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CHAPTER 2
It
was dark when the Hogwarts express finally slowed down and
stopped.
The faded old board at the station said
'Hogsmeade'.
James and Sirius got down with the rest of the
students and looked around. There was a grumpy looking man with a
wart on the middle of nose shouting for the first years to follow him
to some nearby lake.
"He's got to be kidding" Sirius mumbled, drawing his cloak more tightly around him to keep warm.
"c'mon" James beckoned.
They followed the man to a river and got into one of boats.
Sirius saw that the
girl from their compartment had got into the boat next to theirs and
was telling the boy called Severus to get into it too.
He prodded
James and grinned wickedly.
James took out his wand and muttered
something causing their boat to bump into lily's just as the boy was
going to get in causing him to - fall in the lake.
Sirius
roared with laughter,
"good one mate, where did u learn
that?"
" Dad showed it to me" James grinned.
They howled as Severus tried to get back into the
boat with a giant squid, who had surfaced, helping him.
He finally
got into the boat and turned to James and Sirius, but couldn't say
anything because the boats had started moving.
" Your slime ball of hair looks washed now snivellus" James yelled laughing.
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They got their first
sight of Hogwarts in a couple of minutes. A lot of people 'ooohd' and
'ahhhhd'.
It was a mammoth of a castle lit up with lights. With
carriages parked at it's entrance. It was a magnificent site.
The man led them to a pair of huge doors and banged on them three times. The doors opened immediately revealing a prim and strict looking woman with her hair in a bun.
"Here they are Minerva" the man growled.
The
woman nodded and led them into a chamber.
"good evening to
all of you" she said turning to them.
"I'm Minerva
Mcgonagall...professor Mcgonagall for you" she spoke, looking at
everybody in turn.
James and Sirius started sniggering
uncontrollably.
She glared at them.
She went on to
say something about a hat which James and Sirius didn't bother to
pay attention to. They were too busy laughing at her hairstyle (if
you could call it that).
She threw them a final dirty look and then led them into a huge hall in front of hundreds of students looking up at them.
"Whoa!" Sirius exclaimed, "what do you reckon are they gonna do to us?"
Professor Mcgonagall voice boomed out, "As I will call out your names, each one of you will step forward and try on the sorting hat on"
" u m..mean in front of all these people!?" a small wiry boy standing behind them stuttered.
"Brilliant" James said grinning at Sirius. "so what is the hat gonna do?"
"weren't you listening to professor
Mcgonagall?" a familiar lofty voice whispered from behind. "
It'll sort you into your respective houses".
They turned to
see lily smirking at them.
"ooooooooh what would we have
done without you dah-ling" James drawled, Sirius grinning beside
him.
She 'harmph ed' and stomped of to stand behind Severus, who
was looking grouchy about something.
" Aktinson, Ethan"
Ethan Aktinson walked to the stool trembling and
put on the hat.
"Hufflepuff" it shouted. He trotted off
to the Hufflepuff table, looking relived.
Professor Mcgonagall
finished with the A's steadily.
"Black, Sirius" she called out
Sirius jumped at his name looking pale.
"cya
at the Gryffindor table" muttered James giving him a reassuring
pat on his back.
Sirius sat down on the stool putting the hat on. There was a long pause at which Sirius prayed with all his might to be in Gryffindor.
"Gryffindor!" the hat shouted.
Sirius let out his breath, stood up and gave a small mock bow to the
hall. Everybody laughed. He looked back at James who gave him a
thumbs up.
The Gryffindor table was cheering as he walked over to
them and sat, waiting for James's name to be called.
Professor Mcgonagall worked her way down the list. James hoped that he'd be in Gryffindor.
"Evans, Lily"
"GRYFFINDOR"
the hat yelled as soon as it touched her head. She gave a small sad
smile to Severus as she joined the Gryffindors.
James saw Sirius move over and make space for her. Recognizing him, she crossed her hands and looked firmly away. He stifled a laugh.
"Potter,
James"
James sauntered over and placed the hat on his
head.
"GRYFFINDOR"
He grinned and strolled over
to the cheering table. Sirius gave him a five squashing lily in the
process as she was between them. But surprisingly she didn't
protest, she was looking sadly at Severus who had got sorted into
Slytherin.
James saw her looking, "your boyfriend doesn't look too happy does he" , he sniggered.
Severus indeed was looking sad as a Slytherin prefect congratulated him.
"He's not my boyfriend" she snapped .
"yeah totally"
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