Love and war

Finding her way

Ellaria felt the tears sting her eyes. She tried to blink them away, she didn't want people to see her cry. That's when she felt a hand on her shoulder turning her around. It was a boy who was sorted into Slytherin as well. Ellie tried to recall his name- Evan, yes Evan Rosier. He took in her flushed cheeks and wet eyelashes and got visibly flustered. "Oh, um I was told to tell you to um follow us to the dorm." She quickly dried her eyes with her robe and muttered a thank you to Evan. She fell into the back of the lined up eleven year olds. They all followed the prefects to the dorm. Ellie had completely forgotten that the Slytherin dorm room was quite literally in the dungeon.

She didn't even have time to admire the beautiful castle around her. She was too busy worrying about what James thought and what her parents will think. Tears threatened her eyes once more. She notices someone stalling and suddenly walking in sync with her. She didn't dare look over to see who it was because she was so afraid that they would see her cry. The footsteps faded back into the group and she finally looked up to see who it was but they seemed to have already faded into the crowd.

The common room was amazing. Although it didn't have the cosy atmosphere James had described about the Gryffindor common room it had its own wonderful vibe. It was all dark greens and silver or grey. Ellie looked around her in awe. Although she still felt so torn about the sorting, she could see herself enjoying life here. She then bumped straight into a young girl. She was dressed in her Slytherin robes but had an obnoxious pink bow in her hair. "Oh sorry about that," Ellaria exclaimed. The girl made a high pitched hmph sound and ran off. On second thought maybe she wouldn't enjoy it here, the company doesn't seem too lovely. She then walks up toward her bed. She unpacks her things and flops onto her bed. She sat up and glanced over to the bed opposite her own. There was a very pretty girl sitting on it. She looked rather timid. Ellie got up and walked over to introduce herself. "Hello there, my names Ellaria, and you are?" Ellaria asked gently. "Oh hello, my name is Alecto but you can call me Alex if you'd like," she told Ellie. "In that case you can call me Ellie." The two girls smiled at each other. "So how are you finding it here?," Alex asked Ellie. "Well, it's been quite overwhelming, I'm from a family of Gryffindors so it was a bit of a shock you know?" "Oh I see", said Alex, "that must be difficult! You're James Potters sister right?" "Oh yeah, that's right," said Ellie. "I only know because my older brother Amycus told me, sorry if I made you uncomfortable." "Oh no it's quite alright, I'm just worried about what James will think of me." "Oh don't worry about him, you have us now! Let's go join the rest in the common room." Alecto held out her hand and Ellie took it and followed her down to the common room.

The common room had filled up since Ellie went upstairs. There was also music playing but Ellie couldn't find the source. "Come with me, I'll introduce you to the people I have met," Alecto half shouted to Ellie. Ellie followed the girl through the crowd over to a group of other eleven year olds sitting on a dark green couch. She was introduced to Alecto's older brother Amycus, a Barty Crouch and Cereus Greengrass. She was never going to remember all of these names!! After this introduction she was led over to where Evan Rosier, Barry Crouch and Regulus Black were standing. Alecto started conversing with Evan and Ellie just stood there standing very awkwardly. That was until she she heard someone yell, "hey there's that Potter slag." She turned to figure out where the source of the voice was. Never in her life has she been called anything like that and she felt very insulted. She was also very aware of how crimson her cheeks were sure to be glowing right now. As she glanced across her shoulder she saw none other that the boy her brother and his friends absolutely despised. Severus Snape. But to her surprise the older boy defended her saying, "Oi don't call her names like that, she's a Slytherin like us, she won't be like her blood traitor brother, will you sweetheart?" He asked. The word sweetheart threw her off. She started mumbling but couldn't get out any coherent sentences. The mumbling is only made worse when none other than Regulus Black throws his arm over her shoulder and exclaims, "Of course she won't be like him, she's with us." Poor Ellaria would have preferred to be thrown into the lake outside on the school grounds if it meant she didn't have be here in this very moment. "Right Ellie?" That snapped her attention back and she made direct eye contact with Regulus. She could feel herself blush. "Yeah that's right," she says timidly hoping that it's enough to make them leave her alone. "Give her a couple of years and she will be the queen of Slytherin, not a doubt in my mind," exclaims Regulus while maintaining that eye contact with Ellie with a huge smirk on his face. Everyone around them slowly lost interest and went back to their own conversations. That's when Ellie decided that she needed to lie down as soon as possible and so she made her way to the dorm.