Hermione Jean Granger (Hermione Weasley)
I just had to keep my calm, but it was hard, everything was so new and exciting, I looked around at the hall daunted by the prospect that soon I'd be up at the front being sorted. A small boy called Seamus had just been sorted into Gryffindor. I didn't know much about the houses because I'd only skimmed through Hogwarts: A History twice. It was very interesting and I'd been reading some spell books to catch up. Both my parents were 'muggles', or I think that's what you call it. They were dentists, so I knew a lot about teeth but not much about the wizarding world or anything like that.
I hadn't believed that I was a witch at first! Professor McGonagall had come to talk to my parents and so I'd gone to Diagon Alley and started practising, after all I hadn't had much practise and I didn't want to be left behind. Besides I had nothing else to do. I was an only child and I tended to be bullied at school for being 'a geek'. I knew I was clever but I didn't like being called a geek. I took it anyway because I didn't want to start a fight. That's why I was grateful that on the train no one had made any horrible remarks, it was a good start. I had sat next to a boy called Neville Longbottom. He was really nice, if a bit dim. I felt sorry for him after losing his toad and he seemed worried what his Gran must think. I had asked about his parents but he had seemed keen to get off the topic, and I didn't want to push him to tell me.
I went to try and find his toad for him, but no such luck. I had come across Harry Potter though and that was very interesting. I had read about as a baby he had defeated Voldemort, but I thought he'd be more arrogant than he was, he was quite humble in fact. Then was his friend, Ron I think it was. He had tried to do a spell and it hadn't really worked, so I had showed my knowledge by repairing Harry's glasses. That seemed to annoy him. So I had left and went back to Neville who, like me had had no such luck with finding the toad. He found it in the end however so everything was ok.
"Granger, Hermione." Professor McGonagall read out. I squeezed my way through the crowd, and as I passed Ron and Harry I noticed that Ron whispered something to Harry. But I continued my way up to the front where Professor McGonagall stood, she smiled reassuringly at me and I smiled back. I sat down and Professor McGonagall put the hat on my head of messy brown hair. I hated the way I looked. I couldn't tame my frizzy hair and my two front teeth were bucktoothed. I had to wait for my baby teeth to fall out until I got braces though, which was going to be annoying.
"Hmm, this is going to be difficult." The hat whispered into my ear.
"What, I don't fit in any off them?" I thought.
"No, the problem is more that you fit into three of them. Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw." It said.
"Really, Gryffindor? I'm not that brave!" I thought.
"You're braver than you think. You'd fit in very well in Gryffindor!"
"I thought I'd be Ravenclaw!" I thought.
"No, you're certainly clever but there are more important things like bravery and friendship. You'll make an excellent Gryffindor. Remember that, you're braver than you think and you're going to have to be brave." It said to me. "GRYFFINDOR!" it shouted and everyone started clapping. I really didn't understand though, when was I going to have to be brave? It was like the hat knew something! Anyway I went to sit down next to the small boy, Seamus. Gryffindor. This was going to be interesting…