This is it, this is the day, this is my first day of Hogwarts, this is my first day of lessons, I'm starting my magical learning today. I immediately got up and started getting dressed, I didn't even mind that I was wearing second hand robes.
"Are you always so happy in the morning?" Katie asked as she started to get ready.
"Sometimes, I'm just really happy this morning because it's my first day at Hogwarts. I have been waiting for this day ever since Bill got his letter."
"Whose Bill?" Jordyn asked.
"My older brother, will one of my older brothers, I have six."
"You have six older brothers?" Chelsea asked, her mouth falling open.
"Yeah, do you guys have any siblings?"
"No, I'm an only child, I knew about the magical world because I'm a pureblood," Katie said
"You're a pureblood, so am I," I said excitedly.
"I'm a half-blood," Chelsea said.
"Same here," Jordyn replied.
We all looked at the fifth person in the room, Delaney. "I'm a muggle born, I didn't know about the magical world until I got my letter."
"So, who cares?" I said.
"You're a pureblood though, aren't you supposed to hate muggle borns?"
"Not all purebloods think that, my whole family are blood traitors,"
"Blood traitors?"
"Purebloods who associate with muggles or muggle borns, it's not a bad thing," Katie said.
The five of us headed down to breakfast together, I sat down and helped myself to some bacon. We talked about what we would learn in our classes today when a rustle came from above and a thousand owls came flying in. I looked up and saw a bedraggled owl flying in, Errol, he landed on the table and slumped on his back, a red envelope clutched in his beak. A red envelope? That's a howler. Mum sent Ron a howler, she must be extremely mad about the whole flying car incident. Ron reached out a shaky hand and opened the smoking red envelope, as soon as he did the hall filled with mum's voice. I have never been so scared of mum in my whole life and she isn't here and I'm not the one she sent the howler to.
"STEALING THE CAR, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SURPRISED IF THEY'D EXPELLED YOU, YOU WAIT TILL I GET HOLD OF YOU, I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU STOPPED TO THINK WHAT YOUR FATHER AND I WENT THROUGH WHEN WE SAW IT WAS GONE." I think that mum is going to murder Ron, somehow she is going to reach through the red envelope, burning a whole in the Gryffindor table, and strangle Ron. Although based on how red Ron is getting right now, she might just embarrass him to death, either way mum is going to kill Ron.
"LETTER FROM DUMBLEDORE LAST NIGHT, I THOUGHT YOUR FATHER WOULD DIE OF SHAME, WEDIDN'T BRING YOU UP TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS, YOU AND HARRY COULD BOTH HAVE DIED." She brought up Harry, I can't believe it, you would think that the last thing she would want to do is bring up Harry and embarrass him along with Ron. Poor Harry, his face is as red as mine gets when I'm around him. Oh, and he is trying to look as if he can't hear my mother's thundering voice filling The Great Hall and shaming her youngest son.
"ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED... YOUR FATHER'S FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK, IT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT AND IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT BACK HOME." Mum's voice stopped. It's over, I can't believe mum didn't yell any more. The only thing that's left of my mothers shrieking voice is a smoking red envelope. I looked at my embarrassed brother, his guilty looking best friend and his smug looking other best friend. I can't believe I'm feeling sorry for Ron.
Professor McGonagall handed them their course schedules and they headed out of the great hall.
When McGonagall handed me my sechdule she said, "Have a nice day Miss. Weasley, if you need help getting to any of your classes I would asked anybody but your brothers." I smiled as McGonagall moved on to my roommates.
"Let's see our first class is Charms with Professor Flitwick, I wonder how we are going to find our classroom?" I said.
We walked around the second floor four times before we realized the Charms classroom is on the third floor. We sat down in the back of the classroom, Professor Flitwick came in a short while later and stood on a pile of books in order to take roll. Professor Flitwick started the class by explaining what we would be learning over the years to come, when we finished we moved on to learning a simple spell called the wand-lighting spell.
The spell was extremely simple to learn all you had to do was say, "Lumos" and the tip of your wand lit up. The light coming from it also gave off a bit of heat, so if I'm reading by wand light I will also be warm. As soon as your done with the light you just say, "Nox" and the light goes out. It was such a simple lesson, that everyone mastered the spell by the end of the lesson.
