CHAPTER 3
Lucy sat for awhile staring out at the scenery when the compartment door opened and a girl with light brown hair and a mischievous grin popped her head through the door.
"Do you mind if I join you?" throwing herself on one of the chairs "only everywhere else is full and they all seem to know each other."
As Lucy nodded the girl added "my name is Andrea, what's yours?"
"Lucy, I'm glad you came in I was getting a bit lonely in here."
"So where are you from, your accent sounds a bit funny," Andrea laughed nervously "What I mean is that it's nice," she added quickly.
Lucy smiled as she answered "We live in Edinburgh, my Mum's from there but my Dad is from London."
"Cool."
The girls chatted for awhile until an older woman stopped with a trolley filled with unusual looking sweets and drinks. Lucy bought some pumpkin pastries and orange juice, and then she spotted chocolate frogs and bought two of them as well. Andrea bought something called Bertie Bott's Every- Flavour beans and some pumpkin juice and two cauldron cakes.
They spent the next hour daring each other to try the strange coloured beans tasting things like cabbage, spinach and one that smelled like old socks. When they opened the chocolate frogs they each were rewarded with a card with a moving picture of a famous witch on it. Lucy was fascinated with it though Andrea threw hers aside almost immediately.
It was soon dark outside and an older student wearing a prefects badge opened the door and told them to put their robes on and pack up their belonging but leave them on the train, they would be sent to the castle separately.
They got off the train and heard a voice calling "First years this way." Lucy looked up at the man; he was twice as tall as a normal man and had long straggly black hair, a beard so bushy that all you could see were his shinny black eyes. He led them to a fleet of little boats and told them to get in "Four in each one please."
A little squeak escaped from Lucy as they started to move without any one doing anything. They sailed gently along under a bridge then came to a stop outside the biggest castle Lucy had ever seen in her life, even bigger and grander than Edinburgh castle. The man led them up a wide flight of stone steps into a huge entrance hall were they were greeted by a stern looking woman in robes.
"My name is Professor McGonagall. Welcome to Hogwarts. In a moment you will be led into the great hall to join the rest of the school. First you will be sorted into one of the four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. While you are here you will live with the rest of your house and your achievements will earn your house points, any rule breaking will lose your house points and will result in detentions. Now if you'll follow me we will begin the sorting."
The first years timidly followed her into a huge hall with a ceiling that resembled the cloudy sky outside. Four long tables ran the length of the room with huge banners hanging above them and candles floating gentle above the student's heads. They stopped collectively in front of a fifth table where the teachers were sitting along side a very old wizard with long white hair, and a beard that disappeared under the table.
There was a three legged stool with an old hat perched on top of it. A rip near the brim opened and the hat began to sing; Lucy's knees were knocking so loudly she couldn't even hear the hat, she snapped back to attention when the hall burst out in applause.
Professor McGonagall opened a roll of parchment in her hand and read out the name "Craig Albion". A small scared looking boy stepped up to the stool and placed the hat on his head, after a few moments the hat shouted "Gryffindor" Craig moved over to the table of Gryffindor students looking very relieved and sat down.
The list of names went on and on before Lucy finally heard "Lucy Smith" nervously she went forward to have the hat placed on her head. Suddenly she could hear a strange voice inside her head; "Ah lets see not Smith no, another Hipworth, yes, but where to put you? Very bright; loads of talent, Gryffindor? No, I know" then it shouted aloud "Ravenclaw!" Lucy jumped down from the stool and made her way to the Ravenclaw table, sinking into her seat, smiling shyly at the rest of her housemates.
The rest of the announcements and the meal seemed to pass in a bit of a blur for Lucy but she did notice Andrea was sitting along from her on the Ravenclaw table chatting with some of the older students.
Lucy started to feel sleepy after the wonderful feast which had appeared magically on the plates in front of them, and she got up with everyone else when she heard Dumbledore announce that it was time for bed. They followed the prefects to their common room and were shown to their dormitories. There were four other girls sharing a room with Lucy. Andrea Sutton whom she had met on the train, Carina Osteen a tall thin red head with a friendly face, Julie Quicksilver a small dark haired girl with a frown and Elisabeth Corner who informed them, quite snootily that she only answered to the name Lisa and her older brother was a prefect in Ravenclaw.
