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Chapter 4: The Sorting (continued...)
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Leilani Vang's POV (sorta again...its about her but not necessarily in her POV)
"Firs' Years! Firs' Years over here!" was the first thing Leilani, Lily and Severus heard after stepping off the train. They looked around to find a gigantic sized man calling out for all of the first year students. After a few minutes of yelling for all the frist years he finally continued.
"Ev'ryone 'ear? Alrigh' , we'll be goin' up ter Hogwarts by boat, then. Come 'long!"
They followed the giant of a man, who they found out was named Hagrid, down a steeping path, and after about 5 minutes of following they arrived at a lake where there was tons of boats floating in the water.
"No more 'n four to a boat!"
Lily, Leilani and Severus all got into one boat and were joined by another girl.
"Ev'ryone settled then? Alrigh'. FORWARD!"
As soon as the last word was out of Hagrid's mouth, all of the boats lurched forward and began to make their journey across the lake.
"Ye'll be gettin' yer first look at 'Ogwarts right 'round the bend 'ere." Hagrid said after about 2 minutes of gliding across the water. There were many gasps from all the first years. It was a marvelous castle with all its turrets and towers. Leilani leaned over the side of the boat to look into the inky black water after getting a good look at Hogwarts, and she just looked at it for a few moments before the boats gave another lurch and she fell into the water.
Lily Evan's POV (same as above)
Lily watched as her new friend leaned over the side of the boat, and was about to pull her back in when the boat gave a lurch and Leilani fell out of the boat!
"LEILANI!" Lily screamed and stood up in the boat, grabbing the edges so that she wouldnt follow her friend into the water. Hagrid stopped the boats at her scream and looked back at her to see what the problem was, and then he saw it...there was only three people in the boat where there used to be four.
"Professor's not goin' ta like that much, 'es not." Just as Hagrid was about to go into the water after the student a giant, slimy tentacle popped out of the water with the student in hand (figuratively of course since it didn't have hands) and deposited her in Hagrid's boat. Hagrid wrapped his moleskin overcoat on her (which absolutely dwarfed her) and continued the boats on their journey to Hogwarts.
Leilani's POV
After the boats docked on the other shore Leilani hopped out of the boat and waited for her friends to come out of their boat. She was engulfed in a hug by Lily who scolded her and told her that if she ever did anything stupid like that again she'd hurt her so bad that she wouldn't be able to do anything like that again. Leilani just laughed and told her friend that she had no plans to do anything of the sort. She was still dripping wet as she joined the other first years at the queue to enter the halls, and as she was presented to Professor McGonagall to take into the entrance hall for sorting.