Chapter 10
"Oh there are the girls now," Freddy indicated, pointing at Katie, Summer and Hermione. They smiled and waved back at the boys, and they motioned for the girls to sit beside them. Katie, Summer and Hermione were also with two other girls that Freddy and Zack didn't recognize. They quickly were introduced to each other.
"Good morning, ladies," Harry said, taking a seat in between Katie and Summer.
"Morning, Harry," Parvarti, Katie, and Lavender said at the same time. They giggled
"Oh my gosh!" Parvarti exclaimed. "It's like on Charlie's Angels!"
"Only this time we're Harry's Angels," Katie teased. "I call Cameron Diaz!"
Lavender and Parvarti knew what Charlie's Angels was because Lavender was originally a muggle and had gone to a muggle theatre with Parvarti to see the movie "Fine, I call Lucy Liu!" Lavender declared. The girls giggled, though know one else knew what about.
"Harry, you took my spot!" Seamus complained jokingly.
"You can sit on my other side, if you want," Katie offered.
"Not going to refuse that." Seamus winked at Katie and sat beside her.
"Wow, the guys here have only known Katie girls for not even a day, and they already like her," Freddy murmured to Zack. Freddy sported a worried expression as the two boys took a seat across from them on the Gryffindor long table.
Zack chuckled. "Don't worry, dude. We'll probably be joking around and flirting with the girls from around here, too. Besides I don't blame them for wanting to be friends with Katie." Joey looked fondly at Katie, as though she were his little sister. "Everybody seems to like her."
"I guess your right," Freddy said, loosening up. "I wonder if the food will appear like it did last night." Freddy's question was answered a couple of seconds later. Bacon, eggs, orange juice, sausages, crumpets, muffins, and anything you could imagine for breakfast appeared before the students' very eyes. Freddy began to dig in, until he heard a screeching sound. The sound gradually got louder and louder. Freddy looked up to find owls flying into the Great Hall with bits of parchment stuck to their legs. "This is so cool," Freddy whispered to himself, and then continued to eat his breakfast, which was piled up high on his plate.
Summer and Hermione finished eating at the same time. They were about to speak at the same time, too, but stopped themselves.
"Why don't you go?" Hermione sneered.
"Oh, no," Summer implied, "since you sooo pointed out the night before that you are much more important than the rest of us. Go on then."
The boys and Parvarti dropped their forks (except for Freddy, who was eating with his hands, but he did drop the food in his hands on his plate). Because they weren't present for Hermione and Summer's argument the night before, they had no idea what was going on.
"If it's about the stupid Clabberts, you're being really immature about it," Hermione scoffed.
"I'm the one that's immature? You're the one that was wrong about them!"
"Shut up! You were wrong about them, too!"
"Girls! Is there a problem?" A voice behind Summer and Hermione called. They whipped around to see who it was. A boy with mousy brown hair stood behind the girls. He had a camera dangling from his neck.
"No, Colin," Hermione mumbled.
"Alright," Colin said. He smiled shyly at Katie, mumbled, "Hi," at her, and left.
"Who was that?" Katie asked Harry.
"That was Colin Creevey. He was made a Prefect this year," Harry answered.
"Oh, I see." Katie watched Colin talk to a teacher. "Is he nice?"
"Yeah, but he's really annoying," Harry groaned.
Katie giggled.
"I swear he is, though!" Harry assured. "I remember that when I was in my second year here, Colin was in his first. He'd walk around taking pictures of me and everything I did!"
"Did he take pictures of you in the shower?" Katie asked playfully.
"Now that you mention it..." Harry groaned. "He probably did, too!"
Katie laughed.
"I'll bet Katie wants a copy of it!" Zack teased.
"Zack!" Katie blushed. "I do not!"
Harry laughed. "I'll be sure to ask Colin for a copy for you."
"Gee, thanks. How thoughtful of you," Katie joked.
Parvarti then spoke up. "Sorry to break up this LOVELY conversation on Harry having pictures of himself naked-" Katie and Harry glanced at each other and laughed- "but we have classes to attend."
"What's our first class?" Ron asked. "They changed the classes around for the second term."
Parvarti looked over her color-coded time table. "Um... we have... Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid."
"Where is that class taking place anyway?" Freddy asked, scanning through his own time table that had Professor McGonagall given him, as well as Zack, Katie and Summer, the night before.
"It usually takes place by his house, down by the Forbidden Forest," Neville answered.
"We're going outside in this weather?" Summer groaned.
"Snow won't hurt you," Hermione spat. The girl's scowled at each other, while the rest of the group looked at each other anxiously.
Lavender suggested that everybody get their textbooks, so the group got up from their tables and ran to get their textbooks from their dormitories. Professor McGonagall found them in the common room.
"There you are," she said, to no one in particular. "Welcome to Gryffindor, Katelyn, Summer, Frederick and Zachery.
"Call me Katie."
"Call me Freddy."
"And call me Zack."
"Alright, then. Also, I was asked to pair your band up with a person from Hogwarts. The student from Hogwarts is to be like the new students' guide and make the new student feel welcome at Hogwarts. You were assigned alphabetically." Professor McGonagall unfolded the parchment she was carrying. "Weasley you are assigned to Mr. Mooneyham. Granger, you are assigned to Miss Hathaway." The two girls scowled. "And... oh I don't see her around. Okay, well Finnigan, you are assigned to Mr. Jones, instead. And Potter, you are assigned to Ms. Miller." Harry and Katie smiled. "Now, guides, you are to show your assigned person to each class, and the grounds of Hogwarts. Help them with their homework as well. If I see you out of sight of your partner points will be docked."
"How long does this have to last?" Hermione asked frustrated.
"A week or so," McGonagall replied. I'll see how things are going." She quickly walked away.
"You lot ready to get to class?" Ron asked.
"Yup," Lavender replied. "I suggest that you bring your scarves, in case Hagrid has decides to have an outdoor lesson."
Everybody had their scarves, except for Harry. "Hold on. I'll go grab mine. You guys go ahead." Everybody turned to leave except for Freddy.
"You sure you'll find class okay?" Freddy asked Katie worriedly.
"Yeah, no problem," Katie replied. Then Freddy reluctantly left.
"Oh, wait, I can't let you out of my sight," Harry realized when everybody was gone. "Just come with me to my room."
"Sure. I want to see if Zack and Freddy's part of the room is as disastrous as it is back home," Katie joked.
"You won't be too surprised," Harry promised. The two went up to the boy's dormitory, which looked much like the girl's. Then the two walked out of the common room and down seven flights of stairs. Harry and Katie reached the Entrance Hall, and walked out of the double doors.
The cold stabbed Katie's cheeks like several tiny knives. Her hair blew in the wind. She was grateful that she remembered to put on a layer of clothing under her uniform. "Wow, it's cold," Katie murmured.
"I didn't notice," Harry joked. "Men can handle this kind of weather." Just as Harry said this, Harry slipped on the ice and fell to the floor. He and Katie laughed.
"It's funny how men can handle this weather, but they can't walk on top of a thin layer of ice," Katie teased. She offered her hand to help Harry up. Harry pulled on her hand instead, which made Katie come tumbling down on top of him. The duo laughed, still on the ground.
"We better get to class," Katie getting up, brushing the snow off of her already wet robes.
"Yeah, unfortunately," Harry unenthusiastically agreed. He and Katie got up and Harry led her to Hagrid's house that was on the foot of the Forbidden Forest. He only fell about 5 more times on the way there. No big deal...