Chapter 4--- Uniforms and Sorting
The plump witch came in with the sweets.
"Oh lord, I could use some sweets!" Caitlyn shouted happily, Jaime smiled and then laughed, from her NEW down-side-up postion, hanging off of the handrail intended for hanging up garment backs. For some reason, it didn't break with her up there.
"Get me some beans Catie!" she called, tossing a sickle at her, "That's all the money I got!"
"Don't call me Catie, and I might!"
"Fine then CAITLYN!"
"Girls," Julia stated, "Do try to get along, or else you may cause me to get stress wrinkles."
"Whatever..." Gabby said, annoyed for the first time in a while.
"So, how long till we get there?" Jaime asked the plump witch with the sweets.
"Oh sweetie, we're to be there in less than ten minutes!"
"LESS THAN TEN?! Good lord! Need to change!" Jaime, and the rest of the girls shooed the boys out of the compartment, and the girls from the next compartment came to change in theirs. The boys came back all changed and everything, Nathan looked very handsome indeed in his uniform. It made him look less messy.
The triplets were messing with the ties that they hadn't done up quite right, and Jaime's was just hanging about her neck. Gabby had tied hers up around her pony tail, and Caitlyn was getting Julia to do hers up. Julia looked "just fabulous completely fabulous" in her uniform and robes, or that's what she said.
When the train arrived at Hogwarts, the Leswaeys borded the horseless carriages. They were all nervous, which didn't surprise anyone.
"So... what are we supposed to do?" Caitlyn asked George nervously.
"I wouldn't know..." he replied, apparently happy to be back at school.
Caitlyn sighed. Jaime was still messing with her tarantula, which she had brought with her off of the train. Gabby was still messing with the tie. Julia was STILL primping in front of the pocket mirror, and Nathan was staring out the window.
However, Nathan was in a different carriage than the rest of his family, he was in the carriage with Ron, Hermione and Harry.
"So, Harry, what do you think about Quidditch this year? Going to beat the pants off of Slytherin?" Ron was apparently as enthusiastic about getting back to school as George.
"Yeah," said Harry offhandedly.
"So, Nathaniel..." Hermione started.
"Call me Nathan please."
"Okay, Nathan, do you think you'll be sorted into Gryffindor?" She asked.
"What are you talking about?" He asked in turn.
"Well," Ron explained, "There are four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. I'd have to say that Gryffindor is by far the best, but maybe I'm just biased."
"I wouldn't mind Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw either," Hermione added, "It's just the Slytherins, watch out for them, they're tough ones, and they're a bunch of..." she trailed off and blushed, apparently, she'd finally learned to swear.
"Well," Nathan said offhandedly, "We'll see when we get there..."
"You Lesweays can be so off-handed.." Ron complained.
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"Jaime you fool! You've done it again!" Julia screamed.
"Done what?!"
"You've made me smudge my makeup!" she wailed. Everyone started laughing.
"How did *I* persay, do this?" Jaime asked almost sweetly.
"I don't know, you just did!" Julia screamed. Jaime struggled, putting the tarantula back into it's box, for she could now see the castle.
"It's beautiful..." she almost whispered.
"Oh stars and glory it is," Gabriella whispered in agreement with her sister.
"Well, of course it is, Proffesor Dumbledore is there, and he's the greatest in the world!" Julia exclaimed happily.
"Yeah, whatever..." Fred said happily, "It's just a school."
"THE most beautiful school I've seen in my entire life!" Jaime exclaimed, "AND I'M GOING THERE! AND THERE ARE SECRET PASSAGEWAYS!!!!!"
"YES!" Gabby was incredibly excited now. Apparently, so were her sisters, apart from the party-pooper, Julia.
"Well, it is just a school... and besides, we'll probably only be there for a couple of weeks, and then we'll move again... that's how it is with our family, moving about, here to there, you three know that," She said.
"Well," Jaime said, somewhat less excited, "If you're going to be a party-pooper, I might as well tell you something I was thinking of keeping a secret."
"WHAT?" Caitlyn hated people keeping secrets from her.
"I overheard mum talking to dad, and WE'RE STAYING AT LEAST ALL YEAR, and probably next year too! We get to finish our schooling at Hogwarts!"
"That is such a lie, Jaime, how could you tell your own sisters that?" Julia asked impatiently.
"Hate to interupt," said Lee, (now, I forgot he was here, didn't you?), "But we're here."
They un-boarded the carriage, to find Nathaniel, and then they all walked in, they only once got hit by a storm of cheese that came from the roof.
"Peeves," said the twins together.
"Ah," said the triplets together, "Poltergeist?"
"Yeah."
"MY DEAR LESWAEYS!" came a voice, and old man, with a long beard, and half-moon glasses, "Do come this way, there is some buisiness we will have to attend to right away!"
They all followed him, Julia in the lead, then Caitlyn, then Gabriella, then Jaime, then Nathaniel. In order of age. Though the triplets were only Caitlyn to Gabby 3 minutes and Gabby to Jaime, 6 minutes, Caitlyn loved to brag to Jaime about being almost 10 minutes older, so Jaime filed right in front of Nathaniel and they were on their way.
