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Chapter 2: Opening Night

The great hall was filled with chatter as old friends reunited. Alicia and Ashley ignored this. They were back in school… back to where they were invisible. Nobody would notice two Raven Claws. No, as always, all attention was on the Gryffindors and Slytherins. They would live out their last year in the height of the war. Gryffindor got most of the attention. They were the house that was filled with so many goody-two-shoes, that it was sickening. The great hall went silent as the grand doors opened. The old oak wood creaked in protest as Professor McGonagall walked through. Small first years scurried behind her in great fear. Their eyes dashed to the upperclassmen as if they were from another planet. Ashley giggled; she loved the way children got. Alicia could feel the wide grin on her sisters' face. The only one she got on this day.

It was not long until the entire hall was filled with talking again. The sorting had been short, considering many parents refused to send their children to school as such a time. The speech had taken up the time that the sorting would normally have taken. Alicia and her sister did not speak during dinner they opted to staying quiet. Instead, they listened, their sensitive ears picking up all the interesting things that happened to people over the summer. Soon, they both got uninterested; the conversations were becoming more 'private'. To private for the two innocent girls who sat away from the rest of their house.

Across the hall at the Gryffindor table, Hermione stared openly at the strange girls. She had seen them before around school, but never really got to knowing them. She felt bad, to say the least. Hermione was head girl; she was supposed to know everyone. Well at least, she figured she should. She shook her bushy head ridding herself of the thoughts that plagued her mind. She looked down at her plate; brown, crispy chicken leg, with warm mashed potatoes, and hot steamy corn. Yes, the food at Hogwarts was exquisite, at the expense of the house elves. A small yawn escaped her as the days events finally took its toll. Tomorrow classes would begin, and she could not wait! Slowly she tuned back in to the conversation around her.

"So I hear that Malfoy got head boy!" Seamus said with disgust. "Really? I heard it was Zambini…" "Oh I bet it's a Raven Claw!" She rolled her chocolate eyes. Pathetic bunch they were. She knew whom it was… she did not know why they did not just ask her. Ron turned to Hermione with a shy smile, "So 'Mione who IS the head boy?" Hermione smiled at him in response, "Harry is head boy. I'm surprised none of you even thought of that." "Bloody hell Harry! Is it true? Are you really head boy?" Before Harry could answer for himself, an annoyed voice interrupted, "Of course Potty got head boy! He is the old coots' favorite. I wouldn't be surprised if the two were gay lovers!" The group turned to a tall boy with blonde hair that fell into his blue-grey eyes. A sneer was pasted on his angular face, beside him a boy with black hair stood. He was about six foot even. Is eyes were an amazing blue that had long since captured the many hearts of the Hogwarts girls.

"Oh Malfoy shut up! Just because you are not suited to be head boy does not mean Harry did not deserve it." Hermione said with a growl of her own. "Shut it mudblood, no one asked for your opinion!" Malfoy gritted out, "Besides, I did deserve the position. I have far better grades then Pothead does! The only reason he even got the bloody job is because he's 'the-boy-who-won't-die!'" "Let's go Malfoy, these blunder heads don't deserve to be in our presence." Blaise Zambini said with a sneer of his own. They left in a billow of robes, much like their head of house.

Ashley and Alicia walked slowly towards their dorms. Their eyes did not stray from their straight path. Their feet made little sound on the way up the long winding staircase. They were the only people in the hall. It was refreshing to them. Their last moment of silence it seemed like. After tonight, they would once again be forced into the classrooms where they would have to cooperate with other students, and hide themselves from the judging eyes of others. They stopped outside a portrait of a large man hiding in the darkest part of the woods. A large moon shrouded by obstructing mist hung in the long black sky. Wolf howls could be heard in the back round. "Password…" The man whispered, his haunted eyes staring at them. "Pendulum," Ashley stated. "Very well…" The man muttered, swinging open for the two girls to enter. Alicia glanced at her sister, "What a weird portrait… I wonder why they gave it to Raven Claw." Ashley did not answer her sister, seeing, as she had no true answer. Ashley's eyes scanned the common room. A fire burned in the fireplace, the flames licking at the old blue carpet that was laid on the floor. A large couch that was bronze in color with dark blue pillows, and a blue throw-over blanket sat before an oak wood coffee table. A large plush armchair was two its right, and a bronze love seat to its left. Torches were scattered along the four walls. A window with a bench was opposite of the fireplace. Their was a single bookcase filled with books on every subject in the farthest corner. Ashley and Alicia ignored the familiarity of the common room and walked up the left staircase that lead to the girls' dormitory.

The dormitory was simple; normal size canopy beds were lined up along the walls, trunks at the foot of each one. A single bathroom was off to the side of the room. The two beds at the end of the room were Alicia and Ashley's. Their trunks sat at the foot of each bed. Alicia smiled as she ran towards the cage that was on top of her trunk. She pulled the black cloth from the cage, revealing a pure black owl with a white patch over its eye that trailed down to a tearstain like marking. It was Taya, a rare lunar owl. She was very important to them; their father had caught her as a present for their first year.

The owl hooted upon seeing its owners. She fluttered her wings as she waited for her cage door to open. Alicia smiled as she lifted the bar that held the cage shut and watched as Taya flew to Ashley's shoulder.

"She's missed us," Ashley whispered as she stared at the owl, Alicia nodded as she sat on the edge of her bed, "Oh and did you see Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are the Head Boy and Girl?" She asked her sister, as she held out her arm so Taya could land on it.

"I did, surprising isn't it?" Alicia muttered as she rolled her eyes, Taya hooted again, as she looked around the room, and then took out the window, "She must also be hungry." Alicia shuddered, "I hope she doesn't leave a rat in our room like she did last year."

"I hope so too, now get some rest." Ashley said as she threw a pillow at her, laughing when it hit her right in the face. Alicia growled and grabbed a bigger pillow and chased after her. "I was just playing Alicia!" Ashley laughed as she started running.

The girls outside the room shook their heads, "What a bunch of loonies." A 6th year said to her friends and they stuck up their noses and walked away.

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