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"THERE IT IS!" A boy pointed out to where the boats were headed after a while of waiting in the boats. On their way there, Marauders, INC had played another joke on the Slytherins.

A few minutes ago, some Slytherin girls screamed and pointed out at the water. When Harriett turned to see what was so scary, all she saw was water. Apparently, that's what everyone else saw. Marauders, INC had already burst out laughing which made some other people laugh too. The girls that screamed just backed away from where they pointed to the edge of their boat. They yelled things about a sea monster and had fearful faces. They also yelled asking why we couldn't see them. Draca stopped it all by standing up and yelling a spell of some-sort. The girls rubbed their eyes and looked confused to see no sea monster. Draca had then turned to the laughing Marauders, INC and said, "Watch yourself in your sleep tonight." The Marauder in purple responded, "Yeah! We're already aware of you're sleep farting, Draca! You don't have to warn us!" Once again everyone burst out laughing and Draca smirked as she sat back down. When she did, another farting sound was heard and everyone laughed ever harder. The Marauder in red fell on the floor laughing this time, and the girl in purple fell next to her. The other Marauders had to hold themselves up and Harriett wiped the tears from her eyes as she laughed along with Roy and Hannah.

Now, Harriett turned to where the boy had pointed to see a huge stone castle surrounded by different sized towers in the distance. There were glowing lights in many windows and the others were darker than dark. Behind the castle, the dark purple sky sparkled with stars so bright they looked like there had to be people up there, holding flashlights. Harriet gazed with wonder and excitement. This was that grand and wonderful place that had taken her away from the Dudleys. She turned to her friends who were also gazing.

"Welcome to Pigpimple's School of Wizardry and Witchcraft!" Harold yelled out to everyone as the boats docked. Harriett looked up at the humongous castle. She didn't think she had seen anything so huge. The castle was made up of ancient gray stone blocks. "Everyone, follow me inside!"

Harriett looked around. She was now inside Pigpimples in a big crowd of first years. They stood at the foot of a wide red velvet staircase. The large room seemed to be lightened by many lit torches on the well-polished wood walls. The floor was made of dark wood like the walls. Harriett looked up to see a very high ceiling. The walls were covered with portraits all the way up and many staircases zigzagged in every way. To her surprise, some stairs moved. They turned this way and that so that they didn't lead to the same floor. Also to Harriett's surprise, the portraits moved! The people and animals in the pictures talked to each other, slept, and read books as if they were real.
"Welcome. I am Professor McChronical." A lady in a green robe and a pointed hat with a wide rim was at the foot of the stairs in front of the crowd. "I am the head of Gryffindor. You are about to be sorted into your house."
(A/N Yes, I know that 1st years are supposed to be 11 but at Pigpimples they start at 14! So… Yeah!)

Professor McChronical continued with her lecture about what they would be doing. She said they would be shone to their rooms by prefects (Harriett had an idea of what prefects were now) after the sorting hat sorted them. Harriett wondered how a hat could decide it but from the way things were so far, she believed there had to be a way. Harriett leaned over and whispered to Roy.

"Didn't you say Draca and them were Slytherins?"

"Yeah."

"Well, how did you know when none of us have been sorted yet?"

"I could just tell. They're evil enough!" Roy and Harriett laughed quietly.

"Now, follow me! We will begin the sorting at once in the Great Hall." Everyone followed Professor McChronical through two large oak doors. Harriett jaw dropped and she smiled when she saw what was behind them. The room beyond the doors was very large and had four large, long tables in it. Each table was full of different aged kids who all wore the same black robes. Candles everywhere lit the room. The most amazing part was the ceiling. There wasn't one! Instead there was a Smokey sky and many lit candles floating above everyone. At the far end of the room was a long table with, what looked like, all the teachers sitting at it. Each of the four tables also had a banner above them. One read "Slytherin." And was checkerboard green and silver with a snake on it. The one next to it, above another table, read "Gryffindor." And it had a lion on it. It was red and gold. The others read "Hufflepuff." And "Ravenclaw." The Hufflepuff banner was black and yellow with a badger and the Ravenclaw banner was blue and black with a Raven on it. The banner above the teachers' table was the Pigpimples crest. It was also on all of the students' robes. It had each of the animals on the other banners and a ribbon at the bottom that read "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus." All of the students gazed as they followed Professor McChronical into the middle of the room. A healthy elderly man with half-moon glasses and a tall pointed hat came up from the middle seat of the teachers' table to a podium in front.

