p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Blaise, Theo and I hopped off the steaming express, trying not to get walked over by the overexcited first years on the platform./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"My first impression of Hogsmede station was that it was incredibly chilly. I wrapped my winter cloak even more tightly around my small body, and started making my way through the crowd. The sun had already set; lanterns were placed on the ground to pave the way for the students./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"As I looked around I saw a small glimpse of the somewhat faraway village. A soft cloud of mist was setting all around it, allowing the lights coming from the little cottages and shops to illuminate the area in the most delightful way./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was mystified by once again witnessing a place that originally belonged to my imagination come to life before my eyes. Would I ever get used to all of this?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Firs' years this way! " I heard a low baritone voice say from a distance./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Shaking my head in attempt to compose myself, I kept on going through the platform. Theo and Blaise were looking just as curious as me, and we were all lost in thought when we came to a sudden halt as the other students had stopped. Before us, a giant man with long brown hair and beard, dark winter clothes and a genuine smile was waiting with a rather big lantern./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emAnd here's Hagrid/em, I concluded looking at the man./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Firs' years, follow me!" he said, motioning to go his way. The half-giant then turned on his heels and headed forward, a sea of children on his trail./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Blaise looked my way with the most skeptic expression I had ever seen an eleven year old make. I shrugged, but I could feel a small smirk appearing on my face./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"We walked through a narrow path completely surrounded by trees. It was so dark I had to make sure I wouldn't step on fallen branches or exposed roots. The children all around me were talking in animated whispers, barely able to contain their anticipation./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Ye' all get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec" the giant called over his shoulder, "jus' round this bend here"./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The path opened onto a big, black lake. And on the other side of it, elevated on a rocky mountain, there was a magnificent castle. It was medieval looking, with turrets and towers crowning the building and illuminating the area./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I wish I could have enjoyed more of the view of all the school grounds from where I was, but because of the late hour of the day, the castle was the only thing I could clearly see. Who am I kidding, I also think I wouldn't have been able to look at anything BUT the castle in that moment, as I felt my heart swell up in my chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It was so ridiculously beautiful, and REAL. I kept repeating that last word in my head over and over again, as if trying to validate my feelings./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The night was particularly dark as only a quarter of the moon was high up in the sky, the little light it was shining was reflected on the dark waters of the lake. Once we reached its edge, Hagrid instructed us to get on tiny boats in groups of four./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I followed Blaise and Theo into one and a fourth student, a short boy who introduced himself as Terry Boot, soon joined us./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emRavenclaw?/em My mind tried to recall as we settled on the wooden boat. I couldn't remember if he was an interesting character at all, but since I couldn't even confidently state his house, I gathered he was another background student in Harry's year./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"No one was really able to speak at that point, besides the occasional "Oh!"s and "Ah!"s that we'd all emit as the little boats came closer to the castle grounds./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"When we finally reached land, we all started walking up to the entrance of the school./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Theo was telling me quietly about this book he had read called "Hogwarts, A History", where he found out that muggles can't see the school but instead find an old ruin with a sign saying: "DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE"./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Quite the nifty distraction from the best magical school of witchcraft and wizardry ever./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"In the meantime, a pudgy looking boy had walked up to Blaise and was trying to converse with him, to no avail since he barley ever responded or turned his way. He looked oddly familiar, with that bowl cut and round form./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Immediately after that thought, another child had come next to Blaise, slightly taller and leaner than the pervious one, but with a similar dumb expression on his face./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Wait a second…/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Crabbe, Goyle!" I heard a boy call out with a slightly high-pitched quality to his voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I looked to my right where a white-blond student with pointed features was approaching our little group. He didn't even spend a second gazing my or Theo's way, he seemed in quite the bad mood. I had no doubt on who he was./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""How many times do I have to tell you not to leave me ever? Come on" he complained crossing his arms./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The two who were by Blaise's side immediately scrambled to join the blond, who then left without another word and walked faster towards the front of the students./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I knew I had to feign ignorance on most of the people and things pertaining to this world, so I quickened my steps and caught up to Blaise./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""And just who were they?" I said unimpressed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The boy turned to me, rolled his eyes and sighed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Just a bunch of losers" he said./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Seeing how my intent gaze was pushing for more details, he added "The two gorillas were Crabbe and Goyle, personal slaves of the one and only Draco Malfoy, the short albino who came last"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing at his description. I kept my mouth at a thin line to feign disinterest, but I could feel the corners of my lips turning upwards./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""And they're not your friends?" I asked innocently./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Please, Blaise hates Draco", said Theo out of the blue, joining us./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Oh?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Yep, can't stand him. And honestly, he is so annoying and full of himself that I don't blame him. But now that I think about it, maybe they aren't friends because they're too much alike" Theo finished with a small chuckle./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Blaise reached him with his fist and punched Theo in the arm./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""HEY!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""So you learn not to be such a swot"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What does that have to do with anything? I was just saying that you're not that diff.. OUCH, Blaise stop!