Darling; George Weasley

5. Times Tables

All the first years followed Hagrid, a tall, round man, who fit Lee's description perfectly, to the dock in which held all the boats. Everyone boarded, about 4/5 kids per boat. Estella shared her seat with George, Free and Lee sat right behind them.

"Woah," she could hear the boys sounds of astonishment as the giant castle came into view, lighting up the night sky.

"This is something I never wanna forget," she told George who nodded in agreement.

The boats were moving forward, with no one rowing them and no motor attached. Oh, how I love magic, Estella thought.

Looking to her right, the first year could see many more small boats surrounding her, each packed with 4 or 5 kids. Each kid had the same look on their face, pure amazement, joy, excitement, for what the year was going to bring, and for the years ahead.

They soon arrived at the dock by the castle and unloaded their things, the first years continued to follow Hagrid up to the castle entrance then professor McGonnagall took them from there.

The students waited for a brief moment in front of the grand doors to the great hall. Soon enough, they all walked inside, still following the professor. Candles were hanging in the sky, except with no ropes, so technically they were floating. They had used magic to create the night sky INSIDE the castle. It was just as it seemed, magical.

"Ok students," McGonagall began. "I will call your name out one by one. When I call your name, come up here and sit on this stool, I will then place the sorting hat on your head and you will be sorted into your house. There are four houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin."

Estella knew she was going to be sorted into Slytherin, her whole family was, dating all the way back to her great great great great great grandfather, and beyond. Her parents had told her many times how the bloodline depended on them being Slytherins, and any other house was useless. They constantly mentioned being pure bloods and how they were "superior" to everyone else.

"Ok let us begin!" McGonnagall started naming kids names and getting them sorted, it was actually quite interesting watching the hat speak.

"Alexa Harnet."

"hmmm.." the hat pondered. "It has to be... HUFFLEPUFF!" the table filled with kids dressed in yellow robes stood and clapped and chanted as loud as they could, welcoming the newcomer to their table.

"Fred Weasley."

Fred looked at the four friends and smiled, "wish me good luck." He jumped up onto the stool and waited for the hat to make its decision.

"Ahh, another Weasley! Well you know what it has got to be then.... GRYFFINDOR!"

"The crowd of students dressed in red stood, clapping as loud as they could, whistling even. Fred walked over to the Gryffindor table and was greeted by another red haired boy, he was slightly taller than Fred and his hair was curly.

"George Weasley."

George walked to the front and hopped on the chair, just like Fred.

"Two Weasleys? In the same year? hmmm.. interesting.... I know! its gotta be... GRYFFINDOR!"

Estella clapped along with the other Gryffindors and watched as George was greeted by the same red haired boy that greeted Fred.

"Draco Malfoy."

Oh god.

Draco stood and walked smugly to the chair, Mcgonnagall lifted the hat, and it barely even touched his hair when it burst out, "SLYTHERIN!"