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SilverTiger · 09-16-2025, 12:05 AM

Her fingers were still a bit damp from having reached out of the boat to trail them in the lake during the boat ride, but Aurora was more distracted by the sights as they had all been led into the Great Hall for the sorting. She knew what to expect, of course, but actually seeing it all was different from hearing mum and dad’s stories, or the few that her older siblings told her. Once she’d made certain Damian was there with her and not off doing whatever it was piqued his interest, she’d occupied her time counting the floating candles as they made their way to where the hat was waiting.

Because obviously the hat was waiting. It wasn’t as if it was just any old hat, just like she suspected the wandmaker’s measuring tape wasn’t just any old measuring tape. There was the tiniest thought that the hat was specifically waiting for her, or her and her brother, but it quickly drifted away in favor of more counting. Granted, she figured there wouldn’t be too much waiting once they started calling people up, but still, distractions were nice.

As expected, there wasn’t too much time to wait before she heard her name being called.

“Barrington, Aurora!”

Squeezing her brother’s hand once, the small auburn-haired girl bounced her way over to the stool and perched on it, going back to thinking of numbers as the hat was placed onto her head and then blocking her view of the candles and most everything else temporarily. And then the voice started.

“Hmm, another Barrington…”

She thought about asking it what that meant, but it was obvious after her uncle, and then mum and dad, although mum wasn’t a Barrington then, and then the triplets and her cousins. There had been kind of a lot of them, so she just let the hat go on ruminating. It was rude to interrupt, after all, and the hat wasn’t exactly saying anything that she found offensive. Therefore, she switched to singing a song from Frozen while she waited. Was it always this difficult?

“…better be… RAVENCLAW!”

She blinked, both from surprise that it was over and also her eyesight being returned to the brightness of the hall as the hat was removed, but after another moment, she jumped down from the stool and began heading to the blue table, walking backwards as she heard her brother’s name get called because obviously she wanted to know where he’d end up too.

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SilverTiger Crumple-Horned Snorkack Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal sighs(GMT-8) Posts: 111,305 Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurora Barrington Ravenclaw Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Teagan Kensington Slytherin Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nico Diggory-Keighley Hufflepuff Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Annika Owens-Byrne Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Noa LeCourt Gryffindor Sixth Year x5 x3	Shoe!Girl │ Rebel Ravie │ Confundus Queen │ RP Addict Her fingers were still a bit damp from having reached out of the boat to trail them in the lake during the boat ride, but Aurora was more distracted by the sights as they had all been led into the Great Hall for the sorting. She knew what to expect, of course, but actually seeing it all was different from hearing mum and dad’s stories, or the few that her older siblings told her. Once she’d made certain Damian was there with her and not off doing whatever it was piqued his interest, she’d occupied her time counting the floating candles as they made their way to where the hat was waiting. Because obviously the hat was waiting. It wasn’t as if it was just any old hat, just like she suspected the wandmaker’s measuring tape wasn’t just any old measuring tape. There was the tiniest thought that the hat was specifically waiting for her, or her and her brother, but it quickly drifted away in favor of more counting. Granted, she figured there wouldn’t be too much waiting once they started calling people up, but still, distractions were nice. As expected, there wasn’t too much time to wait before she heard her name being called. “Barrington, Aurora!” Squeezing her brother’s hand once, the small auburn-haired girl bounced her way over to the stool and perched on it, going back to thinking of numbers as the hat was placed onto her head and then blocking her view of the candles and most everything else temporarily. And then the voice started. “Hmm, another Barrington…” She thought about asking it what that meant, but it was obvious after her uncle, and then mum and dad, although mum wasn’t a Barrington then, and then the triplets and her cousins. There had been kind of a lot of them, so she just let the hat go on ruminating. It was rude to interrupt, after all, and the hat wasn’t exactly saying anything that she found offensive. Therefore, she switched to singing a song from Frozen while she waited. Was it always this difficult? “…better be… RAVENCLAW!” She blinked, both from surprise that it was over and also her eyesight being returned to the brightness of the hall as the hat was removed, but after another moment, she jumped down from the stool and began heading to the blue table, walking backwards as she heard her brother’s name get called because obviously she wanted to know where he’d end up too. __________________ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me, at tea time, everybody agrees ...It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero ♥ ♥ ♥