Arrival at Hogwarts
Severus Snape was grumbling to himself as he pushed his trolley through the muggle crowded train station, with his Hogwarts truck upon it and a cage with his grey screech owl 'Storm', beside his friend Nissa Tiania who was also pushing her trolley with her truck upon and also her owl 'Siren'.
Nissa on the other hand didn't seem to care that the place was full of muggles, she seemed quit happy that she was finally going to get away from her guardian Infidus Manus, who she didn't like one little bit and he her, she was only living with them because his wife wouldn't turn her away and he had secret plans of his own.
Infidus was ahead with his son Infitus who was in his last year at Hogwarts, which of course Nissa was very glad that it would be the one year that they would have to go to school together because they don't often get along together.
Nissa had shoulder length brown hair with red tints which shun even brighter when she was highly emotional, she had soft hazel eyes and was a little short then Severus. He had black greasy hair and dark eyes, and gave off the impression that he was somewhat of an evil git.
"I don't see why there are so many muggles about." Severus said irritable.
"Well for one Severus, this is one of their stations so what do you expect?" Nissa said pleasantly. "And another, we're not the only ones in the world."
Severus didn't answer her only pulled his face, which Nissa smiled at just as a young girl knocked into the back of his legs with a trolley, making his legs almost give way.
"What the hell do you think your doing? You stupid muggle." Severus snapped at her.
"Are you alright?" Nissa asked.
"I'm so sorry." The girl said her voice trebling somewhat, as her mother and father came up either side of her to find out what was going on.
"Are you alright Lily?" The girls' mother asked.
"I'm sorry," Lily said again. "I was looking for the platform and I didn't see you."
Nissa smiled at them all as she noticed the Hogwarts seal on lily's truck.
"Hi, I'm Nissa and this is Severus, which as you can tell has a bit of a temper." Nissa said pleasantly, taken everyone by surprise. "It's our first time at Hogwarts as well; we'll show you how to get on the platform if you're not sure."
"What she's going? How do you know that?" Severus said rare hotly.
Nissa turned to face him and smiled slightly at him, which made him calm down a little and go slightly pink in the checks.
"Well, if you'll calm down for a moment you would have seen the Hogwarts crest on the chest." Nissa explained.
Severus just stood and did not look at the chest because he knew she was going to be right, but didn't want to admit to it of course.
"Well the two of you come along!" Infidus shouted to them, from in- between nine and ten.
Neither of them answered him, Severus carried on walking now ignoring Lily who was walking with Nissa and her parents behind looking somewhat nervous.
"So are the two of you from a magical family then?" Lily asked excitedly her green eyes sparkling.
"Yes, Severus' family is a magical one and so is mine. Not that mine are around anymore though." Nissa told her.
"I'm sorry, I thought that the two of you coming together were like you know brother and sister." Lily told her quickly. "I'm sorry about your family and everything."
Nissa stopped a couple of metre's away from the entrance to the platform and turned and smiled at Lily again, who smiled back thinking that it was all alright she had such a reassuring smile.
"I'm glad that you decided to join us sometime today, the train doesn't wait forever you know." Infidus shot at Nissa, and then looked at who was with her and turned back to his son deciding not to say anything at all to them, seeing that they were muggles. "Right Infitus you go first."
Infitus nodded and then walked casual towards the wall and just walked through, though no one seemed to have noticed as they were walking pasted in a hurry.
Lily looked very nervously over at Nissa when this had happened, who seemed to not have even noticed anything wrong with someone walking through and solid wall of brick.
"Right you next Severus." Infidus instructed.
Severus moved his trolley around and ran at the wall at a slight ran, just as a couple of people walked passed him blocking him from view and when they had passed he had also disappeared.
"Are we going through together, considering you've never gone through before?" Nissa asked politely.
Lily nodded making her red hair slide into her face which she tucked behind her ear.
"Right all you have to do is walk at the barrier; well we'll do it at a bit of a run." Nissa told her. "I know it sounds stupid but try not to be so nervous, its fine."
Infidus looked back at them all and then walked through the barrier himself, without even introducing himself or helping in anyway.
Nissa was at all bored about this because she was quit used to it by now, though she could see that both Lily's parents were a little taken aback by his behaviour which she chose to ignore.
"Ready?" Nissa asked, as she moved her trolley so that it was facing the wall and Lily did the same and nodded. "Right go."
