The Path We Choose......
Chapter 5: Aboard the Hogwarts Express and the Sorting!
(Disclaimer: Yeah that's right I don't own any of this except what I owned in the last chapter!)
"Uh, is this seat taken?" A shy timid voice asked the group huddled in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express.
"Nope, but it will be when you sit down old pal." James told him.
"Thanks." The boy had light brown hair with a hint of red or orange. He walked in slowly and sat down next to Sirius. He didn't talk, nor did he look at anyone in the compartment. The group stared at each other for a while, thinking about how to make this boy talk to them. Each with their own thought, smiled mischievously to the one next to them. It was Sirius who spoke up first.
"So, we have not yet had the pleaseure of knowing your name." He grinned at his friends.
"Remus Lupin." The boy told them, blushing a little bit.
"Remmie. Nice to meet you. I'm James, and this is my buddy Sirius Black." James stuck out his hand, and Sirius grinned, then stood up and took a bow. "This here is Kaitlyn, Sirius' pretty sister. And this is Julie, our partner in crime!" James laughed.
"Nice to meet you all." For the first time, Remus looked up at them and smiled.
For the next 20 minutes, they talked about which houses that they wanted to be in. James was just explaining why Gryffindor would be the best house for him when Severus Snape walked in.
"I see we have some brave lions in these compartment." He sneered at them, then turned and walked away.
"That was extremely odd." Sirius commented from his seat. "So let's pretend that didn't even happen. Then once we all get in the same house, we can curse him!" Sirius laughed to himself, and dozed off.
"We're there Siri. Get up or you won't get sorted you dolt." Kaitlyn pushed him off his seat and he awoke instantly.
"Wha? Oh yes, Hogwarts, sorting, pranks, Julie. Got it, let's go." He marched out of the compartment leaving Kaitlyn to herself.
The first years were greeted by the games keeper, who was to take them to the castle. He led them to some boats.
"Get in yer boats and they'll paddle ya to the castle. But don't leave without me. I'll be righ' back." The games keeper walked away, leaving the first to climb in the boats.
"Let's get in the first one, shall we boys?" James ran over to where the first boat was docked. Sirius and Remus followed him and they climbed into the boat. It took off, the other boats soon followed.
"What the? What did you do Jamsie?! You've made it move, and they're following us!" Sirius yelled. He started to laugh, finding this all funny.
"We could get in HUGE trouble for this you know." Remus told them, but was soon silenced by Kaitlyn's screaming from the boat behind theirs.
"Make it stop guys. That dude is really mad now. You made our boats move too!" She bellowed to them.
"Lighten up. It's not like we knew that the first boat was off limits or anything. This is great fun too, you see that means we've got the main/lead boat! We're in charge, haha!" James cackled.
"Oh, I know. How about a race?" Remus suggested. "Kaitlyn, get your boat level with ours. We're going to race you!" He screamed at Kaitlyn. In seconds, Kaitlyn and Julie had brought their boat along side with the guys boat.
"Alright on the count of three, we paddle, and whoever gets to the castle first is the winner! 1...2...3!" Sirius shouted. He grabbed an oar and began to row with all his might.
"That's - not- fair!" Julie yelled, gasping for breath. "They've got three people. That will make our win much more, well, better!" She laughed only for a moment, then continued to row.
They rowed until they couldn't row anymore. The other students got the gist of what they were doing, and were cheering behind them, trying to keep up to see who was winning. By the time they were close to shore, none of them could row anymore.
"Who won?" Kaitlyn asked, exhausted.
"We will! Sirius had jumped out of the boat, and dragged it to shore. The boys jumped out laughing at Kaitlyn and Julie who were besides themselves with anger.
"You cheated. Cheaters. We win we win!" Julie yelled. She used what strength left to row them to shore. "We won, we won." Julie laughed in their faces.
The students behind them were reaching the shore. They had seen the whole thing, and were voicing their opinions.
"The girls!"
"Girls all the way."
