First Year- Discovery
-----------------------------------------------------LYRA/REGULUS POV----------------------------------------------------
…She got Gryffindor…Delphini was placed in Gryffindor. I can’t help but stare at her as he walks down to the table, sitting next to my brother. What will mother and father think? She will most definitely get a howler.
“Lyra Black!” the professor calls. I shakily walk up to the stool and sit down. The hat is barley on my head for a second when it yells, “SLYTHERIN!” I look over at Delphi, she’s not watching, instead staring blankly into the wall, Sirius looks less than surprised. I go and sit at the table, next to Evan, who I don’t know that well, but I intend to become closer with him, he seemed nice, and I hoped to be like him when I am older.
Soon enough all my friends have been sorted, all of them being placed in Slytherin with me. We eat in silence, knowing that our lives won’t be the same without Delphini. Both of my siblings had been ripped away from me now, and I was alone. I was scared for her, I mean Sirius’ punishment for being in Gryffindor were severe, and Mother had always been harsh on her.
Eventually I found myself walking to the Slytherin common rooms, which were in the dungeons and very cold. My cousin, Andromeda stood in front of the group of first years.
“The password to the common room is Pureblood, don’t forget it or you will be locked out, I’d advise to write it down. Girl’s your dorms are to the left, boys are to the right.” She said, “All your belongings are already inside, I’d advise that you get a good night’s sleep.”
I follow Pandora, and another girl who’s name I believe is Isla Greengrass to the left, letting her go up the stairs as I watch Barty walk up the right one. The other girls are halfway up the stairwell when I take my first step but…the stair slopes into a slide….I try again, and it does the same thing…Isla had already gone to the dorm, but Pandora was waiting for me patiently.
“What’s taking so long Ly?” she complained.
“I-The stairs…I can’t go up” I answered, confused. At this point Andromeda had noticed and told me to follow her. I was confused but I followed anyway. We walked through the castle before stopping in front of a door. She knocked and a voice from the inside said “you may enter.”
We walked into the room, there was a man sitting at a desk.; He had grey hair and looked old.
“Ah Miss Black, what may I help you with?” he said, standing.
“I was showing the first years’ to their dormitories when Lyra couldn’t go up the steps. Professor Slughorn, It was like what happened with Bertha Jorkins a few years back”. The man nodded at that, before turning to me.
“Take a seat Miss Black.” I sit down, still confused about what was happening.
*
20 minutes later I’m sitting into the boys Dormitories. I haven’t spoken a word to a very confused Barty. He keeps on asking me why I’m in the boys dormitories if I’m a girl and I suddenly snap at him.
“Because I’m not! Okay, I’m not a girl!” I say, tears in my eyes.
“…What?” he looks confused as he runs a hand through his brown hair.
“I’m not a girl…I’ve always sort of known there was you know, something wrong with me, I mean I hate my hair and stupid dresses and sometimes I wish I could just be a boy you know, and when I tried to go into the girls dorms it wouldn’t let me and then Professor Slughorn had to explain to me that not all girls want to be boys and oh merlin it sounds stupid I know and please don’t hate me, and oh no I have to tell my parents and they’re going to hate me, please just-” At this point I’m hyperventilating and panicking, but I’m cut off by Barty.
“Calm down, I’m not going to tell your parents…so does this mean you’re….transgender?” he asks, sounding nervous to use that word.
“I don’t know” I whisper, letting out a sigh and collapsing onto a bed, “maybe?”
“Maybe you should get some sleep Lyra-”
“Please don’t call me that…that’s a girl name…I don’t want to be called that” I say, my voice just above a whisper.
“What should I call you then?” he asks, laying on the bed next to me.
‘’I don’t know, well I mean I could just go as my middle name for a while, I mean until I find a new name and that way no one would know”.
“What? Arcturus?” he said, stifling laughter, “what about Archie?”
“alright” I say, “Archie”.