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A/N: I know I got a lot on my plate but I promise I'll complete all of my fics plus this looks fun...So I wrote this for the 'Journey Through Hogwarts' Challenge on the HPF Forum. I'll be putting everything for this challenge together as a collection if possible.

Prompt: Write a Journal fic including the prompts important, lake, and unknown

A Student's Journal

Day One:

Today I arrived at Hogwarts for the very first time, as I came out of the train with a few friends that I had made I found myself being led towards a large man who could only be a giant. He was calling out for first years and had a small gathering of what looked to be nervous first year students. So I made my way over with my new friends and watched as the older students walked past us heading out of the train station. I asked a passing older student where they were going and they told me that they were going to the carriages.

Before I could ask any more questions the older students suddenly rushed and disappeared leaving me and the other first year students alone with Hagrid. I thought we would have to wait around forever in that freezing cold only I found out I was wrong and I soon found myself being led towards a lake!

The lake was huge and I thought I saw a strange tentacle in the water as we made our way over it in tiny wooden boats. Even though I do not know just why first year students have to go over the lake for, who knows what dangerous unknown creatures and plants that might kill us were under the water, but I have to admit it was fun and especially amazing when I saw Hogwarts for the very first time.

I was expecting it to be a really cool sight, what with it being a large magical castle and all but I was not expecting to see just an amazing sight, what with it all light up it looked so...magical. But my amazement soon went when I found myself walking up several slippery dangerous steps, I could of fallen and cracked my head open if it was not for one of my new friends quickly catching me! I am so going to make a complaint about that to the Professor's. I would of thought that with all this magical powers that they could place a few important spells on some steps to stop people from slipping!

I was soon led into a side room through and told all about the Hogwarts four houses through from what I had seen amongst the older students on the train I do not think that this house system that this Professor McGonagall talked about was a good idea. It seemed to do more damage than. While waiting to be sorted through I saw a group of REAL ghosts floating past talking about someone, or something, called Peeves. I wonder who this Peeves is, something tells me is a trouble maker from how the ghosts, real life ghosts!, were talking about him.

Before I had chance to talk to the ghosts through Professor McGonagall came and took us into the Great Hall and I felt like a fish in a glass fish pond as the Professors and other students stared and whispered at us. I spotted four different banners floating above them, out of them all I really like the one with the raven on the most through my second favourite is the one with the lion on.

After a long wait and a shocking surprise with a talking hat I found myself placed in the raven house, Ravenclaw. Apparently the talking hat decided to place me there because of my love of studying and how excited I am about classes. After the sorting there was a wonderful feast with so many different foods! After the feast we were led up to the Ravenclaw only area of the school through I'll write about that tomorrow with how my very first day of classes went. For now I am too tired to think so I'll finish today's journal and write my parents a letter tomorrow. Night.

End of Prompt.