Left Somewhere Behind

Disclaimer: I know that, unfortunately all of these (but not the plot!) belong to J.K. Rowling

Chapter 4: The Beginning of a New Life

"Cause these are the days worth livin´

These are the years we're given

And these are the moments

These are the times

Let's make the best out of our lives"

("Our lives" – The calling)

Wendy arrived to find the Gryffindor common room full of students talking cheerfully. Some of them looked up at her, some even said hello and asked her name. It was strange to think all those teenagers were witches and a wizard, but it was even harder for Wendy to believe that she was one of them herself.

When Hermione saw her, she came quickly to ask how the talk with the headmaster had been. Wendy told her everything. Hermione stared at her amazed when she finished the story. Hermione then took Wendy to the girls' dorm and as Dumbledore had said, there was a set of pajamas and clothes laying out on one empty bed. Hermione then said good night and went to her own dorm room. I'm so tired... Better sleep now, tomorrow I'll have a full day... She changed clothes but the moment she laid down four other girls arrived.

"Hi, you must be the new student! What's your name?" said one of them as she sat down on her bed to the right.

"I'm Wendy. What about you?"

"I'm Sue Doreland. And these are Diane Turner, Lina Stewart and Thabata Leary." she answered.

Sue Doreland was a tall girl with red, curly shoulder-length hair and a lot of freckles. Diane Turner had short light brown hair and a thin face. For a moment Wendy felt she was looking at her with rivalry but when she smiled, Diane smiled back. Lina Stewart was short, rounded faced and had shiny short black hair. She seemed to be one of those people that you never see sad, that are always smiling and ready to help. Thabata Leary, a girl with long wavy dark brown hair, tied back in a ponytail and wearing rounded glasses simply said hello and then went to her bed, getting set to sleep.

"Don't bother with her. She's always quiet like that." said Diane when she saw Wendy's frustrated look towards Thabata.

"Don't talk about her like that! She's nice! It' only that you don't have any patience with her!" replied Lina with aggravation as she stalked over to her own bed.

"Any way, is it true that you have never studied magic before?" Said Sue. Wendy was glad that she decided to change the subject.

"Well, yes... Why?" Wendy asked confused. She was becoming increasingly more worried as the time went on.

"But how are you going to follow our classes?" asked Diane surprised.

"Well, Professor Dumbledore said that I would have private classes until December, so I could learn everything you learned until now." Wendy said.

"He's crazy!!! You'll never do it!" she said with doubt apparent in her voice.

"Come on Diane! It's not that impossible!" encouraged Lina. "Well, I know learning magic is a great deal harder than it seems, but if Dumbledore said, I'm sure she can do it!"

"She's right, if Dumbledore thinks she can. Then it must be true!" agreed Sue. Everyone knew that the headmaster was a slight bit insane, but they respected his decisions.

"Oh of course, I forgot about that. You agree with everything that lunatic says..." Diana said spitefully.

"Yeah, I do! Anything against it? Unlike you I don't have a silly fear of admitting that You Know Who has returned."

"Oh come off it! You know that can't be true! Everybody's saying that! The only word we have to prove that it really happened is Potter's. But anyone in their right mind can see that he's getting kind of mental!" Diana yelled agitatedly.

"Hey you two! Your not going to start arguing about that again, are you?" interrupted Lina. "Don't worry, Wendy. You're going to make it and if you need any help, feel free to ask me."

"Thanks." Wendy said with a smile. She was ecstatic that she might actually have made a few friends.

"Better go to bed now girls." suggested Sue. "'Cause tomorrow we have classes! Night everyone!"

"Night." the other three answered in return.

Wendy went to bed but she couldn't keep her eyes shut. She was too excited to start learning magic. Would it be so difficult? What exactly would she learn? All she knew about magic was how to pull a rabbit out of a hat. But she knew that what she was about to see was going to be completely different. Would she have a wand? That was surely going to be funny. And she was glad she could count on her roommates to help her. They seemed to be very nice. But Thabata was strange, why did she act like that? Any way, I really must try to get some rest! She closed her eyes and soon she was asleep.

