The Sorting
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"Are we there yet?" I asked as I bounced on the wooden seats of the carriage.
"No" Remus said from behind his book. Nerd. Though I can't say I'm any better.
"Are we there yet?" I repeated
"No" Jasper said.
"Are we there yet?"
"NO!" Elliott yelled.
"Are we there now?"
"NO!" The said together.
"Geez! No need to yell" I said.
They glared at me.
I sat back in my seat and tapped my foot impatiently on the floor.
"Are we there yet?" I asked.
"Yes" Remus sighed.
"Really?" I asked excitedly.
"No"
I scowled at my brother.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Idea. There really should be a little light bulb over my head right now.
I licked my lips and made a popping noise. Then again, and again.
I saw them do it in a movie once!
Remus seemed to catch on. he smirked at me.
“Shiyloh, I swear to god if you don't stop I'm turning the carriage around and spending you back to London.”
"Jamie!" I cried.
"Yes Shiy?" Jasper replied.
"Remus is being mean to me!"
Elliott fake gasped.
"Remus! How could you! You've upset our poor baby!"
"Once again. Which one of you is my mother?"
The carriage stopped and I jumped up and down. Up and down, up and down.
"Would you stop that!" Jasper snapped.
"FINE! I shall meet all of my fellow prankers in the great hall. For now I must to find Lily!"
I jumped out of the carriage, and became awestruck at the sight of the Beaverstone Castle. It really was beautiful. And I was going to be spending the next four years of my life here. That was quite the exciting idea. I wondered what was inside the castle, what secrets it had, passages and other amazing things.
I ran forwards, but unfortunately didn't get to far, cause I crashed into a fuzzy coat.
I looked up, this guy was huge!
"Sorry" I muttered. Damn my shyness!
"That's alright! I'm Duncan! keep of Gates keeper at Beaverstone" He replied.
"I'm Shiyloh Lawrence! Can you show me to the great Hall? My brother and his friends were teasing me so I tried to find my way around, but I got lost." I gasped. "What do you think is for dinner?! I hope that there's Pizza!”"
I was getting weird looks from the first years that surrounded me.
"Oh look! Smurfs!" I smiled. "We shall go to Beaverstone together My smurfs!"
Duncan chuckled and showed us into the hall. There was a pretty lady at the top of a set of stairs, she wore a green hat and green robes.
"Good evening students. My name is Professor Morgan. In a few moments you will be sorted into you houses, there are Thorne, Lovelace, Voyage and Evilian. Each one of you will be placed in you house, you house mates are you family. Good behaviour will be rewarded, bad behaviour will not"
She went inside for a moment, the first years began to talk again. Some looked extremely proud and obnoxious, some looked plain curious, but most of them looked scared and nervous. Morgans speech wasn't a very soothing one, in fact it was very unnerving. I wondered why she'd said it that way, why she'd used those words.
When the Professor came out again, she lead us into the hall. I looked to the ceiling, it had a spell cast on it to make it look like the night sky. Thank you history books!
I turned to see a red and golden table, must be the Voyagers. I saw Lily, Jasper, Remus, Elliott and Rhys all sitting there. They waved to my and gave me thumbs up in a form of encouragement. But that didn't really help the nervousness that bubbled in my stomach. A lot of the kids around were looking at me, whispering to each other. I didn't really make me feel good. I wished someone would tell them to spot talking.
"Look at her! She's too old to be a first year"
"She's pretty!"
"Maybe she's related to Lily Evan! Their hair is the same!"
"Do you think she's a French?"
"She'd make a good Evilian"
All the whispers that I heard made me go a bit greener. My hands were shaking and I felt nauseous.
When Professor Morgan called my name, my head snapped up. A wave of dizziness flew over me. I hoped I didn't look as bad as I felt.
"Shiyloh Lawrence!"
"Lawrence?"
"Like Remus Lawrence?"
"Are they related?"
"Maybe she's his distant cousin!"
I finally got tired of the whispering. It wasn't making me feel any better and no one was doing anything about it.
"Will everybody shut up!" I shouted, making everyone in the hall go silent. I huffed and walked up to the sorting hat. I felt sort of embarrassed, but the silence was more comforting than the whispering.
"Ahh. I was wondering when you'd pop up. Let me see"
"Don't you ever get bored of trying to sort kids and writing songs?"
"All the time. Oh Lookie! Found a memory!"
"Go ahead. If it helps you just look at whatever. Do you want to hear a joke?” I figured he got bored quite a bit.
“I guess so.”
“If pilgrims travelled on Mayflower, what do college students travel on?”
“That's a good question. What do they travel on?”
“Scholar ships.” I grinned.
The sorting hat burst out laughing, scaring everyone in the hall, except for Headmaster Daedalos. He was laughing at my joke.
"You're a funny one you are"
"Why thank you mister hat."
"You have a lot of potential, you don't seem to have many qualities that fit you into the houses"
"Why? Am I too awesome?"
"Yes, you could say that"
"Here's another one. What's the best thing about Switzerland?”
“I don't know dear.”
“I don't know but the flag is a big plus.”
The hat laughed again, the hall had the same reaction as last time, but Daedalos looked like he was having a ball.
I gasped "I'm hungry! Do they Have Pizza? Let's make some pizza! Do you eat?" I asked, I was enjoying myself.
"Not usually, but I do enjoy a nice Wasp"
"If you struggling to find a place to put me, you can look at some of my ancestors"
"Why thank you my dear"
"No problem." I smiled.
The Hat paused for a moment then shouted "VOYAGE!"
I took the Hat off.
"Thank you. Have a good evening"
I skipped to the Voyage table and sat down next to Lily and Remus, all of my friends were staring at me.
"What?" I asked. I looked around and noticed that the hall was silent, all looking at me.
"Take a Picture! It'll last longer!"
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