Hermione clapped and cheered along with everyone else at the hat finished,
bowed and became silent. Proff. McGonagal now stepped forward again holding
a roll of parchment.
"As I call your name, you will step forward and the hat will sort you." she said as she surveyed the students over her glasses.
"Accuna, Abel" A small boy with black kair stepped forward. He held his head high and seemed To hermione to be not at all nervous. He sat down on the chair and placed the hat on his head. After a few seconds of contemplation the hat gave it's decision.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The boy looked very put out as he removed the hat from his head, handed it roughly to Proff. McGongagal and sulked over to the semi cheering table. The Hufflepuffs seemed just as unhappy to have such a snotty bratty little kid as he was to be put in that house. (A/N Nothing aganst Hufflepuff, this from the boys P.O.V.)
Then came 'Allen, Mark'. A good looking boy with black hair up in a ramp in the front of his head stepped up. He didn't look as nervous as some but as the hat dropped over his eyes, his hands were trembling. Then the hat shouted, "RAVENCLAW!" and he walked over to the table and sat down with afew 2nd year girls who were all giggling madly.
They got past 'Butler, Paxton' (Slytherin!), 'Begody, Browning' (Gryffindor!) and 'Hotaling, Catherine' (Gryffindor!). They finally reached the K's with 'Krane, Elizabeth' who was put into Ravenclaw. As she hopped off the stool, 'MaClaverty, Mick' became a Gryffindor and 'Marshall, Jessica' joined him.
Finally after 'Raper, Caroline' was sorted into Ravenclaw, only two kids remained; the twins were still waiting for their turns.
McGonagal rustled her parchment before reading, 'Win, Alexis'. A girl with blonde hair and bright blue eyes walked up, calm as anything and sat on the stool. The hat had hardly touched her head when it shouted, "SLYTHERIN!" The girl handed the hat (rather roughly) to Proff. McGonagal before strolling off to the house on the far side of the hall. Whistling and catcalls could be heard coming from quite a few of the underclassmen boys as she sat down. Hermione could only remember one other person ever having been decided that fast; Draco malfoy. This girl was clearly one to be avoided. Then came the final name.
"Win, Alexander'. The hall became quiet once again as the small boy stepped forward, visiibly trembling from head to toe. As he moved towards the stool, he tripped over one of his untied shoelaces and fell on his face. Most of the hall gasped and hoped he was ok, but the Slytherin table (including Alexis) sent taunts and insults his way. Crabbe could be heard yelling 'Have a nice trip, see you next fall' followed by loud guffawing. Hermione rolled her eyes and shot a nasty glare towards the table. Suprising, it was returned by a boy with platinum blonde hair. Had she meant to look at malfoy or had that been a coincidece?
She returned her gaze to the front of the room wherethe boy had stood up and nearing the stool. as he turned around, Hermione could see a single tear fall down his cheek. Her heart went out to him. Then the hat dropped down over his face and all that could be seen was the top of his tie. After a while of no deision, Hermione was eginning to get nercous for him. Then finally after what must have been 3 or 4 minutes, the hat shouted out "HUFFLEPUFF!" The boy looked so relieved that he shoved the hat back at McGonagal and ran to his table where he was recieved by tumultuous (sp?) applause and many handshakes. Hermione was glad he had such a loving house to lift his spirits.
Dumbeldore stood and the hall became silent once more.
"Let the feast, begin!" he said, and with those words, the table in front of them filled with food. You couldn't tell by her size but Hermione could eat a lot. She piled mashed potaoes, peas, Asparagus and pasta onto her plate. She may have eaten more than Ron! When the students were full with that food, the desserts began to appear. Hermione had 3 large cupcakes and a chocolate mousse. finally they were all done with the treats as well and Dumbledore stood up.
"Just a few quick announcements before we send you all off to bed. First, a reminder to our older students and a notice to our first years, the forbidden forrest is strictly out of bounds to all." he smiled at this and the continued. "right, and secondly, as our returning students may have noticed we have a new member of the staff this year." he motioned to the woman on his left, "Mr. Wechter went bak to his post at the ministry at the end of last term and so now we have the pleasure of having Proffessor Cepelak as our new Defenese Against the Dark Arts teacher. Could you all join me in wlecoming her. Yes do stand up, Rachel." he said as e clapped. she stood and the students clapped. Whistling could be heard from all four of the tables amd at this she smiled. Hermione poked Harry and Ron,
"look at Snape" she said. He didn't look too happy. Apparently upset at once again missing the shot at taking the post he had always wanted, Snape's ip was curling and it seemed to be a huge effort for him to smile.
