Elettra
Daphne, Thief, and I piled into a boat with Remy and Jinx, "Daphne, this is my best friend Remy LeBeau, and his cat Jinx." I introduce and Remy gives her a toothy grin, "Bonjour belle--" I quickly stopped him from talking, "No! There will be none of that!" I shout at him and he mumbles something in French and turns towards the castle, "What did he say?" Daphne whispered to me and I shook my head, "Hello beautiful, he's flirt, don't trust him." I warn and Daphne stares at Hogwarts with wide eyes and I see the big castle getting closer, "It's beautiful." I breathe and Daphne nods, "It really is." Remy turns towards me and pulls me into him, "Alright, ma chéri, we're here. We're going to be just fine." Remy says softly in his thick Cajun accent, we arrive and jump out of the boat as Hagrid walks us up to the school and pounded on the door. We all watched as an older woman walked through the door and she ushered us inside and started informing us about Hogwarts, "Welcome to Hogwarts," The woman started, "I am Professor McGonagall, the start of term banquet will begin in just a few moments. You will be sorted into four houses. The sorting ceremony is quite important, for your house will be like your family while you are here. You will have classes with your house, you will sleep in your House dormitory, and spend free time in your House common room." Professor McGonagall said with an expressionless face, "There are four Hogwarts houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw," Remy gave me a smirk as she said that, "And Slytherin." To which I gave him a proud smirk when she said that, "Each House has it's own noble history and each house has produced outstanding Witches and Wizards." Professor McGonagall went on to explain other things but I was to focused on Remy and his playing cards, "Elettra, do you know how they sort us?" Harry asked me and I raised an eyebrow, "Hell no, maybe we'll die." I say and Daphne and Remy stifled a laugh. "My brothers, Fred and George, said we had to fight a troll." Ron said and Daphne grew pale, "We'll be fine, just fine." I reassured her and McGonagall came back and ushered us in to the banquet thing. I looked around and saw four long tables and everyone staring at us, "This is so much more stress then I'm used to." I mutter and Remy hits me slightly, "You are stressed, I'm 13, I'm older than you and taller than you, what I'm feeling is anxiety." Remy grumbles and we stop in the middle of the hall. I see teachers lined up sitting at a table and an old man with a long beard, whom I quickly recognized as Dumbledore, staring straight at me, "Elettra, Elettra the hat is twitching." Daphne said suddenly and only then did I notice an old, stingy, dirty hat sitting upon a stool. It twitched a few times and then formed a face, it opened it's mouth wide and coughed a few times before saying:
"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find a
Hat smarter than me.
You can keep you bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I am the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!
When it was done everyone clapped and yet Remy and I just stared at it, "Are you two okay? You look like you're going to kill the hat." Daphne told us softly and we nodded at her, "We're just not exactly used to the whole, talking hat thing." I speak for the both of us, "None of us are." Another first year from behind us said and then McGonagall unrolled a list, "When I call your name, come up and try the hat on. LeBeau, Remy." She called and Remy flipped the collar of his trench coat and walked up to the hat, the old hat hardly touched his head and called out, "RAVENCLAW!" Which didn't surprise me at all, "Abbot, Hannah." And it continued in alphabetical order, I ignored them all until Granger, "Granger, Hermione." It took a few seconds but then the hat shouted out, "GRYFFINDOR!" At least I'm not going to be in the same house as her, a few names were called and then it was time for Daphne, "SLYTHERIN!" The hat shouted and she scurried off to the table, names were shouted out left and right and then it was Harry's turn, after a few minutes the hat had an answer, "GRYFFINDOR!" I clapped lazily and waited until my name was called. Then finally, the 'S' category rolled around, "Stark, Elettra!" And the hall went silent before bursting into whispers, I slowly walked up to the stool and slumped down on it, McGonagall placed the hat on my head and I heard a sly voice in my ear, "Elettra Stark, well, there's no surprise here. Better be SLYTHERIN!" My lips turned into a wicked grin, but all I heard was cheering from Slytherin and booing from the Gryffindors. I ran off to the Slytherin table next to Daphne, "I knew it! I knew I'd be here! This is amazing!" I call out and get some amused looks from some of the older years, "Hi." I say and give a loud laugh, "I'm Marcus Flint, you must be Elettra Stark!" An older boy shouted down and I nod, "You know it!" I respond as food appears on the table, "Welcome!" Dumbledore shouted, "Welcome to another magical year at Hogwarts! Before we dig into our delicious feast, I would like to say a few words! And here they are! Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" He shouted and us first years looked terrified, "Thank you!" Everyone cheered and yet I wasn't sure if I should worry about his mental health or not.
