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(31/12/03 11:40 am)
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First Day Back at Hogwarts - Welcoming Feast - Staff Table
THE GREAT HALL
The Staff Table
The Sorting had just ended...Professor Dumbledore got to his feet as Professor McGonagall took away the Sorting Hat.
He beamed at the students. "Welcome to another year at Hogwarts! I am sure you all are very hungry, so let us begin the feast at once!" He waved his wand slightly, mass amounts of food appearing at the movement, and sat down to a chorus of soft "ooh"s and "aah"s from the first years. He chuckled. It never failed; no matter what they had been told, they always seemed to underestimate Hogwarts.
Minerva sat beside Dumbledore and began eating. "Albus, do you realize this is the last year that James Potter and Sirius Black are going to be here. The time that has passed is remarkable!"
"Very true, very true indeed. I recall them as first years...really much the same as they are now, as a matter of fact." Dumbledore watched Sirius flash a Gryffindor girl a smile, (she swooned visibly) while James slapped him on the back, laughing. Remus---poor lad, he thought sadly---was watching them bemusedly; Peter, wistfully.
Rubeus' laughter rose over the clatter of the students as they started to eat, his mouth in a wide and obvious smile as his large form made itself comfortable at the end of the table.
"Aww... now Minerva, yeh don' mean tha'! James and Sirius are great kids, o' course, after yeh get used to the jokes... But still, great kids!"
He chuckled loudly, looking down at his plate as he impaled half of a roast on his considerably larger fork, before depositing it on his plate with a faint "splat".
"Good evening Hagrid!" Dumbledore said cheerfully. "How are you this evening?"
"Oh, Professor Dumbledore, I di'na see yeh there! Me? Ah, I'm doin' great. Tha' firs' years were better than usual. How are yeh, Professor Dumbledore?" As he had been talking, pieces of the meat were peeled off of the large hunk he had gotten for himself, the heated sliver eaten carefully after he had finished his response.
"Quite well, Hagrid, thank you. I trust things went well with the first years?"
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