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Katie slipped out of the carriage quickly before Montage, Daphne did, and she hurried up the steps and stood as look out to make sure all the students were going the right way. "Come on now! This way, don't be daft you have done this before its not that hard! I don't want to be out here longer then I have to be its bloody cold!" she yelled over the chatter of students. By now, she was soaked to the bone and she was shivering. The last few students to enter were the prefect's and Ron was the last one and he was wet too, it looked like he went swimming "Erm…big puddle?" Katie asked as she looked at him and he was looking at the castle as they walked up "No, Malfoy, he thought it would be a grand idea to enchant a 6 foot wave from a puddle" he said and they got inside and McGonagall got the doors.

"Here hold still" Katie said and she raised her wand and cast a spell which dried him completely and she did it to herself. "There much better, lets go before we are late…would you mind if I sat with you guys during the feast, I don't know who else to sit with"

"Thanks, sure that's fine you can sit next to me if you want" he said and she saw a little pink on his cheeks from embarrassment no doubt but she did not mind. Ron had changed over the summer. He was still his tall self 6'1" her guess but he was not as lanky as he used to be, he filled in with muscle, and his faced filled out more. He looked more mature. What am I doing? I am checking out my best friends brother! She looked away slightly embarrassed and took her seat next to him. Then the sorting hat sung it song and the sorting began.

McGonagall sat in the front calling off first years one by one.

"Anderson, Amelia" and a very tiny girl, tiny was an understatement she was 4'10" if she was lucky and skinny as a rail stepped up to the stool and took a seat and McGonagall placed a hat on her head and a second later the hat bellowed "Gryffindor!" and the whole Gryffindor table erupted with cheers.

"Amers, Jake" and a boy walked up, and took his seat and second later the hat bellowed "Slytherin" and the Slytherin table cheered.

This went on for about 45 minutes and Katie grew bored as she had every year.

Finally, they were done and Headmaster Dumbledor stood up to give his famous speech.

"Welcome new and old to another year of Hogwarts! It is wonderful to see all these bright and shining faces this year. Now as always, the forbidden forest is off limits to ALL students' he stressed and he looked right at the Gryffindor trio "Now I don't like to make long speeches before the feast" and he paused and all the students readied themselves to dig into the wonderful beginning of term feast then he said "But this must be said" and all the student sat back disappointed. "As we all know Voldemort is back" a couple of students yelped at this

"Okay, that's really old now, they need to get over that" Katie said under her breath but Harry, Ron and Hermione heard her and they all smirked at her. And Dumbledor continued his speech.

"So we all have to work closely connected, houses must unit, there can be no fighting, for it will tear us apart, this year more then ever the rules will be strictly enforced, we now have spells guarding the boundaries of the grounds, so if you are somewhere where you should not be, trust me, I will know. All I ask is for cooperation so we can all be at peace this year, Hogwarts is the safest place for you now a days. Now with that said, dig in!"

He sat down, all the food appeared on the table, and it was a flurry of hands and forks reaching for the food. Katie sat back and waited for the rampage to die down and she took a sip of her drink and looked around the great hall. It was lit brightly with the floating candles under the bewitched ceiling, which was stormy like it was outside. All the house emblems hung over their respective tables and the house ghosts were flying around greeting the new students and welcoming back the old. Ron leaned back with a happy sigh.

"That looks to be enough for my first course" and Katie looked at his plate, which you could not even see any more it was covered in mashed potatoes, mincemeat pie, stuffing gravy and a roll.

"You going to eat anything Katie?" he asked her just before he took a bit of his own food.

"Yeah I was just letting the scavengers go first, I learned my lesson last time, so I just wait" and she grabbed some food of her own and began to eat then after a good forty-five minutes of dinner and talking about mindless things dessert appeared and this was Katie's favorite. She leaned forward and grabbed some pudding pie, some ice cream, and cheesecake. "I save room for this…though after all this I may be too big to get on my damn broom" she said with a laugh and ate her fill.

The plates cleared and it was time to head to the common rooms. Katie stood up along with Jeremiah and stood at the edge of the table and the prefects were up also "Okay all Gryffindors this way!" Katie yelled over the crowds. "Come on, let's go, I do not want to have to go looking for you because you were too slow to keep up!"

She made her way up the steps, Jeremiah behind her. For being a Head Boy, he is not bossy at all; I don't think he has said anything to boss people about…me on the other hand I was made for this job I love being bossy, probably why I got Quidditch captain this year too Katie thought then she saw some stragglers in the back.

"Oy! You better get your scrawny little asses over here before I make you!" and they hopped to it when they heard her.

They were at the common room. "Okay quiet…quiet…QUIET!" She yelled over all the Gryffindors. "Now I am telling you this password once, and only once, if you don't remember it, I hope you have some really nice friends. It's Thestrals"

Then she let the fat lady swing open and she walked in first, and as she did she began to think Why would they make it Thestrals? Is that like a warning, since you can only see Thestrals if you have seen someone die…and it just so happens they make it that the year Voldemort is back…that's really odd..

Then Katie was pulled out of thought when she heard someone say her name and she whipped around and almost crashed into Jeremiah "Oh I'm sorry, what is it? First years get lost or something?"

"No…I was just going to ask you if we should go check out or rooms, since we have our own separate ones being Head Girl and Boy and all" He said, he seemed nervous. He was about the same height as Katie and he had short blonde hair and blue eyes, he was well built and he was good in school. Hm…what was Dumbledor thinking making me head girl, with him, and we have our own separate rooms on the top floor of the common room…wow I have to stop doing this, I am too flirtatious for my own good

"Sure sounds good to me" Katie said and they walked up the stairs you normally would to go to the regular dormitories but they continued up 5 more stairs to a small platform and there was a picture there and there was a separate password. This one was Devils Snare. Jeremiah said it and the picture slipped up into the ceiling and it revealed more stairs, not too many though maybe about twelve and Katie turned to him "Wow are they trying to kill us with all these stairs?" she said and laughed and so did he. As soon as they got to the first stair the picture dropped down again. They walked up there were torches and pictures of all the Head girls on the left side of the staircase and the Head boys on the right that Gryffindor had ever had. They reached a landing, which had a little table and some flowers on it, and on the right, there was a door with a gold plaque engraved with the name 'Jeremiah Arkus' and on Katie's it said 'Kathryn Bell' and she opened the door to hers and stepped inside.