"Ravenclaw!" It shouted and the Ravenclaws started cheering. Ravenclaw! I looked longingly at my cousins in Gryffindor and slowly sat down with the Ravenclaws. How could this happen! That hat even said I was brave. Well I guess I'm smarter than I am courageous. What would dad say? Oh he's going to be so angry with me. I sighed and looked at who was around me. I saw Ella a little further down and waved at her. I looked across from me and there was none other than Scorpious Malfoy.
"I guess we're both a little disappointed today." He said to me bitterly.
"And I guess our bet is off."
"Oh yeah." He hardly even seemed to care, he was so upset.
"So did your dad expect you to be in Slytherin then?" He nodded. "I know how it feels. Every single person in my family has been in Gryffindor. My mum, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt Ginny, uncle Harry, uncle George and his wife, uncle Bill, uncle Charlie, uncle Percy and his wife, James and now Albus. They're going to be so mad." I looked down at my shoes.
"Hey Rose!" Tom butted in. I glanced up and saw his beaming face. At least someone was happy to be here.
"Hey Tom." I said dully.
"This is great! Ravenclaw! We're going to do brilliant on our owls and everything. I was kind of nervous about that, but I guess that hat sees more potential in me than I do!" I could tell he was ecstatic to be thought of as wise, so I tried to smile along with him but he saw right through it. "You're not happy?" He said it like it was the most unconceivable thing on the planet.
"Well it's just… I…" I didn't know how to explain it to him.
"Everyone expected you to be in Gryffindor?" He asked. I just nodded and glanced over at Albus, laughing, having the time of his life and making new friends. Why couldn't that be me?
I noticed William Terry (he says to just call him Will) sit down next to me with a huge smile plastered on his face.
"Oh hey Rose, isn't it great we got in the same house?" He said ecstatically. "Oh Tom you're here too!" Things couldn't get more wonderful for Will. I looked over at Tom and he was signaling for Will to drop the whole Ravenclaw thing.
"Tom, Will, don't let me ruin your fun. You can freak out as much as you please." I said. They both shrugged and Tom moved beside Will so they could talk about how pleased their parents would be.
Before I could blink, the day was over. We had our feast (the only good part of the day so far, since I was allowed to sit with Albus and James for a while) and then got sent back to our common rooms. An older student named Jason Philly led us there and explained how the entrance worked. You had to answer a question to be able to get inside.
"What if we can't figure it out?" I said panicked.
"Then you have to wait for someone who can. That way you learn." He said. I rolled my eyes. All the Gryffindors had to do was remember a stupid password. We got assigned rooms. I was with 4 other girls: Rena Temalrk, Hannah Josephs, Georgia Landon and Karris McLaggen.
"So you're Tom's sister." I said, hoping to become friends with her as well as her brother.
"Yes." She said snobbishly.
"I've talked to him a little bit. He seems nice."
"And?" She spat at me. She had dark blonde hair like her brother, but hers was long and straight. Her eyebrows were perfectly plucked and her face was perfectly manicured, quite unlike me.
"I w – I was just making conversation." I stuttered and kept to re-packing my things.
"Don't mind her." Georgia, whose bed was next to mine whispered, "I hung around her last summer while our parents were friends. She has quite a temper, but she can be okay when she feels like it."
"When will that be?" I asked.
"Close to never." We laughed together.
"Why is her brother so different from her?" I asked.
"Oh I suppose they both take after one of their parents. It's quite an odd situation actually. Their mother Jenna McLaggen was in Slytherin, but she's probably the most cheerful and friendly lady you could ever find. I don't know what she did to make it in Slytherin… but anyways Tom is so much like her. And their father Cormac McLaggen is… brutish. Really. Not to mention, rude, arrogant and a whole load of other things. Well Karris is exactly like him. And both their parents were brilliant in school, so I guess that's how they ended up in Ravenclaw."
"That is weird. I thought Slytherins were supposed to be mean and Gryffindors nice." I said.
"Yes I know. Oh there is one more thing…" She started, but didn't get to finish due to the huge bang outside of their room. We all went running and saw none other than Scorpious Malfoy on the floor, laying next to a broken lamp, looking like he had been hit by a Petrificus Totalus hex. Tom was standing above him with his wand out. He looked around nervously at everyone watching.
"Tom!" Karris shouted. "What did you do? You'll get yourself expelled! There's no need to brag about how good your hexes are!"
"No." Tom said in a hushed voice, trying to not start a commotion. "He provoked me… I was just so mad…" I knew how he felt.
"Don't worry Tom, just undo it and nobody can blame you for being provoked by a Malfoy."
"But I don't know how! I only read up on how to do it." He said nervously.
"I'll do it." I quickly undid the spell and Scorpious got up looking ticked.
"How dare you hex me McLaggen!" He shouted at Tom.
"Back off Malfoy. Don't make me do it again." Tom said threateningly.
"Guys just stop!" I screamed in frustration. "What is this even about?"
"Nothing." Scorpious and Tom said together quickly. I eyed them suspiciously, but neither of them would meet my eyes. I shrugged and walked back to my room mates.
"That was exciting." I said.
"More like annoying." Karris said rolling her eyes and walking back to our room. Rena walked back up with her but Hannah, Georgia and I stayed in the common room talking. We sat in three big dark blue comfy chairs with bronze tassels.
"Tell me about your family." I said to Hannah and Georgia.
"Well I'm a half-blood. My parents were both wizards and witches, but my dad's a mudblood. My mom's name is Serena Josephs and she works in the Auror's Department in the Ministry of Magic." Hannah said.
"My dad works there!" I exclaimed.
"What's his name?" She asked.
"Ronald Weasley. Ask your mum to see if she knows him." Hannah nodded and continued. Her dad ran a book shop in Diagon Alley.
"You may've seen him there when you got your books." She said. "He has really dark brown hair with some grey in it." Georgia went next.
"I'm a muggle-born, so my background's not that interesting." She said.
"Nonsense! My grandparents are muggles." Georgia smiled at me.
"Well they run an auto shop together." She said. Hannah and I both looked confused, so she elaborated. "They fix cars."
"Oh my granddad would love that!" I said.
"The muggle?" She asked.
"Oh no, my wizard granddad. He loves muggle things."
We talked into the night and headed up to bed yawning. Things were already looking up.