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Dear Mum and Dad,

I have something to tell you. I don't know how though. I want to tell you, but I don't know how to put it. Um...I'm in Ravenclaw. Please don't be disappointed! Molly has helped me settle in, she even gave me a timetable. I like my year. I met a girl called Val. I think we could be friends. If you haven't already heard, Al got into Gryffindor and so did Scorpius Malfoy, he was the blonde boy from the station. I think they are going to be friends. Sorry Dad. Why don't you like him? I saw the way you looked at his family...Especially the dad. He looks about your age. Did he go to Hogwarts with you?. Everyone in my dorm is nice. They're Val, Vicky, Carly and Evelyn. Carly comes all the way from America! I must write to Angelina...Anyways, I hope you understand about the house thing...

With lots of love,

Rose xx

I set my quill down, lean back on my chair and sigh slowly. It's done. It's not perfect, but it's done. As I sit in the common room, I look at my surroundings. It's early morning, and I can see the sun hovering above the horizon through one of the large glass windows. Val is on the opposite side of the desk to me. Holding a small book in her hand, her knees up to her chest, her other hand occupied by twirling her dark hair, unraveling it every so often to turn a page. She's murmuring under her breath and sainting her eyes. It's another thing I found about her. She reads aloud.

We are not alone. At the other side of the room, a few fourth year girls talk quietly, giggling every once in while. I can't help the feeling they are giggling at me. I know it's not true, but I feel self-conscious, it's probably because it's my first day. I shouldn't have thought that. My stomach immediately erupts with butterflies.

"You okay?" Val asks looking up from her book,

"Yeah." I reply stiffly, folding the letter and burying it deeply into a pocket of my robes.

"What are you reading?" I ask, gesturing towards her book,

"It's called Ellie the Elf, it's about a house elf who wants to learn magic at school, but can't so she sneaks into classes trying to learn!" Val says turning the book in her hands.

"That sounds good."

"It is! Mum gave it to me as a goodbye present." Val said smiling softly at the cover.

"Should we go to breakfast?"

"Sure!"

We finally find the Great Hall, after getting lost in the second floor, running into Peeves the Poltergeist who tried to lock us in a room. With our cheeks flushed slightly, we sit down. Val grabs an apple and munches on it. I begin to butter up some toast when two boys settle down opposite us. I know who it is immediately. They both have dirty blonde hair, bright blue eyes and crooked grins. They're the Lovegood twins.

"Hello!" The one on the left says cheerfully, the one on the right nods enthusiastically,

"Aren't you happy?!" Asks the right one.

Val narrows her eyes "Why should I be happy?"

The right pipes up "Luke the Lethifold isn't in Britain anymore!"

"...Are you mad in the head?" Val hisses. The left twin looks at her as though she was the one babbling about random creatures.

"No! Lethifolds are real! It was in this morning prophet! The Minstry has got rid of him!"

"It's a good thing too!" Pipes the boy on the right "Lethifolds are the most evil thing on earth!"

Val frowns "What are these, what's-their-name...Lethifolds?"

The twins eyes widen.

"You don't know?"

"No, that is why I am asking you."

"Why, Lethifolds they are this creature that is found in tropical climates, but Luke you see, he got brought into Britain in a crate full of bananas! He's the first-

"-and last-"

"-Ever to be in Britain! He ate three people and he's only been here a month!"

"It's okay though! Because the Ministry got him! With a Patronus! Only thing to harm a Lethifold and-"

"Stop!" Hissed Val, throwing her hands up in the air, "You're doing my head in with this Lethifold business! I don't care!"

The twins fell silent, the left one turned to me,

"I'm Lorcan, and this is my brother Lysander."

"I'm Rose and this is Val."

"Hi Val!"

"Hi."

He frowned and turned back to me.

"So are you a pure-blood?"

"Half and half."

"Really? Almost everyone here is a half-blood, what about you?" Lorcan asked Val.

"Muggleborn."

Lysander comes into the conversation.

"Muggleborn? Really? That's so cool!How did your parents react?"

"They thought it was a joke..."

I giggle quietly, as Lysander continues.

"Our Ma freaked with happiness!"

"What about your dad?"

The twins faces fell.

"Ma and Pa are divorced..."

