A/N- Firstly, thanks to all my reviewers. I am sooo excited. Last chapter I got 4 reviews!! 2 of which not from my friends. Remember- if you give me a story and author in your review I will advertise it in my next chapter. Sorry for the wait, oh and check out my other story!!!
Italics are flashbacks but narrated by Jessica
Hi, It's Jessica again. Just wanted to clear up a fact about my friend Steph, she is over Harry now. She used to like Harry a lot, but doesn't anymore. Ginevera, on the other hand, would still dump any guy she is dating for Harry. She is not truly over him.
It started when I was a first year. My parents had both been sorted into Ravenclaw and had a great dislike for Slytherins. They had both shared the 'unknown' life and wanted, wholly, for me to have a chance at being a 'known'. They told me that my best chance was to be sorted into Gryffindor. Doubt that they realized that there were so many 'known' families to compete with in Gryffindor. Anywho, I was shown how hard it would be to become a 'known' during the sorting ceremony.
I was nervous. Trying to remember what my mother told me about the sorting. 'It was not a test of anything. All you had to do was try on the hat.' Was what she had said. This I doubted was true for all. My parents were 'unknown'. I saw people who had 'known' parents. They were saying how they were told that they had to wrestle trolls. Some had to take a complicated test of spells. Others were saying how the hat sometimes told students to go home. That would probably be me. The school probably decided that it only wanted 'knowns' and would decide that I had no chance of becoming a 'known'. It would just send me home. I was broken out of my worries when Professor McGonagall called Harry Potter up. There was a soft glow surrounding his body, and if you watched closely, something in that glow said 'this is the special boy'. I realized that to have a good chance of becoming 'known', that I had to be in this boy's house. So when my name was called, I stepped up to the hat, I was nervous, yet confident of what I had to do.
The hat told me that I would do great in Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Stubbornly I insisted in being in Gryffindor. The hat was insisting that I would be best in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. I told the hat then and there that…
"I will be in Gryffindor, whether you sort me there or not!!" I mentally screamed. The hat could tell that I was serious, as the hat could read my mind. It said that that was a cunning, yet brave, act. Seeing as I definitely do not belong in Slytherin, the hat gave into my wishes of being in Gryffindor.
I walked calmly to the table and tried to spot the raven-haired boy that I saw earlier. I spotted him, although it would have been hard to miss as the glow had not yet faded away. There was an empty seat next to him. I tried to sit down, but just as I started, Chuckie, a boy with no notable features, stopped me.
"You sit here" Chuckie said, pointing to a seat away from the glowing boy. I tried to stand up to the boy, but Weasley had been sorted into Gryffindor, and he took the seat. There was no choice but to sit down next to Stephanie and Will. My future 'unknown' friends.
That was my first disappointment. Not that Steph and Will are not good friends. They are. It's just, if I think back to that experience, if I had gotten to sit next to Harry, I would have been 'known'. Many people don't realize how the 'unknown' life works. They don't really understand it. I mean, they think it is like a choice. I have heard someone say 'It's just that they have different friends'. Those people don't understand. We go to the same classes as the 'knowns', and share the same common room. They should at least notice us. It's incredible what lengths they go to, to ignore us. Nikki once shared a detention with Harry. They had to scrape beetlejuice from the desks in Snape's classroom. According to Nikki, she talked to him. She told extravagant tales. She yelled. She hummed. She sang. And not once did he look up from the beetlejuice he was cleaning.
I guess the 'unknown' life is okay. We are much more observant than ordinary Wizarding folk. If you are not overly-obsessed with becoming 'known', life is a lot less stressful. Take Marcus Flint, he failed a whole grade, but, as he is barely a 'known', most overlook over it. You are not overly concerned with house points as you are destined to not gain many. And if you lose a lot of house points, no one notices. You are able to miss classes, and you have a special bond with your friends. Every 'unknown' has the goal of becoming 'known'. Many dismiss it, or have given up on the idea, but it is still a goal. That is one of the reasons why the 'unknown' students bond much better than the 'known' ones.