A few hours later…
"Attention passengers, we'll be arriving and stopping in Hogsmeade station soon. Get yourselves ready before our arrival." said a male voice from the speakers hanging on the ceiling to the new and old students before the male voice fell silent inside the train.
After Ruriko, Bethany, Hanameel, Blaise and Theodore (and the other students) heard the announcement from the speakers, the 3 girls told both Blaise and Theodore to step out of the compartment and give them privacy to change their clothes, which both Blaise and Theodore did as they step out of the compartment to give the 3 girls privacy and after Ruriko, Bethany and Hanameel are done in changing their clothes, they step out and let both Blaise and Theodore into the compartment to change their clothes too and once they're also done changing their clothes, Ruriko, Bethany, Hanameel, Blaise and Theodore followed the other students walked out of the train (after it stopped in Hogsmeade station) and onto the platform before they heard a loud male voice calling out to their right, turned to look and saw a tan-skinned, long and bushy black-haired (with equally black bushy moustache and beard), brown-eyed tall and fat-looking man wearing an old and faded-looking brown shirt with an old black vest over it, long faded brown pants and brown boots on his feet.
"Merlin, I've never seen such a huge-looking man like him." said Hanameel with surprise and concern looks on her face at the tall and fat-looking man.
"Neither do I. He must be a half-giant or something else, O'Rourke." said Theodore.
"Nott boy may have a point about that huge man being a half-giant or something else, Ruriko." said Sonya's to Ruriko from within her soul.
"It's obvious by looking at how huge and tall the man is." scoffed another female voice within Ruriko's soul.
"Perhaps, Sonya, Sedna." said Ruriko to Sonya and the second female voice named Sedna.
"First years, first years. Over here!" yell the man to the students who are first years and they approach and stop in front of the man while the other older-looking students left in a different way. "Right, now that you first years are here, follow me." said the man to the first years students before he turned and left the platform, walked down a pathway toward a large lake where dozens of wooden boats floated on the lake.
"No more than four to a boat." said the man to the first year students before the man step into and sat on a single boat by himself while Ruriko, Bethany, Hanameel and an unknown girl step into and shared a boat, both Blaise and Theodore step into another boat with 2 other boys and after all the first year students do so, the boats began turning and moving themselves and their passengers across the lake toward Hogwarts.
"Whoa, so Hogwarts school is actually a huge castle, huh? It's quite the amazing-looking castle." thought Ruriko with an awed look on her face once she saw how Hogwarts look like.
"Indeed, Ruriko." said a male voice approvingly to Ruriko about Hogwarts castle.
"It is quite impressive, for an English castle." said a second male voice.
"Now now, there's no need for you to compare Hogwarts castle with the castles in Japan, Okuninushi." said Ruriko sternly to the second male voice named Okuninushi.
"Right, of course." said Okuninushi.
After a few minutes, the boats and their young passengers arrived and stopped at the rocky bank near Hogwarts before Ruriko, Bethany, Hanameel, Blaise, Theodore, their fellow students and the huge and tall man got off the boats before the man turned and began bringing them up the steps toward Hogwarts and they stop in front of a huge black double doors with Professor Mcgonagall standing in front of the doors.
"Here's the first years, Professor." said the huge man politely to Professor McGonagall.
"Thank you, Hagrid. I'll take over from here." said Professor McGonagall politely back to the huge man named Hagrid (who nodded before he turned and left) before she turned around, take out and wave her wand to open the doors and telling the first years to follow her into a small meeting room.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, first years. In a few moments I'll be taking you all into the hall where the sorting ceremony will commence, you will then be sorted into one of four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Once you are sorted into your new house, your house will become your family, during the year if you behave you can earn house points, any misbehaviour will cause you to lose points. At the end of the year the house with the most points will win the house cup. Now, excuse me while I leave the room to do something else and will be back soon." said Professor McGonagall sternly and firmly to them before she left the room and soon after Professor McGonagall left, Ruriko heard and saw the red-haired, freckled-faced boy started looking around at the other students for someone.
"Still looking for me, huh? As if I'd reveal myself and become friends to a "Girl-Who-Lived" fanboy like you." thought Ruriko with an annoy look on her face at the red-haired, freckled-faced boy.
"From the looks of it, yes, he is still looking for you and she's back." said Okuninushi concernly to Ruriko about before Okuninushi fell silent and Professor McGonagall turned and lead them out of the meeting room and toward another room.