Chapter 7
Arianna sat with her new friends Parvati and Padma Patil in one of the compartments on the Hogwarts express, laughing at one of the jokes Padma told them. Out of the corner of her eye, Arianna spotted an old woman rolling a rattling trolley full of sweets and pastries. She rapped on the door with long bony fingers. Parvati squealed excitedly. "Sweets! I'm so hungry!" The woman slid the glass pane of the compartment open and and asked if they would like to buy any sweets. Arianna stood before the cart, overwhelmed by all the choices. She picked out a packed of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans and a chocolate frog.
The twins and Arianna sat back down and started munching on their sweets when the door slid open and a bushy head of brown hair poked in. "Have any of you seen a toad around here? A boy named Neville has lost one." The bushy haired girl asked them. Ariana shook her head "sorry, I haven't. But I'm sure that he'll turn up somewhere" she said reassuringly and smiled.
"I'm Arianna Potter. And you?" The girl began to chatter excitedly "I'm Hermione Granger. Are you really the girl who lived? I've read all about you. Did Voldemort really try to kill you? I heard that you were the only person that survived the killing curse." She said all of this so quickly that Arianna wouldn't think it was was possible. The contents of the compartment could only stare at her and process what she had just said. Hermione slapped a hand to her mouth, as if just just realized she had just blurted all that out. "I'll just...go" she backed out of the compartment, leaving the girls wondering what exactly had happened.
Later, Arianna stod in front of the oaf that was Hagrid once again. Apparently they were supposed to ride a fleet of ancient creaky boats across the lake to Hogwarts. Even she had to admit that the school was magnificent. The enormous castle sparkled in the sunset and Parvati, Padma and Arianna all agreed that it was the prettiest building they had ever seen. They climes into the boats that her grandparents had probably used. The magical boat ride was long, and made a lot of the first years queasy but it calmed Arianna down considerably.
They finally pulled up the castle and entered the large doors of the great hall. Arianna marveled at the enormous room, candles floated over the long tables and when she looked above she saw that the ceiling was enchanted to look like the sky. She turned her attention to the front of the room and rested her eyes on a tall pale man with a long silvery beard that wore wire rimmed glasses over is blue eyes that twinkled as he gazed at the first years. There was a hat sat on a stool in front of the tables. It belted out into a song. Bewildered, Arianna furrowed her brow at the hat. "I think that we are going to be sorted now!" Parvati whispered in her ear. Sorted? It sounded like they were laundry.
Turns out that sorted meant they were going to be put into houses. Padma went up first out of the trio. The hat sat on her head for a while but eventually called out "Ravenclaw!" She took off the hat and went to go sit with the other first years at the Ravenclaw table. Next was Parvati. Arianna noticed that she had crossed her fingers. 'Probably hoping she's in the same house as Padma' Arianna thought to herself.
She went through the same process as Padma except the hat called out Gryffindor. She couldn't help but feel bad for the two sisters but was interrupted when the stern looking teacher called Ms. McGonnagal said her name. She strode up to the stool with the hat, feeling everyone's eyes on her. She set the hat on her head and immediately felt its presence in her mind.
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