When we walked up to the castle it seemed to get bigger and more beautiful. The only sounds were made in awe until we were taken into a hall way to wait. Ron and I were standing to one side but I could hear the muttering. Things like "she's here I swear." And "I saw her on the train." I tried to hide as much as possible I've never been a fan of lots of attention. Finally a stern woman comes in and silence falls.
"My name is professor McGonagall, I am the deputy head mistress of Hogwarts school of witch craft and wizardry. Welcome to Hogwarts. Now, in a few moments you will pass through these doors and join your classmates. But before you take your seats, you must be sorted into your houses. They are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Now while you're here your house will be like your family. Your triumphs will earn you points. Any rule breaking and you will lose points. At the end of the year, the houses with the most points is awarded the house cup." She leads us into the great hall.
The ceiling alight with stars and floating candles. The tables are filled with students all looking at us it's a little unnerving they all seem so tall. Some know it all girl decided to inform us 'It's not real the ceiling. It's just bewitched to look like the night outside.'
We reach the front of the hall where all the teachers sit at a long table, some were looking at us with calculating stares but I'm sure I saw Sev smile for a second. McGonagall goes up the few steps to stand beside a stool with a hat on it. She says "Will you wait along here please. Now before we begin, Professor Dumbledore would like to say a few words."
He stands "I have a few start-of-term notices I wish to announce. The first years please note, that the Dark Forest is strictly forbidden to all students. Also, our caretaker, Mr. Filch, has asked me to remind you that the third floor corridor on the right hand side is out of bounds to all who do not wish to die a most painful death. Thank you." He sits and McGonagall picks up the hat off the stool and looks at a list of names in her other hand.
"When I call your name you will come forth, I shall place the Sorting Hat on your head, and you will be sorted into your houses. Hermione Granger!" that girl gets up and starts muttering
"Oh, no. OK relax." She goes up and sits on the stool.
Ron Whispers to me "Mental that one, I'm telling you."
McGonagall puts the hat on her head. Suddenly the tear in the sorting hat opens and starts mumbling before finally shouting "Okay, Gryffindor!"
She smiles and goes to join the other Gryffindor's.
McGonagall "Draco Malfoy!" Draco goes to the stool and the hat just barely touches his head before shouting out a House. Sorting Hat "Slytherin!" I try not to grin as Draco smiles and goes to the Slytherin table. Ron whispers again "There's no witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin."
McGonagall "Susan Bones!" As I look to the teachers table I see Sev talking to one of the professors my scar begins to hurt. I hiss in pain. Ron "Harrie what is it?" "Nothing. Nothing, I'm fine."
Sorting Hat "Hufflepuff!" She goes over to the Hufflepuff table.
McGonagall "Ronald Weasley!"
He nervously goes to sit on the stool and the hat is placed on his head.
Sorting Hat "Ha! Another Weasley! I know just what to do with you… Gryffindor!" Ron sighs with relief and goes to sit with Hermione and his brothers.
McGonagall "Harriet Potter."
The Hall comes alive with students trying to get a look at me as I goes to sit on the stool. McGonagall places that hat on my head.
Sorting Hat "Hmmm… Difficult, very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There's talent, oh yes, and a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you…
I Whisper "Not Slytherin, not Slytherin!"
Sorting Hat "Not Slytherin eh? Oh I see this plan eh? You could be great you know. It's all here in your head. And Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, there's no doubt about that. No?
Harry whispering "Please, Please anything but Slytherin, anything but Slytherin."
Sorting Hat "Well if you're sure, better be… Gryffindor!"
Amid lots of cheers from the Gryffindor table I go to join them. Fred and George Ron's brothers shout "We got Potter! We got Potter!" and I just wish I could melt into the floor. After all the first years have been sorted Dumbledore stands again "Let the feast begin!" Suddenly the plates in front of us are filled with food and we all dig in.
