The Child of Dark and Light

Chapter 5

A Little Girl Talk

I followed Professor McGonagall down the stairs, and past the cool gargoyle, as I passed the stoney being, I gave it a pat on the head and it started purring like Shadow does when he's happy. I really hope my kitty can find where I'm sleeping.

"Miss Zeak, kindly stop petting the gargoyle and follow me to the dormitory."

"I'll comeback and play with you later." I gave Mic, I just named the gargoyle, a last pat, and ran after the professor. I tried to memorize the path we took through various stairs and passages. I think I can get back to Mic, it may take a bit, but I'll do it. We were walking down a hall, when Professor McGonagall stopped at random.

"Um, Professor, why are we stopping here? There aren't any doors around here, just a painting of a pretty, rather large lady."

"This is the dormitory, behind the Fat Lady is a door. Here at Hogwarts it's traditional that we keep the dormitories hidden from memebers of the other houses. Which means that, when you are not aloud to bring memebers from Slytherin in here or Gryffindors to the Slythrin dorm. The password is Caput Draconis." As soon as she said that, the Fat Lady painting, swung open to reaveal a warm living room type room done in scarlette and gold. "Now the girls dorm room are up those stairs over there," she points to one the the various stairs. "On the other side are the boy's dormitory, you will not go up there. Now I leave you to take your rest, you will get your schedual for classes tomorrow morning at breakfast. Goodnight Miss Zeak."

"Goodnight Professor." I avoided the few students who remained in the common room, and went up the stairs. Going into the door marked First Years, I was met by loud purring comeing from one of the beds. "Shadow!" I ran and jumped on the bed to cuddle with my kitty. "Have you been here the whole time?"

"Hey, we are trying to sleep, we start classes tomorrow, and I need my beauty sleep here." The muffled complaint came form one of the other beds.

"Sorry! Well Shadow, I guess after I eat, we'll go to bed." ~Thank goodness, Professor Dumbledore sent some sandwiches and pumpkin juice.~ After eating and repalcing the now empty platter and goblet on the bed side table, then settled down with my kitten to sleep.

The Next Day

"Meow...meow...merrroowww!"

"Shadow, hush...I'm sleeping here." I mumbled out from under my pillow and blankets that I had piled over my head. Before I could slip back into sleep, my pillow was taken away and light flooded my sleepy clogged eyes.

The fuzzy haired girl was standing over my bed holding my pillow in her hands. "You might want to get up, it's time for breakfast." Then she handed my pillow back to me and went back to messing with her stuff around her bed, that reminds me that I need to unpack all my junk...and find my wand...I might need that today.

I threw on my robes, including the new tie in Griffindor's colors,and grabbed my bag of parchment, quills, and other school junk. I started searching through my nightstand drawer to find my wand, I can't believe I've already lost it. Before I could lose what sanity that I have left, I felt a nudge on my ankle.

"Shadow, you found my wand! Where was it?" Sparks flew out of my wand as Shadow dropped it to give me a "are you nuts look?" look. Who knew cats could do that. After giving him a kiss on the head, I ran out of the room to follow the other students to the Great Hall.

Loading my plate full of fried ham and french toast, I waited for Professor McGonagall to pass out the schedules. The frizzy haired girl was sitting down to my right, and being the friendly girl I am, I decided to intorduce myself to her, so that I could at the very least stop refereing to her as that frizzy haired girl.

I stuck out my hand, "Hi, my name is Adonia, you woke me up this morning, and I wanted to thank you."

She gave my hand a quick shake, then introduced herself as Hermione Granger.

"Um, Adonia you said? You look kind of young to be a first year?"

"I just turned ten in July."

"July? Then how are you enrolled. Hogwarts a Histroy said it's traditional that all students start their first year at the age of eleven."

"Oh, well the American Acadamy of Magic enroll students at 10. My parents have also had me privately trained for a year now, just the basic theory behind spells and such, and a little bit of history."

"So how does that affect why you are in Hogwarts at 10?"

"My father was Brittish, then he moved to America and married my mother. His parents remained here, but they got sick, so my parents moved us all here to take care of them. Because I couldn't go to the Acadamy at home, I was enrolled at Hogwarts."

"Ok, I guess that kind of makes sence. I'm curious though, why did the Sorting Hat call out the best and worst of all the houses at Hogwarts? And what did Professor Dumbledore decide to do about it?"

"Oh because, according to the Hat, I'm split 50/50 down the middle, I'm cool like that. And it was my plan that we decided to go with, I'll stay one semester in each house per year."

Hermione didn't say anything after that, she just got a wierd look on her face, then returned to reading what ever book she had open when I intoduced myself. I drenched the last bit of my toast with sryup, as Professor McGonagall passed out our new schedules. Looking over mine, I noticed that I would have six really fun classes and one not so fun one, I dislike History of Magic, I wonder if I can get out of it somehow?

Shoveing the last bit of ham into my mouth, I got up to leave as classes were getting ready to start. Checking my bag again to make sure I had everything, I didn't notice I was about to walk into the certain icy haired boy, that is I didn't until I did, then I fell down hard on my butt. Ignoring his glares, I mumbled an apology to the rude boy, then continued to class.