The Snake Pit
-Gabriella's p.o.v.-
"This way first years!" A tall older slytherin boy yelled out from the end of the table.
"My goodness Elliot look how small and cute they are." The girl next to him smiled ever so sweetly.
"Bridgette, they are first years, we are fifth years, they aren't that cute." The boy apparently named Elliot laughed.
"Just be nice and friendly, don't be another pompous prat or jerk." Bridgette smiled then continued, "Come along first years."
"Okay, this is the Grand Staircase and is the way to all of the common rooms. Now follow us and keep quiet about the place of our common room." Elliot said.
"Here we are, now the password is Salazar. I'll explain it when we get inside." Bridgette stated. As a door appreared out of no where along the wall. "Go on, go in firsties."
"Welcome to the Slytherin Common room, first year dorms are right through that door, every year we switch rooms, so next year you'll get a new room." Elliot explained.
"You'll find that all your belongings have already been brought up." Bridgette smiled again and continued, "Now here is our head girl and boy."
"Hello, my name is Kara Zoins and I am the Head Girl." A pretty girl with honey blonde hair smiled to us.
"Hey firsties, my name is Leander Zonem and I am obviously the Head Boy." A cute boy with short dark blonde hair smirked.
"We are here to help you with anything and to patrol the halls and several other things. If you need anything come to us or one of the four prefects in Slytherin. You've already met our 5th year prefects, Bridgette Dumbledore and Elliot Williams; the 6th year prefects are, Sydney Clark and Sam Washe; the other 7th year prefects are, Ryan Davis and Natala Linkin" Kara explained to us.
"Also, there are a set of rules here in Slytherin and they are to respect and aide one another outside of this common room even if you dislike that person; be in your dorms by 9 pm on weekdays and by 11 pm on weekends but lights out is 10:30 pm on weekdays, while on weekends lights out is 12:30 pm; you shall do your home work every night and never be late; and one last rule, don't fight or bicker outside of this common room we must work together, united. " Leander explained.
"Here is Professor Snape to tell us which rooms and who your rooming with for the next 7 years." Kara said smiling.
"Welcome to Slytherin and now I will start with the girls: Tracey Davis and Hermione Granger are in Room 1F; Daphne Greengrass and Pansy Parkinson are in Room 2F; Gabriella Potter and Precious Zranski are in Room 3F; and finally, Millicent Bulstrode and Elizabeth Linkin are in Room 4F. Now for the boys: Gregory Goyle and Draco Malfoy are in Room 5F; Theodore Nott and Harrison Potter are in Room 6F; and finally, Blaise Zabini and Damon Ztiller are in Room 7F. You may go and since tonight is Friday night you are free to stay out til 11 pm, and remember lights out at 12:30 pm. Good Night, first years see you tomorrow morning when you recieve your time tables." Professor Snape said before leaving ever so quickly, however before he left he looked back at me and just had that look of disbelief.
"There is another thing, breakfast is served in the Great Hall every morning starting at 6 am until 8:10 am. Classes begin at 8:30 am every morning, goodnight first years." Kara said while leaving with Leander.
"Just give us a shout if you need any help we're through that door." Bridgette pointed the door right across from ours down the hall way off the common room.
"Well Gab it's nothing like I imagined, it's better." Harry smiled at me as we went into the hall that held all of our rooms.
As you walked into the hall, you saw a great big area with a fireplace, television, (A.N: this is the 21st century, hogwarts has become digital, hope it makes sense alittle bit) a few couches, kitchenette, book shelfs, games and this huge bay window. The window was beautiful because when you looked out you saw the Black Lake, like literally into the Black Lake, and it had a ledge with pillows and places to sit.
"Hello, Gabriella" I heard a girl say from behind me. I turned around and found a girl with long auburn hair and silver eyes looking at me.
"Hello?" I questioned her.
"I'm Precious Zranski, you're room mate?" She said smiling.
"Oh, sorry I forgot already, so we're going to be rooming together for the next 7 years huh?" I smiled back. We walked til we found a door with a sign that read: Gabriella & Precious Room 3F.