Classes go fairly well but the best was Flying Class
The Gryffindor and Slytherin students were gathered around the field with broomsticks laying beside them. Madame Hooch "Good afternoon, class." "Good afternoon Madame Hooch." We chorus.
Madame Hooch "Good afternoon Amanda, good afternoon. Welcome to your first flying lesson. Well what are you waiting for? Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick. Come on now, hurry up. Stick your right hand over the broom and say up."
We repeat "Up! Up!" my broom jumps up into my hand immediately "Whoa!" Malfoy "Up." His broom jumps up into his hand and he smiles teasingly at me. Ron "Up. Up! "His broom doesn't move.
Madame Hooch "With feeling!
Hermione "Up. Up! Up. Up!" She gets frustrated as her broom does nothing. Ron "UP!" The broom flies up and hits him in the head. "Ow!" Draco and I can't help but laugh. "Shut up Harrie."
Madame Hooch "Now once you've got hold of your broom, I want you to mount it. Grip it tight. You don't wanna be sliding off the end. When I blow my whistle, I want each of you to kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your broom steady, hover for a moment, then lean forward slightly and touch back down. On my whistle. Three, two… Mr. Longbottom. Mr. Mr. Mr. Longbottom!" Neville starts flying up shakily.
Neville "Help! Help!" Madame Hooch "Come back down this instant! Mr. Longbottom! Everyone out of the way!" Neville's broom flies off and up over the castle. His grip fails and he slides of the broom landing in a pile on the grass.
Hermione "Is he alright?" Neville "Ow!"
Madame Hooch "Oh oh oh. Oh dear, it's a broken wrist. Poor boy. Come on now, up you get. Everyone is to keep their feet firmly on the ground while I take Mr. Longbottom to the hospital wing. Understand? If I see a single broom in the air the one riding it will find themselves out of Hogwarts before they can say 'Quidditch'."
Malfoy picks up Neville's dropped rememberal and with a teasing glint in his eye says in a mocking tone "want to have some fun potter?" I mount broom I'm stopped by Hermione. "Harry! No way! You heard what Madame Hooch said. Besides you don't even know how to fly!" I roll my eyes and fly up to Malfoy's level " What an idiot!"
"Ready when you are Malfoy "
Malfoy "Is that so? Ok" He throws the Rememberall as far as he can and I take off after it, flying like a pro. I catch it just outside of McGonagall's window and then return to the ground.
Gryffindor's "Yeah! Nice going, Harry! That was wicked Harry!"
McGonagall walks over rather hurriedly "Harry Potter! Follow me."
She takes me to the Corridor outside Defence Against The Dark Arts Classroom "You wait here." A few minutes later a tall fifteen year old boy joins McGonagall in the hall.
McGonagall "Potter, this is Oliver Wood. Wood I have found you a Seeker."
Later as we are waking through the corridor talking about Quidditch that girl Hermione comes over and shows me this cool trophy with my dad's name in the seeker position's. I smile feeling a little closer to my parents and think I must get Sev to tell me more about them.
As we walk back to the common room the stair cases change while we are on one . "Let's go this way."
Ron "Before the staircase moves again." As we are looking around another empty corridor full of cobwebs he says "Does anybody feel like we shouldn't be here?"
Hermione "We're not supposed to be here. This is the third floor. It's forbidden!"
"well lets go then." I say but as we go back to the door we are confronted by Mrs. Norris the caretakers cat.
Hermione "It's Flich's cat!"
"Run! Quick, let's hide through that door!" I try it but it won't budge "It's locked!"
"That's it we're done for!" Ron moans.
"Oh! Move over!" Hermione says in exasperation as she pushes us aside and whips out her wand pointing it at the lock "Alohomora!" The door opens and we rush in. "Alohomora?" Ron asks
"Standard Book Of Spells- Chapter 7!" she replies. Just then we hear filch walk into the corridor but leave soon after.
Ron "He thinks this door is locked."
