The door swung open instantly and stood in front of us was a tall fairly
young looking black haired witch with a tartan robe on. She looked very...
well mean, to tell you the truth. "The first years, professor McGonagall."
The witch nodded softly and tugged the door open wider.
As we wandered in I realized my hands were rather sweaty. Not that nice under fur. My mouth fell open. Wow... This place was... massive. You could fit a theatre in here! The walls held brackets that in turn held flaming torches, which made odd shadows, bounce off the stone. I couldn't see the ceiling, I however stopped craning to try and see it when from behind me a voice came. "This is nothing compared to my bedroom!"
I felt a blush come to my face as I stared strait ahead noticing a magnificent marble staircase. We were taken up it... it lead, as one would expect to the upper floors. To the right I could hear hundreds of voices from behind a door. However we were shown into a small chamber. We were crowded together and I was very aware of someone's elbow in my back.
"Welcome to Hogwarts!" I looked up to Professor McGonagall. "The start of year banquet..." Banquet... that sounded good I thought as my stomach rumbled quietly. Thank god the professor was still talking and her voice drowned it out. "The sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family..." I didn't want any of these people to be somewhat like my family. Well, maybe Jerrie and possibly Severus... "The four houses are called"
Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. I recited in my mind.
"Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards." I wont be in any of those houses then. "While you are Hogwarts your triumphs will earn you house points," then I won't earn any, "but any rule-breaking will lose house points... At the end of the year the house with the most points is awarded the"
House cup. A great honour.
"I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours." Not likely. I thought dimly. "The sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you wait. I shall return when we are ready for you, please wait quietly."
She left.
"Ya got any oidea how we iz gonna be sorted?"
I shook my head. "John did mention something... Like a test. He said it hurts a lot... Couldn't sit for a week. He said they used some spell on you, and the longer you could hold it off depnded what house you want into."
Jerrie swallowed looking incredibly pale next to his hair. I realized his nails were digging into my hand. "Jacob my other brother called him a liar though but wouldn't tell me anything. Just kept on smirking knowingly." I paused "Jerrie... How long have you been holding my hand?"
He looked down at our hands and released mine instantly as if I had jolted him with electricity. "Oim sorry Olivia..." He muttered going almost as red as his hair. "Oi suppose oi've been 'olding it since oi dragged ya down oin v boat... Nerves ya know?"
"Yeah... I know..." I muttered taking his hand in mine again. He brightened slightly at this. However he seemed to dim when several people behind us screamed. The elbow was removed but my tail was stood on. "Ow..." I muttered hugging it to my chest I then gasped as did most around me.
About 15 ... ghosts? They were humans...but pearly-white, slightly transparent and they had just passed through a thick stonewall so I guessed them to be ghosts. They were talking to each other as they drifted across the room. They didn't notice us...yet.
"At least Peeves won't be bothering us this time...I say..." Said a stout monk turning to us "What are you all doing here?" He studied us gleefully, no one answered "Oh! New students! About to be sorted?"
I was one of the very few people who nodded. "The sorting ceremony is about to start..." The ghosts floated away through the opposite wall. McGonagall had returned. "Form a line... and follow me." She commanded.
I moved behind Jerrie, still holding his hand. I noticed his grip was tighter than before, and he might have noticed so was mine. It was amazing... there were millions of candles everywhere... floating in mid air... I did wonder why there wasn't wax dripping on everyone...
Everyone were the rest of the students they were sat each at four long tables... they were watching all of us... I felt a few more eyes on me... and Jerrie... His grip was still tight so I didn't try to let go.
I looked instead to the table where glittering gold plates and goblets were sat. I heard someone slightly up ahead give a soft gasp. I looked up. At the top of this hall was a long table where the people I assumed to be staff were sat. We were led to this table in such a fashion our backs were to the staff.
I stuffed my chest out and lifted my chin to show their stares didn't bother me. However maybe I tilted my head to far as where the ceiling should have been there was a night sky. A few clouds drifted over the stars that were like diamonds.