"I'm sorry..." I respond softly "Did they fight a lot?"

"Yeah." Lorcan replied dully "They divorced after a fight about Nargles..."

After breakfast the four of us headed to our first lesson - Transfiguration. Mother told me transfiguration was one of the best subjects, turning things into other things does sound pretty cool! I check my timetable and scan the card for the teacher:

Transfiguration - I. Silsbury

Oh no...It's not that Silsbury is a nasty or mean teacher, she's just quite scary. She may look young, but her grace and knowledge seems a lot older. When we finally find our way through the labyrinth of corridors and staircases we arrive. It's a good thing too because we are just on time. Queuing up to get in I look around to find about ten Slytherins have joined us. They are a lot louder than us Ravenclaws.

"Hey!" Calls the shrilly voice of a girl, "You, girl who doesn't brush her hair."

The Slytherin crowd parts and a girl with ash brown hair hanging loose to her shoulders walks through. She was a bit taller than Val and as she swaggered towards us, I saw a smirk stretch onto her face.

Val crosses her arms.

"You better not be talking to me."

The girl giggled.

"Of course I am silly!" She turned to me "Ebony Blackhead, pure-blood" She glanced at Val "And you are?"

"Val Cawe."

"Status?"

Val narrowed her eyes.

"What do you mean status?"

"How clean is your blood?"

Val laughed it off.

"How clean?!"

"Yes, you idiot."

Val balled up her hands.

"I really don't care for your tone, but if you are so desperate to know, muggleborn."

Ebony raised an eyebrow.

"And they let you into Hogwarts? This place is going downhill fast..."

Val stepped forward, I quickly pulled her back and clung onto the back of her robes in case she did something foolish.

"Don't you tell me you can be here and I can't, because if they let spoilt brats like you in then I guess this place really is going downhill."

Ebony pursed her lips.

"Don't talk to me like that! Mudbloods should have been all destroyed years ag-"

"MISS BLACKHEAD! In all my years of teaching I swear I have never been so disgust at a pupils colourful vocabulary!"

Professor Silsbury was right behind Ebony. Was she always there? Silsbury walked to the door and turned around to all of her pupils.

"And if you must know. I happened to be muggleborn, so anymore insults and you shall be sent straight out of my lesson and you may not comeback!"

Ebony turned red and Val looked up to Silsbury, her eyes sparkling with admiration. As we walked in Val quickly whispered to me.

"I like this teacher!"

Silsbury had us line up against the back and she gave us each a place to sit. I unfortunately ended up with Ebony. After the whole class fell silent Silsbury began.

"Now there are four main types of transfiguration: Transformation; Vanishment; Conjuration and Untransfiguration. This year we shall be focusing on Transformation. Can anyone tell me any of the three types of Transformation?"

I remember one and put my hand up, I am one of the few that does.

Silsbury points to Thomas.

"Yes, Mr. Martin?"

Thomas gulped.

"Switching, miss?"

Silsbury nods.

"Well done, Mr. Martin, for those of you who do not know Switching is when you direct the spell at two objects and quite literally switch one physical feature with the other target. Next? Mr. Gretty?"

A boy from Slytherin cleared his throat.

"Human Transfiguration?"

"Correct. Human Transfiguration is when Transfiguration is performed on a human. A good example would be an Animagus, who is someone who can freely change into an animal, but the human does not decide what animal it is. It reflects the humans inner traits. Like so..."

Silsbury began walking to the other end of the classroom, but by the end of the walk, instead of Professor Silsbury, it was a fox. It had sleek red fur, but if you looked closely, part of the top of it's right ear was missing. Silsbury changed back and the class applauded. Silsbury smiled slightly then gestured to Vicky.

"Last one Miss. Darwin?"

"Trans-species Transformation."

"Yes, where one organism is partially and completely changed into a different species."

After that Silsbury gave us a plastic cup and us change it into a wine glass. To my surprise, Ebony was helpful and quiet, very unlike her show this morning. We finally managed to make the plastic turn into glass and Silsbury praised us. Vicky, who finished first, had managed to change it into a complete wine glass!

