To say Aurora was excited would be an understatement. The train journey here had been long but beautiful and she had sat with her older sister Ariadne the whole time. Aurora could never understand why her Ma had been so indifferent about going to Hogwarts, everything about it so far had been amazing! The huge castle looming over the horizon as the train pulled into Hogsmeade station, the grand lake that wrapped itself around the school full of who knows what exciting magical creatures, the big wooden doors that opened to reveal a huge hall with its long tables full of chattering students in their school attire, what was there not to be excited about?!

The eleven year old had attended Muggle Primary School and as an outgoing extrovert had found it very difficult to keep the secret that her Mums were both magical and therefore could do super awesome things that other parents couldn’t do making them so much cooler. Imagine how many more friends she could’ve made if the other students knew that her Mum could conjure up pretty much anything! But still she had the best of both worlds and had found it difficult to leave her Muggle friends when the time came to attend Hogwarts. Starting a new school was still scary even if you were as outgoing as Aurora was.

Having a name that was so high alphabetically had its advantages sometimes. She rarely had to wait around in the registers and often had to go first. It wasn’t different in the case of the sorting ceremony. Her name was called and up she trundled, plonking herself down on the stool with a huge grin on her face as the Sorting Hat was placed upon her head. Aurora could have easily been a hat stall for she had the personality of a Gryffindor with the intelligence and desire to be a Ravenclaw. Both her mums had been in Ravenclaw and of course Aurora didn’t want to break the family tradition.

Claw, Claw, Claw. she repeated in her head until the hat yelled out its decision.

And Ravenclaw it was! With a huge beam on her face, the newly appointed Claw hopped off the stool and bounced her way over to the Ravenclaw table to be greeted by her fellow students.