Chapter Four: The Sorting Hat

Hermione, Ron, Jake, Teddy, and I walked out of the train. We had found Teddy in the halls of the train, wandering around. We all looked around. We were at a train station, but not a normal one, the platform was completely open to the elements. The sun was just sinking into the horizon, casting a pinkish glow over the platform.

"First Years! First years over here please!" A tall man loudly yelled over everyone's heads. He had a freakishly huge dog with him, that watched all the students pass by. A group of kids were gathering around him.

"We might want to go join our classmates." Teddy says, walking toward the area. He waves us over toward them. So we follow him.

" 're you all over here? All the first years? Well hello there James. James?" The very tall and may I say scraggly man.

"My name isn't James, sir. That's my father. I'm Harry. Harry Potter." I say somewhat afraid of what he might do.

"So you're James' boy? I thought I had gone back in time you look so much like him. Except you have your mother's eyes. Lily, how has she been?"

"Ask me yourself, Hagrid." My mom says seemingly appearing out of nowhere.

"Lily! Well I'll be! How 'ave you been?" Hagrid says.

"I've been well. Im the charms teacher this year, because Flitwick 'retired'. We really should get these First years to the school."

"I fergot all abou' that. Come on you guys." We followed Hagrid to the lake, where there were boats, "Five to a boat! Any more and they'll sink!" We all pushed into one boat, Hermione, Teddy, Jake, Ron, and I just barely fit into one boat.

"Hurry up! We need to get you all sorted!" And off we were toward the marvelous Hogwarts castle.

The ride was fun. I wouldnt expect that these two could be so much fun. I have never been in a boat before, and I had a feeling I wouldn't be in a boat again any other time. So I made the best of this ride, I hung my arm over the side of the boat sticking my fingers in the water. The water was very icey cold. I pulled my fingers back immediatly. I turned and looked at Jake. He was spacing out. Great. "How do you think the school will be?"

"Very welcoming I hope." Hermione says, she was fiddling with her robe.

"It will be, dont worry. If not, you can always talk to my mom." I say.

"Thanks Harry."

"No Problem."

"You can always talk to me, Ron, Jake or Harry too." Teddy says.

"Thank you, Teddy."

"You're sure to make more friends than us anyways."

"Yeah." Hermione sighs.

And then it stayed quiet.

When we arrived, we all walked up a marvelous staircase and we ran into a cat, she sat there, all composed with perfect posture, as perfect as a cat's posture could be. Then, right before our eyes, she changed and morphed into a human being. "Welcome to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am Minerva McGonagall and I am your transfiguration teacher for your time here in Hogwarts." We all were still amazed that she had went from being a cat, to being a human being. I looked around me. The kids eyes looked like they were going to fall out of their heads. "Now get into a line, alphabetical order, please."

Once we were all organized into our line, which took a rather long time, it seemed. But then we all walked, single file, into the most amazing dining hall I have ever seen. Suspended by some invisible force from the ceiling. It was phenomenal, beautiful even. The sky was visible if you looked up at the ceiling. This was undoubtedly my mother's handiwork. She had done this to our dining room several times, when we have company over.

"Abbot, Hannah!" A familiar voice called. It was Albus Dumbledore himself. Hannah walked up to the spot that Dumbledore patted. She sat down on the stool and a hat was pulled out of thin air, and placed on her head. A face, well, two eyes and a mouth formed on the hat. It moved around a little bit then had a look on its face that was one of an idea. It was almost as if a light bulb had gone off somewhere in its mind.

"Hufflepuff!" The hat yelled. A table on the far side of the room cheered. Hannah looked scared. Dumbledore placed his hand on her shoulder and whispered something in her ear. She smiled, and bounded off toward the Hufflepuff table.

"Black, Jacob!" Dumbledore yelled after a few more students that were each sorted into different houses. Jake looked confident. He strolled up to the stool and sat down. The hat was placed on his head, and it got a confused look on his face. Jake smiled. The hat had yet another moment, then yelled:

"Gryffindor!" Jake's smile grew, he stood, walked over to the table and sat down. He had something going on in his mind. but what was it?

Fifteen students later, "Granger, Hermione!" was said and she nervously walked up and sat on the stool. The hat was placed on her head and she winced. Sure enough, after about two seconds of thought, the hat yells:

"Ravenclaw!" The Ravenclaw table jeered. She shyly smiled and walked over to the table.

About fifteen minutes later, "Lupin, Teddy!" Teddy walked up to the stool sat down, and even before the hat touched his head it yelled:

"Gryffindor!"

Up next was: "Malfoy, Draco!" That boy had an aweful grin on his face, you could tell he was up to no good. It was announced when he sat down on the stool that he was a Slytherin.

About a ten minutes later, I heard my name being called. "Harry Potter." They gave up on putting my surname first. I proudly walked over to the stool and sat down. Dumbledore smiled at me and placed the sorting hat on my head. 'Ahhh Mister Harry Potter. I have been wondering when I would see you. But where to put you? Deffinitly not Hufflepuff, you could be a Slytherin, a Ravenclaw, or a Gryffindor. Both of your parents were sorted into Gryffindor, but you are different from the other students. I have no clue what to do with you. What do you think?' I honestly thought I was going crazy. 'I assure you mister potter that you are not insane in any way. Deffinatly not Ravenclaw then.' Not Slytherin, I would not be sorted into Slytherin, because that is where Voldemort started. 'Gryffindor then? You're sure?' I honestly wasn't.

A/N: Any suggestions? Because I'm full of ideas, but I want to know what you think. Review and please tell me, Longer chapters? Shorter Chapters? Slytherin or Gryffindor? Red or Green? Good or Evil? I'm asking you, what you think. Review?:D