When the bell rang I took out my schedule to check what my next class is, History of Magic. I walked downstairs and looked for the classroom on the second floor and then realized the classroom is on the first floor. Professor Binns was a ghost taught History of Magic, he defiantly was not vicious, he was boring and made the vicious things he was talking about boring. I tried to stay awake, I really did but the droning power of Binns voice just knocked me out. The only person who was not asleep was the dreamy looking girl from the boat last night, but she was too busy staring out the window to be paying any real attention.
After class I dragged myself out of my seat, which had grown comfortable in such a shot while and headed down to lunch, I only got lost two times. I was picking at my lunch when the boy with the muggle camera sat down on the other side of me.
"Hi," I said, wanting to be friendly.
"Hi, my name is Colin Creevey." the boy said excitedly, holding out his hand for me to shake.
"I'm Gin..." I started.
"Oh, I know, your Ginny Weasley, your brother is Ron Weasley, Harry Potter's best friend."
"Yeah,"
"I was wondering if... you... could introduce... me to him," Colin said slowly, trying to get all the words out.
"Colin everytime I get near Harry the only thing I can do is blush and make a fool of myself, if I could introduce you I would but I can't so no."
"Oh, I understand, thanks anyway," Colin started to leave but then he stopped and sat back down. "How should I approach him then, what do I say."
"Just go up to him, be friendly, ask him anything, ask him for his autograph," as soon as the words came out of my mouth I knew they were a mistake, "Wai..."
"Thanks Ginny, that's a good idea," Colin said jumping up and heading out of the Great Hall.
If Ron and Harry ever find out I just said that, they will murder me.
I met Peeves after lunch when I was trying to find the Transfiguration classroom, he assumed that my head was on fire and kept on throwing water balloons at me to try and put it out.
"Why are you girls late and dripping on my floor," Professor McGonagall said when me and my roommates finally found her classroom.
"I hate Peeves," Katie said simply, throwing her book bag down and slumping in her seat. McGonagall simply shook her head and didn't take away any points for us being late. She started out our class by giving us a lecture and then our very first assignment, turning matches into needles. Nobody in our class successful finished the task but the end of the lesson Delany could sew and light fires at the same time with her matchstick/ needle.
"I think you might end up being the best in out class," I said to Delany when the bell rang, signaling the end of the lesson. I threw my matchstick into the box Professor McGonagall was walking around with, it might be a trick of the light but I swear mine is a little bit shiner then when I started.
"How can I be the best, I'm muggleborn?" Delany, walking beside me, step for step.
"That doesn't matter, one of my brothers best friend is muggleborn and she is the best in their whole year,"
"I guess your right,"
"I am right," I said looking at her with a confident smile on my face. I looked forward again, heading for the door in front of us, bam, I walked straight into a wall and fell down.
"That door is pretending to be a wall, why would you do such a thing?" Katie yelled at the wall.
I got up quickly and started to push Katie away from the wall, but I could swear I heard the door/wall snicker as we walked away.
Our last class of the day was Defense Against the Dark Arts with Lockhart, I'm not looking forward to class with him. Ever since the day we saw him in Diagon Alley I realized I don't like him, he is so conceited. I like famous people who don't flaunt their fame, people like Harry. I would love it if Harry was my teacher instead of Mr. Non stop talking about himself. The first thing he did when class started was tell us he is a five time winner of 'Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award," not to mention his Order of Merlin, third class. He had us take a quiz on how well we read all of his books, most of the girls in my class read his books and did well on the quiz. However the boys, me and the girl named Luna Lovegood hadn't read a single word and failed. How was I supposed to know that when he was at Hogwarts he carved his name into the Quidditch Pitch, earning him a weeks worth of detentions.
I was thankful when classes were over for the day and that I found my way to The Great Hall without getting lost. I sat down to dinner and helped myself to some steak and kidney pie when Fred and George sate on either side of me.
"Hey Gin," Fred greeted.
"How was the first day?" George asked.
"Excellent, I had Charms first period and I really like the class and Professor Flitwick,"
"Yeah Charms is an excellent class," George said scooping up food for both him and Fred.
"It's a shame we have missed so many lessons, goofing off and playing pranks," Fred said passing out rolls to George and I.
"That must be a lot of regret you two have. Speaking of regret, I regret sleeping in History of Magic."
"Don't we don't, nobody ever does," Fred said.
"Yeah, nobody can regret sleeping in that boring class," George said.
