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Chapter 3: The First Day

"Bloody hell! Get off me! What time is it? Are you barking mad?" screamed Alicia as we stared down at her tired face. We looked down at her. She looked like a sleeping angle despite her furious face and her pumpkin juice drenched pajamas.

The reason for her drama was the time. It was 5:45 AM and we (Katie, Stella, and I) were standing above her and pouring ice cold pumpkin juice on to her face. This was partially 'cause we were bored, Stella and I knew each other and had gotten up extra early to chat and paint our nails. It was also because of something Alicia did the night before. After the feast we had talked forever and had ended up betting Alicia 5 Sickles if we managed to wake her up before 6. She sleeps like a rock so Stella ended up using an Arousing Charm her brother had taught her as well as pumpkin juice.

"Not barking mad I'm afraid… maybe clinically….. What 'bout you, Katie?"I said in a mockingly high and slow voice.

"The doctors say I'm just going through a…phase…"she said on cue, as she giggled and grinned down at the angrily awaking black haired angel below.

"But it's only 5:45 AM! Honestly, SCARLETT! - let me sleep and I'll give you 6 Sickles," said Alicia again….

"7 Sickles? Eight? I might be able to scrap up nine if you two… LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"I don't know… what do you think Stella? As the eldest and most responsible…..HAHAHAHA!" Katie burst out in a fit of laughter after her attempt at absolute seriousness. Alicia couldn't help it and grinned. Then we sat down and began to play Truth or Dare till we got ready for the first school day.

"Bloody hell!! I can't believe it! My aunt wants me to wear this on my first day," I exclaimed as I examined the hand knit sweater with a glittery princess on it. I mean I'm eleven years old. I might have liked the sweater when I was like five and had absolutely no fashion sense and my biggest dream was to become a princess and get rescued by a knight in shining armor on a pink glittering horse being. Nothing against my aunt and her knitting skills, but when I reexamined the sweater I noticed it was at least four sizes too big. Does she think I'm fat?

"It's a gross exaggeration of one of the Weasley sweaters. Don't you think Katie?" Alicia asked as she came out of the bathroom.

I slipped in and showered quickly. I put in my contact lenses clumsily and stared into the mirror at my honey brown eyes, my braces and the red blond curls that framed my face and stopped around my chin. I sighed, wishing my hair was longer and I could french braid it or make a side ponytail like I used to. Sadly though, it was short- thanks to my brother and a small argument over gum that had not ended out well on my half. Therefore I just brushed my hair lightly and added a barrette. Then I applied some lip gloss, skipping the eye shadow and adding a little mascara. I pulled on my Hogwarts robes and went down the stairs from the dormitory into the common room. The bottom of the stairs were shimmering in a light green color and it looked to me like someone aka Fred and George had poured gnome saliva over it in a miserable attempt at a prank. Gnome saliva was extremely sticky and smelled nasty after a few hours so it would have been the perfect trick. Luckily, the original four founders had decided that the girls could be trusted to go into the boys dormitory where as the boys couldn't get into the girls. I'm not sure what prevented them but I thought my mum mentioned that it involved a lot of slipping and pain. Anyway, maybe she was wrong.

When Stella and Alicia were ready and we had wasted a lot of time and decided Katie could catch up, we went down to the Great Hall. The Fat Lady and her friend violet had dozed off after countless bottles of wine to celebrate the new first years and were muttering drunkenly. When we entered the Great Hall I was surprised to find it not as festive as it had been the previous night. The four tables were still there, but they were not decorated with banners and the festive food too had vanished to become replaced with all sorts of breakfast foods such as sausages, scones, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, various marmalade, muffins, pastries, cereals and a variety of teas.

I sat down next to George and Fred and stole a piece of toast from Fred or George's plate. Promptly, while Fred or maybe George was talking to Lee, I stole his strawberry marmalade. After spreading my piece of toast with strawberry jam thickly I set them down.

"Oi! You, there! I was using that." Fred or George, I still can't tell them apart, shot at me narrowing his eyes.

"Sure you were. You weren't WAY to busy talking with Lee to even notice that I put bubotuber pus on your toast instead of jam."I said laughing as Fred or George's eyes, bulged out, glanced at the toast and then glared at me maliciously. Katie and Alicia cracked up. "By the way even a birdbrain like you should have realized my name is Scarlett… not you!"

"If you weren't a girl….."He said threateningly as his eyes flashed.

