I hear the stomping of feet as kids crowd to the window to see the castle. We both stare in silence at giant castle looms above us and we squeal to a stop. I go out into the aisle and am swept into the flood of bodies going to the door, we emerge into the cool night air,
"First years over here," Hagrid calls, I make my way through the crowd to him.
"Hagrid!" I exclaim, I've met him before when him and my dad met to catch u with each other.
"Leah!" He says, I give him a hug and then he continues to call for the other first years. Once we are all assembled the boats appear gliding over the waters surface. "3 to a boat," His voice booms so we can all hear, I was going to get in a boat with Hagrid but a first year had already gotten in Hagrid's boat with him and there was no room because Hagrid's so big. I find Sophia and we settle into a boat with another random first year. Once we reach the other side of the lake hagrid leads us into the great hall, it's empty because all the other kids are already in the dining hall.
"I am Professor Grumsin, I will be your potions teacher, but more of that later, follow me," A tall woman with her brown hair tied up in a tight bun says stepping out from a side room. She leads us away and brings us into a plain room with nothing in it other than a couple of empty shelves on the walls, we crowd in and she leaves.
"Are we supposed to do something?" A boy with auburn hair asks loudly. The house ghosts suddenly fly into the room, some kids scream, I just watch them, they look around at us talk in hushed voices, then they fly back out. Another ghost flies in that wasn't with the past group of ghosts,
"Ooooh, a new group of first yearies for me to have fun with," He says laughing, another ghost flies back in.
"Peeves come on or I'll tell the Bloody Baron about that one time when-" The new ghost starts.
"Shh! Fine I'll leave," Peeves grumbles and pouts as he flies out of the room, the other ghost flies out after him and Professor Grumsin walks back in a moment later.
"Alright, follow me now," She says leading us out and into the dining hall. The whole room turns and watches as we walk up, I see a old stool with a worn hat on it.
"Sorting hat," I mumble under my breath.
"Huh?" Sophia asks me, but before I can answer the hat springs to life and starts singing
" [insert sorting hat song here] "
After it finishes everyone claps, then Professor Grumsin goes up and unrolls a long list,
"Emily Nelson," She calls out, the girl walks up and nervously sits down, after a moment the sorting hat shouts out,
"Hufflepuff!" Everyone claps and she walks over to the Hufflepuff table. It continues like this Professor Grumsin calling names, nervous kids walking up, sorting hat shouting out a house, then everyone clapping and a relived first year walking to their new house table. After about ¾ of the other first years have already went Professor Grumsin calls out my name,
"Leah Potter!" She says after a moment of hesitation, probably wondering if she was seeing it right. The room falls dead silent and all eyes focus on me, I start walking up to the stool.
"Are you really Harry Potter's kid?" Some kid from slytherin calls out when I'm about halfway to the hat, I nod but he is given a scolding look from Professor Grumsin. People start murmuring but are silent as soon as I sit and the sorting hat is placed on my head.
Ah a Potter, your father was a great man, I'm sure you have heard that plenty of times I want to know about you, you are confident and brave, all good traits for Gryffindor, of course you are quite intelligent and clever as well, Ravenclaw would suit you as well, not so ambitious, although you do want to make a title for yourself, Slytherin would fit you as well, hmm… I hear the sorting hats voice say in my head.
Please not Slytherin, please…. I think.
Well I assumed you would want that, hmmm… well might as well be…
"Gryffindor!" The sorting hat yells, the Gryffindor table erupts in cheers and clapping, the rest of the houses clap politely, the other houses look disappointed but not particularly surprised. I walk to the Gryffindor table and am bombarded by welcomes, and congratulations, this goes on for about a minute before Headmistress Mcgonagall calls for silence. The rest of the first years get called and sorted then after a few brief words from Professor Mcgonagall we begin the feast, I eat until I'm full and unlike many other first years I don't overeat. Once everyone is finished Nearly Headless Nick introduces himself to everyone and shows us the trick with his head, then our prefect, Jacob, introduces himself and leads us to our dormitory.
