There was a great uproar of laughter and chatter coming from the table that seated the students who had not been sorted into a specific house. All of the new students seemed quite amused by the magical mischief that the teachers were getting into. Alex briefly wondered if any of these teachers once belonged to the house she was about to be sorted into. She could only hope so, she was a great fan of using magic for fun.

Alex and the rest of the unsorted students quickly fell silent when the minister of magic spoke out against the antics of the new teachers. All of the students who had left their seats to try and catch the flying key, Alex included, scurried back into their chairs before they too were on the receiving end of some verbal punishment. There was a quiet murmurer that fell over the new students as the talked to one another, hoping the ceremony would soon proceed.