The actual common room however. Well Harry loved it. The room seemed to have been carved out of the rock which Hogwarts sat on, stone pillars made out of a marble which, the more Harry studied, seemed to shimmer like water. Old tapestries and portraits were hung upon the walls. A few of the upper years sat around a fireplace that had been embedded within the wall. Their chairs seemed to be set in a way that allowed them to view the whole room yet appear like they weren't watching but Harry could feel their eyes on him. One of the group stood out to him, younger than the rest and sat off to the side, a girl who couldn't be more than a year older than Harry sat watching him. She had dark curly hair and her eyes were a dark purple, the way she was watching him seemed so familiar to Harry but he couldn't figure out why. A few smaller groups had huddled around the smaller study tables and were also watching the first years with a lot less subtlety than those around the fireplace.