Magic, what a curious word
Chapter 1: Magic, what a curious word
He arrives at the mahogany doors, looking up at their vast size, they were unlike anything he had ever seen before. It made him wonder, were they simply for design, made to intimidate, or was there something lurking within this mysterious place that would warrant the need for such expansive apertures? As soon as he stepped in the entryway he was greeted by a wise looking woman who shortly introduced herself as,
“Professor Mcgonagall, lovely to meet your acquaintance, you must be Louis.”
Louis examined the woman for a bit, she was dressed in an emerald green robe and wore a black witch hat which sat crookedly on her head. Her face housed a series of wrinkles, but not in a displeasing manner in a way that acknowledged that she was wise beyond reason. Louis caught himself staring and decided to promptly introduce himself before he were to be expelled for stalkerish tendencies.
“Yes I’m Louis lovely to meet you” he responded, providing a half smile.
Professor Mcgonagall appeared not to notice his long pause before his response and if she did she didn’t comment on it.
“Well don’t just stand there boy follow me, now I understand you’re a transfer student?”
Louis trailed behind her, surprised at how such a seemingly frail little woman could move at such a rapid pace.
“Um, yes ma’am I was previously attending Arcane Hallows Institute”
“Ah lovely school, one of the best in fact. What made you transfer, and in your sixth year no less?”
“Well my parents just feel like I wasn’t living up to my full potential there or something along those lines, i'm actually not too sure, they don’t really tell me much”
Mcgonagall hesitates before responding.
“Hmmm I see, well here at Hogwarts I'm sure you'll find that missing something you were looking for, now I must leave you soon as I have a class to teach but I’ve arranged for one of our finest students to show you around the grounds. Ahh here he is”
Louis looked up to see a tall sleek looking boy. He had tan skin, deep brown eyes gorgeous raven hair, inspecting him closer Louis noticed the slight stubble he had growing which complimented his face well.
“Hi there I’m Zayn”
He announced extending a hand to Louis, which Louis shook cautiously.
“Well I’ll leave you boys to it, I best be off”
And with that she was gone, to where, how, who knows. Louis’s gaze shifted back to the raven haired boy, who was now wearing a slight smirk on his face, looking infinitely cool.
“You’re a short one aren’t yuh” he teases
Louis is unsure how to respond, taken aback by the slightly snarky comment. When suddenly he feels a hand tap on his shoulder.
“Just joking lad, cmon once we get some robes on yuh it might help, i'll show you where you room is.”
They begin walking through the school and Louis thinks he's never seen anything quite like it. Sure his old school was impressive, but hogwarts was on another level, everywhere he looked there was stone engraved with various words and symbols, wooden fixtures that look like the were carved by some sort of God and if you were to take a moment to look up you’d be left stunned by the pure height of the ceilings. He was snapped out of his trance by Zayn’s voice once again.
“So since you’re in slytherin you’re gonna be rooming with me and my mates, you know all about the houses and all that yeah?”
“Yeah yeah you've got slytherin, gryffindor, ravenclaw and hufflepuff right?”
“Yeah right, now some people are kinda up themselves and don't talk to kids in other houses but I think it's dumb, some of my best mates are from Ravenclaw you know. Ah we’re here”
They enter the room and Louis places the bags he’s been carrying onto the freshly made bed that was assigned to him.
“Um, so if you don’t mind me asking, is there anything I should know about, like are there people I need to avoid and shit like that?” he asks as he is in the midst of changing into his robes.
“Oi oiii new boy wants to know their social hierarchy and all that ayy?? Well I mean if you were in a different house they’d probably tell you to stay away from us if I’m being honest, but nah not really.”
Zayn then takes a minute to think to himself, looking as if he was carrying the weight of the world's problems on his shoulders.
“Oh wait actually, stay away from this one bloke Harry Styles he’s in gryffindor, proper jerk that lad, he thinks he's better than everyone. His mates are alright though he's friends with people like Liam Payne, he's in Ravenclaw, and Niall horan who's in hufflepuff. They’re chill, I'm really good mates with Liam actually, I just don’t know why he hangs out with that jerk.”
Louis listens in intently, eager not to make a fool of himself on the first day. He really wasn’t one to care about a social hierarchy, but he knows a whole lot about surviving, and to transfer into a school this late he would need to know how to survive. Once they were dressed and ready they started walking to Louis’s first ever class Astronomy. Once in the classroom the two boys sat themselves down near the back and louis watched from the sidelines as zayn said hi to what seemed like his many friends. A tall boy approached zayn from behind ruffling his careful styled hairdo.
“Hey zayneee”
The brown eyed boy spoke, he was wearing the ravenclaw uniform. Louis thought back to what zayn had told him just a mere ten minutes ago, ravenclaw… who did he know in ravenclaw. Ah, this must be Liam Payne, he decided.
“Oh who's this? ey lad!” probably liam exclaimed.
Zayn shook his head, laughing. “This is Louis, he’s a transfer student”
“Nice to meet ya louis, i’m liam”
Liam wore a warm smile that complimented his big brown eyes and the freckles that danced across his cheeks. He had a slender build, seemingly the same height as zayn but he didn’t have that same air of coolness about him that zayn did.
“Nice to meet ya” Louis responded, attempting to offer back the same smile that he had just received. His efforts were short-lived.
“Liam why don’t you sit with us today pleasseeeee, ill give you a free pack of ciggys” zayn asked.
“Nah you know i’m tryna quit that shit bro, and c'mon you know how Harry gets when I sit with you, weird prick ain’t he. Plus niall’s in this class wouldn’t wanna leave him alone”
Niall, Louis remembers that name from Zayn's monologue as well. As if he had been summoned a blonde haired boy entered the class room and pat liam on the back.
“Hey lads, merlin’s beard, the fittest girl just asked me what i was doing tonight”. What an entrance louis thought to himself, he hadn’t even noticed he was there, was louis really that invisible?
“And what did you say?” zayn and liam listened eagerly on
The blue eyed boy looked down at his shows, seemingly shy now. “I said hopefully her and the she walked off”
The other two boys erupted in howls of laughter, clutching their stomachs and hitting each other. Louis swore he saw tears glisten in zayn's eyes.
“You’re too funny niall, it's ok mate one of these days you'll land a chick, or a bloke I don’t judge” zayn said, struggling to get the sentence out through bursts of laughter.
Niall revolted by sticking his tongue out at the both of them and crossing his arms like a petulant child, as he was doing this he noticed louis for the first time.
“Oh hey you're the new kid that's transferring in aren't you, lewis or something?”
“Umm yeah it's actually-”
Then the classroom went silent. Louis turned to look at the rest of his peers, their eyes were all pointed in the same direction, towards the entrance. Slowly, he too turned towards the entrance.
Oh.
This must be Harry Styles.