Chapter 2
Maria barely had stepped into the boat when Hagrid pushed them off shore. Maria stumbled in and fell on Carrie's lap. "Ouch!" yelled Carrie.
"Sorry," said Maria as she picked herself off the ground. When Carrie looked up she saw one of the prettiest sights she had ever seen, Hogwarts. All the windows looked as if they were painted gold with bright candle light burning in the castle. As Carrie looked higher, she saw four huge towers pointing out four bright stars over head. When she looked down, she heard a voice that said, "Duck!" Carrie ducked just in time as a very low bridge passed over the boats.
"Now we will be almost at 'Ogwarts,' said Hagrid as he tapped his boat making it speed ahead of the others. After awhile, all the boats had gotten to Hogwarts. The boats had magically tied their selves to the dock, while Carrie and Maria carefully stepped out of the boat while the boat on purpose wiggled to try to make them fall. When everyone got off their wiggly boats, Hagrid lead them to two giant wood doors. Hagrid pulled on the door-knocker and let go releasing a booming sound someone would have heard a mile away. When Hagrid pulled the door open, a woman with long black hair tied up in a bun stood in front of the walk-way.
"I am Professor McGonagall; I will be your transfiguration teacher this year. There are some rules you should know before you go through these doors."
"She means business!" whispered Maria, "Ouch," shouted Maria as I stepped on her foot; I knew this woman was not to be messed with.
"Number one, come to class prepared and no talking while the teacher is talking. Number two, if you break an assortment of these rules, she said as a list of rules popped out of nowhere, you may get detention or lose house points. There are four houses as you may know, Griffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Your house will be like your family, if you behave, you will get rewarded, if you misbehave, you will get punished. Well good luck, now the sorting will begin." said McGonagall as she pushed open the doors.
"Cool!" said Maria as we looked around the Great Hall. It had four big round tables. "I guess the four tables mean that there is one for each house," thought Carrie.
"I will call out your name, and you will sit on the stool and put this hat on your head." Professor McGonagall as she held up a beat up hat. "Ok, Margaret Albright."
Margaret shakily went up to the stool. "Griffindor!" the hat shouted. Margaret ran up to the table and took a seat.
Next, it was Ryan Brellow, he was put in Slytherin. Then Amy Caldwell, she was put in Hufflepuff. A few more names and then it was Maria's turn. After a minute or so, the hat shouted, "Griffindor!" the hat shouted. Maria jogged over to the Griffindor table.
Sorry, I did not know where to end. PleaseR&R!!!!!!!