Lucy sat for awhile staring out at the scenery when the compartment door opened and a girl with light brown hair and a mischievous grin popped her head through the door.
"Do you mind if I join you?" throwing herself on one of the chairs "only everywhere else is full and they all seem to know each other."
As Lucy nodded the girl added "my name is Andrea, what's yours?"
"Lucy, I'm glad you came in I was getting a bit lonely in here."
"So where are you from, your accent sounds a bit funny," Andrea laughed nervously "What I mean is that it's nice," she added quickly.
Lucy smiled as she answered "We live in Edinburgh, my Mum's from there but my Dad is from London."
"Cool."
The girls chatted for awhile until an older woman stopped with a trolley filled with unusual looking sweets and drinks. Lucy bought some pumpkin pastries and orange juice, and then she spotted chocolate frogs and bought two of them as well. Andrea bought something called Bertie Bott's Every- Flavour beans and some pumpkin juice and two cauldron cakes.
They spent the next hour daring each other to try the strange coloured beans tasting things like cabbage, spinach and one that smelled like old socks. When they opened the chocolate frogs they each were rewarded with a card with a moving picture of a famous witch on it. Lucy was fascinated with it though Andrea threw hers aside almost immediately.
It was soon dark outside and an older student wearing a prefects badge opened the door and told them to put their robes on and pack up their belonging but leave them on the train, they would be sent to the castle separately.
They got off the train and heard a voice calling "First years this way." Lucy looked up at the man; he was twice as tall as a normal man and had long straggly black hair, a beard so bushy that all you could see were his shinny black eyes. He led them to a fleet of little boats and told them to get in "Four in each one please."
A little squeak escaped from Lucy as they started to move without any one doing anything. They sailed gently along under a bridge then came to a stop outside the biggest castle Lucy had ever seen in her life, even bigger and grander than Edinburgh castle. The man led them up a wide flight of stone steps into a huge entrance hall were they were greeted by a stern looking woman in robes.
"My name is Professor McGonagall. Welcome to Hogwarts. In a moment you will be led into the great hall to join the rest of the school. First you will be sorted into one of the four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. While you are here you will live with the rest of your house and your achievements will earn your house points, any rule breaking will lose your house points and will result in detentions. Now if you'll follow me we will begin the sorting."
The first years timidly followed her into a huge hall with a ceiling that resembled the cloudy sky outside. Four long tables ran the length of the room with huge banners hanging above them and candles floating gentle above the student's heads. They stopped collectively in front of a fifth table where the teachers were sitting along side a very old wizard with long white hair, and a beard that disappeared under the table.
There was a three legged stool with an old hat perched on top of it. A rip near the brim opened and the hat began to sing; Lucy's knees were knocking so loudly she couldn't even hear the hat, she snapped back to attention when the hall burst out in applause.
Professor McGonagall opened a roll of parchment in her hand and read out the name "Craig Albion". A small scared looking boy stepped up to the stool and placed the hat on his head, after a few moments the hat shouted "Gryffindor" Craig moved over to the table of Gryffindor students looking very relieved and sat down.
The list of names went on and on before Lucy finally heard "Lucy Smith" nervously she went forward to have the hat placed on her head. Suddenly she could hear a strange voice inside her head; "Ah lets see not Smith no, another Hipworth, yes, but where to put you? Very bright; loads of talent, Gryffindor? No, I know" then it shouted aloud "Ravenclaw!" Lucy jumped down from the stool and made her way to the Ravenclaw table, sinking into her seat, smiling shyly at the rest of her housemates.
The rest of the announcements and the meal seemed to pass in a bit of a blur for Lucy but she did notice Andrea was sitting along from her on the Ravenclaw table chatting with some of the older students.
Lucy started to feel sleepy after the wonderful feast which had appeared magically on the plates in front of them, and she got up with everyone else when she heard Dumbledore announce that it was time for bed. They followed the prefects to their common room and were shown to their dormitories. There were four other girls sharing a room with Lucy. Andrea Sutton whom she had met on the train, Carina Osteen a tall thin red head with a friendly face, Julie Quicksilver a small dark haired girl with a frown and Elisabeth Corner who informed them, quite snootily that she only answered to the name Lisa and her older brother was a prefect in Ravenclaw.