text: [Themes: fan fiction, romance, socially important]
  
  The train arrives at the station, and as you disembark, you make eye contact with the most beautiful creature the world has ever seen. She smiles as she accidently drops her luggage, spilling it out everywhere. You run over there to pick it up for her. She accepts your help and your heart melts. Surely the world must be evil because only in an evil world would such a beauty drop her luggage. She reveals her name is Cunegonde, and you are immediately stricken. Only the sound of Professor Pangloss' voice snaps you back to reality.
  
  "First years, gather around by the lakeshore," he calls, "Three to a boat, no more." All the boats fill up while you frantically search for Cunegonde, accept one, and you must share it with Professor Martin, a gloomy character that you have yet to see smile the whole trip.
  
  Your boat looks rickety and old, but it is the only one available and you must get across to Hogwarts. You climb in and set out to the giant, loomingly-beautiful castle when you start to notice a wet sensation crawling up your feet. You think nothing of it for a second, you are in the water of course, until that sensation starts to climb above your ankle. You look down, and the water level inside of the boat is increasing with every passing second. You start to panic. Of course this would happen on my first day here! You yell at Professor Martin and explain the predicament, but he doesn't seem to care.
  
  "This would have happened sooner or later, whether or not it was us or someone else," he explains, "the world is against us constantly, there is no use in fighting it."
  
  You implore him to use his magic and bind the leak in the boat, but he refuses, the other boats are too far ahead to comeback and save you in time.
  
  So what do you do?
  
  > try to Stop the Leak and Bail out the Water with Your Shoe Whilst Paddling to Shore
  You try to stop the leak with some gum you had bought on a whim in a convenience store before you had boarded the train, and it worked, but it didn't look very sturdy. You cry for help as you slowly make progress paddling to shore while trying to keep from capsizing the whole boat. Someone calls back from the far distance, hearing your cries for help. They are fellow students who come to your aid, but though you don't recognize the girl and the boy with him, a ginger boy, that appears to be the son of the woman that helped you to the train this morning, is among the group. The girl, whose name you never learned, patched up the hole with a flick of her wand and an incantation undecipherable to your unlearned ears. They assisted you and Professor Martin on the long trip back to shore.
  
  > go To the Great Hall
  The boats arrive at the shore of the castle, and all of you troop in. A pair of massive doors open, and suddenly, you're in a huge room with rock hewn walls and no ceiling. Oh, wait...There is a ceiling! It just looks like there isn't. Amazing!
  
  Then you hear it.
  
  Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
  
  But don't judge on what you see,
  
  I'll eat myself if you can find
  
  A smarter hat than me.
  
  You can keep your bowlers black,
  
  Your top hats sleek and tall,
  
  For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
  
  And I can cap them all.
  
  There's nothing hidden in your head
  
  The Sorting Hat can't see,
  
  So try me on and I will tell you
  
  Where you ought to be.
  
  You might belong in Gryffindor,
  
  Where dwell the brave at heart,
  
  Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
  
  Set Gryffindors apart;
  
  You might belong in Hufflepuff,
  
  Where they are just and loyal,
  
  Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
  
  And unafraid of toil;
  
  Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
  
  if you've a ready mind,
  
  Where those of wit and learning,
  
  Will always find their kind;
  
  Or perhaps in Slytherin
  
  You'll make your real friends,
  
  Those cunning folks use any means
  
  To achieve their ends.
  
  So put me on! Don't be afraid!
  
  And don't get in a flap!
  
  You're in safe hands (though I have none)
  
  For I'm a Thinking Cap!
  
  What is this most-peculiar talking hat? You watch as numerous kids get sorted into various houses with boos and cheers coming from rival sides among the older students already wearing their house colours with pride. Now it is your turn. You walk up there slowly and steadily.
  
  When it gets to your head, it stops. It doesn't say a word. You gulp, trying not to look nervous, despite the acid pooling in your stomach. Finally, it speaks. But only to you.
  
  "Gryffindor or Slytherin?"
  
  "But d-"
  
  "Gryffindor or Slytherin?"
  
  You scan the crowd, glancing between the masses of green and red, nothing absently that they form Christmas colors.
  
  You mutter quietly to the hat. It screams out:
  
  So which do you choose?
  
  > Gryffindor!
  With dinner over, you begin to ascend the stairs with your new house, proudly wearing the colors scarlet and gold. "Congrats on Gryffindor by the way," you hear someone say as the pat you on your shoulder. As you walk, you pass by a girl...not just any girl, Cunegonde. She turns around, frustrated, and you see the tears on her face.
  
  What do you do?
  
  > help Her Because She's a Pretty Girl
  She is crying because she says that her locket has been stolen, unbeknownst to you it is actually Regulus Black's locket, the horcrux. She says that however stole it she saw run into the restricted section of the library, where she could not get in.
  
  What do you do?
  
  > sneak in and Get it for her Because You Want to Get in Cunegonde's Good Graces (Pants)
  You agree to the mission and decide to sneak into the restricted section. First you have to get there undetected, but how?
  
  As you are planning your daring mission, from which you figure you will never return, inspiration strikes. Argus Filch, the only person guarding the library at this time of night loves his cat, Mrs Norris deeply. If you can lure the cat away Argus would surely spend hours trying to find him. You sneak into the dining hall on tiptoes, hoping to rescue some uneaten chicken legs before the dishes are cleared away for the night. Luckily, some stragglers are still left behind eating so the plates haven't been cleared yet. You take as many drum sticks as you can carry and hid them in your cloak as you walk out undetected.
  
  You arrive in the library as you start to layout of trail of chicken scraps for Mrs Norris to follow. The plan works as you watch from behind a bookshelf, and the cat goes down the hall eating chicken scraps to hopefully be preoccupied long enough for Mr. Filch to be away for a long time.
  
  As he comes out of the restricted section to notice the cat missing from his usual residence on top of a case of old books, Mr. Filch sees the greasy remnants of the pieces of chicken and follows behind, just like the cat. Before the door latches shut, you sneak in through it and you're home free, or at least it seems that way. You have no idea where it is. It's dark, you have no light, and Mr. Filch will be back in any minute.
  
  What do you do?
  
  > give Up and Go Back
  You go back to your new house's common room and party it up with the rest of your new found friends. You have a new perspective on life and plan to enjoy it, the good and the bad. This will surely be an amazing year at Hogwarts.
  
  The end.