"Now," said the man, who they all assumed was Dumbledore, as they neared a gargoyle, "You will need to be sorted," he whispered something that sounded like 'creame eggs' to the gargoyle and it sprug to life and moved aside to reveal a winding staircase, they climbed and climbed until they got to the very top, Jaime thought her legs would fall off, when they arrived he told them to each sit down. There were five stools lined up, they sat down in no particular order, Jaime on the end, then Caitlyn, then Julia, then Gabriella, then Nathaniel on the other end, "So, this is how the sorting works, you put on the hat, then it will tell you what house you belong in, I don't think you would like to hear the song, and I think he would like to wait to debut it later. Now, Julia, sinse you're the eldest, you go first."
Julia put on the hat, but after about ten seconds, it yelled, "SLYTHERIN!" so loudly that Gabby fell off of her stool.
"Now, Caitlyn," Dumbledore said, handing her the hat, Caitlyn nervously stuck it on her head, and after about three minutes it yelled out loudly, "GRYFFINDOR!" Caitlyn smiled, she knew that the Weasley's were in that house, so she was happy to have someone she already knew.
"Gabriella?" Gabby smiled.
"You can call me Gabby," she said, and put on the hat, not after two seconds, it screamed, "GRYFFINDOR!" Gabby looked releived to be with Caitlyn.
"Jaime Nicole, it's your turn."
"Just Jaime, I don't like the longness of the rest of it..." she slipped the hat on, and sat for a full five minutes, the rest stared at her, she could hear the hat arguing with itself in her head whether to put her in Hufflepuff or Gryffindor, it wasn't sure, that made Jaime uncomfortable, she hoped to be with her sisters, and suddenly the hat screamed, "GRYFFIDOR!"
"Stars and Glory, Jaime! I thought it'd never finish with you!" Caitlyn exclaimed.
"Now Nathan, you'd better get a good house or we'll deck ya!" Gabby winked, Nathan put on the hat, and not a moment too soon, it screamed loudly, "HUFFLEPUFF!"
He smiled and lowered the hat onto Dumbledore's desk, he had some sort of secret regret that Julia had gotten Slytherin, he remembered Hermione speaking illy of them.
Dumbledore told them how to find the great hall, and where each table was, and they headed on down.
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a/n- I tend to oftentimes refer to Gabby and Nathan as Gabriella and Nathan, and for more info, Jaime's full first name is Jaime Nicole. Oh and thanks for the reveiws! This chapter kinda sucked though. heehee R/R please!
The plump witch came in with the sweets.
"Oh lord, I could use some sweets!" Caitlyn shouted happily, Jaime smiled and then laughed, from her NEW down-side-up postion, hanging off of the handrail intended for hanging up garment backs. For some reason, it didn't break with her up there.
"Get me some beans Catie!" she called, tossing a sickle at her, "That's all the money I got!"
"Don't call me Catie, and I might!"
"Fine then CAITLYN!"
"Girls," Julia stated, "Do try to get along, or else you may cause me to get stress wrinkles."
"Whatever..." Gabby said, annoyed for the first time in a while.
"So, how long till we get there?" Jaime asked the plump witch with the sweets.
"Oh sweetie, we're to be there in less than ten minutes!"
"LESS THAN TEN?! Good lord! Need to change!" Jaime, and the rest of the girls shooed the boys out of the compartment, and the girls from the next compartment came to change in theirs. The boys came back all changed and everything, Nathan looked very handsome indeed in his uniform. It made him look less messy.
The triplets were messing with the ties that they hadn't done up quite right, and Jaime's was just hanging about her neck. Gabby had tied hers up around her pony tail, and Caitlyn was getting Julia to do hers up. Julia looked "just fabulous completely fabulous" in her uniform and robes, or that's what she said.
When the train arrived at Hogwarts, the Leswaeys borded the horseless carriages. They were all nervous, which didn't surprise anyone.
"So... what are we supposed to do?" Caitlyn asked George nervously.
"I wouldn't know..." he replied, apparently happy to be back at school.
Caitlyn sighed. Jaime was still messing with her tarantula, which she had brought with her off of the train. Gabby was still messing with the tie. Julia was STILL primping in front of the pocket mirror, and Nathan was staring out the window.
However, Nathan was in a different carriage than the rest of his family, he was in the carriage with Ron, Hermione and Harry.
"So, Harry, what do you think about Quidditch this year? Going to beat the pants off of Slytherin?" Ron was apparently as enthusiastic about getting back to school as George.
"Yeah," said Harry offhandedly.
"So, Nathaniel..." Hermione started.
"Call me Nathan please."
"Okay, Nathan, do you think you'll be sorted into Gryffindor?" She asked.
"What are you talking about?" He asked in turn.
"Well," Ron explained, "There are four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. I'd have to say that Gryffindor is by far the best, but maybe I'm just biased."
"I wouldn't mind Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw either," Hermione added, "It's just the Slytherins, watch out for them, they're tough ones, and they're a bunch of..." she trailed off and blushed, apparently, she'd finally learned to swear.
