Staring up, there was a giant, brown door, that Liala use to see in the old fashion black and white movies. Her heart was throbbing fast, what could be behind these doors that she about to walk through? Lina hugged Liala and smiled a little as Chase kept a distance a little, the door opened, and Liala tensed up fast, like she was frozen. The giant took the students inside of the castle, Lina held onto Liala, even though Liala was more afraid then she was. Spartacus took off with some other kids as Chase stayed close to the girls. They climbed up the flight of stairs, where a woman was standing, with a tight black haired bun and square glasses upon her face. She looked a little old, not like the young teachers that Liala was so used to seeing at her old school. She was wearing Tartan Plaid underneath her emerald green robe. She had a stern look across her face, which didn't bother Liala that much at all, since she was used to seeing that same look at home. The first years all gathered around her as she looked down at them from the top of the stairs.
"Good evening, my name is Professor McGonagall, now before we go into the main rooms, there is something you need to know, before you try to sit down at a table, you will go in and be sorted out into houses for the rest of your years here in Hogwarts. The houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin; now wait here while I tell everyone else that you students have arrived." She went into another set of giant doors as we all stood outside of the room. Everyone immediately started talking about what houses that they were going to get into; Liala had no idea on what she would go into at all.
"Well I know I am going to be Slytherin for sure," Liala looked around and saw a black hair about shoulder length, slim girl, with sapphire eyes looking at her friends next to her. Liala was so confused on how she knew that she was going to be placed there already, without even being picked out yet. Liala just stared at her a little then the girl looked over at her with a harsh look on her face, "What are you looking at?" Liala's face flushed a deep red then looked away getting close to Lina. The girl broke through the crowd and got into Liala's face, "I said, what are you looking at?" Liala shook her head fast and didn't know what to say in this moment, no one has ever gotten into her face like this before, not even in her old school.
Lina got in front of Liala and stared at the girl, "Back off Hina, she's new to this world."
Hina smiled in a smirk type of way, "Oh, looks like we got ourselves a noob. Well, new girl, if you didn't know, I come from a very high class family, one of the most famous rich high powered families, so I expect to be treated as such, or you will hear from my father." She had this look of enjoyment from speaking like she ran this school. Liala already knew, that she was going to have some problems with this girl in future, she held onto her hands as Chase put his hand on her shoulder and in front of Lina then stared at Hina, his eyes just looked into hers as Hina backed off a little then went back to her group as Professor McGonagall came back from the room.
"Alright now students get into an orderly fashioned line to enter, come now quickly," the students started getting into the line in excitement. Spartacus stood right behind Liala as Lina took the spot next to her, and Chase behind Lina. Hina followed a few rows behind the group, just staring at Chase. All of them filed into this giant room, full of tables and people. Liala's heart started to race fast as she looked at everyone who was in here. She looked around the room, and saw that the ceiling, looked like a clear dark, midnight blue sky, with stars all around, she couldn't help but smile up at the sky, since she loved open clear skies at night, she use to look out her window and stare at the sky all the time. They filed down the tight space to the giant table of teachers in the front of the room, McGonagall ordered them in and looked down at them, "Now, this is where we sort you into your houses, I will call you one by one and you place the sorting hat on your heads… First is Victor Avergot!" A slim young man, with really bushy brown hair went up and she placed the hat on his head, the hat then started to morph, looking like it had a face.
"Hmm, SLYTHERIN!" the hat yelled out to the crowd, as the Slytherin table started to clap for their new member. Liala looked over as McGonagall yelled out 'Hina Ayers!' She pranced up to the stool sitting, as she put the hat on her head, and again the hat yelled 'Slytherin!' but how did she know? Liala thought to herself, she doesn't even know where she would go. One after another they went as it was Chase's turn to go. He was a little reluctant to go, but he walked up there as she put the hat on his head, "Hmm, difficult, but I know what it will be, GRYFFINDOR!" He hopped off with his hands in his pocket, not really caring. Names kept going down the list, and then she hit 'Lina Luminous!' She hugged me good-bye and then fast walked up to the stool and sat, as the hat was placed onto her head, "Oh, this is a for sure HUFFLEPUFF!" She had a big smile on her face as she ran to the Hufflepuff table. She seemed so happy to be with Hufflepuffs, but Liala was getting worried since Chase was in a different house then Lina was. She zoned out for a few minutes thinking of what house she was going to be put in as Spartacus was called next to snap her back into the 'real world'. He walked up with a smile on his face then sat on the stool looking down at Liala waving, she blushed waving slightly. McGonagall placed the hat on his head as the hat thought a minute, "Hmm, you are way too nice for your own good, so HUFFLEPUFF!" Spartacus jumped down then sat down over by Lina as they high fived each other, Liala was even more nervous now, what if she wasn't going to be with them? What if they couldn't find a house for her to go into? What would happen if she was in Slytherin…with Hina? McGonagall called Liala's name, and she thought her heart stopped. It took her a minute to realize that it was her that was called up, as she slowly walked up, looking at all the professors that were looking at her. She sat down slumping down in the stool, scarred of that hat to touch her head. McGonagall set it on as the hat just sat there, "You don't know what you want?" Liala shivered a little as it talked, "You're nervous on what house you will be in, you don't want Slytherin for sure, but I wouldn't put you there anyway, you don't have the qualities," the Slytherin table started to chuckle a little, "Yes, but where to put you is… RAVENCLAW!" Liala's heart fell, none of her friends were in Ravenclaw, what could happen to her in that house? She got down as she went and sat down at the edge of table by herself, again, like her old school was like.
