Chapter 05 - Introductions and Remodeling
Stumbling Harry walked through the lush, green forest, while looking around. 'I think, Hedwig is definitely going to like this forest,' he thought and turned to professor Dumbledore. "Professor," the twinkling blue eyes of the older man looked at his young companion and he nodded his head to let the boy know he could continue, "When will Hedwig be able to come here?" Harry asked his old headmaster.
"Harry, my boy," Dumbledore started, "I'm sure that she will want to come as soon as all of her eggs hatched." Harry nodded he had been greatly surprised when he found out that his friend was going to be a mom. She had always mothered him, so he knew that she would be a great one to any young chicks, which hatched.
Dumbledore led him to an enormous pink castle, where they were greeted by two older women. One of them minded Harry greatly of professor McGonagall. The older woman with the white curly hair introduced herself as headmistress Faragonda and the other woman as deputy headmistress Griselda. He followed the two women as they led him and Dumbledore to Faragonda's office.
Harry felt nervous sitting in front of his new headmistress's desk with his old headmaster sitting next to him. He blushes when the woman asked him about himself. "So Mr Potter," she started, "what were some of your favorite classes at your old school?" she asked with a warm smile. Harry sat there and thought for a moment before he answered. "Um," he began and she gave him an encouraging smile. He took a deep breath before starting again. "Well, headmistress Faragonda, I liked my defense against the dark arts class. I was good at that. I liked herbology and to fly on my broom. I was on one of my schools quidditch teams," he said. She nodded and asked Dumbledore something that Harry didn't really pay attention to.
The next thing he knew was that there was a knock on the office door. He looked up from his hands as headmistress Faragonda called whoever was outside to come in.
Six extremely pretty young women came walking into the office and just by a quick glance he could tell that all of them girls were different.
One was a pretty blond girl with long hair that almost went to her knees and was held back from her face by a light purple headband. She was wearing a dark purple sleeveless turtleneck shirt with a matching short light purple skirt and a pair of lavender colored high-heels.
The next girl had long light brown hair with two yellowish brown streaks framing her faces. She was wearing a sleeveless pink summer dress with a light green belt around her waist and a pair of matching fine high hill shoes, which were tied around the ankles.
The third girl was wearing a pair of purple shorts with a blue waistband over a pair of hot pink tights. Her shirt was a long sleeved striped purple and blue with a purple chest. She was wearing a pair of dark blue sneakers with dark purple shoe laces and she had short dark blue hair up in two small pig tails held by two purple hair ties.
The fourth girl had short purple hair with one long bang hanging on the left side of her face just covering her eye. She was wearing long light purple tights with a medium light purple skirt and a sleeveless shirt of the same color.
The fifth girl had long fiery red hair, which reminded Harry of his mother's own red hair he had seen in pictures of her. The redhead standing in front of him was wearing a short turtleneck medium sleeved shirt with blue and white stripes and a short dark blue ruffled skirt with a pair of light blue long knee-high socks with a pair of yellow heels.
The last girl had long curly chocolate-brown hair. She was wearing a pair of green army shorts and a pair of high heel knee-length boots with a sleeveless shirt.
"Ah, girls please come in," Faragonda said inviting the girls in. After doing that she turned to back to Harry and introduced the six girls, "Harry dear," she started, "These are some of my best students, and they would be your roommates," she paused before asking, "Is that alright dear?" Harry just nodded his head and looked back down at his hands nervously, not wanting to make eye contact with any of the girls. The next thing he knew was a slight laugh before a small hand entered his vision. He looked up to see the redhead smiling and holding out her hand. He hesitated slightly to take it. She gave another slight giggle and introduced herself, "Hi, I'm Bloom, it is nice to me you." He shyly took the offered hand. "Girls, why don't you show young Harry here where he will be staying?" headmistress Faragonda asked. The redhead, Bloom, he corrected himself, nodded and stepped aside to let him stand up. He turned and looked to Dumbledore, who gave him a small encouraging smile and said, "Go, get settled in. I will come and find you before I leave." The black haired boy gave him a small hesitant smile before following Bloom in the others out of the office.
Once the door was closed behind the seven the two teachers gave each other a small smile before Dumbledore sighted and Faragonda gave him a questioning look. "Earlier today I got a message from the Potter family account and vaults manager. They let me know that the main family vaults magic recognized that one of the Potters has come into a magical-creature inheritance, and an..." Faragonda sat patiently waiting for her companion to finish, "...old contract has appeared." She was silent for a moment processing those words, "What do you mean with 'an old contract'?" she asked. He took another deep inhaled before continuing.
"Most old pureblood families would make marriage contracts between their families and I guess that sometime -before the fairy bloodline stopped appearing- somebody made a contract with a very, very old family and that might cause a problem for Harry" he said and the twinkle in his eyes dimmed in light of this new worry for his young student.
Meanwhile in the halls of Alfea the six girls tried to make Harry feel at ease. "So, Harry" Bloom started, "Let me introduce the others. The blond standing next to me is Stella," Stella gave a smile, "and the girl in the pink summer dress is Flora," „it's nice to meet you Harry," Flora said to the shy boy, next to introduce herself was the girl with the hot pink tights, "what's up? I'm Musa," she said taking and shaking his hand. Harry blinked as the girl, Musa, he corrected himself gave him a big warming smile before backing away to let the next person come up, "hello there," the girl with short purple hair said, "I am Tecna, it's nice to meet you," Tecna backed away and let the last of the six women introduce herself, „hello I am Aisha," she said.
After Aisha introduced herself, the six Alfea girls led their new room-mate to their room, where just that morning another bedroom had been added on by the magic of the castle. In all their time at Alfea, the girls had never seen anything like it. When they entered the common room Harry slowly took his surroundings in. In one corner of the room there were many different types of plants, some that Harry recognized from back home and others he did not. The girls ushered him in to a room that look very empty the far wall was made entirely out of glass. To his right was a modest size bed with a door at the end of it that Harry found out was his closet. Next to the bed was a wooden oak desk with a black office chair, with a bookshelf on either side of the desk. The carpet was a mustard yellow, the walls were painted a light pink and all in all Harry thought the room was all right. He couldn't wait for Dumbledore to get there so he could change some things and to start setting up. He pulled his shrunken trunk from his pocket of his blue jeans and sat it on the floor. Just as he was about to open it there was a knock on the room door. Tecna went away to open it and came back in with Dumbledore following after her.
"Ah, Harry my dear boy. I have to be on my way back to the school soon. Is there anything you need for me to do before I go?" he asked- Harry nodded, "Professor would you please do some transfiguration to my room before you go?" he asked. "Of course, my dear boy. What would you like me to transfigure for you?" he asked. Harry told him, what he wanted done and Dumbledore went right to work, casting a few color changing charms and transfigure reading things. The look of the room change a bit: the carpet went from a mustard yellow to a dark blue and the walls went from pink to a light green with a blue stripes going across the center of the walls. The windows were draped in dark green curtains and set in the corner between the wall and the window was Hedwig's perch with her food and water dishes. 'Now this room is perfect,' Harry thought, "Thank you, professor," Harry said shyly. He leaned over and gave his honorary grandfather a hug before the old man disappeared to let Harry get settled in.