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Chapter 5: The First Night At Hogwarts
All the Hogwarts students gathered into the Great Hall. As always, it was a magical place. The first year students looked around in awe as Dumbledore sat in his big, gold chair at the center of the teachers' table.
Hermione searched around to find her friends. She spotted them sitting towards the middle of the Gryffindor table. She quickly took a seat next to Ron after kissing Skyler goodbye. As no surprise to anyone, Ron looked like he was about to puke as he watched his little sister snuggle up with Harry.
"Hi guys! Ron, stop staring" said Hermione.
Ron looked at her with a pleading expression. "'Mioneeeeee! Make it stop! Pleeeeeease!"
Hermione laughed. "It's ok Ron, you'll get use to it soon enough" she said with a smile. She then looked over to the Ravenclaw table where she saw Skyler talking amongst his friends. From the way it seemed, it looked like they were having a lot of fun with the topic they were discussing. Skyler felt her gaze on him and looked up to see her brown eyes. He quickly smiled and waved as she waved back and turned away. Little did Hermione know that after she turned away, Skyler gave a knowing smirk to the rest of his friends and they all laughed.
Just then, Professor McGonagall walked in with the sorting hat. To no surprise, all the upper class students could see how scared the first years were. McGonagall called the first name.
"Logan Wolf?"
A fairly cute little eleven year old confidently walked up to the sorting hat with his chest out. McGonagall placed the hat on his head and it began to speak aloud.
"Ahhh, another member of the family eh? Very brave I see, and incredibly smart. Though I see sneakiness and cleverness above all others. You're just like your father aren't you boy? In that case…SLYTHERIN!"
The Slytherin table erupted with applause as the rest of the houses politely clapped. Hermione, Ron, Harry, Ginny, and pretty much all of the Gryffindor table noticed something that was always there, but never actually noticed. As they looked, they realized that every single person at the Slytherin table had the same, knowing smirk.
Logan calmly walked over to the Slytherin table again with his chest out and like all the other Slytherins, a smirk.
The ceremony was over and the feast began.
"Finally! I'm starving!" said Ron excitedly.
"You're always hungry Ron, I can't believe you don't gain any weight! I envy you" said Parvarti with wide eyes.
"…Shankkyoo" said Ron with a full mouth.
Hermione and the rest of the group laughed and of course, Ron continued to eat.
Meanwhile, at the other side of the Great Hall, Draco looked at the Gryffindor table with a glare on his face. Stupid mudblood he thought. Stupid mudblood loving saps. Granger's just lucky she's hot now. Otherwise I'd make her life hell deal or no deal…
"Draco?...Draco!...DRACO!" yelled Blaise
Draco quickly snapped out of his thoughts. "Wha?"
"Do you see that girl you were talking about earlier? The one you said was hot" asked Blaise.
Draco scrunched up his face and scowled. "Just forget it Blaise."
"Why?"
"Just forget it!"
"What, did she turn you down or something?" Blaise asked with concern mixed with laughter.
"No, she didn't turn me down. I didn't even ask her out." Draco replied.
Blaise looked at him with a confused face. "Why not?"
"Because I found out who she was" Draco said with the anger building up inside him.
"What so bad about that?"
"What's bad is that it was GRANGER! That pathetic excuse for a witch! That mudblood who shouldn't even be in Hogwarts but she is because Dumbledore is a mudblood loving crack head!" he shouted although only Blaise heard. Draco looked at Blaise. Blaise raised an eyebrow at him and one corner of his mouth twitched, and then it slowly turned into a grin and he started to laugh.
Draco was completely caught off guard. "What the hell is so funny?" he said slightly less angry.
Blaise couldn't get a hold of himself. He just kept laughing, and soon, the rest of the school noticed.
"Drakey Poo? What's wrong with Blaise?" Pansy said as she walked over to Draco, sat on his lap and threw her arms around his neck.
Draco felt completely disgusted, and pushed her off making her fall right on her bum with a loud "oof!"
Otherwise ignoring Pansy, Draco asked, "Well are you gonna tell me or not!"
Just then, Dumbledore and Hermione walked up to him. Dumbledore looked at Blaise with a twinkle in his eye and Hermione raised an eyebrow at him trying to fight the urge to start laughing along with him. Blaise, seeing Hermione, started to laugh even harder. Hermione looked confused, but Draco knew exactly why Blaise's laughter increased.
"Just forget it then, tell me later you tard" Draco whispered to Blaise and Blaise gave an uncontrollable nod. "Yes professor?" he said as he directed his attention to Dumbledore.
"Good evening Mr. Malfoy. I have just informed Ms. Granger that the Head Boy and Head Girl will be sharing living quarters. Now, of course you already knew this for it has been tradition since the school opened, but we have upgraded your tower over the summer vacation. I think you'd be quite pleased with the results. Would you care to follow Ms. Granger and myself?" said Dumbledore.
