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Sitting in the boat, surrounded by nothing but cold water Victoria managed to sit calmly without falling. She was nervous, clearly as she kept on fiddling with her wand in her sleeves. She took a glance at the castle that came into the view, and sighed.

She was really looking forward to being at Hogwarts but the building seemed so huge that she was reminded of her home, the Crests Mansion, where she lived with James, (her cousin) and his mom. They lived alone, but were a happy family.

James had lost his dad to Peter Pettigrew, some guy, Victoria had always heard her aunt talk about. It was something about Peter betraying his friends and blah blah, mumbo jumbo. James never lamented on the fact that he had no dad to Victoria. But then Victoria's folks weren't alive and singing with her either.

'Well I am going to be in Slytherin. I can say that for sure!' Victoria turned to find a blond boy boasting while standing up. A girl on his side sighed in annoyance.

'Draco, will you please shut up? I don't care what house you are going to be in as long as it isn't mine!' she snapped. It was Angela Black!

Draco glared at her and then frowned at Victoria, 'Who are you?'

'Oh me? I am – ' Victoria smiled.

'Tori? Right?' Angela cut her off. Victoria raised her eyebrow.

'Yeah. For nickname. But I am Victoria Irwin. And you are?'she turned to Draco.

'Malfoy, Draco Malfoy.'

'That's a nice name.' Victoria smiled, trying to be polite and polite only. Angela groaned.

'Do you two have to make goo goo eyes at eachother – now?'she grumbled.

'Goo goo eyes? Angela, what are you four years old?' Victoria grinned, a smirk hooked up on her lips automatically and she scratched her head.

'What do you have, lice?' She yelled, Victoria closed her eyes under her intense glare and only itched harder making Angela purple by the second.

'Okay, okay, sorry. Don't lose your temper on your first day.' Victoria spoke in her American accent. Then she opened one of her eyes to peek through. 'Or first night.'

Angela rolled her eyes. Draco spoke, 'Irwin? I have heard of them. Lived the lifestyles of Muggles. Stupid, personally I think. Most of them died out, right?'

'Died out? No. They were killed by You-Know-Who.'

'Yes… an ancient pure blooded family, but Gryffindors. Too bad, you would make an excellent Slytherin. You too, Black. Try out for it?' Draco smirked.

'Shut up Malfoy. You are a total low life, I don't care what blood status I have so keep your pathetic desires to yourself. My father was a Gryffindor, and so will I be!' Angela hissed, her gray eyes gleaming.

'He was a murderer and so will you be.' Draco glared at her. Victoria feeling out of place, stood up to move to another corner with some boy named Vance. But she tripped, lost her balance and fell. The boat wobbled in the lake and with a splash Draco Malfoy fell in the cold water.

'Aaaahh! Help. HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!'

Victoria frantically looked around, Hagrid was too far ahead to come and rescue him immediately. Other kids started screaming. Not knowing what to do she jumped in the water. Draco was trying to swim but failing hopelessly. Victoria breathed and dived in. She, for some reason could always sea underwater. She saw Draco's robes floating. Hastily she grabbed his robes, and his hand. She flung it around her shoulders and swam towards the boat. With help from Vance (Angela was still mad at Draco) they got him on the boat.

Victoria sighed, and squeezed her robes silently hoping for the clothes to dry.

'Aaaghh. Could you not have gotten me out quicker, now I won't enjoy the feast.' Draco groaned as they reached school. She just grinned at his stupidity, as Angela glared at her. What did I do? She thought.

As they got off the boat, Hagrid noticed Draco was soaking. He came up and started lecturing him before drying him and Victoria. Behind his back Victoria smiled.

'That was an adventure.' She began to think she had made new friends. But the next second, Draco glared at her.

'Adventure? ADVENTURE? Do you – ' he snapped.

'Students come with me, come on. All of you. Yes you too .' McGonagall said as she glanced at Draco's sullen face.

Feeling bad for the blond kid, she said, 'Come on. Now you get to be sorted into Slytherin, isn't that exciting? And maybe even I break the family tradition!'

'Kids, Wait here. I will call you all in a minute.' McGonagall yelled.

'Not necessary. If all it takes to have you on a side is some cold water and air, then it is TOO MUCH! I can't have you with me.' Draco said, walking ahead with Vince and some other fat kid.

Victoria was hurt. She was sorry that she had caused Draco some physical pain, but she had rescued him too! And she tried to be nice to him. This was something Victoria never did, be super nice to someone. It was taking every cell in her body to keep her temper. So she was mad at him. And when Angela laughed, Hermione and two kids alongside her she yelled.

