Exchanging One Life for Another

Chapter 2 | The First Day

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AN: The next few chapters, for the cover photos, I'll be putting images and details about the OCs wands, but tbh they aren't significant to the chapters, just something fun that I wanted to do. Also, Lucy didn't get her wand from Ollivander, obviously, because the core is venom and Ollivander only sells wands with one of three cores, venom is not one of them. She got her wand when she and her mom went to Africa to help young witches and wizards, and while they were there, an old wise wand making witch, made that wand for Lucy because the elements used to make the wand spoke to her and said they were meant for Lucy.

Lucy woke up the next morning and rushed straight to the great hall for breakfast after putting on her uniform. Her two roommates had already left before her and hadn't made any effort to wake her up, so she was under the impression that she was running late. As she stormed through the doors of the great hall, her heart calmed down and she noticed only about half the students were in there including Mae who was sitting next to the boy she met at the sorting feast. Lucy waved to her with a sly grin and Mae waved back, a shy smile on her face. After having a huge breakfast of porridge, assorted fruits, and pumpkin juice, Lucy left the great hall to seek out her transfigurations class.

After several minutes of wandering, Lucy decided it was time to ask for help. She spotted a tall boy wearing a red trimmed robe, he was walking through the halls. Lucy didn't remember seeing him in the group of first years who were being sorted the previous night, so she assumed he was in a higher year and would most likely know where the transfiguration classroom was, so she ran up to him.

"Pardon. Do you know where the Transfiguration classroom is?" Lucy's face flushed slightly when she finally caught up to him. Oh no, he's beautiful. She thought. His lips curled upward into a welcoming smile. Oh no, oh no, oh no.

" 'Course, it's down the hall, on the right." He said in a thick Scottish accent, pointing down the hall. Lucy beamed up at him.

"Thank you." Lucy said in a wretchedly timid voice. She turned away and tripped over her foot, but caught herself and refused to look back when she heard a chuckle from the Gryffindor boy. Just keep walking. Don't make any more of a fool of yourself than you already have. Half way down the hall, Lucy stopped abruptly. I wonder what his name is. She turned back towards the boy. "I'm Lucy by the way," she shouted. "Lucy Sallow." He looked back at her with amusement plastered all over his face.

"Oliver Wood." He said, and then disappeared behind the corner. God damn, he is one fine piece of ass... Is this what mom meant when she said my hormones would make me think strange things?

Lucy walked into class immediately spotting Eloise's long silvery-blonde hair, and ran to her. She was sitting with another Gryffindor girl who had dark skin and bouncy hair. Lucy slammed her hands on the table in front of the two girls, causing both of them to jump, and half the class to turn in her direction.

"Mooorniiing." Lucy said in a sing-song voice. The girl who was sitting next to Eloise giggled.

"You must be Lucy. Eloise has told me all about you and Mae. I'm Angelina." Angelina stuck her hand out and Lucy took it with a confirming nod.

"You won't believe what happened on the way here," Lucy said in a hushed voice. "I talked to this really hot guy from Gryffindor house."

"Oh My God, who!?" Eloise and Angelina asked matching their voices to Lucy's hushed one.

"His Name is Oliver Wood."

"He is such a dreamboat." Angelina confirmed.

"Who's a dreamboat?" The three girls looked up to see Mae. Her hair was a light pink that it usually turned when she was crushing.

"His name is Oliver Wood. He's a third year in Gryffindor." Eloise answered.

"Speaking of dreamboats, who was that guy you were sitting with at breakfast?" Lucy asked. Mae bit her lip and her hair turned into a bright pink color.

"His name is Cedric, and he's the sweetest guy ever. And, oh god, I'm already crushing so hard and I only met him yesterday," Mae was interrupted by Professor McGonagall walking in and telling everyone to sit down.

"Come on." Lucy grabbed Mae's hand and dragged her to a table with two empty seats, a few tables back from where Eloise and Angelina were sitting. It wasn't until the two slid into their seats that they noticed the Weasley twins had occupied the seats right behind them.

"What an odd pair, you two are," Fred said. Both he and George leaned forward. Mae and Lucy turned back to look at them with skeptical eyes.

"Who would've thought. A Slytherin and a Hufflepuff getting along." George said. Mae's hair turned a dark murky green and Lucy smirked.

"What a predictable pair, you two are." Lucy said. Fred and George both put a hand to their heart and mocked being hurt at Lucy's words.

"Fred and I?"

"Predictable?"

"How dare you."

"We're anything but predictable."

"You'll regret saying that, Sallow."

"Just you watch your back." Fred said with fake malice. Lucy rolled her eyes and turned back to the front, Mae followed suit and her hair slowly turned back to her usual soft pink color. The two of them were so engrossed with Professor McGanogall's lesson that they had no time to pay attention to the exchange of whispers from the Weasley twins behind them.

Later on in the day was flying lessons class. This was the time where the Weasley twins had planned to get back at Lucy for her earlier comment. But they were pleasantly surprised when the broom made a fool of her for them. During most of the class, Lucy was struggling to get her broom off the ground and into her hand. When she finally did, the broom kept throwing her face first into the ground. Fred and George who proved to be naturals at flying, would laugh and poke fun at her from the air, occasionally throwing down exploding snaps, to make it even more difficult for Lucy to get her broom under control. She didn't let it get to her, though, in fact, she was secretly amused by it, but she'd never let Fred and George know that.

The days following at Hogwarts continued to go on like this. Lucy and the twins bickering and teasing each other in their friendly feud. The girls drooling over Oliver Wood, with the exception of Mae, who was drooling over Cedric Diggory. And of course, learning magic.

At least, until Halloween.