Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 03:12:42 +0200
From: Kristina Johansen <spurvelarv_kristina@hotmail.com>
Subject: The Espen Norum Chronicles, Chapter Two: The Sorting

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Chapter Two: The Sorting


Well inside the students were met by a tall, black haired woman with her
hair in a tight bun and wearing emerald green robes.

"The new first-years professor McGonagall." The giant said

"I'll take it from here Hagrid." she said in a serious tone and the giant,
Hagrid, nodded and left them there with the witch. McGonagall made a sign
for them to follow and started walking towards a small, empty chamber off
the hall where the first-years had to stand so tightly together that
Espen's and Dennis' hands touched for a second. They both looked nervously
at the other. Espen smiled calmly at Dennis, who in turn smiled back before
professor McGonagall started talking and their attention were drawn towards
her.

"Welcome to Hogwarts." she said before she explained how the different
houses at the school worked and how the sorting worked and the house
rules. While she talked Espen could hear the sound of hundreds of voices
through the wall, almost like a buzzing. She asked them to form a line and
follow her though a pair of double doors and into the Great Hall where
Espen started to shiver from a mix nerves and cold. The buzzing of voices
he had heard earlier, were now silent. There were four long tables in
there, each one full of students staring at them as they walked past. They
were lead to a table at the front of the other four where the staff were
seated. Dennis looked around and spotted his brother, gave him a double
thumbs up and mouthed to him "I fell in the lake" and smiled from ear to
ear. Professor McGonagall placed a three legged stool in front of them and
then placed an old, pointed wizards hat on it. Everyone stared at the
hat. For a moment there were total silence and then a tear opened wide like
a mouth and the hat started to sing. It was a short song about the founding
the castle, the origins of the houses and his role in the sorting. When the
song ended, a thunderous applause followed as the hat bowed to the four
tables and then became still again. Espen looked over at Dennis who looked
shocked that a hat could sing, then he smiled for himself of his new
friends first look of real magic, which was nothing like a few black&white
photos!

"When I call out your name you will put on the hat and sit on the
stool. When the hat announces your house, you will go and sit at the
appropriate table" professor McGonagall said as she began to read from a
long list of names.

"Ackarley, Stewart". she said and the boy on Espens left walked up, put on
the hat and sat on the stool.

"Ravenclaw!" the hat shouted and Stewart Ackarley took off the hat and sat
down at the Ravenclaw table. Boy after boy and girl after girl were sorted
into the different houses and then it was Dennis' turn.

"Creevey, Dennis." professor McGonagall said and looked up from the scroll.
Dennis staggered forward and stumbled a little in Hagrid's moleskin
overcoat as he walked to the stool, picked up the hat and put it on.

"Gryffindor!" the hat shouted and Espen had to smile of the look on Dennis'
face as he winked to Espen and then hurried over to the Gryffindor table
and sat beside his brother. Now without anyone to keep him calm, Espen felt
sick with nerves. Then after what seemed like hours to Espen, professor
McGonagall called out his own name.

"Norum, Espen." the professor said and looked up from the scroll. All Espen
could do was walk over, grab the hat, put it on and sit down. As soon as he
put the hat on he could hear a voice whispering into his ear.

"Hmmmm... You have a lot to prove for yourself and for others. But there is
courage in here as well, indeed there is courage... Then I believe it will
have to be... GRYFFINDOR!" the last word the hat shouted out to the Great
Hall and Espen now shaking, took the hat off and walked over to the
Gryffindor table which thundered with applause. As he sat down next to
Dennis they both smiled to each other and Dennis introduced him to his
brother and then whispered into Espen's ear.

"See that black haired boy over there? With the glasses? It's HIM!" he
giggled. Espen looked down the table and spotted him, Harry Potter. He was
talking to a red haired boy and didn't take any notice of them staring at
him. As more new Gryffindors joined them at the table and the line of
first-years came to an end professor McGonagall picked up the hat and the
stool and carried them away. A tall man stood up at the staffs table. He
looked ancient with silver gray hair and a beard so long that he held in
place with his belt. He smiled as he looked around at the students and held
his arms wide in welcome.

"That's the Dumbledore, the headmaster!" Colin whispered to Dennis and
Espen.

"I have only two words to say to you: Tuck in!" Dumbledore said with a deep
calming voice as suddenly the empty dishes filled with food. Dennis made a
loud "WOW!" and immediately started to pick a little of everything he could
reach and putting it on his plate. The food was delicious and Espen started
up conversation with the other first years that had been placed around
him. He noticed there were ghosts in the hall too. He had seen a ghost
before, when he was nine so he didn't even flinch but when he made Dennis
aware of them, he got pale and almost jumped out of his seat. After a while
the food was replaced with desserts. Espen who was rather full already
managed to eat a portion of everything before he sighed and leaned
back. The rest of the desserts vanished and Dumbledore stood up once
again. He began to inform the students about the new forbidden items and
forbidden areas but then he said something that made Espen yelp out in
surprise.