"Thank you, yes, that's good." Dumbledore beamed." now, lastly, a new list of what is not allowed on these grounds has been posted on Mr. Filch's door. I suggest you all take a look to keep yourselves out of trouble. I would like to see the Head Boy and Girl up here but everyone else may go to bed. Prefects lead your houses to the common room please, Goodnight!" then he sat back down. As Hermione stood to go up to the top table, Harry and Ron wished her luck.
"Thanks, see you guys as soon as possible" she replied, before going to see Dumbledore.
As Hermione made her way up to the top table, she felt someone come up along side her. She turned to see Maloy there.
"Here we go, Mud- err, Granger." he said when they were two feet from Dumbledore.
"Ahh, Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger, follow me and listen up I will be giving you instructions as we walk but make sure to also pay attention to where we are going. You will need to find your common room on your own after this" He smiled at them and then walked through a door behind the staff table Hermione had never really paid attention to before.
"Now, as you know you will be having tasks to complete throughout the year," he said while walking down a hallway filled with paintings of old head boys and girls. They all smiled at Hermione as she worked hard to keep up with him. For an old man, Dumbledore could move pretty fast. Even Draco was having trouble keeping up. Dumbledore was now explaining that these tasks included planning parties and organizing house meetings, etc.
"Now, to get to your dormitory, you can either take this hallway or take the door to the right of Professor McGonagal's office, go up two sets of stairs, turn left and you will find your self on, this hallway" he said, taking a right. The paintings ended but Hermione could see one at the end of the desolate hall. When they reached it she realized it was another head painting. One of a 17 year old girl with curly brown hair and a wide smile who was standing next to a tall boy with slicked back hair and penetrating grey eyes.
"Err, Proffessor, is that...us?" she asked tentatively.
"Yes it is, now the password for this week is peppermint toad and it will be up to you two to change it every Sunday. You will have to tell the portrait TOGETHER what the new password is. They won't let either of you in if one of you tries to change the password alone. Understand?" he looked at them and they nodded.
"Good, now your first assignment is on the desk, have a good night." and with that, he was off. Draco gave the password and the portrait swung open. The two stepped inside and examined their new living spaces.
The common room was decorated in greens, reds, silvers, and golds. There was a slytherin banner on one wall and a gryffindor one on the opposite wall. A large couch and two cushy armchairs stood infont of a blazing fire. On the far wall were two doors. Hermione looked at Draco who cocked his eyebrow and motioned to them. She nodded and they walked over. Opening the first door Hermione saw a very odd looking room. The walls, floor and door were a deep blood red while the bedsheets, ceiling and the door inside the room room were a bone chilling black. Hermione didn't like the look of the room and closed the door quickly. She turned to see Draco making a disqusted {am I spelling that wrong?) face.
"I think that one is yours" he said, jerking his thumb at the other door.
"Yes, and I think this one belongs to you." she replied. They switched places and opened their new doors. Hermione now saw Pink walls and a pink bedspread. The ceiling, floors and doors were a clean white.
"Yes! My favourite colours!" they both exclaimed at the same time. They turned simultameously.
"THOSE are your favourite colours? God help you," they added at the same time. Hermione giggled and a little bit of the steelieness left Draco's eyes for a second, but it was soon back.
"Let's meet back out here in ten minutes. That's gives us a little time to start unpacking and then we can read our assignment." she offered.
"Yeah sure, see you in ten Granger." and then he slipped through his doorway. Hermione imitated his movement and walked inside her room. She walked to the other door and opened it to find a huge closet. She figured she could cartwheel in it, and so she did. She laughed as she fell to the floor; she never was any good at gymnastics. She put all her robes and cloaks on the hangers given to her and then started putting her muggle clothing into the dresser next to her bed. Just as she was neatly folding her trousers she heard a faint knocking on the door.
"Come in," she said, while placing the garments into the bottom drawer of her dresser.
