The Triwizard tournament officially started and the feast began after the first years were sorted. Suddenly a black owl landed in front of Dumbledore. He took the message from the owl and read it. He stood up and whispered something to professor McGonagall. Both walked out of the Great Hall. Everyone was looking around curiously but after a moment or two everyone returned back to eating and catching up with friends. The Sorting hat vanished at sometime, but no one noticed.
- Meanwhile, with professor Dumbledore and professor McGonagall -
"I am so sorry I am so late, but my dad and I got lost, we do not know England and then the flying car broke down, so we had to fix it and because my dad has no idea how to fix cars, it took longer than it should have." a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes explained her tardiness.
"There is no problem with that; we just weren't expecting you this year." professor McGonagall explained.
"I've sent my transfer papers to you over two weeks ago. I thought you knew I was coming." the girl explained surprisingly.
"Your owl arrived with these papers 10 minutes ago." professor McGonagall said and showed the girl her transfer papers.
"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, Charlie is a little old and the time change must have confused him." the girl apologized.
"You don't need to worry; your mother sent a letter confirming your arrival a week ago. But before anything, you need to be sorted in one house." Dumbledore said smiling.
Professor McGonagall brought the Sorting hat and placed it on the girls' head.
"Well this is interesting. A mixture of Gryffindor and Slytherin." The Sorting hat wondered out loud. The girl looked a little puzzled.
"You are very intelligent, creative, daring, ambitious and determined." The Sorting hat said. There was a moment of silence.
"Perhaps the house of Ravenclaw will be the right answer for you." The Sorting hat said.
"Now, you can go take a seat with your classmates." Dumbledore smiled. The girl went back to the Great Hall and sat at the Ravenclaw table, next to an Asian girl with beautiful black hair.
"Oh, hello! Who are you?" the Asian girl asked.
"Hi, I'm Anna Hoffman Smirnov. I just transferred here." the girl answered and extended her hand.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Cho Chang. How old are you?" the Asian girl replied and shook Anna's hand.
"Fifteen, you?"
"Same." Cho smiled.
"So where did you transfer from?"
"America."
"There is a school of witchcraft and wizardry in America?" Cho asked surprised.
"There is, but it is not as good as Hogwarts." Anna answered.
"Well Hogwarts really is good, but I'm sure your school wasn't that bad."
"It kind of was. The only good subjects were potions and spells, but potions were last year replaced by muggle chemistry." Anna bitterly said.
"I'm sure chemistry isn't that bad."
"It's not, but the bad thing is that I hadn't had potions for a year now and I don't remember much anymore."
"Well, you'll have plenty of time to catch up, not only that we have potions here, we have defense against the dark arts and-" Cho started to list the subjects, but was interrupted by Anna.
"Really? I've heard about that class, I always wanted to learn some of those spells." Anna eagerly said.
"You didn't have defense against the dark arts?" Cho asked surprisingly.
"No, America had no dark wizards that would cause mayhem, so there was no point in having that class. Our history is kind of boring, nothing happened."
"Not ours, our history is interesting and don't get me started on the present." Cho said.
"What do you mean?"
"Ever since Harry started going to Hogwarts, there have been quite a few moments, where everyone was required to know some defensive spells." Cho explained.
"Harry? As in Harry Potter?"
Cho nodded.
"Do you want to meet him?"
"Of course, even in America he is famous." Anna smiled.
"Well come on!" Cho smiled and stood from their table. Cho started walking towards the Gryffindor table. Suddenly a group of girls started squealing and running after one boy. Anna looked at the boy.
"More like a man." Anna whispered to herself.
Cho turned around: "What?"
"Who is that?" Anna asked and pointed at the guy all the girls chased after.
"Are you serious?" Cho looked at Anna like she was crazy. Anna was quiet.
"We'll discuss this later. First I want to introduce to you Harry Potter." as Cho said that a boy with round glasses turned towards the two girls.
"Hi Cho, how are you?" Harry asked, completely ignoring Anna.
"Fine, thank you. I wanted you to meet my friend. Harry this is Anna." Cho introduced the two.
"Nice to meet you Anna." Harry smiled and offered Anna his hand. She shook it.
"These are my friends Ronald Weasly and Hermione Granger." Harry pointed to the two people behind him. Both waved.
"Are you new, I haven't seen you around before?" Hermione wandered.
"Yes, I just transferred." Anna smiled.
"From where?"
"America."
"I heard of that school, it is the only school of witchcraft and wizardry that teaches non magical subjects. I believe it is math, chemistry and philosophy?" Hermione explained.
"Exactly."
"That is interesting. So how is it like to study muggle subjects?"
"It is um…interesting." Anna bitterly smiled.
"What about other subjects, what did you have?" Ron asked.
"The program was similar with the exception of these three subjects. But the school staff put great stress on communication with muggles."
"Why?" Ron asked.
"In America people or muggles know that we, wizards exist. We live side by side, but it is all new, muggle know about us for about five years and we are all slowly getting use to it, but the communication is vital. We cannot use too much magic, so we do not provoke or offend the muggles. So the headmaster is now focused mainly on this communication between us so that we can live with each other, without passing judgments." Anna explained.
"Is that why you transferred here?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, my school was supposed to train me to become a powerful witch, but with each year more magical classes were taken from my schedule and have been replaced with subjects from muggle schools."
"That's a shame, but Hogwarts is the best school of witchcraft and wizardry. I am sure you will catch up with us in no time." Hermione smiled.
"I know and I can't wait to start learning." Anna replied smiling.
Suddenly someone pushed Cho who was standing next to Anna the whole time.
"What's up?" the guy asked smiling.
"Roger! It's good to see you again!" Cho exclaimed and hugged him.
"Anna, this is Roger Davies, our classmate." Cho introduced the boy. Anna shook his hand.
"Now come on, it is time to show you around Hogwarts." Cho said and pulled Anna from the Golden Trio. Anna waved goodbye and let Cho pull her out of the Great Hall.
So what do you think? I'd love to hear your thoughts. :)
This is just a Prologue, I promise it will get better :)