'You find that funny, do you? Yeah sure laugh on you four! You'll see!' But she just said that inside her head. Looking at the four morons in front of her she forced a convincing laughter. That quieted them down.

The door to the Great Hall opened and McGonnagall took the entire bunch of students with her,ready to get sorted. Victoria suddenly felt nauseous and clearly, so did the other kids. They all were nervous except for Hermione.

As she stood in the line waiting for her turn to get sorted, Victoria sneaked the glance at the students on the table. She could see James glaring at a girl (Hazel?), Austin grinning, Steve waiting for food and Todd snoring. She desperately wanted to get sorted. Soon it was her turn.

'Irwin, Victoria!' Grinning, Victoria went to sat on the stool and placed the hat on her hat. Before the hat touched her red head, it yelled. 'GRYFFINDOR!' The Gryffindors cheered, and she went to sit next to James who was smiling at her. Todd woke up and congratulated her too. Austin and Steve gave her a thumbs up.

Tuning out on the other students, and Dumbledore's speech, Victoria only came to reality when dinner was announced. She looked at her plate, and then at others at the Gryffindor Table. She could see the same two boys with Angela, Angela and Hermione, there were three other boys, one of them kept yelling something about Banshees, and two other girls.

Carefully Victoria drank a glass of juice, not knowing the flavor, and ate some pasta, pot pie and some cranberry sauce. It was a mixture of creativity and weirdness.

'Why does Hazel glance at me all the time?' James growled in a low whisper as they walked into the Common Room.

'Well, you don't just smile at her too you know. Why do you hate her again?' Victoria asked.

'Because she told on me – '

'Just pretend I didn't ask anything.' Victoria sighed.

'So Vicky,why don't you let me show you around the school?' Steve offered her a hand.

'Dude, we are tired. I mean I wanna sleep. Maybe tomorrow?' Todd groaned.

Austin smirked, 'Guys, come on. Let's sneak out.. No one will ever know. All of us meet here in 30 minutes?'

James replied, 'Yeah, let me just go and apologize to Hazel' He walked towards the red armchair, where Hazel was sitting alone, reading a book, alone.

In repulsion, Victoria, Austin, Steve and Todd exchanged a horrified glance and dashed to pull James aside. But of course, like in all movies, IT WAS TOO LATE!

'Hazel. So I thought about you just now and realized how much of an idiot I have been to not apologize! So I am sorry. And I want to give you this bracelet (it's Victoria's so don't break it or do break it, I couldn't care less.) as an apology gift!'

Hazel's gloomy face lit up in delight, making her face look somewhat less unbeautiful than usual.

'James really? I mean, of course I will forgive you. I am sorry too, I shouldn't have ratted you out. And wow this is a beautiful bracelet.' Her voice reflected her American side.

James felt a bit bad, but smiled charmingly any ways, and Hazel flushed with excitement , 'So will you wear it tomorrow? It will look great. We can start our new friendship from a new day… woah. This is getting cheesy. So… later, Hazel. Good Night!'

Mumbling a good night, Hazel Green hopped her way into her dorm, slamming the door behind her. James smirked at her back.

'WHAT DID YOU DO?' Todd demanded from behind him, emphasis on every syllable.

'Nothing, just apologized.'

'No you didn't. You said you had a prank for her. THAT WAS A JOKE!' Steve yelled.

'And so what if it was?'

'So what? So what? So it is wrong to prank a girl like that.' Austin exclaimed.

'James, look, I know you hate her. But come on, give the girl a break.' Victoria said, frowning.

'She has had a break. FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS. And now, I deserve a break from not practically making her life a living hell for two months. It is only fair. Thirty minutes?'

'Dress up sneaky. Let's pretend we are in a spy movie, and are about to track the GPS device in Todd's flashlight!' Victoria said before jumping upstairs to her dormitory.

'Good, I will bring the flashlight.' Todd smiled, then he frowned. 'There is no GPS device in my torch!'

'Or your wand.' Steve argued.

'No. Why? I have a flashlight. I spend thirty five bucks on it. I must use it.'

'Or your wand on which you spend galleons.'

'Torch are cooler, so there.' Todd glared at Steve who shook his head.

'No they aren't. Well they are. They may help us fight Zombies or vampires but torches are stupid.'

'No they aren't stupid. You're stupid.'

'You can use wands for light and not-light.' Steve frowned, as James and Austin raised an eyebrow at eachother.

'Well I can use torches for the same purposes, thank you very much.' Austin coughed as James took a sudden interest in their conversation.

'What if you meet Kennedy, and she sees you with a torch instead of wand and she needs your help because a troll is going to kill her. Will this stupid torch help you then? Noooo…. Think about it.' Steve said, dramatically, making Austin roll his eyes.