They both started to walk forward and then gradually started to run, they were at the wall and then they were passing right through it and came out on the other side. They stopped and looked up and saw the sign 'Platform 9 ¾', and the Hogwarts Express with students of all ages up and down the platform talking to one another, and hanging out of the windows saying goodbye to their families.
Nissa felt something nearby on the platform, something she hadn't felt in years, in fact since before she had arrived here when she was younger. At first she wasn't even such what it was because she had felt it in so long, the only thing she could remember from the feeling that it was nothing to worry about.
Lily's mum and dad came through behind them and they started to walk down the platform to find an empty compartment to put their luggage in, but all the front was were taken. The fewer to the back of the train they walked the stronger the feeling got, and she still didn't know what it was.
"Remus, are you alright in there?" A woman shouted onto the train just in front of them.
A boy with short brown hair and brow eyes, their age stepped out of the shadows slightly red in face, from either or both with the effect of carrying his truck on borad and his mother shouting out at him to see if he was out right. He saw the two girls and smiled slightly at them going even redder, as they both smiled back at him.
As Nissa looked at the boy in front of her and smiled at him, it suddenly hit her that the odd feeling she had sensed was coming from him, and now she knew what it was. He was a werewolf.
The boy shifted on the spot as Nissa kept looking at him. Two other boys walked other to them, wanting to get aboard the train. The one on the left had black untidy hair and didn't seem to want to do anything about it and wore glasses, the one on his right looked kind of cute and he knew it.
They both looked at the girls and then at the lad who was blocking the way for everyone, and then back at the girl in front who was still looking at him, who seemed unaware that she had been staring for so long.
"You know I think I'm a little better to look at." The cute lad on the right told her.
Nissa looked over at him and looked him up and down without him realising what she was doing and then smiled weakly at him.
"Of course you are." Nissa said.
At first he didn't seem at all impressed by this statement and then he suddenly smiled wildly at her, and then looked up at the other lad again.
"I think I'm going to like her, what do you think?" He asked him.
Though he didn't answer at first a little taken back by the question, but the lad next to him stepped forward and reached out a hand to him.
"Hi, I'm James Potter." James told him and then added smiling. "And this as far as I can tell is Sirius Black."
Sirius smiled at him. "Yeah hi there, so do you have a name or do we just have to call you mate?"
"It's a shame you don't know the other meaning to that word." Nissa told him pleasantly.
Remus' parents were both smiling stood behind them, and Lily's seemed a lot better now that she seemed to have met a few nicer people.
Sirius smiled at her as he pushed his trolley over to the door with James.
"So what is that suppose to mean?" Sirius asked.
"I'm sure you're intelligent to work that out." Nissa answered smiling.
Lily backed up her trolley so that she would be able to get the truck off of it and onto the train after the lads had done there's, but the wheels hit Severus in the legs again making him lose his balance and almost fall into the train.
"Oh I'm so sorry." Lily said as she looked around to see who she had hit this time, as James and Sirius started to laugh at him. Lily went bright red when she saw that it was Severus the same lad she had hit before.
"I told you to watch where you were going you stupid Mu." Severus shouted but was cut off.
"Severus! I'm sure that she didn't mean it." Nissa told him sharply. "So stop shouting at her."
"But Nissa." Severus started again, but was once again cut off.
"You know this gay?" Sirius asked eyeing him up and stepping forward with James, and then when he was next to Nissa he completely ignored him.
"So its Nissa, I've never heard that name before." Sirius told her.
"Why don't you go off with your Slytherin lot," James told him. "Because it's obvious that's where you belong."
"We'll give you a hand to get your things on board." Sirius told them.
"Thanks." Nissa said smiling, and then turned back to Severus. "I'll see you later right?"
But Severus didn't answer her, he only stayed for a minute and then walked off with his own new friends, who looked more like his type of people then Nissa had ever been, because even they knew that they had looked quit odd together as friends.
So James and Sirius took Nissa and Lily's truck on first and finally found out Remus' name, because he helped them as well, and with just two minutes left they just managed to get their own trucks onto the train.
"Sirius, you shouldn't have wasted your time with everyone else truck, you should of got your own on first." His mother told him and he stuck his head out of the window beside James and Remus.
"Yeah, what ever. Bye to you too." Sirius said and went back inside their cabin.
"Bye Mum, bye dad." James and Remus shouted out as the train started to pull out.
