Rebecca climbed into the carriage as she was told and found herself sitting
across from Charlie, the boy from the family that helped her to Platform 9
¾. They smiled at each other.
"Hello, I'm Charlie Weasley."
"It's very nice to meet you Charlie, I am Rebecca Carter. I really appreciated your family helping me out at the station. I was sorry I couldn't wait for them to get on the platform and say a proper thank you to them."
"Oh that's okay. The look in your face when you found out how to get to the train was thanks enough. Bill probably was the only one that didn't get to see it, but he is Head Boy so he probably had enough on his mind not to really care too much."
Rebecca smiled. "So Charlie, what house are you in?"
"I am in Gryffindor."
"Really, is it nice?"
"Yeah I like it. All of my friends are there and we have a good time. What house do you want in?"
"I don't really know. I only know one person here and they are in Slytherin."
"Really who is that?"
"Ryan Malfoy, I was actually following him off the train, but lost him in all of the commotion."
At the Ryan's name, Charlie made a strange face but returned to a smile shortly after. "That's too bad, but at least you didn't get ditched by your friends for their girlfriends." Rebecca was shocked at what Charlie said, but he continued. "Well actually they didn't ditch me. I just didn't want to be in a crowded carriage with all of them. You saw how crowded our compartment was on the train."
"Yeah, I don't think I would have been able to stay in there too long."
Charlie and Rebecca continued to talk. They discovered a little bit about each. Rebecca found out that Charlie was the seeker on the Gryffindor team and he didn't have a girlfriend because between practice and studying he didn't have a lot of time for one. As for Charlie, not only did he find out all about her old school, but also that Rebecca was an orphan and that her guardian had died earlier in the summer. Rebecca felt very comfortable talking with Charlie and all her nervousness disappeared allowing her to open up to him about her life. The carriages continued making their way to the school and Rebecca caught a glimpse of the castle. Rebecca so was memorized by the sight of the castle she didn't hear Charlie ask her why she transferred to Hogwarts.
"Wow," whispered Rebecca. "Is that Hogwarts?"
"Yep that's the school." They both looked out the window. The carriage stopped at the front door and all the students get out.
Rebecca and Charlie parted when a teacher came up to Rebecca and said, "Hello, Rebecca Carter? I'm Professor McGonagall. Please follow me."
Rebecca nodded, followed the professor, and started to feel nervous again.
Rebecca walked with Professor McGonagall into the Great Hall. The ceiling looked like the night sky and Rebecca could not help, but stare up at it. As the neared the front of the room Rebecca notice there was a chair up against the wall all by its self.
"You may sit there until you are sorted, Ms. Carter," McGonagall said pointing to the lonely chair.
"Thank you Professor," Rebecca said heading towards the chair.
'Great now I get to sit here and have everyone wonder why I'm sitting by myself.' She sat there staring at her feet and feeling less and less comfortable as the room became filled with other students. All the students looked happy to be back with their friends. Rebecca looked up at them intermittently, careful not to make any eye contract until finally, a group of students came into the hall lead by Professor McGonagall.
'Must be first years getting ready to be sorted. Wish I could be with them. At least I wouldn't be over here by myself,' Rebecca thought as she watched the group.
Before the first years were sorted, a man stood up and started to speak.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts for another year of school. For those of you who are new, I'm Professor Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall will start the sorting ceremony now."
With those words, McGonagall brought out a stool with a very old hat on it. She sat the stool down and walked to the side. The hat started to talk in rhyme. Rebecca listened closely as the hat told of the four houses at Hogwarts. Gryffindor was for the brave of heart, while Ravenclaw was for the cleverest of students. Hufflepuffs were loyal and true and Slytherin students were known to use any means to reach there ends.
The hat ended its poem and McGonagall announced that they would start sorting the students alphabetically. As she read the names of the first years and the sorting hat sorted the student, Rebecca sat on her chair thinking.