"Welcome back, dudes!" He said clearly with a smile. His voice echoed throughout the room even though there was no microphone. "You can all get ready for a sweet year! For those new here and the first years, I'm Professor Dumbledude! You can just call me Dumbledude! I'm sure you are all glad to be here, as am I, and I'm also sure you're all planning to be extra good this year for you're fave teachers." He looked through the top of his glasses at the Marauders, INC. who all smiled innocently back at him. "I would like you all to help the first years around as every year. Every house starts out with fifty points this year! Now then, let the sorting begin!" Everyone cheered and Professor McChronical brought out a stool and an old witch hat. She sat it down on the stool and walked away. Harriett looked at the old hat. It was brown and hat torn edges. The top of it seemed to be moving up and then slowly drooping down. Everyone was quiet and heard snoring. Then, everyone burst out laughing. Harriett was just confused. Professor McChronical came up to the hat and poked it. She, then, seemed to whisper something to it. Why would she do that? The hat looked like it jumped when she poked it. The old wrinkles in the hat seemed to form a face. The hat smiled and looked out at the crowd. Harriett jumped when she heard it sing.

"Christina! Wouldn't wanna be ya! She hates you, Britney so you bet-" It sang before being interrupted by Dumbledude. Everyone laughed and some people fell out of their chairs.

"Dude! Dude! Sorting hat, dude!" Dumbledude said, trying to stop the hat's singing.

"Yes?" The hat asked.

"It's not karaoke night. The school year starts today. The first years are here to be sorted."

"Oh." The hat turned back to the students. "I sincerely apologize. I could have sworn someone informed me it was karaoke night!" Everyone just kept laughing.

"Oh, now quiet down! Quiet down!" Professor McChronical said as she walked over next to the sorting hat with some parchment. The sorting hat cleared his throat and began to sing again.

"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,

But just you wait and see,

I'll eat myself if you can find

A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,

Your top hats sleek and tall,

For I'm the Pigpimples Sorting Hat

And I can cap them all.

There's nothing hidden in your head

The Sorting Hat can't see,

So try me on and I will tell you

Where you ought to be.

You might belong in Gryffindor,

Where dwell the brave at heart,

Their daring, nerve, and chivalry

Set Gryffindor apart;

You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true

And unafraid of toil;

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

If you've a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,

Will always find their kind;

Or perhaps in Slytherin

You'll make your real friends,

Those cunning folk use any means

To achieve their ends.

So put me on! Don't be afraid!

And don't get in a flap!

You're in safe hands (though I have none)

For I'm a Thinking Cap!"

Everyone one in the Great Hall applauded loudly when the hat finished and it bowed. Professor McChronical unrolled the parchment she was holding and called out "Albert, Anna!" A girl with red hair in a low ponytail walked up to the hat. She looked nervous. Professor McChronical raised the hat and placed it on her head as the girl sat on the stool.

"HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat called out after a few seconds of quiet. The Hufflepuff table cheered as the girl smiled and stroded over to it.

"Bonan, Suzy!" Professor McChronical called out again. Another girl walked up from the crowd. She had blonde hair left down.

"HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat called again. The table cheered again as the Suzy gladly walked over.

"Bot, Terra!" was the next name. She was put in Ravenclaw. Harriett watched person by person get sorted and wondered where she would be put. Would she be separated from Roy and Hannah, her new friends? All she could hope was that that they were put in the same house and that it wasn't Slytherin.

