Won""t be open for another month." McCloud learned that the group had received special treatment as "guests - we""re here by special arrangement.As the train pulls into the station at Lake Como, a comforting (or sinister) hand reaches out to touch an agitated and confused Paula when she disembarks from the train compartment.He made friends with two other first-year students during the trip:red-haired Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) with his pet rat Scabbersintelligent, pretty Hermione Granger (Emma Watson)After arriving on the train and taking boats to the castle, strict Headmistress Professor McGonagall greeted the students and told them they must first be sorted (by a magical Sorting Hat during a Sorting Ceremony) into one of four houses:GryffindorHufflepuffRavenclawSlytherinShe added: "Your house will be like your family.I came down here for a party.What happens? Nothing.Not even ice cream.The gods looked down and laughed.This would be a better world for children if the parents had to eat the spinach.(He steps back and proposes marriage to both of them.) Well, what do you say, girls? What do you say? Are we all gonna get married?Mrs.Rittenhouse: All of us?Spaulding: All of us!Mrs.Rittenhouse: But that""s bigamy!Spaulding: Yes, and that""s big-a-me, too...It""s big of all of us.Let""s be big for a change.I""m sick of these conventional marriages! One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather." [Later, he pessimistically wonders: "Somebody might be sick or something."]Ann teasingly compares her own dignified and sophisticated literature choices with the pulp mysteries that her elderly father reads (Unsolved Crimesis conspicuously under his arm):Ann: Here I am, practically a child, and I wouldn""t read the things you read.