When I Saw Hogwarts

Chapter 11

 We finally get to the house. The chickens run around the yard like always. James and Sirius and Lily's eyes all open wide. "We're here," I say and jump out of the car. I open the trunk and I take everyone's trunks out. They all come around and pick up their trunks.

As we make our way to the front door the chickens cluster around us thinking we brought food for them. I swing my trunk around to scare them off. When we go inside I go to the bottom of the stairs and wait for everyone to catch up. When we're all there I start to tell them who's sleeping where.

"Lily and I will be sleeping in my room. The boys will be sleeping in Rookwood's room. If you guys want more room than one of you can sleep in Ethancival's room because he's staying at Hogwarts for the holidays." I start to heave my trunk up the stairs with everyone behind me.

Lily and I pull our trunks into my room and watch the boys go past with their heavy trunks all the way to Rookwoods room which is on the fifth floor.

"Well, this is my room," I say looking around. Nothing has moved since I left.

"It's very pretty. I like your walls. Greens a pretty color."

"Thanks. Green is my favorite color and it's the main color of the Ireland Quidditch team."

"Cool."

"So here's the bed you'll be sleeping in while we're here," I say pointing to the extra twin bed I keep in my room. I don't know why I keep there. I've never had any real friends to have sleepovers yet but I like having an extra bed in case of an emergency.

"Okay." Lily pulls her trunk to the foot of the bed. I pull mine to the front of my bed. Then I open up my bright yellow curtains to let sunlight in. Lily plops down on my neon green bean bag.

"Let's go check on the boys or do you want to get something to eat first?" I ask.

"Let's go check on the boys so we can eat with them."

"Okay. We can do that."

We make our way to the floor above mine to Rookwood's room. I open the door to see two air mattress on the floor. The boys are sitting on Rookwoods bed talking about what I highly suspect is us. We walk in as quietly as we can and sneak up behind the boys. Then we jump on them saying, "Ahhhhhh..."

We all laugh. I'm laughing so hard that I have tears in my eyes. "What did you do that for?" Asks Rookwood. "And what did you hear?"

"Oh, we didn't hear what you guys were talking about. We just entered the room. Right, Lily?"

"Yeah. We weren't paying attention to what you were saying. We were more focused on not making noise."

"Okay. We believe you." Says Sirius.

"We were wondering if you all wanted to go get a snack. Because James is going to need it if he's going to play me in Quidditch." I say giving a slight smile

"I think you got it wrong Autumn. It's you who needs to eat something before we start or are you afraid you might barf?" James said trying to hide his laughter.

"Oh, I get it. You're just scared you're going to lose so you're trying to make jokes to cool off. Don't pretend I don't know you when we've been best friends for at least a month." I say trying my best to sound cool. For a moment James looks lost in thought as he tries to think of something to say.

"Come on guys. Let's just go get something to eat." Rookwood says and hops off the bed. He holds the door open as everyone files past. When we get to the kitchen I go over to the cabinet and pull out flour and chocolate chips. "I'm going to bake Chocolate chip cookies," I say grabbing the remaining ingredients.

Everyone makes their way to the living room while I preheat the oven. I'm the only one who uses it because mum uses her magic. Since I can't use magic outside of school and I just started school that means I use the stove. But I'm fine with that. I like putting in the extra work. When I'm done and I taste it I feel good about it because I know that I made it and without magic.

About a half hour later I call everyone back into the kitchen. They all sit at the table as I bring a plate full of Chocolate chip cookies over. I turn the stove off and join them. "Did you really make these homemade or did you use magic?" Asks Sirius. "Because these taste too good to be homemade." I feel myself going a little red.

"No, I did not use magic. I could be expelled. These I promise you are homemade by me." I say.

"If you insist," Sirius says and grabs another cookie.

"Don't stuff yourself," I say. "We still have to eat dinner later silly."

"She is the best when it comes down to cooking food. You think her bakings good? Then you better wait until dinner to test that theory." Says Rookwood putting a cookie in his mouth.