"It is also my painful duty to inform you that the inter house Quidditch
cup, will not take place this year." Espen looked around and saw the look
of the older students faces. A pair of red haired twins mouthes silently at
Dumbledore, unable to speak in shock. Dumbledore then continued:

"This is due to an event that will be starting in October and continuing
out the school year, taking up much of the teachers time and energy, but I
am sure you will all enjoy it immensely! I have great pleasure in
announcing that this year, at Hogwarts-"

The doors of the Great Hall banged open and a man came in, leaning on a
long staff and shrouded in a long traveling cloak. The man, now taking off
his hood, started walking up towards the teachers table with a dull clunk
echoed at his every other step. As he reached the table, he turned and
shook Dumbledore's hand and muttering something to him before sitting down
on an empty seat on Dumbledores right hand side. The man grabbed a plate of
sausages and began to eat. The man looked horrifying! His face was scared
and it looked like a big chunk of his nose was missing, but his
eyes... They were what made Espen want to look away. One of them was normal
being small and dark while the other was big, round as a coin and a vivid
electric blue color and moved around independently of the other eye, which
was staring at the sausage he was eating. Dumbledore spoke up again and
began talking to the silent mass of students.

"May I introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, professor
Moody". Only a few teachers applauded and they stopped quickly as the
students were still staring on Moody. Dumbledore continued speaking as if
nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

"As I was saying, we are to have the honor of hosting a very exciting event
over the coming months. An event which ha not been held for over a
century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard
tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year."  Espen immediately
turned to Dennis and whispered into his ear.

"This year is going to be awesome!"

"What's the Tri-... What's it's name again?"

"The Triwizard tournament is a tournament against two other schools, I
don't remember which ones, but they have to go through three tests and one
is left standing as a winner. They stopped with it as too many of the
school champions, died!" Espen whispered quickly, not noticing anything of
what the headmaster said after this as he explained the tournament to the
other students. But when Dumbledore announced that there would be an age
restriction this year, Espen was disappointed. Not that he would have had a
chance at all at winning, but students all around him were in uproar,
including Colin who began shouting at Dumbledore. When Dumbledore explained
that students below 6th and 7th year wouldn't be able to cope with the
tests, Espen nodded in understanding. He had read about the cup summers
before. The tasks the champions for the schools had to go through was
rather difficult and challenging, and with him being a first-year, he
didn't stand a chance anyway. After a little more information about the
cup, Dumbledore announced it was time for bed and students all around stood
up and started walking towards the doors. Espen and Dennis remained seated
as they were still talking about the tournament, when they heard a boy,
maybe 16 call out 'Gryffindor first-years over here please.' the boy was a
prefect and were going to show the way to the sleeping quarters. They were
lead up several stairs and Espen were just wondering how much further up
they would go, when they reached a huge painting of a rather fat looking
lady in a huge pink dress.

"Password?" the lady said as she looked down to the prefect and the
first-years.

"Boulder Dash" the prefect answered and the lady nodded and swung open and
revealed a hole in the wall which they all climbed through and then came
into the common room of Gryffindor tower. They were shown into the boys
dormitory where their suitcases were placed beside their beds. Espen shared
the first years dormitory with five other boys. The first was Nathan
Radford, a blond, tall and fit looking boy. Next was Jimmy Peakes, a black
haired and skinny with a slight tan. After that was Benjamin Warbeck, a
short, blond boy with round glasses. Then it was Nigel Wolpert, with honey
blond hair and a wicked smile. Lastly it was Dennis Creevey with his curly
mouse-hair and deep brown eyes. They were all amazed to see the six poster
beds with the deep crimson hangings and as each selected their beds, Espen
and Dennis chose the two at the end by the window. They all changed into
their PJ's as the talked and laughed and then went to bed. None of the boys
were tired at this point and they continued into the night. One by one the
boys fell asleep. Soon Espen was the only one still awake. He looked over
the other beds and saw the top of the heads of his new classmates. Deep
breathing sounds and the occasional snore were the only sounds filling the
room. Then he looked over at Dennis and had to chuckle as he noticed that
Dennis had kicked off his sheets and lay on his back with his arms and legs
spread out. The loud snoring came from him! He glanced over Dennis' body
once more and stared at his groin. No bulge there anymore. That meant that
earlier on the train, Dennis had indeed been hard when they changed into
their uniforms! Smiling for himself, Espen rolled over and quickly drifted
off to sleep and pleasant dreams soon followed...