Enter Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"First years! First years over here!" The man yelled nearby. "My name is Augustus Filch, I am gamekeeper as well as janitor of Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please follow me and we shall enter the Hogwarts shortly." The young student followed obediently, Filch didn't seem like a person to cross. They reached a lake full of little boats; Harry suspected they were magical, since there were no oars or motors. "Okay, into a boat, no more than to a boat, hold on tightly or the giant squid will tip you over." Filch sneered as the children shivered at the thought of being eaten by the giant squid. He let out a sigh and regrettably said, "The squid will only tip you over playfully, and if you fall out, it will place you back on the boat you were in."
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville, the boy who lost his toad at the platform, got into one boat. No less than ten minutes on the boat, the squid tipped the boat a little and Neville fell over for not holding on to the boat properly. When he fell into the water, he could hardly tread on the water. Harry, Ron, and Hermione really wanted to help him, but they were too far away and the boat showed no sign of going back. Not a second later, a giant tentacle sprang up and Hermione shrieked at the sight. The tentacle later placed the dry Neville back upon the boat next to Ron. "That was bloody brilliant!" Ron said and tried to jump off the boat, but Harry and Hermione held onto him, "Uh, we don't think so."
Once they reached land, they hiked up (is it just me? Or is Hogwarts up on a hill?) to the castle. Filch banged on the door three times and Hagrid opened the doors. "The first years, Hagrid," Filch said and before Hagrid could reply, Filch left. "This way firs' years," Hagrid said gesturing deeper into the castle walls. Hagrid stopped in front of a closed doorway. "Wait here," and with that he vanished.
No sooner had he left, a ghost, or rather a poltergeist, popped out of nowhere and vanished again. "Ah, ickle firsties. About to be sorted, I see. Well how can you get SORTED, if you are no longer alive, HAHAHAHA!" crackled an evil voice from nowhere. Some of the student shivered in fear until. "Deletrius!" Hermione shouted with her wand out and the poltergeist appeared once more. "Waddiwasi," yelled Hagrid who just got there, pointing his wand at the poltergeist and a piece of chewed gum flew out of the poltergeist's mouth and into his nose. "Let that be a lesson to yeh, Peeves," Hagrid said with a smirk, "Now."
Hagrid pushed open the door revealing the Great Hall, there were candles floating in the air like the torches at the hallways they were in before, four tables, one with people really nasty looking, and a stool with a dirty old hat on top of it. One second, all the students were looking at the hat, the next the candles flickered off, and the hat started to sing and twirl (A/n: sorry for not making up a song, but if I made one up, you definitely would not want to hear it ^^.) "Now, as I call yer name, please come up and put this hat on. Abbot, Hanna," Hagrid called. It took a minute, but later to Harry's surprise, the hat shouted, "Hufflepuff!"
Lavender Brown became the first Gryffindor of their year, Terry Boot was first Ravenclaw, and Millicent Bulstrode became the first Slytherin. Harry laughed as Hermione ran up to the hat and jammed it on her head as soon as her name was called. "Gryffindor," the hat shouted and the table at the far left (A/n: and I right?) clapped loudly as she joined their table. Draco Malfoy walked up to the hat with his nose in the air with pride as his name was called. Before his hand even touched the hat, it shouted, "Slytherin!" He smirked and joined his cronies at the Slytherin table at the left.
Hagrid beamed on Harry as he called Harry's name. Harry felt foolish when he put the hat on and instantly heard a voice come from above his head. "Ah, so you are the one who defeated him. You must really be powerful...Hmm, interesting now that I mention power. You could do well in Slytherin. No? It's all here in your head. No doubt about it. You would rather be with that girl instead? Fine choice, she really is something… oops, I got off topic. Anyway....Gryffindor!" Harry heard the hat shout, took the hat off, and placed it back on the stool. He walked towards to the Gryffindor table as they clapped, Hermione clapping the hardest. Harry watched on as his new friends Neville Longbottom and Ron Weasley got sorted into Gryffindor was well.
Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat for everyone's attention. "Welcome students, just a couple of announcements before the feast begin. First, the Forbidden Forest is forbidden for all students no matter the rank. Second, the third floor corridor is also forbidden. (A/n: No, I am not going to copy J.K.'s work of art. You'll see what I am going to do later.) Third, Mr. Filch has updated his list of unwanted items in the school grounds for the latest items of Zonko's." Two redheaded twins groaned at this. "Forth, Mr. Quirrell decided to show his true colors last year as a servant of Voldemort." Many students gasped as he said this, but Dumbledore just smiled. "Replacing him is Professor Black, who kindly volunteered for this position." Everyone clapped including the staff except for one man who just sneered at him.
"What is up his arse?" Harry asked Hermione who just shrugged.
"Now, without further ado. Let the feast begin!" Along the tables, the empty gold plates that were there instantly filled with food. Harry laughed at his friend Ron who jumped at the food as if he would die a second later without it. Twenty minutes later, dessert appeared, and minutes after that, Dumbledore cleared his throat again. "Now, before you sleep in your respective rooms," Dumbledore looked at a few seventh years, "lets sing the school song." "Now prefects, please lead the first years to their proper houses."
"Okay, first years, over here." Another redheaded boy with freckles stepped up, he looked like Ron and the twins that groaned beforehand, but he had a Prefect's badge on his chest. "Ron, stop eating, you are making our family look bad." "Thanks for embarrassing me Percy," Ron blushed, took one last bite of ice cream, and followed everyone towards the Gryffindor Tower. "Remember this portrait of the Fat Lady, this is the entrance to the Gryffindor Tower, the password this month is 'Courage'," Percy said walking up to the portrait.
"I am not fat, the painter just drew me awfully," the Fat Lady said blushing and opened up as a hinge.
"Male dorms are to the right, female's to the left. Please stay in your respective dorms and try not to mix up. You will find that your luggage is already in your dorms. Good night, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask." Percy waited for the questions and left since there weren't any. The first years all yawned, scratched, and left to their dorms. Harry found himself sharing his dorm with his new friends Ron and Neville, along with his other classmates, Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas. Harry went to the bed where his trunk was in front of and guessing it was his bed, jumped in and fell into deep sleep. (I always wondered how they knew which bed was theirs or not.)
The next morning Harry woke up before his other roommates did, took a shower, changed clothes, brushed his teeth and went down to the cozy Gryffindor common room to read a book Hermione introduced him to. No sooner had he started reading Ron came down and saw him reading "Hogwarts: A History" and practically shouted, "You reading that blasted thing?"
Harry blushed and before he could say anything, "I happen to find that book quite interesting Weasley." Hermione said coolly. Note to anyone: Never insult Hermione or her favorite reading material Harry thought shaking his head grinning. "And what is so funny Potter?" Hermione snapped.
"Nothing," Harry said the best innocent look he could muster while grinning.
Hermione couldn't help smiling at the cute face Harry put up, "Ron, you better get dressed, class starts in one hour!"
"Sure, and I better get started on my goodbye speech, my last year here is in seven years!" Ron said sarcastically and went back to his dorm for more sleep.
Hermione's face grew red at his comment, which grew a deeper shade of red when Harry put his arm around her shoulder. "Awe Hermy, don't let his words get to you, there is nothing wrong with being a morning person. Now would you kindly join me to breakfast, it should start any minute now."
"Sh-sure," Hermione stuttered and walked along side him to the Great Hall.
After talking half an hour about the subjects they were about to receive, more students joined in at the Great Hall and started eating. Fifteen minutes after that, owls started flying in. Harry never seen so many birds in one place, and was even more surprised that none of the owls dropped a feather. When the amount of owls died down, the heads of houses started handing out schedules for the students. "Interesting," Hermione said out of a sudden.
"What is?" Harry asked in curiosity and looked at his schedule harder to see what is was.
"We seem to have double potions, but every other class is only once. I wonder why, (A/n: Anyone else notice that they seem to have double potions every year?.)" Hermione answered still looking at the schedule some more.