Andrew Bell

I was up early almost everyone was still asleep, the sun was yet to rise and the birds weren’t yet awake when I walked out of the Slytherin common room to find the great hall, though it was early I wasn’t the first one to wake.
When I found the great hall it was quiet and peaceful only a few students where eating their breakfast some had big meals some just a bowl of cereal, I sat down at the Slytherin table though I didn’t feel like it mattered where I sat. I decided I would eat some cereal today so I grabbed the milk and one of the packages of cereal that where standing on the table I wanted to start eating when suddenly Silvia popped out of nowhere ‘morning Dru’ she said, I looked at Silvia she looked tired and had slight circles under her eyes though the rest of her looked “fabulous” as she likes to call her quite flawless self. We stared at each other for a little while when she said ‘Andrew.. I had a dream last night’ I wasn’t to chocked I mean we all have dreams and Silvia often likes to tell me about how she rides unicorns in them. ‘I had a really weird dream’ she continued ‘I dreamed about a woman, she was beautiful she had silver hair.. and’ ‘a blue flower in her hair’ I finished her sentence ‘yeah!’ Silvia looked surprised, ‘yeah, she had a blue lily in her hair’ I looked at Silvia and she looked back at me, we didn’t often have the same dreams in fact I don’t think we’ve ever had the same dreams. It was silent for sometime when Silvia said ‘shall we write a letter to father to tell him what house we are in?’ ‘yeah sure’ I responded, it wasn’t like he would really care but if it would make Silvia happy I would write father, and while eating my cereal I wrote:
 
Dear Father,
I hope you are doing alright,
I am quite fine here at Hogwarts, we arrived here last night and both me and Silvia got sorted into Slytherin house.
Silvia has already been a social butterfly and has made some new friends if I remember well there was a girl called Hester one called Sabrina and one more but I don’t quite remember her name.
I am in one dorm with this other boy called Draco Malfoy, he doesn’t like me very much and the feeling is mutual.
Juana was sorted into Ravenclaw, she seems to be very happy about it.
That is all I’ve got for news really.
Kind regards,
Andrew
 
