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Chapter 1: The New Common Room
After dinner in the Great Hall, everyone rushed up to their dormitories, anxious to relax and catch up with friends that they had not seen over the summer. Harry, Ron and Hermione followed, but at a much slower pace.
"I can't believe we have to share a dormitory with Malfoy. I mean, what if he tries to kill us while we are sleeping?"
"Ron, do you honestly think that they would let Malfoy back into the school if he was a major threat?"
"Well, he did almost kill Dumbledore!" Ron said, his ears turning red.
Hermione glanced nervously at Harry, who was staring quietly at the ground.
"But he didn't, and you didn't see him that night. He didn't want to do it. And besides, after the Ministry caught him, they gave him veritaserum and he told them everything. He told them how Snape had made a promise with Dumbledore and that proof of it was in Dumbledore's office and how Voldemort threatened to kill his mum if he didn't do it," Harry said, so softly that it was almost difficult to hear him.
"Sorry mate, I just don't trust him still."
"Don't worry Ron, I'm sure the Ministry wouldn't let him go if he was dangerous.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Potty, Weasel and the Mudblood," Malfoy said, stepping into the view of the trio.
"For someone who had a run in with the Ministry only two months before, you seem to be very cocky Malfoy."
"Well Mudblood, I am a Malfoy and things don't keep me down for long," he said while smirking.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Ron said, getting annoyed.
"Relax, Weasel-bee, I just wanted to tell you the password for the new common room. It's cambiamento." With that, Malfoy turned and made his way to the new common room, which was located near the Hufflepuff common room which was near the kitchens.
"Well, I guess I will see you two at breakfast," Harry said, making his way up to Gryffindor Tower.
"I wish he was a prefect. I hate the fact that he has to be in the Gryffindor common room all by himself."
"Don't worry 'Mione, he still has Neville and Ginny.
Ron and Hermione made their way down the corridor that led to the kitchens, searching for their new common room. Finally, they saw the tapestry that would reveal the common room with the password. The tapestry was huge, and portrayed a lion, serpent, badger, and an eagle, the symbols of the four houses. Hermione spoke the password to the lion, and the tapestry changed into a door, revealing a large common room.
"Blimey," Hermione heard Ron say.
The common room was beautiful. All of the colours of the houses were brought together. Across from the blazing fireplace were four large portraits, one for each of the Founders. The four Founders were greeting the prefects, bragging about their houses. On either side of the portraits were two staircases with three doors on each side. Each door had writing on it. The first door, which was closest to the bottom of the stairs, said "toilets" on it, the second door said "prefects" and had a list of who the prefects were. At the very top of the steps stood two doors, directly next to one another. One door was labelled Head Boy, and the other read Head Girl, and both had either Hermione or Malfoy's name on it. Hermione, who had been awestruck over how lavish the room looked, turned to see the one thing that she felt the common room had been missing.
"Oh my gosh!" Hermione squealed, running over to a large library that appeared to have at least one book on every subject.
"I was wondering how long it was going to take you to notice that," said Ron, who was laughing at how excited Hermione was.
While Hermione continued examining the common room library, Professor McGonagall entered the room.
"I suppose that it is safe for me to assume that you all find your new common room satisfactory?"
Everyone nodded.
"Well, as you can see, your dormitories are separated by prefects and heads, and the girls dorms are to the left, boys to the right. In addition, between the staircases are passageways to enter your houses common room. You must say the password to enter. Now, I expect you all to get along. You will all be setting examples for your classmates and I expect you all to act with respect towards one another. Now, I suggest you all go off to bed. Just because you are prefects does not mean that you can be excused from your classes," and with that, Professor McGonagall left.
Hermione made her way up to her room, and smiled to herself. Her new dormitory looked like her old dormitory back in Gryffindor Tower, but it was much larger, and she was delighted to see a large bookcase for all of her books. Satisfied with her room, she put on her pajamas and went to say goodnight to Ron.
Although the prefect rooms were simple, there was something about the way it was decorated that made it feel beautiful. The room was decorated in a neutral colour of tan, and there were subtle hints of the house colours located throughout the dormitory.
"Nice eh?" Ron said while grinning.
Very nice. You should see mine. It's huge."
"Well, we should go to bed. Wouldn't want to be late for the first day of classes," Ron said sarcastically.
Hermione laughed and said goodnight, making her way back to her room. Just as Hermione reached her room however, Malfoy exited his dormitory.
"Nice pajamas, Granger. A little predictable though aren't they?"
Hermione looked down at her pajamas. They were red with gold stitching. "But Malfoy, my pajamas are exactly the same as yours," she said, confused by his comment.
"Exactly. I imagined someone like you to have pajamas that would be more…muggle."
Hermione glared at him while he walked down the steps to the toilets, laughing while he walked.
A/N: The common room password, cambiamento, means "change" in Italian. I got it from a translating website so please let me know if it is wrong!