Victoire walked in and pointed out all the dormitories, girls over there, boys over here. This is common room, you aren't allowed out of here past 8 o'clock, 5th years and above are not allowed out past 9. 1st year girls follow me and I'll show you your room. Boys follow Dmitri.'

She lead us up the stairs to the first floor and walked inside.

The room was circular with 5 four-poster beds with thick red drapes with golden fringing. The windws were huge and had a ledge we could easily sit on, it just didn't look too comfy.

'All your stuff is set up next to your bed, it's just gone 8 o'clock now, but you're still welcome to come into the common room if you want to talk to us about anything. Oh, and the bathroom is just over there.' Victoire said walking across the room and opening the wooden door.

She then left us to our own devices and we could hear excited chatter from through the door.

I turned to look at the other girls in my dorm, who were walking towards their beds.

'So what are your names?' I asked all of them.

A small dark brown haired girl with shocking green eyes turned towards me and said

'I'm Siobhan Finnegan' she said smiling.

'I'm Rose Weasley' I said back, she had the bed left of mine.

On Siobhan's left there was a tall athletic looking girl with straight blonde hair and blue eyes with big trendy squared glasses.

'I'm Maddie Appleyard.' She said timidly. She started pulling out some muggle paperback romance novels and then looked around for a place to put them. She started putting them on the window sill in order of the thickest spines. She then started folding all her robes into perfect squares, all the exact same size and put them into the top drawer of her dresser.

'I'm Emmeline Appleyard, Maddie and I are twins' They did look exactly the same, however Emmeline looked a lot more relaxed and put all her muggle paperbacks in a random order on her window sill. They looked like murder mystery to me. She had the bed on my right.

She also loosely folded all her clothes and then shoved them in a draw all creased and screwed up.

The last girl was purple haired and had huge eyes, one a green-brown the other a kind of yellow-brown. A Metamorphmagus. Her hair was changing colour to a green now and Maddie and Emmeline stared in shock.

'I'm Celestia Goodwill. I'm a half blood, my father was a muggle and my mother was a Metamorphmagus, that's why I change colour.'

I smiled at her and said

' You know the new Defence Against The Dark Arts assistant? He's a Metamorphmagus too, he's a friend of the family. '

'Oh cool, so I'm not going to be the only one in the school, thank God'

I collapsed onto my bed

'Wow wasn't that food just amazing?' I said

'Awesome! My drinks cup just kept on refilling itself, is that some kind of spell?' Asked Maddie

'It's an enchanted Goblet, the school has loads of them.' Replied Siobhan

'Wow, I wish I had one to show mother when I go home at Christmas, she'd just love it!' Said Emmeline dreamily.

'Oh, she just would wouldn't she?' beamed Maddie.

'Are you two muggle born by any chance?' grinned Celestia

'Yes!' the twins said together

'They sell some smaller ones in Diagon Alley; take your Mum there in the holidays.' Sais Siobhan 'My Dad got me one before he went on a long trip to Africa. It's about half the size of the school goblets though. '

The twins nodded enthusiastically.

I looked around for some pyjamas as those were provided by the school, and found them in a box underneath the bed, attached to the underneath of the bed.

I pulled them out and they were really soft with blue pin stripes and the Gryffindor badge sewn over the left breast-pocket.

Everyone else crawled on the floor to grab theirs then we raced for the bathroom to get changed. Maddie got there first and giggled as she closed the door saying

'Mwahahahaha I win!' in a fake evil sounding voice.

Everyone carried on unpacking while we waited but Maddie walked in a few seconds later saying

'There's a spider in the shower and can someone get rid of it?'

She looked so scared we all cracked up laughing, but Celestia ran in and came into our room with her hands cupped.

'Rose, can you open the window please? It's actually quite a big one!'

I opened the window and she climbed onto the sill letting the spider out, it crawled down the outside of the glass, then dangled from a piece of shiny thread. She closed the window and grinned at Maddie.

'It's safe now Maddie, I promise.'

Maddie grabbed her red and gold plush towel, Pjs, and her tooth brush and ran in.

We all carried on unpacking.

I put all my school books in the top draw of my dresser with spare Quills and parchment, all my robes and other clothes in the second draw, the bottom draw was empty, so put all my reading books there and left my window sill empty. In the bottom of my trunk mother had packed me some sweets, so I put those in the draw on my bedside table which had a padlock on. I saw it illuminate a light purple then fade. Probably so that even with magic you can't unlock it. A small key fell onto the floor and I put it on top of the table so I could carry it around tomorrow.

I pulled out a photograph of the all the Potters, Weasleys, Longbottoms, Scammanders and the last Lupin. James and Fred were making Bunny ears behind Percy and Teddy. Teddy turns around and sees James doing this and begins to chase him across the photo while laughing. Hugo grabs Ginnys hair and starts tugging it, she and my mum Hermione try to prise his little fingers off while looking adoringly at him and rolling their eyes. You can barely see me as my hair blows in my face. Victoire, Dominique and Louis all look beautiful with their light ginger-blonde hair and model-like faces. Their mother stares lovingly at Uncle Bill.

