Under her Wing

Hello!/Chapter 1

Hello everyone! This is my first story, so be kind please. I would love constructive criticism, though. Although I do not agree with some of the views of a certain author, I still enjoy her writing. Without further ado, chapter 1 of Under her Wing!

Disclaimer: I am most certainly not J.K Rowling. The characters and plot belong to her, except for my original characters and plot lines. Thank you!

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 The last student was called up to the stool. "Gryffindor!" The sorting hat yelled, on top of a terrified first year's head.

She heard a side of the room erupted into cheers, so she looked up and saw a table full of scarlet and gold. There was so much variety in the people sitting at the table, unlike the other tables. There were many different skin tones, hundreds of shades of hair, yet they were all cheering with no care as to who was joining them, who was already a part of their house, and who they were sitting next to.

She got off the rickety three-legged stool and went to sit with the chaotic Gryffindors. The only available seat was next to an older girl, maybe a 5th or 6th year.

"H-hello, I'm Ivy." The first year stuttered out timidly.

"Hello Ivy, I'm Hermione. Are you excited to learn magic?"

Ivy nervously twirled her long golden hair around her finger. "Hehe. Um, my parents are actually non-magic people so I don't really know much about how this stuff works. I know that we have wands and we say stuff like lumos and al-alohomora? That's how you say it, right? I didn't have much time to read all of my school books, unfortunately, so I could have had much more knowledge but my parents didn't have time to take me to Diagon Alley until Sunday before term started. I'm rambling, sorry. I have ADHD."

Hermione giggled, then said, "Don't worry about rambling, you should hear some of my friends talking about quidditch. My parents are muggles too, so I felt the same way. I made friends though, and the classes made the transition from muggle to wizard easier."

Just as Hermione finished talking, Professor Dumbledore asked for everyone's attention.

"Good evening, students. I welcome those of you returning back, and those of you just now joining us to our school. Now, I would like to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Dolores Umbridge."

Everyone in the Great Hall clapped half-heartedly, and although Ivy didn't know it, bets were already being exchanged as to how she would be taken out.

As Dumbledore started telling the prefects to guide the first years to their dorms, a small but loud "Hem, hem" rang throughout the Great Hall. Everyone went silent, then sat back down.

"Thank you, Headmaster, for those kind words of welcome. And how lovely to see all your bright happy faces smiling up at me." Ivy looked around the Great Hall to see that no one was smiling. "I'm sure we're all going to be very good friends." She heard 2 redheaded twins mutter, "That's likely."

Professor Umbridge cleared her throat again, then continued with her speech. "The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizards of vital importance. Although each Headmaster has brought something new to this historic school," She nodded at Dumbledore. "Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited. Thank you." The Great Hall clapped unenthusiastically.

Once her boring speech was finished, the prefects started guiding the first years to their new home away from home. She followed Hermione, since she was one of her house prefects.

After a ton of walking up confusing stairs and going through several hallways that Ivy could have sworn they went through multiple times, they got to a portrait of a very overweight woman. "Password?" The portrait asked, startling Ivy. "Mimbulus Mimbletonia." Hermione stated, and multiple first years wrote it down.

They all entered through the portrait, into a giant room covered in red.

"Right, girls dorms on the right, boys dorms on the left. Now off to bed you go, it's late. Breakfast starts at 6:30 and ends at 8:30 tomorrow. Goodnight."

Ivy climbed the stairs with 4 other loud, chatty girls that she didn't particularly want to acquaint herself with at that moment.

Once she got upstairs, she discovered that her stuff was already up there, so she pulled a pair of pajamas out of her trunk, changed into them, got into her bed, and fell fast asleep.

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Well, there's chapter one! I don't think that I'm going to have a constant update schedule, however I'll try to update as quickly as possible. Anyways, Missy out!

Question of the chapter: What is your favorite color? Mine is light blue