"Bye, I'll write as soon as I get there." Lily shouted to her parents.
When they were out of view they all went back into their own cabin's, Sirius seemed to have brighter up a bit now that he was leaving his family miles behind and setting off to his greatest adventure yet with his new friends, in becoming a fully trained wizard and everything they'll get up to on the way.
Lily and Nissa had a compartment to themselves for a while until another couple of girls came wondering in and asked if they could join then because there was no where else free, which they said they could of course.
Faith Oglesby sat next to Nissa, she had long blonde hair and was very pretty with soft blue eyes as though they were gems. Corrina Rhoda sat facing Nissa and next to Lily, she had shoulder length very fine dirty blonde hair and brown eyes.
Not much happened on the train to Hogwarts it just seemed to take hours to get, the lads they had met on the platform didn't come in to see them, probably to busy telling each other about themselves and what they could get up to before they even get to the school. But one thing they all talked about and that was the sorting, wondering what it was going to be like and what house they would want to be placed in, none of them wanted to be placed in Slytherin they didn't care what they went in as long as it wasn't Slytherin.
The train started to slow down, and they all started to very nervous as they all filled out to the pack halls filling with other students, in a sea of black coloured robes and hats. They made their way off the train onto the cold dark platform.
"First years this way, this way first years!" Shouted a tall giant of a man, over the heads of all of the students.
They all made their way over to the giant looking man who beamed down at them all through his very bushes beard.
"This way then, keep up then, all of you here?" He shouted over them.
They made their way down a dark over path very close to one another not talking as the trees bushed passed them.
"You'll be getting you first look at Hogwarts in a moment." He told them over his shoulder leading the way.
And just then the tree started to grow much finer and clear a path for them all to see, and then they saw it for the first time.
"Oh!"
"Awe!"
Could be heard from a lot of people as they all looked up at the great castle up on top of the opposite hill with the large lake between them and it, it was as smooth as ice not a ripple could be seen.
"Now then everyone still here?" He shouted over them. "Right then four to a boat, no more, come along then."
They all get into the boats, Lily and Nissa got in one with Faith and Corrina, and James, Sirius and Remus got into the boat next to them and smiled nervously at each other.
Hagrid had a boat to himself. "Forward!" He ordered and the fleet of boats all started forward.
They sailed smoothly over the surface of the lake hardly making any ripples in the water at all, the castle growing larger every minute as they got closer. They went into an underground passage and stopped near the end where they all got out and made their way up the stone steps and stopped outside of the large oak doors, at which Hagrid knocked three times.
A moment later a stern looking woman opened the door, she was dressed in emerald green robes and had brown hair which was tired back into a very tight bun.
"Thanks Hagrid that will be all." She told him.
He walked passed her and she lead the way for the new first years, they walked up the marble stair case and took them into a room just off the noises great hall where the rest of the school was.
"Right then, I am Professor McGonagall and Head of Gryffindor house." McGonagall told them all. "In a moment you will be sorted into your houses. Which are Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Gryffindor, your house will be like you family while you stay here. You will earn house points for your awards and any ruler breaking you will lose them, at the end of every year the house with the most points will win the house cup. Now you will all wait here while I check that everything is already for you."
Professor McGonagall left them all alone to wonder how they were going to be sorted into their houses.
"As long as I'm not in the same house as that git, I don't care what I end up in." James told Sirius and Remus, which Nissa over heard, and she also didn't really want to be in the same house as him even though they were friends, but she knew the type he was likely to make friends with here and they weren't going to be like her.
"Well I agree." Sirius said, but there was something in the sound of his voice that made him sound somewhat worried, not that he was going to tell anyone what he was worried about.
"Right will you all follow me." McGonagall told them as she came back into the room.
They all followed her out of the room signal file, and into the great hall, the doors opened to let them and they filed into the hall with all the eyes of the school upon them as they made their way to the front of the hall. A couple of them looked not wanting to look at the older students who were all watching them, and saw the enchanting ceiling above their heads, which showed them the beautiful sky of outside. Which was clear and starry.
They stopped in front of the teachers table and didn't really file along it, just stayed close together in a group. McGonagall place a three legged stroll in front of them and then put a very old hat upon it, which everyone looked at the hat as did they.
'I'm my not be pretty, and the best of hats
But not on looks alone judge what you see
For I am much that you normally place upon your head
For I see you all, for that is what I'm for
I'm to Sort you into your house.
