The Room:
Ron, Neville, Harry, and I piled out of our carriage and onto the school steps. As we were walking up the steps I heard a cold, cruel voice say from behind me,
"All you ever see her with is guys, what a harlot, but what else can you expect from a mudblood." I turned around and came face to face with Draco Malfoy, a ferret of a boy, whose arrogance and conceit is rival only to that of Gilderoy Lockhart.
"Harlot?" I spat. "If you're going to insult me at least use terms from this century." I turned to walk into the castle the guys trailing and leaving behind me a fuming Malfoy. Well, that was fun. He didn't seem to fight back much, I wonder why. I wandered into the Great Hall sightly confused. Harry, Ron, Neville, and I sat down at our table, looking around the large Hall decorated in the colors of the four houses. While waiting for everyone to come in Neville turned to me and congratulated me on becoming Head Girl.
I had almost completely forgotten about! I was chosen as Head Girl and had received the letter this summer. It really was no surprise, I've had the highest grades in our year since we first started school here. In fact I've tied with the Headmaster for the school records for grades on most subjects except of course Divination. Bloody quaky Professor Trelawny. Professor Trelawny aside I still don't know who the Head Boy is. Many thought it would have been Harry but his Potions grades kept him down and I've even heard talk of Justin Finch-Fletchley but when I saw him on the train he said it wasn't him. As I sat in contemplative silence the Hall had begun to fill up more quickly and it was about three-quarters full.
I started when I felt a sudden tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see the Headmaster himself looking down at me with a twinkle in his eye. "Hello Ms. Granger, welcome back for another year. We have details to work out about what the Heads should do so if you'll please follow me for a brief moment."
"Alright," I turned Ron sitting besides me, "I'll be right back, okay?" Ron nodded and I got up and followed Dumbledore out a side door into a cozy chamber off the Great Hall.
"Now, Ms. Granger as I'm sure you've been told you and the Head boy have your own separate chambers with an adjoining common room. I'm going to bring you into the common room now Ms. Granger, there is however two other entrances into the room not just through the Great Hall." Dumbledore walked over to a book case and selected black volume then moved it to another spot. Once he set it down a panel opened in the wall to reveal a portrait of a grassy meadow with the man and woman resting upon a rock. The couple turned to look at the sudden disturbance in their serenity.
Upon seeing Professor Dumbledore they jumped up and came to the edge of the painting.
"Good day Headmaster." The man said as the woman nodded in agreement.
"I see you've brought us the new Head Girl but where is the Head Boy?" the woman asked eagerly.
"He'll be up after the feast he had some personal matters to attend to when he arrived at the school. Now, Ms. Granger, the password is going to a bit complicated. It will be two parts. First you'll say 'Good day sir and ma'am'. Go on, say it." Okay...just what I need something complicated.
"Good day sir and ma'am" the couple giggled and bowed to her and said in unison,
"Good day Ms. Hermione."
"Now," Dumbledore explained, "All you simply have to do is bow your head in acknowledgment and say 'Enjoy your day' and the portrait will slide back to reveal a tunnel. All of the portraits are of couples and are all exposed by moving the black volume from the second self, the third book in to the third row, the second book in. So, from the beginning Ms. Granger." Here goes nothing.
"Good day sir and ma'am."
"Good day Ms. Hermione." the couple bowed and I bowed my head.
"Enjoy your day." The portrait slide back to reveal a tunnel lit by torches down the hall which was only about ten feet. We came into another room, the common room. It was spacious with two of everything, couches, over-stuffed chairs, and two large empty bookcases. There was a small kitchenette with a magically run refrigerator and toaster oven. A large fireplace took up most of the side wall that the couches faced, separating two heavy doors.
The door on the left had the Hogwarts crest was thinly outlined by a hazy blue where as the crest on the right door had a pale pink band surrounding it. I started toward the door on the right but Professor Dumbledore stopped me by place a had on my shoulder. I turned to look up at him and he smiled calmly. "I know you'd like to go investigate your room but I really should show where the other exits bring you out." Dumbledore walked over to another thick door next to the kitchenette. He opened the door and we walked down the tunnel until we came out into another small study like that off the Great Hall. Except once we left this room we came out by the North Tower. I started to question how that was possible but then I remembered, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizarding. 'Duh! Magic!' I thought to myself.
We went back into the small study and this time the portrait guarding the entrance was of a Arthur and Guinevere. We came back into the common and walked through yet another door and small study to appear out in the dungeons. As we were going back yet again into the common room I noticed that painting was that of Adam and Eve. As we entered once again into the common room, Dumbledore started for the door that headed back to the Great Hall, but I wasn't ready to go! I wanted to see my room.
"Um, Professor. May I miss part of the feast so I can see my room?" Dumbledore smiled warmly at me and nodded, "Of course Ms. Granger the sorting ceremony, which will not start until I get, there takes about half an hour. Will that suffice?" "That's wonderful, thank you Headmaster." Dumbledore walked through the doorway and I was alone. Yes! My room!