[HP4GU-FAQ] Re: Hi from a Newbie! (I can say that without a Mod breathing down my neck!)

[elfundeb]

Debbie steps nervously off the train and, hearing a discussion of html, suddenly fears she doesn't know the right magic and that the good professors will tell her there's been a mistake and she'd better get back on the train . . . .
but then she hears the calming voice of Captain Cindy welcoming a couple of other equally nervous-looking first-years. Feeling a bit better, Debbie follows Eloise, Pip and Eileen into a boat which takes off, gliding through a curtain of ivy across the lake to the FAQ castle, where the Sorting Hat calls:

> > Eloise
> > the new girl, 
> [but not the only one]
> > standing out in her too-shiny shoes and her robes 
> > bought a few sizes too big, so there's plenty of room for growth.
> 
> Pip
> who is wondering how on earth she's going to get this huge trunk up 
> to her dormitory.

Eileen 
who is beginning to suspect (after reading Cindy's post) that Elkins 
and Porphyria selected her on account of her declarations of affinity 
with a certain Percy Weasley.

And Debbie
Who still can't get that smudge off her nose


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