Rose Weasley
11/9
Dear diary,
today I finally arrived at Hogwarts! I'm exhausted but I'm still too excited to sleep. I can't stop thinking about that one boy I met on the train. At first I didn't know who he was, I saw him pass by a few times through my compartment window, and he kept catching my eye. He was very pale and he had bleach blond hair. I bumped into him when I was buying candy for Albus, James and myself. Just before I reached the trolley, I fell, and my money scattered all over the ground. I started picking it up, and when I had picked up almost every galleon I saw a very pale hand that picked up the last one. I looked up and our eyes locked for a moment, before we both turned away and he handed me the money. I quickly bought some sweets and went back to my compartment. I stayed there for the rest of the trip.
when we arrived at the hogsmeade station,we were immediately greeted by our old family friend Hagrid, who took all the first years to the boats in which we would cross the lake. I was put in one boat with Albus, the pale boy and a girl I didn't know. We talked about the sorting ceremony and about how nervous we all were, the pale boy stared into the water at the far end of the boat. When we had finally crossed the lake, Mcgonagall brought us to a small room. But just before we walked away , Hagrid invited us for thea on thursday. Everyone in the rather pale, and some girls looked as if they were about to faint. A few boys tried to look as if they weren't nervous and talked way to loud. I scanned the room and spotted the pale boy, he was standing alone in a corner. He was staring at the wall, he seemed completely lost in his thoughts. I stood up to walk to him when Mcgonagall came in and told us to follow her.
We walked into the great hall and everybody looked at us and begun whispering. We walked up to the staff table, where the sorting hat lay on a stool. When the whispering had stopped the hat started singing. I don't remember much of what he was singing because I was so nervous that I couldn't concentrate on the song. When he had finished singing Mcgonagall pulled out a piece of parchment and called the first person to be sorted, it was Albus, he walked forward, trembling all over his body, and sat down. Mcgonagall putted the sorting hat on his head, and after a few moments he cried: "gryffindor!" a few more people were sorted and then she called Scorpius Malfoy, the pale boy walked forward. So he's a Malfoy, I've heard a lot about them. My parents and his father were mortal enemies when they were at school, and I've heard that there are a lot of ex-death eaters in their family. But I've also heard that his grandmother once saved my uncle's life and that they in the final battle turned their backs on you-know-who and just left. So i'm not sure what to think of them. It took the sorting hat quite a while to sort him, and I was surprised when the sorting hat cried "gryffindor!". He is possibly the first Malfoy ever to be sorted into gryffindor. He looked very surprised to. Slowly he walked to the table and sat down at an end of the table where nobody sat. I was so focussed on looking at him that I hadn't noticed I was called up, the girl who was in my boat poked me and I quickly walked to Mcgonagall I sat down and the hat had barely touched my head when it cried: "gryffindor!"
Relieved I stood up and walked to the table, I saw Albus waving at me, but decided to walk to Scorpius anyway. I sat down next to him and said: "hey.'' "hey" he said. We sat in silence till everyone was sorted, then Mcgonagall did her speech and the food appeared on the table. "Sooo... thanks for picking up that last galleon in the train." I said. "No problem. Why was it on the ground anyway?" "I fell and dropped my money." he laughed a little. We sat in silence for a few moments before I realised that I hadn't introduced myself, "I'm Rose by the way." "I'm Scorpius." he said. We talked a little about our expectations of tomorrow and about our family ( he lives with his parents only, he doesn't have siblings) and then the feast was over and the prefects took us to the common room and we almost immediately went to our dormitories. I was in one dormitory with three other girls, the twins Mary and Diana Robinson and Dahlia Howard. I took a shower, brushed my teeth and wrote a letter to mom and dad.
So this was my day of arrival at Hogwarts, I have really enjoyed it and I can't wait till tomorrow.