'I doubt that I will be put in Gryffindor, since I am not that brave of a person. Just look at how nervous I am about changing school. I have been told I am sort of clever and that I am loyal, so I might be put in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Of course, when I need to get something done I do things that I normally won't do to get it done. I guess Ryan was right there is no way that I would be in another house other than Slytherin.'
The last first year named Oliver Wood was sorted into Gryffindor and Dumbledore stood up again.
"Now that we have sorted out the first years, it is time to sort a new student. I would like to personally welcome a new fifth year student to Hogwarts. Rebecca Carter is joining us from Beauxbatons," Dumbledore said looking at Rebecca giving her a sign to come up and get sorted.
Rebecca rose from her chair and walked up to the stool cautiously. She could feel all the eyes in the room upon her and the anxiety in her raise. Dumbledore gave her a smile that helped her to become more relaxed, because she knew that if the headmaster was friendly than she would be okay at school. She sat on the stool and Professor McGonagall put the hat on Rebecca's head.
Rebecca sat there for what seemed like forever to her when finally the hat announced "GRYFFINDOR!"
To say Rebecca was shocked would be an understatement, since this was the last house she ever thought that she would be in. As she made her way to the Gryffindor table she caught sight of Ryan sitting with his friends at the Slytherin table. He had a very surprised look on his face. All she could do was just shrug at him and continue to walk to her seat.
She took the last available seat at the table and saw that that she was sitting in front of Charlie. She gave him a small smile. Charlie leaned over the table towards her and said, "Not where you expected, huh?"
"No," Rebecca softly said staring at the plate in front of her. Dinner appeared on the table and everyone started to eat. Rebecca did not realize how little she had eaten all day and was so glad to see the food. As the students eat, conversations spun around what people did for the summer and introducing Rebecca to people.
Charlie started out the introductions. "Okay guys I would like you to meet Rebecca Carter."
Everyone responded with a "hi" as they continued to eat.
"Rebecca, this is Greg," Charlie said pointing at a tall guy with dark hair and dark blue eyes. Charlie continued with "and this is Sara," gesturing at a girl with curly chestnut brown hair and deep blue eyes. Pointing at a boy about Charlie's size with broader shoulders, blonde hair, and green eyes Charlie said, "This is James." "And this is Jacquelyn," gesturing at a girl about Rebecca's build with straight strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. "Cathrine is the brunette over there and you are sitting next to Colin." Cathrine was looked to be a couple inches shorter than Rebecca and Colin with his jet black hair and brown eyes appeared to be a little smaller than Charlie.
"It's very nice to meet all of you" Rebecca said when Charlie was done with the introductions.
They all continue to eat with a little small talk here and there. Rebecca still felt a little uncomfortable until Charlie turned towards her with his soothing smile and started to fill Rebecca in on what ever one was like.
"Greg is on the quidditch team with me and he's my best friend. Great guy you'll see. Sara is our biggest cheerleader in the stands. She's got lots of spunk. James is a prefect. Jacquelyn and him were up against each other for it, so they have a bit of rivalry when it comes to grades. Now you need to watch out for Colin and Cathrine. They are really nice and would give you the shirt off their back, but they both got a prankster streak and together they can come up with the craziest things. We had to get them to promise to stop experimenting on us with their inventions. It's a wonder they haven't been expelled yet."
Charlie laughed a little thinking of the high jinks Cathrine and Colin had set up in their years at Hogwarts. Rebecca smile and looked down to the other end of the table. She scanned the group seeing the different students. She recognized Bill, Charlie's older brother and then she saw another one of Charlie's brother. 'I think I heard his name announce when he was getting sorted. I think his name was Percy,' Rebecca thought to herself as she scanned the rest of the Gryffindor students. Her eyes landed on another red haired boy who looked like he might be as tall as Charlie. She didn't recognize him from the Weasley family she met on the platform, so Rebecca turned to Charlie and asked, "Do you have a cousin here too?"