"It was the, the guys won!"
They were all silenced when Hagrid, the game keeper walked over.
"What happened? I turn my back for 2 seconds, and all the firs' years are all gone! Whose idea of a joke was it?" He was holding back him own laughter, everyone could tell he was trying to be professional.
"Sorry sir. You never told us that the first boat was off limits. We got in and whoosh! We took off." James put on an innocent face.
"I know that was my fault. Anyway I'll let it go. Oh and by the way......the boys won by a long shot!" He walked away, smiling to himself.
A loud chorus of cheers and boos could be heard from the first years.
"Oh righ'. Follow me up to the castle." Hagrid led them up a few flight of stairs, where they were greeted by Professor McGonagall.
"Good evening. When you pass through these doors, you will be sorted into your houses. Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin. Your house will be like your family. You will earn points for good deeds, and lose them for bad deeds." At this she look down at James, Sirius, Remus, Julie, and Kaitlyn. She obviously had heard about the boat race. "Will you please follow me." She turned and walked through massive, oak doors. They entered the Great Hall, hundreds of students were staring at them. Inspecting the new students; them. They reached the front of the hall, and McGonagall spoke again.
"When I call your name you will come up here and I place the hat on your head, then it will sort you. Let the Sorting begin. Friar Tony."
He was the first Ravenclaw of the night.
"Little, Kathy."
"Slytherin."
At least 10 more people were called before one of the 5 of them were called.
"Lupin, Remus."
Remus walked slowly to the stool and sat down. Only 3 seconds later the hat called out.
"Gryffindor!" Remus hopped off the stool and ran to the nearest empty seat at the Gryffindor table.
"Nett, Greg."
"Hufflepuff!"
"Potter, James."
James strutted to the front of the hall and sat down.
"Gryffindor!" It shouted without even thinking twice about it. James walked over to Remus, and then gave him a high five.
5 More people were sorted before Kaitlyn was called.
"Black, Kaitlyn."
Kaitlyn, with a big grin plastered on her face,(Sirius had just made a nasty comment about Snape) walked up to the stool. The hat took a moment to decide then shouted, "Gryffindor!"
She walked over to James and Remus and took a seat.
"Pettigrew, Peter."
A rather small boy walked up to the stool. He timidly sat down. The hat took a while deciding on where he should go.
"Gryffindor." It yelled out. Peter smiled a little, then got off the stool and sat down next to Remus.
"Diggory, Amos."
"Hufflepuff!"
"Snape, Severus."
"Slytherin." Snape walked over the the Slytherin and smirked at the Gryffindors.
"Black, Sirius." Sirius walked up to the stool, for once not doing anything silly.
"Gryffindor!" The hat yelled out. Sirius slid off the stool, and skipped over to the Gryffindor table, and sat down next to Kaitlyn.
"Malfoy, Lucius."
"Slytherin!"
A few more people were called up before Julie.
"Callosa, Julie." Julie walked shyly up to the front of the Hall. She took her seat up on the stool, and waited anxiously for the hat to sort her.
"Hmmmm....You'd do wonderful in Ravenclaw. But I sense that You would be better in...."
"Gryffindor!"
Julie hopped up. The whole Gryffindor house was clapping like mad. She took a seat next to Peter. (no room anywhere else) Ally Macko became a Slytherin and Tom Netroa was named a Ravenclaw. Professor McGonagall took her seat at the Staff Table next to Dumbledore. An older man, with long silver hair. He feebly stood up to make a speech.
"As everyone knows, the Forbidden Forest, is well, forbidden." A few laughs could be heard in the crowd. "Second, there is nothing else to say. Enjoy!" He clapped his hands, and food instantly appeared in front of Julie. He sat down and started talking to Professor Binns, the only teacher that was a ghost.
"Incredible. All five of us get sorted into the same house!" Remus said excitedly.
"Yep. And guess who brought dungbombs with him?" Sirius asked, a evil twinkle was in his eyes.
