[h3]Veronica [/h3]

[Indent][Indent][Indent] Sitting near the first years; Veronica took a slightly nervous and shaky breath.  Being a transfer from Beauxbatons Academy, she was about to be sorted into a house at Hogwarts. She was slightly nervous, as she would be joining everyone who had been here for years before her. She wondered just how easily she would fit in, when everyone was already surrounded by a group of friends they had for years. She lightly clapped, as the first years mostly got sorted out into Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, the occasional one being put into Slytherin.

Professor McGonagall finally called her up. With a slightly shaky breath, Veronica made her way over to the platform sitting down on the chair.  Her chocolate brown eyes filled with slight nervousness as she bit her lower lip. Her brown curls perfectly resting over her shoulders and she felt the Transfiguration teacher place the sorting hat ontop of her head. 
“Ahh…” The sorting hat called out, once sitting upon her head, as if surprised by the new and foreign arrival “A french beauty huh?.Mhhh….shy, loyal…smart….” the hat began to mutter about the new student, like it usually did about some. There were a few moments of silence, in anticipation before calling out “Gryffindor!”

As the Gryffindor table cheered and clapped, at the new arrival including the Transfer. Veronica sighed in relief and smiled softly as she hopped off of the table. She started to make her way towards her house table; when she saw Lily approaching her.
“Hi, I am Lily.” The muggle born, girl extended her hand out towards the French Transfer, with a warm and welcoming smile. “Welcome to Gryffindor.”

Veronica smiled warmly at the girl that greeted her with a warm and enthusiastic welcome.  “I am Veronica, pleasure to meet you Lily.” shaking her hand softly, she smiled giving Lily a soft nod. Her voice was soft, and her English was very fluent. Her French accent was noticeable though, despite her half British, half French nationality.  As they walked to the table; her eyes landed on Remus. The scruffy dirty blonde hair and brown eyes, caught her attention. Veronica smiled over at the cute 7th year, biting her lip slightly nervously for a few moments. But averted her eyes slightly, as she didn’t want to come off like she was staring at him. Lily noticed the glance towards Remus, from Veronica which caused her to smile lightly.

When the two girls reached the table, Lily began to introduce her to Astrid, Sirius, Peter, James and a few other Gryffindors that were sitting near by. Before pointing out Remus, who was still paying attention to the head-master.
“It’s nice to meet you all.” Veronica smiled softly as she sat down on the other side of Lily. Her stomach was rumbling lowly, as she had not eaten for a few hours and was beginning to get hungry. [/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]

[h3]Sirius [/h3]

[Indent][Indent][Indent]As he was sitting on the table with his friends; he was sharing his story over the summer. He had run off to the Potter House-hold, as he couldn’t take his family’s traditions and beliefs anymore. They had been over their heads, with the blood-purity crap, it was driving him mad. They had disagreed with him, now more than ever due to him being in Gryffindor and whom his friends were. Noticing Regulus glaring at him from the Slytherin table.  Doing his best to ignore him, he glanced over at Astrid, seeing the small smile eventually forming on his lips made him smile.

She had always been the loudest out of the group. Despite being the ‘Bad boy’ and ‘flirt’ that he was; he had secretly been crushing on her for a while now. He winked over at Astrid, before he smirked at her playfully flashing her a cheeky grin. Those two had flirted back and forth for years now. Always getting into trouble on numerous occasions.Brushing his brown locks away from his eyes, he glanced up as he saw Lily making her way over to the table with the new French Girl. 

He chuckled lightly at the banter between James and Remus. Leaning over to James, he whispered in his ear “Just ask her out already.”

“You must be from Beauxbatons.” Sirius flashed Veronica a welcoming smile once she was seated on the other side of Lily. “Welcome to Hogwarts.”
Veronica nodded lightly hearing his question. “Yeah, I am.” she bit her lower lip slightly. A few heads turned over at their table, focusing on the new arrival.

“Is it true?...The rumors?” one student careless asked, looking at Veronica with a raised eyebrow.

With a sigh, Veronica glanced away from the student that asked such a care-less question. Looking quite uncomfortable...she just sighed, not willing to answer. Since one of the teachers and a few of her fellow students turned out to be Death Eaters and following Voldemort, Veronica had became quite uncomfortable talking about her former school and class-mates and former friends, she had at the French Wizarding Academy. The school was no longer what it used to be and it’s reputation had sunk. Having moved to London, over the Summer; Veronica was glad when she got accepted into Hogwarts as a transfer Student.

Sirius rose a slight eyebrow at the question; whilst he saw Lily Evans glaring at the 5th year for asking that dumb question. “Are you okay?” he asked, glancing at the new arrival.

Veronica nodded slightly with a sigh, but didn’t answer. The French student, tried to focus on Dumbledore’s speech, looking up at the stage as he spoke about a Tri-Wizard Tournament, that was being held and hosted by Hogwarts. Veronica knew that her school usually participated in these challenges, but this year they were not welcome to.. Whilst Durmstrang was a regular that was still going to be present, her school was being replaced by an American Wizarding School. 

Sirius couldn’t help but smirk to himself as he heard the speech. To be a Hogwarts Champion sounded appealing to him. He had a mischievous look on his face. Soon hearing Dumbledore conclude his welcome speech with the usual; “May the feast..Begin.” No one wasted their time grabbing the food onto their plates, once the delicious meals appeared in front of the students on the 4 tables.  [/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]