The Encounter With The Devil
1ST YEAR: The Encounter With The Devil.
“Elias Azul?” I walked the stairs pretty nervously and sat on that old wooden stool. The Talking Hat was put on my head by a very tall lady with grey hair, she was quite scary looking because she looked very strict, but i could feel she was relaxed and.. comfy so i trusted her. The hat spoke: “hmm…I see your courage, and you are kind of a trouble seaker huh?” i got red like a pepper and the lady slightly smiled but the hat continued “you are loyal yes.. you are also clever and you pay attention to details..I know where to put you. GRYFFINDOOR!”.
The whole table cheared and i got off the stool and basically ran down the stairs to sit down, and a dark blonde kid smiled at me with the biggest smile i’ve ever seen, he offered his hand: “Hi! My name is James Potter, nice to meet you!” i cautiously shook his hand and spoked quietly “Hi, i’m Elias Azul, pleasure’s mine” he leaned in a bit “sorry, i didn’t quite catch that!” i sigh and spoke up, knowing that my mexican accent will act up against me “I’m Elias Azul, pleasure’s mine!” James smiles and cheerfully asks “where are you from?” and i sigh, i will never escape that question “i’m from Manchester, i recently moved in Cambridge with my family..” and I look away, people usually get disappointed with that answer, but James wasn’t “ooh cool! I’ve always wanted to go there!” i smiled, i could sense he was sincere, and i kind of liked him, so. The professor called for another boy taking our attention back, he had black hair and beautiful eyes. I had to catch the name. “Sirius Black?” the energy changed quickly, but i didn’t care, i had to hear more. The kid walked to the stool ignoring all the cold gazes that were shot at him. He then sat on the stool and The Hat spoke “Gryffindor!” then he got off the stool smiling but the house of Gryffindor wasn’t much pleased by the new arrival, even tho they still welcomed him with a polite, scattered and rather cold, applaude. He confidentially walked down the stairs and all the negative vibes were washing over him like water and came to sit next to me. I could feel my face flush and become red as a jalapeño dipped in tomato sauce, he was so pretty and calm and his smiles were like the warm may sun.
“Hi Sirius, nice to see you” James said, waving at the boy. “Hi James, nice to see you too” he said smiling. I realized that i was just staring at him and i was probably creepy so i tried to speak but it ended up being a whisper “hi i’m Alias Azul..” he smiled a bit confused and leaned in a bit “I’m sorry?” thankfully James spoke for me “He’s Elias Azul, he’s from Cambridge! I’ve never even been there!” “that’s so cool!” he smiled at me. I always thought that my life was boring but they never came in contact with the muggle world, so that made me interesting. “Elias, was it? What’s it like in the muggle world? Are you a muggleborn?” Sirius asked while resting his chin on the palm of his hand while his elbow was on the table. I slowly regain my courage and spoke up “no, I’m not a muggle born, my parents came from Mexico and decided to live in a different enviroment, such as the muggle world. I’ve never seen the big cities, i grew in the countrisides. I was also homeschooled so no muggleschools, I’m sorry if i let your hopes down” I laugh nervously and scratch the back of my head, but James and Sirius had sparkles in their eyes, not like the other kid that was quietly listening and seemed sloppily interested. “oh, you didn’t let us down, your life seems so much interesting, please indulge us more on the knowledge about your existence” he said with a little smile at the end. “I’m sorry, you are?” “mind me turning the question around?” he sayed coily “only if you answer first” i replied, the boy was finally interested “Fine” he said with a pleased look in his ember eyes “I’m Remus Lupin” “Elias Azul” i said giving him a little smile “And I am Lily Evans!” said a girl that was sitting next to James, who turned over me and gave me a look that could have only ment _“Omg, she is so pretty”_ so i looked at him saying with my eyes _“well greet her, she’s not going to wait forever”_ so he took a quick breath of conentration and turned over her “I’m James Potter nice to meet you” he said, offering his hand like grownups do, and she shook it very happily “Pleasure all mine” James smiled.