"Let me guess, James." Julie said sarcastically.
"Exactly!" Sirius smiled. "Did you really think that I would remember such a thing?"
"Actually yes." Julie smiled.
After dinner, the Gryffindor Prefect took the first years up to the Gryffindor common room. He led the students up a few stairs, and around a couple corners, when he finally stopped, in front of a portrait of a Fat Lady.
"Password?" She asked.
"Lemon Drops." The Prefect told her. The portrait swung open and revealed the red, Gryffindor common room. "This is the Gryffindor common room. The boys dormitories are on your left, girls, the same on your right." He left, letting the first years roam the common room.
"This will be just wonderful. James, what shall we destroy on this fine night?" Sirius grinned at his friend.
"Nothing of course. At least we won't destroy anything tonight." He winked at Sirius and Remus. Remus was amazed that he was being included in their friendship.
"Me too?" He just had to ask.
"Course you too! And how about Peter? Would you like to join us tonight?"
"Sure I will!" He sounded excited to be included, not the shy boy that had all seen up in front of the hall.
"And what about us?" Kaitlyn tapped her foot playfully.
"No girls tonight!" James said.
"Except in my dormitory!" Sirius piped up.
Everyone laughed at this. Then departed to their dormitories. The girls met 3 other girls that they were going to share a dorm with. Tasha, Hanna, and Jocelyn.
Julie and Kaitlyn decided to go to bed early, since they had
classes in the morning. When Julie woke up the next morning, to find
herself covered in honey. She thought it would be best to scream but
decided not to wake the other girls. She looked over at Kaitlyn, who
was covered in shaving cream. Kaitlyn was laying wide eyed looking at
herself and Julie.
"SIRIUS!!" She screamed.
~*~A/N funny funny! Thanks to my two reviewers! More reviews please!
Monkey: I came back just to be with you!
*arg*
Anyway more updates soon! I like this chapter a lot, hehe BOAT
RACING!
*pushes monkey off the window and prays to god that it dies!*
Chapter 5: Aboard the Hogwarts Express and the Sorting!
(Disclaimer: Yeah that's right I don't own any of this except what I owned in the last chapter!)
"Uh, is this seat taken?" A shy timid voice asked the group huddled in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express.
"Nope, but it will be when you sit down old pal." James told him.
"Thanks." The boy had light brown hair with a hint of red or orange. He walked in slowly and sat down next to Sirius. He didn't talk, nor did he look at anyone in the compartment. The group stared at each other for a while, thinking about how to make this boy talk to them. Each with their own thought, smiled mischievously to the one next to them. It was Sirius who spoke up first.
"So, we have not yet had the pleaseure of knowing your name." He grinned at his friends.
"Remus Lupin." The boy told them, blushing a little bit.
"Remmie. Nice to meet you. I'm James, and this is my buddy Sirius Black." James stuck out his hand, and Sirius grinned, then stood up and took a bow. "This here is Kaitlyn, Sirius' pretty sister. And this is Julie, our partner in crime!" James laughed.
"Nice to meet you all." For the first time, Remus looked up at them and smiled.
For the next 20 minutes, they talked about which houses that they wanted to be in. James was just explaining why Gryffindor would be the best house for him when Severus Snape walked in.
"I see we have some brave lions in these compartment." He sneered at them, then turned and walked away.
"That was extremely odd." Sirius commented from his seat. "So let's pretend that didn't even happen. Then once we all get in the same house, we can curse him!" Sirius laughed to himself, and dozed off.
"We're there Siri. Get up or you won't get sorted you dolt." Kaitlyn pushed him off his seat and he awoke instantly.
"Wha? Oh yes, Hogwarts, sorting, pranks, Julie. Got it, let's go." He marched out of the compartment leaving Kaitlyn to herself.
The first years were greeted by the games keeper, who was to take them to the castle. He led them to some boats.
"Get in yer boats and they'll paddle ya to the castle. But don't leave without me. I'll be righ' back." The games keeper walked away, leaving the first to climb in the boats.