Charlie looked at her puzzled and looked in the direction Rebecca was looking. He turned back with a smile and said, "Oh no that is Angel Dark or A.J. for short. He's one of the beaters on the team. Actually he is probably the best one in the whole school. He really nice and has a razor sharp wit. He has gotten us out of a lot of jams on and off the field."
Rebecca nodded and went back to eating. Charlie pointed out a few more of the students and confirmed that Percy was the name of his younger brother as he continued to eat. He told Rebecca that the man that ushered her into the carriage was Hagrid the ground keeper and keeper of the keys when she asked.
Eventually the students finished dinner. The tables were cleared and Dumbledore stood up yet again. "I hope that this will be another good year here at Hogwarts. I would also like to remind all of you that the Dark Forest is forbidden to all students. With that I wish you all a pleasant night and good luck with your classes tomorrow. Good Night."
After Dumbledore finished, the students started to get up and leave to go to there dormitories.
As they all started to get up from the table, A.J. walked up to Charlie and Greg and "Hey Weasley! Hey Bell! Ready for another season?"
"Hey Dark! Can't wait this should be an awesome season with everyone returning," Greg responded.
"Hey Dark! Of course I am ready," said Charlie grabbing Rebecca's hand as she walked past. Rebecca stopped and looked at him.
"Dark, I would like you to meet Rebecca. Rebecca this is A.J."
"Hello Rebecca," A.J. said as he shook Rebecca's hand. "It's very nice to meet you."
"It's very nice to meet you, too." Rebecca said with a smile.
"Well I am a sixth year around here so if these guys give you too much trouble I can help out." Charlie and Greg gave a 'who us?' look at A.J.
"Thanks I'll keep that in mind," Rebecca laughed.
"Rebecca I am sorry to have to do this but I need to take these two to Captian Woods."
"What does Aaron want to see us for?" asked Greg as Rebecca said, "That's okay, I'll see you all later."
Rebecca turned and started to walk away following the rest of the Gryffindors up to the tower. The group went up stairs and stopped when they came to a painting of a Fat Lady dressed in pink.
The lady said, "Password."
"pen-oay ease-play," said James. The students walked in after the portrait swung open.
Rebecca stepped in and looked around at the cozy common room. The fire was going and Rebecca looked around as she walked to her dorm room. She could not help herself but wonder what the other houses' common rooms looked like. There was this nagging feeling that she was in the wrong house and that it was only a matter of time before someone figured it out.
She headed up the stairs and went into the 5th year girls' dorm room. The other girls' trunks along with Rebecca's were already in the room. Everyone started to get ready to go to bed.
As she was in the bathroom getting ready, Rebecca was feeling really tired and was frustrated. She didn't really know anyone and even though she had been introduced to a few she didn't feel comfortable around them. And would she ever feel comfortable around them when she did not think she was supposed to be in this house. Rebecca entered the room and headed towards her bed with this thought in her head.
She was climbing in when Cathrine, Jacquelyn, and Sara came up to her. Sara asked timidly, "So, um, Rebecca when did you meet Charlie? We thought we knew everyone that he knew here."
Rebecca never liked people prying into her business, but the manner that Sara asked the question and the way the other girls looked at her when Sara asked made Rebecca not mind as much.
"I met him and his family when I was trying to get on to the Platform to get to the train. They were nice enough to help me out, but I actually didn't get to talk to Charlie until the carriage ride from the train to the castle."
"Oh," the girls said with a smile as they sat on Rebecca's bed.
"Sorry about that we just couldn't figure out why we didn't meet you on the train if you knew Charlie," said Jacquelyn.
"Oh that is okay," Rebecca reassured them. The girls quizzed Rebecca and found out about her and her family. After about an hour of questioning the girls decided it was time to go to bed. Rebecca drifted off to sleep.
She awoke the next morning feeling that everything that had transpired the day before was just a dream. When she opened up her eyes she realized that the feeling was fictitious. She was still in Gryffindor. Rebecca gave out a quiet sigh and got up to get ready for breakfast and her first day of classes at Hogwarts.
