Chapter 8: Zoe
The three of them headed to the Great Hall, once inside the sat down at the Gryffindor table and started to eat when someone walked up behind them. They were obviously a new student.
"Um..Excuse me I'm sorry for interrupting you, but I'm a little lost. I wasn't here for the sorting ceremony and I just don't have the darndest idea where my school table is." The student started to blush. Harry remembered how nervous he was his first day, and he understood how nervous she must be feeling.
" What house are you in?" Hermione had stood up to talk to her.
" Um...Gryffindor." The student said as she blushed bright pink.
" This is the Gryffindor table. You can sit with us if you like. " Hermione moved over so that the new girl could sit down next to her.
"My names Hermione Granger, this is Ron Weasley and that's Harry Potter." Hermione beamed she loved showing new students the ropes, she was hoping to become a professor when she grew up.
" My names Zoe, Zoe Williams. It's nice to meet you three." She sat down and started to fill her plate with food.
" Oh, hi Spike, hi Connor!" Zoe waved to the two guys walking down the aisle.
" You know them?" Ron looked shocked.
" Yeah I've known them forever, there here to get me situated then they're going to go back to L.A." Zoe took a sip of her drink and blushed bright red.
She wasn't suppose to tell people she knew anyone from Sunnydale, or L.A. it would give away that she was the Slayer that they were trying to protect. It was obviously going to be a lost cause.
"So then your the Slayer. I've been dieing to meet you. Why are you going to Hogwarts though?" Hermione started in on lecturing the poor girl.
" Yeah, but please don't tell anyone I wasn't even suppose to say I knew them. I'm going to Hogwarts because Buffy, Faith, Angel, and the three Watcher's that you met earlier thought that on top of researching, going to school and killing things. That I should broaden my understanding of magic and demons. When Xander mentioned that he had a Slayer friend that knew Dumbledore they approached him and explained everything and here I am." Zoe was looking around at the Great Hall aparrently embarrased that she roughly just spilled about 2 years worth of her life to complete strangers.
"That's ok. You'll enjoy it here. I bet you'll make loads of new friends. However I'm a little confused you said that you go to school, how do you go to muggle school when your here?" Hermione gave her this odd look.
"Muggle school, what's a muggle?" Zoe had never heard that word before.
"Not what is a muggle, what are muggles. Muggles are those people with absolutely no magic in them, like your parents, or Orlando Bloom. " Hermione explained to Zoe.
"Don't tell me your still on about Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. You see one movie about them pretending to be pirates and then you suddenly become this huge fan! They were in load of bloody stuff before Pirates of the Carribean, what happened didn't they sink your ship?" Ron started cracking up at the end of his speal as did Harry and Zoe.
" You stole my boat!" Zoe cried out.
" Actually borrowed. Borrowed your boat with every intention of bringing it back." Ron started.
" I didn't suddenly become a big fan, I watched Lord of the Rings, and I happen to like Legolas in that movie also!" Hermione protested
" Ok granted that that movie came out before POTC, but Johnny Depp wasn't in that either!" Ron retorted trying to hold back laughter.
" I liked Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow!" At this Hermione got up and stormed out of the Great Hall. Ron followed shortly after heading to the quidditch pitch to practice by himself.
" I'm sorry, I didn't mean to start a fight." Zoe looked over at Lorne, Connor and Angel she would of given anything to go back to L.A. with them now.
" Its not your fault, Hermione and Ron are constantly down each others throats you eventually get use to it. Don't worry though they'll be over it in a couple of days. Hermione will cave in and Ron won't bring it up."
" Thanks. Hey, you wanna meet some of my friends from L.A. and Sunnydale later. You can bring Ron and Hermione if they wanna come. " Zoe finished her dinner and left.
Harry wasn't sure where she was going seeming she didn't turn towards the staircases. Harry left hoping that Zoe would find her way back to the common room eventually.