4. Hogwarts Express, Friends, Hogwarts and The Hat Sorting

The next day, Harry and his twin brother were getting prepared to go to Hogwarts and were currently packing their stuff with the exception that Harry's Pheonix, Nix was on his shoulder.

"Hey Nix, how are you doing??"Said Harry happily towards Nix.

'Im doing fine Harry'. Nix let out an elegant song of happiness expressing his feelings.

After preparation, they all went to Diagon Alley to catch the Hogwarts express train. As they reached there, they said their goodbyes to their family and wenr inside the train to sit in one of the empty compartment.

As the twin brothers were settling in the train compartment, the door of their compartment suddenly opened,

"Hello, can i sit here, other compartments are full??"Said the Bushy brown haired girl.

'Oh so now they come, i was getting worried that they wouldn't' thought Harry before saying.

"Yeah, you can have a seat"Said Harry as he gave space for the girl to sit.

After few seconds another boy came with red hair.

"Hey, can i have a seat here as well?? Everywhere is full".Said red haired kid

"Yeah, sure, why not"Said Sasuke as he was reading a book on magical creatures.

"My name is Ron, Ron Weasley, what about you guys, who are you"Said Ron albeit arrogant.

"Oh, im Hermione, Hermione Granger is my full name"Said Hermione excitingly.

"Names Sasuke Potter."Said Sasuke half-heartedly. I sweat drop at this.

"Hehe, leave him be, he is like that, names Harry, Harry Potter-"Said Harry but gets interrupted.

"Are tou really?!?!?"Shouted both Ron and Hermione shocked that they are sharing a compartment with the famous Harry Potter.

"Are you really Harry Potter??? And where is your scar and did you really fight with You-Know-Who???"Shouted Hermione in a shock that she felt like she is going to faint from all of these conspiracies.

"Ah, yes you have heard the rumours, and I have the scar right here and do not like hiding it so i plainfully show it and i did not fight with You-Know-Who as I was a kid at that time, and how can a kid fight if he doesn't have any magical powers"Said Harry smiling at both them, while Sasuke just chuckles at the irony of that fact.

As he said that an elegant song of happiness by Pheonix resided in the train compartment but was heard by everyone in the train and were very happy.

As the song was being sang Nix (Harry Pheonix) came flying and sat on top of Harry's shoulder and was still singing and seeing this Ron and Hermione were so shocked and scared that it would kill them. After the song ended.

"Hey, what happened guys, why are you so afraid??"Said Harry making a sad face as Ron and Hermione were really scared of the Pheonix.

"Y-Y-you have a P-P-Pheonix as your f-f-familiar and that also is B-B-Blue in colour!!"Shouted Ron really scared.

"Oh, thats why your afraid, and yes I have it as my Familiar and as a friend and it doesn't hurt anyone who are my friends and family"Said Harry smiling at them.

They were really shocked to hear about that but also very happy at the fact that the Pheonix would not hurt them and continue to talk about their life and as they continued to talk with Harry and Sasuke, they were really shocked that they were both twins and were already proficient in magic at such young age.

After few minutes, a brown haired chubby boy came inside their compartment.

"Hey Im Neville, have any of you guys seen any Toad around here??"Asked Neville albeit worried about his frog.

"Hello Neville, no we haven't but what is the name of your Toad??"Asked Harry smiling at Neville.

"Oh it's Trevor",Said Neville still worried

"Ah right then, 'Accio Trevor'.....*waiting for 5 sec for the Toad to appear in his hand*...and here we go, is this your frog"Said Harry , handing in the frog to Neville, who took it from him.

"Thanks alot...uhmm...-"Said Neville trying to ask for Harry's name.

"Oh, Im Harry Potter btw and this is my twin Sasuke Potter beside me and that is Ron Weasley and beside him is Hermione Granger, its nice to meet you, Neville"Said Harry extending his hand towards Neville to shake his hand.

"Oh hello and its also nice to meet you too Harry, Sasuke, Hermione and Ron, can we be friends???"Said Neville not sure if they want to be friends

"Sure"×4

As they were about to reach their destination.

"lets change our clothes to robes as we are about to reach Hogwarts and so we must let ladies change their clothes first."Said Harrt

"Yeah"×3 except Hermione who was smiling at him for being a gentleman

"thank u and after me you all can change from your muggle clothes to robes"Said Hermione feeling grateful towards Harry.

They exit their compartment and waited calmly for Hermione to change her clothes. After they were done changing, they had already reached Hogwarts.

They exited the train and heard huge someone calling.

"firs' yea's, firs' yea's, li'e up ove' he'e, we'll go to Hog'arts thr'ugh bo'ts."Shouted Hagrid but suddenly his eyes fell on Harry as he waves at him and smiles at him.

Harry saw him and smiles back while waving at him. As they sit on their seats on boat but as they reached half way suddenly.

"G'ys du'k d'wn"Shouted Hagrid firmly.

As they reached the Hogwarts castle, a Pheonix song resided from above and everyone saw a blue Pheonix and they were shocked to see one but also shocked to see a blue one and wondered whose Pheonix it was but Harry and his friends knew whose this was. When they came to a stop.

