Ok, thank you to all of the wonderful people out there that reviewed.
Lacey Evans: Be strong! Resist against your annoying brother! Lol, anyway, thank you for reviewing, and I can't take all of the credit, as Ashe-Leigh and Cassie helped me write some bits...but most of it was me.
Dathrian Princess: Here's the next chapter!!!
Sly Slytherin: Yep, Tess is a really cool character. As a matter of fact, she becomes cooler…but you won't know that for a little while yet, as I have written about 20 more chapters, it's just typing them up that's the problem!
Now, where were we? Oh yeah, Tess was just landing at Hogwarts…
Chapter 8
(Back to Harry)
Hermione put away her book and looked at her watch.
"You two had better put on your robes, we'll be there soon," she said to Harry and Ron. "I'm just going down there." She gestured to Ginny's compartment, took her robes and walked out.
Harry grinned as he saw Ron's eyes following Hermione out. He waved his hands in front of Ron's face.
"HEEEELLLLOOOO!!!"
"What?" said Ron, snapping out of his trance.
"Yeah, I know. Those jeans look good on her, don't they?"
"S'pose."
Harry gave up. "Look, Pig's just woken up!"
"Oh, no!" groaned Ron. As Pig woke up, he decided to let Hedwig know. She screeched indignantly, disgruntled for being woken up.
"Settle down, Hedwig," said Harry soothingly, "I'd have had to wake you up anyway. We're nearly there."
The compartment door opened, and Hermione walked in, followed by Ginny. Hermione looked in her knapsack.
"Here you go," she said, chucking Ginny an eye shadow. "I think that's the one you were talking about."
"Thanks Hermione. Yeah, that's the one." Ginny caught the eye shadow deftly, as if she was on the England cricket team. (Although, I really should say that she was on the Australian Cricket team, as we are better than the Brits. Lol) Harry looked at her and felt his mouth drop. What? Is that the same Ginny he knew? Ginny bounced out of the room, avoiding Harry's eyes, blushing. Ron burst out laughing.
"Oh, close your mouth Harry! She's really changed though, hasn't she?" he sniggered. "I s'pose that comes from not being tortured by Fred and George all summer every time she tried something new with her hair. I mean, I try, but I'm not as good at teasing her as they are." Ron grinned.
Great! Thought Harry sarcastically, I'm REALLY going to be able to concentrate this year. He got out onto the platform.
"Firs' years this way!" called a familiar voice. "Yer all righ' 'arry?"
"Yes Hagrid," replied Harry to the standard start of year question.
"All righ'. I'll see yer at the Sortin'. Bye!" called Hagrid over his shoulder as her took the bunch of nervous first years to the lake. Hermione, Ron, Harry, and much to his dismay (or delight, he wasn't too sure) Ginny. Harry remained silent the whole trip, avoiding Ginny's eyes. As they went up the steps, Harry shook his head, thinking that he'd shrunk over the summer. Either that, he thought, or they've put an Engorging Charm over the whole castle. Of which Harry thought was highly unlikely…
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(Back to the Muggles)
They stepped off the plane, and were met by a witch in long tartan robes. She had a stern face and Tess thought that she'd be one not to cross. Professor McGonagall proceeded to lead them across the grounds to the stone steps where the large oak doors opened by them, across the stone floor, past a door where Tess supposed the rest of the school were, and into a separate chamber. She could hear a name being called out, and then a voice call out 'Slytherin!' and then clapping. She snapped her attention to Professor McGonagall as she began to deliver her standard start of term speech. (See the philosopher's stone)
Tess's eyes wandered over the other students. Some of them looked down right scared, other's smug, some not having a care in the world. Well, Tess could soon fix that, and then there was even one boy picking his nose. Tess wrinkled her nose in distaste. Suddenly, the boy's finger became stuck, and he tugged wildly at it, but it was fixed. Tess laughed silently to herself. Then she wished that it'd become unstuck, immediately wishing it was, and that it would some undone before they went out in front of the rest of the school. To her surprise, it did, and the boy looked relieved.
"…the rest of the school. I suggest you smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting," McGonagall's eyes lingered on some of the boy's school ties and shirts.
"I shall return when we are ready for you. Please wait quietly." She left the chamber. Chatter broke out amongst some of the students. There was one person looking very smug and pleased with themselves, nose in the air.
"I knew that we were coming here. My parents involved me as soon as they got the letter, you see, they trust me and treat me ad if I am an adult," he informed everyone in a loud voice. "My parents believe that I am important…"
Tess rolled her eyes, and looked at the ceiling. The kids around this boy started sniggering and laughing as the boy's hair turned greyer and greyer as he talked, obviously maturing as much as he was telling everyone that he was.
"Right." McGonagall returned. "They're ready for you now."
They all filed into the Great Hall. Tess saw the four house tables and teacher's table. As her eyes scanned the tables, she stopped and stared. She rubbed her eyes and blinked. Her dream came rushing back to her, as she saw the exact same boy sitting down at a table as the one she pictured in her dream. Surely? No, she thought to herself, I bet there are PLENTY of guys out there with black hair, green eyes and lightening bolt shaped scars on their foreheads.
"Ah." Said a little voice in her head, "but are there?" She decided to leave it at that.
"Amy Bane," professor McGonagall called. Amy walked up and sat on the stool. A shabby hat was placed on her head and a rip at the bottom of the hat called out,
"Ravenclaw!" Amy went and sat alone at the Ravenclaw table, away from the other students.
"Annie Bentley." Tess held her breath. She didn't know why.
"Ravenclaw!" Annie stepped off the platform to the Ravenclaw table and sat beside Amy, her brown hair bouncing.
"Kate Bentley!" This time the hat was taking longer. Kate looked as if she was talking.
A whole 5 minutes passed…
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What is Kate doing? Hee hee, you will have to wait and find out…