Our new celebrity.

...I've always felt our futures lay outside the world of academic achievement.

Something that, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket.

All I ask is for something in return.

Your previous instruction in this subject has been disturbingly uneven.

It was you from the beginning. You put my name in the Goblet of Fire.

You may find yourselves facing your worst fears in this room.

At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in.

At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup.

The Philosopher's Stone.

The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect...

powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Dead.

...gives a student the right to walk about the school at night.

And the points stand thus:

The Sorting Ceremony will begin momentarily.

As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite.

Fred, I've been thinking exactly the same thing.

Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies"?

...prefects will lead their house back to the dormitories.

They're an embarrassment to the wizarding world. All of them.