She dreamed she was a magician and was over a stage trying to make a frog speak but it didn't move a muscle. She then noticed everybody watching her was wearing cloaks and pointy hats. When the frog finally opened its mouth, a loud hiccup resounded over the hall. Everybody cracked up laughing. Suddenly Thabata got up from the middle of the audience and made the frog recite a poem. She received a loud applause.

"Wake up you lazy girls!!!!" Sue shouted, who was standing over her bed. "You have forty minutes to wake up, brush your teeth, change clothes and get pretty for your first day of classes!"

"Oh Sue, do you really have to do this every beginning of term?" grumbled Lina, covering her head with the pillow. "I can get ready in nothing more then five minutes!"

"Come on girl, even sleeping beauty wakes up with a messy hair and rumpled face! And I'm sure you don't want to look like that in front of the boys!" Sue replied happily as she shook her friend awake.

"Ok, ok... You won. You won't let me have a second more to sleep, will you?" Lina said laughing.

"Of course not." Sue admitted.

"You better get used to that, Wendy. She will do that almost every day, not to say always!" advised Lina, still laughing and Wendy smiled back.

Diane was already up, combing her hair. Thabata slowly got up, made her bed and changed her clothes, without saying a word.

"You will like Hogwarts..." assured Sue, while they were getting ready. "People here are nice, except maybe for the Slytherins. And the professors are also very good."

"Yeah, most of them you mean." corrected Diane. "You cannot forget we have Snape and Binns. Oh and also that Umbridge woman, I didn't like her at first sight."

"You're right." agreed Sue. "But other than that everything is great!"

"What kind of classes do you have here?" Wendy risked asking.

"Well, we have Charms, Transfiguration and Potions." Sue answered promptly.

"And also Herbology, History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures and Defense Against the Dark Arts." completed Lina. "Of course, not to say the extra classes we have to take from third year on."

"By the way, what classes are you girls taking?" asked Diane.

"Divination, Muggle Studies and Arithmancy." answered Lina "What about you two?" She asked as she turned to the rest of her friends.

"Ancient Runes, Divination and Arithmancy." said Sue happily.

"The same." added Diane. "I don't know why you're taking Muggle Studies Lina... I think it's useless!"

"Useless or not, I like it. It might be funny." Diane just shrugged her shoulders.

"Any way girls, you don't mind if I ask you to explain what each of those are, do you?" interrupted Wendy. Although she already knew the name of each subject she didn't have a clue about what most of them were about.

Thabata didn't speak and soon left the dorm for breakfast. Right when she was leaving Wendy called her name and wished her a good day. She looked back with a shy smile on her face, but just for a second and then left. The other girls took Wendy together with them to the Great Hall. She was astonished when she saw the main staircases, the ones that like to change. Now I understand why Mr. Filch and I took so long to get to Dumbledore's office, he couldn't take me this way... Wendy's new friends explained everything to her; the subjects, who the teachers were, a little bit about each house and also about the castle itself.

Wendy was amazed at the size of the Great Hall, at its ceiling, the mail that arrived by owls and the food, which was replaced automatically when a plate was emptied. She could say, without hesitating that this was the best and most different day in all her life, although it was still early morning.

After breakfast, Lina took her to the teachers' room because it was near her Muggle Studies class while the others were heading to Ancient Runes. She left Wendy in front of the large brown door and hurried off to her class.

Hi,

Well, I was planning to make this chapter a little longer, but I think it will change the subject from now on, so better change also the chapter... I hope you like it! Probably I won't take long to send another, because I know almost exactly what to write and also, I'm on vacations now.

Please, don't forget to review! I want to know whether you like the plot or not... And thanks Black Wilted Rose for beta reading once more...

I hope you are enjoying the continuation! =D

Ah, Madderthanyou, sorry but I didn't understand what you meant by leaving other fics hanging… Well, this fic is gonna last long, at least what I consider for long. Any way please send me an E-mail so we can talk.

Thanks once more for those who reviwed last chap (Padfoot writer, Annoriel, Artemisgodess, BlackWiltedRose, madderthanyou), and please send your op. for this one! Ah, Jesus, espero que você esteja gostando tb!

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