Lily, from Shiz

By: Aaliyah-Charity

A/N: Heya! Here's another chapter! I'm really getting into this story! I hope you guys like it! It's mostly just Hufflepuff girls drooling over boys heehee, so if you're a guy I suggest you not read this.

Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns 'Harry Potter'

Chapter 3: Girl Talk

Audrey nervously walked to her table and meekly sat down at an empty seat. The kids were staring at her, taking her in. She felt flustered and wanted to run away right at that moment. She wondered if she would ever fit in.

"Hello," said a blonde girl with pigtails, "I'm Hannah Abbott."

"Hi," Audrey said shyly, "I...I'm Audrey Menzel."

"You know, Harry's been staring at you this entire time," Hannah giggled.

"Who is he?" she asked, thinking nothing of it.

"Look over there! That table there, with the boy with glasses-if you squint, you might be able to see his scar there. You probably heard of him before, his name is Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived," she explained, "He's pretty cute. You're lucky."

"No, I don't think I'm lucky at all. Do I have anything on my face?" Audrey asked her potential new friend.

"No, you look fine," Hannah said turning back to her, "Do you see him?"

Audrey looked at the table Hannah pointed out and finally caught eyes with a boy with glasses who indeed was staring at her. She wondered why he could be looking at her. She knew a new student was weird, but everyone else seemed to have forgotten her. Perhaps the other two Shiz students have worn off on them. She took one last long look at him before turning to Hannah again.

"Are you quite sure that I have nothing on my face? Or is it anything else?" Audrey asked the blonde girl.

"Of course not!" she laughed, "You're very pretty, and it's good that he's staring."

"If you say so," Audrey replied, "And thank you for the compliment." She wasn't used to such comments.

"Are all girls from Shiz pretty?" she asked, smiling, "Emmylene is absolutely gorgeous, and Eden Fae is too, but her attitude is horrendous!"

"She's in Slytherin, that's why," another girl stated, looking at Audrey, "I'm Susan Bones. All Slytherins are just mean and icky."

"Just be glad you're in Hufflepuff," Hanna said, "That means you're loyal and hard-working."

"Yeah, but the other houses don't like us because they think we're stupid or something," Susan rolled her eyes.

"What are the other two houses known for? I was supposed to be in Gryffindor, but I wasn't allowed to because some other was put in there," Audrey asked, wondering.

"Well, Gryffindor is a house of brave people, and Ravenclaw are the really smart kids," Susan explained.

"But with Neville, I'm not so sure," Hannah remarked, and they laughed.

Audrey let out a small laugh and just ate the delicious food in front of her. The food reminded her of the food she had to eat at wizard band camp, which was surprisingly good. It was actually better than the food at Shiz. She wondered when her peers would ask about Shiz and the fire. Audrey could now talk about Shiz without crying for a while, but if anyone mentioned the fire, she would start bawling.

"So, how was your old school?" Hannah asked, "If you don't want to talk about it, I understand."

"No, it's okay. Shiz was a school for the wizard and witch who excelled in the fine arts. Their major was a fine art, and their minors were a magic trait. My major was Music, with an emphasis on Band, and my minor was Healing, and my second minor was Potions," Audrey said, thinking of her old days at Shiz.

"Wow," Hannah said, "That is amazing!"

"Yeah," Susan agreed, "Snape is the Potions teacher, and he HATES the Hufflepuff. He'll have a heart attack if he found out Potions was a strong point for you."

So went the conversation with her new friends, and soon it was time for bed. The Hufflepuff common room was insanely gamesome, and definitely took a penchant for Audrey. Her dorm, thankfully, consisted of nice girls who didn't ridicule her as she had feared.

"So, are there any people I should know about?" she asked, making conversation with her dorm mates, who didn't want to sleep at all.

"Oh yeah," Hannah said, "There's Harry, of course, he's been through some interesting stuff, and Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his best friends."

"The Weasleys are all cute," Susan giggled, "but they live in penury."

"Who cares? Fred and George are SO on!" Hannah laughed, sighing in giddiness.

"Fred is much cuter than George!" said another girl in the room, with blonde locks.

"But they look the exact same!" exclaimed another girl, a brunette with a bit of curl to them.

"No, Fred has more....appeal," the blonde one said with a dreamy look in her eye.

"Well, George was mean to Emmy so I guess you're right," the brunette shook her head in agreement.

"Oh come ON you guys! He likes her, of course he's rude to her!" Hannah laughed, "But you know who's even cuter than the both of them combined?"

"Who?" asked the other girls.

"PERCY!" Hannah squealed.

"EWWWWWWWWWWWWW," the other three girls laughed, and one said, "Not Percy! He's WAY too strict, and plus he's got that Penelope girl for a mate."

"I know," Hannah laughed, "but with him and Cedric Diggory-"

"They do not COMPARE-Cedric is the god of the whole SCHOOL," drooled Susan, "Him and Oliver Wood, now there's a comparison."

"You're drunk! Cedric is much hotter than Wood!" the blonde argued.

"Nah, Wood's the hottest boy to roam the halls here at Hogwarts," the brunette stated firmly.

"Well, now that I think of it, Marcus Flint is pretty cute," Susan added, "for a Slytherin. Both Malfoy and him are pretty hot."

And so it went for almost two hours. The four girls would argue on guys, laughing and hitting each other with pillows, with Audrey looking meekly at them. She probably got the opinions on every boy in the school by the time they all slept from exhaustion. It was better than total silence and awkwardness, Audrey decided, and slept peacefully from the nice first day she had.

A/N: Heehee, sorry if it's a bit boring/girly, but I've written all of these chapters in one day and felt like writing some comedy!