The First Day
The Hogwarts train rolled up to the school and all the students excitedly deparated it with their luggage at hand. Ron, Hermione and their new friend, Joanna were walking in a tiny group while Harry and Laura strayed behind enjoying the conversation they were holding Just a few steps behind Harry, Ginny was walking trying to eavesdrop into their conversation.
"Ginny? What's wrong?", called Ambrosia, Ginny friend who noticed her strange behavior.
"Huh?", said Ginny torn away from her concentration on hearing what Harry and Laura were talking about. "Oh! I'm fine, fine", she said with an akward smile.
"No...I know something is wrong. Just tell me. Please?"
Ginny pulled Ambrosia aside and began to whisper in a low toned voice.
"Well, remember on the train ride here, I told you Harry started to flirt with me? Well, now he met a new girl and I think he likes her" she said in a dissapointing tone.
"Oh hun! Don't worry about it!", replied Ambrosia. "There's still always Neville! He has a crush on you! Why don't you go for him?"
"NEVILLE?!", Ginny replied with shock. "Are you serious? You know I've had a crush on Harry ever since I laid eyes on him! I'm not giving up now! I'll somehow her that girl away from him...just how is the question..."
"First years an new commers, follow me!" shouted Professor McGonagall.
"I guess that means me!" Laura said nervously to Harry once they finally caught up with Ron, Hermione and Joanna. "Ready Joanna?"
"Yea! I can't wait!" she replied in a loud voice.
"What do we have to do to get sorted?" Laura asked generally.
"Well," Ron began, "There are four houses, as you know. Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. For each house, there is a dragon. You fight each dragon and whenever you cant slay another, you get put in a house depending on which dragon you get up to. The Norwegin Ridegback is the last dragon to be put into Gryffindor. Thats what I got into." he finished proudly.
Harry chuckled a little at Lauras shocked facial expression. Joanna's mouth was open, but no voice was coming out (for once). Then Ron burst into laughter.
"HAHA! I'm only joking!! he blurted outloud.
"All you have to do is put on the Sorting Hat and it'll shout out which house you should be in"
Joanna released a long breathe and Laura's shocked expression went to one of relief.
"Oh thank God! I thought you were serious!" Laura said while playfully smacking Ron in the arm.
"Do you really think you'd have to slay a dragon?" said Hermione with a slight giggle.
"Well, things are so different in New York so you never know." Laura said.
"This way" said Professor McGonagall as she lef Joanna and Laura by the shoulder into a room full of First Years. Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way to the Great Hall.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts. You will soon be sorted into houses. The houses are as follows. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. This is a very old tradition that goes back many centuries and I ask that you give it respect as if it were your own tradition. You will enter the Great Hall and sit near the Head Table. There, you will be asked for silence as the Sorting Ceremony takes place. Once sorted, please make your way to your house table and wait for the others to finish. Enjoy your stay at Hogwarts"
Professor McGonagall said this like she rehearsed it year after year. All the First Years stood in the front tremblin with fear. Laura, Joanna and a few other transfer students stood together in a clump and waited until the doors leading to the Great Hall flung open.
At last the doors did open to reveal a hall full of students and teachers. The moment Laura walked in, she looked up. The ceiling had a spell cast upon it to make it look like the nights sky. If it was cloudy out, the ceiling would have clouds, and if it was sunny, the ceiling would show the bright cheery sun. It was night at that time. A beautiful crystal clear night. Laura starred at the ceiling gazing at the stars in amazment. She greatly adored star gazing, and could spend hours just watching them move westwards in the nights sky. Joanna on the other hand looked at the people. She was a more outgoing peron and loved to talk. She searched the students looking for cute boys and people that she would want to make friends with. She started searching the Slytherin table for Malfoys bright blonde hair. Luckily, she found him and eyed him while she made her way down to the Head Table. Laura wasn't such a outgoing person like Joanna. She kept more to herself and loved nature. She loved spending time watching animals and the sky. Instead of talking about her feelings, like Joanna, she wrote them down into beautiful poetry.
The group of new students finally reached the Head table and there, Professor McGonagall wheeled out a stool with an old, beaten up hat on it. The hat twitched a few times and then burst out into song.
"Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find,
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
You tops hats sleek and tal,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap then all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart.
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafriad of toil.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind.
Oh perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're safe in hands (thought I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
Once the song was done and the hat was still, the students cheered. Then Professor McGonagall started calling out names.
"Danial Albon!"
Danial took the hat and put it on his head. Almost immediatly, the hat shouted out "Ravenclaw!", Then Danial made his way to the cheering Ravenclaw table. This went on for quiet sometime. Somewhere between Nicole Carade and Peter Ruane, Ron fell asleep. He woke up just in time to see Joanna being sorted.
