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Alexis was still sleeping till a noise woke her up. It was Hermione. She was getting her clothes when her bracelet dropped on the floor.
"Sorry," whispered Hermione, "I was going to wake you up later."
"It's ok," yawned Alexis "I'm already awake. I'll change now, and then we could walk around." Alexis looked at her clock when she walked out if her bed. It read 6:55.
After Alexis changed into her robes, she met up with Hermione in the Gryffindor's common room.
"Hey there," she whispered to Hermione, "Are we even suppose to wake up this early?"
"It's ok. Breakfast starts at 7:30. I just want to eat breakfast quickly so that we could have more time to walk around. Come up." She dragged Alexis to the portrait. "It takes about 7-10 minutes to get there."
"7-10 minutes?" thought Alexis, "That's a long way."
"What's this?" Alexis asked as the walked towards the Gryffindor's Portrait. She pointed at the frame.
"Oh this," explained Hermione, "this is the Fat Lady. She guards the door to our common room. You have to have a password to pass. This time the password is "Firechantments".
"Alexis smiled at this. "Now that's going to be easy to remember," she thought. She looked at the frame again, "Wonder where the woman is?"
Alexis felt as though it took forever for them to arrive at breakfast. When they went in, there were only a few people there. 2 at the Ravenclaw's table, 3 at Hufflepuff's, and none at
Slytherin's and Griffindor's. The only teacher there was Professor Snape. He was writing something so he didn't care to look up and see Hermione and Alexis coming in.
Hermione and Alexis grabbed some toast and chow down.
After breakfast was done, Alexis and Hermione walked around Hogwarts for a while.
"Let's see, what classes do you have?" Hermione read Alexis's schedule. "You have Potions, Arithmetic, Transfigure, Herbs, Astronomy, History of Magic, and Divition."
"Can you tell me about the Professors? They seem all…different."
"Well, all the Professors are quite nice. My favorite is Hagrid. He had a big heart—very nice, however— he does like to bring along—um…new pets. Professor McGonagall is strict, but she's a great professor. Now, professor Snape—he's another story. He is the meanest, most ignorant person alive. Well, except for Malfoy, that is."
"Well, he can't be all that bad now, can he?"
"Oh yes he can! But let's not talk about them. They'll probably ruin our day. Come on," she said as she and Alexis walked around, "I'll show you where our classes are. I have most of the classes with you…except for Divition."
"What's Divition?" asked Alexis.
"It's when you…kind of…it's like fortune telling, with all the tea leaves reading and stuff. I, myself, think that it's all a lie though.
"You mean you don't believe that someone could tell the past and future?" Alexis remembered Kalie. She always seemed to know the happenings in life, and of course, that was her power.
Alexis was daydreaming that she didn't heard Hermione calling her name.
"Alexis are you ok?" she asked, shaking Alexis' arm. "You kind of wondered off or something."
"No," Alexis said, gaining back her thoughts, "I was just thinking about my—how my school days are going to be at Hogwarts." Alexis was going to say she was thinking about her real life.
"Um…what time is it?" asked Alexis, trying to change the conversation.
"It's almost 11:00." Hermione, then remember Ron and Harry. "Oh no, I have to meet Harry and Ron at 11 o'clock to discuss—some things."
Alexis knew what that "something" was. It was about the Order of the Phoenix and the death of Sirus.
"You go ahead," she said to Hermione, "I think I'm going to walk around for awhile."
Hermione headed to the other side of school while Alexis was wondering where to go.
It took her awhile before making up her mind and going outside for fresh air.
When she arrived at the Quidditch field, she spotted a few Slytherins flying on their broom stick. Alexis sat on the bench, watching them fly around, trying to catch the balls and then throwing them.
It was hot outside and Alexis was getting bored. She stood up and headed into the school. Just when she was about to enter, Malfoy and his two goons stood in front of her.
"Where do you think you're going, Mudblood," snarled Malfoy.
Hermione told Alexis what Mudblood means when they were talking earlier so this got Alexis very mad.
Even though I'm a half-blood and you're a stinking pureblood doesn't mean you have the right to call me or anyone that!"
"You're a half-blood?" asked Malfoy in a mocking but also surprised tone, "but I see no wizarding traits in you."
Alexis was quite shaken by this, "Does he know that I'm not a witch?" she thought. "Well, Malfoy, then I see that you're not that smart, are you?" snapped Alexis.
Alexis shoved Crabbe out of her way and headed inside. It was about 12:00 and lunch was about to start soon. Alexis walked around but couldn't find the lunch room. She tried to look for a picture to talk to but somehow, all of them seemed empty. There was no-one in sight except…
"Malfoy," she whispered.
"Ah, Langie," he taunted, "now wonder why you're not at lunch—skipping, I suppose."
"No, I'm not skipping. I—I just don't know where I'm going." Alexis felt her face turn red. She thought that Malfoy was going to make fun of her, but to her surprise, he didn't.
He grinned, "It's down stairs to the left." Alexis stood there, wondering where the stairs were.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I'm here?" he asked Alexis. She was going to answer but Malfoy spoke before her. "I, un-like you, am a prefect. It is my duty to look after me fellow classmates."
"Or in other words, Professor Dumbledore made you," muttered Alexis, looking straight into his mind.
"No, he didn't force me, he asked and I was kind enough to agree."
Alexis followed Malfoy to the lunchroom. She was about at least 10 feet away from him. When they walked in, almost all eyes were on them. She felt her face get even redder then before. She was embarrassed of getting lost and then having someone have to go fetch her.
"Sorry," said Hermione, "I should have showed you the way back."
"It's ok," said Alexis, "At least I'm here," she said, giving Hermione a smile.
"So where did you go?" asked Harry as he passed her some eggs.
"Oh—around. I spent most of the time watching some people play Quidditch."
"Harry and I play Quidditch," Ron said as most of this food in his mouth came spitting out.
"Eww, Ron! Close your mouth!" Hermione was disgusted as Ron's behavior. "Chew with your mouth close."
Alexis and Harry, however, were amused by this.
"So…you guys play Quidditch?"
"Yeah," answered Harry, "I'm a seeker and Ron's the Keeper. Are you interested in trying out?"
"No," said Alexis, "I'm not really fond of heights."
"Neither am I," said Hermione.
After lunch, Hermione and Alexis watched the Gryffindor Quidditch team practice. It was a great and fun. Their playing was different from Slytherins because Gryffindor actually have fun playing.
When dinner ended, Alexis sat in the Common Room and watch Harry and Ron play 'Wizard Chess'. Alexis was never really interested in chess, but Wizard Chess seemed like a lot of fun.
After watching 5 games, Ron winning most of them, it was time for bed. Tomorrow would be the first day of Wizarding School for Alexis.
