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Chapter 4

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny stepped out into the cool night air, and got themselves a carriage. They rode silently up to the castle with a lot on their minds.

"I'm starving!" said Ron, "I hope all the first years died so we wont have a sorting ceremony!"

"Ron!" shrieked Hermione and Ginny.

"Only joking!" said Ron uneasily as his stomach rumbled.

They got out of their carriage, and walked up to the castle looming before them. Entering the Great Hall, they stared at the Enchanted Ceiling picturing a cloud-less night sky outside. They made their way to the Gryffindor table and sat down. The sorting ceremony began and it seemed to take forever; Ron's stomach grumbled loudly a few times during the ceremony. Finally, when Sam Zavich was sorted, Dumbledore stood up and the Great Hall quieted down.

"Well, it looks like the beginning of another great year. As some of you already know, thanks to a few leaks," he added looking at Fred, George, Lee, and Oliver, "there are going to be four balls this year, a Halloween Ball, a Winter Ball, a Valentine Ball, and an End of school year ball."

There were cheers from the girls while the boys groaned. Dumbledore waited until all was quiet before continuing.

"All students of 4th year and above are allowed to attend. Now, without further ado, time to eat!"

The Great Hall suddenly became noisy and Ron looked at his plate expectantly.

Suddenly, Dumbledore stood up abruptly and said, "Wait…wait, I forgot to mention something." Everyone in the hall groaned loudly.

Dumbledore smiled before continuing, "There are new housing arrangements this year. Instead of living in a dormitory with your entire house, a roommate has been assigned to you; you both will share one room. There is no division among houses, so you may be rooming with someone from an entirely different house. We hope this will encourage Inter-house friendliness as we must unite as one in this time of great need. The list of whom is rooming with whom is posted in you common room along with where your room is located. We hope you like this arrangement. Thank you, and now you may cont-"

No one waited for Dumbledore to finish his line as everyone ran straight to their common rooms, all though of food forgotten. Everyone rushed out to see who they were rooming with. Hermione and Ginny arrived in the common room only to find a huge crowd around the notice board. Harry and Ron worked their way out of the crowd. Ron looked furious.

"I got roomed with Malfoy! Could there be anything worse?"

"Who'd you get roomed with Harry?" asked Hermione completely ignoring Ron.

"I'm O.K, I got roomed with Ernie MacMillan," Harry replied.

"Did you guys manage to see who we got roomed with? I don't think I'd fancy going into there!" said Ginny wrinkling her nose at the large crowd.

"Yeah we did in fact. Ginny, you're with Luna Lovegood, not too bad," said Ron. "Hermione, don't scream, but you got roomed with…Pansy Parkinson!"

"PANSY PARKINSON!" screamed Hermione.

"Yeah, I know, the only good thing is that our rooms are by the kitchens. Oh, and we're neighbors Hermione!" said Ron.

"You and I are also neighbors Ginny," Harry added.

"Well then," said Hermione calming down a bit, "We better get going Ron."

Hermione and Ron walked out through the portrait hole.

"I can't believe it. Malfoy and Parkinson!" said Ron.

They got to their rooms and found Draco and Pansy standing beside two photos, one was of a centaur, the other was a unicorn.

"Well Granger," said Pansy sounding a little bored, "I'm not all that happy with these arrangements, but at least let's try to be not hostile this year!"

She held out her hand carelessly. Hermione took it and they shook on it.

"I'm relieved," said Hermione, "I don't think I could've survived the whole year fighting with each other!"

Pansy shrugged and said, "We could manage. The unicorn told me the password the 'Twinkletoes.' Must've been hard inventing so many passwords!"

The unicorn painting swung open revealing a small room with two single beds, two nightstands, two lamps, and two study tables.

Pansy sighed and mumbled sarcastically, "How nice. We might as well get to bed if we want to get up in time for our lessons tomorrow morning."

The two girls got out their nightgowns, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.

They woke up the next morning and dressed into their black robes. Hermione and Pansy got out through their portrait hole the same time as Malfoy and Ron.

"Hello Granger, Parkinson," said Malfoy. Ron just nodded apparently still annoyed about the situation.

"Trust there were no nose bleeds?" drawled Malfoy.

"Of course not, we can be civilized you know," said Pansy giggling madly.

Hermione and Pansy went down to the Great Hall together.

"Isn't her just the hottest guy you have ever seen?" Pansy squealed.

"Who is?" Hermione asked wrinkling her brow.

"Draco Malfoy of course! Oh…but your Weasley friend isn't bad either," Pansy added wrinkling her nose at the last statement.

"Er…right,"said Hermione uneasily.

They got to the Great Hall and Pansy went to the Slytherin table while Hermione went to the Gryffindor table. Harry and Ron were already there.

"Surprisingly, Malfoy said he didn't want to get into any trouble and he thought we should keep it cool for the year. So naturally, that's utter bullshit, so I'm watching my back," said Ron disgustedly.

"Ernie is such a pain in the ass!"grumbled Harry.

"Pansy was being nicer than usual, and though we should be friendly. By that she meant that we not bite each other's heads off. What's our first lesson?"

"Double Care of Magical Creatures with the Slytherins," said Ron.

"Oh joy!" said Harry sarcastically.

Ron and Hermione exchanged glances.

Ummm…so that's it…it gets interesting later hopefully bites nails in frustration…I'm working on it! I just have to set up a background first..anyways…you know the drill…REVIEW! hehe