Todd glanced at Austin nervously who smiled., 'This torch is stupid isn't it?'

'Maybe but I don't think you should – ' Austin started moving his blond flicks from his forehead.

James frowned. 'It is pathetic. Just like you.'

'Well then good bye thirty five dollars.' He threw the torch in the fireplace.

'Todd you are stupid, how can you listen to Steve and James. I can't believe you burnt thirty five bucks just like that. Your mind needs lubrication from all that mathematics tutoring this summer.' Austin raised his eyebrow.

'Like I said, Todd is pathetic.' James smiled happily as laid in the fireplace remains of a $35 torch.

Todd took offence at that, and smiled. He walked upto James. Then he pushed him on the floor. James angrily got up and pulled Todd and threw him on the sofa. Then Steve clearly enjoying the situation leapt at James. Todd got up and jumped at James, Austin pulled him back. But by now all four of them had been hit on face by each other.

Victoria sat up on her bed and looked at the other girls who were snoring peacefully. She carefully got a torch from her bedside table, the one Todd had gotten for her. It had cost thirty five dollars. He had gotten one for himself too. She switched it on and shone it at Angela's face. Quickly she got up and dug up black all overs from her trunk and quickly changed into it. Looking at the watch in her trunk, she realized it had been thirty minutes alright.

She got her wand and torch and quickly walked towards the door. She opened the door and peeked outside. It was dark in there and all four of her friends were lying on the couch. Since she couldn't see anything very clearly, she shone her torch in their direction only to petrified at what was before her. Her first night. HER FIRST NIGHT AT HOGWARTS!

She couldn't speak anything. She was speechless. But she did say, 'Oh My GOSH!'

In front of her was a fully wrecked common room. The fire was not lit anymore. There was water everywhere on the crimson carpet, the sofa's springs were bouncing here and there. The curtains were torn and burnt. The portrait hole door had a hole in it. The tables were turned, and the school bags and books were scattered. The quills and ink had stained the place.

And finally, the four of her best friends were lying dead tired on the sofa, groaning and rubbing their faces and hands. James' face had two cuts, Steve's hand was broken, Todd had a black eye and his ankle was twisted and Austin's hair were burnt and his nose was bleeding.

'What were you idiots doing, and why aren't you in your black clothes?' she exclaimed. James groaned as he tried to sit up only to be pushed back by Steve. James retaliated by punching Steve but missing him. Instead hitting Austin who glared at him.

'Guys! Relax. WHAT DID YOU DO? You made me where this black outfit for nothing you turds!'

'Shut up lady, we are almost dead and you care about your stupid dress?' Todd growled rubbing his black eye.

Austin bonked him, 'James we told her we'd go with her and so we would if not for these minor injuries, Ah!; he grunted, wiping his nose. He stood up, Todd and Steve followed suit. They picked James up and carried him up.

'But- but you said-'

'Tomorrow, love you!' The four rushed to bed.

Victoria fell on her knees and yelled loudly, 'I hate you MORONS!'

Just then, as if it were a play, McGonagall peeked in through the hole in the portrait hole's door and glanced at Victoria whose feet jammed. She couldn't move. The Professor came in and looked at the mess.

'Miss Irwin? Was that you who did all this … this annihilation?' she exclaimed.

'How do you know?' Victoria said, trying to smile at the same time.

'Because the Fat Lady mentioned somebody had ripped apart the door. She is in the great hall right now! I didn't expect this sort of behavior from you young lady. Now go to sleep, I am going to dock two hundred points from Gryffindor for your cheek. And tomorrow you will go see the Headmaster. And one month's worth of detention with Professor Quirrell. Never in my life have I seen somebody destroy the Gryffindor Common Room! GO TO SLEEP NOW IRWIN.'

Victoria nodded and gulped and walked towards the staircase leading to the girls' dorm. She closed her eyes and walked silently, hoping McGonagall would not call on her again.

'May I know why you did this?' she asked. Burn,Victoria thought. She turned around and smiled.

'I er- er tried. Yes tried a lot. I did that.' She scratched her ear.

'Tried what?'

'Tried. Yes,er- to see if my wand works! It does , see? Pretty good, huh?'

'Good night. And please give me that torch. You are not aloud to use muggle appliances at Hogwarts. Bye.' With that McGonagall left.

Victoria sighed, and then ran all the way upto her dorm and jumped onto her bed. Todd's thirty five dollar torch, he will kill me now. Then she frowned. Not if I kill him first! I took all the blame and detention just because of those four gits.