"Well," Nathan said offhandedly, "We'll see when we get there..."
"You Lesweays can be so off-handed.." Ron complained.
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"Jaime you fool! You've done it again!" Julia screamed.
"Done what?!"
"You've made me smudge my makeup!" she wailed. Everyone started laughing.
"How did *I* persay, do this?" Jaime asked almost sweetly.
"I don't know, you just did!" Julia screamed. Jaime struggled, putting the tarantula back into it's box, for she could now see the castle.
"It's beautiful..." she almost whispered.
"Oh stars and glory it is," Gabriella whispered in agreement with her sister.
"Well, of course it is, Proffesor Dumbledore is there, and he's the greatest in the world!" Julia exclaimed happily.
"Yeah, whatever..." Fred said happily, "It's just a school."
"THE most beautiful school I've seen in my entire life!" Jaime exclaimed, "AND I'M GOING THERE! AND THERE ARE SECRET PASSAGEWAYS!!!!!"
"YES!" Gabby was incredibly excited now. Apparently, so were her sisters, apart from the party-pooper, Julia.
"Well, it is just a school... and besides, we'll probably only be there for a couple of weeks, and then we'll move again... that's how it is with our family, moving about, here to there, you three know that," She said.
"Well," Jaime said, somewhat less excited, "If you're going to be a party-pooper, I might as well tell you something I was thinking of keeping a secret."
"WHAT?" Caitlyn hated people keeping secrets from her.
"I overheard mum talking to dad, and WE'RE STAYING AT LEAST ALL YEAR, and probably next year too! We get to finish our schooling at Hogwarts!"
"That is such a lie, Jaime, how could you tell your own sisters that?" Julia asked impatiently.
"Hate to interupt," said Lee, (now, I forgot he was here, didn't you?), "But we're here."
They un-boarded the carriage, to find Nathaniel, and then they all walked in, they only once got hit by a storm of cheese that came from the roof.
"Peeves," said the twins together.
"Ah," said the triplets together, "Poltergeist?"
"Yeah."
"MY DEAR LESWAEYS!" came a voice, and old man, with a long beard, and half-moon glasses, "Do come this way, there is some buisiness we will have to attend to right away!"
They all followed him, Julia in the lead, then Caitlyn, then Gabriella, then Jaime, then Nathaniel. In order of age. Though the triplets were only Caitlyn to Gabby 3 minutes and Gabby to Jaime, 6 minutes, Caitlyn loved to brag to Jaime about being almost 10 minutes older, so Jaime filed right in front of Nathaniel and they were on their way.
"Now," said the man, who they all assumed was Dumbledore, as they neared a gargoyle, "You will need to be sorted," he whispered something that sounded like 'creame eggs' to the gargoyle and it sprug to life and moved aside to reveal a winding staircase, they climbed and climbed until they got to the very top, Jaime thought her legs would fall off, when they arrived he told them to each sit down. There were five stools lined up, they sat down in no particular order, Jaime on the end, then Caitlyn, then Julia, then Gabriella, then Nathaniel on the other end, "So, this is how the sorting works, you put on the hat, then it will tell you what house you belong in, I don't think you would like to hear the song, and I think he would like to wait to debut it later. Now, Julia, sinse you're the eldest, you go first."
Julia put on the hat, but after about ten seconds, it yelled, "SLYTHERIN!" so loudly that Gabby fell off of her stool.
"Now, Caitlyn," Dumbledore said, handing her the hat, Caitlyn nervously stuck it on her head, and after about three minutes it yelled out loudly, "GRYFFINDOR!" Caitlyn smiled, she knew that the Weasley's were in that house, so she was happy to have someone she already knew.
"Gabriella?" Gabby smiled.
"You can call me Gabby," she said, and put on the hat, not after two seconds, it screamed, "GRYFFINDOR!" Gabby looked releived to be with Caitlyn.
"Jaime Nicole, it's your turn."
"Just Jaime, I don't like the longness of the rest of it..." she slipped the hat on, and sat for a full five minutes, the rest stared at her, she could hear the hat arguing with itself in her head whether to put her in Hufflepuff or Gryffindor, it wasn't sure, that made Jaime uncomfortable, she hoped to be with her sisters, and suddenly the hat screamed, "GRYFFIDOR!"
"Stars and Glory, Jaime! I thought it'd never finish with you!" Caitlyn exclaimed.
"Now Nathan, you'd better get a good house or we'll deck ya!" Gabby winked, Nathan put on the hat, and not a moment too soon, it screamed loudly, "HUFFLEPUFF!"
He smiled and lowered the hat onto Dumbledore's desk, he had some sort of secret regret that Julia had gotten Slytherin, he remembered Hermione speaking illy of them.
Dumbledore told them how to find the great hall, and where each table was, and they headed on down.
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a/n- I tend to oftentimes refer to Gabby and Nathan as Gabriella and Nathan, and for more info, Jaime's full first name is Jaime Nicole. Oh and thanks for the reveiws! This chapter kinda sucked though. heehee R/R please!