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Chapter Five: The Sorting

The whole crowd of first years made their way in through the double doors where they saw a strict looking witch in emerald green robes and her brown hair in a tight bun.

She explained everything that Lily had already learnt in Hogwarts, A History and instructed them to wait. She came back a few minutes later and led them into the Great Hall. It was beautiful with floating candles hanging in the night sky/ceiling. She had read about it in Hogwarts, A History. The strict looking witch introduced herself as Professor McGonagall. She led the First Years to a raggedy old hat on a raggedy old stool. Suddenly the hat opened near the brim and sang a song about the four Houses and how it sorts students. When the song was over, Professor McGonagall instructed to the First Years to put the hat on when their name was called.

"Afleck, Brianna!" called Professor McGonagall.

A jaunty looking red head walked up and sat on the stool with the hat on. The hat waited only a second before it yelled out "HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Bhurah, Kaitlyn!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Black, Bellatrix!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

Sirius was standing next to Lily and she felt him slink down. "What's the matter?" Lily asked.

"My family wants me to be in Slytherin too." Lily understood.

"Black, Sirius!"

Sirius walked up. He looked extremely nervous as he put the hat on. The hat was "thinking" for a whole minute and Sirius had a pained expression on his face until the hat yelled finally, "GRYFFINDOR!"

Sirius looked immensely relieved. He ran over to a girl two or three years older than him with similar blue eyes and black hair. "Andromeda! I did it!" he shrieked. The girl was cheering like the rest of the Gryffindors.

Now "Callahan, Kenny!" was being sorted. He went to "RAVENCLAW!"

"Chider, Jessica!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Evans, Lily!"

Lily was shaking as she walked up to the hat. She put it on with caution. "Well, a smarty one aren't you?" said a small voice in her head. "You would fit well in Ravenclaw, but what's this? Bravery? Well! You should belong well in GRYFFINDOR!"

Lily was excited. She practically ran to the Gryffindor table where Sirius, who was just as excited, hugged her. "Yay Lily!"

"Figg, Arabella!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Goyle, Gregory!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Grandle, Christopher!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Gully, Myran!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Hefson, Melissa!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Janifer, Emily!" Lily jerked her head in the direction of Emily, now walking up to the Sorting Hat with no expression on her face.

"GRYFFINDOR!" Emily smiled and bounded up to sit next to Lily. Lily hugged her really excitedly. So far, so good!

"Jordan, Larry!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Lestrange, Rodolphus!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

There was a squeak of delight from the Slytherin table after Rodolphus joined them; he was "good-looking," as a sly Slytherin cared to put it.

"Lockhart, Gilderoy!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Lupin, Remus!"

Lily jerked her head away from the Slytherin table. Remus was being sorted. The sorting hat barely waited a second before yelling "GRYFFINDOR!"

Lily and Sirius both threw their arms around Remus, who looked positively dazed.

"Malfoy, Lucius!"

Sirius turned abruptly with a look of fury on his face as Malfoy walked up. The hat barely touched Malfoy's head when it rang out, "SLYTHERIN!"

"Mesa, Jordan!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Morgan, Renée!"

Once again, Lily turned to look. Renée was carefully walking up to the hat, holding her head high. The hat took a bit longer to announce, "GRYFFINDOR!"

"Renée! Renée! Renée!" chanted Lily. "You made it!"

"Yeah!" sighed Renée. "The Sorting Hat actually considered putting me in Hufflepuff. You know, Hufflepuff! Do I seem like a Hufflepuff to you?" she added angrily.

Lily shrugged.

"Rosenthall, Kevin!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

Renée sighed again. "He was cute," she said airily. "It might've been nice to get that Kevin boy in Gryffindor."

"Renée..." Lily shook her head. "You fall for boys too easily."

"Pettigrew, Peter!" shook Renée and Lily out of their conversation. The Sorting Hat took two or three minutes before Peter was sorted into "SLYTHERIN!"

Peter burst into tears as he walked to the Slytherin table. Remus shook his head. "He was a good one. Maybe we can still be his friend. Well, make him part of the club. But we don't have to talk to that dolt too often because he's in Slytherin."

"Yeah," added Sirius. "He's a dunderhead. I'd be surprised if James agreed to that."

"Pomfrey, Poppy!"

"That's the girl I met on the boat!" squealed Lily.

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

Poppy went and joined Arabella Figg at the Hufflepuff table who was giggling madly.

Lily was interrupted by "Potter, James!"

Lily shot her head to look at James walking up to the Sorting Hat with no real expression on his face. He sat down, put the hat on, and waited. He waited only a few seconds, though, because the brim of the hat opened wide.... "GRYFFINDOR!"

It seemed that James had gotten the most applause. He sat down next to Sirius who was next to Lily. On the other side of Lily, Remus was sitting quietly.