"Yes professor of course" and with that, they were off to see where they would be living the whole year.
Staircases were climbed and turns were made until the three of them saw a big painting of a giant serpent and lion facing each other, glaring into each other's eyes much like how every Slytherin and Gryffindor look at each other.
"Calm now, Sullivan and Gallagar, your occupants have arrived," said Dumbledore.
The serpent named Sullivan looked at Hermione and hissed. Hermione slowly backed away with wide eyes. Draco smirked at Hermione and then at the serpent. I think I'm gonna like this Sullivan character he thought. The serpent then looked at Draco, and with his clever silver eyes he lowered his body into a low and loyal bow.
"I am loyal to any pureblood pupil of my master Sssssalazar Ssssslytherin" Sullivan hissed.
Oh yes, I'm definitely going to like him thought Draco. "Take a good look Granger; you could learn a thing or two from Sullivan here about showing respect to those who are due to it."
Just then, there was a loud roar and it was Draco's turn to back away, almost bumping into Dumbledore in the process. Draco looked up to see the heaving lion Gallagar with his glowing gold eyes glaring daggers at him.
"Grrrr….Watch your mouth boy grrrr…" Gallagar said to Draco. He then turned to Sullivan and growled, "Any pupil of my master Godric Grrrryffindor has more bravery and strength capable to take down any Slytherin…no matter how "pure" they may be…you slimy worm."
Gallagar then turned to Hermione, softened his eyes and then too lowered his body to a low and loyal bow. Hermione then turned to Draco giving him a smirk that would rival any Slytherin's.
"How interesting," said Dumbledore, "Years later, even Slytherin and Gryffindor's pets still hate each other."
"Excuse me professor, but what do you mean still?" asked Hermione. "Are you saying that these are the actual companions of Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor?" she added excitedly.
Draco as well looked up at Dumbledore fairly interested.
"Indeed Ms. Granger. Indeed." He paused for a moment to look at the portrait, the two still glaring at each other. "You and Mr. Malfoy are free to choose whatever password you please, but do remember not to tell anyone else. It is strict policy. Goodnight to the…well…four of you," and with that he left, still with the twinkle in his eyes.
Hermione looked at Draco. "Well?" she said.
"Well what?" he scoffed.
"What is our password going to be you git!" said an angered Hermione.
"Why should I have to think of it? Why can't you!" Draco said, his voice rising.
Hermione glared at him. "Fine, I'll just pick whatever password I want" she said with a grin.
"Well… the Gryffindor thinksss she'sss in charge now does she? Typical lion" said Sullivan.
"Well that puny snake down there next to her is too stubborn and lazy to even help." Gallagar then gave a mighty growl. "Just like all the Slytherins, always wanting someone else to do the work for them" Gallagar shot back.
This was certainly a sight, the two Slytherins staring daggers at the two Gryffindors and vice versa.
"Can we just all please come to an agreement?!" yelled Hermione.
"Fine. What do you think about the password: no mudbloods allowed!"
"Oh yeah, very mature Malfoy! I thought we had an agreement!"
Draco stopped. He had already forgot about their deal and he was the one who suggested it. He looked at her and said "Fine. I'm sorry."
Hermione looked at him as if he had just grown a second head. Did Draco "Slytherin Prince" Malfoy just say sorry to me? She thought to herself. Nevertheless, she shrugged it off.
"It's ok…" she said. "How about the password…When Lions and Serpents Meet? It refers to both of us so there shouldn't be any complaints from either of us," she then looked at Sullivan and Gallagar in the painting, "or them" she added politely.
Draco thought it through and concluded that it wasn't such a bad idea. Plus, they could always change it if they didn't want it anymore. "It's ok with me," he said.
"Us too" said the serpent and lion together.
The Head Boy and Head Girl looked up at them with eyebrows up. Draco was about to add that it didn't matter what they thought because it wasn't up to them, but Hermione sensed what he was about to say and gave him a look that said "leave it alone." They gave the password to the animals and entered the common room.
It was amazing! There was a kitchen, and big living space area with two comfortable looking arm chairs and a large couch. The entire tower had a maroon colored carpet, which was odd because carpet wasn't usually found in the castle. Then again, Dumbledore did say that they upgraded the place. The couch and arm chairs were off white. Hermione went to go sit down on one of the arm chairs to see how comfortable it would be. To both her and Draco's surprise, when she sat down, the off white arm chair turned Gryffindor red with gold lining. Caught off guard, she got up and noticed her initials in gold just above a lion facing sideways on his hind legs.
Curious, Draco sat in the same armchair even though there was another armchair across the living room. When he sat down, it instantly changed into a Slytherin green with silver lining with his initials over a serpent stretched upwards in full length. "Wicked" he said.
