Paisley, Kaci, Chenyce and Shira followed Hermione and Remus off of the train and onto the crowded platform.
"First years! First years over here please!" A woman's voice called through the crowd, the four girls walked over to the tall woman who looked oriental, she had long black hair, sharp features and nice brown eyes. "Is that everybody?" She asked, looking around the emptying platform. "Lets go then." She stated jovially, leading them to a lake with little boats littered over the surface. "Four to a boat!"
The four new friends all shared a boat and sat there in awe as a huge castle came into view. After being warned to duck, they came back to shore. The oriental woman knocked on the huge set of doors.
The doors opened slowly and a black haired man with a horrible sneer and greasy hair.
"Chang, these are the children I take it." The man stated curtly, "Follow me." The black haired woman rolled her eyes and ushered the first years forward before walking off in another direction. The man lead them down a few corridors and into a small anti-chamber where Paisley could here people in the room next door. "Welcome to Hogwarts." The man said in a monotone voice, turning to face them all, "The start-of-term-feast shall begin momentarily…" The man droned on and on, as if he had memorised it and was more bored than the forty or fifty kids. He had a face of severe irritation on his face as he talked to them. Paisley noticed that he sneered a few times at Kaci, who just ignored it or didn't notice. The man also glanced in what looked like confusion at her sometimes too, she remembered to ask Hermione about him. "I shall be back soon so make yourselves presentable." He finished, eyeing Kaci's half-done tie and then at a boy's dark brown hair which had gone haywire.
He left and immediately, chatting filled the area.
"I heard you had to wrestle a troll!" One boy exclaimed.
"No no, I heard-"
"I heard this-"
"My brother told me-" Each of the stories were becoming more and more ridiculous as it carried on, Paisley wisely ignored it and concentrated on the door, wishing for the scary and weird teacher to return.
The man returned a few minutes afterwards and lead them into the hall, the bunch of nervous first years all looked in awe at the ceiling and surroundings, but all concentrated to the front when the man came up again with a scroll and next to an old hat.
Everybody seemed to be staring at the old hat, so Paisley stared too.
"When I was new, those years ago,
This school had not so much to show.
Four houses united, never apart,
The same intent deep in their heart.
Gryffindor stood tall and proud,
For our most noble and loud,
They have daring, nerve and are brave at heart.
Or you might belong where great minds are, unafraid of toil
Where those with the patience stay,
Sweet Hufflepuff so loyal.
Or lets not forget dear Ravenclaw,
The smartest minds of them all,
For those who love to read and learn,
With others like their kind.
And finally old Slytherin,
Where the sly and cunning reside,
These sly ones never hide.
So try me on, don't be afraid,
I'll choose your perfect home,
For I'm never wrong and I'm always right,
Put me on now, I promise I don't bite!"
All of the Hall burst into appaulause and the hat bowed to each of the house tables before becoming motionless. The greasy haired man stepped forward and unrolled the parchment.
"When I call your name you shall put the hat on your head and sit on the hall to be sorted." He droned, he seemed very bored now. "Abbot, Beth." He called, a small girl with dark blonde hair stumbled out of the line and went to the hat to try it on.
The hat stood mumbling seemingly to itself on the girls head for a moment before calling "Hufflepuff!". Beth jumped off of the stool and ran to the table clapping the most.
"Bliss, Felicity." A girl with black hair and who was average height wandered up to the stool, trying it on. Immediately, the hat shouted "Hufflepuff!"
"Braxton, Jared." The man called again, a tall boy with dark brown hair, the same boy with the bad hair from the anti-chamber walked up to the stool confidently. Once again, he hat started mumbling to itself before screaming "Gryffindor!".
The sorting went like that for awhile, and soon, "Granger-Weasley, Kaci-Leigh." Was called with a sneer from the man. Kaci strode confidently to the stool and placed the hat on her head, after a thumbs up from her Mum, Remus and her friends.
It talked to her for awhile before going silent and then shouted "Gryffindor!" Kaci's elder cousins all wolf-whistled and stood up applauding, Kaci blushed and walked down to the end of the table, getting her hands shaking by lots of elder Gryffindors.
"Another Weasley, how unpredictable!" One Gryffindor shouted, the whole of the table roared with laughter. After it had calmed down, the man continued.
Soon after that, "Mohaien, Shira." Was called, and Shira nervously approached the stool and sat down. After a few moments, it called "Gryffindor!". Shira went down to the far table with a smile on her face and sat down next to two boys and Kaci.
"Summers, Paisley." Paisley was starting to get fidgety and jumped when her name was called, she nervously approached the stool and sat down, she noticed that some of the professors were staring at her in shock, especially the Headmistress.
"Ahh." Paisley jumped at the voice. "No need to be afraid child." It was the hat, the hat was talking to her. "Hmm." The Hat pondered, "Another Weasley I see, you are just as bad as your father. Lets think, Gryffindor would be well suited to you, but so would Slytherin. Hmm, very difficult indeed." The hat said.
"Please don't put me in Slytherin, I want to be with my friends." Paisley whispered.
