↳ CHAPTER FOUR:

THE SORTING HAT ↵

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            SEREN BIT HER LIP NERVOUSLY, it was her nervous tick that she couldn't get rid of. Her eyes skated around the room she was in as she waiting for a Professor McGonagall to come retrieve her.

It had been awhile since she departed from her new friends and brother from the carriages.

"There you are, Miss Lupin." Startled, Seren fell from the chair she was leaning on at the sharp voice of a woman in front of her. "We got worried when you didn't show up at the boats. Leave it to your brother and James Potter to take you in their own hands... and literally to the carriages..."

With wide eyes Seren jumped to her feet in front of her new professor. "I'm so sorry, ma'am, I wasn't aware there was a place for me to go, so I just went along with Remus..."

"That's alright, dear." Minerva McGonagall stared down at the young girl through her spectacles. "Let's get going, we're late."

Speeding out of the office they were in, Seren ran to catch up with the woman in a long stone hall. "Late? Am I not to be sorted?"

"You are. Originally, you were going to just be mixed in with the 1st years but now you're going last."

Seren gulped as they slowed their pace in front a set of huge wooden doors, with loud sounds of clapping behind them.

"What you're to do is follow me to the front of the hall and to the chair sitting in front. There I will place the Sorting Hat onto your head, is that clear?"

Seren nodded and Minerva opened the door with a small smile, she liked the young girl quite a lot. Hopefully, she was just as good as her brother in Transfiguration. Hopefully, she would be Gryffindor.

The hall turned quiet with hushed whispers as the two walked to the front. Seren ducked her head down, her face red. She didn't like being the centre of attention and being the only new third year student was humiliating to her.

Her eyes fell onto the chair at the front with a grimy old hat sitting on it. As Professor McGonagall got to the front, Serene prepared to turn to the hall full of students.

"Ah yes," Seren eyes flew to the older man who stood at the podium to her right. "This here is our new transfer student: Seren Lupin. Please greet her warmly."

Claps rang throughout the hall and Seren winced as McGonagall motioned her towards the hat that was now in her hands.

She sat carefully in the chair, avoiding the gazes of the hundreds of students before her and looked at her hands. The hat was gently placed on her head and Serene jolted as a nasally voice rang out.

"Ah, a Lupin I see." Seren looked avidly around the hall and found her brother, watching nervously. She grew to understand that no one else could hear the hat. "Well, most of your family members have been Ravenclaws or Gryffindors... you would be a perfect Ravenclaw, one of the best I would say..."

"No!" Seren yelled out in her head, grateful she hadn't spoken out loud.  "I want to be with my brother, he needs me."

"Hmmm there's something more to you than meets the eye, Seren Lupin." The final word Seren prayed to hear finally came in a booming voice. 

"GRYFFINDOR!"

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