A/N: I am not really dividing this up into chapters, just however much I happen to write at the time.
After the giant gamekeeper, Hagrid, led them on a boat ride across the lake, the first years assembled outside the Great Hall for the sorting ceremony. They all walked in a single file line by last name. An old, tattered hat was sitting on a stool in the front of the teachers tables. To the surprise of many of the first years, it began to sing. When its song ended, Professor McGonagall called them one by one to put on the hat to be sorted into one of the four houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. As people started to be sorted, he noticed that Hermione was put in Gryffindor. The line shortened slowly until it was Aaron's turn. He walked up and nervously placed the hat on his head. It felt, to him, like something was searching his mind, looking at every memory he had. And judging him. It seemed to last for hours. After what must have only been a few seconds, the hat yelled, first into Aaron's mind, then to his ears as well as the ears of everyone in the hall. "Ravenclaw!"
Aaron was relieved to be done and surprised at the hats decision. His mother and almost all of her family had been in Hufflepuff. He sat down at the Ravenclaw table next to the blond haired girl from the train.
"Hi. I'm Emily. Emily Walker." She said when he sat down.
"Yeah, I heard them call you to get sorted. My name's Aaron Lantra." He replied.
They talked for a while about getting their Hogwarts letters and Aaron learned that she was from a long line of great wizards and witches.
"My mom's a witch." Aaron told her.
"What about your dad?" she asked.
"He was a muggle. He was killed by a Death Eater. One of you-know-who's helpers.
They were joined by one of Emily's friends, Nicole, who immediately started a conversation about the best ways to get away with talking in class. After a while, food appeared by magic onto the plates from the kitchen directly below the Great Hall. After the wonderful start of term feast, Dumbledore dismissed them to their common rooms and dormitories. The Ravenclaw dormitory was blue and silver, the house colors. It was late and Aaron was tired, so he retired to his four poster bed (also blue and silver) in the first year boys dormitory.