When the door opened to reveal a giant room with a window just like the one in the mini common room that we had but only smaller, two desks with bookshelfs next to them, two small chest of drawers for the both of us, there were two full length mirrors on either side of the room, beds on either side of the room, and a bathroom off the left of the room. This room was so pretty, it was dark green with silver accents and a little bit of black through out the room, our beds had a feminine look to them. I love my room!
"So do you mind if I pick this bed next to the window?" Precious asked me quietly.
"It's all yours, I like the one across from the window." I smiled at her.
Then I began unpacking my stuff from my trunk. I put all my clothes and uniforms into the two drawers I had then began putting my jewelry and my personal belongings into the cuboard on the chest of drawers. My art supplies went into the drawers attached to the desk and my new I-Pod went on the desk. Pictures of my brother and I, along with the pictures of mom and I went onto a shelf on my bookcase and then followed my many books. Then on the nightstand next to my bed I put the most precious picture of any I had in my posession. The picture of Harry, mom and me, taken at the beach this previous summer during the month mom had us.
Mom had taken us all kinds of places during the summer. We went to the beaches of Italy during a business trip mom took, the London Zoo on a day that we celebrated our birthday, she also took us to the Stone Henge and to Rome, Italy to see the Colossum. She said that we deserved to have a good summer before we went off to Hogwarts. She also said that what her sister did was not right and that she would understand if we never thanked her or James for what they had done.
I turned around and looked at Precious's side of the room and saw that she was into music just like Harry. I saw a lot of posters of muggle bands and artists. There was a guitar sitting against the desk and a piano on the desk. She also had a ton of books on music, she shared Harry's love for music alright.
"You sure do love music" I commented.
"Oh, I just love it, both my parents are musicians their classically trained though. They play in the London Symphony Orchestra. My older sister Addie is classically trained on the piano, while my little sister Isabella is classically trained on the violin. I'm the only one of my family to play a guitar and not be classically trained. I told my parents that I loved music but the modern punk/rock or pop/rock stuff. They understood my wishes and bought me a guitar for my birthday." Precious smiled at me.
"That's cool, my brother Harry can play the piano really good, I've heard him play it only a hand full of times but he's magnificent to my mind." I smiled back.
"That's awesome, well I'm going to go take a shower and put my pajamas on do you need in there?" She asked me.
"Nope, I'm just going to go visit my brother, see you later." I said before leaving the room.
-Harry's p.o.v.-
"Hello, I'm Theodore but you can call me Theo." A boy with short brown hair and hazel eyes said to me.
"I'm Harrison but you can all me Harry." I shook the boys hand then we started off to look for our dorm. We found a door with a sign that read: Theodore & Harrison Room 6F.
We walked into our room and found another window similar to the one like in our mini common room only smaller, a set of bunk beds on the wall across from the window, two desks with bookshelfs next to them, two dressers, and a bathroom off the right side of our room. The room was a dark green with black accents, our beds had a black comforter on them and green pillows, kind of masculine. I liked my room, enough room to explore my love for music.
"So I'm going to take the bottom bunk is that alright?" Theo asked me.
"Sure, I like the top bunk anyways, so if you don't mind I'll take that desk over there n that dresser too?" I answered him.
"I don't mind at all, so what things are you into?" He asked as I got out my clothes and uniforms to put in the dresser.
"I'm into music, I love the modern pop/rock music. I play the piano, what do you like?" I said as I pulled out my piano and set it across my desk.
I piled my books into the bookshelf and put the most prized picutre in my posession. The picture of mom and Gab, they were sitting infront of the stone hedge that we visited this past summer. Next came my second favorite picture, Gab and I eating ice cream at a place in Rome, Italy.
"I'm into sports, quidditch even some muggle sports like basketball and football. (A.N: soccer is called football in Europe according to my spanish teacher) I also traveled to the States one summer when I was younger and fell in love with the sport baseball, it's so much fun." Theo smiled at me.
"I like quidditch, my mother says that my father was a fantastic quidditch player when he went to school here. I hope I'm a good quidditch player, too. So do you have any siblings?" I asked him.
"Yes, two older brothers, an older sister and one younger sister; they're names are: Benvolio Nott and he's graduated, Isidore Nott and he's a 6th year, Katerina Nott and she's a 3rd year, and then my younger sister Juliet Nott and she's ten years old." Theo explained.
