Alyss Granger: First Year

The Sorting

He then took us into the Great Hall. I could feel everyone’s eyes on me and I hated it. That’s what I get for looking like Hermione. Once the Sorting Hat finished its song I got a bad case of nervous butterflies.

"Abbott, Jeffery!"

I looked up as if I had been paying attention and not trying not to collapse.

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Dewey, Sam!"

Hmmm. This boy sounded familiar. Yes. I think Percy Weasley might have talked about his dad. Ministry maybe. High up of course as Percy wanted to become Minister.

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Ester, Matt!"

I repressed a snort. Easter? But it was just a name and mine just happened to be closed to being mispronounced a lot. Aleese. It was Alice.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Evergreen, Reed!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Fizpadik, Josh!"

I thought this boy had a nasty look about him.

"SLYTHERIN!"

And I was right, of course, not to be cocky.

"Granger, Alyss!"

Then the whispering started. After all, only a few people knew Hermione had a sister. I doubted even the sorting hat knew.

"Granger? Hermione's your sister! Incredible I didn't think she had one! But of course you weren't born. Yes Ravenclaw would help you. But you would do too much work there. Yes. I know you want Gryffindor. Just let me see your options. Not at all a Slytherin. Not that way. Patience is limited so not Hufflepuff. Fine! Yes. If you won't stop. I was going to do it anyway but you wouldn’t be patient! GRYFFINDOR!"

I quickly ran to the Gryffindor table. The cheering was deafening.

"Greengrass, Macy!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Hana, Yani!"

She didn't look British. Japanese maybe. Or Chinese I never could tell. But she looked most definitely Asian. That much I could tell about her. But then again I am from Australia; kind of I moved here right after Hermione took the spell off my parents.

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Hanz, Fred!"

German?

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Jenson, Joey!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Jestle, Gabrielle!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Klein, Kelsey!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

I was getting a lot of room mates!

"Nani, Nancy!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Lupin, Teddy!"

I started to get even more butterflies. If Teddy wasn't a Gryffindor I think I might just lose it. I need to be with Teddy. He was like a cousin to me. And trust me I didn’t have that many. But then again I considered all the little Weasleys cousins but Victoire and Teddy were my age. But the hat took only about 10 seconds.

"GRYFFINDOR!”

"Macdonald, Michael!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Patil, Tom!"

Oh. Tom! Gryffindor I thought hard crossing my fingers.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Smith, Abby!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Smith, Hanna!"

Twins maybe?

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Tagger, Eliza!"

If she gets Gryffindor, I thought. We’ll all be in the same house.

"SLYTHERIN!"

But she's Muggle-born. It was so obvious all that stuff on the train. Oh. She is going to be teased something awful.

"Taylor, Missy!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Trinton, Kenneth!”

You know I think this one’s kind of cute. But Tom is cuter.

"SLYTHERIN!"

Too bad. I still think Tom is way cuter and He’s a Gryffindor.

"Westly, Jennifer!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Zabini, Ben!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Zeni, Erin!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

She cast a frightened look at her friend, Ben Zabini, and then practically ran 
to the Gryffindor table.

"Hi. I'm Erin." She said.

"Kelsey." Another girl said

"Alyss." I said.

"Teddy." Teddy said quickly.

"Gabrielle." Said a small girl.

"Tom." Tom said happily.

"Matt." A boy said.

Then we all broke into separate conversations.

"Hmm. A Muggle-born in Slytherin." Tom said.

"I don't think she's Muggle-born." Teddy said. "Tagger. Zany and Peter? She was faking to get us to buy her stuff. And we did."

"Oh that makes sense." Tom said. "What’s up in the wizarding world’s most famous family?"

"Nothing important." Teddy and I said in unison. Teddy wasn't really in the family but he was over so much.

"Be all uptight then." Tom grumbled.

We ate our way through the rest of dinner quietly.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Eliza PoV

"I’m a pure blood." I boasted.

"Me too. It would be an utter disgrace to have a mudblood in this house." Missy said staring at Yani. Missy had red hair and sharp brown eyes. Normal in every other way. Unlike me. My parents were well known.

"Half blood." Yani said timidly. Yani was Japanese so she had black hair that was very pretty and black eyes. A lot of Slytherins were staring at her.

"Well at least you aren't a mudblood."Missy sneered.

"My father is a Muggle. I hate him. He ran away because my mother was a witch. I hate Muggles. Stupid creatures and mudbloods are worse. Stealing magic." Yani said.

Missy and I brightened at this.

"Good." I said. "I wouldn't have a Muggle lover as a roommate. What a disgrace."

"Yes. Those idiotic Weasleys and Potters not to mention that Granger girl." Missy said.

"Alyss." I said automatically then remembered I wasn’t supposed to know her. Well, the truth is out.

"How do you know her?" Yani said.

"I convinced them I was a mudblood so they bought me snacks." I snickered.

"Gits." Missy said.

"Stupid Gryffindors thinking there all heroic and bold." I said distastefully.

"But you have to admit. Granger is cute." Said Ken Trinton.

"Nose out mudblood lover." I said. He was such an idiot. A cute one though. But he thought she was cute. Seriously?

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Alyss PoV

"Come on!" A prefect called. "First Years this way!"

"Come on Alyss! Tom's ahead!" Teddy said.

"Says the one who isn't even up yet." I said grinning.

"Whatever." Of course he has to be right.

"This is the most direct path to the Common Room. I urge you to remember it as you need to come here often." The prefect said as he arrived at a portrait of an extremely fat lady in a pink silk dress. "This is the Fat Lady. Behind her is the entrance to your common room. 
But you need to give her the password which will change. Right now it is Draco. Draco is dragon in Latin."

The portrait, thankfully, interrupted him. As it swung it showed the 
common room. It was beautiful. It was red with gold too. Tons of red. Rubies and such. A fire was cackling merrily in the fireplace and it had a stunning rug. All red with the most beautiful gold threads embroidered into it. Hogwarts was supposed to be even prettier after the war. I think its amazing war or not. I scrambled in.

"Girls’ dorms are up the staircase on your right. Boys same on your left." The prefect said.

Kelsey, Erin, Gabrielle and I climbed the right staircase with a hoard of other girls. Kelsey chose a bed in the corner and Jenny chose the one next to her. Erin plopped next to Jenny and I got the bed in the far right. By process of elimination obviously. We were a small year because not a lot of people had kids during the war.

Kelsey had taught Gabrielle what Quidditch was and they were plotting how to get into try outs as second years and make the team. I nearly said my thoughts aloud. Polyjuice Potion.

Gradually they stopped and fell asleep. Erin and I lay awake though.

"Alyss? Are you awake?" Erin whispered.

"Yeah. I'm worrying about classes." I muttered.

"Yeah at least you opened your textbooks. I didn't."

How did she know I memorized mine? Oh. My sister is Hermione Weasley. People always judge me against her. Well, I look and act like her. But I'm a different person! For one I enjoy Quidditch. Two, I have blue eyes. And three... Er I'll get there soon. I mean we are different!

Soon I fell into a troubled sleep. I dreamed that Professor Malfoy quizzed us on potions and everyone got an O but I got a T. Yes. Professor Draco Malfoy is potions professor.

Then I dreamed that he took 100 points from Slytherin for that. I was momentarily happy but looked at my badge and saw it read Slytherin. I ran out of class to discover that I looked like Moaning Myrtle.