Forbidden Love: (a Harry Potter love story.)

Chapter 4) The Sorting.

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The train slowed right down to a stop, people pushing their way towards the door and out onto the tiny, dark platform. I shivered in the cold air and huddled closer to harry for warmth, who blushed and grinned like a mad man.

A lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students and I heard a familiar voice. "Firs'-years! Firs'-years over here! All right there, Harry?" Hagrid said, his big hairy head appearing over the sea of students.

"C'mon, follow me- any more firs'-years? Mind yer step, now! Firs'-years follow me!" The road was really slippy, and multiple students slipped on the road, including me and I had to grasp onto Harry's robes to stop myself from falling, standing up and noticing that me and harry were practically touching noses.

I blushed like mad and continued to follow Hagrid down the road. "Yeh'll get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec, jus' round this bend here." Hagrid said over his shoulder.

There were suddenly loud gasps of awe and lots of "oooooohs!" From the crowd. The narrow path had opened up on the edge of a great Black Lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, it's windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many many turrets and towers. The sight truly was breathtaking.

Hagrid pointed to a bunch of boats sitting in the water at the shore, and students began climbing into the boats, 4 to each. Me, harry, and Ron, were followed to our boat by Hermione, who probably wanted to keep an eye on us to see if we tried to do anything.

Once everyone was sat down, the fleet of little boats moved at once, gliding across the lake which was as smooth as glass.

I reached down a hand and ran my fingers through the water, smiling like an idiot as I saw the ripples dance across the water. I felt two pairs of eyes on me and looked to see harry staring at me with a silly grin on his face, looking away once he knew he had been caught. I looked over my shoulder to see Hermione watching me with a small smile, her fingers playing with the water as well.

"Heads down!" Yelled Hagrid as the boats reached the cliff where a bunch of Ivory was hanging down. I ducked, and so did Harry and Hermione, but Ron was an idiot and didn't, so he got smacked in the face.

We were carried along a dark tunnel which seemed to go underneath the castle, until we reached some kind of underground harbour made of stone and with giant torches in brackets, giving the place a warm and beautiful glow.

"Oy, you there! Is this your toad?" Hagrid asked Neville, who nodded and took the toad out of the boat. We climbed a passageway in the rock, coming out onto smooth, damp grass right in the shadow of the castle. We walked up a flight of stone steps, Ron wheezing and complaining the whole way, before we crowded around a huge oak door. Hagrid raised a giant fist, and knocked three times on the door.

The door swung open at once, a tall and strict looking black haired witch in emerald robes stood waiting. She and Hagrid had a conversation, before Hagrid left and the witch opened the doors to the entrance hall.

The entrance hall was so big it could have fitted five regular sized houses in it, the stone walls lit with flaming torches, an incredibly high ceiling and a magnificent marble staircase leading to the upper floors. "If this is a dream, no one pinch me." I muttered, but loud enough for the silent first-years to hear. The students laughed and the emerald lady's lips were less thin, which I took to be smiling seeing as she looked like the kind of person who never smiled.

We followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor and the sound of hundreds of voices met my ears. The rest of the school must already be there. We were all stood in a small chamber off to the left of the hall, standing rather close together, other people peering around nervously. I wasn't, What's to be nervous about?