"Allyson Sanders", shouted Professor McGonagall.
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Jimmy Sevatas"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Christopher Silveri"
"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat before little Chris even put it on.
"Joanna Schrek"
Ron, Hermione and Harry cheered her on and wished she got into Gryffindor. Joanna slowly made her way up to the stool, took the hat and put it on her head.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Joanna squealed with delight and was so excited she got put into Gryffindor that she ran to the table with the Sorting Hat still on her head. Laughter from the students made her bring it back. She took it as a joke too, because she was laughing at her silly mistake.
"We have awhile before we reach Laura! Her last name is at the end of the alphebet!"
After another 10 minutes, Gryffindor gained another 6 people, and finally it was Lauras turn. "Laura White"
Laura approached the hat. She wanted so bad to be in Gryffindor with her friends but she had a fear that she wouldn't be put in that house. She slowly reached for the hat and put it on. The hat took a moment and finally spoke.
"Hmm. Tough decision you are. I think you'll be best in Slytherin. You'd make a great witch there. But I see you want to be in Gryffindor with your friends. So then. GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted.
Harry cheered the loudest out of the whole table. He was so excited to see that Laura would join his house. Laura ran over to the table and hugged Joanna.
"Im in Gryffindor! I'm in Gryffinor!" she said with excitment.
"Congrats! Now we can be in the same house together!" said Harry as he gently touched her shoulder. Then the hall grew quiet and all the students looked to the Head Table where Albus Dumbledore was standing waving his hands for silence.
"Welcome to yet another year at Hogwarts my fine students. Now if you would all kindly take your seats and we will begin the feast." he said loudly.
All the students sat down and waited pateintly, and soon enough, food started appearing all over the table. There was so much of a selection. They had pizza rolls, sandwhich heros, spegetti and meatballs, and plenty of other meals. Ron and Harry filled their plates the most and Hermione was carefully dripping tomatoe sauce all over her spegetti. Laura and Joanna helped themselves to food to. Joanna had a pizza roll with peperoni, while Laura had grilled chicken fingers and barbeque sauce. The five of them ate until they couldnt fit one more bite, then they knew it was time to go to bed.
"Follow us!" Harry told Laura and Joanna. "We got the password to enter our Common Room. It's shishcabob. Just say it to the fat lady in the portrait and she'll-"
"Whoa whoa! Who you callin' fat?" Shouted the Fat Lady from her Portrait hole.
"Oh my God it talks!", Laura said with a amazement.
"Of course it talks! Don't pictures talk in New York?"
"Oh no! They outlawed it because Muggles nad Wizards are mixed together in society. Not like yours where they are separate. If a Muggle saw a talking picture, I don't know what they'd think!" Joanna said.
"Shishcabob!" Harry shouted at the Fat Lady.
"I'm not letting you in! You called me fat before! Now you all can stand outside!" she yelled back.
"Please let us in! Harry was only joking! Of course you're not fat! You're beautiful!" Hermione said in a flattering voice.
"Only if he apologizes!" she wailed back.
"Harry! Apologize!" Hermione ordered.
"Alright! Sorry! Sorry! Now let us in!" Harry said quickly as he waited anxsiously to get inside his Common Room.
"You don't mean it!" The Fat Lady Portrait said stubbornly.
"I'm sorry", Harry began, "Now can you please let us in? There are people piling up out here."
The portrait swung open to reveal a round room with big comfy arm chairs all over the place. There was a fire place towards the back of the room that was burning brightly and little tables around it for studying. The room was decorated in the Gryffindor colors, scarlet and gold, and there was a banner hanging up saying "Welcome Back To School!"
Harry, Ron and Hermione ran in, not even looking around. They were used to it. They took their normal arm chairs right next to the fire place. Laura and Joanna, on the other hand, strolled in slowly, looking around at all the walls and admiring the decorations. Then Harry motioned at them to come take a seat and relax.
"You like it here so far?" Harry whispered to Laura.
"Oh yes! All the people I met so far are really nice. Especially Ron, Hermione and yourself!"
Harry felt himself go flush. Meanwhile, Ginny was sitting two tables away from their arm chairs, listening jealously at what Laura was saying to Harry.
"Well, I'm a bit tired now. Where is the dormatory? I think I should go to bed.", Laura said to Harry after they talked for about ten mintues.
"It's right through that-"
"I'll show her!" shouted Ginny as she stood up from her table. "Hi! I'm Ginny. What's your name?"
"I'm Laura.", she said with a smile.
"Well come this way."
Ginny led Laura down the dark hallway, still devising a plan to get her away from Harry.
