Chapter 6

When Emma returned, Virginia and her American friends rode in the carriages to Hogwarts. As they exited the carriage they all were filled with awe at the colossal castle above them. Even Virginia who had been there for 4 years was amazed and felt a great sense of returning home. She led her friends up to the large oak doors and pulled them open showing a vast hallway filled to the brim with students on their way to the feast. They joined the crowd and after a few minutes entered the Great Hall. The three Americans gasped as they stared up into the life-like ceiling. They all thought that this place was a whole lot better then their school. Virginia smiled looking around the Great Hall. She had really missed this place and was glad to be back.

"Miss Weasley? Miss Weasley?" Virginia looked up. It was her wonderful headmaster, Dumbledore calling her.

"Yes Professor?"

"If you could sit, we could sort your friend s and the first years."

"Yes, of course."

"Oh and Miss Weasley, it is good to have you back."

"Hello students and welcome to another year at Hogwarts. We have a few reminders and then we will start the sorting. First off the Forbidden Forest is forbidden hence the name. Also Filch has asked me to tell you that he has added 76 items to the list of things that are not allowed in the hallways which is posted outside this Hall's doors. Now before we began the sorting of our incoming first years I would like to welcome back, Miss Virginia Weasley, after a year spent in America." Virginia stood as a large round of applause erupted. She laughed as she saw Spike give out a few whistles and then sat down. "Ok, ok, students, calm down. Also, how about a great warm welcome to three new exchange students from Salem's Witch and Wizard Academy in America where Miss Virginia Weasley was staying." The Hall exploded into applause and whistles. Virginia laughed as she saw Emily and Cat give a grand bow. "Yes now if you three will step forward we will sort you. Ms. McGonagall you may precede."

"Thank-you. Giles, Emma." Emma walked up to the front and sat on the stool while McGonagall placed the worn hat upon her head. The hat immediately screamed "GRYFFINDOR." The Gryffindor table welcomed Emma with shouts.

"McCarthy, Andrew." Spike sauntered up to the stool flashing a few smiles at the girls he passed. As the Professor was about to place the hat on his head just like Emma he asked her a question.

"Are you going by alphabetical order?"

"Yes why do you ask?" She replied.

"Well Cat's name comes before mine and umm if you could please take to please call me Spike. Oh I will take that." Spike stated and grabbed the hat from Ms. McGonagall and placed it upon his head. The hat screamed, "GRYFFINDOR."

"Um well, um yes. Um, Kendricks, Catherine." McGonagall stammered. She looked back at Cat, who just stared at her nails. McGonagall's stammering disappeared as her temper seemed to flare. "Miss. Catherine Kendricks, would you please step forward?"

"Cat, get your butt up there. She is calling you." Virginia yelled at her friend.

"Really, I didn't hear my name. Although I did hear Kendricks I suppose someone has the same la..."

"Oh shove it Cat and get up there." Emma shouted getting a little impatient.

"Why I never?" Cat replied trying to look offended while smiling, and started to walk to the stool.

"Sure you haven't." Emma murmured.

"I heard that." Cat stated.

"How did you..." Emma stated but was stopped as she saw Cat twirling her wand.

"Cheater." Emma stated while smiling. She was used to Cat's tricks and had learned to laugh when they were used on her.

"How else do you think I passed last year?" Cat said laughing while she sat on the chair. The hat was placed on her head and she waited. The Hall was extremely quiet for one minute and 27 seconds (Cat counted) when the hat shouted, "GRY –SLYTHERIN."(A/N – I almost had you all. Ha Ha.)

The Hall remained quiet until Virginia, Spike, and Emma started shouting. Slowly after the Slytherin table joined in whiles the other houses clapped respectfully. Cat gave a great bow, blew a kiss towards Virginia, Spike, and Emma, and then she sat down besides Pansy.

"Yes, finally, another girl in the group, I thought I was going to go crazy with hanging out with all these guys."

"Crazy? A bunch of hot men around you all the time? Well except for him." Cat said while pointing to Blaise."

"Bitch." Blaise muttered.

"Crack-Whore." Cat spat.

"What?" Blaise asked confused.

"Dam you are a dumbass. I am going to go talk to the other three for a bit. How about you come with Pans?" Cat asked.

"Ok." Pansy and Cat stood up and walked over to the other three and sat down while the first years were being sorted. The Gryffindors that were sitting close to the group moved down about a foot away from the Slytherins.