"Hello, I'm Charlie Weasley."
"It's very nice to meet you Charlie, I am Rebecca Carter. I really appreciated your family helping me out at the station. I was sorry I couldn't wait for them to get on the platform and say a proper thank you to them."
"Oh that's okay. The look in your face when you found out how to get to the train was thanks enough. Bill probably was the only one that didn't get to see it, but he is Head Boy so he probably had enough on his mind not to really care too much."
Rebecca smiled. "So Charlie, what house are you in?"
"I am in Gryffindor."
"Really, is it nice?"
"Yeah I like it. All of my friends are there and we have a good time. What house do you want in?"
"I don't really know. I only know one person here and they are in Slytherin."
"Really who is that?"
"Ryan Malfoy, I was actually following him off the train, but lost him in all of the commotion."
At the Ryan's name, Charlie made a strange face but returned to a smile shortly after. "That's too bad, but at least you didn't get ditched by your friends for their girlfriends." Rebecca was shocked at what Charlie said, but he continued. "Well actually they didn't ditch me. I just didn't want to be in a crowded carriage with all of them. You saw how crowded our compartment was on the train."
"Yeah, I don't think I would have been able to stay in there too long."
Charlie and Rebecca continued to talk. They discovered a little bit about each. Rebecca found out that Charlie was the seeker on the Gryffindor team and he didn't have a girlfriend because between practice and studying he didn't have a lot of time for one. As for Charlie, not only did he find out all about her old school, but also that Rebecca was an orphan and that her guardian had died earlier in the summer. Rebecca felt very comfortable talking with Charlie and all her nervousness disappeared allowing her to open up to him about her life. The carriages continued making their way to the school and Rebecca caught a glimpse of the castle. Rebecca so was memorized by the sight of the castle she didn't hear Charlie ask her why she transferred to Hogwarts.
"Wow," whispered Rebecca. "Is that Hogwarts?"
"Yep that's the school." They both looked out the window. The carriage stopped at the front door and all the students get out.
Rebecca and Charlie parted when a teacher came up to Rebecca and said, "Hello, Rebecca Carter? I'm Professor McGonagall. Please follow me."
Rebecca nodded, followed the professor, and started to feel nervous again.
Rebecca walked with Professor McGonagall into the Great Hall. The ceiling looked like the night sky and Rebecca could not help, but stare up at it. As the neared the front of the room Rebecca notice there was a chair up against the wall all by its self.
"You may sit there until you are sorted, Ms. Carter," McGonagall said pointing to the lonely chair.
"Thank you Professor," Rebecca said heading towards the chair.
'Great now I get to sit here and have everyone wonder why I'm sitting by myself.' She sat there staring at her feet and feeling less and less comfortable as the room became filled with other students. All the students looked happy to be back with their friends. Rebecca looked up at them intermittently, careful not to make any eye contract until finally, a group of students came into the hall lead by Professor McGonagall.
'Must be first years getting ready to be sorted. Wish I could be with them. At least I wouldn't be over here by myself,' Rebecca thought as she watched the group.
Before the first years were sorted, a man stood up and started to speak.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts for another year of school. For those of you who are new, I'm Professor Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall will start the sorting ceremony now."
With those words, McGonagall brought out a stool with a very old hat on it. She sat the stool down and walked to the side. The hat started to talk in rhyme. Rebecca listened closely as the hat told of the four houses at Hogwarts. Gryffindor was for the brave of heart, while Ravenclaw was for the cleverest of students. Hufflepuffs were loyal and true and Slytherin students were known to use any means to reach there ends.
The hat ended its poem and McGonagall announced that they would start sorting the students alphabetically. As she read the names of the first years and the sorting hat sorted the student, Rebecca sat on her chair thinking.