The eavening was so pleasing and the food that magically appeard on our plates was incredibly delicious, tho i missed my mom’s cooking. I then discovered pretty quickly that James wasn’t all that nice all the time. He kept nagging the other kids that had second hand school uniform and i had second school uniform so i made him notice and then he stopped, also a bit ashamed of what he said. Remus was pleasingly intellectual, it was nice talking to him, he was calm and collected but when he laughed he had a very beautiful smile. Sirius kept staring at him and tried having an “intelligent” conversation with Remus but it kind of failed and the four of us started laughing so hard that water went up my nose and James almost died because of a piece of chicken that got stuck in his throat. Sirius told so many bad jokes i can’t even count them on my fingers but sadly the dinner was over and Sirius stopped making those bad jokes. The Prefect guided us to our dorms and the castle was so beautiful but it was so big it made my head spin, so Sirius offered a piece of his sleave for me to tug onto so i wouldn’t get lost and i would follow him. I was so grateful of that especially when we were on the moving stairs. Man those stair were the scariest stares i’ve ever taken, those were moving and they were so many i couldn’t see the bottom or the top of them.
We finally arrived at the Gryffindor dormrooms and i was so happy about it, we had a fireplace and a sofa and it was so cozy and comfy. The room was coverd in different shades of red and gold and it was so welcoming, I felt home.. we split up in groups of girls and boys and Lily hesitated a bit because she didn’t want to leave James, but her friends called her so she waved a bit embarassed at James and vanished up the stairs “Come on man, let’s go, I’m sure you’re tired, today was a lot to process for me and it’s late” I said tugging on his sleave and he followed me still looking at the point where Lily was. In our room there were two rooms, one with with 4 beds and the other with 5, so Sirius, Remus, James and I chose the room nearest the stairs that had 4 beds, and placed our trunks over where we wanted to sleep. I took the bed near the window, Remus was at my left and Sirius was in front of him and James was in front of me. The room was welcoming and cool, the perfect temperature to sleep at the start of September, when you can still feel the summer heat. I got into my pijamas and snuck into my comfortable bed, it was perfect, everything was so perfect, which kinda spooked me, but I tried not to pay attention to that feeling too much. It was time to go to bed but the others still had energy to chat and ask questions about eachother’s lifes “Unfortunately this year i couldn’t go to the Quiddich World Cup tournament” said James sighing, and I was kinda shocked “this year?” i said widening my eyes “yeah we go there every year, we get the tickets for the best places” he said like it was normal, but i was completly blown away “ oh. my god. I can’t belive it. I never went to a game in all my life! And my parents wanted to go once but the tickets were too expensive and it wasn’t a priority so we went to the lake like every sumer” James made a confused face “ the lake?” “ Yes it’s my favourite place, there is a lake in Ireland where my family and i go camping every summer to see the lake creatures, the water is very refreshing and the fish that i fished up was very good” i said proudly “wow, so you don’t attend to balls in summer?” James replied “No..” i said blushing a little for imbarassement “ wait you seriously don’t?” Sirius said with a worried tone for some reason. Remus was soundly sleeping, that’s why he didn’t say anything. I shook my head and my ears were tinted pink as the embarassment grew bigger and bigger “I think they’re boring anyways, it’s just full of boring old bigots and kids who were forced to be there or pretentious wannabees. I stopped going after a while, my family didn’t took it so badly either” Sirius said while smiling. James nodded as he heard the words “boring old bigots” and “pretentious wannabees” and yawned “alright, seems like i’ll be joining Remus in his dream party. Good night guys” then he got under the sheets and fell silent. It was just me and Sirius now and i was so nervous i could feel my heartbeat ringing in my ears. He then tied his hair in a bun and turned off his lamp “Night El” “night Sirius” “hey, don’t call me that, it feels like when my mom calls me” “so what do you want me to call you?” i said slightly blushing because of the nickname “hmm, call me Star” “ ok” i said quietly “night star” then we both got under the covers and i fell asleep thinking about him and the day that was on it’s way.