You my belong in Gryffindor,
Where the brave at heart dwell,
Where their chivalry and daring
Set them apart from the rest
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where the loyal and patient are,
And are unafraid of toil.
Or perhaps old Ravenclaw,
Where the quick of mind,
And those of wit and learning
Will always find their own kind.
Or perhaps Slytherin
Where you'll find your real friends,
Those cunning folk, will use any means
To achieve their goal.
So place me upon your heads,
And I will tell you where you belong,
And sort you, true to who you belong.
"That's all we have to do?" Sirius asked.
James smiled at him. "Well its better then fighting a troll."
"Good point." Sirius and Remus both agreed.
"I'm sure the three of you could have handled a troll." Nissa whispered smiling at them all, as they turned round.
"Of course I could have, its just I didn't want to show off, you know first day and all." Sirius said quickly, not wanting her to think that he was some sort of a cowered.
"Black, Sirius." McGonagall shouted
"Of course." Nissa whispered back and then smiled at him again. "Isn't that your name she's calling out?"
"What?" Sirius said turning back around.
"Mr Black if you don't mind." McGonagall told him.
Sirius went slightly red as he walked up to the stroll and sat down and put the hat over his head. After a few moments the hat shouted, 'Gryffindor!'
The Gryffindor table erupted into cheers as Sirius pulled off the hat smiling and ran over to the table and sat shaking every ones hand.
Others were sorted into their house, and every table cheered when another joined their house.
"Evans, Lily." McGonagall said.
Lily walked passed Nissa feeling very nervous and sat down on the chair and put the hat on and then it shouted, 'Gryffindor!'
Lily joined the others and the Gryffindor table among cheers, more were sorted.
"Lupin, Remus." McGonagall said. Remus looked up at the high table in front of him and at Professor Dumbledore himself who nodded, and then he walked forward and sat down and placed the hat over his head. It took a couple of minutes to decide but finally it shouted 'Gryffindor!' Remus smiled to himself as he took the hat off among cheering and went to join his new friend Sirius at the Gryffindor table.
Sirius switched side with him because he was hoping that someone else would sit on that side of him, when they were also placed in Gryffindor.
"Oglesby, Faith."
'Ravenclaw!'
"Pettigrew, Peter." A small boy who was very pale, was placed in 'Gryffindor!'
"Potter, James." McGonagall said.
James walked up to the chair looking very calm and sat down and placed the hat over his head, and then 'Gryffindor!' James removed the hat to reveal a very large satisfied smile on his face and went to join his two new friends; he sat down facing Remus with Peter on his other side still looking very nervous.
"Rhoda, Corrina." Was also made a 'Ravenclaw'.
"Snape, Severus." McGonagall said.
Severus walked passed Nissa without even looking at her and up to the chair and picked up the hat, but before he had even sat down or put the hat on properly it shouted 'Slytherin!' Which didn't surprise a lot of people, he didn't smile but Nissa could see that he was pleased with himself as he looked over at her briefly.
"Tiania Manus, Nissa" McGonagall said.
Sirius looked over as did James and Remus, who were surprised by her last name, as were a lot of others though for different reasons. Nissa ignored them all as she walked up and sat down on the stroll and placed the hat upon her head.
"You are no Manus, but you are indeed a Tiania." The hat whispered to her before it shouted aloud, "Gryffindor!"
Nissa took the hat off and smiled to herself, very glad that the hat knew that she wasn't a Manus and that she was placed into Gryffindor just where she wanted to be placed. She walked over to the table with them all cheering for her. Sirius smiled at her as did Lily, who both moved aside for her to sit down.
"Thanks for saving me a sit." Nissa said smiling at them all.
"Why didn't you say that you were with Manus and that lot?" Sirius asked her.
Nissa turned and smiled so brightly at him that it took by quit surprise, as did it the others who were listening and watching them.
"Well, you never asked." Nissa answered simple.
"Well she's got you there Sirius." James told him. "And I doubt that she wanted to tell us, who would."
"Well your right, considering that their all supposed to be dark wizards and witches, it doesn't mean though that I am." Nissa agreed.
The rest of their year were sort and the Dumbledore stood up welcomed them all, and then they ate their great feast, and when they were so full and sleepy, they were lead up to the tower and shown their dooms, where they all fell asleep.