The Hogwarts train rolled up to the school and all the students excitedly deparated it with their luggage at hand. Ron, Hermione and their new friend, Joanna were walking in a tiny group while Harry and Laura strayed behind enjoying the conversation they were holding Just a few steps behind Harry, Ginny was walking trying to eavesdrop into their conversation.
"Ginny? What's wrong?", called Ambrosia, Ginny friend who noticed her strange behavior.
"Huh?", said Ginny torn away from her concentration on hearing what Harry and Laura were talking about. "Oh! I'm fine, fine", she said with an akward smile.
"No...I know something is wrong. Just tell me. Please?"
Ginny pulled Ambrosia aside and began to whisper in a low toned voice.
"Well, remember on the train ride here, I told you Harry started to flirt with me? Well, now he met a new girl and I think he likes her" she said in a dissapointing tone.
"Oh hun! Don't worry about it!", replied Ambrosia. "There's still always Neville! He has a crush on you! Why don't you go for him?"
"NEVILLE?!", Ginny replied with shock. "Are you serious? You know I've had a crush on Harry ever since I laid eyes on him! I'm not giving up now! I'll somehow her that girl away from him...just how is the question..."
"First years an new commers, follow me!" shouted Professor McGonagall.
"I guess that means me!" Laura said nervously to Harry once they finally caught up with Ron, Hermione and Joanna. "Ready Joanna?"
"Yea! I can't wait!" she replied in a loud voice.
"What do we have to do to get sorted?" Laura asked generally.
"Well," Ron began, "There are four houses, as you know. Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. For each house, there is a dragon. You fight each dragon and whenever you cant slay another, you get put in a house depending on which dragon you get up to. The Norwegin Ridegback is the last dragon to be put into Gryffindor. Thats what I got into." he finished proudly.
Harry chuckled a little at Lauras shocked facial expression. Joanna's mouth was open, but no voice was coming out (for once). Then Ron burst into laughter.
"HAHA! I'm only joking!! he blurted outloud.
"All you have to do is put on the Sorting Hat and it'll shout out which house you should be in"
Joanna released a long breathe and Laura's shocked expression went to one of relief.
"Oh thank God! I thought you were serious!" Laura said while playfully smacking Ron in the arm.
"Do you really think you'd have to slay a dragon?" said Hermione with a slight giggle.
"Well, things are so different in New York so you never know." Laura said.
"This way" said Professor McGonagall as she lef Joanna and Laura by the shoulder into a room full of First Years. Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way to the Great Hall.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts. You will soon be sorted into houses. The houses are as follows. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. This is a very old tradition that goes back many centuries and I ask that you give it respect as if it were your own tradition. You will enter the Great Hall and sit near the Head Table. There, you will be asked for silence as the Sorting Ceremony takes place. Once sorted, please make your way to your house table and wait for the others to finish. Enjoy your stay at Hogwarts"
Professor McGonagall said this like she rehearsed it year after year. All the First Years stood in the front tremblin with fear. Laura, Joanna and a few other transfer students stood together in a clump and waited until the doors leading to the Great Hall flung open.
At last the doors did open to reveal a hall full of students and teachers. The moment Laura walked in, she looked up. The ceiling had a spell cast upon it to make it look like the nights sky. If it was cloudy out, the ceiling would have clouds, and if it was sunny, the ceiling would show the bright cheery sun. It was night at that time. A beautiful crystal clear night. Laura starred at the ceiling gazing at the stars in amazment. She greatly adored star gazing, and could spend hours just watching them move westwards in the nights sky. Joanna on the other hand looked at the people. She was a more outgoing peron and loved to talk. She searched the students looking for cute boys and people that she would want to make friends with. She started searching the Slytherin table for Malfoys bright blonde hair. Luckily, she found him and eyed him while she made her way down to the Head Table. Laura wasn't such a outgoing person like Joanna. She kept more to herself and loved nature. She loved spending time watching animals and the sky. Instead of talking about her feelings, like Joanna, she wrote them down into beautiful poetry.
The group of new students finally reached the Head table and there, Professor McGonagall wheeled out a stool with an old, beaten up hat on it. The hat twitched a few times and then burst out into song.
"Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find,
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
You tops hats sleek and tal,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap then all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart.
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafriad of toil.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind.
Oh perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're safe in hands (thought I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
Once the song was done and the hat was still, the students cheered. Then Professor McGonagall started calling out names.
"Danial Albon!"
Danial took the hat and put it on his head. Almost immediatly, the hat shouted out "Ravenclaw!", Then Danial made his way to the cheering Ravenclaw table. This went on for quiet sometime. Somewhere between Nicole Carade and Peter Ruane, Ron fell asleep. He woke up just in time to see Joanna being sorted.