"The only person who can sit through his class and not fall asleep is Hermione."
"Really, you would think Percy could," I said.
"We were surprised too, Binns and Perce are on the same level of boring," Fred said through a mouth of food.
"Oh come on you too, Perce is not as boring as Binns,"
"Are you off your rocker?"
"I like Percy, unlike you two,"
"We like Percy and we also don't like him, we don't like his constant need to follow rules but the mysterious side of him we like,"
"You mean the side of him that was locked in his room all summer,"
"Yes and we would love to know what he was doing in there,"
"Good luck finding out, he wouldn't even tell me,"
We sat in silence to finish our supper, once we were finished and we just sat around talking about my first day and the likelihood that McGonagall, feeling sorry for me about having Fred and George as my brothers, lets me off easy or as easy as McGonagall can. Percy sat down across from us and started helping himself to dinner. He had his mouth open about to say something, probably to ask me about how my first day was when George interrupted him.
"Where have you been?"
"Yeah, you're never late for supper, especially when there is so many people to stop from having a good time," Fred continued.
"Oh, you're hilarious," Percy said. "Anyway, I was going to ask Ginny how her first day was before you interrupted."
"We already asked her and if you had been here on time you could have heard her answer," George said.
"Exactly, which brings us to our question. Where were you?" Fred paused, waiting for Percy to answer.
Percy said nothing and just continued to eat.
"You're not going to tell us?" George asked.
"It's none of you're business what I do or where I go and I believe I was talking to Ginny."
That shut Fred and George up. Smiling at Percy's unusually harsh words to the twins I told him about my day, how it went, the teachers I liked, the classes I think will be my favorite, my least favorite class, etc. I just kept on talking, pleased to have a interested audience. I talked will Percy ate and all the way up to Gryffindor tower, where we sat on a couch by the fire.
"I'm glad you like Hogwarts Gin, you're going to have a great time. I have to do homework but you can keep on talking if you want," Percy said.
"I would love to, since I love to talk but I want to write in my diary." I said, thinking of Tom upstairs in my bedside table.
Percy smiled and said goodnight. I ran up the girls staircase, jumped on my bed and pulled out Tom and a quill.
Dear Tom, today was my first day at Hogwarts and I love it here
I'm glad to hear that Ginny, how did you like your classes?
Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall is my favorite. I like the thought of transforming one object to another. Today we transfigured matches into needles, nobody completed the task but my roommate Delany Evans came close. I think that Delany is going to be the best in our year.
She sounds like a smart, young girl but so do you. I'm sure that you will be right up there with Delany. Do you like the rest of your roommates and classmates?
Yes, I'm going to have a good time with them, it's a change of pace talking to a group of girls instead of all boys. There's a lot of kids in my grade I want to know better, for example there is this Ravenclaw, Luna Lovegood, who is always day dreaming and staring out into space, I would love to know what she is thinking about. There is also this Gryffindor boy, Colin Creevey, who carries around a muggle camera and he asked me today if I would introduce him to Harry.
It sounds like you have some interesting classmates. Did you introduce this Colin boy to Harry?
Of course not, you know the only thing I can do in front of Harry is blush and embarrass my self. I did something bad though, I told Colin to ask Harry for his autograph.
Why is that bad?
Harry is not the type to flaunt his fame, that's one of the reasons I like him so much, he would rather hide in the shadows then stand out in the light.
He doesn't like that he is famous, I thought everybody wanted to be famous.
Not everybody likes the spotlight and look why he is famous. A dark wizard killed his parents and couldn't kill him, do you think he wants to be famous for that and reminded every day that his parents are dead. It must be awful.
I can see that now Ginny, you really do understand Harry. Tell me more about this Professor McGonagall, I never had her as a teacher.
I told Tom all about my teachers and classes, all the while thinking about Harry and what Tom said. You really do understand him, maybe Harry and I are meant to be, I hope so at least. After saying goodnight to Tom, I changed into my night clothes and got into bed, the other girls having already came in and fell asleep. I dreamt again, the dream not being as happy as the one last night.
I dreamt that Harry was lost somewhere in the castle and I had to go save him. I had no idea where to look and couldn't find my way around, since I don't know where anything is in this giant, mysterious place. The only thing that could help me find him was a gentle hissing in my ears. I tried desperately to understand the hissing and where it was leading me but I could not and I failed to find Harry.