Severus Snape was grumbling to himself as he pushed his trolley through the muggle crowded train station, with his Hogwarts truck upon it and a cage with his grey screech owl 'Storm', beside his friend Nissa Tiania who was also pushing her trolley with her truck upon and also her owl 'Siren'.
Nissa on the other hand didn't seem to care that the place was full of muggles, she seemed quit happy that she was finally going to get away from her guardian Infidus Manus, who she didn't like one little bit and he her, she was only living with them because his wife wouldn't turn her away and he had secret plans of his own.
Infidus was ahead with his son Infitus who was in his last year at Hogwarts, which of course Nissa was very glad that it would be the one year that they would have to go to school together because they don't often get along together.
Nissa had shoulder length brown hair with red tints which shun even brighter when she was highly emotional, she had soft hazel eyes and was a little short then Severus. He had black greasy hair and dark eyes, and gave off the impression that he was somewhat of an evil git.
"I don't see why there are so many muggles about." Severus said irritable.
"Well for one Severus, this is one of their stations so what do you expect?" Nissa said pleasantly. "And another, we're not the only ones in the world."
Severus didn't answer her only pulled his face, which Nissa smiled at just as a young girl knocked into the back of his legs with a trolley, making his legs almost give way.
"What the hell do you think your doing? You stupid muggle." Severus snapped at her.
"Are you alright?" Nissa asked.
"I'm so sorry." The girl said her voice trebling somewhat, as her mother and father came up either side of her to find out what was going on.
"Are you alright Lily?" The girls' mother asked.
"I'm sorry," Lily said again. "I was looking for the platform and I didn't see you."
Nissa smiled at them all as she noticed the Hogwarts seal on lily's truck.
"Hi, I'm Nissa and this is Severus, which as you can tell has a bit of a temper." Nissa said pleasantly, taken everyone by surprise. "It's our first time at Hogwarts as well; we'll show you how to get on the platform if you're not sure."
"What she's going? How do you know that?" Severus said rare hotly.
Nissa turned to face him and smiled slightly at him, which made him calm down a little and go slightly pink in the checks.
"Well, if you'll calm down for a moment you would have seen the Hogwarts crest on the chest." Nissa explained.
Severus just stood and did not look at the chest because he knew she was going to be right, but didn't want to admit to it of course.
"Well the two of you come along!" Infidus shouted to them, from in- between nine and ten.
Neither of them answered him, Severus carried on walking now ignoring Lily who was walking with Nissa and her parents behind looking somewhat nervous.
"So are the two of you from a magical family then?" Lily asked excitedly her green eyes sparkling.
"Yes, Severus' family is a magical one and so is mine. Not that mine are around anymore though." Nissa told her.
"I'm sorry, I thought that the two of you coming together were like you know brother and sister." Lily told her quickly. "I'm sorry about your family and everything."
Nissa stopped a couple of metre's away from the entrance to the platform and turned and smiled at Lily again, who smiled back thinking that it was all alright she had such a reassuring smile.
"I'm glad that you decided to join us sometime today, the train doesn't wait forever you know." Infidus shot at Nissa, and then looked at who was with her and turned back to his son deciding not to say anything at all to them, seeing that they were muggles. "Right Infitus you go first."
Infitus nodded and then walked casual towards the wall and just walked through, though no one seemed to have noticed as they were walking pasted in a hurry.
Lily looked very nervously over at Nissa when this had happened, who seemed to not have even noticed anything wrong with someone walking through and solid wall of brick.
"Right you next Severus." Infidus instructed.
Severus moved his trolley around and ran at the wall at a slight ran, just as a couple of people walked passed him blocking him from view and when they had passed he had also disappeared.
"Are we going through together, considering you've never gone through before?" Nissa asked politely.
Lily nodded making her red hair slide into her face which she tucked behind her ear.
"Right all you have to do is walk at the barrier; well we'll do it at a bit of a run." Nissa told her. "I know it sounds stupid but try not to be so nervous, its fine."
Infidus looked back at them all and then walked through the barrier himself, without even introducing himself or helping in anyway.
Nissa was at all bored about this because she was quit used to it by now, though she could see that both Lily's parents were a little taken aback by his behaviour which she chose to ignore.
"Ready?" Nissa asked, as she moved her trolley so that it was facing the wall and Lily did the same and nodded. "Right go."