"Allyson Sanders", shouted Professor McGonagall.
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Jimmy Sevatas"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Christopher Silveri"
"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat before little Chris even put it on.
"Joanna Schrek"
Ron, Hermione and Harry cheered her on and wished she got into Gryffindor. Joanna slowly made her way up to the stool, took the hat and put it on her head.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Joanna squealed with delight and was so excited she got put into Gryffindor that she ran to the table with the Sorting Hat still on her head. Laughter from the students made her bring it back. She took it as a joke too, because she was laughing at her silly mistake.
"We have awhile before we reach Laura! Her last name is at the end of the alphebet!"
After another 10 minutes, Gryffindor gained another 6 people, and finally it was Lauras turn. "Laura White"
Laura approached the hat. She wanted so bad to be in Gryffindor with her friends but she had a fear that she wouldn't be put in that house. She slowly reached for the hat and put it on. The hat took a moment and finally spoke.
"Hmm. Tough decision you are. I think you'll be best in Slytherin. You'd make a great witch there. But I see you want to be in Gryffindor with your friends. So then. GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted.
Harry cheered the loudest out of the whole table. He was so excited to see that Laura would join his house. Laura ran over to the table and hugged Joanna.
"Im in Gryffindor! I'm in Gryffinor!" she said with excitment.
"Congrats! Now we can be in the same house together!" said Harry as he gently touched her shoulder. Then the hall grew quiet and all the students looked to the Head Table where Albus Dumbledore was standing waving his hands for silence.
"Welcome to yet another year at Hogwarts my fine students. Now if you would all kindly take your seats and we will begin the feast." he said loudly.
All the students sat down and waited pateintly, and soon enough, food started appearing all over the table. There was so much of a selection. They had pizza rolls, sandwhich heros, spegetti and meatballs, and plenty of other meals. Ron and Harry filled their plates the most and Hermione was carefully dripping tomatoe sauce all over her spegetti. Laura and Joanna helped themselves to food to. Joanna had a pizza roll with peperoni, while Laura had grilled chicken fingers and barbeque sauce. The five of them ate until they couldnt fit one more bite, then they knew it was time to go to bed.
"Follow us!" Harry told Laura and Joanna. "We got the password to enter our Common Room. It's shishcabob. Just say it to the fat lady in the portrait and she'll-"
"Whoa whoa! Who you callin' fat?" Shouted the Fat Lady from her Portrait hole.
"Oh my God it talks!", Laura said with a amazement.
"Of course it talks! Don't pictures talk in New York?"
"Oh no! They outlawed it because Muggles nad Wizards are mixed together in society. Not like yours where they are separate. If a Muggle saw a talking picture, I don't know what they'd think!" Joanna said.
"Shishcabob!" Harry shouted at the Fat Lady.
"I'm not letting you in! You called me fat before! Now you all can stand outside!" she yelled back.
"Please let us in! Harry was only joking! Of course you're not fat! You're beautiful!" Hermione said in a flattering voice.
"Only if he apologizes!" she wailed back.
"Harry! Apologize!" Hermione ordered.
"Alright! Sorry! Sorry! Now let us in!" Harry said quickly as he waited anxsiously to get inside his Common Room.
"You don't mean it!" The Fat Lady Portrait said stubbornly.
"I'm sorry", Harry began, "Now can you please let us in? There are people piling up out here."
The portrait swung open to reveal a round room with big comfy arm chairs all over the place. There was a fire place towards the back of the room that was burning brightly and little tables around it for studying. The room was decorated in the Gryffindor colors, scarlet and gold, and there was a banner hanging up saying "Welcome Back To School!"
Harry, Ron and Hermione ran in, not even looking around. They were used to it. They took their normal arm chairs right next to the fire place. Laura and Joanna, on the other hand, strolled in slowly, looking around at all the walls and admiring the decorations. Then Harry motioned at them to come take a seat and relax.
"You like it here so far?" Harry whispered to Laura.
"Oh yes! All the people I met so far are really nice. Especially Ron, Hermione and yourself!"
Harry felt himself go flush. Meanwhile, Ginny was sitting two tables away from their arm chairs, listening jealously at what Laura was saying to Harry.
"Well, I'm a bit tired now. Where is the dormatory? I think I should go to bed.", Laura said to Harry after they talked for about ten mintues.
"It's right through that-"
"I'll show her!" shouted Ginny as she stood up from her table. "Hi! I'm Ginny. What's your name?"
"I'm Laura.", she said with a smile.
"Well come this way."
Ginny led Laura down the dark hallway, still devising a plan to get her away from Harry.