"What? If I weren't a girl I wouldn't have dared to get near your toast?" I rolled my eyes and slowly began chewing my toast. Fred landed a light punch near my shoulder. I slugged him back in the shoulder. He stared at me his eyes watering in pain.

"Yeah, Alicia, if Scarlett weren't a girl…"said Katie, "Oh by the way, thanks Scarlett."

"No problem. Wait what?" I said slowly as Alicia and Stella grinned at my self confidence.

"It looks like we can finally tell the twins apart now..."

Have I ever told you I have the devils luck? Sure I just managed to wound a guys pride and prove that no I'm not a wimp… yet no a dark shadow is cast over me. Quite literally. Professor McGonagall's towering figure looked even more threatening in emerald green robes as she cast her catlike austere eyes at us goofing off.

"I hope you're just as eager in Transfiguration as you were just now, Miss Winterbourne. These are your class schedules."

Surprisingly, after she had given us our schedules and as she left I felt sure I caught a glimpse of a smile cross her stern face. Anyway I turned around and gazed at the parchment she had given us.

"Potions is first and then Transfiguration and tomorrow we've got Herbology and History of Magic. What have you got, Stells?" I said peering over her shoulder and reading an identical schedule.

"I think we all got the same one. Right? Transfiguration, Herbology, Flying and Charms are the only classes we've got with Hufflepuff… and we've luckily only got Potions and Astronomy with the Slytherins."

"What! Hold your horses! We've got flying?" I shrieked enthusiastically, so loud that several people stared at me, like I was the one who was crazy.

Stells nodded and groaned. She couldn't fly at all. I used to come over to her house often so that we could hang out and practice playing Quidditch. Her brothers had two beautiful Cleansweep 260s that I always borrowed. Stella knew how to fly but had never really mastered the whole landing without crashing thing. Luckily, as long as she was in the air she was really a great Keeper. Her little sister on the other hand was really good.

"You can fly?" I heard an all too familiar evil snarling voice as Theodore Lestrange came past. He looked at me spitefully.

"A Mudblood like her?!" said Lucia Parkinson, giggling like a hyena. "I thought you had to know how to do magic to stay on your broom."

Fred and George sprung into action. They looked scary now. It wasn't like earlier when Fred and George had glared at me. This time their eyes were like burning coals and they looked like they would beat him up. One of them, I think it was Fred, because of his bruised arm, used his leg to make Lucia bend over backwards while George pushed Theodore down. No way were they getting in trouble for that dung like Lestrange…

"You guys don't have to…. It's okay, I'll live," I said as I yanked George away from Theodore and Katie and a short girl from Hufflepuff pushed Lucie away from Fred's flailing and clawing arms.

"Twenty points from Gryffindor for harassing of innocent students. Really I'd expect better behavior so early in term." Sneered a nasal voice as a greasy haired professor passed. It was Professor Snape and he was the Head of Slytherin House. Once again I've got the luck of the devil. "Not so fast you. Winterbourne, you've got a detention. In my office Monday evenings every week for let's say…. A month."

Fred, George and I opened their mouths to protest, but Alicia and Katie apparently knowing from experience, held their hands over our mouths. "No, you guys. Don't risk it. By the way thanks for your help. My name's Scarlett." I said directing my eyes to the Hufflepuff who had helped us.

"It is only your first day. You should know better than to fight with Slytherins. Anymore behavior like this and I'll have to tell your mother. It is my duty as a prefect," stated Percy in the most pompous matter ever. Honestly, I just wanted to punch him.

"Right now I want to fight with you," Fred muttered under his breath.

"My duty as a prefect is to be the most pompous arrogant arse in the whole building," said George mockingly as he stared at the back of Percy's head as it bobbed away.

I grimaced at it and then turned to Fred and George. I was shorter than them by a full head, but I was also positive that my growth spurt would catch up with me soon. Or at least I hoped...

"Great help you guys," I said sarcastically.

"You are soooooooo welcome," Fred gushed out in a girlie manner as if he didn't understand the great amounts of sarcasm laced between my every word. I rolled my eyes and then thanked the girl form Hufflepuff and asked what her name was.

"I'm Nina." She said dreamily as she skipped, yes she skipped, off. I turned to the twins and my newly acquainted friends and then I slowly went up the stairs to the common room.

I haven't even had my first class and I already have detention for the month. Great! I thought sarcastically.And to make it all better I have Potions with the Slytherins and Professor Snape next. I groaned.

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