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Together Forever
Hogwarts
The rest of the trip was not very exciting. The boys who had bothered Severus were James Potter and Sirius Black; they had stayed in the compartment and talked about almost everything, from quidditch, to their families to cheese.
"I just don't see how you can eat that, it smells so…cheesy" said James Potter to Sirius.
"How would you know? You've never eaten it!"
"It just looks so…disgus—"James said but was cut off by a boy who tapped on the compartment door.
"I am sorry for interrupting you, but I've been looking for a compartment for about half an hour or so, may I sit here?" asked the boy with shaggy hair as he looked down.
"Yeah, sure" said Sirius.
"I'm James Potter and he is my pal' Sirius Black. What's your name?" James asked.
"My name is Remus Lupin. Wait a Black is talking to a Potter? How is that supposed to work?" he asked quite shocked that a 'pure-blood' was talking to a 'blood-traitor'.
Sirius saw the look on Remus`s face and answered his question: "Well, I don't exactly share my family's beliefs. I don't share anything with them except my last name".
"Oh…I see" said Remus as he looked around the compartment awkwardly.
They then started talking about what they thought Hogwarts would be like.
"Well, I have to say that I thought I would never have the opportunity to go to school…" said Remus with a bit of a sad tone.
"Why wouldn't you be able to go?" asked James who noticed the tone in which Remus was talking.
"Oh, err—my mother, she is sick and my dad always has to work so I would have to take care of her" he said nervously.
"Okay…" said both James and Sirius at the same time after sharing a look.
KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK
Outside the compartment door stood a girl with long wavy black hair. She had a badge on her uniform that said "head-girl".
"We will be arriving at hogsmead soon; you should get your uniforms on already." She said and quickly walked away and did the same at other compartments.
The boys quickly put their uniforms on and began talking again. James and Sirius were trying to find the real reason of why Remus didn't think he was going to be able to attend to any magic school.
Meanwhile at Lily and Severus compartment:
KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK
"We are almost at Hogsmead; you should start getting ready" said a boy with dirty blond hair who was also wearing a badge that said "head-boy". He quickly walked away.
"Sev, I am going to find a place to change okay" said Lily before leaving the compartment with her bag.
Severus then sighed to himself and thanked Merlin that Lily wasn't mad at him because of the letter anymore.
A few minutes later, Lily came back with the Hogwarts uniform on. She then sat down in front of Severus, not knowing what to say about his since his uniform was dirty and had clearly been used.
Luckily the train stopped before the silence started getting too awkward and students began filling the train's corridor.
Severus looked at Lily and said: "We're finally here"
Lily looked at him for a moment and smiled. Ah, finally. They would be at Hogwarts -their new home- very soon
They then got up and joined the students in the corridors. They finally got out of the train, much to Severus's relief since they were being squished by the older students.
They were then greeted by a big man with a long black, bushy beard.
"'Ello, I am hogw'rts keeper of keys 'nd ground's, all first years come with me" he said. Quickly a group of children began following him, including Lily and Severus. At first Lily had a little bit of trouble understanding him but then understood what he said.
They walked for a pretty long time until they reached some boats. Lily and Severus got on one with a girl named Mary. They were amazed with the site they saw. A huge castle that was obviously a couple of hundreds of years old. They were so busy looking at the castle that almost none of them noticed the giant squid that peaked its head outside the water.
None of them were paying attention to the instructions Hagrid was giving them.
"So when we're off these boats, Professor McGonagall will take ya' to the Great Hall were you will be sorted." He said.
Nobody even noticed when the boats had already reached the castle; they just sat there, looking around. At least they did that until Hagrid noticed nobody was off the boat and cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Egh-hem" he said
Everyone immediately looked at him and noticed that the boat ride as they thought of it, was now over and they would soon be sorted.
They all got off the boats and started following him. He took them throughout the castle until they reached a staircase were they saw professor McGonagall standing, looking very annoyed, probably because of their tardiness.
"Hello everyone, I am professor McGonagall, the transfiguration teacher. I will be escorting you to the great hall for your sorting. Please follow me" she said and made her way towards the great hall.
The students continued following, no one saying anything at all.
They walked for what seemed to them as hours, though it was only 6 minutes. The finally reached a huge wooden double door. Lily felt as if her heart was going to fall out of her chest. She knew these doors. There were pictures of them in 'Hogwarts, a history'. They were the doors to the great hall, which meant she would be sorted soon.
Professor McGonagall looked at them and said: "we're here; I will lead you to the front of the hall. The sorting is in front of the entire school. Follow me" and she opened the doors to the great hall. There were 4 long tables with many students sitting in them and at the very end of the table there were only plates, obviously for the new students.
Once they reached the front of the hall, professor McGonagall took out a roll of parchment and said: "Once I call your name, you will come here, sit on the chair and I will place the sorting hat on your head."
"Alice Finnegan" she said. Alice took a deep breath and sat on the chair. The hat was put on her head and in about 7 seconds it screamed out: "Ravenclaw".
Alice smiled and sat down with fellow Ravenclaw's.
"Frank Longbottom" she said. A small boy walked up and sat on the chair. The hat was placed on his head and said: "Gryffindor!"
"Sirius Black"
"Gryffindor!" once the hat said that any of the slytherin students narrowed their eyes and started whispering among each other.
"Lily Evans" she sat down on the chair and took a deep breath. The hat barely even touched her hair and said: "Gryffindor".
She was actually very sad, she knew Severus wouldn't be a Gryffindor, and he would probably not ever talk to her since she was. She gave everyone a fake smile and walked towards the Gryffindor table. She looked at Severus who was looking at her.
She looked at the boy next to her, and introduced herself. She then recognized him as the boy from the train, crossed her arms and turned around. She began talking to others.
The sorting continued…
"James Potter"
"Gryffindor"
"Severus Snape"
"Slytherin"
"Remus Lupin"
"Gryffindor"
"Peter Pettigrew"
"Gryffindor!"
"Mary Macdonald"
"Gryffindor"
"Lourdes Martinez"
"Hufflepuff"
The list continued, there were about 3 more slytherin's, 1 more Hufflepuff and 4 more Ravenclaw's.
"May I have your attention?" said professor Dumbledore, looking at everyone in general.
"For the new students as well as the old ones, I will give you some rules that you must follow while you are here. You are not allowed to go to the forbidden forest; you must be in your dormitories at 8:00 pm every night and please, be careful with the new tree we have planted, the Whomping Willow. If you do not follow these rules, you might experience a very painful and slow death. Now hip-hip and off to bed." Once he was done, Remus Lupin seemed very uncomfortable. Soon the students began leaving the hall; the first years followed the prefects who took them to their houses.
Once they reached the portrait of the fat lady, the prefects explained to the Gryffindor first years about how they couldn't give the password to any other student.
The prefect said the password and they then entered. The common room was filled with red and yellow furniture.
"Well girls go to the dorms in the right staircase" he said pointing at the staircase to the right.
"And boys go to the dorms in the left staircase; if any boy tries to climb the right staircase, you will slide down and serve detention for a week, understood. All your belongings are in your dorms. Off to bed everyone" he said now eyeing the boys.
All the students climbed their staircase and went to bed.
James could not take the thought of Lily out of his mind. 'These will be seven looong years' he thought to himself.
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