"Rise and shine ladies!" A screeching voice said, awakening me from my dreamless sleep. Startled, I sat straight up in my bed. There was a floating letter with a face that was screaming at us.

"Although I left last night I wanted to send you this letter to make sure you got up on time. So up, up, up before you miss breakfast." It continued. "With love, Professor Carmichael."

"Well that sure got me up." Hayden said.

"Yeah really!" Shyla, another girl, complained.

I swung my legs over the side of my bed and stood up. I went to the chest sitting at the end of my bed and grabbed another one of our house uniforms, this one was different than the dress uniform, but only because it was made of less expensive material. The uniform was still a dress. It had a high neckline and came down to our knees. It was fitted around the waist and again it was in our house colors. We also had to wear the same terrible silver heels.

"Ready?" Hayden asked after I had changed.

"I guess." I replied as I started down the stairs.

There were a lot of nervous girls congregated in the common room.

"All right ladies, we can do this! Let's show 'em what Alabama's got!" Avril shouted.

Everyone smiled, knowing that they could always depend on Avril to break the tension. We waited for a couple more girls to get ready so that we could all go together. We were the newbies and we knew that we had to stick together, especially on the first day.

We walked down to the Great Hall and took our seats at the middle table. Before anyone had time to put any food on their plates, owls filled the Great Hall. Letters, packages, and postcards were dropped everywhere. A few people from Domina Notoria got a letter or package, but not many. I didn't get anything, but that wasn't out of the usual…

After we ate, a bell chimed and everyone got up. I assumed that it was the bell for the first class I grabbed my schedule (timetable, whatever you want to call it) out of the pages of one of my textbooks.

"Tuesday-

9:00-10:00 Transfiguration"

I had no idea where to even start looking for a Transfiguration class. I considered asking one of the teachers, but the only one I saw was a man in black robes that had a cold looking face, and truthfully, was sort of scary looking.

Come on Noel, you can do this. I tapped the shoulder of the boy in front of me. He had flaming red hair and when he turned around I noticed a playful twinkle in his eyes.

"Um, excuse me, where is the Transfiguration class?"

"Now why would a pretty thing like you want to go to that dreadful place?" He asked.

"Um, well—" I didn't really know what to say besides that it was my first class. I could feel my face turn bright red. "Well… it's my first class. I'm new here and- "

"No need to get your knickers in a twist, I was just messing with you." He said with a wide smile on his face. "I'll take you there since I have a free period."

We walked a little and he stopped in front of a large classroom that was already half-filled.

"Well, this is it. Have fun, although I do have to warn you, McGonagall's strict." He said.

"Thank you." I said as he started to walk off. "For showing me… where the class is."

"You're quite welcome, need any more help, just ask." He said with a smile. "Name's Fred by the way."

I smiled as I walked into the classroom and took one of the only empty seats… which just happened to be at the very front of the classroom.

The late bell chimed and Professor McGonagall cleared her throat to quiet the class. I looked around to see if there were any other girls from Domina Notoria. Hayden was sitting next to a girl with short brown hair and hard looking face. She had a green crest on her robes. Hayden seemed to be getting along with her.

"I would like to welcome all our new students to the class. I am Professor McGonagall, and I will be teaching you Transfiguration. I will warn you, I do not tolerate any fooling around. With that, I will now assign our new students a guide to show them around. Hogwarts students, if you are assigned a new student, I expect you to be helpful. Now, it seems that we only have three Domina Notoria students in this class. Hayden Blackwell, your guide will be Pansy Parkinson."

Hayden smiled to the girl she was sitting beside.

"Olivia Etheridge, your guide will be Hermoine Granger. And, let's see, Noel Hollingberry, your guide will be Luna Lovegood.

"Now if I you are a new student, please stay after class to meet your guide. Which means Miss Parkinson, Miss Granger, and Miss Lovegood will need to stay after class as well. Now, we will start on today's lesson."

After an hour had passed the bell chimed again to signal the next class. I almost left when I remembered that I had to stay after class to meet my guide.

"Miss Hollingberry, this is Miss Lovegood. She will take you around to your class, and if you have any questions, you may ask her." Professor McGonagall said.

"I'm Luna." She said in a light airy voice then stuck out her hand.

"Noel." I replied as I took her hand and shook it.

"What's your next classs?" She asked as we walked out of the classroom.

I took out my schedule and read:

"Tuesday-

10:00-11:00 Charms"

"Charms." I replied.

"That's with Professor Flitwick. You'll like him. He's very nice."

"Hmmm." I said, not really knowing what to say.

"Are you singing in the choir tonight?"

I had completely forgotten about singing tonight. All of a sudden I got really nervous.

"Yes." I replied.

"That's lovely. I really enjoy music." She said staring off into the distance.

"Me too."

"Well, here we are." She said.

I sort of spaced out during Charms. It was one of my favorite subjects, and I loved learning, but all I could think about was I have to sing in front of the whole school tonight.

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