I was lead down into a cold dark place, and at one point I almost lost everyone (as I couldn't keep up with my foot) but one of the prefects came to the back and helped me down the stairs. It got colder and colder and many people began to shiver but suddenly we were outside a huge picture of this strange person. The prefect at the front said something like besore and the picture came out on it's side, like a door. As we walked in, a rush of warmth spread around us and everyone gave a sigh before crowding around the fireplace. I went and joined the group but I knew I couldn't sit on the furniture or be as close to the fire as the other people but I had to make myself look normal (according to Aunt Petunia).

For the first time I could remember, I had a full stomach and it was a strange but happy feeling. I felt nervous about everything because I had never left my aunt and uncle's house overnight before. Now I was meant to be away for a long time without doing chores. I still think that aunt is playing a joke on me. I was waiting for her to show up and take me away.

Suddenly, an extremely tall man was stood in front of the fire. He had long black hair that was greasy and he wore all black clothes. He ordered everyone to be silent (even though I already was) and he introduced himself before going on to describe the rules and how to obtain food during lesson. I was tired but I made sure to listen to every single rule as I didn't want to get into trouble on the first day, or any day for that matter. When he had told us all the rules he then said that we were to go upstairs and unpack and get ready for bed. Everyone began standing up and he left soon after that.

The 2 people that had stood up at the end of the feast began telling us where to go. I had learned that the girl was a 6th year head of house prefect called Queszaura and the boy was a 5th year prefect called Damon. Queszaura began calling for the girls to follow her and Damon did the same but for the boys. He lead us all up the stairs and I could hear faint noise coming from behind a few doors.

"Normally you wouldn't be able to hear any noise at all but some people obviously haven't closed their doors properly. Each door contains a silencing charm which will be taught to you in 2nd year. This year we have more boys than normal as there are 11 of you so there will have to be 6 beds in one room. In the early days of Hogwarts, each house was getting about 50 maybe 60 pupils but over the years the family lines have diluted and died out. You lot are in the 2 rooms right at the end of the hall as they are the ones that the 7th years were in last year". He had been talking constantly until we got the the 2 doors at the end of the rather short hallway. The spaces between the doors were only short so the rooms looked like they would struggle to have 1 bed but this place was 'magical'. The last 2 in the hallway were directly opposite each other and apart from the walls being rough cut stone and the doors being solid oak, it was a standard hallway.

"When you board the train, your belongings are put into another compartment and house elves take those belongings, when it arrives at Hogsmeade, and places them in a spare room. The house elves watch each and every one of you when you arrive and as soon as you're sorted into a house they take those things to the common room of that house. From there the house elves decide where you will sleep for the next 7 years. So what I am saying is, I have no idea where your things will be so you will have to look at the bottom of each bed where your name will be and this is where I leave you so goodnight and remember, bed time is in 30 minutes and the lights will automatically be extinguished in 1 hour. If you're not in bed by the time the lights go out then Professor Snape will be notified. Goodnight!" and then he was gone. He had almost run down the corridor and turned into one of the rooms. The blond boy I had seen earlier was in our rather small group and he made to go to one of the rooms and suddenly everyone was moving. I walked towards one of the doors (which both were now open) and began hesitantly looking for my name. I had a feeling that I wouldn't be able to find my name and as soon as everyone realised that I didn't have a bed they would send me back to my aunt and uncle's.

The room I entered had those stone walls again and as I pressed my hand against it I expected it to be cold but it was warm. The beds were rather high up and had green curtains that you could pull around each bed. I think they were called 'four-poster beds'. The room was a long rectangle shape with beds down the left side. Next to each bed was a small table with a draw and opposite each bed was a large wardrobe for each person to place their clothes. I taught myself to count when I was younger and so I could count that there were 6 beds in this room. In the spaces between each wardrobe was what looked like a mirror but when a fish swam past we knew it was a window looking under the lake. One the other side of the room was a door exactly like the one leading to the corridor but behind it was the bathroom. This room was almost a circle shape and had 6 doors inside. Each door had a name on it and behind each door was a bath, walk-in shower, toilet and sink with a cabinet above it. While looking around I had been wondering about what I was going to do as your name was meant to be on the bottom of the bed but I couldn't read so I didn't know which one was mine. Walking out of the bathroom I noticed that a boy was either pulling things out of a trunk or placing things into a wardrobe and so obviously my bed wasn't in here. I walked out of the room and into the room opposite the one I was in. This room was exactly the same as the other one but this one only had 5 beds. People were at 4 of the beds and so the last one must be mine. I walked to the 3rd bed from the door and opened the trunk at the bottom of the bed and found my new books and clothes. I spent the next few minutes putting my small amount of clothes into the wardrobe at the bottom of my bed.

No one in the room had said anything much to each other but while everyone was unpacking I was looking at all of them to see if any of them were dangerous. In the bed closest to the bathroom was that blond boy from before (something told me I would be seeing him quite a lot) and the bed next to him and me was a rather tall boy with dark coloured skin and hair. On the other side of me was a boy with light brown hair and next to the door leading to the corridor was another boy with black hair. Everyone had been unpacking what looked like a mountain of clothes. They had lots of different tops (school and normal [if they were smart looking]) and many different types of trousers and even at least 2 school robe things. Everyone even had taken a fair amount of things into the bathroom like soap and toothbrushes but I didn't have either of those. I had 2 school tops, a school robe and tie and then I had 5 of Dudley's tops that had been given to me, a pair of grey trousers (that my cousin called 'trackies') and 2 pairs of jeans that used to be Dudley's. I also had my beaten pair of trainers that had been given to me 2 years ago. Only good boys got toothbrushes.