"Err, what's this Granger?" she heard Draco's voice float over to her from the doorway. She stood and turned to see him holding what looked like a miniature vaccum. It appeared they would be cleaning their own rooms this year.
She walked over to him.
"Ok, this is called a vaccum-" she started.
"A wacume? What do you do with it?" he asked puzzled.
"If you let me finish. It's Vaccum, not Wacume, by the way. Now, since electricity doesn't work on the ground i expect these run off magic," she searched the machine for a minute and found a note attached to one of the nozzels.
"Ahh, here we go. "To turn the vaccum on, tap it with your wand and say 'inizio' and to stop it say 'arresto'" well that's easy enough. Now, Malfoy, the point of a vaccum is to clean floors, usually carpets" she stopped to point at her carpet. "When it gets dirty you start the vaccum, run it backwards and forwards across the entire carpet a few times and then stop the vaccum. You'll need to do this about once a week. To empty the vaccum open this compartment, remove the bag and put it in the trash. The note says the house elevs will take out our trash and will supply our vaccums with news bags if they find it empty," she said this maybe a little too fast because Draco now looked more puzzled than ever.
"Err, ok, you'll have to go over that again when I use it. You wanna go read our assignment now?" he asked.
"Sure," she followed him out of the room and placed the vaccum next to his door for him to put back later. She walked over the desk in the corner of the room and found an envelope. She handed it to Draco.
"You wanna read it?" she asked him politely.
"Err, sure," he ripped open the envelope and scanned the paper, "'your first assignment is to simply get along for a week straight. No name calling, you will use each other's first names, not last names and no fighting. This seems to me to be a very simple task and if you fail, there will be serious consequences'" he read, " oh great, this is gonna be horrible." he sighed, plopping down on the chair next to him.
"Don't say that. Let's just try our best and we'll hopefully get through this week." she yawned.
"You look tired, go to bed," he said. She smiled.
"I will, goodnight" she faltered, " err, Draco"
"'Night, umm, Hermione"
Ok and there is the end of the second chapter. I'm glas for the few readers I have but try and spread it around..i really wanna see what ppl think. I will be adding more soon! Feel free to politely criticize, btw..some of my readers on the other site have caught mistakes and I had a chance to change them which was great. ~Jes xoxoxo
"As I call your name, you will step forward and the hat will sort you." she said as she surveyed the students over her glasses.
"Accuna, Abel" A small boy with black kair stepped forward. He held his head high and seemed To hermione to be not at all nervous. He sat down on the chair and placed the hat on his head. After a few seconds of contemplation the hat gave it's decision.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The boy looked very put out as he removed the hat from his head, handed it roughly to Proff. McGongagal and sulked over to the semi cheering table. The Hufflepuffs seemed just as unhappy to have such a snotty bratty little kid as he was to be put in that house. (A/N Nothing aganst Hufflepuff, this from the boys P.O.V.)
Then came 'Allen, Mark'. A good looking boy with black hair up in a ramp in the front of his head stepped up. He didn't look as nervous as some but as the hat dropped over his eyes, his hands were trembling. Then the hat shouted, "RAVENCLAW!" and he walked over to the table and sat down with afew 2nd year girls who were all giggling madly.
They got past 'Butler, Paxton' (Slytherin!), 'Begody, Browning' (Gryffindor!) and 'Hotaling, Catherine' (Gryffindor!). They finally reached the K's with 'Krane, Elizabeth' who was put into Ravenclaw. As she hopped off the stool, 'MaClaverty, Mick' became a Gryffindor and 'Marshall, Jessica' joined him.
Finally after 'Raper, Caroline' was sorted into Ravenclaw, only two kids remained; the twins were still waiting for their turns.
McGonagal rustled her parchment before reading, 'Win, Alexis'. A girl with blonde hair and bright blue eyes walked up, calm as anything and sat on the stool. The hat had hardly touched her head when it shouted, "SLYTHERIN!" The girl handed the hat (rather roughly) to Proff. McGonagal before strolling off to the house on the far side of the hall. Whistling and catcalls could be heard coming from quite a few of the underclassmen boys as she sat down. Hermione could only remember one other person ever having been decided that fast; Draco malfoy. This girl was clearly one to be avoided. Then came the final name.
