Rebecca was awoken with a loud Thump. Her eyes slowly opened and there she could see Daphne, already dressed in her uniform, staring down at her. "Come on Rebecca, It's time to get up." She practically squealed in Rebecca's ear. Rebecca suddenly came back to reality and realized where she was. She was sitting up in a four poster bed made of dark oak wood and green and silver duvet and hangings. The room was a hexagon shape and contained five beds. The bed next to her was obviously Daphne's as it was empty and she was the only one up. On her opposite side was a pug faced girl with short brown hair, Rebecca recognized the girl to be Pansy Parkinson, The girl who had been mean to her the previous evening. The other beds contained Millicent Bulstode and Tracey Davis.
Rebecca tiredly got out of bed and found her trunk on the floor beside her. She looked around worriedly noticing someone was missing. "Where's Squawk?" She asked Daphne
"Don't panic, Relax he's outside in the common room and I tell you what, he really lives up to his name. He made such a noise last night, we took he outside so we could sleep." Daphne consoled
Rebecca quickly got dressed into her now Green robes ,as the colours had changed to match her house, She gathered some owl food and made her way down to the common room. Squawk immediately saw his owner and started hooting to grab her attention. "Hey calm down ok I'm here." Rebecca said as she approached the cage. "And I've brought you some food." She opened the cage and let Squawk fly out and land gently on her arm. She held out the food in her palm of her hand and allowed him to peck at it willingly. After he was fed she put him back in his cage and followed Daphne out of the common room promising that she would come back later to let Squawk fly around outside in the open air and now headed up towards the Great Hall for breakfast. AS they entered through the double doors they saw how you didn't need to sit in your houses and Rebecca rushed towards Harry and Ron who were sat at the Gryffindor table and Daphne Hesitantly followed.
"Harry, Ron." Rebecca Cried as she sat down at the table and straight away hugged Harry who without no thought hugged back. "Hey Rebecca, Um, how's Slytherin." he asked shyly
"Oh, it's Ok, I mean I've already made another friend. Daphne - Harry , Harry - Daphne." She introduced.
"Hi there Daphne, any friend of Rebecca's is a friend of mine." Daphne kept quiet by just nodded as she didn't feel right talking to a Gryffindor as she grew up as a true Slytherin. Then she left with a nod of approval from Rebecca to the Slytherin table where she sat with some other friends she had made. Just as Daphne left Karma came and sat down opposite Harry. "Hey Guys, how's it going? Hufflepuff's great, everything my family said it was and more. People make it out to be boring but it's not, Can't wait to start the day. How's your houses?"
"Amazing, we have such great house spirit, However, the portrait covering the entrance is a little bit annoying." Ron answered. "How about you Rebecca?" Karma asked
"Well lets just say that I've got one friend and that's probably all I'll ever get in that house. The prefects hate me, Malfoy as you know hates me and now Parkinson Hates me." Rebecca said miserably
"Wow sorry to say this but it seems like your going to have the worst time of your life." Ron teased but ended up with a punch from Harry. Just then Professor Snape and McGonagall came up to them and handed them their timetables. Then as soon they finished their breakfast they headed off to their first lesson
Timetable: Rebecca Potter/ Year One
Monday: History of Magic, Charms , Potions, Herbology
Tuesday : Defence against the Dark Arts, Potions, Charms, Transfiguration
Wednesday: Charms, Transfiguration, Defence against the Dark Arts, Herbology, Astronomy
Thursday: Flying, Potions, Herbology, History of Magic
Friday: Charms, Transfiguration, Defence against the Dark Arts, Potions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The day went pretty smoothly. Rebecca had already had History of Magic where they learnt the basics of how Hogwarts was foundered and about the founders themselves. In Charms they learnt how to say a basic Levitation Charm. Now she had Potions class in the dungeons. She walked there with Daphne and when they got there she saw that they would be sharing the class with the Gryffindors which really made her day. Harry and Ron had already had Charms and Herbology. They talked about how there was a boy called Neville who always got things wrong and Rebecca told them how Malfoy was a real stuck up little snob who pretended he was the best at everything. When they came and sat down in the classroom, which was laid out just like a lab, They saw professor Snape was teaching it and all three of there hearts sank. Snape put them in a seating plan and Rebecca went and sat down in the front left corner of the room by Snape's desk and Malfoy out of all people was to be sat next to her. "Listen Malfoy, If you annoy me in any way possible, My fist with connect with your face." She warned.