I  put the letter in my bag and continued eating my cereal when some students came running down the isle between the Slytherin and the Gryffindor table, I didn’t think much of it until one of them bumped into me and almost knocked me over ‘I-I’m s-so s-s-sorry’ the boy said, he had blonde almost white hair and he was wearing Hufflepuff robes that where obviously way to big for him, I were held the urge to say ‘hey robe where are you going with that boy?’ though it made me lough a little, I smiled at him though he seemed scared ‘it’s fine’ I said I looked back at my cereal, the boy had accidentally knocked over my coffee and it was now in my cereal the milk looked caramel brown and I honestly wondered what it tasted like so I tried it tasted horrible. The boy still stood there with a frightened look on his face so I decided I would introduce myself ‘Hi, I’m Andrew Bell’ the boys expression didn’t change
‘I-I’m Ax-Axel M-M-Mitchell’ he said ‘cool, nice to meet you Axel’ I said trying not to sound awkward ‘w-wait?’ the boy said ‘you’re not going to do something to me… like yell at me?’ I tried to look confused by that sentence but in reality I couldn’t even remember how many times my father had yelled at me or Silvia for accidentally breaking something or if we interrupted him during his work ‘well I mean... accidents happen’ I said ‘yeah..’ Axel said as he looked a little more at ease now that I had assured him I wouldn’t yell at him. ‘Well I’ll have to get going now’ I said as I grabbed my bag and looked for Silvia who was sitting at the Hufflepuff table with Sabrina, the boy was still standing there he was at least two feet smaller then me though I was already very tall Axel was obviously very short, I just wanted to say bye to him when a blonde Slytherin girl that looked quite similar to Axel stood next to him, she was about the same size as Axel and her robes where also way to big she looked at me with a face that screamed “I am judging you”, then she turned to Axel and said ‘are you coming? Lizza and Samuel are waiting for us’ ‘yeah’ Axel responded, ‘once again I’m sorry about your cereal’ he said ‘nah, don’t worry about it I didn’t like it that much anyway’ the he ran after the blonde girl. And that’s the awkward story of how I met Axel Mitchell.
Silvia and I stood in the owlery trying to find an owl that could bring our letters to father, as I took my letter out of my bag I could see a slight smile of delight on Silvias face I suddenly had déjà vu when I saw the small twinkle in her dark brown eyes I remembered when the woman in my dream had smiled at me with that same twinkle in her eyes, for a split second I thought I had dreamed of Silvia but then I remembered that Silvia looked way different and the only similarity was het eyes, I remembered I had read about how in your dreams the faces you see where always of those who you had met. I looked at Silvia as she tied our letters to the paw of a big barn owl, I wanted to warn Silvia that the owl was trying to eat her hair but the I remember how entertaining it would be if she noticed for her self that there was an owl eating her “precious” purple locks, so I left that for her to figure out.
I was on my way to the potions class when I saw some people obsessing over some guy, apparently Harry Potter was in my year, whoever that was. Our potions teacher was professor Severus Snape, he’s also head of Slytherin house, he was quite scary to be honest though he definitely seems to favour Slytheirn house above all other houses. I sat down at a table some where in the back of the class I took my potions book out of my bag when I heard a voice saying ‘can I sit here?’ a girl said. I looked around to find Silvia, since I would much rather be sitting with her, but she was siting in the front of the class next to another Slytherin, Hester Olivander, ‘yeah go ahead, you can sit here’ I said, she sat down next to me ‘I’m Cassandra Jackson but people call me Cassy’ she said ‘not very original I know’ ‘nice to meet you Cassy’ I mumbled. The class started and professor Snape made a big deal out of this Potter dude just like those people in the corridors, but instead of showering him with praise he blamed him for not knowing the answer to a question that was obviously above our level, at this point I’m asking myself what I’m even doing here. Potions class ended and I honestly didn’t like Snape to much, I mean he took 50 points from Gryffindor because the Potter dude couldn’t answer a question and the school year started less then 60 minutes ago I mean I know they’re our completion in winning the house cup and stuff but that is just rude. I walked trough the corridors of Hogwarts trying to find the Transfiguration classroom, I was very excited for this class because I had always been interested in shape shifting things. I had this class with Hufflepuff house and I rather enjoyed it I sat next to this blue haired girl called Nicole Reese Sanderson but she said she would rather be called Reese then Nicole. We had a short conversation before class and to be honest she was actually quite nice. There were a lot of things in theory in the first transfiguration class and not too much transfiguring which was quite disappointing. The day went on and after lunch we had our last class, Herbology, which we had with Ravenclaw I was very excited to finally be able to talk to Juana again. Professor Sprout was a little late due to an emergency so me and Juana decided to catch up, we where just sitting outside of the greenhouses enjoying the sun minding our own business when Malfoy apparently felt a sudden need for attention and came up to us ‘would you look at that Bell is still hanging out with his Mudblood friend’ he said for no reason whatsoever, I had learned that the bets way to keep bullies away was to ignore them, they would eventually get bored if you didn’t respond, but he was right there up in our faces and I never could never juts shrug it of if someone insulted my friends or family. I looked at Juana who didn’t seem to be caught of guard this time around and she said ‘I honestly take it as a compliment, it means that I out of a normal muggle family was born with the gift of magic, I think that’s a pretty great achievement’ Malfoy didn’t say anything for a few seconds and then Professor Sprout showed up and we had to go inside. Professor Sprout though us about how some magical plants where used for medicine and that some did the exact opposite and could actually kill people. ‘what a nice note to start on’ Juana whispered in my ear.
Me, Juana and Silvia where enjoying the greatness that is studying outside, we did our homework under a big Willow oak tree near the gates of the castle. ‘Andrew’ Silvia said ‘who was that blonde haired boy you where talking to this morning?’ she always surprised me when she knew exactly what I had done without having seen it ‘he was just someone who bumped into me’ I responded ‘well, there he is she said’ pointing to about 40 feet away from us, and again I wondered how in the world she knew it was him, Silvia jumped up and walked towards Axel I tried to stop her but she was already gone. Silvia came back with Axel and said ‘you don’t mind if he studies with us do you Andrew?’ and before I could respond she said ‘of course you don’t, sit down Axel dear’ I didn’t know what to say I couldn’t just tell him I’d rather study alone with Juana and Silvia so I looked to Juana for support she just raised an eyebrow and gave me a clueless “I don’t care” look and went back to studying. 

(chapter three is coming up soon)