"Win, Alexander'. The hall became quiet once again as the small boy stepped forward, visiibly trembling from head to toe. As he moved towards the stool, he tripped over one of his untied shoelaces and fell on his face. Most of the hall gasped and hoped he was ok, but the Slytherin table (including Alexis) sent taunts and insults his way. Crabbe could be heard yelling 'Have a nice trip, see you next fall' followed by loud guffawing. Hermione rolled her eyes and shot a nasty glare towards the table. Suprising, it was returned by a boy with platinum blonde hair. Had she meant to look at malfoy or had that been a coincidece?
She returned her gaze to the front of the room wherethe boy had stood up and nearing the stool. as he turned around, Hermione could see a single tear fall down his cheek. Her heart went out to him. Then the hat dropped down over his face and all that could be seen was the top of his tie. After a while of no deision, Hermione was eginning to get nercous for him. Then finally after what must have been 3 or 4 minutes, the hat shouted out "HUFFLEPUFF!" The boy looked so relieved that he shoved the hat back at McGonagal and ran to his table where he was recieved by tumultuous (sp?) applause and many handshakes. Hermione was glad he had such a loving house to lift his spirits.
Dumbeldore stood and the hall became silent once more.
"Let the feast, begin!" he said, and with those words, the table in front of them filled with food. You couldn't tell by her size but Hermione could eat a lot. She piled mashed potaoes, peas, Asparagus and pasta onto her plate. She may have eaten more than Ron! When the students were full with that food, the desserts began to appear. Hermione had 3 large cupcakes and a chocolate mousse. finally they were all done with the treats as well and Dumbledore stood up.
"Just a few quick announcements before we send you all off to bed. First, a reminder to our older students and a notice to our first years, the forbidden forrest is strictly out of bounds to all." he smiled at this and the continued. "right, and secondly, as our returning students may have noticed we have a new member of the staff this year." he motioned to the woman on his left, "Mr. Wechter went bak to his post at the ministry at the end of last term and so now we have the pleasure of having Proffessor Cepelak as our new Defenese Against the Dark Arts teacher. Could you all join me in wlecoming her. Yes do stand up, Rachel." he said as e clapped. she stood and the students clapped. Whistling could be heard from all four of the tables amd at this she smiled. Hermione poked Harry and Ron,
"look at Snape" she said. He didn't look too happy. Apparently upset at once again missing the shot at taking the post he had always wanted, Snape's ip was curling and it seemed to be a huge effort for him to smile.
"Thank you, yes, that's good." Dumbledore beamed." now, lastly, a new list of what is not allowed on these grounds has been posted on Mr. Filch's door. I suggest you all take a look to keep yourselves out of trouble. I would like to see the Head Boy and Girl up here but everyone else may go to bed. Prefects lead your houses to the common room please, Goodnight!" then he sat back down. As Hermione stood to go up to the top table, Harry and Ron wished her luck.
"Thanks, see you guys as soon as possible" she replied, before going to see Dumbledore.
As Hermione made her way up to the top table, she felt someone come up along side her. She turned to see Maloy there.
"Here we go, Mud- err, Granger." he said when they were two feet from Dumbledore.
"Ahh, Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger, follow me and listen up I will be giving you instructions as we walk but make sure to also pay attention to where we are going. You will need to find your common room on your own after this" He smiled at them and then walked through a door behind the staff table Hermione had never really paid attention to before.
"Now, as you know you will be having tasks to complete throughout the year," he said while walking down a hallway filled with paintings of old head boys and girls. They all smiled at Hermione as she worked hard to keep up with him. For an old man, Dumbledore could move pretty fast. Even Draco was having trouble keeping up. Dumbledore was now explaining that these tasks included planning parties and organizing house meetings, etc.
"Now, to get to your dormitory, you can either take this hallway or take the door to the right of Professor McGonagal's office, go up two sets of stairs, turn left and you will find your self on, this hallway" he said, taking a right. The paintings ended but Hermione could see one at the end of the desolate hall. When they reached it she realized it was another head painting. One of a 17 year old girl with curly brown hair and a wide smile who was standing next to a tall boy with slicked back hair and penetrating grey eyes.
"Err, Proffessor, is that...us?" she asked tentatively.