"What the hell?" Cat asked eyeing the movers with disgust that was returned whole-heartedly. She flicked them off then turned towards Pansy. "Have I got something on my face?"

"No you don't. There just has been a feud between Slytherins and Gryffindors since the founders." Pansy replied while eyeing the Gryffindors around them with suspension.

"Oh right Gin told me about that." Cat said looking towards Virginia.

"Gin? I thought you were set on Virginia." Pansy smirked looking towards Virginia.

"Nah, I am pretty much cool with whatever, but Ginny. It is just such a 4 year old name and it sounds so wimpy." Virginia replied.

"That makes sense I guess."

"Yeah, hey look the sorting is over." Gin replied (A/N - going to switch between Gin and Virginia) and sure enough the sorting was over. The last kid had sat down at the Ravenclaw table and food had appeared on the table. The four dug in and ate all they could until their stomachs were stuffed. As students were getting ready to leave, Dumbledore stood up.

"One more announcement, then you may leave. This year our head boy and girl will be Thomas Highman from Ravenclaw and Hermione Granger from Gryffindor. If you would please follow Ms. McGonagall? Thank you." He stated and then sat. He looked over to Virginia who gave him a nod. Dumbledore smiled and turned towards the teacher beside him.

"Guys we have to stay here a bit. Dumbledore needs to talk to us." Virginia told those sitting around her, everyone gave their nod of affirmation and sat quietly waiting for everyone to leave the Hall. Draco, Blaise, and Matt came over and sat down a few minutes later having received the message from Snape. After about 5 minutes Ron and Harry Potter walked over. Ron looked at Emma appreciably who was sitting next to Cat who was receiving similar looks from Harry. Cat and Emma looked at each other with disgust.

"Hey Ginny, I am really sorry about the stuff on the train and the past few years." Ron apologized sounding really sincere. Gin might have even believed him if he wasn't and hadn't been staring at Emma the whole time. Emma looked sickened. And she had every right to be because Ron wasn't even trying to hide the fact that his eyes weren't on her face. Emma finally got sick and tired of it and snapped her fingers in his face.

"You know what? You need to stop staring before I kick your ass." Emma spat.

"Ooh a feisty one." Ron smirked and tried to put his hand on her shoulder. Emma turned around and punched him in the face.

"Thank god." Cat stated. She then turned and punched Harry in the face who had been trying to rub her shoulders for the past minute.

"Touch me again and I will make sure you won't ever have kids." Emma shouted at Ron who was holding his face in pain.

"Same goes for me Potter." Cat hissed at a Harry who was in much the same position as Ron. They slowly headed out the doors. Emma and Cat looked at each other and Cat started laughing.

"Why are you laughing? Cat that wasn't the right thing to do. We were lucky that all the students were gone, and most of the teachers, Cat." Emma whined at a Cat who was still laughing her head off.

"It was the right thing, Em. They touched us when we didn't want them to so we socked them and threatened them. And I gotta say I think you have been hanging out with me to much, because what you said is something I said to Ben, Justin, Josh, Romeo, and what was that one kid's name, Davon." Cat stated.

"Ok Cat I get the picture. But still we should have asked them to get their hands off of us politely and..."

"And then kick their ass to China." Cat replied smirking.

"Now I see why she was put in Slytherin? She never stops smirking and plus she has a large hate list." Blaise said.

"Which includes you right, Blaise?" Draco asked laughing.

"Shut-up." Blaise shouted punching Draco in the arm.

"Would you two stop acting like babies, Dumbledore is coming." Pansy stated and everyone turned to look at the approaching professor.

"Miss Giles and Miss Kendricks we will be excusing your earlier behavior on account of it being a justified reason and you are new to our school rules. Although I hope it doesn't happen again. Now if you will all follow me." Dumbledore spoke. The 8 sitting down stood and followed their headmaster out of the hall. He led them up two flights of stairs, behind a statue of a knight in fighting position, down a hallway and at last he stopped in front of a portrait of leopard in the forest.

"Password." It growled.

"Cats out of hell." Dumbledore stated

"How touching?" Draco drawled as the portrait slid open. They all walked in and were all frozen in shock. They were standing in a wonderful looking room. The large room's walls and ceiling were black. In front of a large fireplace to the right were three black couches sporting white pillows while dark blue blankets adorned the back of the couches. To their left was a dining room table, large enough to fit 8 people very comfortably. Behind the table was a door with a faceplate reading library and another entryway which looked to be a kitchen. Twenty feet in front of the astonished teenagers were two stairways and a grand bay window overlooking the front lawn. The bay window was slightly hidden by deep blue curtains.

