The Ceremony

[*Hiyo-Chan*]

There she was sat on the stool, she was stiff and her mind was almost empty from troubles and worries. But the reason why she was stiff was because if she was put in a house that was not Gryffindor her family would flip! Hiyo Konomi was part of a clan that was very strict with things like this. So far every Konomi that has ever entered Golden Sunset Academy has been in Gryffindor.

Hiyo once read in the daily prophet about a boy who was rejected by his parents just because he was placed in Slytherin. She didn’t want that, she really didn’t want that. If she was placed in Slytherin she might start a war or something against Golden Sunset, it wouldn’t have been the first time. One time they started an attack on her old school because she was bullied, but in the end they had to move out.

When the hat was placed gently on her head she flinched a little, it surprised her a bit that it was taking so long to be sorted. She thought that it would only take a few minutes but so far it seemed like an hour had already passed.

Looking at the other students was the hardest thing to do. It felt like they were all laughing at you either that or getting ready to. All of a sudden the entire hall was silent, one of the teachers had raised her hand to make sure that the students were settled. Then, a voice out of nowhere called out a single word, a house…

“GRYFFINDOR!”

[Alana]

Alanah smiled as the first year students all filed in silently as though something bad was going to happen, then they all seemed to visibly relax when she said "hello everyone, the knew and the old. It is time for the sorting of the new students in to their houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin! All you have to do is sit on this stool and wait for the hat to look inside your mind and decide what house you're in! It's easy!" then she smiled happily as all the students but one relaxed, a girl who was about to sit down on the stool.

Alanah remembered as she watched the girl sit stiffly how scary it was when you were about to be sorted! It was terrifying! She smiled at the girl hoping to catch her eye, she hated students to be frightened, but it had to be done, everyone has to be sorted in to a house, and this was the easiest way of doing that!

Alanah watched as the hat took what must have seemed hours to the girl, but was really only a few minute, the hat shouted "Gryffindor!" and the girl walked over to the table, Alanah realised that all the others didn't look quite as frightened as she had done, she wondered what the hat had said to her secretly in her head, probably something nice, if not it didn't seem to upset the girl!