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Without Red Hair and Freckles, Chapter 4, Just plaster "I'm different" on my forehead

“Abraham, Adeline” The girl with glasses slowly went up to Mr. Longbottom, who put the sorting hat onto her head. Within seconds, the hat shouted “RAVENCLAW.”
No one had talked to me since the boy had, who was actually standing right next to me now, so I tried to not make a fool of myself. “Clearwater, Heidi” it took several minutes to have Heidi Clearwater go to Hufflepuff.
“Davies, Jason” was set into Gryffindor.
The dirty blonde haired boy accidentally brushed up against my hand, he said a quiet “Sorry for bumping into you.”
“Flint, Mary” was the blonde girl that I hadn’t liked on the train, and I was right when she got put into Slytherin.
“Goldstein, Miles” he took several seconds before getting set into Hufflepuff.
“Harper, Alexander” the brown haired, small nosed boy that I had met in Flourish and Blott’s was put into Slytherin with only touching one hair on the boy’s head.
I was trying to remember all of their faces so that I would recognize them later if I needed help for any reason. I set them all into categories too, some even had sub-categories.
“Jones, Keely” it took the hat a long time to decide which house she should be in, but it finally decided to put into Hufflepuff.
“Larsen, Jake” Jake was now an honorary Gryffindor, but would I?
“Moon, Tyler” he was placed into Ravenclaw.
“Nott, Natalia” was placed into the house of Slytherin.
“Perks, Matthew” I felt the dirty blonde haired boy move, and now the dirty blonde haired boy had a name… Matthew Perks. He was absolutely gorgeous. Not too long after the hat was placed onto his head, he was sorted into Ravenclaw.
Mr. Longbottom stared at the paper, as if his eyes were tricking him, and with a confused tone he said, “Potter, Lillian.” All of the kids looked surprised, and started looking around, and even the older students were looking at us; until I finally stepped out towards the sorting hat and Mr. Longbottom. I had only met Mr. Longbottom once, but I was a little girl and didn’t tell him my name because he was a stranger. James and Al told him that I was their foreign exchange student from Finland. When I got up to the final step and turned around, I could feel everyone’s eyes on me. Even the ones who had thought that this was so boring having to watch all the first years get placed, but they were staring… really badly staring. I looked over to where Matthew Perks was sitting, and he was also looking… I grinned when I saw him and I set myself on the stool.
The hat was placed onto my head, and it told me, “Ah, another Potter, I know just where to put- Oh, I see many troubles in your life… very intelligent… indeed.” I couldn’t think of what to say to a talking hat, “You try very hard to please everyone, but you are easily persuaded… and very much vulnerable to emotions… but very powerful magic… even more than your father I expect. Not too much courage. Beauty,” He paused, “but love is so strong in your heart there is little left for hate.” Then I could hear him through my ears, “Better be… RAVENCLAW.”
Just plaster “I’M DIFFERENT” right onto my forehead. No one made any noises for the longest time, but when I finally moved towards the Ravenclaw table, they cheered loudly. Almost ear shattering loudly, I heard one of the boys shout, “We’ve got the other Potter!”
I couldn’t look at Al and James’s faces, the disappointment, the smirks, and they would most definitely write to mum and dad as soon as they could get the chance. I wanted to cry, I wanted to go back to mum and leave Hogwarts for good, if I wasn’t in Gryffindor, then my family wouldn’t deem me as being good enough and they would all disown me.
I sat across from Matthew Perks, who kept on smiling at me, but I kept my head down low. I heard many other people get placed into houses, and I heard Hugo get into Gryffindor, which made me the ONLY Weasley or Potter to not be in Gryffindor in this generation, come to think of it… in the past three generations at least. When I heard a shout of Gryffindor, my heart sank a little each time. This was the start of my living nightmare.
When the feast and speeches were finally over I was the only one who wasn’t eager to go and see their new common room. I knew what the Gryffindor common room had looked like from all of the pictures that I had seen from my parent’s. I didn’t want to go and see any other common room; I wanted to be in the Gryffindor one, with my brothers. For once I wanted my family to see that I could be like them. The sorting hat had different plans…
I followed a girl from James’s year and she looked nice, maybe James should date her; instead of all the shallow girls that he normally dates. Her name was apparently Susan, but I didn’t know her last name yet. Susan would be a waft of fresh air for James. I would actually like to have her be my sister-in-law one day, if that wasn’t going to be too much to ask of James.
When we finally got to the door, Susan turned around to us, and told us, “You will need to answer the question to get into the common room. Let’s see how smart this year’s batch is, shall we?” Then, the door asked us, “If a line is straight, but not existent, then what would you call it?”
