The Sorting

'Hi my name is Payton McDonald,' I said nervously to a girl sitting alone in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express, ' do you mind if I sit with you?'

'Sure,' she said looking just as nervous as I felt.

We sat in a sort of awkward silence until a boy with tan messy hair opened the car door. He looked in nervously and then was about to walk away when I said, 'you can sit with us if you want.'

'Oh uh thanks. I just don't know anyone, I'm a first year,' he explain. We both nodded our head and explained that we were too. Then we introduced ourselves and he tod us that his name was Remus Lupin.

Remus looked me over for a moment and then said, 'your mom is that famous auror who is always in the news isn't she?'

I nodded my head. Part of me was proud, the other part wished my moms reputation would not follow me. I was very proud of my mom for all the amazing things she did but it wasn't fair for people to only like me because of that.

It seemed Remus and Lily could feel I was uneasy so we got talking about Hogwarts and what to expect. We discovered Lily was muggle born so we were filled her in on some of the rumors that we had heard when two boys came crashing into our cart.

'That was a close one,' a tall slender boy with messy black hair and glasses said.

'Yeah we nearly missed the train,' the other boy said. He had black hair as well but he wasn't as lanky as the other boy. 'Oh hi,' he said as thought he just noticed us, 'I'm Sirus Black and this us Jame Potter.'

We all introduced ourselves and that sat for a moment all holding our breath. Until a meek boy slid open the car door, 'can I sit here. Everywhere else is full.'

We agreed to let him in even though it was a tight squeeze.

The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful; Lily and I talked quietly while the boys attempted spells with their wands. Mostly we were all just very nervous.

When the train finally came to a stop I felt a jolt of fear in my stomach. As we all filed off of the train our compartment split apart accept for Lily and I. The first years were ushered into boats and I was sure to keep close to her. I wasn't going into this alone. As we sailed across the lake to the school the view was breath taking. I twirled my wavy black hair in my fingers nervously as we slowly approached the school.

'I have never seen anything like this before,' Lily gocked, 'it's so breath taking!'

'Yeah it's better than anyone could have ever described I said.'

Soon we were being moved into the Great Hall to be sorted, everything was happening in a blur. I was trying to see who was being sorted where but I couldn't keep track of any of it. Then suddenly I heard my name being called and I cautiously walked up to the hat and put it on. I could feel a thousand eyes peering at me which was making me extremely nervous when suddenly there was a little whisper in my ear, 'this one is easy.' Then the hat bellowed out 'GRYFFINDOR!'

I nervously looked around the hall and saw the table of Gryffindor's cheering loudly, so I walked over. The boy Sirius from the train and Lily were waving me over to them. I had not even realized that they had been sorted but I was relieved to know someone. I sat down beside Sirius and he said, 'knew you would be one of the good ones.'