A few minutes after the ceremony, a tall, old man with long white hair and beard, stood up and looked at the students, he had a charming, warm smile, "Let the feast… begin!" He waved his hands a little and then, right in front of Liala's ice cold blue eyes, was a table, full of food, everywhere. Her face lit up bright, she has never seen anything like this. Food all around, and in different things in each plates, lamb and pork chops, shepherd's pie, roasted potatoes with gravy, rice pudding, everything that Liala has only heard about and haven't even tried before. It felt weird for her, since all of her new friends all sat at a different table, since they were all in different houses. Spartacus and Lina were in the same, as Liala knew, since they sat next to each other laughing a little about something as they sat there and eat there dinner. Chase was all the way over with the Gryffindor house, he was sitting by a few other people, that Liala knew were older than he was because she didn't see them in the boat, but she didn't mind it that much. Chase waved over at her as her face flushed red then she turned back to her plate, not worrying about waving back, since Chase doesn't really talk to her anyway, so she thought he was just waving to Lina. Liala bent over to take a bite of her shepherd's pie, then a white figure came out of the table, making her jump back a few. A woman, with fair skin, and long black hair came out from it; she was wearing a lovely gown and looked somewhat sad. Liala took a closer look finding that it wasn't a person, it was a ghost, a pale; very pale ghost. A girl with curly hair touched Liala on the back thinking she was going to fall back, "Are you alright?" a kind voice said to her.
Liala nodded slightly then looked up at the girl, she knew that she was a lot older than she was, looked like she was a final year type person, "Y-yeah, it's just this thing gave me a fright."
"Oh, well her name is The Grey Lady, the house ghost, she is friendly trust me, just she can sometimes sneak up on you. She won't hurt you, I promise. Penelope Clearwater, but the way." She held out her hand smiling.
Liala took in shyly then smiled a little, "Oh, umm, Liala Roskelley, sorry, first day, with everything that is." Liala didn't even know what to do with herself in that time, since she was so new to everything, food coming from nowhere, ghosts coming out of the floor, it was just a little too much for her to handle in one day.
Penelope smiled a little, "Well, were going to start heading up to the tower to go and see the common room and where we are going to keep your things, so please follow me." She started heading the first years in her house to the secret tower in the west wing of the castle. They kept walking up a spiral staircase all the way to the fifth floor, where a bronze knocker of an eagle was in the wall. This object opened its beak and asked, "Password?" Liala's eyes opened wider as if her day couldn't get any stranger, as Penelope looked at it and said, "Wattlebird." Just as soon as she said the password, a wall opened up with a room inside of it, she led them in. Liala didn't believe that she was in this room; it was so magical to her. It was decorated in her 'house colors' blue and bronze silk wall hangings, with midnight blue carpet on the floor with star patterns. The room was very wide and circular, the ceiling was domed shaped with stars on it, and the windows were arched, so that you could see the mountains in the background. She turned behind her and saw a marble statue of what looked like the Grey Lady holding something in her hand. Penelope looked out to the students and smiled, "Alright now, girls your dorms is on your left, boys to your right, we need to be up soon so you all can get your class schedules, hope to see you in the morning. Oh and one last thing, all of your things will be in your room." She smiled as she walked out of the room; Liala went up to her dorm and saw Spec on a perch next to her bed. She pet him gently while climbing into her pjs before bed, since she always went to bed early to be ready for school. It was only 9:13, but she wanted to head to bed anyway. Others stayed up in the common room, so Liala was alone for the most part. Spec chirped a little then Liala smiled a little looking at her, "Good night Spec, tomorrow, we start our new lives here." She turned off her little light by her bed then closed her eyes slowly, still trying to realize, that she was in a different place then home, and a lot happier here.