With the depressing thoughts Victoria snuggled to sleep. And then she dreamed. She was plucking flowers off of Quirrell's quill feathers when a Quirrell started talking to himself. Victoria freaked out and threw a bottle of distilled perfume on Quirrell's helmet- or turban. Then Angela, Granger and the other glasses kid came up and killed the man throwing red stones at him.

Then Victoria woke up with a jerk. And water.

'Aaaggh! Whaaat did I dooo?' she yelled as Angela pushed her off her bed. Getting up she glared at Black.

'What?' Angela smirked. 'Oh, come on. Don't be a the way did you know, somebody already lost 200 points from Gryffindor.'

'Why – oh.' Victoria sighed, deadpanned, as she squeezed her hair. Quickly dressing up she dashed downstairs to find four of her friends talking to the glasses boy from the dream.

She went to them and pinched Austin's ear. 'Shouldn't you be in the hospital wing right now?'

The four of them tuned around and smiled. 'No this is more fun. We greet Hazel, get her to come down with us and score! Green hands and face.' James smiled.

'You are mean!' Then Victoria remembered that she had to go to the headmaster, so she hissed at the four. 'Sorry Hermione, Angela and er.. you two…'

'Ron Weasley.'

'Harry Potter.'

'Yeah, yeah sure. Whatever. We have gotta talk. You four. No not you Black, you four.' Victoria lead the four outside the common room and stomped their feet.

'Ouch!' Todd groaned. 'I twisted my ankle last night.'

'Yes, and then you ran away. And the McGonagall popped in and gave me one month of detention and docked 200 points. And now I gotta go see Dumbledore!' Victoria groaned.

Austin, James, Steve and Todd started laughing really hard at her, she started grinning too but suddenly stopped. 'How do I get there?'

'Where?' James asked.

'The head office! How?' she interrogated.

'Wait. ' Austin smiled at his friends and ran back to his dorm. Victoria made a face at James and Todd when Steve asked.

'Will you rat us out?'

'No. But I do want to see Hazel's hands.'

'Here.' Austin returned. He handed Victoria a map.

Victoria glanced at it. 'What?'

'Well we decided to make a small map of Teacher's and their offices. So we can see the short cuts to escape detentions and ditch Filch. Nothing much.'

'No? Can I have it?'

'Sure.' Todd grinned. Victoria smiled at them before they started laughing at her, again.

She made a face at them and stomped away. As she walked on, she started to notice how gigantic the castle really was and she was only using the shortcut. According to the map, she should have reached their pretty soon, but she realized that the map was not to scale.

Walking between the different corridors, Victoria reached the one at the third floor. She glanced around, it was completely deserted. She walked upto the door there and pushed it. It didn't budge. She pressed her ear against the door. At first she heard nothing, then there was a bang.

Startled, Victoria tripped and twisted her ankle.

'Unbelievable… and to think this is my first day here. Ugh.' She moaned, as she stood up, rubbing her thighs and shaking her head.

Pretty soon, she reached the Headmaster's office frowning, only to realize that she didn't know the password. 'Really? A password? What does he need to keep a password for?' She wondered loudly with a sigh.

'Ms. Irwin, good morning. Apparently you have broken your mother's record of the fastest detentions. On your first day?' Professor Dumbledore appeared from behind her, surprising her.

She turned and smiled nervously, 'Well… yeah. I am not proud of it.' She rubbed her neck tentatively, as Dumbledore laughed heartily.

'I am surprised and amused that how much you are like your family. But however, I can't let you go free. I hope Professor McGonagall told you about – '

'My detention. Yes. 200 points. That too, yes.'

'Ahh. This is too amusing. Wreaking the common room? Never happened before.' Dumbledore mused.

'Uh, okay?' Victoria gulped. Then she stated trying to divert the subject, 'Sir. I heard a very loud bang from the third floor corridor's –'

'Did you? Thank you for telling me Irwin. I will look to it. I am letting you go easy as today is your first day. Try not destroy the classrooms. You'd better get going.'

'Yeah, all the way back .' Victoria moaned scratching.

'Yeah, the poor girl went running all over to her dorm! Ha, stupid girls.' James laughed as Austin glared at him, and Steve tried to hold in his laughter.

Victoria stomped upto them and hit all of them. 'You guys are mean. You embarrassed Hazel, right?'

'Yeah. Hey Vicky. You missed all the fun.' Steve chuckled.

'Fun? FUN? Oh, you are all hopeless.' She looked at the time in her watch. 'Oh God. This is our first class going on right now!'

'So?' Todd frowned.

'So, we should be in class and not here. I gotta go. Keep your stupid map, it needs work. 'She hurried towards her transfiguration class; of course not knowing where it was took her sometime.

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