"I only have two siblings, a brother and a sister and you know them, Christopher and Gabriella Potter." I stated kind of sad. I wanted a bigger family.
-knock, knock-
"I got it- Gab, bored already aren't you?" I smiled at my sister.
"Yeah I am very, was wondering if I could hang with you right now?" Gab asked me smiling innocently.
"If that's okay with you, Theo?" I asked my roommate.
"Yeah, no problemo. I'm Theodore but you can call me Theo." Theo smiled at my sister as they shook hands.
"I'm Gabriella but you can call me Gab." Gab smiled back at him.
"What does your room look like?" I asked her.
"Ehh, like yours but you have bunk beds and we don't, also the bathroom is on that side of the room." Gab explained before climbing onto the top bunk of the bunk beds.
"Theo, is that your copy of the Daily Prophet?" I asked him.
"Yeah, you can read it if you want? So Gab what things are you into?" Theo answered me.
"I like drawing and being artistic, I kinda of also like some sports." Gab confessed. She never told me that she liked sports. "The only two real muggle sport I like are football and volleyball, I use to watch the girls play all the time in gym class, then I also like quidditch."
"I like sports, too but i've never heard of volleyball before, what's it like?" He asked her.
"Well, there are six players, a net and a rectangular court, the object of the game is to hit the ball in bounds on the opposing teams side of the court." Gab smiled at him.
"Sounds easy enough, and I like football too. I use to play it in the muggle community I lived in growing up." Theo said quietly.
"I use to play it in gym class and at lunch with several other kids." Gab stated. "So you grew up in a muggle community, where?"
"In a small town called Sarzana, in Italy." Theo explained.
"Ah, so you speak Italian?" Gab asked.
"Some, my parents spoke fluent english to me growing up, whatever Italian I learned was from the other kids in school but most of my school also spoke English." Theo answered, then continued, "So where did you two grow up?"
"Well, we lived with our Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon until our eleventh birthday, then we moved back home with Mom, James and Christopher. We grew up in the town of Little Whinging, a sort of suburban area off of London." Gab explained to him. "So you went to a muggle school, just like us?"
"Yes, I went to a muggle school, very small and basic like. My mother passed away when I was a young child, so from then on out it has been my dad, me and my siblings. My mother was the person who held our family together, she kept my father from going completely evil. Ever since the accident, my family well actually, my father has drifted further apart from all of us. My mother was the one who encouraged us to take roles in the muggle world, she had been a half blood." Theo explained.
"I'm so sorry she passed away, and I'm also sorry about your family." I said quietly to him.
"Thank you, but I'm not looking for pity, I'm looking for a friend to confind in and I think I found two." Theo smiled at the both of us.
"I'd be glad to be your friend, so what else do you like?" I asked him smiling.
"Me too, I'd be grateful to be friends with you." Gab gave him a smile.
"Thank you, and I love to play video games; after all I am a guy." Theo laughed.
"Me too, I like the Call of Duty: Black Ops, I saw my cousin playing it and it looked really cool." I commented.
"I'd rather not spend all my time wasted away on video games, but for your information I could kick both your butts at Black Ops. When I was at Emma's house over the summer her brother let us play against them and I beat him, and his two friends." Gab explained giggling.
"Well, glad to know my sister is an expert at video games, gosh Gab what can't you do? Oh, that's right you can't play an instrument." I joked with her.
"Show me how to play the piano and I'll kick your but at that even." Gab joked back.
"Too much work, you'd have to learn how to read music and I don't want to teach you that. I think it's alright for you not to know how to play an instrument, we need a difference between us." I explained smiling.
"Well, I'm going to guess you guys are very competitive with things?" Theo laughed at us.
"Just a bit, wait til classes start, Gab and I will fight for the best grade. That reminds me of when we were little in kindergarten we would always compete in our class with each other. Then she was held back, but now we can be competitive again." I explained.
"Great, at least I know one of you will help me with my studies." Theo laughed at us, again.
"Yeah, I'll always be willing to help a fellow friend." Gab smiled taking the words right out of my mouth.
"So, I brought my game Black Ops, do you guys want to play?" Theo asked us. "I saw an Xbox 360 in the mini common room."
