I hope that you catch me

In first year, Laura Hollis is sorted into Gryffindor, along with five other eleven year old girls, and maybe five or six boys. The sorting hat tells her she could also have been a Hufflepuff, but that it senses a lion’s courage within her. And since Laura is a muggle-born, and so knows next to nothing about the Hogwarts houses, she blindly tells the sorting hat to go with its gut. Figuratively speaking. She sits at the Gryffindor table and watches as a young girl (McGonagall reads her name as “Karnstein, Carmilla”) with dark hair and an even darker expression on her face stomps up to the rickety old school.