Then something happened that made
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screamed.
"What the --?"
He gasped. So did the people around
him. About twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall. Pearly-white
and slightly transparent, they glided across the room talking to one another and
hardly glancing at the first years. They seemed to be arguing. What looked like
a fat little monk was saying: "Forgive and forget, I say, we ought to give him a
second chance --"
"My dear Friar,
chanel bags sale haven't we
given Peeves all the chances he deserves? He gives us all a bad name and you
know, he's not really even a ghost -- I say, what are you all doing
here?"
A ghost wearing a ruff and tights had suddenly noticed the
first years.
Nobody answered.
"New students!" said the Fat
Friar, smiling around at them. "About to be Sorted, I suppose?"
A few
people nodded mutely.
"Hope to see you in Hufflepuff!" said the Friar.
"My old house, you
cheap chanel
bags know."
"Move along now," said a sharp voice. "The
Sorting Ceremony's about to start."
Professor McGonagall had returned.
One by one, the ghosts floated away through the opposite wall.
"Now,
form a line," Professor McGonagall told the first years, "and follow
me."
Feeling oddly as though his legs had turned to lead, Harry got
into line behind a boy with sandy hair, with Ron behind him, and they walked out
of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of
chanel
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Harry had never even imagined such a strange and splendid place. It was lit by
thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long
tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. These tables were laid with
glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top of the hall was another long
table where the teachers were sitting. Professor McGonagall led the first years
up here, so that they
chanel bags came to a halt in a
line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them. The hundreds of
faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight.
Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver. Mainly
to avoid all the staring eyes, Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black
ceiling dotted with stars. He heard