"Yes," I said to a girl.
"You know you can drink that pumpkin juice. It's not going to poison you," she said and laughed.
I looked at my goblet.
"Oh, I know," I said and turned red from embarrassment.
"My name is Hermione Granger," she said and smiled.
"My name is Elizabeth—"
"Woods—I know," she said and smiled again.
"Oh," I said and laughed a weak one.
"I think Harry likes you," she whispered to me.
"Um sorry but who's Harry?" I asked.
"Holy crickets! Don't tell me you don't know Harry Potter," she said.
"No I don't," I said and did my weak smile again.
"Well he's my friend and he's the boy right there," she pointed to the guy with the scar forehead.
"Oh," I said and turned red from blushing.
"Did you know that the students of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons are here to stay with us this year?" she asked.
"Uh no," I said.
"You know Elizabeth, you really are behind," she said.
"Well I'm totally new with this," I said.
"New at what?" she asked.
"Come on Hermione, aren't you suppose to be this know-it-all?" someone interrupted us.
It was the red headed boy.
"Oh be quiet Ron," Hermione said and rolled her eyes.
"Sorry about her—she is a big mouth," Ron whispered to me.
I laughed and smiled.
"Hey!" Hermione said and hit Ron's arm.
"He's a moron," Hermione said and started chasing after him down the hall.
Then I saw that Harry and I were kind of alone (well there were other people sitting on the table but he was across from me and there was a large gap between us and the rest of the people).
"Um is Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are other . . . um magic school?" I asked politely.
"Yeah," he said quickly.
"What are they doing here?" I asked.
"Dumbledore said that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts and the other 2 school are here to play too," he said.
"What is the Triwizard Tournament?" I asked.
"I think Professor Dumbledore said that 3 people will be challenged with 3 tasks. 1 person from each school that's over 17 submits their name in that Goblet," he said and pointed at some blue fire thing.
I looked up and saw a big Goblet with blue flame coming from it.
"Wow," I said.
"Yeah Fred and George are trying to get themselves in by aging themselves with aging Potion," Harry said and laughed.
"Um who are Fred and George?" I asked.
"Oh yeah I forgot that you didn't know. They're those 2 twins with red hair like Ron's. Well they're Ron's brothers," Harry said.
I looked at where he was pointing and saw 2 twins (like he said) with long red hair.
They were laughing about something.
"There's a lot I need to learn," I said and laughed.
"Don't worry. You'll get through this year. I remember when I found out about magic too," he said and laughed.
"I thought everyone here was born knowing magic existed," I said.
"No, it's mostly half bloods or muggle-borns that didn't know forever," he said.
"Muggle?" I asked.
"It means people that have no wizard blood," he said.
"Oh like my dad," I said.
"Like my mom," Harry said.
"You're half-blooded too?" I asked.
He nodded.
"How about Ron and Hermione?" I asked curious.
"Ron's pureblood and Hermione's muggle-born," he said.
"So there are muggles that go to magic school?" I asked.
"Yeah," he said.
"Sorry," I said immediately.
"About what?" he asked.
"Too may questions," I said and laughed.
"No, don't be. I'm used to questions," he said and smiled.
"Now I feel awkward," I said and smiled.
"Better you than me—I'm just kidding," Harry said and smirked.
"Aren't Hermione and Ron coming back yet?
"I don't know but they have been away long, haven't they?" Harry said.
"Do they do this often," I asked.
"You don't want to know, trust me," Harry said and laughed.
I laughed at his comment.
Finally Hermione and Ron came back.
I saw Ron whispered to Harry and Harry gave him a thumbs-up.
Hermione saw me looking at them confused, and said, "Don't mind them. They're just boys and do what boys does," Hermione smiled.
"Uh yeah I know," I said and smiled.
Finally we were allowed to go to the dormitories now.
I wondered what it would look like.
"Don't worry. You'll feel like you're at home the next day," Hermione said.
I had hoped she was right.
There were still a lot of things I didn't know.
Finally we seem to have gotten there.
It was a portrait and Hermione said we were here.
But I was confused once more.
A portrait was our dormitory?
"Password?" the portrait had spoken.
"Devils Snare," Hermione said.
Then the portrait opened to reveal a room.
This was freaky but I remembered that I had to get used to freaky things like this.
"This is the Gryffindor common room," Hermione said and stretched out her arm.
"Wow," I said.
"Okay now I'll show you the girls dormitory," Hermione said excitedly and grabbed my arm.
She pulled me up the stairs after saying good night to everyone.
"This is going to be your room," Hermione said and pulled us both inside.
"We're sharing it with 3 other people though," she said.
I could've figure that out cause there was 5 beds.
Then I went to my bed.
How
did I know it was my bed?
Well Isabella were sitting on it and my
trunk and all my stuff was on it's bedside.
I got out my pajamas and put them on (without anyone looking).
I brushed my teeth and everything.
I had trouble going to sleep but I manage to close my eyes at about 2 a.m.
