Chapter 5
Harry awoke excitedly, realising that he'd soon be seeing all his old friends again (he especially wanted to see Cho Chang). He sat up in his bed and pulled aside the curtains surrounding his bed and got to his feet, he went over to Ron's bed and pulled his curtains away to wake up Ron.
"Aaaaarrgggggggghhhhhh." Harry screamed as he looked down at Ron, who was lying there with his face deformed and a sickly shade of green. Hermoinne burst through the door as Ron sat up in his bed. His twisted mouth turned slowly from its deformed status in to a wide grin.
"Got ya." He giggled and fell back on to his bed in a fit of laughter. When he stop laughing he slipped something in his mouth and swallowed. Slowly his face changed from it twisted grin back to normal.
"How'd you do that?" said Harry staring at Ron.
"It's one of our new tricks." Said Fred, as he and George entered the room." What do you think, all you have to do is swallow one of these." He held up a small red sweet.
" To reverse it you swallow one of these." George held up a blue sweet.
"That wasn't very n… " Hermoinne started in a angry voice, but stopped as Sirius came through the door.
"Hurry up you lot, there's load's to do to get ready for the kids. Come down to the great hall when your ready, I've got some good news. But you'll find out more about that at the sorting." And with that Sirius left.
"Wonder what the news is."
Hours later the student where about to arrive, Harry, Ron and Hermoinne and Ginny sat in their places. But Fred and George where no where to be seen.
"Wonder were they got to?" Harry spoke mainly to himself.
"Where right here came." Fred's and George's voice from their places." Visio." Suddenly they appeared in their seats, grinning evilly at each other.
"Where were you?" Ron asked suspiciously. But before they could reply kids started to flood into the Hall, Harry looked around keenly, then he spotted her. Cho Chang looked more beautiful than ever, as she sat elegantly down on her seat at the Ravenclaw table Seamus came over to them and sat beside them. Soon everyone was in and sat down, then came a loud farting sound from the Slytherine table, everyone turned and looked at an embarrassed Malfoy, he got even more embarrassed when a voice as loud as a howler erupted around the.
"Malfoy is a LOSER." The voice boomed. Everyone laughed at Malfoy, who went at darker shade of red than Ron's hair.
"You did that didn't you." Hermoinne roared with laughter, then Dumbldor sat down at the teacher's table and the room fell silent. Soon Lupin could be seen walking across the room carrying the sorting hat and a stool. He sat the hat down and when all the first years where all in it started to sing:
The four groups of Hogarts,
In which do you belong?
Slytherines can be powerful,
But Gryffindors are also strong,
Ravenclaw's are smart and wise,
Hufflepuff's nobility can come as a surprise
So put me on if you wish to know
To which one you are to go.
There was a gasp from the first years as the hat had stopped talking, there was about twenty of them this time. The first two went to Slytherine, the third to Hufflepuff, the fourth to Gryffindor, the fifth to Slytherine, then two to Ravenclaw, another to Gryffindor, another three to Hufflepuff, then at last two more to Gryffindor and one to Ravenclaw. The way that Cho Chang greeted and hugged that last Ravenclaw, Harry wished she would hug him like that.
"A few words before the start of our meal." Dumbledor announced." Two of our beloved teachers are occupied and will not be here this year. These are the heads of Slytherine and Gryffindor's house, but filling in for them will be Professor Black, who was Wrongly accused of aiding Lord Voldermort. The second fill in will be Professor Lupin who has come back for this year to take the Slytherine's and Potions. At the mention of Sirius all the heads had turned to look at Harry, but at the mention of Lupin and the Slytherines Harry stared over at the Malfoy who was looking annoyed.
They then had a fine meal as the golden plates where magically covered in delicious food that would have been magically refilled if they had ever ran out, there was food of every type. They ate until they couldn't eat another mouthful. When everyone was full and tired the food disappeared and Dumbledor stood up." one more thing, this year the Quidditch cup is back on, but I don't want anyone walking around on their own after dark, its not safe now that Voldermorts back. Good night.