"Nix come back, we have to go inside."Shouted Harry as he called out to his Pheonix.

When every person saw who it was they were shocked to see a kid at their age calling the Pheonix, Nix and suddenly started whispering amd murmuring about who he is. When someone shouted it was Harry Potter. All students were truly shocked to hear that the famous Potter has come to study here in this school.

After recovering from their shock, they went forward, they all went with Hagrid towards the school gate, where they saw a grandmotherly figure, who Harry recognise as Professor Minerva McGonagall.The door swung open at once. A tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes stood there. She had a very stern face and Harry's first thought was that this was not someone to cross.

"The firs' years, Professor McGonagall," said Hagrid.

"Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here."

She pulled the door wide.

They followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor. Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right -the rest of the school must already be here -- but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall. They crowded in, standing rather closer together than they would usually have done, peering about nervously.

"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.

"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 rulebreaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honor. 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."

"I shall return when we are ready for you," said Professor McGonagall. "Please wait quietly."

She left the chamber. Harry swallowed.

"How exactly do they sort us into houses?" Ron asked Harry.

"They say that they will sort us through a sorting hat which was made by the founders of Hogwarts and each founder put an enchantment on it"Said Harry explaining the fact how they will get sorted.

they walked out of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall.

It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. These tables were laid with glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting. Professor McGonagall led the first years up here, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them. The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver. Mainly to avoid all the staring eyes, Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. He heard

Hermione whisper, "Its bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts a history."

"Nah it is not bewitched, just enchantments here and their and the teachers wouldn't want their students to perish do they"Said Harry smiling at and watched her in her thinking form.

It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn't simply open on to the heavens.

Professor McGonagall silently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first years. On top of the stool she put a pointed wizard's hat. This hat was patched and frayed and extremely dirty. Aunt Petunia wouldn't have let it in the house.

that seemed the sort of thing -- noticing that everyone in the hall was now staring at the hat, he stared at it, too. For a few seconds, there was complete silence. Then the hat twitched. A rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth -- and the hat began to sing:

"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,

But don't judge on what you see,

I'll eat myself if you can find

A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,

Your top hats sleek and tall,

For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat

And I can cap them all.

There's nothing hidden in your head

The Sorting Hat can't see,

So try me on and I will tell you

Where you ought to be.

You might belong in Gryffindor,

Where dwell the brave at heart,

Their daring, nerve, and chivalry Set Gryffindors apart;

You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffis are true And unafraid of toil;

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

if you've a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,

Will always find their kind;

Or perhaps in Slytherin

You'll make your real friends,

Those cunning folk use any means

To achieve their ends.

So put me on! Don't be afraid!

And don't get in a flap!

You're in safe hands (though I have none)

For I'm a Thinking Cap!"

The whole hall burst into applause as the hat finished its song. It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again.

Professor McGonagall now stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment.

"When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted," she said. "Abbott, Hannah!"

A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of line, put on the hat, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down. A moments pause --

"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat.

The table on the right cheered and clapped as Hannah went to sit down at the Hufflepuff table. Everyone saw the ghost of the Fat Friar waving merrily atHarr

"Bones, Susan!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat again, and Susan scuttled off to sit next to Hannah.

"Boot, Terry!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

The table second from the left clapped this time; several Ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with Terry as he joined them.

" Brocklehurst, Mandy" went to Ravenclaw too, but "Brown, Lavender" became the first new Gryffindor, and the table on the far left exploded with cheers;

"Bulstrode, Millicent" then became a Slytherin.

"Finch-Fletchley, Justin!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

The hat shouted out the house at once, but at others it took a little while to decide.

"Finnigan, Seamus," the sandy-haired boy next to Harry in the line, sat on the stool for almost a whole minute before the hat declared him a Gryffindor.

"Granger, Hermione!"

Hermione almost ran to the stool and jammed the hat eagerly on her head.

"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat.

When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. The hat took a long time to decide with Neville. When it finally shouted, "GRYFFINDOR," Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to jog back amid gales of laughter to give it to "MacDougal, Morag."

Malfoy swaggered forward when his name was called and got his wish at once: the hat had barely touched his head when it screamed, "SLYTHERIN!"

Malfoy went to join his friends Crabbe and Goyle, looking pleased with himself.

There weren't many people left now. "Moon" "Nott" "Parkinson" then a pair of twin girls, "Patil" and "Patil" then "Perks, Sally-Anne" and then, --

"Potter, Harry!"

As Harry stepped forward with his head high, whispers suddenly broke out like little hissing fires all over the hall.

"Potter, did she say?"

"The Harry Potter?"

Harry went forward and put the hat on his head. He waited.

"Hmm," said a small voice in his ear."oh my, you have mastered every spell with being super intelligent and mind arts,hmm....so you should be put in Ravenclaw but alas that is not where you belong, so you will belong to.... GRYFFINDOR", Shouted the Hat sorting him in Gryffindor.

