Chapter 4

Meet 'n' Greet

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Once unpacked Rose decided it would be best to figure out where everyone else was at this time, she went back into the square common room, where only three people remained by the hard oak desk positioned in the corner. One of them was Draco, the other two looked like hogs, both with short brown hair and pudgy faces. The only difference was that one was short and fat and the other was tall and fat, but they were both over weight. Draco saw her and looked down as if unsure of what he should do, he was still a little pink in the face. Rose graciously walked head held high over to them.

"Where is everyone supposed to be?" She asked looking at Draco who still had his head down then she looked at the other pigs for an answer but they only looked at Draco. "Fine, I shall roam around the castle… get lost, and probably never be seen again!" She said over dramatically as she turned on her heel to leave. Draco's head shot in a grin.

"Everyone's supposed to be in the Great Hall!" Draco said through a thick smile. She turned around.

"If everyone's supposed to be in the Great Hall then why aren't you?" She said walking up to Draco who was sitting on the desk.

"It's only to eat… and I'm not hungry, besides I don't want to look at Potter!' The other two started laughing with him. Rose was a little offended that he said her last name like a dieses, but she quickly remembered her lie to him and acted as if it didn't bother her.

"Well I don't know where that is so you can show me!" She said working her charm. He pretended to be shocked.

"And what would give you the reasoning to think that I would take you there?" He said grinning because he was glad to hear her offer and really did want to go with her.

"Because it gives you another chance to flirt with me and then deny it afterwards." He looked wicked shocked and then they both smiled at each other and laughed. He looked down one last time and jumped off the desk.

"See you two later!" He yelled as he followed her out of the common room. Once outside of the common room Rose began to go to the left and Draco grabbed her hand and pulled her right. "Where are you going? The Great Halls this way!" He said still not releasing her hand and going up some stairs.

"I dunno that's why I requested you to join me, duh!" He looked back at her and smiled at her cockiness, and she smiled back.

"You would get lost so easily… you have fun embarrassing me, don't you?" He said walking level with her now.

"No… You have fun being mean, when you don't really mean it. And I'm not flirting with you now!" She said making eye contact.

"I'm not purposely mean, it's just… my dad, he's like that and he kinda rubbed off on me I guess."

"Well, it can be kinda cute… but it's even cuter when you turn bright red while blushing!" She said smiling.

"Yeah well I try…" he said turning red right then. She couldn't help but to keep smiling.

"Am I ever going to get my hand back? Not that I mind or anything, but er…" She said looking down at their hands locked together, they seemed to fit perfectly together. He released and looked away.

"Er… sorry!" He said but she only smiled. The both of them entered the Giant Great Hall, Rose soon realized why the Great Hall was so great, the candles that graciously light the room were floating above the four tables, under an enchanted sky. Rose was in awe by this marvelous sight.

"Uh, do you want to sit by me?" Draco asked in slight embarrassment.

"Sure, but let my find my sis first! Okay? Save me a seat!" She winked at him as she walked off to the table that had a giant lion

Flag above. She didn't see May anywhere, and then she saw May enter with a girl who looked as though she had put her finger in a light socket, her hair was way too frizzy for it to be normal. May seated herself at the end of the table next to a red head boy that looked like a chump, and a boy with brown hair and round glasses. They were all shaking hands greeting May with warm smiles. Rose ran to her, and May jumped up to complete their hug.

"So how has your day been so far, Precious?" May asked with the biggest smile in the world.

"Okay, I suppose, love! And who are your friends?"

"Well, this here is Herimonie, she greeted me in the first place. This is… Ron, right?" The chump nodded in agreement. " This is Harry… Harry Potter!" May said eyeing Rose as she said the last name. Both of them remembered Ludo Bagman starting to mention someone's name earlier, but he quickly stopped himself after Har- and Harry seemed to fit (Previous Chapter). "This is Seamus Finnigin, Neville, Fred, and George. Ron, Fred, and George are all brothers; well Fred and George are twins though. " Both boys smiled at Rose who returned a smile.

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you all!" Rose said grinning sheepishly; she should be accustomed to this type of attention, 'cause she got it no matter where she went. This type of flattery always seemed to happen to her, she didn't understand it, May was indeed prettier.

"And whom have you been hanging with?" May asked.

"People!"

"What Kinda people?"

"The kind that walk, talk, and eat… Just like us!" Rose said as she gasped.

"No Way!" May asked astonished, then laughing. "Do these people have… names?" May asked acting in quite a bit shock.

"Names? There isn't such a thing, is there?" She said starting to sound like Professor Trewany. "Draco mostly, I guess... then this annoying little girl, named Parvati, who resembled a pig… Ugh!" She said in complete and total disgust.

"Ha, you hang out with Malfoy?" Harry asked.

"Well, he doesn't seem to like you much either, Potter!" Rose said snappy like.

"I didn't say he did… how could you like a ferret?" They all laughed.

"How is he a ferret, I so have to hear the story, later. I'm gonna go eat!" She waved over her shoulder and left in a hurry. She seated herself in the empty space beside Draco. She fit right in with devious crowd. "So, tell me how did'ya get your nickname?" She said grinning with her hands holding up her chin resting on the table.

"What nickname?" He said in complete confusion.

"Ferret!" She said smiling as his face went blank. "Do tell!" She said in complete enthusiasm. She soon heard a long story about Mad-eye Moody.

May was graciously filling her plate to the brim and she was downing cup after cup of Pumpkin Juice.

"So Ron I know you have siblings, and Herimonie has already told me about her family, so Harry do you have any siblings?" She asked trying to figure out more.

"No… my mum and my dad died when I was jus' a baby." He said as if it didn't bother him. "You have heard about my family, haven't you?"

"No… why are you special" Harry shook his head "famous?" Harry sighed as May said this. May soon learned of Harry Potter's famous past. "So you're the boy who lived?" May asked bewildered by the tasks he had triumphed over.

"Yeah, some call me that!" Harry said smiling at May. May then spilled about her and Rose's journey to where they are now… even about the Harr- part. And Rose's last name.

"So in the last couple of days you guys have been through some great ordeals!" Said Harry.

"Well I am going to the library, and Ron's coming too… he needs to study for his potion's final."Herimonie said demanding like. Ron muttered something but reluctantly got up and left. Fred and George left to do something or another. Seamus and Neville needed to speak with Professor Sprout about finals. Which left Harry and May together. They talked endlessly about pointless things but they were having fun.

"Well we should be getting back!" Harry said noticing that they were only about twenty people still seated.

"Wow we really must have lost track of time! Hm, Harry…"

"Yes"

"Can show me where the common room is I forget?" May gave him a weary smile.

"Course... right this way Miss!" He said chauffeuring out of the Great Hall. Once in the common room, May was greeted by Professor McGonagall.

"Hello May, I am Professor McGonagall, and I am your Transfiguration Teacher. I have to tell you about your school uniform that you shall wear tomorrow for your first day… we ordered it and it hasn't come in yet… the owls are late as usual… I M afraid that you must ask to borrow one of your peers…" McGonagall said and left.

"Herimonie I need an outfit!" May yelled when Herimonie and Ron reentered with loads of books.