Chapter Four: The Sorting
John, Erica, and Lily all sat in the same boat as they crossed the rather calm lake water. Hagrid sat alone in the boat in front of them. Other students talked rather loud to each other next to them. Excited voices were the only things that separated the silent air.
The three friends now talked to each other about the houses and if they would be in the same one or not.
"Watch I bet I'll be in Slytherin like my father." John said glumly. Erica smiled. "Or Gryffindor like your mother?" John smiled slightly.
Lily looked at him. "It's your choice. That's what happened with my dad. He chose to be in Gryffinor." John rolled his eyes. Lily giggled as the boats stopped moving.
"Alright then, let's go." Hagrid started up the steps to the school as the students followed in his shadow from the lights on the inside. Lily led the way of Erica and John as they entered the Great Hall next.
Everyone in the Hall turned in their seats to watch the first years walk up the middle of the large room filled with people and fires. Lily gulped loudly and continued forward after the Head Mistress, Professor McGonagall. Erica and John trailed after her.
At the front of the Hall they were told to stay where they were until their name was called. All the first years stood together as she began to call off names of people they didn't know.
Finally Lily Potter was called up. She trembled slightly as she sat on the stool. Professor McGonagall put the sorting hat on her head. The hat began to speak.
A Potter again, eh? I remember him and his mind well. You seem to posses many qualities as he did. Strength, and a thirst to prove yourself. Let's hope it is not a repeat of his first year ,eh?" I see you as a, GRYFFINDOR!
The room exploded with applause and laughing as Lily stepped down to the famous Gryffindor table. She sat down next to another first year. She looked back up to the front as Erica stepped up. She sat and Lily watched the Head Mistress set the hat on her head.
After a few moments the hat came to a conclusion of Gryffindor. Erica jumped down and ran to the table and sat next to Lily. Her face was flushed and glowing red to match the little bit red in her hair.
"Congrats Erica!" Lily yelled over the noise. They laughed together until the room became silent as John stepped up.
John sat still under the hat and listened it talk about his father and mother. How each were in a different house.
Your father in Slytherin of course but your mother was in Gryffinor. Strange pairing. But of course it happens. Now where should you go? I know…. Gryffindor!
John jumped up and ran to the table as Erica had. "YES!" He screamed loudly and threw up his arms. Lily and Erica pulled him down onto a seat as they laughed uncontrollably with the others around them.
For the rest of dinner, the three talked and laughed together with other Gryffindor students. But what they didn't know was how important their friendship would be in the future.
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