The sorting and the feast
As the boats got nearer to the enchanted castle Lily could have sworn that she had seen a big thing floating about in the water.
"Hey guys is it just me or do you see something floating over there?" Lily asked the lads.
"Yeah it must be the giant squid," James said.
"The…the giant… what?" Lily managed to say.
"The giant squid, don't worry Lils it wont hurt you" Remus said.
"Yeah I mean I've heard it's friendly," Sirius said with a laugh.
They soon were up to the entrance of the school and they walked up a big long staircase, which at the top it had an old witch standing they're waiting for the new students.
"Right professor, there here" Hagrid said to the witch.
"Thank you Hagrid," the witch said as Hagrid walked though some big doors and was then out of sight.
"Right then, I'm professor McGonagall and I'm the deputy headmistress of Hogwarts, now in a few minutes the start of term feast will start but before it does you have to be sorted into your houses the houses are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, each of these houses have an outstanding history produced by four of the most famous wizard and witches. While you are at Hogwarts there are points to be won you're triumphs will gain you points and rule breaking will lose you points and at the end of the year the house cup will be awarded to whichever house has the most points, right the sorting ceremony will begin in a few minutes, I will be back then" McGonagall explained to the first years and walked though the oak doors behind her.
"How exactly do you get sorted into our houses anyway?" Lily asked.
"I heard that you have to fight a dragon," A person from behind her said.
" You have got to be kidding me!" Lily said.
"No you don't Lils you just have to put on a hat, it reads you're thought and shouts out the house it wants you to be in" James explained.
"Really is that it?" Lily asked.
"Yeah that's it" James answered.
"Wow everybody made it seem like it was really bad" Lily said relieved.
"Well it's not" Sirius said.
"Look what we've got here Malfoy, four eyes and his little gang" Snape said walking up to the group of friends.
"Oh Snape stop annoying us and go wash you're hair, several times just to make sure all the grease is out of it" James said throwing a evil look at Snape and Malfoy and Sirius coughed something that sounded like 'impossible'.
"Oh and look are you muggle or wizard?" Snape said looking at Lily.
"Muggle, but what's it got to do with you?" Lily said coldly.
"So Dumbledore has bought in another mudblood to teach spells to?" Snape said.
"You better shut you're mouth before I bruise it, if you know what I mean" Sirius said angrily.
"What sticking up for you're little mudblood filth are you?" Malfoy said in a squeaky voice.
"Why don't you go back to you're stupid pathetic friends and leave us alone!" Lily yelled and Malfoy came up really close to her.
"Listen you piece of filth you shouldn't be here in the first place so I'd shut you're mouth if I were you!" Malfoy said slowly.
"You don't scare me you know, you can threaten me all you like but you wont make me feel bad and let me just say this if you hit I'll hit 10 times as hard, I mean you know what they say red heads have horrid tempers and you know what… it's true, so I think you should just leave" Lily said sternly to Malfoy.
"Fine but this isn't over mudblood" Snape said and stalked away to the other end of the cue.
"Lils that was brilliant" Remus said.
"Yeah it was great" James agreed as McGonagall came back though the doors and said "follow me" as they walked into the hall there were four big long tables with hundreds of students sitting at them and the ceiling was lit up with candles and above the candles was the night sky.
"The ceilings not real Lily, it's just bewitched" James explained to her and she nodded in agreement.
As they got to the front of the hall they all saw a old sewn hat sitting on a little wooden stool and all of a sudden the hats rim opened up and it started to talk, not even talk, sing, the hat started to sing. When it was finished the whole school applauded and McGonagall stood up and opened up a scroll with a list of names on.
"When I call you're name you will put on the hat and be sorted into you're houses, Diggory, Amos!"
When his name was called Amos stepped up to the hat and put it on and it all of a sudden yelled "HUFFLEPUFF" and the entire Hufflepuff table clapped.
"Black, Sirius!" McGonagall yelled and Sirius ran up to the hat and just as he put it o the hat yelled "GRYFFINDOR" and Sirius ran up to the end table.
"Potter, James!" yelled the professor next and he walked up to the hat and before it was put on his head the hat yelled "GRYFFINDOR" and James ran to the table and sat next to Sirius.
"Boot, Claire"
"RAVENCLAW"
"Lupin, Remus"
"GRYFFINDOR"
"Malfoy, Lucius"
"SLYTHERIN"
"Pettigrew, Peter"
"GRYFFINDOR"
"Serverus, Snape"
"SLYTRHERIN"
"Frank Longbottom"
"GRYFFINDOR"
"Figg, Louise"
"GRYFFINDOR"
"Abbot, Craig"
"HUFFLEPUFF"
"White, Michelle"
"GRYFFINDOR"
"Lily Evans"
"GRYFFINDOR"
(A/N: Right I can't write more of these but more students did get sorted into the houses)
After the sorting there was a massive feast and the food just appeared in front of Lily and then all sorts of ghosts came out of under the tables and introduced themselves to the first years and when all the food had been eaten the first years were given there time tables and shown there new rooms in the Gryffindor tower. Late that night the rest of the students in Gryffindor had gone to bed and just the first year boys and girls were sitting in front of the fire and on the sofa and chairs.
"So we start our proper first day at Hogwarts tomorrow" Louise said.
"Yeah I can't wait" Lily said sitting on the sofa with Sirius and Remus.
"Yeah I can't wait to start pranking and driving teachers up the wall," James said with a smile.
"Uh huh and were going to enjoy ever minute of it" Sirius said with a laugh.
"Are we the only people who got into Gryffindor, I'm sure that there was somebody else?" Jack, another first year said.
"No there's another boy who got in I can't remember his name though" Sarah said.
"Oh his names Peter, he's gone to bed though," Michelle said.
"Oh I haven't had chance to meet him yet" Lily said.
" Don't worry you can meet him tomorrow" Frank said.
"Ok I think we should go to bed now, big day tomorrow" Amy said.
"Yeah I agree what do you say girls?" Louise asked.
"Ok night lads"
"See ya guys" were the reply's that the lads got as the girls walked up the stairs, when the girls were gone Sirius said to the group of lads,
"These are going to be the best years of our lives!"
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