The Sorting and the Tiger
Ella was worried. What kind of questions will they ask? I don't know anything about the wizarding world. Oh no, what will happen if I don't answer any of the questions correctly. Will they kick me out?
Ella shoved these thoughts aside as Slytherin asked the first question.
"Would you seek power over truth?"
"Well," said Ella slowly, "no."
"Would you risk your life for a man or woman?" Ella decided that as much as she liked Gryfindor she also had no idea what he was playing at.
"That depends on the person I am saving."
"Would you take a poor man or woman in or give them things to help?" Hufflepuff asked.
"Depends on the circumstances," said Ella after deep consideration.
"Would you use brains or brawn to defeat someone?" Ravenclaw asked the final question.
"Well, I suppose brains." Ella said after lighter consideration than the previous question.
"All right Ella, you may return to the Great Hall and we will inform you on your house in a moment," Griffindor said.
Relieved, Ella left the room to await information on the house she had been placed in.
Ella woke up the next morning feeling a tight pressure on her chest. She opened her eyes to find a pair of bright green eyes attached to a white face.
She sat up immediately and the white tiger kitten raced across the room. It entered the curtains of a bed and yowled to get the attention of the inhabitant.
"What's going on?" a head with straight black hair in resemblance to Riverpoked out of the curtains. "What happened to Snowstreaks?"
"Who?" Phoebe's voice was added to the mewing of Snowstreaks.
"My white tiger."
"What!"
"She is only a kitten," said the girl while rolling her eyes.
"Just that then, Tempris. Sorry, this is my sister," said River who had walked in without anyone noticing, fully clothed with an amused look in her eyes. "C'mon, we have to eat before Transfiguration."
Ella pulled the bed hangings farther over so that she could change without having to fight the girls for the bathroom.
She tightened a corset around her stomach, and fixed a dark blue silk undergarment over that. To finish the ensemble she tied her black robe over everything and clasped a silver necklace with a pearl drop around her neckand applied matching earrings. She pulled her hair into a tight bun and went down to the Great Hall with her new friends. As they talked and giggled, Ella thought about the cold halls and hearts that she had left behind, but Ella knew that someday she would have to face her childhood fears.
Ok, that was only cliffyish. Read and review and you may get the answer in the next chapter, no I'm not above bribery.