As I looked back down McGonagall was placing a pointed hat onto a four- legged stood. The hat was quite patched and rather frayed. The hat twitched! I suppose it should have been expected what came next... It began to talk. I jumped back standing on the foot of the pretty girl behind me. "Watch it freak" She hissed darkly. She no longer looked pretty.
She looked quite nasty... and like there was an awful smell under her nose. "I'm sorry..." I muttered.
"You had better be..." She said pushing her chest out shoulders back head tilted slightly... She looked imperial and though I shouldn't be looking I did notice she all ready had a chest. A proper one... It wasn't a flat one like mine... Like what boys had. She had breasts proper. I looked away so she didn't think I was gaping of something.
I heard John and Jacob once in the kitchen discussing this girl in the school who was a lesbian... When I walked in and asked what that was they went very quiet and refused to answer. I found out for my self though. I didn't see what was wrong with it.
If that was what you were into...
I looked to the hat as the whole hall started clapping. It had finished its talking. And I had missed it. Damn. "Sew all weze gotter do iz put vat 'at on our 'eads?" Jerrie whispered to me. I nodded softly to him, though I didn't know.
Professor McGonagall had stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment. "When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted." She said, Die brothers die! "Avery, Marcus"
A tall thin boy with black hair sat on the stool he disappeared underneath the hat for a few seconds before it declared "Slytherin!" The Slytherin house table exploded with cheers. He grinned plucking that hat off wandering over to them.
"Black, Narcissa"
The pretty blonde pushed past me and everyone else. She sat down and the hat had barely touched her when she too became a Slytherin.
"Black, Sirius"
Sirius stood and sat on the stool. "Gryffindor!" The Slytherin's seemed confused I saw.
"Borgin, Jeremiah"
"Ravenclaw"
"Catchlove, Greta"
"Hufflepuff!"
My mind began to wonder... I could see my brothers talking quietly a ghost sat next to them.
"Evans, Lily"
She became a gryffindor, I saw Jacob whistle as she came over to the table. Gudgeon, Davey became a Ravenclaw. My mind strayed again trying to find Lucius at the Slytherin table. He was sat next to the pretty blond and I felt a surge of jealousy.
"Kalinowski, Jericho."
Silence. No one moved. McGonagall cleared her throat.
"Kalinowski, Jericho!" She repeated much louder. Jerrie jumped, let go of my hand and ran to the seat almost sitting on the hat. He was blushing and I heard a few giggles from around me and out in the hall. He jammed the hat on his head. It took a rather long time to sort him, but the hat eventually decided him to be 'Gryffindor!'
Lupin, Remus became the next gryffindor, followed by a McGonagall, Maleficent. The next few students were spread out but Pettigrew Peter and Potter James were also Gryffindor's.
As Severus was called up the hat barely so much as touched him when it yelled Slytherin at the top of its non-existent lungs. I heard someone mutter 'obviously.' My stomach churned S came just before T and A moment later after the hat struggled with someone who became a Ravenclaw my name was called.
I wandered slowly up to the stool and sat down. The last thing I saw were quite a few students trying to look at me. I cringed softly griping onto the stool. I waited in silence. What was going to hap-Argh!
A voice sounded off in my ear. "A third Tugger eh?" 'Yes'. I thought back. It was a quiet whisper very soft and old. "Hmm... Well I see quite a bit of ambition..." 'What does that mean?' "Nothing nothing..." Hat carried on. "But you're brave as well... Hmm... One for hard work as well I see... Loyal to." 'Hard work? I am not...' I could hear the smirk in the hats next comment. "Well... Best be..."
The next word was shouted to the whole school... "Gryffindor!"
I took a deep breath feeling dizzy as the hat was plucked from my head. I wandered numbly over to the gryffindor table. I was about to sit down when I head John's voice "Olivia..." He beckoned me. I started to move towards him but he indicated for Jerrie to come as well. I gave Jerrie's arm a small tug and he followed me with out making too much of a fuss.