"To answer your question, yes he's mental." Another Slytherin boy told me as he offered sliced steak to me, "I'm Adrian Pucey." He introduced as I grabbed the meat, "I assume you already know who I am." I say and Adrian chuckled, "Of course I do, welcome to Slytherin Ms. Elettra Stark." He says and then goes back to talking to another girl, Daphne shook my arm and pointed to the ghosts flying around, "Cool." I whisper and eat up, as dinner was replaced by dessert. We all stuffed our faces as fast as possible and then followed the Slytherin Prefects down to the Slytherin dormitories, which were in the dungeon, I quickly assumed it would be freezing, I mean we were at the bottom of the School, practically. Daphne and I watched the moving portraits in awe and listened to everything they said, "The password is Snakes for two days and then it changes." The Prefect informs us and the door opened to the common room. It was lit in green and it was so warm, Thief jumped out of my arms and ran to the windows were you could see under the lake, "Sorry about him." I call out and everyone laughed slightly, "Breakfast starts at 6:30 and ends at 7:30. Welcome to Slytherin, make yourself at home. The list of dormitories is on the board." He said and walked off, I took in the common room, it didn't smell damp or anything, instead it smelled like cinnamon and smoke from the fire place. The common room was warm and inviting, Daphne stayed next to me and jumped up and down excitedly, "Look at this place, it's incredible!" She screamed and everyone looked at us, "Sorry!" Daphne shouted, "Calm down, I'm excited too." I say and give her an amused smile, "Why don't we find out who we are rooming with, come on!" Daphne shouts and tugs me towards the board of names and we find our names which were listed under the same dorm number. She let out a loud squeal and started jumping up and down, "We're roommates!" I shout and she hugs me and my smile instantly goes away, "What did I say about the hugging thing?"
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We walked into the dorm we were sharing with Pansy Parkinson and Patience Cordelia, "Sup' girls? I'm your roommate, you don't look me in the eyes!" I say as we slam the door open and I drop Thief on one of the beds, "Oh, hi." One of them mumbled and Daphne sat on the one next to mine, "I'm Daphne Greengrass and this is Elettra Stark. It's nice to meet you guys." Of course Daphne took the high road here, it will take about a few weeks until I actually like them, maybe. "I'm Patience Cordelia, I know weird name." A girl with red hair said and then blushed a furious red, "I like it." I muse and Daphne nods, "As do I." The other girl, Pansy Parkinson, gave us a cold glare, "So, you are rooming with us, well I hope you aren't as--" "Pansy don't." Patience gasped and hit her slightly, "What? I was only joking. So, Elettra, Daphne, why don't we talk about boys!" Pansy squealed and my opinion of her suddenly plummeted, "It's our first day here, we don't really know anyone." Daphne scoffed and I nodded along, "What about before here? There has to be someone back home you guys like." Patience says with a smirk and I growl at them. "If you try to include me in boy talk again, I will murder you and no one will find the bodies." I hiss and then smirk as I throw my bags under my bed, "Someone's grumpy." Pansy whispered to Patience and I glared at her, Daphne shook her head and told me to ignore them, "Did you see the sign for Quidditch Tryouts?" I ask her and Daphne nods, "Of course! Are you going to tryout?" She asks me and I shrug, "I read all about it, but Slytherin hasn't had a girl on their team for years. And there's also the fact that I have no idea how to fly a broom, I'm also a first year, so I can't." I tell her and roll my eyes, "It's ageist, it might also be sexist." Daphne mumbles. I looked out the glass that surrounded our room, it stared into the dark waters, "I think I'm gonna like it here." I whisper and bid goodnight to the girls before sneaking down to the common room. I plopped down on the black leather couch and stared at the fire, "Okay, didn't think I had to fight anyone for the best sitting area in the common room." A guy's voice said from behind and I turned to face him, he was obviously my age, platinum blonde hair that was gelled back, he looked.....how do I say this nicely.....He looked like a spoiled brat! "Well I don't like going to sleep this early, so, yeah. Fight all you want." I say and turn back to the fire, "Do you mind if I just sit on the couch?" Spoiled dude asked and I groaned, "I got here first, my seat." The guy just shrugs and turns away as I scrunch up my legs and suddenly he just comes running for the end of the couch where my legs weren't anymore, and I couldn't move my legs down fast enough.
He turns to me with a successful smirk and I glare at him, "I'm Draco Malfoy." He introduces and I give him a fake smile, "I'm Elettra, get off my couch." I say in a sickly sweet voice before knocking him off said couch, Draco looked up at me from the floor and as I thought he was going to say something stupid like, "I'll tell the professors about this." Or "My father (or Mother) will hear about this!" He laughed instead of saying any thing, "Well aren't you feisty." I raised an eyebrow at this and growled slightly, "Call me feisty again and we'll see what happens to your face." I say and then give him a fake smile, "Alright, I'll call you Elettra." He said with a stupid smile, "Yeah, okay." I mutter and stare past him at the fire. "Are you excited for school?" He asks me and I nodded, "Of course I am, a wizard school, quite amazing." I said and Draco smiled, our little banter continued until I fell asleep only to be awoken a few minutes later by someone throwing pillows at my head, I snapped my eyes open and saw a pillow flying at my face. I grabbed it before it could hit me, "Malfoy." I growled and he gave a slight wave before heading up to his dormitory, I sighed and walked up the stairs that lead to the girls dormitory, I slid into my room and found the three of my roommates sleeping, Pansy was snoring, but not as loud as Scott usually is, Daphne mumbled in her sleep, but nothing I could make out. I sat down on my bed next to Thief and crawled under the covers, "I can't wait for tomorrow." I whispered to him and lied down, "I didn't eat the rainbow cake! I swear mummy!" Daphne suddenly cried out and I raised an eyebrow at this. I think I'll love Slytherin.