Hermione "It was locked."
I turn and stare wide eyed as I mumble "And for good reason." Ron and Hermione turn to see what I'm looking at. it's a huge three-headed dog. The dog slowly wakes up and growls at us. We all scream and bolt for the door. The dog lunges at us, but we manage to get out the door and shut it behind us.
Ron "What do they think they're doing? Keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?
Hermione "You don't use your eyes do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?"
Ron "I wasn't looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads. Or maybe you didn't notice… there were three!"
Hermione "It was standing on a trap door. It wasn't there by accident. It's guarding something."
"Guarding something?" I ask confused.
Hermione "Yes now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us all killed or worse… expelled." She flounces off. Ron "She needs to sort out her priorities."
(Now I know Hogwarts is awesome and you want to hear all about classes and homework but after awhile it gets like normal homework especially the essays and it's not that important to my story so I'm gunna skip bits)
It took me a few days before I could see Sev to tell him about that huge dog. I actually ended up having to get detention with him. Sev knew I missed Draco as well so he was invited for advanced lessons I believe anyway I'll tell you how it went...
I walked into Sev's office and grinned, he had my favourite dessert and hot chocolate just sat there waiting for me and he was sat with a faraway look in his eyes so I sneak up behind him and shout boo. It was hilarious until he set his patented glare on me but after a few seconds he calms down and pulls me into a hug, I can't believe how much I've missed them. "Now child other than your recent lack of behaviour how have you been?"
"ok some of the teachers are harder to understand then you but overall I'm enjoying things. The Gryffindors are really nice to everyone but the Slytherins saying they are 'all evil' and 'slimy liars' which makes me feel bad cause like you thought the hat said I should be there." I sigh.
"you said there was something you wanted to talk about?" he says in a soft tone.
"oh yeah on our way back from err something I don't quiet remember but anyway the stairs moved the wrong way and we just wanted to get off before they took us further from the common room so walked off into the restricted corridor by accident and then Mrs. Norris came and we hid behind this locked door using this spell Hermione learned but in there was this huge dog with three heads and Hermione said it was guarding something cause it was standing a trap door." I pant .
"First things first breath child you don't have to get it all out at once. And secondly Hermione was right and that dog was called fluffy, stupid name I know but the grounds keeper owns him and he was always a little odd. And thirdly what is under that trap door is very dangerous and I don't want you to go anywhere near it understand?"
"Fine" I'm grumble knowing if Sev says I shouldn't he's telling the truth. "can I at least know what it is?" I whine.
"I suppose if it will stop you investigating but you must not tell anyone do you promise?" I nod excitedly. "Under that door is many chambers of magical protection keeping a magical stone safe and hidden that stone is called the philosophers stone it can keep you alive for many years beyond a natural life span and turn objects to gold. Now this I'm sure you understand is not good in the hands of bad wizards so we have to keep it safe and a secret." I nod just as there's a knock Sev goes and answers the door and five seconds later I'm squished in a Draco hug.
He starts telling me all about Slytherin and this annoying girl called pansy apparently she has this crazy idea that dray will marry her when they grow up, we are all 11 for goodness sake and she looks like she's a cross between a dog and a girl dray has much better taste than that.
"I wish I was in Slytherin" I sigh "the Gryffindors are all overly excitable and I don't think they like to be quiet cept Hermione but she only likes reading. She's worse than Sev!"
"hey shush it's ok and look on the bright side you've only got seven more years"
I hit him before curling up on him, I don't know why but I always feel safer when I'm with him. He starts stroking my hair and the next thing I know I'm being shaken awake.
"Harrie it's almost curfew."
Now much to my annoyance I couldn't do what Sev had told me as Ron and Hermione wouldn't drop the investigation into the philosophers stone not that I had told them about it in fact I tried to hinder the investigation as much as possible.
Sev noticed that the headmaster looked much more smug than normal which couldn't be good
If only he knew...