One day after another

The night no one expected

The walk to McGonagalls office was interesting, for a couple reasons actually. First being that it was only Draco, some bitch named pansey, dracos 2 butt buddies Crabe and Goyle, Fred, Ron, George, Harry, Hermoine, and I. Both tables were in it, why were we the only ones getting in trouble. The second reason being all of us were still covered in food. George had walked next to me the whole time, Fred was walking next to ron whispering about something.

"Miss Thompson, I am very dissapointed in you! It is your first year here classes havent even started yet and you've already gotten yourself in trouble!" McGonogall said in a very dissapointed tone

"I may only have been here for a day and im already under the impression this school doesnt do to well with bullying' I said to her in a confident tone. I kind of felt bad afterwards, she seemed like a very sweet woman.

"Watch your tone Miss Thompson  or you're going to end yourself in a far worse punishment then what you're getting!" McGonagall now said angrily. "Wealey! Youve been here for 6 years now, you would think youd know better". Ron George and Fred really werent sure which one she was talking to but they felt like they should. "Mr potter, you seem to always be around when trouble occurs. You Mr Weasley, and Miss Granger should know the Expectations by now. As for you Mr malfoy, you and your little gang are not getting away with this either. Draco i promise you having your father hear about this will not benefit you at all".

She went on for what seemed like hours but she go to the point after an hour later. "You all have detention tonight, be in the great hall by 8:30 no later you will then find out what youll be doing" she had told us all sternly. Ive never gotten up faster to leave, then i thought to myself where is ben? He was gone, did he escape before McGonagal could realize he was envolved? If so im never letting him hear the end of it.

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Back in the Gryffindor common room there was deffinetly things to be talked about. The word had gotten out fast that the ten of us have gotten detention, some people thought it was funny but Hermoine on the other hand looked furiouse. I sat on the couch reading a book my mother had gotten me, something about a muggle boy named Poney-Boy and his brothers. It was a rather good book, I just started it tho so i wasnt very far along.

"Hey Claire, whatcha readin?" Geored asked me as he plopped next to me on the sofa in the common room

"The Outsiders, its a muggle book i find them quite interesting. Some of the athors have great immaginations" I told him. George and i became quite close from the train ride to now.

"Read it to me, i want to listen" He says looking at me with just a peaceful look on his face. He's quite cute but im known for rushing things so i tend to keep that to myself.

"Ill read to you, as long as you listen and you dont have to call me Claire you can call me C.  Its something my brother calls me and frankly i quite like it" i told him. When i said id read to him his eyes got brighter as if no ones read to him before, he seemed excited.

"When i stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, i only had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..." I started to read to him as he quickly cut me off

"Whos Paul Newman?"

"George.. i didnt even get past the first two sentances" I said laughing "Paul Newman is an actor" I continued

"Oh Ok, continue im sorry'

"I was wishing i looked like Paul Newman he looks tough and i dont but i guess my own looks arent so bad" I continued reading to the content boy. He sat next to me listening quietly. He looked at peace. I had paused and looked over at him, he was fidgeting with his fingers. He noticed i stopped, he looked up at me and smiled.

As i went back to reading to him, he moved closer and rested his head on my shoulder. I felt a feeling in my stomach, butterflies? why am i feeling butterflies?

"George!" Fred yelled, anyone would have heard it "Making moves on the new girl are we now?" Fred teased george. I watched the peaeful look on Georges face leave and he quickly grew red.

"Shes just reading to me." He said sternly "Please continue" He said looking over to me

"I tink thats enough for now, we're done with the first chapter. We'll read some more later after detention, hopefully it wont be long" I told him

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Hours passed quickly and before we all knew it, we had to head to detention. None of us were quite sure what we were doing and it scared me a small bit. I walked next to Hermoine talking about what it was like before i moved. I told her about my life liing in the US and going to Illvormorney. It was quite different in my oppinion but others could say differently i suppose. We quickly arrived in the great hall, there was a tall, very tall man standing infront of us.

"Hagrid!" Hermoine, Ron, and Harry all said in unison

"Thats the gamekeeper, hes very nice. His names Hagrid" George whispered in my ear

I just shook my head signaling that i was listening and that i understood. Hagrid told us to follow him and he led us all out of the castle, we walked down toward a hut which im guessing was his house.

"Alrigh yall, ya of course ar here fur a reason so it wont be a bunch of fun. We uh ar gon go in the forest but yall will be paired in threes maybe fours. So uh Hermoine, Ron, And Harry yall togehter erm... Miss who ar yu?" Hagrid said towering over me

"Oh um hi im Claire.. Im new"

"Ahh yes Miss Thompson, you can be grouped with the twins then, and that leaves you slytherin goup so you can stay together" He said in a quite loud tone. Hagrid seemed like he couldnt hurt a fly, i like that about him.

"Yall er gonna go in the Forbidden Forest, Fangs is in there and he hasnt come back. I know hes not harmed but i need some help lookin for him."

There was a long pause from what Hagrid said untill now. "So erm if sum goes wrong or something stardles ya, send a red light from your want into the sky. If you found Fang send a green light up and head back to the hut" hagrid said finishing off what he was telling us, he Led us into the forest and we all split up.