"First years!" A booming voice called.
We followed the man on to the boats to the castle.
"There it is." Hermione said pointing at the castle.
I looked up in amazement. There was a majestic castle. The boats docked at the pier. We all filed off the boats and walked into the castle
"Hello, I'm Professor McGonagall." said an older lady.
"Aunt Minnie!" Harry exclaimed.
She rolled her eyes and said "Hello Mr. Potter."
Harry blushed. Her eyes turned to me. I couldn't read her expression.
"Minerva, we're ready for them." A voice said.
"Oh, right."
We followed her in. I could hear Hermione talking to an Indian girl and telling her how they bewitched the ceiling to look like that. I knew that fact as well. We all reached the front of the Great Hall. There was an old hat and a stool. I knew that was the sorting hat.
"Hannah Abbott!"
A girl with blonde hair walked up to the chair and sat down.
"Hufflepuff!" the hat screamed.
A few more people went up. The first one in our group to be sorted was Matt.
"Gryffindor!"
Matt ran off to the Gryffindor table. A few more sortings went by.
"Hermione Granger!"
Hermione walked up to the stool.
"Ravenclaw!"
Hermione looked proud and ran to the Ravenclaw table. A few more sortings went by.
"Neville Longbottom!"
Neville walked up to the stool.
"Gryffindor!"
Neville looked quite shocked as he walked off to the Gryffindor table.
"Delaney Gladstone!"
I walked up to the stool and sat down.
"Ahh, it's between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff for you." The hat said.
"I always thought I would be in Ravenclaw." I thought.
"Honestly, you'd fit in any house except Slytherin."
"I think I'd like Hufflepuff."
"Better be Hufflepuff!"
McGonagall looked a little shocked but happy as I walked off to the Hufflepuff table. Harry and Ron were both sorted into Gryffindor. So, I don't have any friends in my year but I'm sure I'll make new friends.
"Hi, I'm Justin Finch Fletchley." a boy with brown hair and brown eyes said.
"I'm Delaney Gladstone." I smiled.
"Are you a muggle born?" He asked me.
"I'm a half blood actually, my dad is a muggle but I know nothing about my mum how about you?"
"I'm a muggle born."
"I'm a halfblood" A girl with blonde hair exclaimed.
"As am I." A girl with red hair exclaimed.
"I'm Hannah." The blonde said.
"I'm Susan." The redhead said.
We continued talking.
"I'm Gabriel!" The prefect greeted cheerily.
He led us to the dormitory.
This is the Hufflepuff common room, boy dormitories up the stairs to the left, girls the same on the right."
He continued "Room assignments are posted on the wall."
I walked to the wall. I was rooming with Susan, Hannah and a girl named Megan. This should be fun. We got know each other. We finished unpacking and went to bed. The next day I got up and got dressed. I walked down to the Great Hall. The first class I had was Transfiguration with the Gryffindors.
"Hey Deej, do you know where the Transfiguration classroom is?"
"It's the first classroom on the right."
"Okay, thanks Deej."
"No problem."
I ran off towards the classroom. As I going to the classroom I ran into Matt and Neville.
"Are you guys lost?" I asked.
"Yes, do you know where the classroom is?" Matt asked.
I nodded and linked my arms with them and we ran towards the classroom. I noticed Harry was there. I sat next to Neville. Just as class started Ron ran in. D.J. has told me that McGonagall is a pretty strict teacher and rarely smiles because of that. I got one of those rare smiles from her when I transfigured a match. Class ended. I had History of Magic with the Slytherins now while everyone else had Charms with the Ravenclaws. The day continued. It was now my first potions lesson with the Ravenclaws. Neville had told me that the teacher scared him. He creeped me out and he hated Hermione from the get go.
"Why does he hate me so much?" Hermione exclaimed.
"I'm not sure, Hermione." I hated seeing my friend go through this.
Before she could respond the boys walked up to us.
"Hey guys."
"Hey boys."
"What's wrong, Mione." Matt asked.
"Snape hates me."
"If it helps, he hates me too." Harry said.
"Maybe because you're a bit of a know it all." Ron said.
We all turned to glare at him.
"Oops, sorry."
"I guess we can all agree that Snape is our least favorite teacher and Potions is our least favorite subject." Harry laughed.
We nodded in agreement. The day continued. About a month later I was sitting at the Gryffindor table when the owls had just dropped the mail.
"Neville's got a Remembrall." Dean said.
I remembered reading about those and said "The smoke turns red when you forget something."
The ball suddenly flamed red.
"The thing is I can't remember what I've forgotten"
I looked around Neville and said "Nev, you're not wearing your robe."
Neville face palmed.
"Don't worry mate, we'll go get it before class starts." Matt told him.
"Thanks."
We continued talking. The Gryffindors had their first flying lesson. I was walking with Susan when Matt ran up to me.
Does McGonagall have a certain reason she she seems to pay a lot of attention to Delaney?