I sat next to john who had saved to seats. Jerrie sat next to me. The sorting ended soon afterwards thank god. The head master, 'Dumbledore' Jacob muttered across the table, stood and told us to tuck in. I looked to my plate. What? No food there.
"Pass 'v taters please 'livia" Jerrie said. I blinked looking up. The dishes were now full stacked high with everything... roast beef and chicken, pork and lamb chops.... Sausages of all kinds, bacon, steak, boiled potatoes... Roast potatoes, which I handed to Jerrie "ta", chips, Yorkshire puddings, peas, carrots, gravy, cauliflower, broccoli, and ketchup... Everything.
"So your names really Jericho Kalinowski?" I asked Jerrie while investigating some thing odd that appeared to be pea soup. It snapped at my hand. I let out a soft cry and slammed the lid back on. I looked to Jerrie to see him giving me a murderous glower.
"Dew me a favah' 'n' dun' yew eva dare call me vat 'gain!" He growled, I blinked slightly scared. "Oh... Oim sorry 'Livia... Oi just 'ate vat name... Just stick tah Jerrie wouldja?"
I nodded numbly. He gave me a cheeky grin "Chips?" He asked offering me the platter of chips. "Please..." I said quietly. I went to take the platter from him but he put the chips out himself. I grinned softly at him.
Jerrie began eating a lamb chop chewing nosily. I winced softly.
"Sorry" He muttered mouth full of food noticing my wince. He began eating a bit less nosily. After this the conversation dwindled as we ate... And when I though if I ate any more I'd explode the remains of food faded and the plates were sparkling clean again. As the puddings appeared my stomach growled hungrily and Both Jerrie and I looked at it surprised.
"I fink it wants some more fewd 'liv" Jerrie declared handing my a large jam doughnut. I grinned taking a large bite; jam dribbling down my chin. "Oh gross..." I muttered through a mouthful of food.
"'eep yer mouf su' w'en ya 'av few' in it liv..." Jerrie said through a mouth full of rice pudding that dribbled out of his mouth and down his chin. I snorted and almost chocked on my doughnut. We carried on messing around through the puddings, giggling or chuckling in Jerrie's case.
The puddings eventually disappeared and I let my head fall to Jerrie's shoulder sides aching from laughter and too much food. Dumbledore stood up "Now that we are all fed and watered." Jerrie let out a small snort but managed to stifle his laughter that followed that as Dumbledore continued, "I have a few start of term notices. First-years should note the forest in the grounds is forbidden to all students." I felt Jerrie tense and looking at him I noticed a sparkle in his eyes.
"Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of term."
Whatever Dumbledore said next was droned out to me by Jerrie muttering "No' nice firs'-'ears ain't 'lowed onta v teams ain't it?" I nodded. He must have then dismissed us because my brother stood and shouted, "First years follow us prefects..." He and a red haired girl began to lead the way out along with two others.
Two other gryffindor prefects were waiting for the elder students. I followed after my brother well aware of a few stares I was getting. But not nearly as many as my brother. He however seemed to be enjoying them and was showing off. It suddenly fleet as if someone had grabbed hold of my ankles and held them tightly together.
I tripped and fell flat on my face. I looked up in time to see Potter and a snickering Sirius who was stuffing his wand in his pocket walk past. "I see you've made a friend." Came Jacobs's voice.
I felt someone grab the back of my robes and drag me to my feet. I realized that both Jerrie and Jacob had done that. "I'd watch out if I were you..." Jacob muttered dropping his voice as I walked along with him and Jerrie. "The blacks are a nasty lot. Most of them are in Slytherin. Bellatrix is one of them, Narcissa too obviously." How could Jacob remember everyone's name? "Bella is a really nasty piece of work. She's in my year. As we were getting into the carriages she wanted a specific one. She hexed a second year. Tiny little thing... The. she kicked him out of the carriage."
