[Hogwarts Between] First Year's Entrance

[Patrick McCartney]

>
> Amber looked around again, "How are we
> sorted?" she asked Kayden and Cyrus
>
>  "The Sorting Hat. It's sort of an enchanted
> hat, that will more or less
> read parts of your mind, and put you in whatever house
> it thinks is best."
> Kadyn was only relaying what he had heard from his
> older sibling.
> 
> Paloma herd someone talking about the sorting hat so she wispered
to
> Seluna, "My mom told me about the sorting hat, I wonder what its
> going to put me in."
> 
> The rustling of voices stopped abruptly as the black haired witch
> reappeared.
> 
> "Now, form a line." she commanded.
> 
> Everyone tustled finding it slightly difficult to form any kind of
> line
> in the small cramped room.
> 
> "Oh well," she said, "Follow me."
> 
> She led them out into the large entry way.  They passed the grand
> staircase and finally approached the entrance where the voices had
> come
> from.  It was absolutely silent as they approached the large double
> doors that opened into the hall.
> 
> The students sitting at tables that they could see were intently
> watching them as they approached.

The witch led them down the center of the Hall between the tables. 
Everyone was silent.  Ahead of them was a grand 

table with everone sitting on one side facing the children.

She suddenly stopped and the line came to a halt.  She turned and
quietly said "Wait here until you are called."

She stepped forward and stopped next to a wooden chair and pulled out
from beneith her robes a scroll of parchment.  

An elderly man walked over to the chair and placed a ragged had on it. 
Everyone waited silently.

A tear near the brim opened and started to speak.

[[ poem to be filled in later ]]

The witch opened her scroll.  "Avery, Paloma," she called and gestured
her hand to the chair containing the hat.