Disclamer:Erm I don't own it. I want it yes precioussssss I do.
A/N: Sorry about the amazingly long wait for this chapter but I been so busy with work and stuff Ihave had no free time let alone time to write as much as I've tried to.
Elana walked up the path towards the castle. The sight took her breath away, it was the first time she had seen the school and she couldn't believe that she was going to spend at least the next year of her life.
The old castle in front of her contrasted so much with the modern building that she had become accustomed to back home. There her school had been a new modern wizarding college. The school in front of her was old and seemed to bursting with history, she wanted to explore it, to see what lay in every inch of it.
She had always been curious about things she needed to know everything about stuff. That's why she always got good grades she always did plenty of back ground reading.
There were some things though that she knew felt right though, that she didn't need to read up on. Her beliefs were as near to her families as she could bear, her father had always been right about things in the past so why should he ever be wrong? She would follow his lead, even if meant going to the moon and back.
Elana and Bethany followed a young witch, who had introduced herself as Professor Ritter, into the Entrance Hall and through a door to the left of the large oak doors. She led them down a corridor and into a classroom.
In the centre of the room stood an old looking stool with three legs. On top of the stool stood a hat, it looked old and tired after hundreds of years of use. Elana was slightly disturbed by the fact that she had to put it on her head. All she could think about was all the people who must have tried on this hat in the past. About the history of these people, about how they lived, how they died. All of them connected by this one hat.
Next to the stool stood a tall stern looking witch who was supporting herself with a walking stick. When they entered the room, she looked up.
'Ah you must be the Ackerley girls,' said professor McGonagall surveying them intently, 'now as you know you are about to be sorted into your houses. Your house will be like your surrogate family over the rest of your time at the school, you will eat with the, for the most part take classes with them and generally live with them. The four houses of Hogwarts are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin.'
She paused, she suspected that they already knew this but she told them as she had done every year with the new first years before they were sorted even though this was slightly different circumstances.
'Now which one of you would like to go first?' she asked looking between the girls.
'I will' said Bethany excitedly. Elana looked at her she wondered how she could be so excited about something which completely scared her.
Bethany bounced up to the stool sat down and Professor McGonagall place the hat on her head.
After what seemed to Elana to be only seconds the hat shouted out 'GRYFFINDOR'.
Bethany beamed as she emerged from underneath the hat, she stood up and walked over to Elana.
'Your turn', she said.
Elana couldn't move. She didn't want to put the hat on.
She was scared of the outcome. What if she was sorted into Slytherin?
She'd loose Harry. She knew, from their talks, that he hated pretty much everyone in that house. She wanted to be in Gryffindor, she wanted to stay with Harry. If she didn't then that would ruin everything.
'Come on sis, its not that scary', Bethany told her.
But it was. She knew that she had to do it. She walked over to the stool and sat down.
Professor McGonagall placed the hat on top of Elanas head.
'Hmmmm' said a voice around elana's ears. 'Another difficult one, it never used to be this hard. Well I can see that you are very intelligent, a very good mind you've got here. You're very loyal to those you love as well I see, very ambitious also yes driven by your thirst for knowledge. Oh and my, there's a lot of courage here as well you're not afraid to stand up for what you believe in are you? Now which house?'
Please not Slytherin, Elana thought frantically, I don't want to loose Harry, if I'm put in there then I will I know it.
'But your qualities would make you perfect for that house, I don't understand why you don't want to go there, why do people object to their destinies? I know where you should go and that is where you shall go. I shall place you in-'
A/N: So that's another chapter down and more to come, soon hopefully. I think I've got most of it planned but there could be some suprises even for me.So you know what to do. Review.