All the first years stood nervously in the great hall, both terrified and amazed by the enchanted ceiling and the sorting about to take place. They were surrounded by older students who stared at them, waiting, this caused many of the first years to blush and fidget, uncomfortable with their gazes. Only several of the eleven year olds seemed unaffected by the attention they were receiving, two of them were James and Sirius as they stood there grinning at everyone and everything. There were a few others and one of them was Hydra as she appeared indifferent to any attention she received, her gaze focused intently on some unknown object, that seemed to hold all of her attention. She was simply waiting for the sorting to begin and truth be told she looked slightly more bored than excited. Obviously the decision that was about to be made that would put her into a house and maybe alter who she befriended and who she made her enemy held no interest for her.
"Black, Sirius!"…
"Gryffindor!"
"Lupin, Remus!"…
"Gryffindor!"
"Malfoy, Lucius!"…
"Slytherin!"
"Pettigrew, Peter!"…
"Gryffindor!"
"Potter, James!"…
"Gryffindor!"
"Prewit, Adrian !"…
"Hufflepuff!"
"Snape, Severus"…
"Slytherin!"
"Zink, Clarissa"…
"Slytherin!"
All of the marauders looked extremely relieved to be sorted into Gryffindor together. Sirius had been even more relived than the others as there had been more depending on that simple decision for him due to his family situation and their preferences. Sirius now relieved and able to relax searched for the two girls but couldn't see either of them.
"Fire, Hydra!" James grabbed the attention of his friends and pointed at the stool, because the girl to run forward was one of the girls from the incident.
"Ravenclaw!"
The small blonde girl smiled and ran to the Ravenclaw table as they congratulated her for being put into the Ravenclaw house. The boys now alert to discovering the identity of their new opposition paid close attention to the sorting ceremony. They didn't have to wait long to discover the identity of her companion.
"Fire, Phoenix!" Sirius raised an eyebrow and said "Must be her cousin or…" he didn't get to finish as he had seen 'her', she walked over to the stool and sat down, her back straight and rigid, her face remained unchanging with the same blank expression he had seen on the train, but unlike the other students the hat didn't immediately shout out a house. After at least two or three minutes it called out "Gryffindor!" Sirius saw a brief expression of anger and worry cloud her face as she glanced over to Hydra and simply nodded her head, joining the end of her house table. The sorting continued.
"Sinclair, Theresa!"…
"Ravenclaw!"
"Evans, Lily!" Sirius grinned at James but James wasn't paying attention to his friend, following his gaze he saw a small red headed girl sit on the stool. Nervously awaiting the decision that would place her into one of the four houses.
"Gryffindor!"
James finally snapped out of it but when Sirius asked him what was wrong and waved his hand in front of his face several times, he only sighed and said "she's great isn't she!"
The others simply stared at him in shock and then decided to ignore this little and insignificant statement of James, had they known then that he would chase her for the entire time they were at Hogwarts they would have done something drastic to snap him out of it. As it was they found his dazed expression and behaviour rather amusing. Oblivious to this they let him be and resumed their conversation.