Chapter five

When I got off the train I stayed close to Scorpius while looking for Albus and Rose, "Sarah!" Al exclaims grabbing my hand, we heard Hagrid hollering for the first years and followed the booming voice, "Hello there Sarah." Hagrid says patting me on the head making me let out a little squeak, Scorpius chuckles making me blush; the four of us get in a boat together, Rose a bit grudgingly having sided with her dad on the situation.

We cross the lake with no one falling in, and meet Uncle Neville at the door, "Good evening students tonight you will be sorted into one of four houses, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin, you will live with the people sorted into this house for the next seven years, I'll go tell them we are ready."

He walks off leaving the first years to chat, Albus and Scorpius talk about qudditch as Rose pulls me to her, "Sarah, I want you to be careful, I can tell you like him, I don't want you to get hurt." She says hugging me, I sigh and hug her back before rejoining the boys, "What was that?" Al asks as Rose joins Roxanne and Fred, "Nothing Al." I say as Neville returns, "Follow me." I grab Al's sleeve as we walk forward.

As we enter the great hall I'm awed by the ceiling my Aunt Hermione had told me about it, I loved it, "Gather around up front as close as you can." Neville says I look up and start listening, "When I call your name come up and sit on this stole, he will place you in your house." As he goes through the names, I hope that we are all in the same house, when he nears the "P's" my knees start shaking a little, "Albus Potter," Al rushes up to the stole and sits as Neville places the hat, it's not long before it shouts out "GRYFFINDOR!" I'm next, "Sarah Potter," I take a deep breath and walk up, sitting down slowly.

"Ah young Sarah Potter, so nice to meet you, I've heard much through passing about you, anyway this is easy as pie, GRYFFINDOR." My heart skips a beat as the hat it taken off and I hurry to the Gryffindor table, I had been so spaced I hadn't noticed Scorpius get placed into Gryffindor as well, I was happy for him.

After a wonderful dinner and dessert we are lead to the common room were we learn our room assignment and the rules, I say good night to Scorpius and go upstairs, exhausted. When I get there, there is one other girl besides Rose, "Hi my names Sarah." I say smiling at the girl, she looked mixed, and had beautifully curly hair, her eyes were astonishingly blue though, "Hi I'm Claire, it's nice to meet you." I change and talk to Claire until I'm ready to go to sleep, "See you in the morning Claire." I say before closing my bed curtains and falling asleep.

When I woke up the next day moms owl was tapping on my window, I groan silently realizing I hadn't owled her to let her know what had happened, I open the window and feed a treat to Sirius, I read it quickly.

Sarah,

Albus owled us last night and told us everything, I'm so proud of you all, let me know how your first day goes though please, I worry, make friends, and do good.

Love

Mom and Dad

I smile a little and write a quick reply,

Mom and Dad

I'm sorry I didn't owl you, I made a friend, her name is Claire Sullivan, she seems awesome, I'll owl you tonight love you.

Sarah

I hand Sirius the note before getting ready, I use my wand to pull my hair into a pony tail, I didn't want to deal with it today, I dress in jeans and an athletic tank top and slip on my robes, I put my tennis shoes and grab my book bag.

I was one of the first at the Gryffindor table when I got to the great hall, Scorpius was sitting by himself closest to the teacher table so I join him "Morning Sunshine." He says I blush, he had started calling me sunshine after I told him about the nickname on the train, I don't know why I blushed though, "Morning Scorp." I say making a plate, I pile it high with waffles with fruit and whipped cream, and dug in.

When Al arrived I was just finishing, and it was nearly time for class as McGonagall was coming by with the schedules, "Here you go Mr. and Ms. Potter, and Mr. Malfoy." She says handing the three of us papers, "To potions for us, with Slytherins of course." Albus says sighing, Scorpius frowns to, not ready to face the people who knew his family; I would sit with him and make sure he was alright.

When we got there his father is standing in front of the board, "Hello students, I know you did not expect a sub this early, Professor Slughorn passed last night in his sleep so I will be filling in until further notice, today we will be working on a simple shrinking solution get to it." He waves his wand and the ingredients fly to each table and the instructions appear on the board.

Scorpius explains potions to me as we work slowly making sure we do it correctly, by the end of class our potion was the only one that hadn't exploded, "Very good you two, you two get twenty points to Gryffindor a piece." I grin as the bell rings, we all head to DADA, even though we didn't need it anymore since all the death eaters where in Azkaban.

When we got there we sat down and were greeted by the teacher his name was Mark Webb and he was from America, he seemed like a nice man. "Today I will be assessing your skills on the basic spells in the first chapter of your books, you will be dueling the person next to you."

I would be dueling Scorpius, "So how much of the first chapter have you read?" I ask, "Not much just the basic dueling spells really, and you?" he asks, I smile, "Oh you know, maybe all of it." I grinned sheepishly, really Rose had made me study with her and it got crammed into my head, Scorpius laughs as we are called next, we face each other before going to our respective side, "On the count of three you two." Professor Webb says, "One, two, and three."

I'm the first to fire with a stunning spell and disarming spell; he was caught off guard and was disarmed after letting down his shield. "Very good Miss Potter and Mr. Malfoy you can return to your seats." I grin to myself as we sit down, "Good job." Scorpius whispers, "Thanks." I say as class is dismissed.