I swallowed slightly she sounded like "One crewel dame ven?" Jerrie asked quietly. I nodded in agreement. Jacob nodded solemnly. "Scahry" Jerrie muttered and I nodded.
"If she's anything to go off, I'd avoid Sirius..." Jacob muttered. We reached the common room. Jacob said very clearly to the portrait of a very plump lady in a pink silk dress "Rumplestiltskin!" I raised an eyebrow at Jacob as the portrait swung open.
"All the houses have a guard to their common rooms." He explained as we clambered into the common room. "The fat lady is ours. Each has a password that changes every new term... Rumplestiltskin is ours for the moment."
"Girls dorms are to the left..." He said indicating to the stairs. "Boys to the right..." He said to Jerrie as I headed for the stairs. I clambered up to them until I found the door saying 'First years'. I pushed the door open and slipped in. I saw lily... that was the name of that girl wasn't it? Anyway that girl was sat talking to another girl. One of the bed hangings was closed. A fourth girl waved to me. I recognised her to be Maleficent.
I raised an eyebrow walking over. She indicated to a fifth bed. "I suppose that's where you're meant to be... That trunk doesn't belong to any of us." I nodded gently sitting on the bed. A cat crawled out from under it and jumped up to join me.
"Hi Tug..." I muttered into his fur picking him up. I noticed Maleficent watching me and the other two girls seemed to have stopped talking.
"You know," Maleficent said studying me. "My aunt might be able to help you. Professor McGonagall... She's a transfiguration teacher."
"No offence to your aunt, but not even the head of transfiguration today could fix me. Neither could his experts." Maleficent gave me a nasty look. "Plus I don't need help of any soft."
"But you're covered in fur!" She exclaimed.
"That's because..." Because "Because just because!" I spat back. "Goodnight." I pulled my hangings shut and kissed Rum Tum trying not to cry. I threw my self down into my pillow. As I heard one of the girls whisper "Because she's a freak?" is felt Rum Tum curl up on my back.
"Must be... How else would she look so abnormal?" I sniffed and buried my head even further into my pillow before falling asleep.
As we wandered in I realized my hands were rather sweaty. Not that nice under fur. My mouth fell open. Wow... This place was... massive. You could fit a theatre in here! The walls held brackets that in turn held flaming torches, which made odd shadows, bounce off the stone. I couldn't see the ceiling, I however stopped craning to try and see it when from behind me a voice came. "This is nothing compared to my bedroom!"
I felt a blush come to my face as I stared strait ahead noticing a magnificent marble staircase. We were taken up it... it lead, as one would expect to the upper floors. To the right I could hear hundreds of voices from behind a door. However we were shown into a small chamber. We were crowded together and I was very aware of someone's elbow in my back.
"Welcome to Hogwarts!" I looked up to Professor McGonagall. "The start of year banquet..." Banquet... that sounded good I thought as my stomach rumbled quietly. Thank god the professor was still talking and her voice drowned it out. "The sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family..." I didn't want any of these people to be somewhat like my family. Well, maybe Jerrie and possibly Severus... "The four houses are called"
Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. I recited in my mind.
"Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards." I wont be in any of those houses then. "While you are Hogwarts your triumphs will earn you house points," then I won't earn any, "but any rule-breaking will lose house points... At the end of the year the house with the most points is awarded the"
House cup. A great honour.
"I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours." Not likely. I thought dimly. "The sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you wait. I shall return when we are ready for you, please wait quietly."
She left.
"Ya got any oidea how we iz gonna be sorted?"
I shook my head. "John did mention something... Like a test. He said it hurts a lot... Couldn't sit for a week. He said they used some spell on you, and the longer you could hold it off depnded what house you want into."
Jerrie swallowed looking incredibly pale next to his hair. I realized his nails were digging into my hand. "Jacob my other brother called him a liar though but wouldn't tell me anything. Just kept on smirking knowingly." I paused "Jerrie... How long have you been holding my hand?"
