❝︎You laughed, I haven't seen you do that yet❞︎

03: First Day

"ryffindors follow me please keep up thank you," Percy Weasley said gathering us around. This one was getting on my nerves, so impatient. Bad choice for a Prefect if you ask me. I could stand all the other Weasleys but this one was just different.

We walked up the stairs in awe to see a giant stairway with paintings everywhere. The people inside the painting looked at us with big smiles waving.

"Oh and keep an eye on the staircase, they like to change," He says. I looked up and sure enough, the staircases really were moving. Not to mention, this place was huge!

"keep up please and follow me," If Percy doesn't shut up I swear on Merlin.. "come on, come on."

I rolled my eyes and follow him up the stairs. He led us in front of a moving painting, bigger than the rest of the paintings. Inside was a fat lady holding a glass of wine.

"Password?" The fat lady in the painting asked

"Caput Draconis," Percy replied, and with that the painting opened revealing a big room inside. It was very pretty and a lot of us were in awe. I smiled looking at the red and gold color scheme of the Gryffindor common room. It was warm and the sound of fire crackling from the fireplace was very relaxing.

"Welcome to the Gryffindor common room. The boy's dormitories upstairs and down to your left girls the same but on your right. You'll find all your belongings have already been brought up," Percy said standing in the middle of the room. Hermione grabbed my arm excitedly and pulled me up towards the girl's dormitories making sure our beds were next to each other. I've.. never been dragged around before. We asked a few girls to trade beds to make sure our beds were next to each other and sure enough, our belongings were already there.

I was feeling extremely tired, it was a very exciting first day at Hogwarts. I changed into a light blue set of satin pajamas I had bought to match with my sisters, I wonder how Fleur is doing right now. Though nothing compared to my bed back in my manor, the beds were really comfy and soft, I fell asleep almost immediately.

~***~

I woke up at 6 in the morning looking around to see no one has awakened yet. I head down to the bathroom to brush my hair and change into my robes. I put my hair in a bun as I remembered Madam Natalia's words, "keep your hair up at all times to make yourself look neater" A quick chill went down my spine remembering how she would slap me and my sisters whenever we disobeyed her rules. I was about to head out when Hermione came into the bathroom rubbing her eyes with her hair all frizzy and messed up.

"Good morning Hermione," I said with a smile.

"Morning Evelyn.. when did you wake up?"

"Just now."

"Really? You wake up like that? I'm so jealous of you" She says groaning. I chuckled hearing that and she looked at me surprised.

"What?" I asked as she smiled.

"You laughed, I haven't seen you do that yet"

"Really?" I thought for a second, "I guess so.. I'll wait for you in the common room?" I asked to which Hermione nodded.

I walked downstairs tracing my fingers along the wall looking at every possible detail of this room. It was definitely beautiful. It smelled of burning wood and it wasn't those unpleasant smells, more like camping. Soon a few other students along with Hermione came down and headed out to the Great Hall for breakfast. This time, Hermione linked her arms with mine and headed towards the Great Hall. I wonder what the chosen boy is doing.

~***~

Sleeping. That's what he was doing. He and Ron ran in late for first class; Transfiguration. Slytherin and Gryffindor share a lot of classes and Transfiguration was one of them. That explained why Malfoy was here.

"Whew, amazing. Can you imagine the look on Professor McGonagall's face if we were late?" Ron says as he and Harry ran down the middle of the class. I looked at Hermione who rolled her eyes and smiled. Oh little did they know.

The cat that was sitting in the front of the class jumped down and turning into Professor McGonagall as she walked towards the two boys. Hermione and I meet eye contact and I giggled.

"That was BLOODY BRILLIANT" Ron said.

"Thank you for that Mr. Weasley, Perhaps it will be more useful if I transfigure Mr. Potter and you into a Pocket watch? That way one might be on time" She says. The way she speaks is intimidating but motherly at the same time.

"We got lost," Harry said.

"Then perhaps a map, I trust you don't need one to find your seats?"

The two looked at each other sitting in the very front as the professor made her way back to the front of the class. The remainder of the class was silent, everyone was doing their work until class was dismissed. I was really excited for my next class, potions. It was something I actually look forward to doing in my future.

Hermione and I sat next to each other again next to harry and Ron and was joking about how they were late and the door swung open and Profesor Snape walked in.

"There will be no foolish wand-waving in this class. As such, I don't expect..." his voice drowned out when I noticed the blonde boy, Draco Malfoy trying to get my attention. I looked over and remembered our first encounter, how rude he was to Ron. I decide to look away, maybe annoying him a little. Professor Snape was extremely intimidating. His voice hit my ears like blades. I paid attention in fear, not because I enjoyed the subject. Draco seemed to like the class however or maybe the professor. Who knows what goes on in that boy's head.

"..to not pay attention," Snape said and I snapped back to reality to notice he was staring at Harry writing notes. Hermione gave him a quick nudge and looked over at me as I shrugged.

"..Mr. Potter," He says ever so intimidatingly. "Our. New. Celebrity" He says taking a glance at me. "or should I say one, of our new celebrities."

"Tell me what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

Hermione's hands shot up fast, she was definitely a know it all.

"I don't know sir," Harry said.

"You don't know? What about you Miss Clermont?" I could feel everyone's eyes on me.

"A very powerful sleeping potion sir. So powerful it is known as the Draught of living death" He looked surprised that I knew the answer and so did many other students.

"Excellent. Very good Miss Clermont but clearly fame isn't everything is it Mr. Potter" He said looking back at Harry who was glaring at him while Malfoy let out a snicker. Everyone seemed scared for the remainder of the class. Finally, class was dismissed for lunch.

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