<strong>Name:</strong>Charlize Renard<br/><strong>House/Year:</strong>Hufflepuff/4th<br/><strong>Bloodtype:</strong>Pureblood<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Entrance to the Great Hall<br/><strong>Tagging: </strong>Gustav, Xavril, Jamie, Daria<br/><br/>… and she was right. Xavril<em>didn’t</em>take crap from no one. No wonder he and Jamie were getting along so neatly. But so did Gustav and mentally she had to congratulate him for his choice of words, although not for his own threat of taking points from the Slytherin House. Getting loathed by your own housemates from the first day wasn’t a wise decision, either Gustav was insane or he had some major skills backing him up. Truth be told, she never thought that excellent magic abilities could ever make up for the loss of friends, but then again he managed to earn the Prefect title without even attending Hogwarts before.<br/><br/>Charlize looked him up and down while he was still turned towards Xavril as if asking “Who are you?” and suddenly being left alone with him didn’t seem like such a bright idea anymore. Then Gustav addressed her and his voice seemed different than before so she supposed once more that there really isn’t anything to fear.<br/><br/>Xavril acknowledged her choice for the tour, making Charlize to show him her smile, although any words she might want to say in that moment got stuck in her throat. She knew that he wasn’t a bad person and Heaven forbid if she’d ever judge a book by its cover, but Xavril’s looks were telling one thing only: “danger”. Both his scars and usual choice of clothing reminded Charlize of violent gang members. Not to mention his different eye colors.  Sure she heard others speak of him with good words.. Xavril often helped others with homework and usually anything they might ask of him (whenever they found the courage to do so), but he wasn’t in her House  so these could very well be just speculations.<br/><br/>While she imagined him being part of a biker gang, Gustav seemed more and more like a mafia boss. The thought of them going at eacthother’s throats in the common room like in a ‘30’s movie made her to laugh, a giggle which she surpressed instantly. It really wasn’t fitting.<br/><br/>Then Jamie did the smartest thing anyone could do at the moment and pulled Xavril after her, leaving the two alone. Or not quite.<br/>“Daria!” Charlize said not hiding her surprise.  Should she ask her to join them?  Raising her eyes to meet  Gustav’s features she dismissed the thought immediately. He never actually said anything against her, but the way he looked at the girl, as if stares could kill, told Charlize to get him away from Daria as fast as possible.<br/><br/>“I’ll see you tomorrow in class. If you do come across Serena tell her to look at the room pairings for me.” She was really interested to know with whom she’ll end up with this year.<br/><br/>“Well, as you might already know, we’re in the Entrance Hall right now…” she said taking a few steps forward, beginning her tour of the Ground Floor. “…this hallway leads to the Hufflepuff common room” she said and Gustav could hear that proud tone again “….and if you studied a bit of Hogwarts history you might already know that it was founded by Helga Hufflepuff, who unlike the other founders, she accepted every student under her wing, regradless of skill, ambition or…intelligence. You might say she’s the pioneer for human rights in the wizarding world. Now hufflepuffs..”  she said taking a quick glance at Gustav while he was gazing at the skillfully made tapestries on the walls   ” ...are actually the most kind, loyal and hardworking students of this school and it seems you really have to be molded like this in order to enter this house. Though I’m still not sure why we have a badger as a symbol.”<br/><br/>As they passed by the kitchens, Charlize pointed the entrance with another remark.<br/><br/>“Helga Hufflepuff  is famed for her cooking and food-related charms and most of the feasts at Hogwarts are based on her recipes. She was also the one to arrange for house-elves to work in the kitchens. Unlike the rest of the world, every house-elf had been treated nice here at Hogwarts, even before Harry Potter and Hermione Granger changed their world.”<br/><br/>The next entrance was actually a hallway leading downstairs, to the basements. A foul stench came from there, but most of the students had already gotten used to it.<br/><br/>“Uhmm..this is the entrance to the dungeons. You might already know of it, it’s where the Slytherin common room and dormitories are located..as well as the Potions classroom.” She gazed into the dark abyss thinking that she’ll have to go there for Potions. It was the first year she chose to attend that class and she did only because Basil asked her to. He thought that she might learn something useful, seeing how bad she was with other activities in general.<br/><br/>“Dou you have Houses at Durmstrang?” she asked realizing that for the most part she had done all the talking.<br/>