"The password is Lemon Drops, do not write this down anywhere or tell students of any other house, understand?" Jacob tells us, we all nod. "Good now come on, Lemondrops," He says and the painting of the fat lady swings open. We all go into the commons.
"We got the Potter, we got the Potter!" a group of boys chant while linking arms and running around in circles. People crowd around me and I am asked a bunch of questions at once. I answer a couple of the questions I can hear and run up the stairs to the girls room, all the girls follow me but when the first boy tries running up the stairway turns to a slippery ramp and he slides down, a few more boys try going up but soon give up after a few attempts at climbing the impossible to climb ramp.
All of our luggage is by the entrance and none of the other girls have claimed any beds yet. I realize that they are waiting for me and I start to drag my trunk across the room, a girl with sunset orange hair instantly helps me pick it up and we take it over to the bed farthest from the entrance that was right next to a window. After that the girls start dragging their trunks in a attempt to get the bed next to me, I go and help the orange haired girl that helped me to carry her trunk and she gets the bed to the right of mine, a blond haired girl gets the bed to the left of me. None of the girls really bug me until we all finish unpacking.
"Is it cool having Harry Potter as a dad?" The girl with blonde hair and green eyes asks after I'm changed into my pajamas and am finished unpacking..
"Before all the questions, names." I say. "So I'm Leah Potter, as you guys probably already know and now we will go clockwise and just say your name." I tell them.
"Hi. um I'm Holly," the orange haired girl just go around like this until I have learned everyone's names.
"Ok, now we can do questions," I say.
"So is it cool having Harry Potter as your dad?" The blonde haired girl,whose name I now know is Olivia asks me.
"Yeah, but I mean to me he is just dad, it's super cool what he id and stuff but I don't view him as 'Harry Potter who defeated Voldemort and saved the wizarding world', I just view him as dad," I explain.
"Do you have the invisibility cloak?" Asked a brown haired girl with dark brown eyes whose name is Amelia.
"No," I reply.
"Have you seen it?" She asks, I nod, "Have you used it?" She asks again,
"Yup," I say, my mind thinks of the silver water-like cloak sitting in a Mokeskin pouch that has an near endless capacity that Aunt Hermione gave me as a present this year for my birthday, but I wasn't quite sure I wanted to tell them about it.
She gasps, "Really! What's it like?" She asks amazed. I shrug,
"I can't really explain it, it's like holding water then when you put it on it's like weightless and it's weird to not be able to see your own body," I tell them.
"Do you wish that your dad wasn't so famous?" A black haired girl with green eyes named Araliya asks me quietly, some of the other girls look offended for some reason, one even gasps, my insides turn to ice, yes I had wished on more than one occasion that dad wasn't so famous so people would notice me for me not him but then again I couldn't think of dad in any other version then the way he is.
"No," I say steadily, the other girls seemed relieved, I don't know why they thought this question was such a big deal to them, but Araliya looks at me with a questioning gaze, I'm usually pretty bold and don't back down but I look down from her gaze. I let out a yawn, I'm sleepy from the good food and warm dormitory the full day I had. "Well I'm tired, g'night," I say and close the curtains full of the Gryffindor colors and lions of the four poster bed.
"Good night," I hear replies from many of the girls and hear the rustling of blankets as everyone climbs into their beds. The lanterns dim all around the room and I lay back into the thick comforter. I snuggle down underneath the comforter and sheet and let myself drift to sleep. I wake up early that morning and silently slip out of bed, I get changed into my robes while everyone is asleep and slip all my books into the Mokeskin pouch from Aunt Hermione. My hand brushes against the invisibility cloak which sends a tingling sensation up my arm. I remember yesterday morning when dad slipped the cloak in my trunk and told me to not tell mum and to 'use it well' which I vaguely remembered from somewhere before, I think it was on an old not that fell on the ground when dad showed me the cloak for the first time. I snap out of my thoughts and walk silently down the steps and into the commons.
