A New World ?G.W?

I may be muggle-born, but even I know who Harry Potter is, but I think it would be best to remain polite, I'm sure he has enough of having a fan club fawn over him, so I instead I greet him along with Ron and Hermione after Neville introduced us to the golden trio.

"Oh there's Ginny, I'm going to talk to her" Luna says, she leans into my ear and says "just keep an eye out, nargles would find this atmosphere very attractive"

"Constant vigilance" I giggle with a wink and watch her walk away towards a pretty girl in her year, leaving me alone with the golden trio and Neville. I look at them and am suddenly struck with anxiety that often accompanies meeting new people, but I remember Luna's words of wisdom and put a smile on my face. Luckily the Gryffindors are all extremely nice and Ron grabs me a bottle of Butter beer while Hermione starts a conversation about our shared astronomy class.

"So Y/N," Harry interrupts and I turn to look at him. "I don't think I've seen you at one of these before" he gestures around the room to indicate that he's talking about the party.

"Yeah I'm not really a big party person, I normally stick to my dorm, if I'm really feeling adventurous I might sneak to the astronomy tower with a book" I laugh, suddenly embarrassed and feeling quite lame. A voice from behind me makes me jump and I turn around to see a tall red-head boy who I recognise as one of the famous Weasley twins.

"I knew there was a Ravenclaw here, but I didn't think they would be this easy to spot", which only adds to my blush. "I'm Fred, Ron's much better looking and funnier brother" He grins which earns him a playful punch from his younger brother and en eye roll from Harry.

"I'm Y/N, it's nice to meet you" I say while trying to hold in my laugh at the display of sibling rivalry. "I heard you're basically responsible for these parties, nice job"- that's my best attempt at being casual and cool and it seems to work as Fred cheekily grins, which earns yet another eye roll from Ron.

"Why thank you very much Y/N, I can't take all the credit though, a muggle-born kid had some kind of sound amplifier thing, calls it a speaker, anyway he helps us with the music. And of course I have my partner in crime, there he is. Georgie!" He calls out to a near identical copy of himself and the boy turns and begins to make his way over.

My breath hitches in my throat, I've always thought that the twins were identical, never bothering to notice the differences but now that I'm here with them, something about George is different. Good different. It was hard to describe, of course there were physical differences between the two, slightly different noses, jaw lines, but it was more than that. While Fred's smile was cheeky, mischievous, George seemed different. It's weird, before he even said a word he seemed softer I guess. In the few seconds it took for him to walk over to us, I felt like I'd done a whole weird analysis thing and felt kinda awkward so I averted my eyes to the ground and coughed a bit, praying to Merlin he hadn't noticed. I don't think he did as when I looked up he wasn't looking at me like I was totally crazy. His eyes swept over the group of five, Neville had wandered off, maybe trying to bump into Luna, and they stopped on me, his easy smile growing a bit.

"George this is Y/N, our new resident Ravenclaw." Fred said putting his arm around me.

I couldn't help but burst out laughing "Woah, who said I was sticking around?" I said in a tone that made it obvious I was joking.

"Oh come on Y/N, who would want to leave a party like this?" he winks making me laugh and shrug his arm off my shoulder. He stands next to his brother and folds his arms "What do you think Georgie, shall we keep her around?"

I don't quite know when I gained the confidence but I looked at George and said "Yeah Georgie, are you gonna keep me around?" and laughed. Was this me flirting, oh Merlin I can't believe I said that. I could be imagining things but I swear George goes slightly pink, making me think of Neville.

Before any of us can speak again, Fred laughs and says "I like her a lot!" before pulling his twin away to talk to some other Gryffindors.

"Unbelievable" Ron huffs, "they're always trying to steal my new friends!" which makes me giggle.

"I'll always be your friend first Ron, don't worry." I say which earns a grin from the trio. We spend the rest of the night talking, laughing, dancing, and drinking. The whole night though I keep an eye out for George, which is stupid I know, and I honestly try not to, but I can't help it. At one point, while I'm dancing with Luna, Hermione, and Ginny to some muggle rock song, our eyes meet and he smiles at me. In a desperate attempt to not make this more than it is, I smile back and go back to dancing.

It's the early hours of the morning when people start to head back to their dorms and I decide it's best for me and Luna to head back.

"But what if you get caught? You're more than welcome to stay here for the night on the sofa. Or I could sleep down here and you guys can have my bed, of course if you don't mind sharing with the boys, but-" Harry rambles in a way that's very cute, and makes me repress a giggle.

"It's fine Harry, we should go, but thank you" I smile at him which he returns.

"We'll walk you girls back, we're experts at not getting caught. Right George?" Fred says and George simply nods.

"You have a lot of detentions for someone who doesn't get caught." mumbles Ron, and bids us goodnight as he and Harry head up to their dorm.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow, good night. Don't get caught!" Hermione warns, and after saying good night to Neville, we leave the party.

The walk from Gryffindor to Ravenclaw is a short one, but I appreciate the twins expertise, as they claim, to avoid trouble.

"So," George starts, "Did you guys have a nice night?"

"Yes, it was really lovely. I like your common room, it's very warm." Luna says while looking at the portraits on the wall.

"That's probably because of all the people!" Fred calls from a few steps, studying a piece of parchment.

"Not warm like that, warm like nice. Happy..." Luna trails off but I nod my head to agree with her. I think warm is a perfect word to describe Gryffindor. The common room of course is what I mean.

George is about to say something else when Fred turns and says "Quick, in here!" and opens up a door to small storage room where George ushers us into.

"How di-"

"SHH" Fred silences me which takes me aback, but before I can retort, footsteps pass our door and a voice says

"C'mon Mrs Norris, we need to find any students out of bed."

I narrow my eyes at Fred and when he holds open the door for us to go back in the corridor, I stop in front of him and ask "So what, you have some kind of sixth sense for trouble?"

"Something like that" he replies with a lazy smile, and we continue up to the common room.

"The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?" asks the bronze knocker on the door and Luna quickly answers "Footsteps"

"Thank you for the party, it was very lovely. I'll see you soon" Luna says and skips into the common room without waiting for the reply.

I stand awkwardly at the door, not quite knowing what to do with my arms for some reason. I look between the twins and say "Yeah, thank you. And thanks for walking us back. I'll see you around, good night"and turn around to follow Luna.

"Goodbye Resident Ravenclaw" Freds voice sings behind me and I mentally roll my eyes at the terrible nickname he gives me, and the door closes behind me as they walk away.

I go to our room and get ready for bed, as I crawl under the covers, Luna whispers "Gryffindors are very nice aren't they Y/N?"

"Yeah, they are actually." I whisper back and fall asleep quite happy.

A/N:

Thank you to all 8 readers hehe

I'm actually having so much fun writing this! I know y/n is a bit of a stereotypical Ravenclaw with the wanting to stay in and read, but write what you know!