Chapter 3 ~ Lucy Lovegood ~

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I yawned and sat up in my bed. Our dormitory room was a small circular dome shaped room. It had blue and bronze drapes over the windows in between the five beds. On one side of the room, a bookshelf built into the wall stood, I looked at the titles of the books, running my finger over their spines, 'Achievements in Charming' 'Advanced Potion-Making' 'Advanced Rune Translation' 'The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle' 'Ancient Runes Made Easy' 'Ancient Runes Translation' 'An Anthology of Eighteenth Century Charms' 'An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe' 'Asiatic Anti-Venoms' were just a few. Shel, Emersyn, Gabrielle and a girl named Kimmy Patil and I shared a dormitory room. Kimmy seemed... questionable when it came to niceness. I tiptoed out or the dormitory room and toward my dad's office. I reached there and knocked timidly on the door. It opened and I stepped inside. The shelves were filled with all sorts of books about plants and sometimes, real plants, wriggling around. My dad was sitting down at his desk, looking over some paper work. He had a frown on his face. Then he looked up, and seeing me, the frown turned upside down. "Hey Lucy!" He said enthusiastically, tucking the paper in the drawer. "Have you gotten your timetable yet?" "No," I said, "it comes to us at breakfast." I glanced at the clock and saw it was 4:30. Me and my dad had always been early risers. Unlike my younger sister and mum, who always got up at 10am if they could. I got out my book, and sat at his desk. We sat in companionable silence for a couple of hours, and then I went down to breakfast. I ate bacon and eggs with Gab, Shel and Emersyn. Soon, timetables were passed around and we all compared them quickly, realizing that we all head the same classes. Lilly ran over, tear streaks on her face. "Lilly!" I said surprised. "What happened?" She stopped and Gab leaped up to hug her. "I-I-I have the-the m-most awful-l girls in my-m-my dorm-m." She said and began bawling. I stood too and wrapped my arms around her. "It's okay," I said comfortingly. "What classes do you have?" Shel asked politely, also standing. Lilly looked at her, and I knew she was judging whether she was a nice person of not, and then, deciding she was, she pulled out her timetable out of her pocket. We had Potions, Herbology, Astronomy and Defense against the Dark Arts, with Lilly. "Okay, so that means you're not with us in Charms, History of Magic, Flying lessons and Transfiguration. That's okay, maybe you'll find some kind people, these bound to be someone in your grade who's nice." I said. Lilly nodded, then smiled at us. I deicided to head to the library, we still had half an hour before our first lesson, Defense against the Dark Arts, and I wanted to check it out. Everyone accompanied me, Emersyn needed a little convincing by Shel before she agreed. After coming out of the library, we made our way to our Defense against the Dark Arts classroom. On the way I heard Emersyn, who was behind me give a little yelp as she stepped on a trip step. I turned and saw on a different staircase. I ran over toward her, but the staircase began to move. I took a few steps back, then , getting a run up, I leapt and grabbed onto the railing. The staircase stopped with a thud and I clambered over the rails and helped Emersyn up. "This must have been one of those trip steps. I read about those. Emersyn, what where you doing?" She looked at me for a second, then replied, "I thought there was a short cut here." "Okay, well we should get back to - " I said, then Emersyn interrupted me. "Please, call me Em." I grinned at her, then said "Alright Em." She gave a small smile and we walked together to Defense against the Dark Arts, and we where ridiculously late, since we had to take a detour after the staircase moved. When we entered, the familiar face of Ted Lupin grinned up at us. "So, why are you two so late?" he asked playfully. "Well..." I started, "Em got stuck on a trick step, and then the staircase moved, and we had to take a detour, then someone in a painting called Sir Cadogan, told us he could get us here, but he got us even more lost, until we came across Professor Mcgonagal, who was telling off Peeves. and she pointed us in the right direction. Sorry," I finished breathlessly. Ted, or Professor Lupin laughed. "It's all right. Take a seat." We grinned at him and I went to sit in between Gab and Lilly, while Em went to sit with Shel. Hogwarts was going to be great! I thought.