THE SORTING
A huge man with bushy grey hair led the first years to the boats to reach the castle. Lily, Hugo and Jane occupied one boat. The first years were led through the Entrance Hall and into the Great Hall by Professor Potter, a tall bespectacled man with dark hair and a lightning shaped scar on his forehead. He carried a scroll of parchment in his hands. He walked swiftly, to the other end of the Great Hall, where a dusty, pointed, black hat was placed on a rickety stool. He turned around and addressed the crowd of first years who were shaking with fear from head to foot.
"When your names are called, you will sit on this stool, the hat will be placed on your head and you will get sorted into your houses," he said. "Goyle, Plinter" Harry read from the parchment. A fat boy with brown hair went upto the stool and sat on it, gently, afraid that it might crack. Harry placed the Sorting Hat on his small head, which was disproportionate to his body.
"Ah! You'll do good in ... Slytherin" said the hat. Harry took off the hat from Plinter's head and the boy went to find a seat in his table.
"Weasley, Hugo" Harry called out looking out to his fat nephew. Harry placed the hat on his head, when he sat down.
"A pure head I see. Hufflepuff" cried the old hat. Hugo pulled off the hat, handed it over to Harry and went to his table.
"Potter, Lily" said Harry. Lily smiled weakly at her father and sat on the three legged stool. Harry placed the hat on his daughter's head.
"Potter..." said the hat softly. "GRYFFINDOR of course" cried the hat and Harry proudly smiled at his daughter.
A thunder of applause arose from the Gryffindor table. Lily ran to the Gryffindor table. Many of them made place for her to sit.
"Wood, Jane" said Harry and Jane timidly walked to the stool and sat down. She shut her eyes tightly. 'Gryffindor' she heard the hat say. She pulled off the hat, thrusted it into Haryy's hands bolted off to her table. She found a seat in between her brother, Jason and Lily. On the other side of Jason, the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team was Zac Jordon, the Quidditch commentator and Victorie Weasley, a chaser in the team.
"Thakur, Kajal" said Harry. A tall girl with thick, long black hair tied in a pony tail, glanced at her aunt, Professor Padma Patil before she sat on the brown stool.
"An intelligent brain I see beneath. Better be in Ravenclaw" shouted the hat. The sorting ended shortly. Harry rolled up the parchment and took his seat in the Head Table. The headmaster stood up at the Head Table.
"First, I would like to introduce the teachers to the first years" he said. "This is Professor Potter, head of Gryffindor house and he'll be handling Defence Against the Dark Arts. This is Professor Macmillan, head of Hufflepuff house and will be taking Herbology. Professor Patil, head of Ravenclaw house, will be teaching Divination and is on my right. This is Professor Parkinson, head of Slytherin house and will be handling Potions. Professor Hermione Weasley will be your Charms teacher, Madam Lovegood will be teaching you Care of Magical Creatures, Madam Fleur Weasley is our healer, Professor Thomas will be teaching Transfiguration, Madam Johnson will be your Quidditch teacher and that is Mr. Hagrid, are caretaker. And I am Professor Malfoy, your headmaster," he said pointing to each of them and there was a huge round of applause for the teachers.
"Let the feast, begin" said Malfoy and large quantities of delicious food appeared on all tables. The children ate happily. After dinner, the prefects led the first years to their dormitories.
"Follow me, Gryffindors" cried Jason Wood. "You can look around your school later," he said. They went to the Gryffindor tower.
"Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans" Jason said to the Fat Lady and the door swung open. He led them into the common room and turned around.
"We are now standing in the Gryffindor Common Room," he said. Some students were looking around the cosy common room and some were staring up at the ceiling and weren't bothering to listen what their prefect was telling them.
"The boys' dormitory is upstairs, on my right and same for the girls on the left. You will find that your trunks are already there," he said.
The students went up to their dormitories, changed to their night clothes and went to bed.