AN: Hey guys here is chapter two! Hope you like. ;)
"are we seriously going to be living there. Its beautiful and look how big it is." She said.
"yeah its pretty big. There are going to be a lot of people staying there though." he said. she gave him that smile that made his heart feel like it was going to explode. they reached the docks in a matter of minutes. when they got up on the shore the staff began to take their belongings inside. one of the professors came up to them. she wore a tall black witches hat and a green robe.
"welcome to hogwarts wizarding school for witches and wizards. follow me and we will get you sorted into your houses." she said and began walking to up the many stairs that lead them to the changing staircases. the students watched in wonder as the staircases moved completely on their own. natalie took draco's hand and ran towards the wall with the many painting on the wall. the pictures were moving. like they were alive.
"hello." one of the painting said. scratch that they were alive.
"children please stay with the group." the professor shouted. they gave an uneasy look and went back to the group. they stood in front of the door too the grand hall. this is where it all begins. suddenly a boy dove in front of natalie's feet causing her to gasp in shock. he stood up revealing a small frog in his hands.
"Sorry i keep losing him." the boy said timidly and walked back to his original spot. Draco scoffed and made his eyes back to teacher.
"Now i have too go let the other professors know that you are here. i will be back in a few minutes. don't move." she said no emotion in her words and then left. Draco turned his head and saw a boy with glasses talking to a ginger kid and a girl with ridiculously large hair. when the boy with glasses turned his head he realized who the boy really ways. Draco let out a small laugh.
"So the rumors are true. Harry Potter really has come to Hogwarts." Draco said loud enough for everyone to hear. Some whispers went through the crowd. Draco made his way over to the boy in the thick round glasses. Natalie following behind him. "the name is Malfoy, draco malfoy." he said. the ginger kid laughed. "Oh you think my name's funny do you. let's see hand me down robe red hair. you must be a weasley." the ginger kids smile faded and made his gaze down to the floor. Draco made his way back too Harry. "you know you can make all the wrong friends if you're not careful. I can help you there." draco extended his hand waiting for a reply. the boy looked down at Draco's hand and put it down.
"Sorry i think i'm good on friends." he turned around and began talking with the original two. Draco made his way back to natalie. The professor came back and guided them to into the Great Hall. dark clouds were shown onto the ceiling with candles hovering in the air. they made their way to the front of the Great Hall with the previous year students cheering them and their new professors giving them courtesy claps. there was a small stool with a hat on top of it. An old man stood up and gave them the rules and regulations of the school. he was the headmaster Albus dumbledore. very famous. when he was done with his grim speech the other professor went back up in front of them.
"Now when i call your names you will step too the stool sit down i will place hat on your head and it will tell you what house you will be in so let's get started." she pulled out a rather long list and began to call out names. "Draco Malfoy." she said. Draco took a small breath and made his way to the stool and sat down. as the hat barely sat on his head.
"Slytherin." it called out. malfoy gave a small smirk and made his way to his new home. More names were called out and Natalies heart jumped with each name praying that hers would somehow skipped. She was scared and yet excited of where she would be placed. Where you were placed determined your place in the world. It was based of your personality and what you would be when you grew up. She just prayed she would have some friends wherever she was placed.
"Natalie Jacobs." she said. it was natalie's turn. she was shaking and nervously sat on the stool. a couple of the professors began whispering as mcgonagall began to put it on her head. suddenly the hat began to scream.
"AGH... AHHH GET ME OFF GET ME OFF…" it shouted in pain. natalie was on the break of tears as the teacher pulled the hat off her. she was given a couple of questionable glares. dumbledore giving her the most questionable look. unsure of what to do natalie continued to sit in the chair gripping the edges of the stool tight scraping the paint off with her fingernails. there was a silence over the Great Hall. "Ugh bloody hell. that was terrifying. you have a really messed up head you know that." it shouted at her. she cringed at its words. "I suppose i still have to give you a home though. put me back on." it said. the woman placed it on natalie's head. "Agh jesus it still burns. well i guess Ravenclaw." a small cheer came over the ravenclaw table as natalie's heart sank to the floor. she got off the chair and sheepishly walked over to her new table. she sat down and glared back at draco with a saddened look. she wanted to die. what did that hat see in her mind. what did it feel. why did it feel it.