"Let's get in the first one, shall we boys?" James ran over to where the first boat was docked. Sirius and Remus followed him and they climbed into the boat. It took off, the other boats soon followed.
"What the? What did you do Jamsie?! You've made it move, and they're following us!" Sirius yelled. He started to laugh, finding this all funny.
"We could get in HUGE trouble for this you know." Remus told them, but was soon silenced by Kaitlyn's screaming from the boat behind theirs.
"Make it stop guys. That dude is really mad now. You made our boats move too!" She bellowed to them.
"Lighten up. It's not like we knew that the first boat was off limits or anything. This is great fun too, you see that means we've got the main/lead boat! We're in charge, haha!" James cackled.
"Oh, I know. How about a race?" Remus suggested. "Kaitlyn, get your boat level with ours. We're going to race you!" He screamed at Kaitlyn. In seconds, Kaitlyn and Julie had brought their boat along side with the guys boat.
"Alright on the count of three, we paddle, and whoever gets to the castle first is the winner! 1...2...3!" Sirius shouted. He grabbed an oar and began to row with all his might.
"That's - not- fair!" Julie yelled, gasping for breath. "They've got three people. That will make our win much more, well, better!" She laughed only for a moment, then continued to row.
They rowed until they couldn't row anymore. The other students got the gist of what they were doing, and were cheering behind them, trying to keep up to see who was winning. By the time they were close to shore, none of them could row anymore.
"Who won?" Kaitlyn asked, exhausted.
"We will! Sirius had jumped out of the boat, and dragged it to shore. The boys jumped out laughing at Kaitlyn and Julie who were besides themselves with anger.
"You cheated. Cheaters. We win we win!" Julie yelled. She used what strength left to row them to shore. "We won, we won." Julie laughed in their faces.
The students behind them were reaching the shore. They had seen the whole thing, and were voicing their opinions.
"The girls!"
"Girls all the way."
"It was the, the guys won!"
They were all silenced when Hagrid, the game keeper walked over.
"What happened? I turn my back for 2 seconds, and all the firs' years are all gone! Whose idea of a joke was it?" He was holding back him own laughter, everyone could tell he was trying to be professional.
"Sorry sir. You never told us that the first boat was off limits. We got in and whoosh! We took off." James put on an innocent face.
"I know that was my fault. Anyway I'll let it go. Oh and by the way......the boys won by a long shot!" He walked away, smiling to himself.
A loud chorus of cheers and boos could be heard from the first years.
"Oh righ'. Follow me up to the castle." Hagrid led them up a few flight of stairs, where they were greeted by Professor McGonagall.
"Good evening. When you pass through these doors, you will be sorted into your houses. Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin. Your house will be like your family. You will earn points for good deeds, and lose them for bad deeds." At this she look down at James, Sirius, Remus, Julie, and Kaitlyn. She obviously had heard about the boat race. "Will you please follow me." She turned and walked through massive, oak doors. They entered the Great Hall, hundreds of students were staring at them. Inspecting the new students; them. They reached the front of the hall, and McGonagall spoke again.
"When I call your name you will come up here and I place the hat on your head, then it will sort you. Let the Sorting begin. Friar Tony."
He was the first Ravenclaw of the night.
"Little, Kathy."
"Slytherin."
At least 10 more people were called before one of the 5 of them were called.
"Lupin, Remus."
Remus walked slowly to the stool and sat down. Only 3 seconds later the hat called out.
"Gryffindor!" Remus hopped off the stool and ran to the nearest empty seat at the Gryffindor table.
"Nett, Greg."
"Hufflepuff!"
"Potter, James."
James strutted to the front of the hall and sat down.
"Gryffindor!" It shouted without even thinking twice about it. James walked over to Remus, and then gave him a high five.
5 More people were sorted before Kaitlyn was called.
"Black, Kaitlyn."