“It wouldn’t be anything; it would just be a figment of your imagination.” I said quickly, not even thinking about it first. Susan smiled widely at me, “Correct!”
The door swung open and I found myself getting red, I let everyone else go in front of me, besides one certain boy who said, “Go in front of me, you did after all, answer the question.” Matthew’s smile would brighten up a hurricane, I melted for a while, lost in his face, but then I realized that I was slightly staring… or majorly, with a cooing expression on my face. One of his eyebrows raised, and I couldn’t find my voice… sometimes it hid on me, normally in the worst moments.
“Are you going to go?” he asked me, when I finally got my voice back.
“Oh, uh, yeah, I guess so.” I said, walking through the door, while he followed me. Susan was in mid-sentence, “-then you will be punished if you get caught bringing in a person from another house into the common room.”
She paused for a while, “Ravenclaw has standards that most other houses do not have, you are expected to get the best grades out of the school, which isn’t going to be difficult, and you must keep good manners while you are here. For some of you, those may be hard things but they are the rules, as a Ravenclaw, you will follow them.” Her smile came back as she said, “Now, you can go up to your dormitories, but be reminded that your classes are tomorrow and you are expected to be three minutes early, at the latest.”
I didn’t want to stay in the common room like all the other girls wanted to, I wanted to get up into bed and sleep for quite some time. This was my home away from home, and sure it would be a lot different, but I hoped that I would have more friends here than I did at home.
No girls followed me upstairs to the dormitory, so for at least now, I had it all to myself.  The four poster beds were a dark blue, and I found my trunk with Alice bouncing around in her cage that was on top of the trunk. I grinned and let her out onto my bed, going and changing in the bathroom, and bringing my toothbrush along with me.
When I came back out, I found Addie playing with Alice on my bed, she shot up off the bed and told me, “Oh, hi. I’m sorry but she just looked so cute and…” she finally turned around to see who I was and said “Oh wow, it’s you!”
Coming over and shaking my hand with much enthusiasm, she said “I’m Addie Abraham, but you already know that… I’m horrible at first impressions, I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you on the train, it’s just I’ve never really met a celebrity before, and with your parents being who they are and…” she stopped talking because of the look I was giving her.
“My parents are the ones that are famous, but I’m not famous, I’ve never done anything that would make me famous,” I told her, and her smile returned to her face.
“You’re so modest, but you’re the only one in your family that has been accepted into Ravenclaw, not to mention you are the first girl in the Potter family in ages, and you don’t have the Weasley red hair.” She was telling me all the reasons why my brothers would tease me, only they could think of more off of the top of their head. I wouldn’t hold this against her, like she said; she’s really bad at first impressions.
“But if my parents weren’t famous, then I’d be just like you” I told her, and she let go of my hand, looking bewildered. “No, no, no, no, no, you are much better than me, you’re a whole lot smarter, and I have no idea how I got into Ravenclaw. You’re pureblood and I’m only half. See, but my mum was in Ravenclaw, so she’ll be happy that I got in.”
“Lucky you” I mumbled, passing her, and going to put Alice back in her cage. “I didn’t mean it like that, I’m sorry.”
I turned to her, “What?”
“What do you mean ‘What’?”
“What did you say?”
“I said that I didn’t mean…”
“The other part.”
“I’m sorry?”
It felt oddly weird that someone had said that to me, in fact, I hadn’t heard it from anyone else’s mouth but my mother’s and my own, with the exception of Matthew today when he accidentally bumped into me at sorting. Maybe Addie wasn’t that bad of a girl after all, maybe she could be my first friend… hopefully, if I was lucky enough.
“It’s just weird hearing that from someone, I guess I don’t hear it enough” I told her, as she gave me a little smile.
“I know what you mean.”
It didn’t need to be said, but right then, we both knew that this was the start of our very first friendships. Those girls on the train weren’t really her friends, just people that she latched onto instead of going in alone on a journey. Even she was defending me in the compartment when she didn’t know who I really was.
Like the sorting hat said, “Ravenclaw will always find their kind” I now have proof that the sorting hat is mostly right, she chose to sit by me on the train, she could have gone looking for the Lily Potter that she thought that she knew, but she stayed and talked with the other girls. “I’ll be right back, I have to go brush my teeth.” She told me, but when she came back, I was already fast asleep in my four poster bed, not waiting to meet all of my other roommates.
Tomorrow is uncatchable, Today is everlasting, and Yesterday is memorable.
The last sentence is very powerful if you think about it hard enough.

Anyways, I was lucky to get this chapter out because I've been sick all day and I've been crying really hard so this is making my eyes burn staring at this computer screen, so I hope you enjoyed!
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