'I doubt that I will be put in Gryffindor, since I am not that brave of a person. Just look at how nervous I am about changing school. I have been told I am sort of clever and that I am loyal, so I might be put in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Of course, when I need to get something done I do things that I normally won't do to get it done. I guess Ryan was right there is no way that I would be in another house other than Slytherin.'
The last first year named Oliver Wood was sorted into Gryffindor and Dumbledore stood up again.
"Now that we have sorted out the first years, it is time to sort a new student. I would like to personally welcome a new fifth year student to Hogwarts. Rebecca Carter is joining us from Beauxbatons," Dumbledore said looking at Rebecca giving her a sign to come up and get sorted.
Rebecca rose from her chair and walked up to the stool cautiously. She could feel all the eyes in the room upon her and the anxiety in her raise. Dumbledore gave her a smile that helped her to become more relaxed, because she knew that if the headmaster was friendly than she would be okay at school. She sat on the stool and Professor McGonagall put the hat on Rebecca's head.
Rebecca sat there for what seemed like forever to her when finally the hat announced "GRYFFINDOR!"
To say Rebecca was shocked would be an understatement, since this was the last house she ever thought that she would be in. As she made her way to the Gryffindor table she caught sight of Ryan sitting with his friends at the Slytherin table. He had a very surprised look on his face. All she could do was just shrug at him and continue to walk to her seat.
She took the last available seat at the table and saw that that she was sitting in front of Charlie. She gave him a small smile. Charlie leaned over the table towards her and said, "Not where you expected, huh?"
"No," Rebecca softly said staring at the plate in front of her. Dinner appeared on the table and everyone started to eat. Rebecca did not realize how little she had eaten all day and was so glad to see the food. As the students eat, conversations spun around what people did for the summer and introducing Rebecca to people.
Charlie started out the introductions. "Okay guys I would like you to meet Rebecca Carter."
Everyone responded with a "hi" as they continued to eat.
"Rebecca, this is Greg," Charlie said pointing at a tall guy with dark hair and dark blue eyes. Charlie continued with "and this is Sara," gesturing at a girl with curly chestnut brown hair and deep blue eyes. Pointing at a boy about Charlie's size with broader shoulders, blonde hair, and green eyes Charlie said, "This is James." "And this is Jacquelyn," gesturing at a girl about Rebecca's build with straight strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. "Cathrine is the brunette over there and you are sitting next to Colin." Cathrine was looked to be a couple inches shorter than Rebecca and Colin with his jet black hair and brown eyes appeared to be a little smaller than Charlie.
"It's very nice to meet all of you" Rebecca said when Charlie was done with the introductions.
They all continue to eat with a little small talk here and there. Rebecca still felt a little uncomfortable until Charlie turned towards her with his soothing smile and started to fill Rebecca in on what ever one was like.
"Greg is on the quidditch team with me and he's my best friend. Great guy you'll see. Sara is our biggest cheerleader in the stands. She's got lots of spunk. James is a prefect. Jacquelyn and him were up against each other for it, so they have a bit of rivalry when it comes to grades. Now you need to watch out for Colin and Cathrine. They are really nice and would give you the shirt off their back, but they both got a prankster streak and together they can come up with the craziest things. We had to get them to promise to stop experimenting on us with their inventions. It's a wonder they haven't been expelled yet."
Charlie laughed a little thinking of the high jinks Cathrine and Colin had set up in their years at Hogwarts. Rebecca smile and looked down to the other end of the table. She scanned the group seeing the different students. She recognized Bill, Charlie's older brother and then she saw another one of Charlie's brother. 'I think I heard his name announce when he was getting sorted. I think his name was Percy,' Rebecca thought to herself as she scanned the rest of the Gryffindor students. Her eyes landed on another red haired boy who looked like he might be as tall as Charlie. She didn't recognize him from the Weasley family she met on the platform, so Rebecca turned to Charlie and asked, "Do you have a cousin here too?"
