Chapter 6: Ravenclaw
A/n: I don't own Harry Potter
Grace's/Hermione's POV:
Professor Beery led Hermione up the stairs to the Ravenclaw Common Room occasionally pointing out trick staircases and corridors leading to various classrooms. Finally, they got to the Common Room. As the big brass eagle doorknocker stared to speak, Hermione tried to look surprised,
" What comes first? the Phoenix or the feather?" the door asked.
"So you just have to answer the question? " Hermione asked.
Professor Beery nodded "Do you want to try?"
"Sure," Hermione turned to the door " A circle."
" Nicely phrased" the door said, and it swung open.
"How did you know that? It takes first years at least a couple hours to figure the question out? Sometime even the older years get stuck." wondered Professor Beery.
"Well I do read a lot and I got 11 O.W.L.s." she replied.
The professor nodded and followed Hermione into the Common Room.
The Common Room was perfect, there were large tables to do homework on and three big bookcases filled with books. A fireplace had fluffy blue armchairs and couches surrounding it. The centerpiece was a statue of Rowena Ravenclaw with the inscription: Wit beyond Measure is Man's Greatest Treasure. The Ravenclaw Common Room was bigger than the Gryffindor Common Room and it met all Hermione's needs. Most of the students were sitting doing homework and chatting while others were lounging on couches and reading books.
"Students! May I have your attention" called Professor Beery.
Everyone stared at them.
"This is a new student who has just been sorted into Ravenclaw. Her name is Gracelyn Columbe, please be nice to her." said Beery.
Professor Beery walked out of Ravenclaw tower after saying good luck to Grace. Most people went back to their work, but some people went up to her and introduced themselves.
"Hi!" a girl said, she had white blonde hair and had a vacant expression on her face, "I'm Jennifer Cairn."
This could be Luna's grandmother! She's more social than her though.
"I'm Oliver Boot" a sandy haired boy said.
This must be Terry's grandfather.
"This is Allison Wong." said Jennifer, she gestured to a Chinese girl, who was reading a book of Shakespeare stories.
"Are you reading the Famous Works of Shakespeare?" Hermione said.
Allison glared at her. " Do you mind?" she said, annoyed, "I still have 200 pages to go and my mother wants me to finish it by Christmas." and she stormed off to the Library.
"Don't worry about Allison, she isn't usually like this." Said Jennifer after Allison left.
"Come on Gracelyn, I wan to introduce you to some of my friends." Said Oliver.
"Okay Oliver, but you can call me Grace. Gracelyn can be a mouthful at times." Hermione said.
Oliver dragged Hermione over to some boys that were sitting at a table.
"This," he pointed to a boy "is Jackson Smith. On the other side," he pointed to two other boys "is John Davis and Marcus Edgecombe"
The boys all waved at her, "Welcome to Ravenclaw!" said Marcus.
"Grace! Come on, I want to show you our dorm room." called Jenifer.
"You should go because she," Oliver pointed to Jenifer, "will just make a racket and then we'll all be in trouble."
"Come on Grace! Hurry up! We need to claim your bed." Shouted Jennifer.
"Coming! Sorry Oliver." said Hermione.
Jennifer pulled Hermione up the spiral staircase and through a door marked Seventh years.
"The seventh year's dorm room is the best out of all, it's sort of like a goodbye present." said Jennifer, "You can call me Jenn if you'd like." "Thanks Jenn, you can call me Grace instead, Gracelyn can be a mouthful." Hermione told Jennifer.
There were five four-poster beds with light blue bedding to match the curtains and big fluffy white pillows at the head of each bed. Jenn led Hermione to a bed closest to the bookshelf.
"This one's yours, all your things have been brought up by the caretaker" she gestured to Hermione's trunk that was lying at the foot of the bed.
Hermione smiled, "So what do we do now?" she asked.
"Well, today is a school retreat, a break from all the exams and a day to just hang around, talk, or catch up on homework. You're lucky that we don't have any lessons to day or else you would be up to your neck in homework Grace!" said Jenn.
Suddenly Oliver appeared with his friends trailing behind him,
"Hi guys, the professors want us to go to sleep early so you should get ready for bed now." said Oliver.
" Okay, thanks for telling us" answered Jenifer "See you in the morning!"
She closed the door with a slam, right on Oliver's nose,
"Ow! Ow! Ohhh... it's burning!"he wimpered as she opened the door again.
"That's for looking into a girls dormitory and not knocking first. " said Jenn.
"I'll nerver understad her." he muttered and stomped off to his room.
The girls looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"His face, that was priceless!" Gasped Hermione.
Jennifer giggled in response, "You know," she said after they had calmed down "You will get to meet Katie, Trisha, and Ashley tonight."
"Are they nice?" Hermione asked.
"Yah, they can be, just don't get on their bad side!" Jennifer joked.
"We should get ready for bed." suggested Hermione
"I guess so" answered Jennifer.
After the Jenn and Hermione got ready, Trisha, Katie, and Ashley came inside followed by Allison.
'Hi Jenn! Who's this?" wondered Trisha.
"Hi ! I'm Gracelyn Colombe, but you can call me Grace." answered Hermione.
"Oh, so you're new then?" inquired Ashley.
Hermione nodded, "I got transported to Hogwarts after" Hermione sniffed, "my parents died , Grinwald you know."
"Oh, you poor thing!" cooed Katie.
The girls all comforted Hermione after that (with the exception of Allison). Then Trisha, Ashley, Allison, and Katie got ready for bed.
"Night guys!" called Katie.
"Sleep tight." they all replied at the same time.
A moment of silence passed...and they all laughed, even Allison cracked a smile. Soon they were all asleep, waiting for the next day to arrive.