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Ella and the forgotten promise	By : DarkRoze Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 2871 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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They filed off the trains with instructions to leave their bags and trunks onboard. Ella couldn’t help but wonder how thing would get up to the school, let alone find their way to the correct dorms. She glanced at Erica who seemed to be storing her stuff in her trunk as if she knew what to expect, so she copied the other girl. Then exited the train following the other students who seemed to know where they were going.
“First years this way, all first years this way,” a voice bellowed over the crowd. Ella turned and looked at a man that was easily over seven feet tall, he was dark haired with a large bushy beard. She wasn’t sure if he looked so huge because he was in a sea of children giving a startling contrast, or because his jacket looked as though it was comprised of several bits of hide stitched together. Still all the older students seemed to know him some smiled and nodded, to which he responded in kind; a few even spoke to him, calling him Hagrid.
“Come on,” Scorpius said coming up beside her. She nodded and looked around for Erica, who was just coming off the train.
“Erica, come on.” Ella called looking back at the blond.
“Hello James, Rose,” Hagrid happily greeted before looking at the other students. “Alright everyone into the boats four to a boat. There’s plenty of room for everyone.” Scorpius jumped into the boat then helped Ella and Erica in being very courteous about it.
“May I join you?” Another boy said coming over, when the three in the boat nodded, he jumped into the boat and sat down next to Scorpius.
“Thanks, I’m Solomon.” He said sitting down, Ella couldn’t help but think he had an aura to him that put her on edge. She knew this must be what her mother was talking about, she’d always said that Ella would be able to feel it and she could. She watched him a while then the boats started moving, pulling her attention away from him to the area around her. The eight tiny boats cut across the black glass surface of the lake, making the reflection of the sky above shimmer and dance. She couldn’t see much of the shore in the distance, but in the soft light of the crescent moon, she could have sworn there were centaurs running along the bank heading to some void that she got the feeling was the forbidden forest her mother had mentioned. She turned and looked up at the head boat as she felt theirs turn. A moment later, the boats come around a bend in the lake and a collective gasp went across the boats as the boats. On the other end of the lake was a huge castle its back at the high cliff high above the lake. It sloped down into a grassy noel. She couldn’t see what was beyond the grass in this dim light but figured it was the forest, which seemed to be encompassing the entire school grounds. She could also see several tall towers and thick walls, with golden windows dotting them like the starry sky above them. The boats didn’t feel any faster but didn’t seem like they had enough time to look at the school before they were pulling up beside a medium sized covered dock. Torches blazed brightly giving a golden glow to the dock and staircase.
“Alright everyone up on the dock please, careful now you don’t fall in.” Hagrid said, climbing out of his own boat. Ella noticed as they got out of the boat and onto the dock Hagrid checked each one to make sure, nothing was left behind.
“Everyone got everything? Fingers, cloaks and toads?” He said then laughed at joke no one else got. “Right then, follow me.” He said sobering and led them up a long flight of stairs that he didn’t seem bothered by but she couldn’t help notice that about half way up the students started slowing down. Several started whispering that this must be for the sorting test they’d heard about. She took a breath and kept climbing, trying to focus on something else and hoping this wouldn’t be a daily requirement. She looked up at the people in ahead of her and shook her head before pressing on.
“Up here,” Hagrid said motioning to the last three flights of stairs. The students filed up the last few steps but gathered half way up the last flight, when they saw a small man there at the top of the stairs waiting on them.
“Hello first years, I am Deputy Headmaster Filius Flitwick. In a moment, I will take to the start of the year banquet, however before the feast you will have to be sorted. This is a very important part of coming to Hogwarts because while you’re here your houses will be like your families. The houses are Gryffindor, Huffelpuff, Ravenclaw and Slythrin, now while you here your achievements will gain you house points. Likewise any rule braking will lose house points, any questions?” He said it all in one breath, and left several of the students seemed stunned by the ramble.
“Alright wait here.” He said when the no one spoke up, he turned and hurried off leavening them to wait in the darkness. Ella couldn’t help being nervous, her mother never really talked to her about anything at Hogwarts exactly. Bellatrix had always went on and on about the noble house of Slythrin, serving the dark lord and the dangers of muggels. A scream cut through her though her thoughts, she looked around and several silvery people where floating in from the walls and up through the floor.