"Slytherin would be perfect for you child, but if your sure, it had better be GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted the last word and Paisley took the hat off with a sigh and walked down to the Gryffindor table that was amids with polite applause.
"Way to go Paisley!" Lory called down from half-way down the table.
"Another Weasley in Gryffindor!" Mazie exclaimed, "I think we're beating a record!" Some of the Gryffindor's looked sat the girl strangely but she ignored it to let the sorting commence.
After Chenyce had been sorted into Gryffindor also, and every other person had been sorted, the headmistress stood.
"Hello and welcome back everybody." She called, there was polite applause. "For those of you who don't know, I am Professor McGonnagal and I shall remain headmistress now that Professor Dumbledore has finally taken his retirement." Some of the school laughed at this, as did some of the teachers. "Now I know that you are hungry so let the feast begin." She spread her arms and the food appeared all down the tables. Immediately after she sat down, chatter filled the room.
Sitting next to the four girls were four boys. The first Paisley remembered was called Jared Braxton, though she didn't catch the others names. The second of the boys had a Mediterranean look about him with black curtains which hung in his friendly onyx eyes. The third boy had light brown hair that was quite short and had nice, cinnamon coloured eyes. The fourth boy had dark, golden blond hair and intriguing dark blue eyes.
"Hi, I'm Jared." The first boy said with a kind smile at the girls.
"Hey, I'm Kaci, that's Shira, that's Paisley and that's Chenyce." Kaci replied happily.
"I'm Drew and this is Joss." The Mediterranean looking boy stated with a slight French-English mixed accent, gesturing the light brown haired guy.
"I'm Doyle." The fourth boy stated with an Irish accent.
"Cool, you all doomed yourself to Gryffindor too then?" Chenyce asked with a grin. "Totally cool."
"Doomed ourselves?" Shira repeated with a raised eyebrow, "I was sure we got the best house."
"And that you did pretty girl." A male voice said from behind them, Shira blushed slightly whilst Kaci rolled her eyes.
"What do you want Jesse?" The red head asked the other one, who grinned slyly at her.
"Why, I'm just meeting your new friends Leigh, what's the problem in that?" Jesse asked with a smirk, Kaci glared at him.
"Don't call me that Lady." She retorted, Jesse just brushed the comment off as if he hadn't heard it.
"Ok, ok." He said defeated, "Congrats in getting into Gryffindor Kaci." He gave Kaci and hug before giving Paisley one too. "You too P, bet your Dad would be proud."
"What about my Mum?" Paisley asked, pretending to be offended.
"She would be too, but I don't really know her." Jesse told her with a shrug. Mazie and Lory came over.
"Terrorising the tiny's already Cuz?" Lory asked with a grin, Jesse rolled his eyes.
"Just saying congrats, I'll be going now." He smiled at the two girls, "See you in the common room, you can help me pull some pranks too."
"Hey girls, guess we should say congrats too." Mazie stated with a smile.
"You'll be best in this house, we're always the best." Lory added, she ruffled Kaci's hair. "See ya!" The two teens walked back over to their friends.
"So, any of you want to try out for the house team?" Joss asked after a moments silence.
"Hell yeah!" Kaci exclaimed, "My Dad was on the team, the keeper after Wood left."
"Team for what? Football?" Drew asked, Doyle and Joss looked confused.
"Foot… ball?" Joss asked, letting the strange new word roll over his tongue.
"Muggle sport." Kaci stated, "Really interesting."
"How would you know? I thought you were pureblooded?" Doyle asked confusedly, Kaci rolled her eyes.
"I am, but my Mum's muggleborn remember." She stated, "She's also the first ever muggleborn professor this school has had." Kaci added proudly, glancing to Hermione who was talking happily with one of the other professors, as if sensing the gaze, Hermione turned and sent a smile and wave to her daughter before turning back to the conversation.
"How'd ya know that?" Joss asked curiously.
"Read it in Hogwarts: A History Second Edition." Kaci told them proudly. "Anyways, back to the original conversation."
"Oh yeah, the house team." Doyle stated with a grin.
"Team for what?" Shira asked.
"Quidditch." All of the others except for Drew replied simultaneously.
"What?" Drew asked.
"Quidditch." Chenyce repeated.
"Don't worry, all this world was new to me a few weeks ago also, I have yet to witness a game." Paisley told the two muggleborns.
"What's it like?" Drew asked, immediately interested in the idea of a new sport to support.
"It's like football, rugby and basketball, only played about one-hundred and fifty feet into the air and on brooms." Kaci explained absentmindedly as she scooped more roast potatoes onto her plate.
"Cool." Drew muttered.
"On brooms?" Shira asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, we'll be having flying lessons soon enough." Chenyce stated.
"Flying?" Shira repeated, the boys laughed.
"Don't worry, flyings a breeze." Kaci stated with a glare in the boys direction.
The conversation changed it's tracks many times during the meal, and soon enough, McGonnagal stood at the Head Table and the whole room silenced immediately.
"I have just a few notices to give you before our first term begins." She stated. "First years should remember that the Forbidden Forrest is forbidden and a few certain older students would do well to remember that also." McGonnagal stated, her piercing gaze directed strait at the elder three Weasley's, who smirked, Mazie going so far as to send a little wave in the Headmistresses direction. "I have also been asked to remind you that no magic is to be used in the corridors in between classes.