"Yes it is, now the password for this week is peppermint toad and it will be up to you two to change it every Sunday. You will have to tell the portrait TOGETHER what the new password is. They won't let either of you in if one of you tries to change the password alone. Understand?" he looked at them and they nodded.
"Good, now your first assignment is on the desk, have a good night." and with that, he was off. Draco gave the password and the portrait swung open. The two stepped inside and examined their new living spaces.
The common room was decorated in greens, reds, silvers, and golds. There was a slytherin banner on one wall and a gryffindor one on the opposite wall. A large couch and two cushy armchairs stood infont of a blazing fire. On the far wall were two doors. Hermione looked at Draco who cocked his eyebrow and motioned to them. She nodded and they walked over. Opening the first door Hermione saw a very odd looking room. The walls, floor and door were a deep blood red while the bedsheets, ceiling and the door inside the room room were a bone chilling black. Hermione didn't like the look of the room and closed the door quickly. She turned to see Draco making a disqusted {am I spelling that wrong?) face.
"I think that one is yours" he said, jerking his thumb at the other door.
"Yes, and I think this one belongs to you." she replied. They switched places and opened their new doors. Hermione now saw Pink walls and a pink bedspread. The ceiling, floors and doors were a clean white.
"Yes! My favourite colours!" they both exclaimed at the same time. They turned simultameously.
"THOSE are your favourite colours? God help you," they added at the same time. Hermione giggled and a little bit of the steelieness left Draco's eyes for a second, but it was soon back.
"Let's meet back out here in ten minutes. That's gives us a little time to start unpacking and then we can read our assignment." she offered.
"Yeah sure, see you in ten Granger." and then he slipped through his doorway. Hermione imitated his movement and walked inside her room. She walked to the other door and opened it to find a huge closet. She figured she could cartwheel in it, and so she did. She laughed as she fell to the floor; she never was any good at gymnastics. She put all her robes and cloaks on the hangers given to her and then started putting her muggle clothing into the dresser next to her bed. Just as she was neatly folding her trousers she heard a faint knocking on the door.
"Come in," she said, while placing the garments into the bottom drawer of her dresser.
"Err, what's this Granger?" she heard Draco's voice float over to her from the doorway. She stood and turned to see him holding what looked like a miniature vaccum. It appeared they would be cleaning their own rooms this year.
She walked over to him.
"Ok, this is called a vaccum-" she started.
"A wacume? What do you do with it?" he asked puzzled.
"If you let me finish. It's Vaccum, not Wacume, by the way. Now, since electricity doesn't work on the ground i expect these run off magic," she searched the machine for a minute and found a note attached to one of the nozzels.
"Ahh, here we go. "To turn the vaccum on, tap it with your wand and say 'inizio' and to stop it say 'arresto'" well that's easy enough. Now, Malfoy, the point of a vaccum is to clean floors, usually carpets" she stopped to point at her carpet. "When it gets dirty you start the vaccum, run it backwards and forwards across the entire carpet a few times and then stop the vaccum. You'll need to do this about once a week. To empty the vaccum open this compartment, remove the bag and put it in the trash. The note says the house elevs will take out our trash and will supply our vaccums with news bags if they find it empty," she said this maybe a little too fast because Draco now looked more puzzled than ever.
"Err, ok, you'll have to go over that again when I use it. You wanna go read our assignment now?" he asked.
"Sure," she followed him out of the room and placed the vaccum next to his door for him to put back later. She walked over the desk in the corner of the room and found an envelope. She handed it to Draco.
"You wanna read it?" she asked him politely.
"Err, sure," he ripped open the envelope and scanned the paper, "'your first assignment is to simply get along for a week straight. No name calling, you will use each other's first names, not last names and no fighting. This seems to me to be a very simple task and if you fail, there will be serious consequences'" he read, " oh great, this is gonna be horrible." he sighed, plopping down on the chair next to him.
"Don't say that. Let's just try our best and we'll hopefully get through this week." she yawned.
"You look tired, go to bed," he said. She smiled.
"I will, goodnight" she faltered, " err, Draco"
"'Night, umm, Hermione"
Ok and there is the end of the second chapter. I'm glas for the few readers I have but try and spread it around..i really wanna see what ppl think. I will be adding more soon! Feel free to politely criticize, btw..some of my readers on the other site have caught mistakes and I had a chance to change them which was great. ~Jes xoxoxo