A/N: Yay! Five reviews! How exciting.

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"It's TJ."

"What?" Hermione puzzledly asked Katie as she took her and the rest of her buddy group into town to buy their books. Alicia was there with her group too.

"The dorm Thomas Jefferson is mostly referred to as TJ," Katie continued as they walked down a steep, badly paved hill surrounded by lavish suburban houses to make their way toward town. "No one calls it Thomas Jefferson."

"…Okay…" Hermione said. She didn't want to call her dorm the same thing that Summer from The OC called Tijuana, the drinking and partying town on the border of Mexico that she traveled to with Seth, Ryan, and Marissa on that fateful episode. Hermione was ashamed to admit that she had watched her fair share of OC episodes.

"Were you in TJ, Katie?" Lavender questioned, blinking hugely.

"Yup," Katie replied. "Alicia and I were on the same hall."

"That's so cool! And you guys are like, best friends now?" Lavender stated.

Katie and Alicia laughed but didn't respond.

California laughed loudly. "Maybe I'll be best friends with one of you guys by my senior year!" she cried.

Domino looked sick at the thought of it.

They reached town in a minute. It pretty much consisted of one long street with a big chain drugstore, a big chain bank, a few chain restaurants, and other random stores. The bookstore, located off to the side of a parking lot, had a huge line trailing out of it, made up of students sweaty from standing in the heat all morning.

Hermione stood awkwardly in the line as Alicia and Katie talked avidly with each other, and California babbled on about nothing while Lavender, Parvati, and Rachel listened attentively. Domino, on the other hand, was staring off into space. Hermione didn't quite understand her.

"Hey… Hermione…?"

She tore her gaze away from Domino and saw Harry standing before her.

"Oh, hi," she said. "Harry, right?"

"Yeah." He seemed to be standing in line with his buddy group in front of hers. "This is Ron and Neville," he said, gesturing toward a tall redhead and a slightly chubby brunette standing next to him. Hermione couldn't help but notice that Ron was kind of cute.

"Nice to meet you," Hermione said, smiling politely.

Ron and Neville nodded in response.

"Where are you guys from?" she asked curiously.

"New Hampshire," said Neville, his voice cracking.

"Philadelphia," said Ron.

This time it was Hermione who nodded.

"Oh, hey, people!" came none other than California's loud voice from behind them. She pushed by Hermione and held her hand out to the three boys. "I'm California Armstrong from Phoenix, Arizona. It's really nice to meet you all."

Ron looked slightly perturbed as he shook her hand. "Why is your name California if you're from Phoenix?" he asked, confused.

"Well, my parents love to travel, and they named us all after the cities or states we were conceived in," she explained. Ron's face turned red. "My brothers are named Dallas and Montana, and my sister is Phoenix." She smiled broadly.

Ron nodded, uninterested.

Ron intrigued Hermione almost as much as Domino did.

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Draco knew he could do it; he already met girls. Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, and Veruca Wolff all lived in the Slytherin girls' dorm, Kensington. He'd met them and several others that day and the day before and now he was eating dinner the day before classes started with the three plus Blaise and Theo.

"So, you're from Miami, right?" Draco said to Veruca through a mouthful of pasta. The food at this school tasted like shit.

"Yeah," she said almost quietly, looking at him through thick eyelashes.

He looked down at his food to show disinterest to her seduction.

"The VMAs were in Miami this year, weren't they?" Blaise questioned.

Draco shot him a confused look.

"Yeah," Veruca repeated, wiping her mouth daintily with a napkin. "I went to them."

"Sweet," Blaise said, avoiding Draco's death glare.

The blonde scoffed and poked at a noodle. It squeezed out from beneath his fork and shot straight through the air and into Lavender's eye, where it was sitting attached to her body at the table next to the Slytherins'.

"Holy shit," Theo expressed, staring from Draco's plate to Lavender's eye incredulously.

Lavender squealed when the noodle made contact with her and jumped a few inches from her seat. She was sitting with Parvati, Hermione, and Domino. Luckily, California had found other people to bother and Rachel had been smart enough to make some other friends. Domino still followed them around suspiciously.

"Oh my gosh, are you okay?" was Parvati's quick response.

Lavender nodded tearily, wiping her tomato-sauce covered eye with a napkin.

"Aren't you going to apologize?" Veruca said to Draco snappily.

Draco sneered at her uncomfortably and grudgingly pushed out his chair and stepped toward the girls' table. "Are you alright?" he asked boredly.

Lavender nodded, her cheeks tinted slightly pink.

"Sorry." He turned quickly and sat back down again, not even bothering to smirk obnoxiously at Veruca. She was really bothering him. He decided to go to dinner with her because he thought she was hot; dark hair, big, sparkling eyes, a nice body. But clearly she had more on her mind than being a sex object. Draco got up and put his tray on the rack in the kitchen. When he walked back into the eating area, he glanced at Lavender's table. Lavender was pretty, but plain. Parvati wasn't his type. Domino was pretty sexy, but sort of in a Veruca way. Hermione seemed like one of those girls he would secretly lust after for the next four years, but be too ashamed to tell anyone. Of course, he didn't know any of these girls' names, but he could have his thoughts.

"Let's head back to the dorm," Draco suggested to Theo and Blaise, eagerly wanting to get away from Veruca. Pansy was hot, but sort of looked like a midget alien, and Millicent was almost mannish. But they weren't worth his time at that moment. He'd rather be meeting hotter girls who would be easier to get. And he certainly was confident that he would find them.

