Chapter 9
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SoPOV
When I got on the train I found George and Fred in a compartment putting their stuff away. I knocked on the door. They looked and once they saw me they opened it and gave me a hug.
"How have you guys been? I haven't seen you since the end of last year" I said.
"We've been great. Ron got his letter this summer and Ginny should be joining us next year oh and Percy's a prefect" Fred said.
"Why am I not surprised?" I said.
"How was your summer?" George asked.
"Not very exciting. Went to visit relatives and that was it" I said.
"That sucks" they said. I nodded.
The ride was pretty quiet Penny came and joined us but we didn't talk much.
Once we arrived there we all got a wagon together and headed off to the school.
We walked into the great hall and sat down at our seats. The first years walked in. They were either amazed at the enchanted ceiling or terribly frightened. The first few people went up and the group of students shortened.
"Malfoy, Draco" McGonagall called. I immediately stiffened.
George and Fred looked at me. I didn't know what to do. Penny was the only one other than the Weasley's that knew of what happened to my mother. She put her hand on my arm and I relaxed.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah I'm fine" I said.
Everything went normally until one name.
"Potter, Harry" Penny looked at me. The whispers started. I ignored it and watched the hat.
"GRYFFINDOR" He said. I gave a thumbs up to Fred and George.
Once their brother came up and obviously went into Gryffindor the last few names were said then Dumbledore began the feast.
We ate and chatted. I kept glancing over to Draco. He looked similar to his father. My mum had shown me a picture of him.
Once dinner ended everyone went back to their common rooms and either went to bed or stayed up and talked.
*The next few weeks were uneventful. Penny tried out and got to be a chaser on the qudditch team. Fred and George were both beaters.
*I was walking to class when I bumped into something. I sighed and started picking up my books. I noticed it was the famous Harry Potter.
"Sorry 'bout that I didn't see where I was going" he said. He had green eyes and the famous lightning bolt.
"That's okay I walk into stuff a bit myself" He laughed at that.
"Well sorry again" He scurried off into the opposite direction. I walked off to my next class.
Unfortunately that was potions. I sat beside Greg this year and he was constantly asking me out again.
Snape came billowing in.
"You will be making a more powerful relax potion. Begin"
We started making our potions and Greg added the wrong ingredients again. I stood back and sighed as he hopelessly tried to fix it. It splashed on him and I cleaned up the cauldron.
"Mister Cuneo again you fail to make the correct potion. Miss Munroe what did he do wrong?" he asked.
I sighed. It was the same thing every single class. "He put the wrong ingredient in before the right ingredient." Some of the class laughed.
"Detention Miss Munroe. See me after class." He said.
I sighed. I got back to making another potion and successfully finished it 5 minutes before the end of class.
The bell rang and I walked up to Snape's desk.
"What time?" I asked.
"7:00 now don't be late." He said.
I stormed out and threw over my shoulder "It was one time!" I heard him chuckling.
*I was at the dungeons door at 7:00 exactly. I knocked on the door.
"Enter" He said.
"See I was on time" I said. He smirked. "What do you want me to do?" He pointed to the pile of cauldrons. I was cleaning cauldrons. Again.
I sighed and got to work.
2 hours later the cauldrons were cleaner and my arms were hurting.
"I'm done can I go?" I asked while stretching.
He cleared his throat. "Yes you may."
I sighed and exited his classroom and went to bed.
I sat down at the Halloween dinner and began to eat. About halfway through Professor Quirrell came running in.
"Troll! Troll in the dungeon!" He yelled. The room went quiet and we looked at him. "I thought you ought to know." With that he fainted and everyone was screaming and yelling. I was so scared that I couldn't even speak.
"Silence!" Dumbledore yelled. The hall quieted. "Prefects please escort your houses back to your common rooms. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons." Everyone started to file out and the teachers walked right on through.
We sat in the common room waiting for any announcements. Tawni was holding onto a boy whose name I forgot and Suzie was hanging onto Daniel who was smiling as he comforted her. Penny and I were huddled together with a few other Hufflepuffs.
About half an hour later Professor Sprout came in.
"All is well students you have nothing to worry about please continue on as you normally would." She said and then left us. A big sigh went through the common room as we all let go of the breathes we were holding. Mostly everyone went to bed including me. I was so tired that my head barely hit the pillow and I was asleep.
A few weeks later and exams had come. I passed all of them with exceptional marks including Charms. Penny invited me to come over for the holidays but I declined. I wanted to spend some time with my mum.
After that the holidays went by very quickly. I got a letter from George and Fred. Some money from relatives and quite a few gifts from my mum. She got me a necklace that had a diamond butterfly on it, a few books on Astronomy and a lovely deep green sweater dress. When I put it on it didn't wash me out like I thought it would. It was tight and hugged me. It showed nonexistent curves and made me look sort of tanned.
I wore it on the train back. Penny came into my compartment and immediately started gushing on how good it looked. I shrugged off her compliments and she didn't mind. We started talking about our holidays and before we knew it we were at school.
We went into the common room and as soon we entered Suzie and Tawni were gushing over my sweater. It took awhile before they stopped talking and went back to their boyfriends. Penny and I went upstairs after the long trip and fell asleep.
It was mid – February and the castle was as cold as ever. I was walking to my Charms class when I bumped into something again. I was surprised to see it wasn't Harry but Draco Malfoy. I grabbed my charms book and walked off. I froze at the words he said.
"I have seen you from somewhere." He said. I thought he was talking about my mum or something. I scoffed he probably doesn't even know.
"Of course you have we live in the same castle" with that I walked off to my next class.
That's it for now I will update soon. The next chapter is the little preview from chapters before. So you want to know what happens next review.
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