Rowan Haywood

Book 1 : Chapter 3 - The Gryffindor Common Room

When everyone was done, the empty dishes of the desserts disappeared and Percy(our prefect), lead us to where our common room was while talking about the history of Hogwarts and where our classes were. On our way up, I noticed a gho- or should I say poltergeist, Peeve, before the others and while we were walking up the stairs, a bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of us, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him. "Peeves," Percy whispered to the first years. "A poltergeist." He raised his voice, "Peeves -- show yourself"
　　
A loud, rude sound, like the air being let out of a balloon, answered. "Do you want me to go to the Bloody Baron?" There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross- legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks. "Oooooooh!" he said, with an evil cackle. "Ickle Firsties! What fun!" He swooped suddenly at them. we all ducked. "Go away, Peeves, or the Baron'll hear about this, I mean it!" barked Percy.
　　
Peeves stuck out his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking sticks on Neville's head. They heard him zooming away, rattling coats of armor as he passed. "You want to watch out for Peeves," said Percy, as they set off again. "The Bloody Baron's the only one who can control him, he won't even listen to us prefects. Here we are."

"He only listens to the so called 'Bloody Baron', aye." I thought to myself and smirking. At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a pink silk dress.

"Password?" she said. "Caput Draconis," said Percy, and the portrait swung forward to reveal a round hole in the wall. We all scrambled through it -- Neville needed a leg up -- and found themselves in the Gryffindor common room, a cozy, round room full of squashy armchairs. Percy directed the girls through one door to their dormitory and the boys through another. At the top of a spiral staircase -- we were obviously in one of the towers -- I found their bed at last: five four-posters hung with deep red, velvet curtains. Our trunks had already been brought up and I immediately collapsed on my soft bed.

I suddenly looked at the door and saw a familiar girl brown-hair, which was Hermione, walking inside. "Hi, I guess you're my roommate." I waved. "Hello." She sat down and I brought out the bag of candies I had when another person came in. "Hey." I said casually. "Hey, Rowan. How've you been?" the girl asked. "It's been fine but the monsters have been restless because of a certain someone." "You know Rowan already? Wait no, what did you mean by monsters? There's no such thing as monsters."

"Oops, sorry Hermione, but it's a secret. By the way, sorry for being rude. My name's Edith Fury, a Pure-Blood." She waved at Hermione before snatching some of my sweets for herself. I saw Hermione raised her eyebrows and immediately made an excuse. "The 'monsters' you're talking about is Malfoy and his goons, right?" I asked while silently poking her in the rib with one of my elbows. The reason Edith knows about Greek mythology is because we're childhood friends(it was a secret(Her parents didn't know since they are racist.)) and once, a monster(Cyclop, a one-eye monster) who was in my public school and I almost died before my mother(Mc) saved me.

"Ow!" She winced. "What happened?" Hermione asked. "No, it's nothing." Edith answered back while I muffled a laugh.

"Hey! Give it back!" I chased after her while she ran away when I realized that some of my sweets were stolen.

"Wingardium Leviosa."

Suddenly, Edith was lifted into the air and I jumped to snatch the sweets out of her hands. "Nooooooooo! My Sugar Quills! Give it back!" she stretched her arm while acting dramatic. "You mean MY SWEETS, right?" I forcibly asked with murderous intent in my eyes. "U-uh, yeah, of course. My mistake." I turned towards Hermione and praised her. "Wow, Hermione. Where did you learn that spell?"

"In a book."

"...Can you please put me do-." Edith began, but... "NO!" I yelled while glaring at her. "Hermione, you want some?" I handed my bag of sweets towards her and she reached for a Chocolate Frog before saying "Thanks." I ate a Liqourice Wand and a Sherbert Lemon. Although my favorite was Chocolate Frogs, I love almost any sweets, so I might as well indulge myself into all of it. 

"You're welcome."

"Favoritism." Edith mumbled.

"Says the one who tried to steal my food."

"..." No response was heard. "I think she's learned her lesson." Hermione decided to undo the spell and Edith thanked Hermione while I scowled. "Whatever." I said to myself before laying down. I'm bored, though....I suddenly had an idea. "Hey, how about we all try to eat the most Bertie Bott's Jelly Beans and the loser will have to do a punishment." I smirked. "I'll decline. Now, if you excuse me, I'll be studying right on my bed." Hermione rejected."Game on!"

"....."

"Ha! You lose." Edith laughed.

"I'll get you next time, so don't get cocky!" I whispered while glaring at her.

"What's my dare? I'll do it fast so I'll get this over with." I said, standing.

"Hm, I dare you to.......ah, I know. I dare you to sneak into the Forbidden Forest right now." she said while smirking.

"You son of a.....Fine, whatever! And it's only the first day at Hogwarts and I'm breaking rules. If I get expelled, it's your fault." I grumbled before leaving.

"Wait, you can't! That's breaking the rules!" Hermione said, trying to stop me but.....

"It's alright. I won't get caught. You ain't breaking a rule if you don't get caught for it." I said, winking before leaving.

"ROWA-" but I was already gone...

"It's ok. She'll be alright." Edith told Hermione before lying down on her bed.

"She's been through way worse than that before..." she whispered before falling asleep, not knowing what Rowan had encountered until the next day.