He looked down at our hands and released mine instantly as if I had jolted him with electricity. "Oim sorry Olivia..." He muttered going almost as red as his hair. "Oi suppose oi've been 'olding it since oi dragged ya down oin v boat... Nerves ya know?"
"Yeah... I know..." I muttered taking his hand in mine again. He brightened slightly at this. However he seemed to dim when several people behind us screamed. The elbow was removed but my tail was stood on. "Ow..." I muttered hugging it to my chest I then gasped as did most around me.
About 15 ... ghosts? They were humans...but pearly-white, slightly transparent and they had just passed through a thick stonewall so I guessed them to be ghosts. They were talking to each other as they drifted across the room. They didn't notice us...yet.
"At least Peeves won't be bothering us this time...I say..." Said a stout monk turning to us "What are you all doing here?" He studied us gleefully, no one answered "Oh! New students! About to be sorted?"
I was one of the very few people who nodded. "The sorting ceremony is about to start..." The ghosts floated away through the opposite wall. McGonagall had returned. "Form a line... and follow me." She commanded.
I moved behind Jerrie, still holding his hand. I noticed his grip was tighter than before, and he might have noticed so was mine. It was amazing... there were millions of candles everywhere... floating in mid air... I did wonder why there wasn't wax dripping on everyone...
Everyone were the rest of the students they were sat each at four long tables... they were watching all of us... I felt a few more eyes on me... and Jerrie... His grip was still tight so I didn't try to let go.
I looked instead to the table where glittering gold plates and goblets were sat. I heard someone slightly up ahead give a soft gasp. I looked up. At the top of this hall was a long table where the people I assumed to be staff were sat. We were led to this table in such a fashion our backs were to the staff.
I stuffed my chest out and lifted my chin to show their stares didn't bother me. However maybe I tilted my head to far as where the ceiling should have been there was a night sky. A few clouds drifted over the stars that were like diamonds.
As I looked back down McGonagall was placing a pointed hat onto a four- legged stood. The hat was quite patched and rather frayed. The hat twitched! I suppose it should have been expected what came next... It began to talk. I jumped back standing on the foot of the pretty girl behind me. "Watch it freak" She hissed darkly. She no longer looked pretty.
She looked quite nasty... and like there was an awful smell under her nose. "I'm sorry..." I muttered.
"You had better be..." She said pushing her chest out shoulders back head tilted slightly... She looked imperial and though I shouldn't be looking I did notice she all ready had a chest. A proper one... It wasn't a flat one like mine... Like what boys had. She had breasts proper. I looked away so she didn't think I was gaping of something.
I heard John and Jacob once in the kitchen discussing this girl in the school who was a lesbian... When I walked in and asked what that was they went very quiet and refused to answer. I found out for my self though. I didn't see what was wrong with it.
If that was what you were into...
I looked to the hat as the whole hall started clapping. It had finished its talking. And I had missed it. Damn. "Sew all weze gotter do iz put vat 'at on our 'eads?" Jerrie whispered to me. I nodded softly to him, though I didn't know.
Professor McGonagall had stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment. "When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted." She said, Die brothers die! "Avery, Marcus"
A tall thin boy with black hair sat on the stool he disappeared underneath the hat for a few seconds before it declared "Slytherin!" The Slytherin house table exploded with cheers. He grinned plucking that hat off wandering over to them.
"Black, Narcissa"
The pretty blonde pushed past me and everyone else. She sat down and the hat had barely touched her when she too became a Slytherin.
"Black, Sirius"
Sirius stood and sat on the stool. "Gryffindor!" The Slytherin's seemed confused I saw.
"Borgin, Jeremiah"
"Ravenclaw"
"Catchlove, Greta"
"Hufflepuff!"
My mind began to wonder... I could see my brothers talking quietly a ghost sat next to them.