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The night before the start of classes, the first Monday that the students had ever spent at Hogwarts, the TJ common room was filled with boys.

After dinner, Hermione returned with hopes of having a peaceful evening. However, the first thing she was going to have to learn was that things were going to be far from peaceful at Hogwarts. At least when there were girls and boys to conquer each other.

Hermione entered the common room to sign in looking just slightly dazed and confused. She saw Harry and Ron sitting on a couch, but there were also about eight other guys sprawled across the various cheap and falling apart chairs and sofas. There were also girls everywhere, some of which Hermione had never even laid eyes upon yet, but soon discovered were going to be her dorm mates for the rest of the year, also draped over everything, including the boys. It actually freaked Hermione out a bit. She'd never really been a flirt. In fact, she'd never really had male friends. This was all somewhat foreign to her.

She glanced at Ron and Harry. They cocked their heads in her direction. She was about to have a panic attack.

She turned to leave the room when suddenly Lavender and Parvati entered the common room, Lavender looking more bright-eyed than ever, despite her encounter with a flying noodle earlier.

"Where are you going, Hermione?" Lavender asked happily.

Hermione could only manage a shrug and a whimper.

"Stay in the common room with us," Lavender continued. "It'll be fun!"

Hermione chewed on the inside of her lip as Lavender turned her around and dragged her to the center of the sitting area. The TV was on, blaring an obnoxious MTV show.

"Hey, everyone," Lavender greeted. "What are all your names?"

The ones that actually heard her question over the loudness of the room, which were most of the group, went around saying their names. By the end, Hermione's head was already spinning. Most of the guys were from the other Gryffindor boys' dorm, Kennedy. Hermione hadn't been planning on spending any time with boys or knowing any boys or hanging out in any boys' dorms, so she just told herself to ignore all that was going on, and try her best to not have a heart attack in the middle of the "TJ" common room.

But that proved to be a little hard, because right that minute, she fainted.

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When Hermione regained consciousness, she found herself lying on a couch in the head of the dorm's apartment. She shot up, gasping.

"Oh, how are you feeling, Hermione?" Mrs. McGonagall, the head of Thomas Jefferson asked her. She was sitting at a desk with a computer on it.

"Um, fine," she said quietly. "What happened?"

"You fainted in the common room. It was a bit stuffy in there; understandable," the teacher continued, smiling almost eerily.

"Okay… Uh… Thanks," she said. "Can I… um… go?"

"Oh, yes, of course." Mrs. McGonagall got up as Hermione pulled herself off the couch and left the room with a quiet "thank you". "Sleep well!"

Hermione sprinted up the stairs to her room. She fumbled getting the key into the lock, giving Lavender and Parvati just enough time to pounce on her.

"Hermione, are you alright?" Lavender asked, concern spilled all across her bright face.

"Yeah, that was scary what happened!" Parvati said.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Hermione reassured, opening the door to her room. "How long was I out for?"

"You fainted, oh, ten or so minutes ago?" Lavender answered, thinking hard.

"Okay," Hermione said. She turned quickly into her room and closed the door behind her. She didn't care how much of a freak she made herself seem to be; there was one thing on her mind, and it was convincing her parents to let her come home.

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"I hope that girl is okay," Dean Thomas said. He was sitting next to Ron, Harry, and Seamus Finnegan on the couch in Thomas Jefferson.

"Yeah, that was scary," Harry added. "Why am I forgetting her name? It was something weird…" He stared at the ceiling as he racked his brain.

"Hermione," Ron said simply.

"Right! Hermione…"

"Why did she faint?" wondered Seamus. "I mean, it was kind of weird, if you ask me."

"It's stuffy and chaotic in here," Ron reasoned. "That could happen to anyone."

Dean and Seamus exchanged glances. Why was Ron being so suddenly defensive for this random girl?

Ron sat back at the couch, folding his arms. He stared at the TV, though not really thinking about it.

Harry could sense the awkward tension. He cleared his throat and turned to Seamus. "So, you're from Canada right?" he asked.

Seamus nodded.

"Where, again?"

"Vancouver."

"So how'd you get from all the way on the west coast of Canada to a school on the east coast of the US?" Harry asked.

"My school ended after middle school," Seamus explained, his Canadian accent contrasting Harry's Bostonian one. "And someone suggested to me that I should check out boarding schools in the US."

Harry nodded. "That's really cool." There was silence again and the awkwardness resumed. After a minute, which felt more like several, Dean and Seamus finally decided to go talk to some girls. Harry joined them, but Ron stayed awkwardly on the couch. On his face was an expression of a mix of annoyance, embarrassment, and confusion.

One thing that Harry knew was that these people were definitely going to be good entertainment for the next school year.

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A/N: Bleh. I don't like how Hermione is. At first she was all sarcastic, and now she's like a spaz. And Ron has anger problems. What am I doing? I'll try and change things in the next chapters. At least this one was longer! …Ish. Also, I realized that I didn't make anyone a day student, but that's kind of hard because I'm trying to make people live with the same people they live with in the books. So if I make day students, they'll have to be made up people, and I already have too many made up people. And Veruca and Domino are unfortunately similar. Please review and tell me your thoughts. Good ones, bad ones, insulting ones; I want to know! Thanks.