21 Awkward Things That Happen On Your First Day At Hogwarts

    You end up being late for class because the damn stairs won't stop moving.

    There is no spell to prevent the awkwardness that the first day of school brings for everyone.

    1. When you get to Platform 9¾ and totally eat it in front of everyone.

    2. When you get on Hogwarts Express, you awkwardly search for someone with resting niceface to sit with.

    3. When you find a car, and all of your friends can afford chocolate frogs but you can't.

    4. When you try to make friends with the "boy who lived," and he shuts you down in front of your entire class.

    5. When you realize you might be the only one who spent the whole summer studying.

    6. Or you're the opposite and realize you should have spent a little more time hitting the books.

    7. You realize during lunch you're not socializing because you're too busy shoveling that bottomeless buffet of Great Hall food into your mouth.

    8. When it's mail time, you wonder if you're the only one grossed out by the hundreds of birds flying near your food.

    9. Then the worst happens – your parents send you a howler chastising you for not calling when you arrived.

    10. You almost pee your pants when it's time for you to be sorted – partially because you don't want to be separated from your friends, and partially because the sorting hat is shady as fuq.

    11. When it's time for class, you end up being late because you're stuck waiting for the damn stairs to stop moving.

    12. And when you finally do get to class, you realize your teacher will use your tardiness as a reason to hate you for the rest of the year.

    13. On a bathroom break, you get lost and end up in a totally deserted bathroom where you can't pee in peace without being creeped on by Moaning Myrtle.

    14. While walking through the hall, you make awkward eye contact with a naked dude in a painting, so you stare at your shoelaces for the rest of the walk.

    15. At your next class, you talk shit about your teacher being late and it turns out she was sitting there in the shape of a cat the whole time.

    16. After classes, you try to master flying but your lack of coordination wins again.

    17. And the worst part? A totally ~dreamy~ Qudditch player saw your fail.

    18. On your way to dinner, you hear third and fourth year students talking about hooking up in the Room Of Requirement, and you're just chillin' waiting to hit puberty.

    19. After dinner, you get sent to the Forbidden Forest with your frenemy and try and make small talk while also pretending you aren't totally terrified.

    20. Then the worst happens – you see some magical thing sucking the life out of a unicorn and totally lose your shit.

    21. And to top it all off at the end of the day, you're forced to rock the teddy jammies your mom packed in front of all your friends.