Hey! Sorry I couldn't update yesterday I was busy because MAXIMUM RIDE: NEVERMORE CAME OUT! I finished it in about three and a half hours. In response to xX Ashlyn Malfoy Xx's comments, I did not notice that all of my characters but Misty were blonde until you pointed it out but there will be an auburn-haired character, a black-haired character and a redhead in this chapter. Misty chose a cat simply because I like cats. Also Misty's personality may not have been obvious in Chapter 1 but will gradually be revealed as you read. Thank you for your comment Maggie Star. By the way I will introduce a character named Maggie Star in this chapter and I promise I had her name planned before I received this comment so to those of you who are confused the person who commented as Maggie Star is my friend who knew about the characters in this story before I wrote it. (Confused? It doesn't matter just forget it the point is I AM NOT STEALING HER NAME SHE ALREADY KNEW ABOUT MAGGIE STAR!) Everyone enjoy chapter 3!
So we talked about a huge assortment of random stuff. Jenna was fun to talk to about everything from magical creatures to muggle fantasy novels. Cassie opened up to us and was much more hyper and talkative than the original impression she'd given us with her shy behavior. However as Cassie became friendlier toward us, Zelda became less. Apparently Zelda and Cassie had been friends for a long time. I have always been observant and I often piece together things based on little details I have picked up on. Therefore I reasoned that Zelda felt like we were stealing Cassie away.
Finally the train came to a stop. We all climbed off and clumped around a large man with fluffy black hair and a beard to match who was screaming "Firs' years! Firs' years over 'ere!" He wore a brown coat and was carrying a flowery pink umbrella. He directed us towards a lake with rowboats bobbing in the shallow water just a step's distance from the shore. Jenna, Zelda, Cassie and I climbed aboard a boat with two other girls who were delightedly chatting and laughing. One of them had short hair best described as a light auburn. The other was a small Asian girl with long, wavy hair. By the time we had rowed across the Black Lake to the castle I had had an interesting conversation with the Asian girl, Ella, about chicken pot pies (don't ask.). However I couldn't get the auburn-haired girl to say anything more than "I like turtles."
A witch clothed in a green dress, a cloak, and a pointy hat with her hair pulled from her face into a neat bun, who I knew was Professor McGonagall, lead us up a flight of marble stairs to a set of large double doors. She explained the Sorting Ceremony then pushed open the doors to let the first year class stride into the Great Hall. We came to a halt when we reached the end of the hall and McGonagall began to call out names. "Aliut, Ella." The girl from the boat stepped forward to be sorted. After several minutes the hat declared she was a Slytherin. I pretty much tuned out the next couple of Sortings until I heard McGonagall call "Dumbledore, Zelda." All heads swiveled towards my new friend from the train. "Dumbledore?" murmured students all over the Great Hall. "We can't have heard that right. That just doesn't make sense."
"So that's what she meant when she said her dad 'Um... teaches' here," I whispered to Jenna. Zelda was sorted into Ravenclaw. The sorting continued uneventfully. Jenna was sorted into Gryffindor while Cassie (whose full name was Cassandra McCreery) was sorted into Hufflepuff and finally I heard McGonagall call "Miller, Misty". My heart raced as I sat down on the stool and the hat was placed upon my head. Almost instantly I heard the hat call "Ravenclaw!" so I leapt from the stool and rushed to the Ravenclaw table. I took a seat next to Karma Jefferson, a third year girl with dark red hair. The Jeffersons were family friends so I had known Karma and her siblings John and Zoe since we were little. John was my age and had just been sorted into Slytherin. "Congratulations, Misty!" exclaimed Karma. "Welcome to Ravenclaw!"
The auburn haired girl from the boat, Maggie Star, was sorted into Ravenclaw as well. Once the sorting was over Dumbledore gave a speech and the sorting began.