TriNymphs - Chapter Four - Sorting Fun
The train was pulling away from platform 9 , the sisters had had to run after it, away from their little brother (who was still complaining that he couldn't go yet) and their parents. They had luckily already put their trunks on the train. When they got to their compartment another new student, a girl named Katie Bell, had joined them. She was a big Quidditch fan, so was Chelsea.
It was sickening, Chelsea had been gone for a little over a month. She just disappeared! And as far as the sisters knew, there had been absolutely no effort whatsoever by their parents to find her. Mrs Malfoy was worried, but Mr Malfoy refused to look for her, or to let her look for her. He obviously couldn't have cared less.
Draco even cared a little, that was abnormal for him. Vastly, abnormal.
"Gryffindor!"
Katie, white as a sheet a minute ago, had just gotten sorted into Gryffindor. It was evidently the house she had been hoping for, because the colour rushed back into her face and she skipped over the corresponding table. Her smile couldn t have been bigger. A few students later and...
"Black, Alexandria."
Lyssa had guessed Alex would be sorted into Slytherin, she was the only one of the sisters whose personality even slightly resembled their Slytherin parents .
"Slytherin!" The hat roared.
She was right, it was really too bad for Alex though, that we had our mothers maiden name. If the Slytherins knew that they were Malfoy s she would be honoured, or at least feared, by some others.
"Black, Chelsea."
There was silence. Obviously, no one stepped forward as she was missing. The teacher, McGonagull, who was reading off the names looked around, "Black, Chelsea!" She called sharply, then looked towards Alex at the Slytherin table, "She s your sister correct?" Alex's face completely drained of colour, there was no way she was going to talk in front of so many people, so, enter Lyssa.
"Professor, our sister disappeared a month ago, she isn't here."
"A first," she said, then looked back toward her paper, "Black, Melissa."
Lyssa could feel her heart beating. She was seeing in stills. It was odd, she thought. She got to the three-legged stool and sat down. The hat was lowered onto her head, then:
"Ah, easy," a voice whispered in her ear, then the hat yelled, "Gryffindor!"
The hat was lifted off her head. She walked over the Gryffindor table happily, and sat next to Katie, thinking that she must have looked absurdly like her on the way over. Her face had also gone white until she had been sorted, then all the colour rush back. It was disconcerting.
The sorting eventually ended, and the plates filled with food. It was almost like magic, she thought, then realized it obviously was, and felt like an moron.
Katie was sitting next to a pair of red haired twins with freckles. Those three and the twins friend Lee got into a big discussion about Quidditch until the deserts came out, while they were eating Lyssa started talking to a girl named Alicia Spinnet, who was also a big Quidditch fan. She hoping to make the Quidditch team that year, but thankfully, she didn't feel the need to talk only about that.
She asked her about the courses at Hogwarts, the Malfoy s hadn't discussed it much with the triplets, though they talked to their little brother about it constantly. Alicia said that until third year, everyone just took Transfiguration, Potions, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Herbology, and Charms, but in third year, next year for her, students got to choose two of their subjects.
At desert, while everyone was loading their plates with pudding, Katie was left out of the conversation because the twins and Lee we listing all the pranks that they were going to attempt that year, and spit balling new ideas... Also spit balling the Slytherins, Katie didn't join them, only because she didn't want to get beat up right after she had finally gotten to Hogwarts. The other three were, by the sounds of it, having a contest to see who could cause the most trouble on the first day of classes.
They were measuring the amount of trouble by how many detentions they got. Whoever got the most, won.
After desert, Dumbledore made his speech, telling everyone to have a good year, and stay out of trouble, he looked right at the twins and Lee when he said that. Dumbledore listed few notices from the caretaker, Filch, about which items had been put off limits this year. Again, he looked towards the two Weasley s and their friend, then all the students went to bed.
Lyssa just barely caught the password, then everyone went to bed. The boys up one staircase, the girls up the other. Lyssa went to her new dorm, which she would be sharing with three other girls. She feel asleep right away, but her last thought before she drifted off was that it would have been the perfect day if Chelsea had been there to annoy and quarrel with Alex.