A majority of the people in the photos are Redheads, other than the Scammanders, Albus, James,Harry and the Longbottoms. Teddy made his hair a very unnatural shade of red and stands out from the rest of the photo.

Emmeline walks over and looks over my shoulder at the photo.

'is that your family?' she asks

'All of them are blood related or married in except Teddy,' I point him out. 'The Longbottoms,' I point to the family who all look nervous but happy, 'and the Scammanders' I point to them with their bushy blonde hair.

'Two of those are Professors, aren't they?' she asks

'yes, Professor Longbottom teaches Herbology, and Teddy, I mean, Professor Lupin will be a Teaching assistant for DADA.'

'Will it be weird calling them Professor?' she asks grinning

'A little, especially Teddy since he used to run around giving me piggybacks and playing pranks on me from Weasley Wizard Wheezes.'

'What's Weasley Wizard Wheezes? She asks and Siobhan gasps.

'The BEST prank shop EVER!' she shrieks in excitement, grabbing a bag from her trunk and rushing over.

She emptied the contents onto my bed and began talking Emmeline through them. Siobhan did have all the best stuff, I must admit. But my cousin Fred, son of the owner and name sake of one of the old owners, gets all the newest products and an unlimited supply of all the inventions, he even tests them out at school from what I hear, AND invents some! I don't say this though as Maddie comes out of the bathroom and I run in, grabbing all my stuff on the way.

Albus

We all walked into our room and started unpacking in silence, first I put up all my Quidditch photos which were in a large frame almost the size of my trunk, I stood it up in the window sill as all the best quidditch players of all time flew across the frame, each in their own small section about an inch square.

We all finished unpacking in about 15 minutes, just randomly showing our clothes into the drawers, and our books, quills and parchment in another.

I put a picture of my entire family on my night stand, it had all the family and close family friends on too, Teddy Lupin, who's now an assistant in DADA, Professor Longbottom who's a professor of herbology.

I sat on my bed and looked at the other boys. They were all easily taller than me by at least 4 inches. I had the bed closest to the door to the common room. The bed on my left had a tall wiry tanned skinned boy who I think was called Viktor, probably named after the famous Quidditch player.

The one on the bed to the other side of the door spoke up,

'So, who are you lot then?' he said, his grey eyes glinting and his grin mischievous.

'I'm Albus Potter' I said quietly 'and you?'

'Cole Francis, um, why is your picture moving?' he said

'It's magic.' Said Viktor, 'I take it you're Muggle born?'

'umhumm, is it obvious?' he asked laughing and collapsing on the bed

'I'm Viktor Franklin by the way, Bertie Botts anyone?' he asked holding out a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans.

'Thanks Viktor! I'm Theodore Jefferson, call me Theo. So are these actually every flavour, how is that possible?

'MAGIC' Said Viktor and I giggling

Theodore shoved one in his mouth and grinned ' Banana and Custard! That is so cool'

He tried a few more flavours laughing hysterically at how amazing it was.

'Yay, another like moi!' Cole looked like he could hug Theodore. He stole a bean from Theodore's hand and winced.

'Gross, Porridge flavour!'

'Sure thing, I'm Hugh Highmore' he said 'Do you like Quidditch?'

Viktor, Hugh and I launched into a massive conversation about Quidditch teams for a good fifteen minutes before getting onto the topic of how WE could be trained by the CAPTAINS of the school teams this year after Christmas.

'I can't wait!' I said

'Me neither! But we'll have to use the school brooms, which sucks.' Viktor said sadly.

'I know! Maybe we can find a way to get better brooms? But we can't have our own, so how?'

'Humm, I don't know, I'll ask my Dad for ideas when I write to him tomorrow.'

'Um, guys, what's Quid-whatdoyoucallit?'

We were stunned into silence.

'Quidditch. Is only the BEST sport ever!' Shouted Viktor climbing onto his bed and bouncing. 'The rules are….'

After that I kind of tuned out while Viktor got out a VERY thick volume of 'Ultimate Quidditch Guide' which has loads of moving photographs explaining tactics and various moves and famous games.

I chose to write to my Dad now, rather than later, and send it tomorrow.

Dear Dad and Mum

There's a new rule at Hogwarts stating that 'all first years may be trained after Christmas from the house Captains on Saturdays between Sunrise and Lunch. They may not play in proper games but my play small friendly games with others in their year and house. They may not however have their own broom, but may use school brooms.'

As you know the school brooms are always awful, any ideas on how we can get better ones? I doubt the older years will be willing to lend us their brooms, since they are theirs and cost a lot of money.

The people in my room are great. I'm by far the shortest though! Viktor is a HUGE Quidditch fan; Hugh also seems kind of obsessed. Theo and Cole are muggle born but we explained Quidditch to them, sometimes I forget they don't play the game! They didn't believe Bertie Botss were actually every flavour. I can't wait to tell them about Weasley Wizard Wheezes, please can you ask Uncle George to send me some small pranks? Like those sock cracklers and tie untwisters?'

Albus

p.s I got into Gryffindor!