"Evans, Lily"
She became a gryffindor, I saw Jacob whistle as she came over to the table. Gudgeon, Davey became a Ravenclaw. My mind strayed again trying to find Lucius at the Slytherin table. He was sat next to the pretty blond and I felt a surge of jealousy.
"Kalinowski, Jericho."
Silence. No one moved. McGonagall cleared her throat.
"Kalinowski, Jericho!" She repeated much louder. Jerrie jumped, let go of my hand and ran to the seat almost sitting on the hat. He was blushing and I heard a few giggles from around me and out in the hall. He jammed the hat on his head. It took a rather long time to sort him, but the hat eventually decided him to be 'Gryffindor!'
Lupin, Remus became the next gryffindor, followed by a McGonagall, Maleficent. The next few students were spread out but Pettigrew Peter and Potter James were also Gryffindor's.
As Severus was called up the hat barely so much as touched him when it yelled Slytherin at the top of its non-existent lungs. I heard someone mutter 'obviously.' My stomach churned S came just before T and A moment later after the hat struggled with someone who became a Ravenclaw my name was called.
I wandered slowly up to the stool and sat down. The last thing I saw were quite a few students trying to look at me. I cringed softly griping onto the stool. I waited in silence. What was going to hap-Argh!
A voice sounded off in my ear. "A third Tugger eh?" 'Yes'. I thought back. It was a quiet whisper very soft and old. "Hmm... Well I see quite a bit of ambition..." 'What does that mean?' "Nothing nothing..." Hat carried on. "But you're brave as well... Hmm... One for hard work as well I see... Loyal to." 'Hard work? I am not...' I could hear the smirk in the hats next comment. "Well... Best be..."
The next word was shouted to the whole school... "Gryffindor!"
I took a deep breath feeling dizzy as the hat was plucked from my head. I wandered numbly over to the gryffindor table. I was about to sit down when I head John's voice "Olivia..." He beckoned me. I started to move towards him but he indicated for Jerrie to come as well. I gave Jerrie's arm a small tug and he followed me with out making too much of a fuss.
I sat next to john who had saved to seats. Jerrie sat next to me. The sorting ended soon afterwards thank god. The head master, 'Dumbledore' Jacob muttered across the table, stood and told us to tuck in. I looked to my plate. What? No food there.
"Pass 'v taters please 'livia" Jerrie said. I blinked looking up. The dishes were now full stacked high with everything... roast beef and chicken, pork and lamb chops.... Sausages of all kinds, bacon, steak, boiled potatoes... Roast potatoes, which I handed to Jerrie "ta", chips, Yorkshire puddings, peas, carrots, gravy, cauliflower, broccoli, and ketchup... Everything.
"So your names really Jericho Kalinowski?" I asked Jerrie while investigating some thing odd that appeared to be pea soup. It snapped at my hand. I let out a soft cry and slammed the lid back on. I looked to Jerrie to see him giving me a murderous glower.
"Dew me a favah' 'n' dun' yew eva dare call me vat 'gain!" He growled, I blinked slightly scared. "Oh... Oim sorry 'Livia... Oi just 'ate vat name... Just stick tah Jerrie wouldja?"
I nodded numbly. He gave me a cheeky grin "Chips?" He asked offering me the platter of chips. "Please..." I said quietly. I went to take the platter from him but he put the chips out himself. I grinned softly at him.
Jerrie began eating a lamb chop chewing nosily. I winced softly.
"Sorry" He muttered mouth full of food noticing my wince. He began eating a bit less nosily. After this the conversation dwindled as we ate... And when I though if I ate any more I'd explode the remains of food faded and the plates were sparkling clean again. As the puddings appeared my stomach growled hungrily and Both Jerrie and I looked at it surprised.
"I fink it wants some more fewd 'liv" Jerrie declared handing my a large jam doughnut. I grinned taking a large bite; jam dribbling down my chin. "Oh gross..." I muttered through a mouthful of food.
