The Forgotten House

First Day of School

My Pov

I woke up, washed up, got dressed and went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. I once again sat at the Gryffindor table. I felt a tap and saw it was Hermione.

"Good morning Holly." Hermione said.

"Morning Hermione." I said. I noticed her eyeing my uniform. It was like hers except the Gryffindor colors and crest were replaced with the official Whitewing colors and crest. The Whitewing colors were aubergine purple and white, with my tie being purple and white and the inside of the hood of my robes being white. The crest was an white alicorn in a small black heart shape with two white lines parallel to the heart shape. A gold ribbon under the crest had Whitewing printed on it in white.

"You're house colors are interesting." Hermione said. I smiled a little. "Still, you need to realize that you'll be carrying your entire house on your shoulders. Whether you gain or lose house points will be entirely on you." And just like that, the happy feeling went away. Harry and Ron sat down and started to eat too.

"So, what are everyone's classes?" Ron asked.

"I have Herbology first, then Charms, Potions, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts and then Astrology at midnight." I said.

"I guess we'll see you in Potions and Astrology class then." Harry said. I wasn't going to see my brother until then? Great.

"You might see each other in Flying Class. It's mandatory for all first years to take it." Hermione said. Even so, that was only two classes. Oh well, I'll take what I can get. So I went to Herbology and hoped I would meet someone new. Maybe a new friend. I walked until I found the greenhouse. Saw several other students and decided to take a place between a boy who was in Ravenclaw and a girl who was in Hufflepuff.

"Hi there." the girl said.

"Hi." I said.

"You're- you're Holly Potter." the boy said. I nodded. "Nice to meet you. I'm Rolf Scamander."

"I'm Hannah Abbott." the girl said.

"Nice to meet you both." I said. Just like Tonks had said, we were taught the spell Lumos and that it was the defense against the dangerous plant called Devil's Snare. Throughout the lesson, me, Rolf and Hannah would secretly chat. By the time lesson ended, the three of us became friends. Who would have thought? Everyone exited the greenhouse and headed to their next class. While Rolf didn't have Charms next, Hannah did. Charms was really fun and interesting class. We had learned the Levitation Charm, whose incantation was Wingardium Leviosa, which could levitate objects. Soon, I had to go to Potions. At least I'd get to see Harry. I managed to make it to Potions at the last minute. I went to sit down, when someone grabbed my arm. I looked up and saw Professor Snape.

"Well well well, Ms. Potter." Snape said. I glupped. I remember during the welcoming banquet that mine and Harry's scars had burned when he had been staring at us. I felt like that meant he couldn't be trusted. "Glad to see you felt obligated to show up. May I advise that you don't wait to show up at the last minute?" I heard several Slytherin students chuckling. "Five points from Whitewing." I shrank and walked to an open seat next to Neville. All throughout Potions, I was quiet and just took notes. I managed to wave to Harry several times, but not that much. Finally, Potions ended and I couldn't get out fast enough.

"Holly wait!" Harry called out. I slowed down so Harry, Ron and Hermione could catch up to me. "You okay?"

"Yeah. Snape just scares me, that's all." I said.

"I think he scares everyone, except anyone in Slytherin." Ron said.

"He's the most difficult professor here. Everyone has to be careful, as you saw." Hermione said. I nodded.

"Well, I have Transfiguration after lunch. See you in the Great Hall!" I said. I ran into the quad and saw Tonks. "Tonks!" She looked up from her book and waved to me.

"Hi Holly. How's your first official day going?" Tonks asked.

"A lot better than I thought. I knows it's only the first day and it's early, but I really like Herbology and Charms class." I said.

"They are fun when you're not worrying about the homework." Tonks said. I was a little worried about homework, but I still enjoyed the classes.

"I don't think I'll like Potions though." I said.

"Why? Oh, wait. Snape." Tonks said. I nodded. "Yeah. He's... well, he's a git." I thought for a minute and silently agreed. We walked to the Great Hall together and separated to our respective tables. Harry, Ron and Hermione soon showed up. We all ate lunch and soon went to our next classes. Transfiguration was fun, even though it made me uncomfortable to change the animal into a inanimate object. I worried that it hurt the animal, but it told me it just tingled. Then I went to Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was actually really boring. I don't know if Professor Quirrell actually knew what he was doing. Finally, the day classes were over and it was dinner time. After dinner, I went back to my room. I flopped down on to the couch.

"Long day?" Winona asked. I just groaned. "I'll take that as a 'yes'."

"It just that I still have a class at midnight and I'm so tired." I said.

"Ah. Astrology. I loved looking at the night sky." Winona said, turning her gaze toward my window. She then looked back at me. "I would get a quick nap in."

"Already on that." I said. I went upstairs and slept for a while before going to Astrology. I have to say, despite it being at midnight, Astrology was amazing. After that, I went back to my room, got ready for bed and crawled into bed. If this is what life at Hogwarts was going to be like- I couldn't wait for the coming months.

Okay, I'm sorry if this chapter sucks. You see... my mom, whose had lymphoma since last May, has been put in hospice. Could you all please say a prayer for my family? I thank you all for your support these past nine months.