Kaitlyn, with a big grin plastered on her face,(Sirius had just made a nasty comment about Snape) walked up to the stool. The hat took a moment to decide then shouted, "Gryffindor!"
She walked over to James and Remus and took a seat.
"Pettigrew, Peter."
A rather small boy walked up to the stool. He timidly sat down. The hat took a while deciding on where he should go.
"Gryffindor." It yelled out. Peter smiled a little, then got off the stool and sat down next to Remus.
"Diggory, Amos."
"Hufflepuff!"
"Snape, Severus."
"Slytherin." Snape walked over the the Slytherin and smirked at the Gryffindors.
"Black, Sirius." Sirius walked up to the stool, for once not doing anything silly.
"Gryffindor!" The hat yelled out. Sirius slid off the stool, and skipped over to the Gryffindor table, and sat down next to Kaitlyn.
"Malfoy, Lucius."
"Slytherin!"
A few more people were called up before Julie.
"Callosa, Julie." Julie walked shyly up to the front of the Hall. She took her seat up on the stool, and waited anxiously for the hat to sort her.
"Hmmmm....You'd do wonderful in Ravenclaw. But I sense that You would be better in...."
"Gryffindor!"
Julie hopped up. The whole Gryffindor house was clapping like mad. She took a seat next to Peter. (no room anywhere else) Ally Macko became a Slytherin and Tom Netroa was named a Ravenclaw. Professor McGonagall took her seat at the Staff Table next to Dumbledore. An older man, with long silver hair. He feebly stood up to make a speech.
"As everyone knows, the Forbidden Forest, is well, forbidden." A few laughs could be heard in the crowd. "Second, there is nothing else to say. Enjoy!" He clapped his hands, and food instantly appeared in front of Julie. He sat down and started talking to Professor Binns, the only teacher that was a ghost.
"Incredible. All five of us get sorted into the same house!" Remus said excitedly.
"Yep. And guess who brought dungbombs with him?" Sirius asked, a evil twinkle was in his eyes.
"Let me guess, James." Julie said sarcastically.
"Exactly!" Sirius smiled. "Did you really think that I would remember such a thing?"
"Actually yes." Julie smiled.
After dinner, the Gryffindor Prefect took the first years up to the Gryffindor common room. He led the students up a few stairs, and around a couple corners, when he finally stopped, in front of a portrait of a Fat Lady.
"Password?" She asked.
"Lemon Drops." The Prefect told her. The portrait swung open and revealed the red, Gryffindor common room. "This is the Gryffindor common room. The boys dormitories are on your left, girls, the same on your right." He left, letting the first years roam the common room.
"This will be just wonderful. James, what shall we destroy on this fine night?" Sirius grinned at his friend.
"Nothing of course. At least we won't destroy anything tonight." He winked at Sirius and Remus. Remus was amazed that he was being included in their friendship.
"Me too?" He just had to ask.
"Course you too! And how about Peter? Would you like to join us tonight?"
"Sure I will!" He sounded excited to be included, not the shy boy that had all seen up in front of the hall.
"And what about us?" Kaitlyn tapped her foot playfully.
"No girls tonight!" James said.
"Except in my dormitory!" Sirius piped up.
Everyone laughed at this. Then departed to their dormitories. The girls met 3 other girls that they were going to share a dorm with. Tasha, Hanna, and Jocelyn.
Julie and Kaitlyn decided to go to bed early, since they had
classes in the morning. When Julie woke up the next morning, to find
herself covered in honey. She thought it would be best to scream but
decided not to wake the other girls. She looked over at Kaitlyn, who
was covered in shaving cream. Kaitlyn was laying wide eyed looking at
herself and Julie.
"SIRIUS!!" She screamed.
~*~A/N funny funny! Thanks to my two reviewers! More reviews please!
Monkey: I came back just to be with you!
*arg*
Anyway more updates soon! I like this chapter a lot, hehe BOAT
RACING!
*pushes monkey off the window and prays to god that it dies!*