The Other Lupin

The Sorting

When we arrived at the station after the long train, I start to grab my bags but Teddy, who had somehow found me and invited me to sit with him, stops me.

"They'll get them for you" he says and I pull my hand away.

We get off the train to find a mass of kids all parting around a massive man I immediately recognize as Hagrid, yelling, "Firs' years, Firs' years, come with me please" and waving a giant lantern.

Teddy pushes me over to the him, "Hagrid," he says, "This is Daniella, she's new here and she needs to be sorted"

"Alrigh' Hello Dani, I think we've met before"

I smile and nod as he finally recognizes me. He ushers me along with the rest of the first years, who look to be about eleven.

"Well this is weird" I think to myself, looking at the awkward height difference and avoiding the snickers of them and older students "Me and a whole bunch of eleven year olds".

We get into a boat, and I start as I see the boats pulled by hippocampi, half horse, half fish, they are common off the shores of Delphi.

"Hagrid," I say, "What's pulling the boat?" I ask him. He shrugs his shoulders, "I Dunno, they pull themselves just like the carriages" he answers, and by the look on his face, I know that he has no clue.

When we get to the castle, we walk through a huge set of doors into a huge hall. The ceiling looks like the night sky, and thousands of candles are magically suspended from the ceiling. The hall has five tables, four of them filled with black robed students, and the fifth, with teachers. Hagrid goes to sit at the head table and a gray robed wizard takes us over.

"When I call your name, you will put on the Sorting Hat, and be sorted into your house."

He gestures to a beaten up old hat sitting on a stool, I look a but confused, but knowing magic I figure I just have to find out.

"Anderson, Emily" a little girl walks up, puts on the hat, and the hat shouts,

"RAVENCLAW!"

She gets up, and walks to a table that's cheering wildly.

He calls more names, and finally, "Lupin, Daniella" I walk up to the stool and go to put the hat on my head. Before it's even halfway on my head, it shouts,

"GRYFFINDOR!"

The table to the left of me is cheering wildly. Looking over there, I see red hair, indicating Weasley's, and a mop of blue hair, indicating Teddy. I walk over and sit down next to Teddy and he side hugs me.

"Great job Dani!" he says, then he gestures to a girl sitting next to him, she has long shiny blonde hair, and blue eyes, I notice her before I realize she was the prefect that escorted me to England

"Dani this is Victoire Weasley, my girlfriend"

I stare at her, a Weasley?

"But she doesn't have red hair like the other Weasleys" I say confused, which my face probably looked even more confused and she giggles,

"I take after my mother by looks, and father by personality. My mother is blonde and my father is a red headed Weasley."

I nod my head, understanding almost perfectly.