"The left stairway is to the boys rooms and the right stairway is to the girls rooms. The bay window can only be seen by you and your fellow teachers. No students can see it from the outside and no students know of this room and none shall learn. I will leave you now to explore your rooms. Goodnight students and I will come by tomorrow around noon to discuss your schedules since tomorrow is Saturday." Dumbledore stated then left leaving the eight to stand there still in shock.

"I am going to go check out my room!" Cat shouted as she sprinted up the right stairway. All the girls followed her to the top of the stairs where there was a landing with four doors; each one had a girl's name. They all looked towards one another then raced for their door. As they stepped in their rooms they all were once again in shock. Although this time Pansy screamed.

The boys heard a scream and raced up the girl's stairway while the other girl's raced towards Pansy's room. As they all entered Pansy's room, they are stood staring at the bed, until Cat shrieked and ran towards the bed. There lay on Pansy's bed a large black panther.

"Cat, get away from that dangerous creature." Pansy screeched as Cat flung her arms around the humongous animal.

"Liberty is harmless, well to some. And anyways you are apart of the wild cats yet you are scared of them, what's with that?" Cat argued.

"I am not scared of that thing, wait how did you know I was part of the W.C.?" Pansy questioned.

"Well you were part of the members list at the back of the book and why else would we get our own common room."

"What book?" Matt asked.

"Wild Cats: A Look into our Future's Eyes." Cat stated.

"Wow that is deep. Who wrote it, because I haven't heard that the W.C. has a book, I thought it was supposed to be secret." Pansy spoke.

"Well first off we are a part of the Wild Cats so it is still secret. Second, Virginia wrote it." Cat mumbled.

"Cat!" Virginia yelled.

"Did you really write a book on the W.C.?" Draco questioned curious.

"Well, umm, yeah." Virginia stammered.

"You wrote another book? You really need to get a life, Gin." Blaise stated.

"Blaise." Gin shouted and slapped him on the arm.

"What? Why is everyone hitting me? First that whore." Blaise spoke while pointing at Cat who in return gave him the bird. "Then you and you have been my best friend for years. I am offended."

"Oh hush you big baby." Pansy stated and slapped him much like Gin much on the opposite arm.

"Dam what hell is wrong with you woman? Emma you stay away from me." Blaise said while pointing towards Emma who was laughing. Soon all the chicks joined in with Emma. Blaise pouted. "Now you are all laughing at me, now I know you are CRAZY." Blaise shouted and threw his arms up exiting Pansy's room. Right out the door the seven still in the room could hear Blaise muttering about crazy woman. Everyone began to laugh. Draco stopped laughing and looked towards Virginia.

"Hey Weasley." Draco yelled over the relentless laughing.

"It's Virginia." Virginia hissed whilst the laughing came to a halt. "Yeah, whatever. I was just wondering if I could see that book on the W.C." Draco spoke.

"You can see it as long as you promise to stop calling me Weasley."

"How about I get the book, stop calling you Weasley and you stop calling me Malfoy or ferret." Virginia started to smile at the memory. "Weasley." Draco growled.

"Sorry couldn't help it, it's the one thing Potter did right. Well and that whole defeating Voldie when he was a baby. Smartass." Virginia hissed.

"OK, a little hate in the room. Why don't you guys drop the Potter subject and agree so we all can get some sleep." Pansy stated. "Or maybe you all can get out of my room so at least I can get some sleep."

"Yeah ok, whatever. You and me." Virginia stated waving her finger between herself and Draco. "We won't call each other by our last names or the names of rodents, and I will lend you the book. Deal."

"Deal." Draco said and shook hands with Virginia.

"Great now everybody is happy so you all can leave now and Cat take the, I mean take Liberty with you." Pansy stated. Everyone left, retreating to their own rooms. As Draco was walking down the stairs, he heard Virginia call his name.

"Yes?" He asked looking up to see Virginia leaning over the stairs. Dam she is hot Draco thought. No bad thoughts he thought as he mentally smacked himself.

"I will get you the book tomorrow. Is that all right?" Virginia questioned.

"That's fine." Draco stated.

"Ok, goodnight Draco.

"Night." Draco stated as he thought to himself this is going to be a long night.