Eventually, the brown haired boy next to me gathered a pair of pyjamas and walked into the bathroom. I picked up my trackies and a random top and walked into the bathroom as well. About half way up each door was a green squiggle that looked like the ones at the bottom of each bed. When I looked at them again I noticed that the 2nd door from the left had a silver squiggle. Just then, the boy from the other side of me walked in. He gave a quick look around and then walked into the 4th door from the left. As soon as the door was closed the squiggle turned silver and I realised that because they were either side of me in the bedroom, they must be either side of me here as well. I walked into the middle bathroom and I heard the door lock behind me. There was 2 silver rail things and 1 was holding a white towel and so I realised the other was for my pyjamas. After putting my clothes where they should be and realising that there already was some soap inside the shower, I undressed and stepped into the shower which instantly turned on with warm water. I knew it was magic when I couldn't find a power chord. After the shower I dried and dressed and just before I left I realised that there was a toothbrush at the sink and so I walked up to the sink and tried to reach the toothbrush. Suddenly, a small step thing appeared and so I stood on it and I could reach the sink to brush my teeth. Next to the door was a basket type thing and when I put my dirty clothes inside...they disappeared! I left the bathroom at the same time as the dark skinned boy who was in the bed next to me. I could still hear the blond boy shouting about how he wasn't going to unpack his clothes himself as it was 'servants work'. I guess he must be rich to have servants (and so many fancy clothes). I began walking to my bed but then...

"Malfoy! If you complain that it's servants work one more time then I will kill you. Also, you have 5 minutes and the lights will automatically go out so if you want a shower you need to go now!". It was the dark skinned boy who practically shouted this. Suddenly the blond boy jumped up and ran into the bathroom and everyone began laughing. I finally walked over to my bed but then, another thing happened that made me think; the bed was taller than me. I was only half way up the height of the bed and even jumping didn't help me (it just made my foot hurt more).

"Would you like a hand?" asked the dark skinned boy.

"Yes please" I hesitantly replied and before I could blink he had lifted me up and sat me on my bed.

"I just realised, while our names are on the beds, we don't actually know each other". It was as he said it that we realised it as well.

"Well, my name is Blaise Zambini and I was born on 25th May 1980"

"My name is Draconis Lucius Malfoy and I was born 5th June 1980" said the blond boy next to the bathroom.

"Yes we all know who you are" laughed the boy I now knew was Blaise. The other black haired boy spoke up then.

"I am Frederic Brimth and I was born 14th April 1980"

"My name is Jeremy Malottoreand I was born 27th August 1980".

When someone said there name everyone smiled at them; and then came my turn. I knew that everyone would know me because Hagrid had told me about being famous but I was still scared.

"No need to ask who you are" began Draco. Suddenly, he cried out as Blaise hit him.

"Save that sort of stuff for the Weasleys Malfoy" shouted Blaise. "Anyway, ignore him Harry...I can call you Harry right?" he asked me. I gave a nod of my head and he carried on. "I can honestly say that I and probably everyone else is shocked that you are in Slytherin but welcome" he said and smiled at me. I began to reply when the room was suddenly filled with darkness. It didn't scare me at all but what did make me jump was the loud, girlish scream that came from the bathroom and the person with a green face who followed it.

"Merlin, Draco. You almost gave us all heart attacks" stated Frederic.

"Yeah and what in the name of Salazar have you got on your face?" asked Blaise.

"It's mashed avocados to keep my skin smooth and spot free" stated Draco with a snobbish sounding voice. Just then there was a knock at the door and a faint voice came from behind it. However, it was too quiet to hear so Jeremy opened the door. Stood there was Damon the male prefect.

"Is everyone okay?" he asked. We all replied yes but then Draco answered.

"No I am not. I was preforming my nightly ritual and the lights gave out on me and I was forced out of my bathroom" he said all that in that snobbish voice again.

"Ah. One thing I forgot to tell you, once the lights go off you're not suppost to be in the bathroom but since it is the first night, well for the first week while you grow used to the time limits, the bathroom will give you a small push to make you hurry up. Also, you are only allowed to go to the bathroom once each night. You can go more than once but if you do try to go another time then it will alert professor Snape" Damon informed us all.

"While that is all good, how am I suppost to finish my nightly ritual if I'm not suppost to be in the bathroom?"

"What do you have left to do?"

"I have to finish applying the avocado mush and brush my hair"

"Well it's not much and I'm sure that you can survive 1 night without brushing your hair and you look to have enough...mush, on your face" Damon said and then he left. Suddenly everyone was laughing but Draco just stomped his feet and climbed into bed and turned over. I heard everyone else climbing into bed and I began lying down. I swear this bed must be made entirely from feathers as it was so comfortable. I could hear Draco muttering to himself but no one was listening.

"Hey Harry, are you still awake?" whisper shouted Blaise. I didn't know what to do as I couldn't and he couldn't see me since it was dark so I couldn't nod my head but I didn't want to just ignore him. I was thinking about what to do when I heard movement. "Harry? I can see the white of your eyes, wow I can even see the green. It's like your eyes are glowing" he said with a smile in his voice. "Can I ask you a question? Well 2 questions?" he asked me.

"That is 1 question down already" whispered Frederic and it made me smile.

"Shut up you" he said I could hear the smile in his words "So can I?". I gave him a nod and wondered if he would see it.

"I saw your eyes move up and down. Was that a nod?". I nodded again and he stated the word 'great'. "How come you're so small?" he asked me. How could I answer this? I couldn't speak for 1 and for 2, I am not allowed to tell anyone what happens in the house.

"And how come you never speak?" he carried on with the questions.

"Maybe he doesn't know how to" spoke Draco. Everyone began saying things like 'that's not possible' and 'that's not true' and before they could try and get an answer from me I closed my eyes and made sleeping sounds. Finally, everyone began going quiet and soon enough, I was actually asleep in my first ever bed.