Chapter Three; What?
"IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS. WAKE YOUR BUM UP!" Rosa was startled awake by two simultaneous yelling in both her ears. Jumping up with a scream, the eleven-year old fell off her bed, her legs tangled in the blue blankets. Both Charlotte and Autumn stood on either side of her poster bed, smiles threatening to show themselves on the twins' lips.
"Yes?" Rosa questioned, her heart pounding and her coils of brown hair in a knot at the base of her neck.
"It's first day of classes. Don't want to be late, do you? You've gotta keep the Ravenclaw reputation up and going." Autumn said, helping Rosa up and out of her blankets. With a huge groan and a yelp, the eleven year old stumbled in the midst of fallen blankets again and fell on her butt, the twins crying in hysterical laughter. With a pout and very serious bed head, Rosa stood up and headed to the bathroom, pulling open the secret staircase to the rooms all the while rubbing the sore part of her lower back in the process. With her shower supplies packed into the bathroom from the night before, Rosalyn took her sweet time with getting prepared to head down to the Great Hall for breakfast and her schedule. With her eagle insignia on her left breast, the eleven year old walked back up to where Autumn and Charlotte stood. Rosa's dark brown hair pushed back by a grey headband. The bottom of her curls twisting amongst each other and still the tiniest bit wet.
"C'mon. We're going to breakfast, yeah?" Charlotte questioned, Alice entering the room as well to get Rosa.
"Rosalyn! Good morning!" The chipper girl making Rosa's nose turn in disgust, but just a tiny bit.
"How're you so chipper?" She looked at the clock. "It's so early in the morning." The clock showing the time of half past seven. "I wouldn't ever be up this early at home." She picked at the end of her skirt, a stray thread coming out between her nails, their nail polish chipping off the slightest.
"It's called, enthusiasm. We're at Hogwarts, a freaking magic school!" Alice exclaimed. Rosa nodded knowingly.
"C'mon! Let's go. Breakfast starts soon and I'd like to know what you two's schedules are so Char and I can tell you how to easily pass the class. " Autumn gestured to the end of the hallway, the eagle door standing over many of the new first years and the returning second years. Rosa had admired the door so many times the night before, the huge oak doors detailed with elaborate designs. The four girls, two first years, and two six years headed out those oak doors, past the sitting area into the sea of colors.
"I'll be right back!" Rosa exclaimed seeing as the rest of her house mates and school mates with satchels and bags while Rosalyn was empty-handed. The young girl sprinted back in the direction of her house, not watching as she ran, colliding with a group of students. The runner collapsing onto her tailbone once again that morning.
"OI! WATCH IT!" A boy her age exclaimed, his dark hair in a disarray and his glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.
"You watch it, jerk. " Rosa bit back, knowing it was her fault in the first place. She stood up and dusted her black tights off, frowning at a miniscule tear in the fabric.
"JERK? Me?" He pointed to himself. "You- You're the one running like a maniac." He grumbled.
"Yeah, yeah. Bye." Rosa spun back off and hastily walked to the tower where the Ravenclaw common room was. She stood in front of the big door with the brass eagle knocker. She knocked it and the eagle reanimated and looked at her.
A word I know,
Six letters it contains,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains
Rosa stood for a few minutes contemplating the answer. She must be Ravenclaw for some reason. Her mind working overtime with finding the answer. Six words. Twelve. "Dozens." The knocker slammed shut once before opening the tiniest bit for the eleven year old. The normally filled lounge area crowded with people was now eerily empty, her stomach twisting anxiously. She headed to the room she shared with Autumn, Charlotte, Alice, and two others and grabbed her brown satchel bag. Tucking in onto her shoulder, she hurriedly walked out of her common room, the door slamming behind her and the portraits on the wall following her figure. She sped towards to where an abundance of students, new and old walking into the extravagant hall. She entered and scanned the hall, and then the Ravenclaw table for her friends.
"ROSA! There you are!" Alice exclaimed, noticing Rosalyn as she stood behind the bench that the twins and Alice sat on. "We thought you got lost!" Her face portrayed her worry.
"I'm fine. Just ran into a few issues with the riddle at the door. " Her cheeks lit up pink and her bottom lip was nibbled to the point her skin was peeling on the lip.
"I assume you've gotten the answer, yeah?" Autumn popped up into the conversation, her other half nibbling on a piece of toast and reading The Daily Prophet, scowling at some stories that lacked that specific pizzazz.
"These feature stories and cover stories, they're bloody awful." Charlotte's nose crinkled and she dropped the offending paper besides her.
"Char wants to be a reporter for Prophet after we leave Hogwarts. She says that she'd actually write good pieces." Autumn tilted her head in the general direction of her twin.
"What about you, Autumn?" Rosa asked, reaching for her cup filled with juice. Autumn placed her pointer finger on her chin.
"Maybe a healer, or a med-witch. Something involving healing." The seventeen year old took a bite of a bright red apple that she took from where it sat with its siblings in a bowl.
"Hello, hello." The house leader looked at the four of them, a pile of parchment in one of his hands and his wand in his other. "Schedules?" He waved his wand with a quick flick and found Autumn, Charlotte, Rosalyn, and Alice's schedules. "Hope to see the two of you in Charms." He nodded towards the two first years. Looking at the two elder twins, he raised an eyebrow. "I hope the two of you behave as well as our newcomers, let's hope that your rash actions won't rub off on them." Professor Flitwick reprimanded, knowing his two sixth years.
"Don't you worry, Professor. We're on our best behavior." Identical brown eyes focused on their head of house.
"I'll believe it when I see it." The professor walked away, grumbling incoherently.
"So, Rosa! What do you have?" Alice perked up, brushing her long brown hair over her shoulders, a few tendrils framing her face. Rosa looked down at her parchment that was in her hand.
"Transfiguration with the Hufflepuff, Potions with Gryffindor, Charms with Ravenclaw, Defense Against The Dark Arts with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, History of Magic with Slytherin and Gryffindor," Both the twins faces screwed up at that. "What?" Rosa asked, or maybe demanded.
"The most boring class, with the most rivaled houses." Charlotte started.
"I swear, people are going to be hexed in that class, lions and snakes do not get along." Autumn finished. She shook her head grumbling at her unlucky streak. First was running into someone, and the other was a class with rivals. First day of Hogwarts, it's not the best.
"Anyways, what do the two of you have?" Alice questioned, spinning her oak wand between her fingertips.
"Like always-"
"-We have same classes." Both twins finished each other's sentences. Autumn handed her schedule over to Alice and the younger girl's green eyes scanned over the parchment.
Timetable
§ Monday
§ Ancient Runes (first period)
§ Defence Against the Dark Arts (morning)
§ Arithmancy (after break)
§ Potions (after lunch)
§ Tuesday
§ Herbology (After brealk)
§ Wednesday
§ Double Potions (Morning and after break)
§ Thursday
§ NO CLASSES
§ Friday
§ Transfiguration (morning)
"Wow." [1] Rosa mumbled to herself. "You're busy!" She exclaimed.
"At least we have Thursday off. Green is going to make us do Quidditch drills." Autumn complained, Charlotte rolling her eyes.
"You didn't have to rejoin the team, you know that right?"
Well, it's not as long as I'd hope it was going to be. But I got the third chapter out, well, fourth, if you count the prologue. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy it!
1. Taken from the Harry Potter Wiki. It's the technical year six schedule, but I've edited and added a few things.
OH! Before I forget. I'd like to have a beta/co-writer. It'll make getting these chapters out quicker and make you, as the readers, enjoy the story even more. THANKS FOR THE 70 views! It means a lot to know people are reading it.
xoxo,
Emily