"Quidditch trails shall be held in the second week of term, if you'd like to try out for your team, please inform Professor Chang.
"This year, the positions of certain professors have been changed a little, we'd like to inform you that the new Head of Gryffindor is to be Professor Weasley-" McGonnagal was cut off by the roar of appreciation from the Gryffindor's, Kaci included. "And I'd also like to welcome Professor Lyguin as the new transfiguration professor." A tiny, pretty woman who looked barely out of university stood and waved slightly with a kind smile, before sitting again. "Now, for the school song, pick any tune you'd like." Most of the teachers cast charms on themselves to block out the racket before McGonnagal sent the students to bed.
"Your going to have to watch out for trick steps." The female fifth year prefect who was called Amiry White.
"And also watch out for any tricks the Weasley's play, they can be very annoying." A pompous guy called Zackery Towler told them.
"Tricks? I think the word is pranks Kaci murmured to her friends, who nodded in agreement.
The prefects led them up to the common room and explained the password system before sending them up their separate stairs to their dorms.
"This is going to be so fun." Paisley squealed as she jumped onto her bed, her trunk was sitting at the foot of it. A tiny 'meow' could be heard and a tiny kitten that had black, ginger, brown and white patches crawled out from under Kaci's bed, startling the girl. The kitten went up to Shira and the girl picked it up.
"Hey Jester." Shira cooed.
"Oh! Your kitten is so sweet!" Chenyce exclaimed. Shira smiled and sat down on her bed cross-legged.
"I know, why else would I pick him?" Shira asked rhetorically. "What pets did you all bring?" She asked, stroking her kitten.
"I have Lio." Kaci stated, "Lio?" She called, a large white and orange spotted thing ran into the room. "See, she's a kneazle. I got her for my eighth birthday."
"I have an owl." Chenyce said with a grin, pulling a cover from a cage in the corner. "Meet Bob." The girls giggled at the tiny electric blue bird. Paisley couldn't believe that Chenyce had agreed to call it 'Bob'. "Anyways, where's Sakura, Paisley?" Chenyce asked. As if on command, the tiny, powder pink came out from under Paisley's bed, it stopped and yawned before attempting to jump onto the bed, failing miserably, the girls cooed.
"She's so cute!" Shira exclaimed, watching Paisley pick Sakura up and place her in her lap, stroking the kitten.
"So's Jester." Paisley told her new friend.
"So…" Kaci muttered, they fell into a silence.
"What do you think the lessons will be like?" Shira asked.
"I bet I'll fail." Paisley muttered.
"My Mum was muggleborn P, and she reached the top of the year group every year." Kaci stated, "And anyway, you have it in your blood to do good. Your Mum was a Weasley." Chenyce toppled over the back of her bed and Shira looked confused. Chenyce's head popped back up.
"A Weasley?" She asked, "The only female Weasley was Ginny!"
"Please Chenyce, you can't tell anybody. My Mum wants to keep a low profile for a while." Paisley stated, confusing Shira even more.
"Is your Mum a criminal or something?" The girl asked.
"No, she ran away from the wizarding world." Paisley replied absentmindedly.
"What?" Shira asked incredulously. "Why?"
Paisley sighed and explained the whole story to the girls, feeling that she could trust them.
"Wow." Shira muttered when Paisley had finished.
"I agree." Chenyce stated, "But Ron Weasley done that to his own sister?"
"He was scared at the time." Kaci said in defence of her father. "Anyways, if so many people had said it, I would surely agree."
"Lets just go to sleep." Paisley said tiredly, stifling a yawn. The others nodded and they all got ready for bed.
"Night." They all chorused as the lights went out.
AN:
Harrie: Better? It's okay I guess.
Wytil: Map and cloak, you'll have to see :P, i'm a little mean, but i like your idea with Dobby, he'd be extactic to help her wouldn't he? I'll keep that in mind for the next story (If i can think of a plot for it...)
Lala-the-Panda: Too many names? Lol, there's thousands :p A family tree? I'll try, it'll be a little hard though, it'll probably be uploaded as a separate chapter as it'll be a little big :p
With the blood status of Paisley, it took a while to get to the conclusion of her being a pureblood. James Potter was a pureblooded wizard, Lily was muggleborn so i came to the conclusion that Paisley would be pure because Harry would only be a quarter muggle. Half-blood's are people who have one muggle parent and one wizard/witch parent, i think it was Seamus who was half-blood in Harry's dorm.
Also, I ALWAYS upload a story on HPfanfiction.com to see their reactions to a story before uploading it here, it seems pointless to put a story that no one likes on a site like this. :p
Thank you for all of the reviews! I'm getting a little writers block at the moment :( so the sequel isn't really getting started as i had planned it to be, i think it was those GCSE English Language exams i took, they made me so nervous and i can't think of any good plot line for the second story of the series, BUT i have got three more plans for other stories that i am currently writing and I'm helping my little sister write a story that will be posted here (or might not be, depends if it's good and if she pays me :p money moeny money!). :p