This is the first thing that I have ever posted on this website. I am kind of guessing and working through example on how everything works around here. I intend on this being multi-chapter so don't worry if you're confused. Answers will come.
Rated K. (I'm not sure if this will change or not later on as the story progresses)
I could not have made up these amazing characters and what-not, so I obviously do not own anything here.
Hermione took in as much of the surroundings as was possible in the darkness. The boat was being pulled slowly across the black water towards the castle in the distance. It rose above the trees of the forest, a spectacle of lights as candles were lit and put out in various windows of the castle. She could feel that it was going to be exactly as her father had said; It would be the best memories of her lifetime.
Thinking about her father made the skin on her arms crawl. What if she weren't chosen for Slytherin? What if she let him down? Gryffindor seemed to be full of people with good character and she would thrive in that house, but the thought of what her father would do to her if she was placed in that house was beyond what she desired to imagine at the moment.
Her thoughts kept coming back to the houses and her worries were continuously restored. She felt almost emotionally battered by the depth of the worries within her. Even if she was in Slytherin, she would get along with Gryffindors best. It showed by how she acted on the train. When the timid boy named Neville had come into her compartment asking about his lost toad. She felt a pull to help the nervous boy. When she had come into the compartment where Harry and Ron had been sitting, she recognized Harry immediately from the many years of having him pointed out to her by her father.
She had become really panicked when she realized that Harry could possibly not be as evil as her father insisted. She could become friends with a boy like that. She ranted as she poured out the story she had prepared about her muggle family. When he had introduced himself, she had acted surprised but her acting was terribly overdone. They probably thought she was psychotic, although, knowing the things she had seen and done, she could very well be. She didn't lie when she said she knew everything about Harry. She had been forced to study every aspect of him to great lengths throughout her life by her father. It was crucial for her to know him well if she were to be mediator between him and death.
She had suddenly understood why she was truly meant to come to the school, and why she was taught everything about Harry Potter. Her father had meant for them to get along. To get along until that chance when she held sway over his fate. He would need to feel secure around her until she had the right opportunity to finish off her father's greatest threat. Immediately, she pushed into the topic of houses to cement what they could be thinking about her. If she said she wanted to be in Gryffindor, whatever house she ended up in, she would be easier to befriend.
She had no idea that shortly after this, Ron had had the same worries about if he was to be in Slytherin. Some families were very strict on the unity of house placement within their own families. A Slytherin family would shun a child in Gryffindor and likely, vice versa.
The memory of what had occurred on the train was halted when finally, the boats came to a stop and they all clamored out onto the pebbled ground in the darkness.