"Prewett, Molly!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Quenton, Quentin!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Ramble, Ariel!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Ratt, Miranda!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Skeeter, Rita!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Snape, Severus!"

The greasy haired kid walked up and sat on the stool.

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Sprout, Manella!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

Lily found her mind wandering. The Sorting was getting boring and she was hungry. Would they finish anytime soon? She heard Professor McGonagall call out the rest of the S's and the T's.

"Umbridge, Dolores!"

Lily turned her head. A squat girl with a toadlike face walked up with a smile and snatched the hat and roughly put it on her head.

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Vestra, Dandle!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Weasley, Arthur!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Arthur Weasley had vivid red hair and he was the most noticible First Year that there was, apart from Molly Prewett, who also had red hair.

"Zabini, Brianna!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Zabini, Zachary!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

That ended the sorting. Professor McGonagall rolled up the parchment, picked up the Hat, and disappeared off to somewhere. An old man with long, flowing, silver hair and beard stood up. The Hall went silent. "I have a few words to say to you all," he stated, "but now is not the time for them. Dig in."

Suddenly, the plates in front of them filled with food. It was the best meal that Lily had ever eaten. She even managed third helpings of everything. Then there came dessert. She managed apple pie with vanilla ice cream, and some mints that she had never seen before.

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James had seen all of this through Lily's Pensieve. He couldn't believe how vividly Lily remembered all this stuff that had happened three years ago. The First Years were walking through the corridor to greet the Fat Lady for the first time. Lily was coming up the corridor this way. Suddenly, an older fourth-year Lily was coming up the corridor that way. She looked angry. "James Potter!" she shrieked. "What in the name of Merlin are you doing in my Pensieve?"

"I—well, I—um..."

"Arrgh!" she screamed. "When I think I have privacy! I'm going to take you back RIGHT NOW! And don't let me EVER catch you in here again!"

She waved her wand and James was back in the Common Room where he started before he touched his wand to Lily's Pensieve.

"I'm sorry Lily," apologized James.

"It's okay," Lily decided, but she still seemed a bit angry. "I mean, it's only reasonable for you to be curious. I didn't realize that I had left it out. I mean, usually it's in the girls dormitory."

Lily and James were good friends. They were in fourth year. It was late at night and Lily hadn't realized that James was still awake. She had brought her Pensieve out into the Common Room to go over her thoughts.

James was a real prankster. He and the rest of the Marauders (James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter) were the group of pranksters and were also very popular. James was a nice guy. Sirius was funny. Remus was the smart and sensible one. And Peter was in Slytherin. He was still part of the group, though, since James decided that he was good enough. He doesn't pull pranks with the rest, but he is still in on all of their plans. Sirius and James have gotten more detentions than anybody else in history. Sirius's record is currently 397 for the four years that they were at Hogwarts. James's is 349. Sirius is a flirt. Ask anybody. The girls all around (except for Lily, Renée, and Emily Janifer) had at least once fallen for either James or Sirius and made a fool out of themselves.

Lily walked up to her dormitory with her bowl of Pensieve. Emily Janifer was still awake but Renée and Rita Skeeter were asleep. Emily had seen James follow her into the Common Room.

"So how'd it go?" Emily asked with a smile on her face.

"Well, things went fine," replied Lily, "except James was there. You knew that didn't you?"

"Yeah," answered Emily.

Emily had a huge crush on James. She always was commenting on how "hot" he looked. Lily was thinking about this and she slowly fell asleep.

(A/N: I feel like making some of it first person so here it is...( And by the way, POV stands for Point of View.)

Lily's POV----

I always put thoughts in my Pensieve. But tonight was the night before the Quidditch match against Ravenclaw. I thought the Quidditch team would be getting their beauty rest, I mean, it's like midnight. Who would be up? Little did I know that James was awake. I went to wander around my Pensieve. I was watching the time when we first became part of Hogwarts. Hogwarts is my life, and I was just reliving the moments when I first realized that. Petunia, my sister, is a prat. She is jealous or something, I mean we were good friends before. Then when I got the letter she's been acting like a jerk to me.

When Sirius came that first time to my house, she looked positively lovestruck. I think she has a crush on Sirius. I told him that and he said, "Gobbledegook!" and waved me off. Whatever.

Anyway, when I was in the Pensieve I was coming down the hallway and then suddenly I saw James. I was thinking, I don't remember him being here...and then he saw me. Memories don't see. So then I knew that a certain James Potter had been snooping in my Pensieve. I just lost it. I yelled at him and brought him back and scolded him. Then he apologized. That's what brought me back to senses. I decided to accept the apology the nice way. I forgave him. Then I talked to Emily. Talking to Emily always calms me down.

A/N: So that's ch. 5. What do u think of first person? Well, ud better get used to it because the rest is pretty much all in first person. So, read and hopefully review...