The train finally stopped and Tom was taking his trunk out of the compartment before an announcement came to leave your luggage there and it will be transported to the school.

He walked out of the compartment and heard a very grumpy voice saying, ‘First years over here! ’ He walked towards the other first years and spotted the girl who he meet in Madam Malkin's.

Bellatrix, he remembered her name. She smiled at him and he returned the smile very lazily. He thought that maybe she would be a very great friend.

Although he had no intention to make friends, she seemed to be the exception. But he must not let anyone know that.

‘Watch where you're going!’ That voice jerked him out of his thoughts and he noticed that they had made it near some boats and that they had stopped. He must have bumped into someone.

He looked at the water in front of him and saw a boy, taller than him and very thin, with dark black hair in the water.

Oh. So he was the owner of the voice. He couldn't help but feel pleasure at his fall.

But he,as was etiquette, offered a hand politely and the boy, staring at it for a second, took it.

‘I'm sorry’ he said with distaste in his voice. How he hated apologising.

‘You don't need to apologize’ said the boy, sneering. ‘Just watch where you're going! You'll probably be sorted into Hufflepuff’

‘Actually, I say Slytherin’ said Tom. ‘And I guess I can say the same for you’.
‘Wanna bet?’ said the boy.
‘On what?’said Tom.
‘Twenty galleons’ said the boy. ‘Unless you're poor’.
‘Alright’ said Tom ‘I accept’.
By the time the boat stopped, He and the boy were still glaring at each other. But they stopped glaring long enough to see the magnificent castle where they had arrived.

They walked towards the castle and when they reached the door, the man, whose name he remembered was Ogg and he was the gamekeeper here, knocked at the door.

A few moments later, the door opened and they walked into the castle. It was more beautiful from the inside than it was from the outside.

Dumbledore walked towards them and said, ‘Welcome to Hogwarts. I am Albus Dumbledore, transfiguration teacher and deputy headmaster at Hogwarts. The sorting ceremony shall begin soon’.

‘Those of you who do not know, there are four houses, Gryffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw for the cunning, Hufflepuff for the hardworking and Slytherin for the ambitious. You will each be sorted into one of these houses’.

After that Dumbledore left, saying that he would be back when the school had assembled in the great hall.