They both started to walk forward and then gradually started to run, they were at the wall and then they were passing right through it and came out on the other side. They stopped and looked up and saw the sign 'Platform 9 ¾', and the Hogwarts Express with students of all ages up and down the platform talking to one another, and hanging out of the windows saying goodbye to their families.
Nissa felt something nearby on the platform, something she hadn't felt in years, in fact since before she had arrived here when she was younger. At first she wasn't even such what it was because she had felt it in so long, the only thing she could remember from the feeling that it was nothing to worry about.
Lily's mum and dad came through behind them and they started to walk down the platform to find an empty compartment to put their luggage in, but all the front was were taken. The fewer to the back of the train they walked the stronger the feeling got, and she still didn't know what it was.
"Remus, are you alright in there?" A woman shouted onto the train just in front of them.
A boy with short brown hair and brow eyes, their age stepped out of the shadows slightly red in face, from either or both with the effect of carrying his truck on borad and his mother shouting out at him to see if he was out right. He saw the two girls and smiled slightly at them going even redder, as they both smiled back at him.
As Nissa looked at the boy in front of her and smiled at him, it suddenly hit her that the odd feeling she had sensed was coming from him, and now she knew what it was. He was a werewolf.
The boy shifted on the spot as Nissa kept looking at him. Two other boys walked other to them, wanting to get aboard the train. The one on the left had black untidy hair and didn't seem to want to do anything about it and wore glasses, the one on his right looked kind of cute and he knew it.
They both looked at the girls and then at the lad who was blocking the way for everyone, and then back at the girl in front who was still looking at him, who seemed unaware that she had been staring for so long.
"You know I think I'm a little better to look at." The cute lad on the right told her.
Nissa looked over at him and looked him up and down without him realising what she was doing and then smiled weakly at him.
"Of course you are." Nissa said.
At first he didn't seem at all impressed by this statement and then he suddenly smiled wildly at her, and then looked up at the other lad again.
"I think I'm going to like her, what do you think?" He asked him.
Though he didn't answer at first a little taken back by the question, but the lad next to him stepped forward and reached out a hand to him.
"Hi, I'm James Potter." James told him and then added smiling. "And this as far as I can tell is Sirius Black."
Sirius smiled at him. "Yeah hi there, so do you have a name or do we just have to call you mate?"
"It's a shame you don't know the other meaning to that word." Nissa told him pleasantly.
Remus' parents were both smiling stood behind them, and Lily's seemed a lot better now that she seemed to have met a few nicer people.
Sirius smiled at her as he pushed his trolley over to the door with James.
"So what is that suppose to mean?" Sirius asked.
"I'm sure you're intelligent to work that out." Nissa answered smiling.
Lily backed up her trolley so that she would be able to get the truck off of it and onto the train after the lads had done there's, but the wheels hit Severus in the legs again making him lose his balance and almost fall into the train.
"Oh I'm so sorry." Lily said as she looked around to see who she had hit this time, as James and Sirius started to laugh at him. Lily went bright red when she saw that it was Severus the same lad she had hit before.
"I told you to watch where you were going you stupid Mu." Severus shouted but was cut off.
"Severus! I'm sure that she didn't mean it." Nissa told him sharply. "So stop shouting at her."
"But Nissa." Severus started again, but was once again cut off.
"You know this gay?" Sirius asked eyeing him up and stepping forward with James, and then when he was next to Nissa he completely ignored him.
"So its Nissa, I've never heard that name before." Sirius told her.
"Why don't you go off with your Slytherin lot," James told him. "Because it's obvious that's where you belong."
"We'll give you a hand to get your things on board." Sirius told them.
"Thanks." Nissa said smiling, and then turned back to Severus. "I'll see you later right?"
But Severus didn't answer her, he only stayed for a minute and then walked off with his own new friends, who looked more like his type of people then Nissa had ever been, because even they knew that they had looked quit odd together as friends.
So James and Sirius took Nissa and Lily's truck on first and finally found out Remus' name, because he helped them as well, and with just two minutes left they just managed to get their own trucks onto the train.
"Sirius, you shouldn't have wasted your time with everyone else truck, you should of got your own on first." His mother told him and he stuck his head out of the window beside James and Remus.
"Yeah, what ever. Bye to you too." Sirius said and went back inside their cabin.
"Bye Mum, bye dad." James and Remus shouted out as the train started to pull out.
