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House of Magic ch. 6

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Chapter Six: House of Introductions

Nina's POV:

My mouth fell open in shock, and I felt like my eyeballs were going to pop out of my head. The inside of my head was screaming.
I'M IN GRYFFINDOR! With Fabian! And Mick, Alfie and Amber are there too! This was going to be great!
Taking off the hat and putting it back on its stool, I hastily made my way over to my House table, which had the people cheering the loudest at it. Some kids even got up, others stomped their feet in approval, and a few whipped out their wands and shot different colored sparks into the air. I grinned ear-to-ear, sitting with my old housemates from Anubis and my new housemates from Gryffindor.
"Hi. I'm Rose Weasley," a girl with auburn-red hair sitting to the left of me introduced herself, holding out her hand to shake. I saw she had on a Prefects' badge.
"Nice to meet you, Rose," I said, shaking her hand. "I'm Nina Martin."
"Oh, I know who you are. Everyone does."
"They… do?"
At this, Fabian, Mick, Alfie and Amber turned their heads towards Rose and I to see what was going on. We were all eating the fabulous dinner that had appeared on the gold plates and drank the wonderful pumpkin juice from the gold goblets set all around the table.
"Yes. Didn't you know? You're The Chosen One - you put together the Cup of Ankh; the Cup of Immortality. You're special. And magical. Your parents were purebloods, just like most of my family."
"My parents…? They were purebloods?" I stared at her in shock. Fabian tapped my shoulder and whispered something in my ear.
"Well, apparently my mum's a Muggle and my dad's a wizard. They've just done a great job of hiding it," he said.
"How did you figure that out?" I whispered back.
"Rose told me."
"Oh."
"Anyways," Rose continued. "You're very important for the Wizarding world. It's a pleasure to finally have you at Hogwarts!"
"Um, Rose?" Mick cut in. "How do you know all this stuff about us?"
"It's in our newly-updated History of Magic textbook," she replied.
Just then, a boy sitting on the other side of her spoke. "Oh Rosie? Aren't you forgetting to introduce them to some other people?"
I peered over at him. He had black, untidy hair, emerald green eyes, and glasses. He looked just like a younger Harry.
"Albus Severus Potter. Rose's cousin. Great to meet you," he greeted, extending his hand across Rose's place to shake mine. The members of Sibuna on my right waved and said their hellos.
"And I'm James, Albus' older brother. It's a pleasure to meet you guys," said another boy from across the table. He looked remarkably like Albus, but he didn't have glasses. I noticed he was wearing a badge that said 'Head Boy'.
"I'm Hugo, Rose's younger brother," a boy with red hair said happily. He sat next to James.
"My name's Lily. I'm Albus and James' younger sister," a girl with fiery red hair introduced herself, smiling widely.
"See," Albus started, facing my friends and I, "Rose and I are Fifth Years - we're in your year. Hugo and Lilykins are Third Years, and James is a Sixth Year."
"We're roommates," Rose said, smiling brightly. "Amber, you're with us as well. Oh won't this be fun!"
"Fabian, Mick, Alfie?" Albus asked, looking at the guys. "You're rooming with me and my roommate, Sean Finnigan."
Whoever Sean was, he wasn't sitting near us. Albus sighed.
Suddenly, something caught my eye on the other side of the room. I looked over at the Slytherin table to find Joy speaking happily to a pointy-faced boy around our age.
"Who's he?" I asked. Rose followed my line of sight and sighed, looking dreamily at him.
"He's Scorpius Malfoy," she told me, as if in a trance. "I'm dating him."
"Then, uh, why does it look like Joy's flirting with him?" Alfie asked. This earned him a death glare from Rose and an elbow to the ribs from Mick.
I looked at Scorpius. He had platinum blonde hair and a pointy face with pale skin. His eyes were silver. By the way Joy was talking to him and flipping her hair, I guessed she thought he was cute.
"At least she's over Fabian," I muttered.
"Huh?" Albus asked. He was starting in on his second piece of cake.
"She's happy Joy's fancying someone else instead of Fabian," Amber explained. "But I'd just like to say… Sorry it has to be your boyfriend, Rose."
"It's okay," Rose responded. She then got up and went over to the Slytherin table. We all followed her with our eyes, and the ones sitting across from us turned to see what she was doing.
We couldn't hear anything, but we saw her looking really mad at both Joy and Scorpius, taking out her wand and pointing it at Joy in a threatening manner. Then she stomped off back to our table.
"What happened?" Mick asked. He was stuffing his face with the same kind of cake Albus was eating. "Did you threaten her?"
