Dylan
Everyone gasps as they take their first look at the Great Hall. The ceiling looks exactly like the sky, and there are candles floating above their heads. There lay a delectable display of food on each of the four long tables, each with a different table cloth to represent the different houses. Dylan's mouth watered. That roast turkey in front of her looked perfectly crispy. Dylan turned around to look for her friends and saw Massie talking to a cute blonde boy. "Mass!" "What?" Massie looked annoyed and turned back to the boy. "Whatever" Dylan murmured under her breath, she just wanted to tell Massie that the chicken looked good. Suddenly, all of the first years marched up to the small podium in front of the room. Dylan got nervous, she felt like everybody was looking at her. The old guy in the front introduced himself as Headmaster Dumbledore and started calling names. Dylan ignored this whole sorting ceremony, she just wanted her name to be called. She also did think it was a little weird that the hat could talk, but whatever, it's magic. Suddenly she heard Massie's name called. Before the hat even touched Massie's head, the hat yelled "Slytherin!" Massie beamed and sauntered over to the Slytherin table. Dylan's mother was a Slytherin, but she told Dylan that she would be proud of her whichever house she was in, but Dylan really wanted to be in a house with her friends. Kristen's name was called soon after Massie's, and Dylan was surprised to see that Kristen was a Slytherin also. Dylan was sure that Kris would have been accepted into Ravenclaw. Josh and Alicia were also Slytherins, no surprise there, but when Claire went up, the hat yelled out, "Hufflepuff!" and for a second Claire glanced over at the Slytherins, who were looking at her disappointedly, but then Claire's face broke into a smile and she joined her new house mates who welcomed her excitedly. Massie was sitting next to the blond boy she was talking to earlier, and Dylan heard him say "Mudblood," as he looked at Claire. Dylan didn't know what that meant, but she saw Massie nod her head in agreement.
"Dylan Marvil!" said Headmaster Dumbledore. Dylan tore her eyes away from Massie and ran up to the podium. The hat was put on Dylan's head, and she could almost feel it analyzing her thoughts. Suddenly, the hat yelled out, "Slytherin!" and her friends at the Slytherin table all cheered. She got her green and silver tie and rushed to the Slytherin table, where she was enveloped in hugs and cheers of "Yay!" "This year's gonna rule!" and Josh slapped her on the back. Derrick was also Slytherin, and Cam joined Claire as a Hufflepuff. Dylan was across from Alicia, "You know, it really sucks that we're not with Claire and Cam. I miss them already!" she said to Alicia with a mouth full of the turkey she had eyed earlier. Alicia grimaced at Dylan's wide open trap. "Well, yes but they're you know, " she whispered this part, "Mudbloods" Dylan rolled her eyes. There was that word again! "What does that even mean?" Dylan asked Alicia. "Massie told me that Draco told her that Mudbloods are poor wizards with muggle blood in their veins and they don't deserve to go to school with pureblood kids like us, so I don't think we should associate ourselves with Cam and Claire anymore." "So what now, we're just going to isolate Cam and Claire? We can't do that! And anyway, who's Draco?" Dylan flipped her hair back. Alicia nodded toward the blond boy who Massie was laughing about something with. "That's Draco, and I think we should listen to them. Maybe we don't want people getting the wrong idea about us, and we're a reflection of our families." Dylan nodded, but she still wasn't sure, Cam and Claire were their friends! And who was this Draco and why is Massie suddenly listening to what he has to say? Massie never listens to anybody! Dylan didn't know what she was going to do, but she wanted to keep her friends and her social life.