The train over was bustling with excitement. Everyone was excited to see if rumors from their parents and siblings were correct. We were headed to Hogwarts. We were all talking about what house we would be placed in, I was hoping for Ravenclaw or Slytherin. I didn't want Gryffindor and Hufflepuff would be a disgrace to my family.
If I was Gryffindor my parents wouldn't be happy but it didn't much matter to me, I just wanted them to be happy. Mum was from Ravenclaw and Dad was from Slytherin, they both were ministry workers and we were rather wealthy. But I wasn't entirely happy. I was never able to have a real childhood. It was always "Yes Mam." and "No thank you Sir." I looked at school as a break.
I could feel the train slowing down and the squeal of the metal breaks. Everyone in my compartment rushed to the window and pushed their faces against the glass. Our first glance of the magnificent school came out around the bend of trees. It was so big and amazing; everyone was jumping up and down.
We got on the boats to go over and I noticed another first year kept staring at me. The next time I thought he was staring at me I looked right at him to give him a dirty look for being so rude, but then I saw his face and stupid me, I smiled. He was handsome. He had long black hair but groomed and well kept, he was shaped well from what I could tell from his uniform. And his eyes, they were a light grey that smiled on their own. Then he smiled at me and blushed because I caught him staring. His smile was as amazing as his eyes. I looked down and then he scooted a little closer to me and whispered hi. I giggled and said hi back, why was I acting like a foolish school girl, I was more mature than that. We both looked up as we bumped into the shore, "So I'll see you at the sorting?" he said with that smile.
"Yea, see you then." I smiled as he offered me his hand to get out of the boat, he was a gentleman, most eleven year olds wouldn't do that. I knew then that he must be from a well off family, they are the ones that teach their children manners.
When we got to the great hall it was amazing, the ceiling appeared to be never ending and looked like the clear night sky, there even appeared to be a moon. We all walked towards the head table slowly in a double file line, girls and boys. We stopped just short of the steps and Professor Dumbledore told us what was about to happen, as if we needed to be told. Every magical child dreamed of this day, we were about to be sorted. My last name started with a C so I would be one of the first to be sorted, and not far in front of me was the boy from the boat. I noticed him because he was looking back at me. When he turned back around he looked at another boy sitting at the Gryffindor table and the boy at the table rolled his eyes and turned away. From what I could see they must have been related if not brothers. They had the same hair, just the other boy's was far longer and messier, and his face and build appeared to be similar. I couldn't see much else as I was too far away. I heard Professor McGonagall call out the first name and I snapped back to reality. The line was moving so fast, I felt butterflies in my stomach. The boy from the boat was in Slytherin, and before I knew it,
"Caroline Jane Connelly!" well here it goes, I thought. I walked slowly up they few stairs and sat down on the rickety old stool as the Sorting Hat was placed on my head.
'My, my, what do we have here? Very smart indeed, a good Ravenclaw you would be, but alas, you would do anything to please and achieve as well, good quality for a Slytherin. But for so many years you have been faced with troubles that were unkind. Bravery, do we have a Gryffindor?'
'Oh please no, Mother and Father will be most unpleased!' I thought.
'Again, you please instead of stand up for something, although you are brave you will do best in…'
"SLYTHERIN!"
Professor McGonagall removed the hat form my head and I headed to my new table towards the boy I now knew was Regulus Black, from the sorting. "I'm so happy you're a Slytherin!" he said making room for me next to him.
"Me too! My family will be so proud! I can't wait to write them." I said, actually happy.
"Anything is better than Gryffindor, I rather be Hufflepuff!" he said sneering, "My own brother is in there. Our mother and father hardly talk to him anymore."
"So that was your brother over there?" I asked following his gaze to the boy, he was looking back and then I saw his eyes as they met with mine, they were the same, but different, they were hard. One of the boys next to him said something and he laughed, like a bark, and his eyes were lightened.
"Yea, sadly." Regulus said bringing me back.
"That's too bad, but hey, let's eat!" I said trying to lighten the mood.
"Let's!"