Love Between Good and Evil (Harry Potter fan fiction)

Sorting Ceremony

Al rights go to J.K Rowling (except Lucy Angel and any other character I have created)

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                                                                                                                    Lucy's POV

We all sat on boats and I was sat with the girl who was ring to find a toad.

"Hi, I am Lucy Angel and have you found the toad yet?" She turned around and shook her head.

"No I haven't and I am Hermione Granger." She gave me her hand and I shook it and we both smiled. I then instantly knew that we were going to be friends for a long time.

We finally arrived at Hogwarts to find an old lady standing there waiting for us.

"The firs' years, Professor McGonagall." Said the half giant.

"Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here." And she let us walk into the castle and we did. I could hear the door closing and I could see from the corner of my eye that the old lady, Professor McGonagall I think her name was, was running towards us. She finally caught up with us and lead us to somewhere.

"Welcome to Hogwarts," said Professor McGonagall. "The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room." She stopped and spoke again.""The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honour. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours. "The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting." She finally stopped talking and most of us fixed our robes. She then ,left and went into the hall.

"AHHHHHHHH!" I heard people scream and looked to see what had happened and I could see that there was ghosts and I just stayed clam.

"Forgive and forget, I say, we ought to give him a second chance --" I heard a ghost say and I think some of them were arguing.

"My dear Friar, haven't we given Peeves all the chances he deserves? He gives us all a bad name and you know, he's not really even a ghost -- I say, what are you all doing here?" I nodded and the ghost smile at how brave I was seeing a ghost for the first time.

"New students!" said the Fat Friar, smiling around at them. "About to be Sorted, I suppose?" A few people nodded mutely.

"Hope to see you in Hufflepuff!" said the Friar. "My old house, you know." In my mind the ghosts seemed pretty nice.

"Move along now," said a sharp voice. "The Sorting Ceremony's about to start." We all followed her a the hall was huge. There was candles floating about and there were like a million students sitting around talking.  

"Now, form a line," Professor McGonagall told the first years, "and follow me." And we all did start to form a line and follow her. In a distance I could see a stool with a brown pointy hat. We all stopped and I could hear singing from the hat's direction.