“Ghosts!” She heard someone say, Ella had never seen a ghost first and before. She had expected a flat silver on silver look but really, they were like images on a muggel paper she’d seen once when her mother had been researching. If she remembered correctly, her mother had called the stiff people that never moved “black & white”. She was grateful to see that ghosts where more lively.
“Hope to see some of you in Huffelpuff!” A fat one said in robes, she wasn’t exactly sure what he had been in life. The top of his head was shaved completely bald but sliver hair was around the rest of his head.
“Or Gryffindor,” an elegant looking man said. Several other ghosts nodded to students as they floated through. It was shortly after that Professor Flitwick came back with a scroll in his hands.
“This way please.” He said leading them into the school then into the great hall, it was huge, and like her mother had said, easily the size of their island home. Paintings littered the walls of important people that had once attended the school, or where notable to wizard history. Four tables stretched the length of the hall, thought she wasn’t entirely sure which one was which. Opposite the door that they entered was a table sitting the across the hall, what seemed to be all of the teaches. Above them hundreds of candles floated in the air under the bewitched ceiling.
“Its not really open, its bewitched to look like the night sky.” She heard someone behind her say.
“Line up here please.” Flitwick said having the first years line up in facing the teachers table. The students hurried to comply still not sure what to expect as he brought out a wooden stool and set a very ancient looking leather at on it. For a moment she was completely confused then the hat seemed to tear a little and then by the brim it seem to flex a little.
“Long have I been here
And longer I will stay
Sorting students
Until the very last day
In times of old, when I was new,
The founders of our noble school
Were united by a common goal,
To make the world's best magic school
And pass along their learning.
These four wizards of renown,
whose names are still well known:
bold Gryffindor, from wild moor,
fair Ravenclaw, from glen,
sweet Huffelpuff, from valley broad,
shrewd Slythrin, from fen.
They shared a wish, a hope, a dream, and hatched a daring plan
to educate young sorcerers and thus Hogwarts School began.
Each formed their own house, and took the students of their liking.
Proud Slythrin took only pure-blood wizards of great cunning just like him.
Beautiful Ravenclaw gathered those of the sharpest minds.
Daring Gryffindor took the brave and bold
Good Huffelpuff, she took the rest and taught them all she knew,
Yet when they died how to choose
But Gryffindor swiped off his head,
The founders put some brains in me
So I could choose instead!
I've never yet been wrong,
So put me on ,
And let me tell where you belong!”
The hall exploded into an almost deafening applause, as the hat bowed to each table in turn. Then Professor Flitwick came back over with his scroll.
“When I call your name, please come forward to be sorted.” He paused a moment. “Arrese, Llesenia.” A girl with a black braid stepped forward, the hat floated up and when she sat down on the stool with her back to the teachers it lowered onto her head. Elladora could have sworn it was talking though she couldn’t hear anything herself.
“RAVENCLAW!” The hat suddenly screamed out, and the table on just to the left cheered and yelled, the hat floated up and Llesenia ran to join her new house.
'That doesn't look that bad,' Ella thought to herself as the next girl was called up.
"Cony, Bonnie." A red head stepped forward and she became a Ravenclaw. Dorcy, Willard became a Huffelpuff followed by Garret, Erica. Ella was a little disappointed that the one friend she had made so for far was put into Huffelpuff. Still she supposed that didn't mean she couldn't be nice to the girl, did it? Gaukroger, Mandrake and Huribart, Lavender also became Huffelpuff and Ella started to wonder if the sorting was done by name.
"Khmelnov, Alexcia" Flitwick called and a girl with long blond braids on either side of her face stepped forward to take her turn under the hat.
"SLYTHRIN!" The hat called a the table against the far right wall cheered.
"Lestrange, Elladora" Flitwick said she didn't miss the gasps and hush that fell over the students but she wasn't exactly sure why but she took her place trying to be as confidant as possible she didn't want to disappoint her mother. She didn't miss the cold glare that the Headmistress gave her either as she took her seat.
"Mmm well I wasn't expecting you," The hat said. "Your loyalty runs deep, but I see cunningness to, bravery and a willingness to fight for what you believe in. Difficult, you'd be grate in-"
'Please say Slythrin, please say Slythrin.' Ella thought not realizing that the hat could hear her.
"What? Well if you're sure. SLYTHRIN!" He called out and the hat floated off her head allowing her to run to her house table.
"Malfoy, Scorpius" Flitwick said as soon as she got sat down, she looked back up to see her cousins head in the hat.