Natalie folded her arms onto the table and placed her head in the sanctuary it provided. She looked back at Draco who was giving her a saddened expression. They were in different houses this would make it a lot harder for them to hang out. that was the farthest thing from Natalie's mind right now. She kept going back too the reason of why the hat screamed. she wasn't a dark person she didn't have any grim thoughts. then again the hat didn't look in your thoughts it looked into your past and future. It burns get me off it burns what does that even mean. Maybe she could ask the hat herself. No the hat would be in the professor's office after this was over. Maybe she could ask him if she could talk to it. No way he would never allow that but she needed to know what that stupid hat saw. Suddenly another round of cheers came from the ravenclaw table. a new person must have gotten ravenclaw. a rather short but beautiful blonde girl with a queer smile on her face sat next to natalie. she had this light but strange aura around her.
"hi my name is Luna lovegood. your Natalie Jacobs right?" she said with a lightness in her voice. she tilted her head to the left for an answer.
"yes i am." natalie said timidly. Luna smiled wider and took Natalie's hands and stared down at them.
"i see you have been through many hardships you lost your parents correct." she said. natalie looked up at her.
"how do you know that?" she asked hoping not to have raised her voice too much.
"i don't know i can just sense things like that. you don't remember much about the event correct the only thing you remember is the man who killed them."
"You're starting to freak me out." natalie said. but luna ignored her.
"Hmm there is something else here. something i haven't seen in anyone before. something linked in with your magic it's i can't really describe it."
"wait is this the same thing that made the sorting hat scream?"
"yes it very well could be. i have never seen this in any other wizard before. do you mind if i research this a bit more. i would very much like to learn about what i sense."
"ugh sure. as long as you tell me what you find. i want to find out what's wrong with me." Luna smiled at natalie's comment.
"i like you. we both have a lot in common." luna said giggling.
"like what?"
"we are both different from the others. there is something about us that's off i should say. i sense there are others in here that are like us. not many but we aren't the only ones." luna said turning her head back to the headmaster who was now conjuring up dinner. a magnificent feast appeared before them and a roar of excited buzz went through the room. natalie had never seen so much food before. in the orphanage all she got was some bread and a baked potato and if she was lucky maybe a chicken leg when they got funding from the ministry. natalie grabbed as much as her plate could hold and began to devour all that she had taken. after dinner the houses went too there dorms for the first time. each of them was told the password for getting into their common room. they were not allowed to share it with anyone outside the house. Natalie frowned. they were just making it more and more difficult for her to hang out with Draco. when they entered a massive common room decorated with blue and ravens patterns appeared with giant mounds of books spread all across the room.
"ok now all your things have been delivered if anything is missing report it to me immediately." the perfect said and dismissed them. Natalie and luna ran up to there rooms. thankfully they were roomed together with another girl by the name of cho. but natalie was too busy going through all her stuff too make sure nothing was missing. her pet cat vanessa was sleeping on her pillow. Natalie had found vanessa just before she came to hogwarts. she was a stray that she found in a dumpster behind the orphanage. she had found all her books and most importantly her picture of her family before they died.
Both her parents were wizards and both worked at the ministry. they use to take her too the ministry and let her play with some of the older wizards that worked there. but when they died natalie had never set foot in that building again. both her parents were only children and her grandparents were dead so there was no one else for her to go. thankfully she was sent to a ministry funded orphanage. it was still crummy but better than some of the other options she could have gotten. Natalie wiped away some of the tears that came across her face when she looked back too the photo. She put the photo by her nightstand looking back too her parents smiling faces before she drifted off into a deep sleep with luna's music box playing a seemingly hypnotic lullaby.