"Bye, I'll write as soon as I get there." Lily shouted to her parents.
When they were out of view they all went back into their own cabin's, Sirius seemed to have brighter up a bit now that he was leaving his family miles behind and setting off to his greatest adventure yet with his new friends, in becoming a fully trained wizard and everything they'll get up to on the way.
Lily and Nissa had a compartment to themselves for a while until another couple of girls came wondering in and asked if they could join then because there was no where else free, which they said they could of course.
Faith Oglesby sat next to Nissa, she had long blonde hair and was very pretty with soft blue eyes as though they were gems. Corrina Rhoda sat facing Nissa and next to Lily, she had shoulder length very fine dirty blonde hair and brown eyes.
Not much happened on the train to Hogwarts it just seemed to take hours to get, the lads they had met on the platform didn't come in to see them, probably to busy telling each other about themselves and what they could get up to before they even get to the school. But one thing they all talked about and that was the sorting, wondering what it was going to be like and what house they would want to be placed in, none of them wanted to be placed in Slytherin they didn't care what they went in as long as it wasn't Slytherin.
The train started to slow down, and they all started to very nervous as they all filled out to the pack halls filling with other students, in a sea of black coloured robes and hats. They made their way off the train onto the cold dark platform.
"First years this way, this way first years!" Shouted a tall giant of a man, over the heads of all of the students.
They all made their way over to the giant looking man who beamed down at them all through his very bushes beard.
"This way then, keep up then, all of you here?" He shouted over them.
They made their way down a dark over path very close to one another not talking as the trees bushed passed them.
"You'll be getting you first look at Hogwarts in a moment." He told them over his shoulder leading the way.
And just then the tree started to grow much finer and clear a path for them all to see, and then they saw it for the first time.
"Oh!"
"Awe!"
Could be heard from a lot of people as they all looked up at the great castle up on top of the opposite hill with the large lake between them and it, it was as smooth as ice not a ripple could be seen.
"Now then everyone still here?" He shouted over them. "Right then four to a boat, no more, come along then."
They all get into the boats, Lily and Nissa got in one with Faith and Corrina, and James, Sirius and Remus got into the boat next to them and smiled nervously at each other.
Hagrid had a boat to himself. "Forward!" He ordered and the fleet of boats all started forward.
They sailed smoothly over the surface of the lake hardly making any ripples in the water at all, the castle growing larger every minute as they got closer. They went into an underground passage and stopped near the end where they all got out and made their way up the stone steps and stopped outside of the large oak doors, at which Hagrid knocked three times.
A moment later a stern looking woman opened the door, she was dressed in emerald green robes and had brown hair which was tired back into a very tight bun.
"Thanks Hagrid that will be all." She told him.
He walked passed her and she lead the way for the new first years, they walked up the marble stair case and took them into a room just off the noises great hall where the rest of the school was.
"Right then, I am Professor McGonagall and Head of Gryffindor house." McGonagall told them all. "In a moment you will be sorted into your houses. Which are Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Gryffindor, your house will be like you family while you stay here. You will earn house points for your awards and any ruler breaking you will lose them, at the end of every year the house with the most points will win the house cup. Now you will all wait here while I check that everything is already for you."
Professor McGonagall left them all alone to wonder how they were going to be sorted into their houses.
"As long as I'm not in the same house as that git, I don't care what I end up in." James told Sirius and Remus, which Nissa over heard, and she also didn't really want to be in the same house as him even though they were friends, but she knew the type he was likely to make friends with here and they weren't going to be like her.
"Well I agree." Sirius said, but there was something in the sound of his voice that made him sound somewhat worried, not that he was going to tell anyone what he was worried about.
"Right will you all follow me." McGonagall told them as she came back into the room.
They all followed her out of the room signal file, and into the great hall, the doors opened to let them and they filed into the hall with all the eyes of the school upon them as they made their way to the front of the hall. A couple of them looked not wanting to look at the older students who were all watching them, and saw the enchanting ceiling above their heads, which showed them the beautiful sky of outside. Which was clear and starry.
They stopped in front of the teachers table and didn't really file along it, just stayed close together in a group. McGonagall place a three legged stroll in front of them and then put a very old hat upon it, which everyone looked at the hat as did they.
'I'm my not be pretty, and the best of hats
But not on looks alone judge what you see
For I am much that you normally place upon your head
For I see you all, for that is what I'm for
I'm to Sort you into your house.
