hey everyone! sorry guys my computer got taken away and so i couldnt write. also school just started so i knid of have to do work to make it through school! i mean we spend our lifes at school for like thirteen years then we go to uni and we have about another three years through that. it like our life evolves around school! i hate it!

anyway i hope you enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 3

New Friends

"Hermione!" I shouted as I ran my way to them "Ginny!" I hugged them both when I reached them. If they didn't come…. I didn't want to think of what would happen if they didn't show up.

Ginny nearly crushed me when I hugged her. I swear she is really strong!

"We got really worried because you were taking so long so we came to find you and we asked Fred and George if they have seen you and they said they didn't and we freaked out even more and then we asked if they could help us find you and they said yes so we came the way the toilets were but you weren't there so we asked around if anyone saw you and some said they saw Malfoy with you and we panicked so we came to the Slytherin carriages and we saw Malfoy about to hex you but Fred and George got him in time and…. We just…."

"SHUT UP GINNY!"

Ginny stopped talking, which I thought was impossible since she was talking so fast in the last thirty seconds, and looked over to where the twins were. They were smiling in glee so I know they did something to Malfoy that he didn't really like.

"So, you are Fred and George?" I asked the boys. They both turned to me and the same time said "Why yes, yes we are"

"I'm Fred and this is George" said Fred "It is a great honour to meet-"

"Such a wonderful girl-"

"Like you!" they both finished together. I looked over to Hermione and Ginny but they both just shrugged. Huh, this must happened all the time.

Once Fred and George were done being, well… idiots, I headed to the restroom to get change. When I got back to the compartment the train stopped at the station. I walked out of the compartment with Hermione and Ginny down to the platform where we had to separate. Technically, Hermione was separated from us since she was in second year. Ginny and I on the other hand had to take boats on the lake around the castle in freezing cold wind. Yay us! NOT!

We were led down to the lake by a half giant from what I can tell. I knew that he wasn't a full giant other wise he would be way bigger than this. He had a mass of black hair around his face and was dressed in a few rags and a coat over them. The way he looked at me you would think he knew who I am or something. He probably does I thought.

Ginny and I were sharing a boat with two other boys. We didn't talk because the sight of the castle. It was magnificent! Nothing like I have ever seen.

Once we were on land we were lead by Hagrid to the entrance of the castle, where we were met by a lady in emerald green robes, glasses and her grey hair was done up in a bun. She looked like she had done this fifty times, which is probably a possibility.

"Welcome first year students to Hogwarts" the lady announced "I am Professor McGonagall, teacher of transfiguration. Now, if you would please follow me we will get to the feast" as she said that she started to walk off. All of us students scrambled after her.

Professor McGonagall led us to a pair of grand double doors. She stopped and turned around to face us.

"In a minute, you will enter through these doors to the grand hall where we will sort you into your houses" she said "You will either be in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Your house will be like your family, you can earn points for your house by doing good deeds and working well in class. But you can also loose points by making trouble" she looked sternly at all of us "Now wait here while I go get everything sorted" then Professor McGonagall disappeared through the double doors.

It was quiet before everyone suddenly burst out into chatter and excited whispering. I turned to Ginny to see her grinning at me.

"Can you believe it, Haley?" She said "We are actually in Hogwarts! My brothers told me our beautiful it was but it doesn't do the castle justice! It….."

Ginny kept rambling on for a while why I tuned her out. I had an ideal image of what the castle looked like, but I never imagined it to be this beautiful or this incredible! All the books and magazines I read couldn't even explain how magnificent Hogwarts was, they all just said that it was a unique sight and didn't explain what it looked like really. I always wondered what it looked like. I wondered if it was like a giant boarding school but with magic, but I never imagined it like this.

I couldn't really help but think about my brother. I wondered what he was like, what he liked to do in free time, who he liked and who he hated. I wanted to know everything. I was so excited about meeting him but also a bit nervous. Would he recognize me when he saw me? He wasn't supposed to know until necessary or until Dumbledore says I can tell him.

I was kind of worried when I get to tell him what his reaction would be like. Would he be angry, shocked? Or would he be happy and glad he has a family member alive? I was hoping for the ladder.

"Haley, snap out of it!" I nearly jumped a hundred feet in the air when Ginny called me. It bloody terrified me!

"Oh my god!" I whispered-yelled "You scared me half to death, Ginny! Goodness gracious!" I put my hands over my heart to try and calm it down.

"Sorry" Ginny said "You were just spaced out and Professor McGonagall is about to come out"

Sure enough, two minutes after she said that, Professor McGonagall opened the doors to reveal herself and the grand hall. It was so pretty. If you looked up to the roof you see the sky. Although it may just be a spell, it was a fantastic sight to see.

There were four extra long tables with students sitting on them. They must be the different houses. Ginny and I saw Herminie sitting at a table smiling and waving at us which we could only return back.

At the front of the hall was another long table with all the staff on it. The were a couple of teachers I knew, like Dumbledore with his half moon glasses and his grey hair around his face and his nice purple and blue robes.

I knew Professor Snape, with his sleek black hair, large pointy nose and scowl that seem permanent on his face. He probably never ever smiles or probably can't even smile. He is always picking on the Gryffindors, since Slytherin and Gryffindors are arch enemies. I so don't want to be in Slytherin, any other house I can deal with, but Slytherin I can not deal with!

I was too busy looking around at the hall to notice that there was a stool sitting at the front where the staff table was. There was also an old looking hat which sat upon the stool.

"First years pay attention please!" McGonagall's voice rang loud and clear throughput the hall "We are going to sort you into your houses. When your name is called out I want you to come up and sit on the stool and I will place the sorting hat on your head and it will choose which house you belong to" she unrolled a scroll which no doubt in my mind had the names of us first years on it "Now let the sorting begin!"

Professor McGonagall called out the names, I was thinking about which house I am going to be in. I was hoping Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, maybe even Hufflepuff. I just did not want to get into Slytherin. One, because Malfoy was in that house and two, I wasn't like the Slytherin students. I wasn't mean to any body unless absolutely necessary (Like Malfoy) or if they were being mean to my friends. I couldn't stand bullying. Once, one of my friends from school got bullied because she was a great student. One day it got to much for her and she had bought a knife to school so when they said something about her, she grabbed the knife and sliced her neck open. I watched it happen. I had nightmares every night after that and sometimes I still do.

"Clearwater, Haley" McGonagall's voice broke me out of my thoughts. I looked over and Ginny and she had a encouraging smile on her face. I took a deep breath and walked up to the stool. I sat down on the stool and felt the hat get put on my head. Here we go I thought to myself. This is going to get interesting.

Okay, here is chapter 3! please reveiw i havent got many yet so i would love to have some!

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