A/N: Hey Guys. Chapter four here. Hope you like. Enjoy! Anon...
Laurens P.O.V.
As I stood anxiously waiting in line with all the other first years, listening for my name, I thought to myself; ' I wonder what house I'll be in. I think I'll probably be in Ravenclaw, because I'm quite smart, defiantly not Gryffindor though, cause I'm not at all brave. Maybe Hufflepuff as I'm rather loyal. I wonder...'
I was standing next to the boy with the toad, who was fidgeting nervously. Pretty soon my name was called so I walked up to the stool confidently and placed the hat on my head. After a few minutes of the hat mumbling nonsense on my ear , It shouted ''Gryffindor!'' loudly as all the Gryffindor's cheered and slapped.
I smiled quizzically wondering why the hat thought me brave. I walked down the hall to the table as the next person was called out. At I sat down I glanced to my side to see George Weasley sitting beside me. At least, I thought, it was him until I looked across from him to see his twin that Arthur had told me about 'Ed; was his name I think...no 'Fred, yeah that's it. Fred and George. I smiled at the boys. One of which smiled politely and the other grinned. That was how I knew which one was George.
As I turned back to the rest of my year I saw the bushy haired girl who had been with harry earlier get called out. Her name was Hermione Granger, and she was placed into Gryffindor also. She came and sat across from me, beside Fred. Soon after that the boy with the toad stepped forward. His name was Neville Longbottom. After quite a long few minutes Neville was sorted into Gryffindor also. He came and sat beside me.
After that Harry and his red haired friend whom I learned was Ronald Weasley, another cousin, came and sat down. A smart looking red haired boy leaned over and congratulated him. He thanked him and I heard him all him 'Percy'. So this must be another Weasley I thought smiling at Ron.
As the last person was sorted professor McGonagall rolled up the parchment and took the stool and Hat away.
Just then a tall, grey/white haired old-ish man stood up. He had a long beard and long hair and half-moon spectacles. 'Albus Dumbledore' I thought staring at the man. At the old man gave his speech I wondered how old he was.
He finished his speech with 'Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!' which made no sense to me so I just laughed. I heard Harry ask Percy if he was a bit daft, which I figured he was.
Suddenly I noticed the platters in front of me were all full of every sort of food. I felt my mouth watering just looking at it.
'Yay!' I exclaimed and grabbed some food, piling up my plate and munching happily on some carrot sticks. I loved me some good food stuffs!
As I was eating I noticed there was a ghost sitting beside Harry who was talking to him. I heard Seamus Finnegan exclaim; 'Nearly Headless?' And then I couldn't hear him but then the ghost pulled his left ear and his head fell to the side.
I gasped when he did this, forgetting had food in my mouth and nearly choking on it. But thankfully George whacked my back helpfully making the piece of chicken I had been chewing dislodge and land right between Fred's eyes.
George and I burst out laughing while Fred looked disgusted. He was just about to grab something to throw at me when the food all disappeared. Then the puddings reappeared in their place.
I stare, amazed at all the different things and then Fred grabbed a Jam doughnut and shoved it in my face. I gasped and smirked. Good to know my cousins and I had something in common.
I bowed my head and pretended to start crying. And I have to say I must have been pretty convincing because soon everyone was asking what was wrong, Fred was apologising profusely and George has his arm around me, rubbing my back.
Suddenly I took a deep breath and stopped 'crying'. I looked up at Fred through my hair. His expression was one of great regret and remorse. This made me crack. I burst out laughing.
You should have seen the shocked expressions of everyone. I was laughing so hard that I had tears streaming down my cheeks.
'God, Fred you sure are easy to fool!' I said between breaths, trying to breathe normally again. Fred just stared at me, his mouth hanging open. I felt George's arm drop from my shoulders as he clutched his stomach laughing.
'Oh Freddie, you should have seen your expression!' he exclaimed. 'Way to go, Lauren!' he grinned and winked at me. I smiled back.
Once I had finally caught my breath I piled every flavour of ice-cream onto my dish and tucked in. I listened to Seamus and Neville talking about their families, smiling as Neville told us his story.
Everyone looked at harry when he exclaimed 'Ouch!'. But he said there was nothing wrong.
Once the puddings had disappeared Dumbledore stood up. When he was telling us to stay out of the forest he glanced at Fred and George who snickered quietly.
Everyone sang along in the school song and the tunes were used were daft. The twins were the last to finish singing and everyone clapped.
We all got up and followed Percy Weasley out of the hall. After climbing many sets of stairs and going through loads of passageways, we suddenly stopped because of some floating, walking sticks.
After Percy had convinced Peeves to leave us alone we walked on to the Portrait of the Fat Lady.
'Caput Draconis' Percy said. Then we all walked into the Gryffindor Common Room.
