"Now before we dig into another excellent back to school feasts, I would like to introduce to you some girls who will be joining us this year at Hogwarts. These girls come from a school in the United States where if you ask them you will find that wizards and witches live a very different life than we do here. Now without further ado, the witches from the United States Magic Academy," Professor Timmons said and then the doors to the great hall opened.
The girls filed into the hall and took seats at the end of the table on their left. Everyone started at them. "Why do I suddenly feel like we're the first foreign exchange students ever to come here? Or like this school has never had a student that entered here besides first years?" Annalisa whispered.
"Trust me you're not alone," I whispered back, keeping my head down as to not have to look at the sea of face starting at us.
Food suddenly appeared on the plates in front of us and everyone's attention was directed elsewhere. The girls stared at the students around them who started grabbing food off the plates and loading their own. They acted like this happened every day and slowly it dawned on Camille that this did happen every day, at this school you didn't have to worry about random visitors who wanted to see the school by the hopes that an in person visit will make it more likely that they would get in to what they presumed was a music school. Or have to worry about school inspectors coming to look at things to make sure nothing was amiss. Or accommodate muggle schools when they came for sporting events which the school was forced to participate in. They could use magic without fear of anyone catching them, so to them this was normal. Magic all the time was normal. Man, did that sound weird.
After looking around for a minute or two the girls shrugged and dug in. The food was amazing. Every possible dish they could think of was there, and no matter how many times they emptied the plates, they just filled up again with another monstrous pile of food. Once they had eaten through the plates several times over, the desserts appeared. Every type of dessert appeared even some more traditional American ones like apple pie with vanilla ice cream. After a while the plates went back to being empty and golden and Professor Timmons stood up and said, "Now that we have finished another excellent meal, it's time for me to make some announcements, first, the forbidden forest is well forbidden, to all students. Second our old caretaker, Mr. Filch has retired because of old age, our new caretaker, Mr. Patterson would like me to say absolutely no magic of any sorts are to take place in the corridors between classes. Also he said that he is continuing the ban of any products bought from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. Now off to bed all of you, you have a very busy day ahead of you tomorrow."
With that the students in the hallway stood up and started to make their way towards the entrance hall. The girls looked at each other then stood up and made their way out of the
hall and to the area Professor Jennings. While they were waiting, a kid walked up to them and asked, "Is it true that you have to take muggle classes at you school as well as magic classes?" he asked. At this a few kids stopped or doubled back to hear their answer.
"Of course we do, our government sticks its nose in at all schools to make sure that we aren't below standard," Margret said. "Don't you?"
"No we don't thankfully, well it was nice talking to you, bye!" he said and hurried off undoubtedly to share the information with his friends.
"What do you bet that tomorrow, rumors will be flying about us?" Annalisa asked.
"Probably, oh goody," Leanne said.
Just then, Professor Jennings swooped down upon them and said, "Follow me; I'll take you to your dormitory." She then turned around and started walking towards a big marble staircase.
They followed her up what felt like endless flights of staircases, finally they stopped climbing and went down a corridor, then another then another, then they reached yet another staircase, this one was spiral however, As they climbed they became dizzier and dizzier when Camille thought she was going to fall because she was so dizzy they reached a landing that seemed completely empty. They all looked up and saw a trapdoor in the ceiling.
"How do we get up there?" asked Julie.
As if waiting for the question, the trapdoor opened and a rope ladder fell out. Professor Jennings climbed up the ladder and the girls followed suit. They arrived in a sitting room that was decorated in reds and blacks. There were couches, tables, and bookshelves all around the room and on the far side of the room stood four doors.
"Through the two doors on your left you will find your dormitories, through the two doors on your right you will find restrooms. Breakfast begins at seven tomorrow and classes start at nine. I will give you your schedules tomorrow at breakfast," she said before leaving them in their dormitory.
The girls walked to the far side of the room and looked the two doors on their left, to ease their confusion, lists had been posted on both of the doors to show who were supposed to be in what rooms. The first room was for, Camille, Annalisa, Margret, Kim, and Leanne, the second room was for, Dana, Tammy, Julie, Samantha, and Hayley.
Camille went into their room to find five beds covered with and red down comforters. Against the opposite wall were five chests of drawers to hold all their belonging. Camille looked
at her watch and realized that it was already ten. She was exhausted from the long and eventful day. She and the other girls in their rooms found their suitcases by the foot of their beds, opened them, rummaged for their pajamas, changed, climbed into bed and went to sleep at the end of their first day at Hogwarts.