"I wonder what happens if we both sit on the sofa" pondered Hermione.
With that, they both walked to wards the sofa and sat on opposite ends. The sofa then changed color according where each person sat.
Draco looked at the coffee table in front of them to see that there was a note from Dumbledore. He read it aloud:
Dear Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Granger,
I hope you found your new quarters suitable enough. The kitchen is fully stocked with food and will magically re-supply itself whenever something is taken out of it. You will each have your own bed chambers but will have to share a bathroom. As you have noticed, the living space area has been enchanted to suit both of you in hopes for you each to feel right at home. There is also a large bookcase between the separate entrance stairs cases leading to your individual rooms. I assure you that you will have everything you need to find in the selection for it magically finds the book from the library and is stored in the book case.
Your personal belongings have already been unpacked and placed neatly in your rooms. Enjoy!
Headmaster,
Albus Dumbledore
"Wow, This means that I'll pretty much never have to go to the library!" Hermione said as she looked at the book case.
"Yeah…I'm going to bed. Goodnight Granger" said Draco, and he looked at the two staircases. "Hey Granger! How in the hell am I suppose to know which staircase is mine?"
Just when he reached the front of one of the stair cases, a transparent lion, almost ghost-looking, floated its way from under the ground and roared, scaring the shit out of Draco.
"Bloody hell!" he yelled.
Hearing the noise, Hermione walked over to where Draco was. The lion saw her and bowed much like how Gallagar did. It then, stepped to the side allowing her to enter the stair case.
"I believe this is mine Malfoy" she said with a smirk.
"Oh really Granger? I hadn't noticed" Draco spat back sarcastically.
Hermione gave a small chuckle and walked up the stairs to her room.
Draco headed towards the other stair case and the serpent floated from under the floor, bowed, and let him pass. I love how I get treated like royalty here though Draco. He then looked at the lion. The lion gave him a piercing glare with its golden eyes. Bloody Gryffindors he thought and walked up to his room.
Hermione reached the top of the stair case to see a tall golden door with her initials over a lion engraved in red, much like how the armchair was. She opened the door and entered the room. She gasped. It was luxurious! The entire room was of the Gryffindor colors. Her bed sheets were made of silk and were gold while her blanket was red with again, her initials over a lion right in the middle of it. In fact, everything had her initials over a lion. It was like the royalty treatment. She even had a beautiful canopy over her bed made of the softest material she's ever felt.
All her pictures were placed at the perfect places. She opened her wardrobe and saw that all her clothes were indeed inside. She had a wardrobe, two night stands on either side of her bed, a desk with a chair, a big shelf that held her pictures and other personal items and it was all made of a dark mahogany. She looked at her desk and saw that there was something on it that didn't belong to her. She walked over to find another note:
Ms. Granger,
Here is a gift from us at Hogwarts. We know you'll enjoy it
Headmaster,
Albus Dumbledore
She put down the note and saw every type of quill there was! There was also various colors of ink and a never ending supply of parchment, also of different colors. There were even items of all three that had different scents. This was such a great gift in Hermione's point of view. She absolutely loved it.
She walked to a door and opened it to find Draco inside. It turned out that their bathroom connected both their rooms. Hermione looked a little passed him to see what his room looked like. It looked exactly like hers, but with the Slytherin theme. She then turned back to look at what Draco was doing.
"Wow, we even have personal towels with our initials on it!" said Hermione as she noticed the red and green towels hanging on the side of both the bath tub and shower. Yes, that's right; they had a shower and a bath tub!
"Yup, did you get a gift from Dumbledore too?" asked Draco.
"Yeah, I did!" she said happily. She shifted to the side so that Draco could see all her stuff sitting on her desk. "And I love it! What did you get?"
Draco shifted to the side as well to reveal very professional looking Quidditch gear from gloves to pads, to undershirts. He even had cleaning materials for his broom! "I could say exactly the same for my gift" said Draco.
Hermione looked at him and smiled.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" asked Draco feeling a little uncomfortable.
"Haha, because we're actually having a conversation and not yelling at each other or making snide remarks" Hermione said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Oh…well I guess you're right" Draco said feeling slightly dumb.
Then there was an awkward silence.
"Well," said Hermione uncomfortably, "I'm gonna get my stuff and go shower and get ready for bed. I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yup" he said simply and he walked back to his room and shut the door.
Hermione locked the door leading to Malfoy's room, got her stuff, and took a shower. After getting ready for bed, she took one last look around her room and went to bed.
After Hermione took a shower, Draco made sure that no one was in the bathroom before he entered and took a shower himself. He couldn't help but notice that the entire bathroom smelled like cinnamon and honey. He too went back into his room and drifted off to sleep, dreading the next day when classes begin.
(A/N)Kind of a long chapter hehe.
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