"Well…" Rose trailed off, taking her seat and grabbing some pudding. "I might have told her that if she didn't stop flirting with Scor, I was going to make sure her life at this school was a living hell."
"Aren't you not supposed to be in Slytherin, Rosie?" Hugo asked. He looked wide-eyed at her.
"Hugo, don't be silly. I won't kill her… I just might send her to the hospital wing."
"The hospital wing!" I exclaimed. Everyone looked at me funny. I felt the need to explain. "My black eye. I wanted to get it fixed so it wouldn't keep throbbing and bleeding every so often."
"How'd you get that Nina?" James asked.
"Joy punched me last night."
They all stared at me and then went back to eating like nothing out of the ordinary had happened. I smiled to myself.
"Right, well, it's getting late," Rose said. "Did you get your timetables yet?"
"Yeah. We've obviously got the same classes as you, seeing as we're in the same House," Mick explained. She nodded and so did everyone else.
"I think I'm gonna head to the hospital wing," I told them, getting up from my seat.
"I'll go with you," Fabian said, also getting up. James mimicked us.
"Well, I figured I'd go because I'm Head Boy and neither of you know your way around the castle yet," he explained. We nodded in agreement and set off toward the hospital wing so I could be treated by Madam Pomfrey.
"This place is so huge," I muttered as we made our way silently through the school. "It's bigger than Anubis House."
"Didn't you dub Anubis House as Hogwarts when you first arrived?" Fabian asked. I nodded slightly and the guys chuckled.
"So Nina," James started off. "If you don't mind me asking, why'd that girl Joy punch you?"
"I think she was jealous of Fabian and I being together," I admitted. "At least… I'm pretty sure that was it."
"Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised," Fabian explained. "She had feelings for me before you turned up, then she got kidnapped by her father and we didn't see her until prom night."
As soon as he said this, he covered his mouth and I facepalmed. James stopped outside the door to the hospital wing and stared at us.
"Uh… Right," he said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Let's get you to Madam Pomfrey."
We opened the door to the ward and a kind-looking plump witch came bustling over to us as soon as she saw my eye.
"Oh dear, oh dear," she muttered, pulling out her wand. She flourished it, said "Episkey!", then I felt my eye and cheek go really hot, then it changed suddenly to being icy cold. Hesitantly, I reached up and touched the formerly-injured spot with my left hand, still in shock. I stared to my right at Fabian, whose mouth was agape. He quickly shut it and took my hand, thanking the nurse for her job-well-done.
"Of course, dearies," she said. She reminded me a bit of Trudy. "Nina darling, how did you get that bruise around your eye? Was it a jinx gone awry?"
"No, Miss, it was a punch in the face. You see, Joy Mercer-" she cut me off, holding up her hand.
"No need to continue, Love. We've had news of you nine coming here since James started his second year. Looking at Joy's records about her personality, she's had a very bad reputation. Surprisingly, she keeps maintaining it. I think some detention will do her just if she acts up again - as well as points being taken away from Slytherin."
"Right," Fabian said. "Well, we're just going to head back to our common room. Thank you."
"Of course." She sauntered back to her office, closing the door quietly behind her.
"Normally, she's not that kind," James explained once we had left the ward. "My father said she was cross sometimes… But now I guess she's changed. Maybe it was because of everything that happened in the Second Wizarding War."
By now, we had made our way to the portrait of The Fat Lady leading into Gryffindor Tower. "Password?" she asked.
"Potterwatch," James told her. The portrait swung open to reveal an empty room, decked out in Gryffindor's red and gold colors with large squashy scarlet armchairs and a nice, toasty-looking fire. There were tables off to the side so we could do homework and whatnot, and then the staircase leading upstiars to the rooms.
"Girls dormitories on the right; boys, on the left." He pointed up the staircase, then turned back to us. "Go to the doors labled Fifth Years in your respective dormitories and you'll find that all of your luggage has been taken up. Tell it to Mick, Alfie and Amber when they come back… Or, actually, Rose'll most likely tell them. Now, this is where I leave you. I have homework to finish. Good night." He went quietly up the stairs to the boys' dormitory and we heard the door to his room close shortly after.
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Potterwatch
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