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Chelles: Thanks for reviewing again!! Much love. Lol. I can't believe it took a while for your story to get reviews! I don't know, to me your story is like a stroke of pure genius! Hehehehe. If you say these people are good authors than all go by your suggestion and go read them. You're right about the Sorting. It's hard to make it that different and I commend you and making it different! Poor Sirius...I love him so much! I'm excited to see where I go too! Lol.
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Chapter 4: Welcome to Hogwarts
"Gryffindor!" James watches as the pretty little red head hopped happily off the stool and skipped to the Gryffindor. Once there she took a seat diagonally from Sirius, who immediately engaged her in a conversation. James returned his attention to the Sorting where, "Fredrick, Allison!" was made a Hufflepuff. He looked over at Remus who was rocking back and forth on his heels to Peter who was eyeing the Hat (who was on Goyle, Gasper's head) with apprehension. James' palms were sweaty but he wasn't that nervous.
"Lupin, Remus!" McGonagall called. Remus went ghostly pale and James had to nudge him to go up there. Remus sat on the stool and the hat was placed on his head. He sat there for a minute before, "Gryffindor!"
James and Peter cheered along with the Gryffindor table as Remus took a seat next to Sirius, who slapped his back in congratulation. James turned back to the Sorting and inwardly cursed at how his last name began with a P. "Martin, Melissa!" was sorted into Gryffindor and as she went over to the table she was swept up into a hug by the red head.
"Malfoy, Lucius!" was the shout that drew James' attention back to the Hat. Malfoy swaggered up to the stool and took a seat on the stool. As soon as the hat touched his head, James mouthed the word as the hat itself yelled, "Slytherin!". Malfoy smirked and strutted to his new House table, sitting next to Goyle. James rolled his eyes.
The next few minutes seemed to fly by for James and the number of first years to be sorted was dwindling. Soon it was Peter's turn. Peter's eyes darted around before he cautiously walked up to the stool and sat down. McGonagall put the hat on his head and everyone waited. "Gryffindor!" came the hat. "Yes!" James said quietly to himself. The rest of the train ride to the school had been quite enjoyable and he had come to like Peter.
Suddenly a new thought came to him. What if I'm not sorted with all my friends? James asked himself frantically. He didn't have more than a few seconds to ponder this because he was being summoned to the Hat. James shot a look at the Gryffindor table where Sirius gave him a look and motioned towards the stool. James nodded and hopped onto the stool. The last thing he saw before the overly large hat dropped before his eyes was the pretty red head girl.
"Hmmmm," murmured the hat in his ear. "This may prove to be a difficult task. Not Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. Gryffindor might be good. I see you want to join your friends. You have a vast amount of bravery and loyalty. I'm thinking, GRYFFINDOR!"
James grinned and the hat was taken off his head. The Gryffindor table cheered; Sirius, Remus, and Peter were the loudest. The happy raven haired boy shuffled over to a seat next to the red head and before he sat down gave Sirius a high-five.
"Can you believe it?" Sirius exclaimed quietly. (The Sorting was still going on). "The four of us all together! This is going to be a great seven years."
"Be quiet down there!" a voice called softly from down the table. Sirius shot a nasty look at the person before turning reluctantly to watch the Sorting.
"Snape, Severus!"
"What?!" both Sirius and James mouthed at each other. They gaped as their black, greasy haired enemy emerged from the first year crowd. Snape made his way up to the stool. To James it seemed that the Hat had barely even touched his hair before it cried, "Slytherin!"
Snape's expression didn't seem to change as he walked over to his new table and took a seat next to Malfoy. James and Sirius were both in shock. The Sorting kept going but neither of them noticed. "I thought Snape was going to Durmstrang!" James whispered across the table to Sirius.
"Me too," Sirius murmured back. "At least that's what my father told me. You know how close my dear old dad is to Snape's dad."
"You guys need to be quiet," Remus told them. "That girl's looking at you again."
Sirius and James looked back down the table and found an older girl glaring at them. The smiled and waved innocently at her. The red head sitting next to James giggled and James found himself smiling sincerely at her. He looked back at McGonagall who was rolling the parchment back up and a very small professor carried the Sorting Hat and the stool away.
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore stood up and silence filled the Great Hall. To James' knowledge, Professor Dumbledore had just become Headmaster 2 years ago when the old headmaster, Armando Dippet, retired. James' parents spoke highly of Dumbledore and James' had actually met him a couple times. He was a very nice man with gray hair streaked with red. He surveyed the entire hall before saying, "I know you all are anxious to eat dinner, so I would just like to say bon appetite!"
With that the food immediately appeared on all the tables and the older students dug in. James, who had seen something like this before, remained unfazed. The red head girl and her friend both gasped and looked awestruck at the food. "I take it you've never seen anything like that before?" James asked them, while grabbing a chicken leg and some mash potatoes.
Both girls shook there heads and James decided to introduce himself. "My name's James Potter by the way. And you are...?"
"Lily Evans," the girl turned to look him in the eye and James was mesmerized by her green eyes. He felt a shiver go through him.
"Well Lily Evans, welcome to Hogwarts."
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Wow. I like writing posts. So no matter how many reviews I get I'm going to keep posting cause I like writing and putting my ideas into stories. So there's the post. Four post in four days. I have too much free time but hey I ran two miles today. But tomorrow I start soccer practice and I might not post. So sad for me I know. Well if there's anyone there, please review!!