Chapter 6
CRAIG:
Craig woke up. Eyes bleary from sleep. He awoke to emerald green and silver tapestries surrounding the room. It would take some getting used to, that's for sure. He didn't bother to greet anyone in his dorm before he went down to the great hall for breakfast. He sat down next to one of his Slytherin friends, Red.
"Hey"
"Hi"
"..."
"Not very talkative this morning are we?" Red shoved at Craig's shoulder playfully. Craig shrugged her off. His eyes concentrated at a group of people entering the great hall. It was Stan and Kyle, who had their heads leant in together as they talked. Followed by the boy that was introduced to him yesterday as Scott, and then by Tweek. He didn't realise he was staring at the blond until Tweek met his eyes from across the hall. Craig looked away quickly, looking at the wooden table in front of him. The wooden table, on which Cartman was now sat opposite him.
"Sup dude" He said casually. Craig internally groaned. Just what he needed to start the day off.
"Hey."
"Look guys, Craig's on his period." Cartman snickered.
"Fuck off Cartman, he's always like this" Red came to Craig's defense. "Anyways. I heard that PC principal has an announcement for us." Red lowered her voice, leaning her head in. "Thoughts?"
"My guess is that it's about house points." Craig shrugged half heartedly. "Each house must have accumulated a few now. PC just needs to explain their concept."
"Ugh, that's so dumb. PC principal would never do something that lame and boring." Cartman snorted, butting into the conversation yet again. "What say you Craig? I bet you 5 bucks."
Craig let a small smirk pull at the corner of his mouth. "Done" He said this just as PC principal approached the podium.
"OK I just wanna grab you guys' attention for just a moment." His voice rang out loud in the hall. "First, I just wanna say that this school does not tolerate any kind of Microagressions. So if you come across any insidences, come to me, and I will deal with them accordingly. Secondly, I wanna talk about the house cup"
Craig, dispite himself, broke out in a grin. Cartman looked devastated, but begrudgingly took out five bucks from his back pocket. Does he just carry it there? But Craig didn't even care. He felt too superior at that moment. As he looked away from Cartman, a smile still on his face, he saw Tweek looking at him from the gryffindor table, an unreadable expression on his face. Craig's smile dropped instantly, and he sharply turned back to listen to PC principal.
"So guys, the current leaderboard is as follows:
Hufflepuff- 32 points
Gryffindor- 34 points
Ravenclaw- 34 points
Slytherin- 35 points
As you can see, it's extremely close in competition at the moment, so anyone has the chance to receive the house cup. So I want you all to try as hard as you can to win. Anyways. I think that's enough speaking for now. You can all begin eating."
What Craig didn't expect, was that when everyone began digging in, owls began swooping down from the ceiling, bearing letters. In fact, one landed right in front of him, with a letter written in what Craig could easily recognise as his father's messy scrawl. But before he could open it and read it's contents, a loud screech could be heard over on the Hufflepuff table.
"LEOPOLD STOTCH"
Red gasped from next to him. "Only one day in, and someone's already received a howler!" Craig couldn't help but agree..it wasn't often that people received howlers, let alone as a first letter apon entering hogwarts.
"You are GROUNDED young man. You will not be going to hogsmede this term. Or anywhere outside your assigned lessons for that matter. How DARE you not get top of your class for Herbology!"
"Awh, dad but I haven't even had a herbology lesson yet" Butters squirmed. But the howler didn't relent.
"When I was your age, I was the Herbology representative. It is such a disappointment that you cannot follow in my footsteps." The howler babbled on.
"I got top of my class for potions though!" Butters exclaimed.
"That's gay." The howler finished, before tearing itself to shreds.
"Awh... Man... I told you my dad was gonna ground me" Butters deflated, pulling on Kenny's arm weakly.
"Holy shit" Craig said aloud. Prompting the entire hall, to once again break into noise and chatter.
"What's yours about?" Red asked
"Probably something about him being glad I'm in Slytherin like he was. My Mom was a Ravenclaw." Craig rolled his eyes. "I'll read it in my room later" he stuffed the letter into his pocket, and went back to eating breakfast. He finished up quickly, and went back to the Slytherin common room before anyone else could get there, so that he could relish in the silence, if only for a moment, to gather his thoughts before he went to class.