Roy leaned in toward Harriett. "I hope I don't get Gryffindor."

"Why not?"

"Everyone in my family is in Gryffindor! Percy, Gred, Forge, and probably Ginny when she comes! It's just so predictable where I'm going to be put."

"Oh. Well, I just don't want to be in Slytherin." Roy shuddered.

"No good wizard or witch does."

The crowd they stood in got smaller and smaller as they were sorted. Noelle was put in Gryffindor.

"Ranger, Hannah!" Hannah seemed eager to be sorted. She ran up to the hat and pulled the hat on from Professor McChronical's hands.

"GRYFFINDOR!" It called out. Hannah smiled widely and walked over to the cheering Gryffindor table.

"Wealy, Roy!" Roy looked at Harriett and crossed his fingers as he walked away. Professor McChronical placed the hat on his head.

"GRYFFINDOR!" It called just as the hat touched his head. Roy groaned and slouched over to the cheering table and sat next to Hannah who was smiling away.

Name after name was called and Harriett waited to hear her name. She was getting impatient when she noticed that suddenly she was the last one.

"Porter, Harriett!" With this the whole Hall burst out into whispers and surprised looks. Harriett walked up slowly as she heard everyone talk.

"The Harriett Porter!?"

"She's the one who beat what's-his-name!"

"Did she say Porter!?"

"When do we eat?"

Harriett nervously sat on the stool and the hat was placed on her head.

'Well, well, well! If it isn't Harriet Porter!" Harriett heard in her head. It was as if the hat entered her thoughts. "I've been waiting for you! How's the weather?"

"Um…" Harriett thought. She wasn't completely sure if it heard her. It was, in fact, just a thought.

"Oh, never mind." It said. "No body ever tells me anyway. They could take me outside every so often, you know! Anyway, You are very interesting. You're very brave, no doubt about that."

"I am?" Harriett thought. She had never thought of herself as brave.

"Well, of course you are!" Harriett knew now that the hat could hear her thoughts. "Oh, you could be great…" it whispered. "Oh, yes. You hold power… Great power… You are for much greater thing, Harriett Porter… Slytherin or Gryffindor… I haven't been stuck between houses this way in a long time… You could do great things in Slytherin… Very great things…-"

"No!" Harriett couldn't help it. She didn't want to be in Slytherin.

"No?… Aw, I see. You want to be put in Gryffindor… With your friends… Friends are good for the heart, I know… Oh, but such great power if you were put in Slytherin… No matter, thought…GRYFFINDOR!"

The Gryffindor table cheered more than it had cheered for the others. They jumped up and down as Harriett gladly walked over. Roy and Hannah were smiling too. The other house tables seemed glad too but the Slytherin table looked angry.

"What took so long?" Hannah asked when everyone sat back down.

"What do you mean?" Harriett asked back.
"You were up there for forever! All the houses were left in suspense of which one would get the 'great' Harriett Porter." Roy answered. Harriett frowned. She wasn't great. And she wasn't up there that long, was she?

"Now then!" Dumbledude was up at the podium again. "After lots of sorting, dude, I am hungry!" Everyone nodded in agreement. "So, LET'S EAT!" Everyone's eyes widened when all the tabletops flipped over. On the other sides were lots and lots of food. There were desserts, turkey, pumpkin juice, mashed potatoes, and the works. Roy and Hannah dug in like everyone else. Noelle seemed to be filling up on sweets. Harriett didn't know where to start. She had never been offered this much food.

"Stop staring and eat it!" Roy said smiling with a mouth full of turkey and gravy.

"Sorry, I just don't know where to start!" Harriett said gazing at everything.

"Here! Start with this!" Hannah filled Harriett's plate with mashed potatoes and turkey. Harriett grabbed a fork and took a bite of the turkey. It was the best food she could remember eating. It was going to be a good year.

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