"Yeah, I'm going to kick your butts." Gab smiled as we left the room.
"Haha, right like that will happen." Theo laughed sinister like.
"I'm a beginner so take it easy on me." I said smiling.
The rest of the night we played Xbox games and even a few Wii games, it was interesting and a lot of fun. Gab won quite a few, so did Theo and I won like maybe two at the most. Gab wasn't lying when she said she could kick our butts at video games.
-Gab's p.o.v.-
"Good Morning, Ms. Potter, I'm here to help you and Ms. Zranski. My name is Sparkle, I am the girl's house elf advisor. If there is anything, anything at all that you or Ms. Zranski need at all just yell out my name and I will pop in for you." Sparkle smiled.
"Good Morning, to you too Sparkle, and thank you very much. Oh, and by the way you can call me Gab." I smiled back at her. She was so small and delicate looking and nice.
"Okay, Gab is there anything you need this morning?" Sparkle asked me.
"Not that I know of but if I think of anything, I'll just give you a shout." I answered before going into the bathroom to take a shower. Twenty mins later I come out to find Precious looking at the clothes on her bed.
"So this is our uniform" Precious held up a black skirt, white blouse, green/silver/black tie and a black cloak.
"Apparently, but I'm going to spice it up a bit." I said looking at her with a grin.
"Oh yeah, good idea, maybe some white leggings and maybe some boots. I don't know." Precious rambled on before going into the bathroom.
"Are there any other uniform alternatives?" I asked her.
"Yeah, I think my sister said something about them letting us wear anything as long as it involves our house colors and our cloak's once we hit our third year." Precious asked as I put on my skirt.
I decided maybe a green cami under my blouse would look cute and green flip flops. Then I put on my new necklace that my mother gave me as a late birthday gift. It was from a store in Muggle London. However, my mother charmed it so I could never lose it and also nobody can steal it. When I was done doing my hair and puting my clothes on, I grabbed my weightless bag and went to Harry's room.
-knock, knock-
"Harry, Theo you guy's up yet or are you two hiding because I kicked your butts at video games last night." I joked.
"We're up, you can come in." I heard Harry laugh.
"It's nice to hear you laughing again, bro." I smiled at him before going to sit in the window seat.
"Yeah, you too little sis." He joked with me.
"So Theo, you ready for class today?" I asked Theo.
"Yeah, It sounds like fun. I'm especially excited for Potions with Professor Snape." Theo answered.
"Me, too. Let's go eat first, though." Harry commented.
"Piggy" I smiled innocently to my brother.
"Haha, very funny shrimp." He smiled innocently back at me.
"I'll get you back for that one." I said when we arrived in the great hall.
"Let's sit over here." Harry pointed to a seat towards the front of the table.
"Precious, do you wana join us?" I asked her as we passed by her.
"Sure" She smiled to me.
"Otay, we're gunna sit over here apparently." I led her towards our table. We chatted about our lives at home, our families, and about our fave hobbies that the four of us had. Then Professor Snape came up to the table holding seven stacks of paper.
"Morning, first years I'm going to call you up here in order and you will grab your schedule. Then head off to class... Now: Millicent Bulstrode, Tracey Davis, Gregory Goyle ... Harrison & Gabriella Potter, Blasie Zabini..." Professor Snape rattled off names.
"Mine says that on Mondays & Wednesdays I take: History of Magic, People Cultures, Muggle Studies, Potions, Literature I, Spanish I, and Life Science: Double. Tuesdays & Thursdays I take: Music, Transfiguration: Double, Charms, Flying Lessons: Double, Astronomy: Double. Then on Fridays I take: DADA, Pre-Algebra, Free Hour, Herbology, Literature I, Spanish I, Potions, and Life Science. Do you have the same, Harry?" I asked him.
"Yup" Harry said popping the 'p'.
"Guess we better get going to History of Magic with Professor Evans." I said to Harry and Theo.
"Yeah, guess so." Harry said sounding kind of bored.
"So does anybody have any idea where exactly History of Magic is located?" I asked to anybody in general.
"Oh, look theres a list on the back of our schedules." Millie said behind me. I looked and she was right there was a list. It stated that History of Magic was on the first floor along with a few other classes we had.
"Cool, so this way then." I said to the group.