"OOOOOOOH scary Potter, he taunted
"Calm down students now, open your books to the basics of potion making and we shall begin." Snape addressed the class.
After a brief introduction about Potions, Snape began interrogating Rebecca and Harry as he clearly didn't like them very much even though Rebecca was in his house. With Malfoy snickering constantly in her ear and distracting her while she was trying to work, Rebecca's temper had reached its max and she had to let it out. "FOR GODS SAKE MALFOY STOP TORTURING ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO IGNORE YOU!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. The whole class went silent when they heard her shouting and heard the sound of the palm of her hand connecting with Malfoys cheek. "Potter, We do not use physical violence against other students. 10 Points from Slytherin and You Miss Potter will serve detention with me tonight. 7 o clock down here and don't be late or else." And with that Snape walked off to inspect Longbottoms disaster.
When Potions was over, a sense of relief hit Rebecca but also a sense of disappointment with herself as she wasn't already a full day into Hogwarts and she already had detention and with Snape of all professors. She waited for Harry and Ron outside of the classroom But instead a girl with bushy brown hair walked up to her. "Hi, you must be Rebecca Potter, I'm Hermione Granger." she told her happily
"Yeah, I'm Rebecca nice to meet you." Rebecca replied
"I take it you don't like Malfoy then." Hermione said
"No I don't. I don't know if you remember but yesterday I kicked him in the shin before the sorting for being rude about my parents." Rebecca replied almost proud of her actions.
"To be fair though, He did deserve it." The girls laughed but silenced as the boy himself strolled right past them. "Well Potter. Now I know that your easily annoyed, I can and will, make your time at Hogwarts a living hell." And he strutted past them.
"Ignore him Rebecca, he's just a jealous little snob." Hermione assured her. When Harry and Ron finally came out they all headed to their appropriate lessons.
Later on after Rebecca had had dinner she left her friends and headed down towards the dungeons. When she got to the Potions classroom she knocked on the door and entered as she heard a muffled "Enter" from behind the door. "Ahh Miss Potter." Snape said in his normal grumble "For detention, you will be scrubbing the cauldrons out that were used by Year 4 today. There is nothing harmful in them, so get working." Rebecca went to the corner of the room where the cauldrons were stacked up and reached to get the top one and grabbed her cloth and got to work. About an hour and a half later, Rebecca had finally finished and her hands were really sore and coloured in a sort of blue liquid. Snape was no longer in the room so she left the cloth of the side and started to pack away the cauldrons. Just then Snape entered and looked to be in a bad mood. "WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE POTTER?" He bellowed. "I was just..." Rebecca replied timidly "NO I DON'T CARE, NOW LEAVE AND 10 POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN!" Rebecca hastily got her bag and dashed out of the classroom leaving a really distressed Snape to himself.
Rebecca reached to the end of the dungeons and then broke down in tears. What had she ever done to be yelled at? Why did every Slytherin except on hate her? Why was she put in Slytherin when her whole family was put In Gryffindor? All these questions rushed through her mind and then she heard a voice coming from the end of the corridor. "Rebecca? Is that you." the voice spoke. Rebecca wondered who that could be but as they came closer she saw the face of Karma come into the light. "Rebecca What happened.?" He asked concerned
"Snape happened, Slytherin Happened. just everything for me is going wrong here." she said through her sobs.
"Its ok, your not alone in this world, I am here for you ok." Karma comforted her. After Rebecca had stopped crying Karma walked Rebecca back to her common room And they parted with a Goodbye and a friendly hug. Until the next day.