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Soon enough the train had come to a stop and the students were heading toward the Great Hall. Students sat down at their respected tables, waiting for the sorting to begin.
Lily remembered how nervous she had been. After all, she was muggle born and knew nothing about the sorting. She figured that they sorted you into a house depending on how many spells you already knew. Thankfully that was not the case; instead there was an old, raggedy hat. Once it was placed on your head, it began to see your potential and qualities. 'Bright you are missy, yes very bright indeed. Ravenclaw might work for you. But you're brave as well. Always seeing the good in others, sticking up for others. I think I'll put you in GRYFFINDOR.' She never forgot what the sorting hat had told her.
Lily watched as a small boy with blonde hair walk up toward the hat. He looked very timid, scared at what was happening. The hat sat on the boy's head for quite sometime, everyone in the Great Hall had their eyes on him. "Hufflepuff," the hat announced. The entire Hufflepuff table burst out into a giant applause.
Next was a girl with jet black hair. She, unlike the boy in front of her looked confident. The hat was barely on her head when it said," Gryffindor." Lily applauded with the rest of her house. Her eyes wandered to Potter and his friends. It looked as though James was clapping especially hard for her. Hmm, she wondered. Did Potter have a sister?
The rest of the first years were sorted into one of the four houses, and the feast finally began. Once Lily had eaten as much food as possible, she decided to introduce herself to the new students. After all, if they had any problems they could come and see her.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts," Lily began. "My name is Lily Evans, I'm the Head Girl this year."
"Evans?" The girl with the jet black hair asked.
"Yes, that would be me. I would prefer you to call me Lily though, not Evans."
The girl let out a slight giggle, "No, I wasn't calling you Evans. I was remembering where I heard it before. And I remember now, my cousin, James Potter, talked about all the time over the summer."
Lily felt her face go red, why had everything always come to Potter?
She decided to ignore the girl's comment. "Well, I just wanted to tell you that if you need any help with anything, you can let me know."
After chatting with the new first years for a little while, Lily returned back to her own seat. She still couldn't believe what that little girl, she learned her name was Jacqui, had said about Potter talking about her.
It wasn't long until everyone, including Sirius, had become stuffed with food. Not a single person could fit another bite into their mouths.
Dumbledore soon excused everyone from the Great Hall and told them to go to their respected dormitories.
"Follow me, first years, this way to Gryffindor," Lily called. Unfortunately, not all of them had been paying attention to her. "Potter, do you think that it's possible that you could help me?" Her attention turned to James.
James nodded and said, "This way to Gryffindor, follow the beautiful girl with the red hair." He noticed her frown at the remark and made a mental note not to flatter her front of large groups again.
Lily hated it when he did that. In front of all the students in Gryffindor, old and new. However, at least it got their attention. The students followed her up the many stairs and down multiple corridors.
Once they had reached their destination, Lily told the entire group the password to get passed the Fat Lady and into the common room. The password was 'shinkleton.'
With her duties finally over, Lily went up to her dorm room and collapsed on her bed. She quickly shut her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
Author's Note 2: Sorry this chapter is kind of short, I wanted to make a new chapter for the next idea. Please review!