Second Year Part Three

When the train finally stopped, Keely, Remus, Lily, James, Sirius, and Mia left their compartment and left the train.
“Firs’ years this way!” said a voice. The group looked around and saw Hagrid, the gamekeeper rounding up the first years to the boats.
“You need to go with Hagrid and the other first years.” James told Mia, “There will be some boats for all of you there to use to get up to the school.”
“How do we get sorted?” asked Mia.
“You have to take this test where you do some difficult tasks.” said Sirius, “You gotta show the school what kind of spells you can do.”
“Sirius, don’t scare her.” said Lily, “Don’t worry, Mia. You don’t have to do that.”
“Then how does the sorting work?”
Before Lily could answer, they heard Hagrid shout out, “Las’ call for firs’ years!”
James waved at Mia and followed Sirius to some horseless carriages. James shared the same carriage as Lily and Sirius.
“Hope she’ll be okay.” said Lily.
“Mia will be fine.” said James, “She’s tough, just like Mum. Even DAD admits it.”
When the carriages stopped in front of the castle, it started to rain hard. They ran into the Entrance Hall and started to dry off as much as they could.
“I hope the lake doesn’t flood.” said James.
James looked around and saw Remus and Keely going into the Great Hall. Sirius nudged James and pointed at the entrance to the Great Hall.
“Look who it is.” He said. James looked at where Sirius was pointing and he felt pure hatred flow through him; It was Severus Snape.
“I hope he doesn’t try to ask Mia out.” He whispered to Sirius.
“With you as her older brother? He doesn’t have the guts.”
“Still, I better keep an eye on the two of them. Just in case.”

“Potter, Mia!” called out Professor McGonagall, holding up the Sorting Hat.
Mia hurried over to McGonagall, sat on the three legged stool, and put the Sorting Hat on top of her head. Lily noticed that she didn’t seem nervous at all about the sorting; Mia’s hands weren’t trembling, she wasn’t shaking, and she didn’t cat any nervous glances at James in the Gryffindor table. It took several minutes for the hat to think of which house was perfect for Mia. Finally, it shouted out “GRYFFINDOR!”
Mia smiled, took off the hat, and ran over to the Gryffindor table. James looked over at the Slytherin table and saw Severus Snape giving a few claps for Mia then putting down his hands. James could tell that Snape was disappointed that Mia wasn’t sorted into Slytherin. James smiled and continued to watch the sorting.
“Why are you smiling?” asked Mia.
“Oh, I’m just glad you made it into Gryffindor, that’s all.”