"'eep yer mouf su' w'en ya 'av few' in it liv..." Jerrie said through a mouth full of rice pudding that dribbled out of his mouth and down his chin. I snorted and almost chocked on my doughnut. We carried on messing around through the puddings, giggling or chuckling in Jerrie's case.
The puddings eventually disappeared and I let my head fall to Jerrie's shoulder sides aching from laughter and too much food. Dumbledore stood up "Now that we are all fed and watered." Jerrie let out a small snort but managed to stifle his laughter that followed that as Dumbledore continued, "I have a few start of term notices. First-years should note the forest in the grounds is forbidden to all students." I felt Jerrie tense and looking at him I noticed a sparkle in his eyes.
"Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of term."
Whatever Dumbledore said next was droned out to me by Jerrie muttering "No' nice firs'-'ears ain't 'lowed onta v teams ain't it?" I nodded. He must have then dismissed us because my brother stood and shouted, "First years follow us prefects..." He and a red haired girl began to lead the way out along with two others.
Two other gryffindor prefects were waiting for the elder students. I followed after my brother well aware of a few stares I was getting. But not nearly as many as my brother. He however seemed to be enjoying them and was showing off. It suddenly fleet as if someone had grabbed hold of my ankles and held them tightly together.
I tripped and fell flat on my face. I looked up in time to see Potter and a snickering Sirius who was stuffing his wand in his pocket walk past. "I see you've made a friend." Came Jacobs's voice.
I felt someone grab the back of my robes and drag me to my feet. I realized that both Jerrie and Jacob had done that. "I'd watch out if I were you..." Jacob muttered dropping his voice as I walked along with him and Jerrie. "The blacks are a nasty lot. Most of them are in Slytherin. Bellatrix is one of them, Narcissa too obviously." How could Jacob remember everyone's name? "Bella is a really nasty piece of work. She's in my year. As we were getting into the carriages she wanted a specific one. She hexed a second year. Tiny little thing... The. she kicked him out of the carriage."
I swallowed slightly she sounded like "One crewel dame ven?" Jerrie asked quietly. I nodded in agreement. Jacob nodded solemnly. "Scahry" Jerrie muttered and I nodded.
"If she's anything to go off, I'd avoid Sirius..." Jacob muttered. We reached the common room. Jacob said very clearly to the portrait of a very plump lady in a pink silk dress "Rumplestiltskin!" I raised an eyebrow at Jacob as the portrait swung open.
"All the houses have a guard to their common rooms." He explained as we clambered into the common room. "The fat lady is ours. Each has a password that changes every new term... Rumplestiltskin is ours for the moment."
"Girls dorms are to the left..." He said indicating to the stairs. "Boys to the right..." He said to Jerrie as I headed for the stairs. I clambered up to them until I found the door saying 'First years'. I pushed the door open and slipped in. I saw lily... that was the name of that girl wasn't it? Anyway that girl was sat talking to another girl. One of the bed hangings was closed. A fourth girl waved to me. I recognised her to be Maleficent.
I raised an eyebrow walking over. She indicated to a fifth bed. "I suppose that's where you're meant to be... That trunk doesn't belong to any of us." I nodded gently sitting on the bed. A cat crawled out from under it and jumped up to join me.
"Hi Tug..." I muttered into his fur picking him up. I noticed Maleficent watching me and the other two girls seemed to have stopped talking.
"You know," Maleficent said studying me. "My aunt might be able to help you. Professor McGonagall... She's a transfiguration teacher."
"No offence to your aunt, but not even the head of transfiguration today could fix me. Neither could his experts." Maleficent gave me a nasty look. "Plus I don't need help of any soft."
"But you're covered in fur!" She exclaimed.
"That's because..." Because "Because just because!" I spat back. "Goodnight." I pulled my hangings shut and kissed Rum Tum trying not to cry. I threw my self down into my pillow. As I heard one of the girls whisper "Because she's a freak?" is felt Rum Tum curl up on my back.
"Must be... How else would she look so abnormal?" I sniffed and buried my head even further into my pillow before falling asleep.