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They were still being immature little children (well, because they WERE children, so I guess they were kind of entitled to), when we reached the oak doors of the castle./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Hagrid opened it up for us and allowed all the first years to get inside the entrance hall. Torches lit up the space, but their lights didn't reach the ceilings of the room for how tall they were. Almost all walls were covered in moving portraits, and a big marble staircase was positioned at the very center of the place./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"We all made our way up the stairs and climbed up to the first floor, where a tall lady wearing emerald robes and a pointed hat was waiting for us with a stern expression./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"My first impression of Hogsmede station was that it was incredibly chilly. I wrapped my winter cloak even more tightly around my small body, and started making my way through the crowd. The sun had already set; lanterns were placed on the ground to pave the way for the students./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"As I looked around I saw a small glimpse of the somewhat faraway village. A soft cloud of mist was setting all around it, allowing the lights coming from the little cottages and shops to illuminate the area in the most delightful way./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was mystified by once again witnessing a place that originally belonged to my imagination come to life before my eyes. Would I ever get used to all of this?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Firs' years this way! " I heard a low baritone voice say from a distance./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Shaking my head in attempt to compose myself, I kept on going through the platform. Theo and Blaise were looking just as curious as me, and we were all lost in thought when we came to a sudden halt as the other students had stopped. Before us, a giant man with long brown hair and beard, dark winter clothes and a genuine smile was waiting with a rather big lantern./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emAnd here's Hagrid/em, I concluded looking at the man./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Firs' years, follow me!" he said, motioning to go his way. The half-giant then turned on his heels and headed forward, a sea of children on his trail./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Blaise looked my way with the most skeptic expression I had ever seen an eleven year old make. I shrugged, but I could feel a small smirk appearing on my face./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"We walked through a narrow path completely surrounded by trees. It was so dark I had to make sure I wouldn't step on fallen branches or exposed roots. The children all around me were talking in animated whispers, barely able to contain their anticipation./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Ye' all get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec" the giant called over his shoulder, "jus' round this bend here"./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The path opened onto a big, black lake. And on the other side of it, elevated on a rocky mountain, there was a magnificent castle. It was medieval looking, with turrets and towers crowning the building and illuminating the area./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I wish I could have enjoyed more of the view of all the school grounds from where I was, but because of the late hour of the day, the castle was the only thing I could clearly see. Who am I kidding, I also think I wouldn't have been able to look at anything BUT the castle in that moment, as I felt my heart swell up in my chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It was so ridiculously beautiful, and REAL. I kept repeating that last word in my head over and over again, as if trying to validate my feelings./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The night was particularly dark as only a quarter of the moon was high up in the sky, the little light it was shining was reflected on the dark waters of the lake. Once we reached its edge, Hagrid instructed us to get on tiny boats in groups of four./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I followed Blaise and Theo into one and a fourth student, a short boy who introduced himself as Terry Boot, soon joined us./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emRavenclaw?/em My mind tried to recall as we settled on the wooden boat. I couldn't remember if he was an interesting character at all, but since I couldn't even confidently state his house, I gathered he was another background student in Harry's year./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"No one was really able to speak at that point, besides the occasional "Oh!"s and "Ah!"s that we'd all emit as the little boats came closer to the castle grounds./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"When we finally reached land, we all started walking up to the entrance of the school./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Theo was telling me quietly about this book he had read called "Hogwarts, A History", where he found out that muggles can't see the school but instead find an old ruin with a sign saying: "DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE"./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Quite the nifty distraction from the best magical school of witchcraft and wizardry ever./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"In the meantime, a pudgy looking boy had walked up to Blaise and was trying to converse with him, to no avail since he barley ever responded or turned his way. He looked oddly familiar, with that bowl cut and round form./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Immediately after that thought, another child had come next to Blaise, slightly taller and leaner than the pervious one, but with a similar dumb expression on his face./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Wait a second…/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Crabbe, Goyle!" I heard a boy call out with a slightly high-pitched quality to his voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I looked to my right where a white-blond student with pointed features was approaching our little group. He didn't even spend a second gazing my or Theo's way, he seemed in quite the bad mood. I had no doubt on who he was./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""How many times do I have to tell you not to leave me ever? Come on" he complained crossing his arms./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The two who were by Blaise's side immediately scrambled to join the blond, who then left without another word and walked faster towards the front of the students./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I knew I had to feign ignorance on most of the people and things pertaining to this world, so I quickened my steps and caught up to Blaise./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""And just who were they?" I said unimpressed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The boy turned to me, rolled his eyes and sighed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Just a bunch of losers" he said./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Seeing how my intent gaze was pushing for more details, he added "The two gorillas were Crabbe and Goyle, personal slaves of the one and only Draco Malfoy, the short albino who came last"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing at his description. I kept my mouth at a thin line to feign disinterest, but I could feel the corners of my lips turning upwards./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""And they're not your friends?" I asked innocently./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Please, Blaise hates Draco", said Theo out of the blue, joining us./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Oh?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Yep, can't stand him. And honestly, he is so annoying and full of himself that I don't blame him. But now that I think about it, maybe they aren't friends because they're too much alike" Theo finished with a small chuckle./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Blaise reached him with his fist and punched Theo in the arm./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""HEY!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""So you learn not to be such a swot"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What does that have to do with anything? I was just saying that you're not that diff.. OUCH, Blaise stop!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They were still being immature little children (well, because they WERE children, so I guess they were kind of entitled to), when we reached the oak doors of the castle./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Hagrid opened it up for us and allowed all the first years to get inside the entrance hall. Torches lit up the space, but their lights didn't reach the ceilings of the room for how tall they were. Almost all walls were covered in moving portraits, and a big marble staircase was positioned at the very center of the place./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"We all made our way up the stairs and climbed up to the first floor, where a tall lady wearing emerald robes and a pointed hat was waiting for us with a stern expression./p