[Fred's POV]

"Slytherin!" The hat shouted. I looked to my brother and around the hall, they were all wearing the same shocked expression.

'Avi is so quiet and nice. How has she ended up in Slytherin?' I thought to myself

"Lydia McFarlane." McGonagall shouted

"Gryffindor!" the hat shouted after a minute

"Natalie Mitchell!"

"Hufflepuff!" This went on for several more minutes before I heard

"George Weasley!"

"Good luck mate." I smiled at my brother. He walked confidently up to the stool

"Gryffindor!" The hat shouted almost immediately

"Fred Weasley." It was my turn. I walked up to the stool trying to be confident like my brother. McGonagall placed the hat in my head

"Haven't I just sorted you?" The hat grumbled

"No, that was my twin brother." I laughed

"Well then. It must be Gryffindor!" The hat shouted. I smiled as the room cheered. The sorting ceremony went on for a few more minutes before the food arrived, by magic of course. After the food we were shown to the common room behind a portrait of 'The Fat Lady'

"This is the Gryffindor common room" one of the prefects said as we went through the port hole. We were shown the dormitories and told to go to bed.

[Aviana's POV]

I panicked the moment I woke up. You know when you wake up in a new place and it takes a moment to remember the events of the day before. I sat on the emerald green bed trying to regain my breath while the three other first years in my room slept. My cat, Midnight, rubbed her head against my arm

"Hello girl." I whispered. I quietly dressed in my robes and packed my satchel with my books, a few scrolls of paper, some ink and a couple quills before leaving the room.

I'd be lying if I said the moving stairs were easy to navigate. I only had to go up one flight of stairs and I somehow ended up on the fourth floor. I began to descend the stairs again, quicker this time, when all of a sudden my foot fell right through the floor. Trick steps. The prefects had told us about them but failed to mention where they were

"Woah there. Don't hurt yourself," someone said as they grabbed my arm "don't worry you get used to the disappearing stairs"

"Yeah. We got told about them, just not where they are." I laughed as I turned to face the boy who I recognised from the brooms shop that day in Diagon Alley.

We walked down to the great hall for breakfast, we were quiet early. There was only the Ravenclaw first year, Mathew, a few Hufflepuff's and the odd Gryffindor.

"I'm Oliver by the way." Oliver smiled.

"Hey Avi! Come sit with us," Fred shouted as I strode over to the twins

"These are our friends, Lydia, Emily and Oliver"

"We've already met" Oliver smiled

"Yeah. Those stairs are very annoying." I chuckled as I went to grabbed a slice of toast.

"Aviana. I do believe you are a Slytherin and this is the Gryffindor table." Professor Snape said from behind making me jump

"Sorry professor." I mumbled as I got up and moved to the next table, the Slytherin table. Since we were only a table away I continued to talk to my new friends, and by the end of breakfast I had learnt that Lydia, who was in my transfiguration class, was a muggle born and Emily was a half blood.

Me, Lydia, Fred and George left the great hall to go to transfiguration with McGonagall

"What do you think Professor McGonagall is going to be like?" Lydia asked

"Percy told us she's really strict." George told her

"She was really nice to me." I muttered

"You've met her?" The twins said together

"Yeah. She came to collect me when I didn't reply to the acceptance letter." I said shyly

"Well I'll guess we'll find out" Fred smiled. We got to the room just as everyone was walking inside

"Just in time" I sighed

"She's not here yet" Lydia noted, she was right. Inside the room the desks were all occupied by students but there was no teacher, only a tabby cat.

"Where is she?" I asked

"Wait for it" Fred sniggered obviously knowing something we didn't. The tabby jumped off the table and transformed into our teacher. The room was filled with gasps

"Good morning class. I am Professor McGonagall and I will be teaching you transfiguration."

Even though it was only my first class I had decided it was probably going to be my favourite. We didn't do much only tried to turn a match into a needle. I didn't get very far with it though, only turning it a weird silvery brown colour with a slightly pointed tip.

"Did you manage to turn it into a needle then?" I asked the twins as we left the room

"Nope." George sighed

"Not a thing." Fred finished

"Oh I made it a kind of silvery brown colour and I think the end was slightly pointed but I think I was seeing things." I said realising I had done much better than the twins

"What do you have now?" I asked changing the subject

"Herbology. With the Hufflepuff's." Fred told me

"I think I have flying lessons, with Ravenclaw."

"Not fair we don't have flying until Thursday." George groaned

"And you have it with Hufflepuff." I separated from the twins at the stairs. I wouldn't see them now until Friday when we had double potions together, not counting meals of course.

I hurried outside to where Madam Hooch was about to begin the lesson

"Come on, hurry up. We don't have all day." She said. There were multiple brooms placed on the ground in front of us. We all went a stood beside on of them, the Slytherins on one side Ravenclaws on the other.

"Now I want you to place your hand over the broom and say 'up' nice and clearly." Madam Hooch instructed. All at once there was a roar of noise as each one of us tried to get our come up. I got the broom up almost immediately and couldn't help but chuckle slightly at the Ravenclaw opposite, Mathew, who was struggling. He was the second Ravenclaw to get his broom up and gave me a look that said 'see I can do it too'. Once the whole class had gotten their broom up we were shown how to mount the broom and gently push off.

The end of the lesson came soon after and the rest of the day was a blur of lessons before dinner finally came. Myself and the twins had decided that some we can't sit on the same table we would sit back to back so we could still talk to one another

"So anything interesting happen since we left you?" Fred asked

"Well the rest of my lessons were with the Ravenclaws and me and this boy Mathew got into an unspoken competition about who was better. I got my feather to float first in Flitwicks lesson, and he answered more questions in Herbology. So we're tied at the moment." I told them. We continued talking about our first day and then about complete nonsense until it was time to go up to the common rooms.

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow at breakfast." I waved to them at the stairs

"Your actually friends with Gryffindor's?" An older girl asked

"Yeah. Is that a problem?"

"Don't you find them irritating? I have Study of magical creatures with Gryffindor and I can't stand it." She ranted as we walked thought he dungeon to the common room. I didn't spend any time in the common room like the others did, I went straight up to my room where I was met by Midnight. I quickly undressed and examined the markets that littered my body from my so called family. I preferred to change out of my uniform early so I wouldn't risk the other girls in my room seeing all the bruises. I got into my pyjamas and into bed before the other girls arrived.