Half Blood: Philosopher's Stone

Classes

Upon receiving their dorm rooms Maddy found that she was placed with some friends of Malfoy, Daphne Greengrass, Millicent Bulstrode and Pansy Parkinson and their other friend Tracey Davis insisted on going to their dormitory whenever they weren't hanging out with Malfoy and the rest of his slightly large group in the common room.

Maddy was the last to wake up in her dorm room on the first day, and the only reason she did wake up at all was because Pansy laughed loudly at something.

She rolled out of bed, her extremely curly, dark hair probably knotted up all over but she didn't really care, she lazily pulled on her uniform, noticing that her plain black robe and tie that she bought had been replaced by a black robe with green accents and a green and silver tie. She pulled on her clothes, not bothering to tie her tie and left for the Great Hall, ignoring the others comments about her disheveled appearance.

In the Great Hall Maddy sat down at the seat closest to the doors at the Slytherin table, putting only a small amount of the provided food onto her plate, placing some of it into her flame jar, quickly ate the remaining food, then laid her head down on the table with her eyes closed as she waited for her head of house, Severus Snape, to hand her her timetable.

"Wake up," Snape growled as he shoved a timetable under one of Maddy's crossed arms. She looked up and saw the greasy haired man looked at her disapprovingly over his hooked nose then walked away.

She moved her arms and looked at the timetable, first she had Herbology. She groaned. It wasn't that she didn't like plants, she actually loved them. They smelled nice and looked nice but she had a tendency to kill them very quickly. It wasn't one of those, touch it and it dies deals, they just always died somehow after at least a day. It was fitting that a child of Hades utterly failed at keeping things alive. Although, she had a feeling it wasn't connected to her powers as a child of the god of the underworld, and just a natural trait.

Maddy lazily pushed herself up onto her feet and trudge across the grounds to the greenhouse. She was the first person to get there and waited in the warm glass building full of plants. For several minutes it was just her and the Herbology professor, Professor Sprout, who didn't talk to her other than to introduce herself and then seemed to make up work to do in order to avoid communicating more with her. People slowly filed in, Gryffindors and Slytherins but not Ravenclaws or Hufflepuffs. It seemed nobody wanted to sit near her, except one Gryffindor girl.

She had incredibly pale skin, rosy cheeks, broad shoulders, freckles and curly, flame red hair. A goofy smile was on her face.

"Hi," she grinned at Maddy, who was unnerved at this girl's willingness to come near her when everyone else was avoiding her and her Induced Fear power was probably at full blast considering she was both incredibly tired and irritable, as she was every morning, which meant she had nearly no control over it. "I'm Bellona." She had an extremely thick Irish accent and she held out a hand that Maddy didn't take, though she did find the name ironic as 'Bellona' meant warlike and this girl was obviously anything but violent.

"Maddy," she replied, her voice unintentionally barely audible.

After that the class started, and Maddy found it to be a good class to start off in the morning even if the plants they'd been given to look after as an introduction would be dead the next time they had class, it seemed like a relaxing place, probably even more so when it was empty.

Afterwards was History of Magic, which only the Slytherins went to. She had been looking forward to that class but it ended up being particularly boring as Professor Binns, a ghost, had the most monotonous voice anyone could possibly have and the only thing he did was lecture. She ended up falling asleep, only waking up when someone's bag hit her rather hard in the head. Then, after lunch, she was off to Transfiguration with the Ravenclaws.