Every Gryffindor clapped their hand as Harry made his way towards Gryffindor table and sat beside Ron.

"Now we also have Harry's twin brother, Sasuke Potter!"

As Sasuke made his way towards the hat he put it on just like Harry got sorted in Gryffindor and again Gryffindor roared with claps for getting another Potter. Then the prefects distributed them with their schedule.

The schedule was like,

1st Period: Transfiguration with Ravenclaw

Prof of class: Prof McGonagall

2nd Period: Potions with Slytherin

Prof. of class: Prof. Snape

3rd Period: Flying Lessons with Slytherin

Prof. of Class: Madam Hooch

4th period: Charms class with Hufflepuff

Prof. of Class: Prof. Flitwick

------ Break -----

5th period: Defence Against Dark Arts with Slytherin

Prof. of Class: Prof. Remus Lupin

6th Period: Ancient Runes only for Harry and Sasuke

Prof. of Class: Lilly Potter

7th Period: Herbology with Hufflepuff

Prof. of Class: Prof Sprout

8th Period: Magical Creatures with Slytherin

Prof. of Class: Hagrid

As he finished reading he saw Prof Dumbledore and he waved at him and watching this every kid wondered except Sasuke, do they know each other. Prof. Dumbledore just smiled and waved back at him as he went to the podium to speak a few words.

Albus Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there.

"Welcome," he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

"Thank you!"

He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered.

"I know who you are!" said Ron suddenly. "My brothers told me about you -- you're Nearly Headless Nick!"

"I would prefer you to call me Sir Nicholas de Mimsy --" the ghost began stiffly, but sandy-haired Seamus Finnigan interrupted.

"Nearly Headless? How can you be nearly headless?"

Sir Nicholas looked extremely miffed, as if their little chat wasn't going at all the way he wanted.

"Like this," he said irritably. He seized his left ear and pulled. His whole head swung off his neck and fell onto his shoulder as if it was on a hinge.

Someone had obviously tried to behead him, but not done it properly. Looking pleased at the stunned looks on their faces, Nearly Headless Nick flipped his head back onto his neck, coughed, and said, "So -- new Gryffindors! I hope you're going to help us win the house championship this year? Gryffindors have never gone so long without winning. Slytherins have got the cup six years in a row! The Bloody Baron's becoming almost unbearable -- he's the Slytherin ghost."

Professor Dumbledore got to his feet again. The hall fell silent.

"Ahern -- just a few more words now that we are all fed and watered. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you.

"First years should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well."

Dumbledore's twinkling eyes flashed in the direction of the Weasley twins.

"I have also been asked by Mr. Filch, the caretaker, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the corridors.

"Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their house teams should contact Madam Hooch.

"And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death."

"And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!" cried Dumbledore.

Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying to get a fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words.

"Everyone pick their favorite tune," said Dumbledore, "and off we go!" And the school bellowed:

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

Teach us something please,

Whether we be old and bald

Or young with scabby knees,

Our heads could do with filling

With some interesting stuff,

For now they're bare and full of air,

Dead flies and bits of fluff,

So teach us things worth knowing,

Bring back what we've forgot,

just do your best, we'll do the rest,

And learn until our brains all rot.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest.

"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"

As Dumbledore said that an elegant song resounded in the school and everyone saw a very beautiful blue Pheonix. Every teachers except Prof. Lupin, Prof. Lilly, Prof. McGonagall and Prof. Dumbledore and students were surprised to it even older years were surprised to see a XXXXX level creature roaming freely in the castle.

"Nix! Come on lets go".Said Harry and everyone fixed their eyes at the source of the sound and were shocked again as it was young Harry who shouted

The Gryffindor first years followed Percy through the chattering crowds, out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase.

A bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him.

"Peeves," Percy whispered to the first years. "A poltergeist." He raised his voice, "Peeves -- show yourself"

A loud, rude sound, like the air being let out of a balloon, answered.

"Do you want me to go to the Bloody Baron?"

There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross- legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks.

"Oooooooh!" he said, with an evil cackle. "Ickle Firsties! What fun!"

He swooped suddenly at them. They all ducked.

"Go away, Peeves, or the Baron'll hear about this, I mean it!" barked Percy.

Peeves stuck out his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking sticks on Neville's head. They heard him zooming away, rattling coats of armor as he passed.

"You want to watch out for Peeves," said Percy, as they set off again. "The Bloody Baron's the only one who can control him, he won't even listen to us prefects. Here we are."

At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a pink silk dress.

"Password?" she said. "Caput Draconis," said Percy, and the portrait swung forward to reveal a round hole in the wall. They all scrambled through it -- Neville needed a leg up -- and found themselves in the Gryffindor common room, a cozy, round room full of squashy armchairs.

Percy directed the girls through one door to their dormitory and the boys through another. At the top of a spiral staircase -- they were obviously in one of the towers -- they found their beds at last: five four-posters hung with deep red, velvet curtains. Their trunks had already been brought up.

They went to the respective beds and chose one by one and then went to sleep.

Next Chap: Transfiguration, Potions, Flying and Charms Class