A/N
So, here is the second chapter. This is not my best writing, the third chapter is better, but that's okay. In this chapter Pamina gets sorted.
- I want to be a Weasley
In an hour's time, the Hogwarts Express pulled into Hogsmeade Station. The sun was beginning to set over the small train station. Pamina was quite surprised to see a giant man with a fluffy brown beard waving at the train from the platform. She would have expected someone to tell her there was a giant at Hogwarts.
She left the train and heard the giant say, "First years, follow me,"
She followed, and in the group of around 40 people, she noticed the boy named Neville and the brown-haired girl. The giant, which she learned was named Hagrid and was only half-giant, led the first-years to a lake with lots of little boats on it. Pamina got on a boat, and with three other students, began to row.
"My name is Ernie, Ernie Macmillan," the boy rowing on the other side told the group, "I'm a half-blood."
"Justin Finch-Fletchley," the other boy added.
"I'm Lavender Brown," a nervous girl sitting in the corner said.
"Pamina Waterwill," Pamina introduced.
The rest of the boat ride was quiet. When they reached a bend, Pamina got her first real view of Hogwarts. It was beautiful, an ancient castle with turrets and towers made out of gray stone. Her breath stopped for a minute, so she could take in the beautiful building in front of her. It was the most wondrous thing she had seen in her whole life.
They reached the end of the lake, and climbed up a path. In front of Pamina were doors so large that they could fit three Hagrids on top of eachother, maybe even four. The doors opened, and Pamina saw that the inside of Hogwarts was almost as beautiful as the outside. So much so, that she was still staring up at the ceiling when a thin woman with a pointed hat and a stern look came up to the first years.
"First years!" she clapped her hands to get their attention, "I'm Professor McGonagall, Head of Gryffindor house. In a moment you will be walking through these doors behind me. Then you will be sorted into your houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Your house will become your family, good deeds will be rewarded, any rule-breaking will be punished. Follow me."
The doors behind her opened and the first years got into a line of pairs. They walked into a room filled with all the students of was a large room, and the cieling was bewitched to look like the night sky. They stopped in front of a stool, which had on top of it, a hat. Wait, a hat? Pamina was confused. What were they supposed to do with a hat? But her questions were answered when the lady came up to a pedestal and started to talk.
"Here I have in front of me, are this year's first years. They will be sorted into one of the four houses. I do hope that you welcome these students into your house with open arms. Now, let's get started. The first student is Hannah Abbott."
A short girl with blond pigtails went up to the stool in the front of the room.
"Put on the hat and sit down, dear," Professor McGonagall told Hannah.
So Hannah sat on the stool and put on the hat. In a moment, the hat exclaimed, "HUFFLEPUFF!"
Hannah ran off to the Hufflepuff table. The Sorting went on. Susan Bones, Hufflepuff, Lavender Brown, Gryffindor. It went on and on, until she heard her name.
"Pamina Waterwill!" Pamina walked up to the stool and sat down. She put on the hat.
But something peculiar was happening. The hat was talking to her.
"Ah, so you want to be Ravenclaw. That does make sense, I do see how you got that into your head. Everyone you are close to was in Ravenclaw. But I don't think you are fit to be in Ravenclaw. I know you will be upset, but I was thinking…..HUFFLEPUFF!" He yelled the last word out to the whole hall.
Pamina took the hat off, and walked over to the Hufflepuff table. She choked back tears. So, she wasn't in Ravenclaw. She was in Hufflepuff. Stupid Hufflepuff. There were only two more people left to be sorted, one by the surname of Weasley, the other by the surname of Zabini. When they were sorted into Gryffindor and Slytherin, the headmaster came up onto a pedestal in the front of the hall. He was old, and had a long grey beard. One he said his speech of four nonsense words and they sang the school song, a big feast appeared on the tables. There was so much to eat, that by the time, she was finished, Pamina was stuffed. The headmaster gave a few words of wisdom, don't go into the dark forest, don't go into the third floor corridor, no magic in the corridors, and then the students left.
Pamina followed the Hufflepuff prefect into a hallway by the kitchen and down into a basement.
"Cod Eggs!" Apparently that was the password, for the door swung open, revealing a low-ceilinged, round room. From the high windows, Pamina could see tufts of grass from the ground outside. The room was filled with yellow puffy armchairs, circled around a fire. Then the prefect led all the girls up the stairs into a room with five four-poster beds.
"This is the girl's dormitory for first years. Have a good day." Her voice was squeaky and cold.
Pamina looked around the room, and looked at her fellow Hufflepuff girls. Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Maia Kestral, and Autumn Billingsbee. They smiled at each other shyly.
Pamina had a pit in her stomach as she looked around. She was in Hufflepuff.