A/N: thanks to girl of ireland 44 for being my first reviewer!
When I started writing this chapter, I realized that I hadn't planned any huge or major events like what happened in the books, and I decided that this would be a story about how school went for normal students without lightning bolt scars and an evil snake dude hell bent on revenge chasing after them was like. Doesn't mean they won't get into trouble though!
Yeah, I'm planning on doing a story for each of the seven years, but hey, this is only chapter three of the first story, so I don't know. Anyway, I'll stop rambling and let you get on to the story now.
P.S. I am open to suggestions for the story name, because I couldn't think of anything really good at the time. Ok, now you can truly get on with the story.
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Early the next morning, the 1st year Gryffindor girls dormitory woke far earlier than they would have liked. Whomever had brought up their belongings the night before had also set free Evangeline and Tessa, Drew and Cayla's cats. So, at 5:30 in the morning, the girls found themselves awake, due to the two cats yowling to be let in. Nobody had thought to leave the door open for them the night before.
Before any of the girls could get up to do anything about it, however, someone let them in.
"Good morning girls!" Katherine sang as she followed the cats through the door. She showed no sign of being tired from the late night they'd all had. "Rise and shine! It's 5:30 and breakfast starts in an hour!"
"Why can't the day start later?" Bailee groaned. Drew couldn't help agreeing as she sat up and petted a now-content and purring Evangeline.
"Because, if you get an early start, you won't have to spend so much time doing stuff you don't want to!" Katherine explained cheerfully.
"Wiles! Don't torture the poor things so early on their first day!" Another girl called through the doorway. "Although you had better hurry up if you want to shower any time soon. All the stalls are gonna be full."
As if to prove her point, three girls passed by with their uniforms and toiletries.
Anju sighed. Nevertheless, she slid out of bed and grabbed her own uniform and bathroom supplies.
"You all coming?"
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After the girls showered and dressed, they stopped back at their dormitory to grab their messenger bags and went down to the common room. They greeted and made introductions with Luc, Leo, Danny, Rusty and Everett, the boys' other dorm mate. With some help from Katherine and Dominic, they made their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"I am Professor Carby. I am the Head of Gryffindor House, and I will be distributing your schedules." He slowly made his way down the table, just as the other heads of houses were doing. Professor Carby stopped at every student, waved his wand over the topmost sheet of parchment in the stack he carried, and handed it to said student.
All ten of the Gryffindor 1st years had the same schedule. Their first class of the day was potions with the Slytherin 1st years.
After eating their food and an encouraging speech from the Headmistress, the group went in search of the potions classroom.
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They found the class with ten minutes to spare. The professor hadn't arrived yet, but the Slytherins had.
"Oh look, it's the Gryffindorks!" said a boy Drew recognized to be Max Wallace, one of the few students that had been sorted after her. The rest of the Slytherins laughed.
"Oh look, it's the Slythergits!" Luc mocked. Max sobered up at once. He took a step towards Luc.
"You Gryffindors think you're so great. Just you wait. We'll beat you for the House Cup this year!"
Rusty stepped up next to Luc. "How could you do that? I heard that the Slytherins have come in last for the last twenty years!"
Max diverted his attention to Rusty. He studied the other boy before speaking. "You must be one of the mudbloods that they were talking about."
All of the Gryffindors present who knew the meaning of the term immediately whipped out their wands.
"Take it back!" Leo snarled, pointing his wand at Max.
Drew was confused. She had no idea what mudblood meant, but she took out her own wand, upon seeing some of the other Slytherins do the same. She didn't want to be totally defenseless if they started dueling, but she didn't really see how she would be able to help, given that she didn't know very much magic.
"Wands away! I'll not have fighting in my class!" The potions mistress had arrived.
Max looked startled as he hastily stuffed his wand into his pocket. "Professor Newcomb!"
"What is the meaning of this argument?"
Before Max could weave up some nasty lie, which he looked about ready to do, Danny jumped in. "He called them mudbloods!" Danny gestured towards Drew, Cayla, Rusty and Everett.
Professer Newcomb turned on the Slytherins. "Is this true?"
A girl name Tori Cawley piped up,"No! He didn't! They're lying!"
The potions mistress became angry. "If you're going to become your idea of a proper Slytherin, at least live up to your own standard and become a better liar. But I'm warning you, if you do lie to me, I will not hesitate to use Veriteserum on you."
Tori blushed furiously at being caught.
"Fifty points from Slytherin, five from every one of you."
Max looked outraged. "But that's not fair!"
"Would you like me to take fifty from each of you, Mr. Wallace?" the woman asked. "I'll have no qualms about taking five hundred points from my own house if it is punishing a statement as severe as calling your fellow students mudbloods."
The Gryffindors would have loved for the Slytherins to be docked five hundred points on their first day, but Max finally decided to shut his trap.
"Now, everyone to your seats. I have a class to teach, and I expect you to learn."
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By the time third hour had come around, everybody had heard about the incident. Mostly, the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were happy. Even so, people rarely got docked so many points, and also most students loathed the term mudblood with a passion.
Since it was still relatively warm out, Professor Longbottom, the herbology teacher, took the class out to the lake to study the water plants in the shallows. It wasn't required that they actually get in the water, so many of the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws had opted for dry land, although Drew, Anju, Felicity and Rusty had decided to get a bit wet. They were only up to their knees, but Drew and Rusty managed to dig up some rare Gillyweed, earning Gryffindor ten extra points, and a few laughs when Felicity shrieked when they showed it to her.
"Hey, Leo!" One of the Ravenclaw boys whispered as the professor went on about the particular plant he was holding. "Did you really pin Max to the ceiling of the Potions classroom?"
"What?" Leo looked bewildered as his attention was fully taken away from the diagram of Gillyweed he'd been drawing. "Where did you here that?"
"It was one of the rumors going around."
"Well, no, I didn't. But I would have if could have."
"Nice!" One of the Ravenclaw girls, a black girl named Tanya, exclaimed.
"I hope you're finishing up those diagrams and drawings. They're for your first grade in this class!" Professor Longbottom called from the water. The students that had volunteered to go into the water were exempt, but the quills in the hands of the students on land quickly resumed their scratching.
A/N: Now that the Gryffindor-Hates-Slytherin relationship has been established, I do believe I have opened doors for future events in this storyline! Yay!
Anyway, I was not expecting to be able to update three days in a row! This is the longest story I've ever written, and I'm not even done! I've decided that every chapter I write will be at least a thousand words. This one came in at just over 1,000, not counting author's notes of course!
Again, I would really appreciate more reviews! If you have a helpful idea for this story, I would love to hear it too. New story names too!
Felicity: whining Why did I have to be the one to scream?
Me: Because I said so.
Felicity: You're mean!
Luc: You know, I thought it was funny.
Felicity: hits Luc over the head with a heavy Transfiguration textbook Nobody asked you!
Luc: sticks his tongue out at Felicity
Felicity: chases Luc out of the room
Anyway, thanks for reading. Now please review.
