Hogwarts Unity and the Protective Sisters

Chapter Eleven - Gaining Another Member

As promised, the three girls met for breakfast the next morning. Guinevere was up first out of habit from living at home with brothers who would eat more than their share, so she was already gorging on her breakfast when Rosabelle came into the Great Hall. Rosabelle has actually been there earlier, but had frozen in the doorway when she saw her friend's pig like eating habits. Eventually she joined the starving redhead at the table.

"You need to slow down or you're going to choke Guin." Rosabelle attempts to make her friend slow down as she stuffs a muffin in her mouth.

"Ro I don't think you understand. The twins or Ron could come behind me at any moment and steal my food!" Guinevere shouts at her. Rosabelle shakes her head and gives up seeing as though she wasn't getting anywhere. Eventually, their other friend, Richelle, joins them at the table and begins eating like a pig as well. Rosabelle just sighs and takes a bite of an apple. In the middle of the meal Richelle looks over Guinevere's shoulder at the table behind them.

"Whatcha looking at?" Guinevere asks in between bites. Without a word, Richelle stands and joins the lone Hufflepuff girl at the table behind them. The other two girls follow their friend and make their way over to the table.

"You never told us your name at the sorting," Richelle tells the girl. Susan freezes up and stares at the three girls. "Well, just in case you don't remember I'm Richelle Potter!"

Taking her friend's lead, Guinevere introduces herself as well. "I'm Guinevere Weasley."

"I'm Rosabelle Malfoy. It's a pleasure to meet you," Susan stares at the three girls and gulps. This was her chance to make new friends. She couldn't blow it!

"I'm Susan Bones. It's a pleasure to meet all of you," Susan meekly responds. Richelle smiles at the shy girl.

"Well, now that you've introduced yourself would you like to join our little group?"

"You mean... you'll let me be your friend?"

"Of course!" Guinevere chimes in.

"It looks like you need a friend," Rosabelle pipes up. Susan smiles and nods her head. This was the happiest day of her life! She wasn't alone anymore. The three girls smile at their newfound friend. The girls start to chat amongst themselves and learn about their new friend. Soon, the hufflepuff prefect interrupts them to tell them they need to go report to their head of houses to receive their schedules.

"I'll see the three of you later," Susan states and leaves the table. Or... so she thought. Her friends decided to join her and see what classes she would have. When they arrived at the hufflepuff common room the head of house, Professor Sprout, was shocked to see a Gryffindor, Slytherin, and a Ravenclaw attempt to blend in the with crowd and act like they were Hufflepuffs. She brushes this off and begins to hand out schedules to her students.

"Has anyone seen Richelle!" McGongall shouts to the Gryffindors. They all look amongst themselves but they can't seem to find the other Potter.

"None of us know where she is professor," Harry tells the head of Gryffindor. McGonagall sighs and hands Harry his schedule and his sister's to him.

"Make sure she gets that,"

In Slytherin, Snape finishes handing out the schedules but one remains in his hand. Guinevere Weasley. That name irked the head of Slytherin. Why did he have to put up with a Weasley? He hands it over to Pansy and instructs her to give it to Guinevere whenever she returns. In Ravenclaw, Flitwick has almost turned the whole tower upside down looking for Rosabelle. He didn't know where she ran off to and he was very worried. Cho decided to take the schedule from the head of Ravenclaw and promise to give it Rosabelle when she sees her next. Back at Hufflepuff, the girls glance at Susan's schedule and find that one of the girls have at least one class with their new friend.

"Looks like all of us will be in flying class," Rosabelle points out to the others.

"Flying class?" Richelle says in a confused manner.

"That's where we learn how to fly on brooms. Madame Hooch is known to be strict... even worse than Dracula," Guinevere pipes up.

"It'll be fine," Richelle responds. The other three girls eventually return back to their houses and receive their own schedules and a questioning on where they had been. Eventually the questioning dies down from each head of house and the girls are let off with a warning about wandering off. The girls promise to never do it again.... while their fingers were crossed behind their backs. Then, the girls raced to get to their first class together, Transfiguration.