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The next morning Ginny woke up with a jolt. Where was she? She looked around. She had fallen asleep in the common room, on Harry's lap. Next to them were Ron and Hermione, embracing each other. Ginny lightly kissed Harry on the forehead. He stirred and his green eyes snapped open.

"Where are we?" he asked, looking confused. "What time is it?"

"We fell asleep in the common room, last night." Said Ginny, looking at her watch. "It's 5:30."

Hermione and Ron were now also waking up. They were looking around with wide eyes.

"Let's go to get some breakfast." Said Ron. "I'm starving."

They all agreed and went to the Great Hall. There was almost nobody there. A few people were staring at their food, puffy-eyed and pale. They sat down at the far end of the Gryffindor table. About 3 seats away from them was a boy who they had never seen before. He was looking around with wide eyes, apparently amazed by the room. He was handsome, had light brown hair and blue eyes and was well built.

"Hey! You!" yelled Ron. "Who are you?"

Hermione nudged him, embarrassed. Ron looked at her, annoyed.

"I'm allowed to ask, aren't I?" he said.

"Of course, Ron, but maybe you shouldn't shout at him." Replied Hermione. The boy was looking at them. Harry beckoned him to join them. He hesitated for a moment, then stood up and sat next to Harry.

"Hello." He said nervously. "I'm Alex."

"Hey, nice to meet you Alex! I'm Ginny Weasley. And this is Harry Potter, my boyfriend." She pointed and winked at Harry. Alex' eyes lingered a moment on his scar. "That's Ron Weasley, my brother. And that's Hermione Granger, my best friend." Said Ginny.

"Are you new?" asked Hermione. "I've never seen you around before."

"Yes, I am. We moved to Britain yesterday. I'm from France, I went to Beauxbatons."

"Oh. Cool." Said Harry. "Do you play Quidditch?"

"Of course!" exclaimed Alex. "I'm a Beater, what about you?"

"I'm a Seeker. And Ron there's a Keeper. Ginny's a Chaser." Said Harry. " and Hermione doesn't play Quidditch." They talked for a while about Quidditch while Hermione was sitting there, clearly bored.

"Are you in Gryffindor?" asked Hermione suddenly.

"What's Gryffindor?" asked Alex, confused.

"It's one of the four houses. Hufflepuf, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and the best is of course Gryffindor." explained Ron with a smile. Hermione nudged him again. Ron scowled.

"What? It's true!" he mumbled.

"I expect they'll sort you today." He glanced at the Teacher's table. Dumbledore was there now, and so was Professor McGonagal, and to everybody's displeasure, (except of course the Slytherin's), Professor Snape. Dumbledore and McGonagal were talking. Dumbledore suddenly flicked his wand and the Sorting Hat come zooming into the room. Professor McGonagal stood up and caught it.

"Alex LaFievre?"

Alex stood up and walked to her.

"Good luck!" they all whispered.

Professor McGonagal explained something to him and Alex nodded. Then she put the Sorting Hat on his head. After about 20 seconds it opened it's brim and shouted "GRYFFINDOR!!!"

The Gryffindor table cheered and Alex walked back to his former seat and sat down. He was red in the face, but looked very pleased.

"Congratulations, Alex!" Hermione said.

"Yeah!" said Ron.

McGonagal came up behind him and handed him his course schedule.

"Here you go, Alex, and you're sleeping in Potter's and Weasley's dormitory, the house-elves added a bed." She said. "The classes start in 10 minutes, so hurry up!" and she went back to her seat.

"Well, I guess we'd better get our books." Said Harry.

"Yeah." They all mumbled and they went to the common room. Alex was looking around the whole way and saying things like "Wow!" and "Awesome!" Harry thought his English was very good, you could barely hear his accent. When Hermione said the password, Alex looked confused, but when the portrait swung open, he jumped back in shock. They laughed and led him inside.

"Wow! Is this your common room?" he asked, still a little shaken by the Fat Lady.

"Yes." Said Harry. "Is it a lot different from Beauxbatons?"

"Yes!"exclaimed Alex. "Definitely!"

They all got their books and went back to the Hall.

"Ugh! We've got Transfiguration now! I'm totally not in the mood." Groaned Ron.

"Well, I want to switch with you, if you want, I've got History of Magic." Said Ginny.

"Eum, no thanks, than I'll take Transfiguration." Said Ron hastily.

Ginny hurried of to her class while the 5th years hurried to Transfiguration. They entered the room and sat down. Ron next to Hermione and Harry next to Alex.

Today's lesson was turning a teapot into a bird. Hermione had already managed it in 10 minutes, and to everybody's surprise, Alex had managed it in 7 minutes.

"Wow! Alex! How'd you do that?" asked Ron and Harry.

Alex shrugged.

"I'm kind of talented with Transfiguration." He said.

By the end of the day, they had figured that Alex was quite talented at Charms, too. He, Harry and Hermione were the only ones who had managed to dry up a bowl of water with the Drought Charm by the end of the lesson. Alex took Arithmancy with Hermione while Ron and Harry took Divination. Amazing, but true, they had both received an Acceptable O.W.L in that class. The lesson was the usual, Professor Trelawney had predicted Harry's death 10 times before the end of the lesson and Lavender and Parvati were hanging on her every word.

At dinner Alex and Hermione joined them, and so did Ginny.

"So, how was Arithmancy?" Ron asked.

"It was a great lesson." Said Alex and Hermione.

"Professor Vector didn't give us any homework at all!" added Hermione.

"Bully for Professor Vector." Grumbled Ron.

He was in a bad mood because he had been given lots of homework for Charms. He had managed to make the room overflow, which had caused Professor Flitwick to float onto a high cabinet on which he could not get off of when Hermione had Droughted the room.

"So how was your day, Ginny?" asked Harry.

"Fine, except I fell asleep in History of Magic and I screwed up my potion in Potions. Snape took away 10 points from Gryffindor." She scowled.

"Who's Snape?" asked Alex.

They all sighed.

"You'll have the displeasure of finding that out tomorrow."said Harry, scowling at Snape who was eating his pie.

"Let's go to the commons." Said Hermione. "We still have Transfiguration homework to do."