"A New School Year"
All the students and teachers were boarded on the Hogwarts Express. Sakora and her friends found a cart with a couple other Slytherin students, Crabbe & Goyle. A few minutes after the train pulled out of the station, an older witch came along with a trolly full of goodies and munchies.
"Anything off the trolley, dears?" She said as she reached the cart Sakora was in. She bought herself some Pumpkin pastries, Bertie botts every Flavoured Beans, and some cauldron cakes.
"I hope we win the house cup this year." Draco said. "It's always those stupid Gryffindors. How do they do it?"
No one had an answer.
It was a quiet ride to Hogwarts. When they got there, they saw Hagrid herding all the first years.
"Ah. Home sweet home." Sakora said to herself. The older kids made their way to the castle while the first years had to ride the little boats across the lake.
Once in the Great Hall, all the students made their way to the tables that sat in the middle of the hall: Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, & Hufflepuff. Dumbledore was sitting at the head of the table. All the other teachers were sitting on either side of him.
McGonnagle was in charge of the sorting hat. She placed the sorting hat on the new student's heads and it sorted them into one of the four houses. Once the sorting was done, Dumbledore got up to give a speech like he does every year. After he was through, he said,
"Let the feast begin." And on that note, all sorts of delicious food & drinks appeared on the tables. Scattered talking of excited students filled the room.
Sakora looked up to see if Snape was at the head table. Michelle leaned over to Sakora and said,
"Checking to see if your sweetie is up there?"
Sakora blushed.
"Oh be quiet." Sakora said jokingly.
After the feast was over, all the students headed to their common rooms for the night. Sakora was too excitied to sleep right away. She stayed up a little while & sat by the blazing fire. She was looking through her school books to get an idea what she would be studying. After about an hour or so, Sakora started getting tired. She finally headed up to the girl's dorm. At the foot of her bed on the floor was her trunk and next to her bed was a wooden perch where Salem, her black owl, sat fast asleep. The covers on her four post bed were green and silver and the canopy was green. Sakora got into bed and fell asleep within ten minutes.
The next morning, sakora awoke with the sun pouring in the bedroom. Before Sakora went down to the common room, she fed Salem some owl pellets. She heard scattered voices comming from the common room.
"Where is everyone else?" Sakora asked
"Down at breakfast." Rachel said.
"We thought we'd wait for you." Michelle said.
On the way down to the Great Hall, Michelle said,
"Don't forget, we've got Quidditch practice after breakfast.
"It's a good thing it's a nice day this morning." Sakora said.
When they got down to the Great Hall, Sakora was looking over her schedule.
"What do you guys have after Quidditch practice?" Sakora asked.
"I've got Care of Magical Creatures." Rachel said.
"What about you, Michelle?" Sakora asked.
"Ancient ruins then Care of Magical Creatures." "Why?" Michelle added. "What do you have?"
"Potions" Sakora said.
After breakfast, the girl's walked out onto the Quidditch pitch. When the three girls got to the field, there were four other people there. Sakora was the seeker, Michelle & Rachel were the beaters. The captain of the team was a sixth year student by the name of Tyson Pritchard. Him and three other students were the chasers. Their names were Crystal Jones a fifth year, Sam Rockwell a fourth year, and Draco Malfoy also a fourth year. The team practiced for an hour strait.
After practice, the students left the field. Sakora ran down to the Slytherin common room & up to the girl's dorm to change out of her Quidditch uniform & back into her robes. Soon after that, Michelle, Rachel, and Crystal entered the girl's dorm to change too.
Later that day, during Potions class, it started raining.
"Oh great. I have Care of Magical Creatures after this class." Sakora said quietly to Crystal while they were taking down notes.
"So bring an umbrella with you." Crystal said.
Just then thunder was booming in the air and a bolt of lightning flashed in the sky.
"You were saying?" Sakora said. "And I can't just skip class."
From behind her and Crystal they heard,
"This isn't social hour, girls. Get back to work." It was Snape.
"Sorry professor. Crystal said. Sakora blushed furiously. She continued reading through her book and jotted down notes. After the bell rang, sakora ran to get a rain coat before heading outside.
When she got to the gate to go outside, she met up with Michelle.
"I hate rain." Sakora said as the two of them headed to Hagrid's hut. Halfway down, something caught Sakora's attention.
"Go ahead. I'll catch up with you in a minute." Sakora told Michelle.
"What's up?" Michelle asked.
"Nothing. "Just go."
"You're up to something. I'm not letting you go alone and furthurmore..."
At this point Sakora wasn't listening to Michelle and was almost in the woods.
"Hey!" Michelle yelled and ran after Sakora. they got down to the woods and they saw a bright, green light shining. Michelle and sakora were completely soaked rom the rain.