Harry was terrified. He was completely sure that he would disappoint not only himself but his parents, uncle Sirius and uncle Remus at this point. He had been thinking about his doom for the past 4 hours while the Hogwarts train was slowly driven closer to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. And he was about to complete his plan of how he would survive in the streets after his family disowns him when he was rudely interrupted by his friend of 11 years Draco Malfoy.
"Hey, dude would you stop being so down we haven't even arrived yet, let alone been sorted and to be completely honest with you if you were sorted in a different house i don't think your family will disown you or any of the crap you've been saying since the moment we've gotten on the train" he says for the hundredth time, i get it i'm overreacting, but i'm just so terrified that the sorting hat won't sort me into Gryffindor.
"Earth to harry" Draco says while waving his hand in front of my face.
"What?" I say a little bit to loudly.
"We've arrived, come on lets go" he says, i start to panic oh god this it this, is it's time, i'm going to get sorted and i might not get sorted into Gryffindor, ugh merlin kill me.
"You know as much as i liked the train ride, i really don't want to stay here forever, so would you please just hurry up already" Draco says standing at the door of our compartment holding our bags, he's right i should really stop overthinking this and just rip off the band-aid and get it over with.
"Okay" I say and follow him outside the train and into the chilly night air, harry took a deep breath and looked at Draco in a way that said "what now?" but he just shrugged his shoulders.
Suddenly we heard a loud voice that yelled FIRST YEARS!, Draco and i instantly started looking around, trying to figure out where exactly the voice is coming from, but it didn't take long for us to find the source, he was huge almost like a giant but not quite as big as one, not that harry would have known, he had never seen a giant in his life, he had a big harry beard and a huge smile on his face that would have made the most bitter people happy.
"FIRST YEARS, HERE" he yelled again
"Come on" Draco said and i followed him to the friendly man.
Not long after harry found himself and draco in a crowd of first years some excited, others scared and some just tired from the long ride and looking as though they might have sleep right then and there standing up.
One boy in particular caught harry's eye, he was asking everyone if they had seen his toad, didn't he lose his toad on the train, and he and a bushy haired brunette look for it, harry shrugged and looked back at the man who was shouting first years and that he till this point didn't know the name of.
"Hello, my name is hagrid, i'm the gamekeeper and key keeper of Hogwarts, welcome" hagrid began "we will be using boats to reach Hogwarts as you are first years". what? why wouldn't all the years use the boats?
"Well, come on we haven't got day" he says with a smile.
Harry and the other first years follow the half giant, until they reached the lake.
"Now i must warn you the giant squid is one big sucker" Hagrid said in the most neutral tone, harry gulped, GIANT SQUID, he could have sworn that his heart was beating so loud that Hagrid might have heard it.
Each 5 to 6 first years would ride one boat and would cross the lake, luckily harry, draco and the boy that kept losing his toad were in the same ship as hagrid,
"Hello, i must tell in my lifetime i have crossed this lake more times than i can count but that squid is a fucker that has no mercy" harry wasn't surprised by hagrid's language one bit after all he was the son of James potter and his father and Sirius had the mouths of sailors, the third boy on the other hand looked as though he had lost his toad again.
The ride across was smooth for harry and the others but for the other first year in the the other ships it was a little less smooth as some of them were flipped by the squid.
When the first years had all crossed the lake they were surprised to see a very strict looking woman wearing an emerald green wizarding robe.
"Hello students, my name is Professor Minerva McGonagall and i am the transfiguration professor, if you would please follow me we shall head to the great hall to start your sorting" Mcgonagall said, sorting! oh no thought harry, and it didn't seem that harry was the only one who was scared of the sorting.
And so the first years followed the Professor into the huge castle that was Hogwarts, their school for the next few years.
when the first years entered the great hall they gasped together at the beutiful sight that was in front of them.
The huge room was lit by thousands of candles that were suspended by magic, there was four separate long tables each one holding maybe two hundred students, but at each table the students were wearing different colored badges on their chest, one had a green badge which harry guessed was Slytherin, another yellow which harry thought was Hufflepuff, their was a gap like a hallway between it and the table that had the dark blue badges and that one harry was sure was Ravenclaw, but the one table that had caught harry's eye immediately was the one that had the students that wore the red badges and they were Gryffindor, and that was the house that harry had always dreamed of being a part of, he wanted to be a Gryffindor.
Professor Mconagall and the first years walked to the front of the great hall were awaited them a stool and a old hat that harry was sure was the sorting hat that sorted any wizard that came to Hogwarts in one of the four houses : Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
After that the hat had sang his song and professor Mconagall explained how the sorting would work, in which a redheaded boy kept swearing that he would kill his twin brothers when he saw them, the sorting began.
Professor Mconagall would say the name of the student and the student would go to the stool, but the hat on and the hat would then scream the name of the house that they belonged to or chose, harry didn't want to choose his house, he wanted the hat to sort him into the house that he belonged to, but if the hat would sort him in anything but Gryffindor, then he would have to take matters into his own hands and ask the hat to sort him into his father's house.
Harry noticed that that sometimes the hat took time decide and other time it would decide immediately, and when it was draco's turn to get sorted the hat barely touched his head when it shouted "SLYTHERIN" AND THE Slytherin house cheered, harry was happy for his friend even though he knew that this meant he wouldn't spend time with him a often.
Then it was harry's turn he shakely walked up to the stool and professor Mconagall placed the hat on his head but it was to big for his head and slipped over his eyes, he waited and waited until a small voice started to speak, "Hmm," said the small voice in his ear. "Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There's talent, oh my goodness, yes — and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that's interesting. . . . So where shall I put you?" Harry gripped the edges of the stool and thought, Not Slytherin, not Hufflepuff and not Ravenclaw. "Not Slytherin, eh?" said the small voice. "Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that — no? Well, if you're sure — better be GRYFFINDOR!" Harry heard the last part echo in the great hall and the Gryffindor table exploded with cheers and claps, Mconagall took the hat off his head and harry went to the Gryffindor table and took a seat next to the others.
"Welcome to Gryffindor, potter" said a redheaded boy and harry noticed that the boy next to him looked identical to him, as though they were twins, oh wait they are twins harry thought, "thank you" harry replied with a smile on his face.
After professor Dumbledore gave his speech and the feast began, harry dug in, he was absolutely starved he hadn't eaten all through out the train ride and was starving, he talked with some of the student and introduced himself to them they told him their names and a little about themselves, but harry felt as though something was wrong, and looked at the Slytherin table, and found draco's hair in the big crowd, their eyes met, and it was obvious to harry that he felt the same way, that he knew it would be hard for them to spend time together now that they have been sorted in different houses, harry sighed and went back to eating.
These years will be the longest years of his life.
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