Harry and Ron led her out into the hall where she collapsed against the wall. A few minutes later, an old woman with her hair up in a bun and a bathrobe on hurried past her and into the office. She supposed that this was Professor McGonagall. She must have fallen asleep because she was being gently shaken awake and helped up. Then, Professor McGonagall was leading her back down the hall.
She didn't remember the walk to wherever she went. As soon as she stepped out of Professor Dumbledore's office, she felt severe exhaustion wash over her and she was surprised she made it anywhere. She didn't remember getting into bed and falling asleep either, but apparently she did because she woke up the next morning. She was lying in a four-poster bed with crimson hangings. It was much like the one she had fallen into, except there was no Ron in this one.
She sat up and opened the curtains. There was another girl sitting on a windowsill reading a rather heavy book across the room from her. She glanced up when she pulled the heavy curtains aside. She smiled at her.
"Hello, I'm Hermione Granger, Head Girl of Hogwarts, nice to meet you." She said all of this in an easy drawl that showed no discomfort at all, but she wasn't the one who still had really no idea where she was or what she was going to do.
"Hey, I'm Kaitlin McDougal. Same to you and all," she said around a yawn.
"I'm staying here to help you around today while the Headmaster and some of the other teachers are discussing what to do with you. Would you like a shower?"
Kaitlin couldn't help it. She moaned as she imagined the hot water hitting her grimy body. "Please, please let me have a shower," she begged.
Hermione just laughed, "Follow me."
She led her down the stairs and through a room that looked to be a common room.
"This is the common room," Hermione said.
Kaitlin grinned.
The next room she led her to was the showers.
After she got out of the shower, she found two towels waiting for her. She toweled herself off and then poked her head out the door into the common room. She saw Hermione, she was reading again.
"Hey Hermione, what should I do about clothes?"
"You look to be about my size, you can borrow some of mine. You can probably borrow my make-up too. We seem to have the same look. Oh, and don't worry, you can come out, there is no one here and no one will be here for quite a while."
Kaitlin smiled relieved and came out with a towel wrapped in her hair and a large fluffy towel wrapped around the rest of her body. Hermione smiled back at her and led her up a flight of stairs to her dorm room. Once there, Hermione pulled open a large trunk and pulled out a uniform identical to the one she was wearing and handed it to Kaitlin.
"If this doesn't fit, it should only need a few small adjustments that I should be able to do that for you."
"Thanks," Kaitlin said pulling the uniform and her suddenly clean underwear from the night before on. She looked like she fit in.
After applying a little bit of make up, Hermione decided it was time to go get something to eat. It was nearly lunchtime so they would be able to sit with Hermione's friends. Little did Kaitlin know that this included Ron and Harry from last night.
They were half way down to what Kaitlin assumed would be the Lunch Room when the bells rang. Not thirty seconds later and kids were already rushing for the Lunch Room. After asking for confirmation as to the place in which she was headed, she was told it was called the Great Hall.
Suddenly she was shoved aside and landed on her ass while a pug-faced teenager stared angrily down at her.
"Watch where you are walking bitch and stay out of my way. I am Pansy Parkinson and you don't want to mess with me," she said haughtily.
Kaitlin was outraged! How dare she? "Listen to me asshole," she said standing up and looking down her nose at Pansy, "You don't just go shoving random people in the hall, it's rude. Further more," she nearly shouted over Pansy's spluttering, "I don't know what you have shoved up your ass, but you better get it out or it will be my foot. Trust me, you don't want me as an enemy." With that a rather handsome blonde haired boy burst out laughing behind Pansy. Kaitlin flipped her hair and turned around to face a laughing Ron, a very amused Harry, and Hermione, who was definitely trying to suppress her giggles.
Kaitlin sighed. She hoped there weren't a bunch of people like that here. Hermione, seeming to come to her senses and led them all into the Great Hall.
Lunch was pretty good, but she had to sit next to Harry, which only reminded her of how she got here. She was suddenly light headed. She really wanted to go home.
At the end of lunch she stood up to go with Hermione, and fainted. She couldn't remember ever fainting before. It wasn't very pleasant.
A/N: Hey, I really appreciate any comments that you may have for my story. At the moment I'm not really even sure anyone reads it. Be that as it may, I intend to finish it sooner or later. Any ideas or help you have is greatly needed since I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this.