A\N- thank you for the review awesome-55! Here's the second chapter.

Chapter 2: The Sorting

Albus Dumbledore sat at the feast, looking down at the new coming first years that were being sorted into their houses.

It was towards the end of the sorting that Mary Hireson came in from a small door next to the teachers' table and whispered in his ear.

"The new girl, Lily Evans, has just arrived by floo, she preferred to come with me and not on the train for personal reasons." she said.

Dumbledore got up and followed Mrs. Hireson into the room she just came from.

There, sitting in a chair and looking very nervous, sat probably the most beautiful girl he had ever laid eyes on, with long silk like deep red hair, and amazing emerald green eyes, her skin was pale and tender.

"Welcome to Hogwarts!" he said cheerfully, looking into her eyes, she quickly looked away, "if you don't mind following me, I would show you to the line were you are to be sorted into your house."

"Um, sir, if you don't mind, I would prefer to be sorted here, I don't think I'll feel comfortable, standing between the first years, would that be okay?" she asked quietly and politely.

"Of course you can, it is completely understandable." He said. "Wait here. If you'll excuse me, I'll go and give the welcoming speech, and send someone with the sorting hat." He hurried out of the room.

The sorting has just ended, so he walked over to Professor McGonagall.

Please go into that room, there is a new student, starting sixth year, which needs to be sorted, her name is Lily Evans." He muttered to her before turning to the sea of faces and starting his welcoming speech.

In the meanwhile, McGonagall walked into the room.

She marched over to Lily and said "I am Professor McGonagall, I am going to place this hat over your head and you shell be sorted into your house."

Lily felt the hat slip over her head. It started muttering things but she couldn't hear, she was too busy worrying if she would be in the same house as Alice or not.

Then, all her worries disappeared as she here the hat shout "Gryffindor!".


"Now, tuck in everyone!" Albus Dumbledore concluded his speech, as food appeared on the tables. There was a buzz in the Great Hall.

Then, there was a shout coming from the side door next to the teachers table, "Gryffindor!". Silence fell over the Great Hall.

Everyone knew it was the sorting hat, but the sorting was over, and who was ever sorted in the side room?

"What was that?" asked someone in the Gryffindor table. It was a sixteen year old boy, with a jet of messy black hair and hazel eyes, which were hidden behind a pair of round wire glasses.

As the boy looked up at Professor Dumbledore, he found him smiling, obviously aware of what was going on. "You shell find out very soon, Mr. Potter, very soon,"


Professor McGonagall left the room, after conjuring a plait full of sandwiches, and after giving Lily her prefect badge (she was made a prefect, because none of the girls in the sixth year Gryffindor seemed to be suitable for the position, besides Alice, and she didn't want it), her Quiddich Captain badge, and the password to the Gryffindor common room.

Lily ate quickly, said goodbye to Mrs Hireson, and left the room by another door that led to the Entrance Hall She walked over to where McGonagall told her the portrait of the fat lady was, and got into the common room.

She walked upstairs to where she thought was the girls' dorms.

Lily climbed into the bed that had L.E. carved in big letters over it. She lay there, looking up at the sealing, not wanting to fall asleep in case she gets nightmares about the last beating, which was just a few hours age.

Since that morning a month ago, when Lily finally convinced her parents to let her go to Hogwarts, the beating went up to the rate of twice a day, each and every day, most of them just for fun (if you can call that fun), not even punishment, of for the most random things, like looking at one of her parents in a way they didn't like.

She felt her eye filling with tears, but she fought them down. She took the bottle Mrs. Hireson gave her, it had a dreamless potion in it and it was supposed to last for two weeks. She took a sip and then felt herself go sleepy, finally she fall asleep.

A\N- Sorry this chapter is really short, I hope you liked it. More updates soon. R&R, please!