After Transfiguration we all headed out to Herbology. Luckly the Slytherins went the other way and we were joined by Gryffindors. As we entered Greenhouse One there was a loud SMASH! A pot landed at my feet, our heads shot up, and on top of the greenhouse was our round face teacher, Neville.

He was currently clutching on to a flying broom for dear life, he was hovering about ten feet in the air, gripping the broom with one hand, he held his wand in the other, which was spurting water from the tip.

"Sorry!" He called, "Is anyone bleeding?"

"No." A few replied.

"Phew!" Then he landed clumsy. Leaning the broom against the wall and he wiped his dirty on his trousers and beckoned us further into the greenhouse. When we got to a table Neville told us to pair ourselves with someone from another house. I immediately found Al.

"Uh uh!" Neville told us shaking us head smiling, "You two know each other two well." So I went with Scorpius and Al went with Val. I smiled at him.

"How is your first day going?"

"Good." He replied, smiling back, then we turned to listen to Neville.

"Okay," he started "Today you shall just be learning the basics of Herbology, Health and Saftey and all the other parts. This week we shall be learning about Devil's Snare. Can anyone tell me what that is?"

The partnered with Carly's hand shot up.

"Yes? Miss...um...what's you first name?"

"Gladys, sir."

"Okay, Gladys what is Devil's Snare?"

"Devil Snare is a magical plant that has the ability to constrict anything that get's trapped in it."

"Correct!" So today, I will give you a little pot of it and you weaken it with lumos, because Devil's Snare cannot stand light or warm things."

At that he started to hand out pots with paper bags over the top of them. Scorpius and I began to talk.

"So what did you have first period?" I asked,

"Charms with Hufflepuff, I couldn't do the charm, but a really nice girl called Sara helped me."

"That's nice."

"What about you?"

"Transfiguration with the Slytherins."

"Was it good?"

"I guess."

Our conversation drew to a close, neither of us knowing what to say next.

After Herbology we had a ten minute break, so Scorpius, Al, Val and I headed out side.

"I really, really, really don't like Ebony!" Cried Val, clenching up her fists "She is a sobbing little princess who needs to be taken down a few steps!"

"Who?" The boys chorused., while I chew on my nails, nervously hoping no one would hear Val and tell Ebony.

"A spoilt brat from Slytherin!"

"Hey!" Val and the rest of us whirl round to face Ebony. She's with her huge gang from earlier. To be honest they don't look like the brightest bunch.

"So are you talking about me?" Ebony asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yep!" Val replied simply before anyone else could answer.

"What about?"

"How stupid and spoilt you are."

Ebony's mouth dropped open. Obviously no one had been this honest with her. Ever.

"How dare you! You little low life mudblood!"

Val snarled and jumped at her, just to punched in the face by a chunky girl. Val fell onto the grass. The Slytherins laughed at her as I ran to her side and helped her up. Her nose was bleeding. Scorpius scavenge in his bag to find a tissue, but it's what Al did that surprised me. He puffed out his chest and marched up to the girl.

"You can't hit her, people could be watching." The girl seemed to realise that as well, because the Slytherin gang began to back away immediately then turned and ran into the castle. Al turned back to us.

"I did it!"

I smiled at him.

"Well done!"

We then took Val to the Hospital Wing. Madam Cybill the nurse fixed her right away.

"How did it happen, dear? It doesn't look bad, barely more than a scratch really, did you fall?"

"Yes." Val lied. When we were coming out we spilt off from the boys and went to our charms lesson. Halfway there we spilt off as I need to go to the toilet, Val said she'd tell the teacher where I was.

Coming out the first person I see is Ebony.

"...What do you want?" I ask cautiously.

"You can do better than making friends with those people. Mudblood, traitor and wimp."

"Don't call her that! And what do you mean traitor?"

She rolled her eyes.

"Don't pretended like you don't know. C'mon, be my friend, have I properly introduced myself? Ebony Blackhead. It will help your reputation."

Reputation. It would be nice to be the popular one for a change...Stop Rose. Mum said it doesn't matter about the quantity of your friends, it's the quality that matters.

"No thank you."

At that I walk fast out of the bathroom.

The rest of the day was uneventful. When we got back to the dorm for bed, Val was still mad at Ebony.

"I swear if she comes near me again...I will squeeze that Blackhead 'till she pops!"

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