Charlie looked at her puzzled and looked in the direction Rebecca was looking. He turned back with a smile and said, "Oh no that is Angel Dark or A.J. for short. He's one of the beaters on the team. Actually he is probably the best one in the whole school. He really nice and has a razor sharp wit. He has gotten us out of a lot of jams on and off the field."
Rebecca nodded and went back to eating. Charlie pointed out a few more of the students and confirmed that Percy was the name of his younger brother as he continued to eat. He told Rebecca that the man that ushered her into the carriage was Hagrid the ground keeper and keeper of the keys when she asked.
Eventually the students finished dinner. The tables were cleared and Dumbledore stood up yet again. "I hope that this will be another good year here at Hogwarts. I would also like to remind all of you that the Dark Forest is forbidden to all students. With that I wish you all a pleasant night and good luck with your classes tomorrow. Good Night."
After Dumbledore finished, the students started to get up and leave to go to there dormitories.
As they all started to get up from the table, A.J. walked up to Charlie and Greg and "Hey Weasley! Hey Bell! Ready for another season?"
"Hey Dark! Can't wait this should be an awesome season with everyone returning," Greg responded.
"Hey Dark! Of course I am ready," said Charlie grabbing Rebecca's hand as she walked past. Rebecca stopped and looked at him.
"Dark, I would like you to meet Rebecca. Rebecca this is A.J."
"Hello Rebecca," A.J. said as he shook Rebecca's hand. "It's very nice to meet you."
"It's very nice to meet you, too." Rebecca said with a smile.
"Well I am a sixth year around here so if these guys give you too much trouble I can help out." Charlie and Greg gave a 'who us?' look at A.J.
"Thanks I'll keep that in mind," Rebecca laughed.
"Rebecca I am sorry to have to do this but I need to take these two to Captian Woods."
"What does Aaron want to see us for?" asked Greg as Rebecca said, "That's okay, I'll see you all later."
Rebecca turned and started to walk away following the rest of the Gryffindors up to the tower. The group went up stairs and stopped when they came to a painting of a Fat Lady dressed in pink.
The lady said, "Password."
"pen-oay ease-play," said James. The students walked in after the portrait swung open.
Rebecca stepped in and looked around at the cozy common room. The fire was going and Rebecca looked around as she walked to her dorm room. She could not help herself but wonder what the other houses' common rooms looked like. There was this nagging feeling that she was in the wrong house and that it was only a matter of time before someone figured it out.
She headed up the stairs and went into the 5th year girls' dorm room. The other girls' trunks along with Rebecca's were already in the room. Everyone started to get ready to go to bed.
As she was in the bathroom getting ready, Rebecca was feeling really tired and was frustrated. She didn't really know anyone and even though she had been introduced to a few she didn't feel comfortable around them. And would she ever feel comfortable around them when she did not think she was supposed to be in this house. Rebecca entered the room and headed towards her bed with this thought in her head.
She was climbing in when Cathrine, Jacquelyn, and Sara came up to her. Sara asked timidly, "So, um, Rebecca when did you meet Charlie? We thought we knew everyone that he knew here."
Rebecca never liked people prying into her business, but the manner that Sara asked the question and the way the other girls looked at her when Sara asked made Rebecca not mind as much.
"I met him and his family when I was trying to get on to the Platform to get to the train. They were nice enough to help me out, but I actually didn't get to talk to Charlie until the carriage ride from the train to the castle."
"Oh," the girls said with a smile as they sat on Rebecca's bed.
"Sorry about that we just couldn't figure out why we didn't meet you on the train if you knew Charlie," said Jacquelyn.
"Oh that is okay," Rebecca reassured them. The girls quizzed Rebecca and found out about her and her family. After about an hour of questioning the girls decided it was time to go to bed. Rebecca drifted off to sleep.
She awoke the next morning feeling that everything that had transpired the day before was just a dream. When she opened up her eyes she realized that the feeling was fictitious. She was still in Gryffindor. Rebecca gave out a quiet sigh and got up to get ready for breakfast and her first day of classes at Hogwarts.