Chapter 2: The Sorting
"Hello, I am Headmistress McGonagall," the headmistress said through pursed lips. She wasted no time and started to explain how things would work, "Your belongings will be taken to your common rooms once we establish those." "Now, you are going to step through these doors and go to the front of the great hall. Once there, we will call your names and you will be placed in the most suitable house for your character," she babbled on.
"Who's that?" Sirius whispered to James pointing to a blond haired, tall, and lanky boy. "How should I know?" James whispered back. Lily nudged James in the ribs signaling to "shut the heck up". "Why should I?" James whispered back. Headmistress McGonagall was staring at them now, her gray eyes boring into theirs.
"Please do not disgrace us. Follow me." She led them into the Great Hall. Lily stamped on James's foot because she was staring at the ceiling and not worrying where she was going.
"What the heck, Lil, that's the second time you've squashed my foot today," he said rubbing his foot, clearly irritated. "Look at the ceiling," Lily hissed. James looked and felt all hard feelings ebb away. In awe, James poked Sirius, "What the he…" Sirius said then stopped looking up. Sirius in turn poked Keegan, who poked Greer, who poked Tala, who poked Lily, who poked James, so that they were all poked and had poked.
The herd of first years made their way to the front of the room. At the front of the room there stood a stool, on the stool there was a battered, ugly, and old hat lying lopsided. "Eck, it's moldy," Sirius blurted a little to loudly. The silence that followed was the loudest silence any of them had ever experienced. McGonagall's lips were thinned to the point of invisibility. Sirius didn't realize any of this because he was to busy staring at the new transfiguration professor. There sat his Aunt Hermione. Keegan almost fell over. "O my God," Lily whispered. Greer had a bamboozled look on her face. "What's so important," she asked. "That's… my… mum," Keegan said slowly, this being a new concept for him. "Aunt Hermione, what are you doing here?" James asked loudly, causing more stares. Hermione's glare was like fire. Tala was sure it could melt ice in an instant. "Shall we begin?" asked McGonagall, looking very fed up. Without waiting for an answer, she began the sorting.
"Aberdale, Jenny!" "Hufflepuff!"
"Addison, Geoffrey!" "Slytherin!"
"Azair, Farah!" "Ravenclaw!"
"Beldair, Julia!" "Hufflepuff!"
"Bunting, Nicodemus!" "Ravenclaw!"
"Corningham, Doombog!" "Slytherin!"
"Dews, Rae!" "Gryffindor!" This was the first Gryffindor, so the clapping was extra-loud.
A few minutes passed before the next Gryffindor was sorted, a Claire Gillespie. The first out of their group was Tala.
"Lupin, Tala!" There was some muttering because many knew her father was a werewolf. "Gryffindor!" the hat said, finally deciding. Cheers erupted, not only from the Gryffindor table but from Tala's group as well.
"Malfoy, Sate!" Dead silence met his name. Everyone knew his mother had been caught with him at the outskirts of Hogsmeade and placed in Azkaban. "Gryffindor!" The silence was ringing in everyone's ears. A Malfoy, Gryffindor? Sate smiled broadly, not paying attention to his classmates utter shock. Sate was happy to be set apart from his family. Maybe he could get legal rights to change his name?
"Norford, Andrea!" "Gryffindor!"
The O's passed uneventfully, but then came the P's.
"Potter, James!" Some muttering. "Gryffindor!"
"Potter, Lily!" A little more muttering. "Gryffindor!"
"Potter, Sirius!" So much muttering you'd have thought someone's pants had fallen down to reveal pink polka-dotted boxers. "Gryffindor!" Sirius sat down. He began wishing he knew Greer's last name; he had no idea how long he'd be waiting. Would she come before or after Keegan? He was so deep in thoughts he almost didn't notice Greer's name ringing across the room.
"Thompson, Greer!" Sirius held his breath and crossed his fingers. He attempted to cross his toes, but that left him in great pain. "Gryffindor!"
"Guess I didn't have to do all that, than," Sirius murmured to himself, rubbing his foot. At least Lily hadn't stepped on his feet earlier, like she did James.
Suddenly the bench collapsed and half the Gryffindors found themselves on the floor on their butts. "O-ow," James groaned, rubbing his backside. "What did I do to get Karma against me today?" he asked in the laughter that followed. "Let me see…" Lily pretended to think.
"You don't need to answer that," James said hastily.
"I don't think its Karma, I think it's actually God Almighty you've upset today." James shrugged this off.
"Weasley, Keegan!" The two stopped their bickering and looked forward, though they couldn't see much from the ground.
"Gryffindor!" Everyone in the group let out a sigh of relief. W seemed to be the end of the sorting, as McGonagall was currently putting her scroll away. The group gathered at the table. "Who'd think that we'd all be in the same," Sirius said gazing intently at Greer. Lily giggled at Sirius attempting to flirt but yet it instead being very creepy. "Attention everyone," McGonagall said clearing her throat. The group decided that her speech wasn't very important to listen to. They whispered among themselves.
"So, what do you think of it?" Lily asked. "What?" James asked dumbly. "My tongue. Hogwarts, what else, James?"
"Your tongue?" Sirius asked, looking somewhat concerned, and rightly so, for he was not paying attention and was still gazing at Greer creepily.
Hello all! Tessa and Libby here, co-authors, and from now on, basically, Tess is bold, Lib is italics, and, if available, Lib's 3rd-grader sister J is underlined.
(She's really annoying)
I agree.
Hi! (stupidly, as always)
(Shrieks in indignation)
Back to everything, just so you know, I am the one who layed it on thick, as Lib said.
(whiney) You di-id.
I am the one who layed it on thick for the Sirius/Greer thing.
If you were wondering, Tess has all, and I mean all, the ideas. She did the funny comments, except the bench breaking (but that was kinda based off Tess, cause she fell off a chair when it broke. It was funny) No it wasn't, especially with J on your lap. And Lily and James's fight,
I did some of that!
I'm the spelling/grammatical/mechanical genius, so we pretty much balance each other out.
Look for a story about the founders by us! (Mostly Lib, but Tessie gets credit, because she's nice enough to let Lib post it under her name.) Tessie does help a little, but like the first five chapters are already written. It might not be up for a while.
We'll post the next chapter ASAP! Brownie points for anyone who says in their review what "Tala" means, except SUSAN, LIB, YOU CAN'T SAY! IT'S A SECRET!
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