'. What crap." Cora answered this time

"So you believed Voldemort rose again?" Ginny asked in surprise

"Duh, Father's Dark Mark burned. And that was when we knew the shadow was real." Athena answered

"Students, students! The time has come to go to bed!" Professor Dumbledore called

"First years, follow me!" Harry, Ron, and Hermione called out

The awed first years followed them up seven flights of stairs until they reached a portrait of a fat lady in a pink dress.

"This is the entrance to the Gryffindor Common room. The password is Bludger." Harry told the first years, "You will socialize, sleep, and do homework in here."

"The boy's dormitories are upstairs on your left, girls, the same on your right. Now go to sleep because you don't want to be late for breakfast!" Ron explained

"Or for classes!" Hermione added, as Harry muttered, "Typical Hermione"

Katarina headed up to her dormitory with the first years, but instead of going into their dorm, she went into the one that said, "Fifth years". Ginny and three other girls were already getting ready for bed. One, a girl with chin length black hair and chestnut brown eyes, ran over to Katarina.

"You must be the new girl, Katarina, was it? I can't believe you have the same name as Professor McGonagall! We'll all have so much fun together! Oh, yeah, I'm Genevieve Hilton, that's Sophie Hermann, she's Ginny Weasley, and she's Tara Leo-Raines."

"I already met Ginny, and nice to meet you all!" Katarina said as she walked over to the empty bed.

"You know, Genevieve, we could have introduced ourselves." said Tara, who was olive skinned with waist length brown hair and blue eyes.

Katarina felt a little self-conscious in that room because she was even taller than Ginny's 5 feet 8 inches. She was 5 feet 10 inches, so she was the tallest in the dormitory. Genevieve was after Ginny at 5 feet 6 ΒΌ inches. Then came Tara at 5 feet 5 inches, then last was Sophie, at 5 feet 2 inches. Katarina hated being tall, and she was the tallest once again.

"So? I wanted to introduce her to you all!" Genevieve replied, which started a loud row between Tara and Genevieve.

"Sorry about them," Sophie said, "They do this all the time." Sophie was extremely fair skinned, with the lightest blonde hair you can imagine and ice green eyes.

"They always stop within five minutes, though. I'll show you." Ginny grinned, looking at the clock, "They began at 10:02 pm, and they'll be done at 10:05."

And she was right. At precisely 10:05, the room became quiet. The girls finished getting ready for bed and fell asleep, Katarina in between Ginny and Sophie.

***the next morning***

Katarina woke up to Ginny's bouncing on her bed. She sat up, throwing Ginny to the floor.

"What did you do that for?" Ginny asked

"Oh, maybe because you were bouncing on my bed? Or maybe because you woke me up at 6:00 am!" Katarina answered testily

"I woke you up because breakfast starts in an hour!"

"An hour? Let me sleep for another half hour."

"With five people, showers will take a long time!"

"Oh, all right! I'm up! Happy now?"

"Yes, very."

"Who's in the shower now?"

"Tara, then Sophie will go in, then you, then Genevieve, then me."

Tara stepped out at that moment, while Sophie sprinted in. Then came the shouts of, "Tara! How much hot water did you use!"

"Not much," Tara yelled back, "Why?"

"There's none left! And knowing these showers, there won't be any until noon!"

"Deal with it!"

"Argh!"

Katarina turned to Genevieve and asked, "Think the sixth years will let us use their shower?"

"Nope," Ginny answered for her, "Lavender and Parvati take a half hour each, that's why Hermione takes them at night!"

"I think I'm going to do that too."

"Make that two of us."

Forty-five minutes later, the five girls left their dormitory and headed to the Great Hall, where they split up, Genevieve heading over to the Ravenclaw table to it with Luna Lovegood, Sophie and Tara heading to sit somewhere else, and Ginny and Katarina heading over to Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

"So, Katarina, what did you think of your fellow fifth years?" Ron asked, grinning.

"Well," Katarina laughed, "Genevieve talks too much, Tara seems like she likes to pick fights with her, and Sophie seems pretty nice."

"Sophie? She's a little odd. But not as odd as Luna." Ginny said

"What's this Luna like?"

"Luna, is, well, odd. You have to meet her to see why." Ginny replied

The timetables were handed out and Katarina groaned. Her timetable looked like this:

Monday: 9:00: Double Divination, 11:00, Potions, lunch, 1:00, Herbology, 2:00, Transfiguration.

Tuesday: 9:00, Muggle Studies, 10:00, Care of Magical Creatures, 11:00, Potions, lunch, 1:00, Double Transfiguration, Break, midnight, Astronomy.

Wednesday was like Monday with Defense Against the Dark Arts at 3:00 and Thursday was like Tuesday without Astronomy and with Charms at 4:00. Friday went like this: 9:00: Double Defense, 11:00, Charms, lunch, 1:00, Flying, 2:00, Double Care of Magical Creatures.

"What do you and Katarina have first, Ginny?" asked Harry.

"Double Divination! Why, why, why?" Katarina groaned.

"Don't worry, she's pretty much an old fraud. She has made real predictions, though." Said Harry.

"Like what?"

Harry was, literally, saved by the bell. They had to run to their first classes.

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So, so, so, SO sorry for the delay! I hope chapter 3 will be out soon!