"Ravenclaw!" It called out, several teachers and even Elladora looked at him shocked as he hurried happily to his house table, houses where often inherited generation to generation. Unless you crossed a Huffelpuff with a Ravenclaw to get a Gryffindor, it was rare that the child with parents from the same house would go to a different house but it sometimes happened.
"Mareca, Ippocrate." Flitwick called and the boy became the first Gryffindor. Nilsson, Rakel (a pretty girl with dark skin) and Palgaard, Kale (a plump boy) hurried over to join the Slythrin table.
"Potter, Albus." The hall fell quite again and Elladora's attention snapped to the boy on the stool. He was handsome with dark hair and blue eyes, she found herself blushing for no reason and feeling stupid.
"Gryffindor" He hurried off to join an older boy that looked similar, that had to be his brother. Prciad, Serena went to Ravenclaw. Salman, Aveline went to Gryffindor before the twin boys Lorcan and Lysander Scamander both went to Ravenclaw. Siska, Platon came to Slythrin. Tuhurer, Harmony went to Huffelpuff. Vassallo, Inccaus came to Slythrin leaving three read heads standing together. Ella was a little shocked to hear they were all related and by name they were Hugo, Molly and Roxanne Wesley all of whom were placed in Gryffindor proving again that families often stayed in the same house.
“Welcome everyone to another year at Hogwarts. For the new students I am Headmistress Profession McGonagall, before we start I’d like to take a moment to remind our students that the Forbidden Forest is off limits to everyone. Mr. Filch has also added Nosebleed Nougats and Fainting Fancies to his list of band items you are not use inside the school, for those wondering the complete list is currently over 450 items which can be viewed in Mr. Flich’s office. May the feast begin,” she said with a smile then sat back down. Ella looked around as the empty golden plates where suddenly full of meat pies, piles of Yorkshire pudding, boats of gravy, steaming vegetables, baked potatoes, fired fish and so many things she’d never seen. Her goblet filled with apple cider, and she knew it was house elves but she wasn’t sure where. It was a feast and Ella ate her fill before the dinner disappeared, and desert appeared. Ice creams of every flavor she could think of and cookies of every size, her apple cider became milk. She had a large bowl of mint ice cream then suddenly started to feel sleepy. It wasn’t too much longer after that Professor McGonagall stood up again as the tables cleared.
“Your house perfects will show all the first years to their dorms, and will give you your class schedule. And I would warn anyone who would wonder the halls at night not to.” She said looking around; Ella couldn’t help but notice that her gaze lingered over the Gryffindor table a bit longer than the rest. When she stepped back, the students started to flow out of the great hall.
“Come on you lot follow me.” A girl called that was in Slythrin colors with a silver perfect badge. The group of six first year Slythrins followed her out of the great hall and then down a large staircase and through a door. Once on the other side of the door the noise of the other houses muted and they only had the chatter of the older housemates.
“I am Gemma Farley,” The female perfect they were following said slowing to let the older student clear out before she got to the house door with the first years. “Our emblem is the serpent, our house colors are emerald green and silver. As you’ll see the windows look out into the depths of the Hogwarts lake you just came over. We’ll often see the giant squid swooshing by the windows, and sometimes more interesting creatures, if you’re lucky.” She smiled and came to a stop outside of what looked to Ella like a doorway that had been bricked up, iron serpents came out of the wall to hold lanterns from their mouth, which were open baring their fangs. To either side set into the stone where books, they looked like they hadn’t been touched in years.
“You’ll need to know the password to get in, they are changed twice a month.” She turned and looked at the wall.
“Basilisk,” her voice was firm and commanding. The bricks in the door dissolved and allowed them to enter. A blazing fire was going directly opposite them, with large windows on either side, above the fireplace was a stone crest of a serpent head, and several large snake skulls where on the mantle. There were a couple black leather couches, and several arm chairs, even a table for wizard’s chest. Ella walked in and looked around, when she looked at the windows, she was reminded of a captain’s cabin in the old sailing ships that she’d seen in books her mother had. Yet when she looked around the room, it was as if someone had repurposed a dungeon cell.
“If you ladies will follow me,” Gemma said and leads them to the right side of the common room where a spiral staircase was, the fourth door up they stopped. “This will be your dorm while you are at Hogwarts, try to get some sleep girls, here are your class schedule.” She said handing them each a copy of their class list.
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