CHAPTER TWO
THE SORTING
"Addams, Mariah!" A little girl with black hair walked up to the stool, put the hat on her head, and sat down on the stool. She sat there for a moment, then the hat shouted out,
"Hufflepuff!"
About three or four names later...
"Black, Sirius!" Sirius walked up to the stool and put the hat on his head. His gray eyes darted around nervously, and he muttered quietly to seemingly himself. He seemed to be arguing with himself. Eventually, the hat screamed,
"Gryffindor!"
"Brown, Parker!" Parker walked up to the stool and the hat only touched her head for a moment before it shouted out,
"Gryffindor!"
About six or seven names later...
"Evans, Lily!" The redhead that had run into me on the train, walked up to the stool and she looked around nervously, before putting the hat on her head and sitting down. The hat sat on her head for a full minute before it shouted out,
"Gryffindor!"
Ten to twelve names later...
"Lupin, Remus!" The hat shouted out 'Gryffindor' a few moments later. Everybody cheered again, just as they had done for all of the other first years so far.
A bunch of names later...
"Pettigrew, Peter!" Peter nearly tripped over himself, in trying to get to the stool. He rammed it on his head, and the room was filled with nothing but the sound of the crackling flames from the candles that floated above everybody's heads. Finally, the hat screamed,
"Gryffindor!"
"Potter, James!" I'm not even joking when I say that the hat was an inch above his head when the hat shouted,
"Gryffindor!" James took off the hat, slid off the stool, put the hat on the stool, and walked over to the table where every Gryffindor had gone. He sat down next to Sirius and they shared a smug grin with each other. James tried to say something to Sirius, but then apparently realized that he couldn't talk.
"Russet, Asana!" I walked up to the stool and put the hat on my head. Then a voice started talking in my ear.
"Lots of brains, lots of brains... but is that enough? Lots of wit... but also some courage... bravery. You think that you're a monster, you worry about hurting other people...How do you feel about Gryffindor?" In my head, I was thinking; sure, wait yes, Yes! PUT ME IN GRYFFINDOR NOW!
"Okay then... I don't need to go deaf... better be...
"Gryffindor!" I took the hat off, and walked over to Remus and Lily, and I sat down between the two of them. Remus leaned over and whispered in my ear,
"Nice Charm, by the way. I meant to say that earlier."
"I don't know what you are talking about." I said, with a smile on my face. Then Lily, having heard what he had said, started staring at me and said,
"Wait, you actually got a Charm right on the first try? I have got to learn how to do that."
About six more names and the ceremony was done...
Professor Dumbledore stood up at the head table and said,
"Well, here we are, new students and a new year. I know that listening to a long speech is hard to listen to on an empty stomach. So with that, tuck in!" I looked at the older students, and they all looked like they were expecting more from him. But Professor Dumbledore had sat down and was putting food onto his plate. I shrugged and reached over and put some food onto my plate. I looked over at the golden goblet next to my plate, and picked it up, and found that it didn't contain pumpkin juice, but was instead filled with a sticky red liquid. I tasted it and found that it was filled with wolf's blood.
When we were all done with our food, Professor Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat.
"Now that our stomachs are full, I shall begin. Magic is forbidden in the corridors, the Forbidden Forest if forbidden, and stay away from the whomping willow, as it has a tendency to not appreciate company. Now, you all must be tired, so good night!" he said. Everybody stood and all of the Gryffindors followed the two prefects; Malinda Willard, a sixth year, and Jason Russet, a fifth year and one of my many older brothers. They lead us up to a portrait of a very fat woman in a very large pink dress. Malinda walked over to the portrait and said,
"This portrait is called the Fat Lady. This portrait leads to the Gryffindor common room. Every week or so, the password changes, but for this week, the password is 'Pig's feet'." When she said 'Pig's feet', the portrait swung forward as if it were on hinges. We filed through and entered a room with plush red sofas, scarlet arm chairs, many low tables for doing school work, and gold colored Persian rugs. Two spiral stair cases led off in different directions. The older student started filing up the staircases. I was about to follow the other girls when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I quickly turned around and was not surprised to see Jason standing there. He was grinning at me like a mad man, and was gesturing wildly toward me.
"We can't believe that you made it, baby sis'." he said, lessening his smile a little bit.
"Thanks, big bro'." I said, trying to use less proper words and adapt to the colloquiums that he was using. The sound of thundering footsteps could easily be heard coming from the boy's staircase as my other nine brothers and one very confused looking third year came down. They all rushed over and started just about suffocating me and squeezing the life out of me. I was thankful and the slightly annoyed at who got them to step away from me. James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.
"Well, it looks like somebody started a party and didn't invite us," James said, his voice laced with mock anger. He looked over at Sirius, obviously expecting him to say something to back him up. The raven haired boy started to speak, but quickly found that he still couldn't.
"You had something to do with that, didn't you?" Drake asked, (ah ha! I finally remembered who the third year was. He was Ryan's best friend (Ryan being one of my older brothers, the only one in third year) Ha! Take that memory!).
"No, I didn't! Why do people keep thinking that I had something to do with Black not being able to talk?" I asked just a bit to loudly.
"Um... because we know you?" Drake asked.
"Remus doesn't know me, and he thought that I did too!"
"What did I do?" Remus asked, confused.
"Ugh!"I said exasperatedly. I trudged off and walked up the girl's staircase. I went into a room with the names; Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Mary MacDonald, Parker Brown, and Asana Russet. I walked in and found that my trunk was placed at the foot of a four poster bed with scarlet hangings. I looked over and saw that Parker was in the bed next to mine, and my bed was pushed up against a wall. I changed into proper sleeping clothes, and crawled into bed...
A/N
Well, here's chapter two...Hope you liked it. Review please! :~)