You my belong in Gryffindor,
Where the brave at heart dwell,
Where their chivalry and daring
Set them apart from the rest
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where the loyal and patient are,
And are unafraid of toil.
Or perhaps old Ravenclaw,
Where the quick of mind,
And those of wit and learning
Will always find their own kind.
Or perhaps Slytherin
Where you'll find your real friends,
Those cunning folk, will use any means
To achieve their goal.
So place me upon your heads,
And I will tell you where you belong,
And sort you, true to who you belong.
"That's all we have to do?" Sirius asked.
James smiled at him. "Well its better then fighting a troll."
"Good point." Sirius and Remus both agreed.
"I'm sure the three of you could have handled a troll." Nissa whispered smiling at them all, as they turned round.
"Of course I could have, its just I didn't want to show off, you know first day and all." Sirius said quickly, not wanting her to think that he was some sort of a cowered.
"Black, Sirius." McGonagall shouted
"Of course." Nissa whispered back and then smiled at him again. "Isn't that your name she's calling out?"
"What?" Sirius said turning back around.
"Mr Black if you don't mind." McGonagall told him.
Sirius went slightly red as he walked up to the stroll and sat down and put the hat over his head. After a few moments the hat shouted, 'Gryffindor!'
The Gryffindor table erupted into cheers as Sirius pulled off the hat smiling and ran over to the table and sat shaking every ones hand.
Others were sorted into their house, and every table cheered when another joined their house.
"Evans, Lily." McGonagall said.
Lily walked passed Nissa feeling very nervous and sat down on the chair and put the hat on and then it shouted, 'Gryffindor!'
Lily joined the others and the Gryffindor table among cheers, more were sorted.
"Lupin, Remus." McGonagall said. Remus looked up at the high table in front of him and at Professor Dumbledore himself who nodded, and then he walked forward and sat down and placed the hat over his head. It took a couple of minutes to decide but finally it shouted 'Gryffindor!' Remus smiled to himself as he took the hat off among cheering and went to join his new friend Sirius at the Gryffindor table.
Sirius switched side with him because he was hoping that someone else would sit on that side of him, when they were also placed in Gryffindor.
"Oglesby, Faith."
'Ravenclaw!'
"Pettigrew, Peter." A small boy who was very pale, was placed in 'Gryffindor!'
"Potter, James." McGonagall said.
James walked up to the chair looking very calm and sat down and placed the hat over his head, and then 'Gryffindor!' James removed the hat to reveal a very large satisfied smile on his face and went to join his two new friends; he sat down facing Remus with Peter on his other side still looking very nervous.
"Rhoda, Corrina." Was also made a 'Ravenclaw'.
"Snape, Severus." McGonagall said.
Severus walked passed Nissa without even looking at her and up to the chair and picked up the hat, but before he had even sat down or put the hat on properly it shouted 'Slytherin!' Which didn't surprise a lot of people, he didn't smile but Nissa could see that he was pleased with himself as he looked over at her briefly.
"Tiania Manus, Nissa" McGonagall said.
Sirius looked over as did James and Remus, who were surprised by her last name, as were a lot of others though for different reasons. Nissa ignored them all as she walked up and sat down on the stroll and placed the hat upon her head.
"You are no Manus, but you are indeed a Tiania." The hat whispered to her before it shouted aloud, "Gryffindor!"
Nissa took the hat off and smiled to herself, very glad that the hat knew that she wasn't a Manus and that she was placed into Gryffindor just where she wanted to be placed. She walked over to the table with them all cheering for her. Sirius smiled at her as did Lily, who both moved aside for her to sit down.
"Thanks for saving me a sit." Nissa said smiling at them all.
"Why didn't you say that you were with Manus and that lot?" Sirius asked her.
Nissa turned and smiled so brightly at him that it took by quit surprise, as did it the others who were listening and watching them.
"Well, you never asked." Nissa answered simple.
"Well she's got you there Sirius." James told him. "And I doubt that she wanted to tell us, who would."
"Well your right, considering that their all supposed to be dark wizards and witches, it doesn't mean though that I am." Nissa agreed.
The rest of their year were sort and the Dumbledore stood up welcomed them all, and then they ate their great feast, and when they were so full and sleepy, they were lead up to the tower and shown their dooms, where they all fell asleep.