CHAPTER ONE
"THE SORTING CEREMONY"
Albus boarded the Hogwarts express, he had been waiting for this almost all his life, and now, he wasn't sure if he really wanted to go to Hogwarts at all. Well, he did, but he still refused to be sorted into Slytherin. His father, Harry, had just talked to him about that, still, Albus was scared on going to the same house as Lord Voldemort. But in the other hand, he was confident the sorting hat would place him into Gryffindor, if it was true what his father had just said, the sorting hat took your choice into account.
"Albus," His cousin Rose called him "Come on, let's get a compartment."
Albus followed Rose, knowing that she'd want to sit with his brother, James, both of them had a big rivalry, and Rose being friendly to both was hard sometimes.
"Not with James!" he groaned as they both sat next to him.
"I never understood why you two don't like each other, I mean, you are brothers" Rose said.
"You don't like Hugo either" James pointed out.
"No, I don't" said Rose rolling her eyes "But he's nine, nine. And he's a boy, I'm a girl."
"You see my point" James said smirking "I'm a boy, he's not"
James laughed. Albus got so mad he wanted to punch his brother in the face, then he thought a jinx would be better, through he'd never tried one before. But as soon as he pulled his wand out…
"EXPELLIARMUS!" he heard a woman's voice shout. His wand shot into the air. He turned around and saw Professor McGonagall standing in the compartment.
"It had to be a Potter" she said shaking her head, through Albus saw a tiny smile "I'd take points from your house, but since you have no house, and we are not even at Hogwarts yet, I'll let this one pass"
"Thanks, Professor" Albus smiled
"But, Potter" McGonagall said "I do not want any more accidents like this, do you understand? I know rule breaking is in your blood, having Harry Potter as a father, James Potter as a brother and one of the Weasley twins as an uncle, but don't cross over the line, like your brother," she looked at James "Do you understand?"
Albus nodded, then sat back down, after McGonagall left he remembered his anger at James, but he was smiling.
"What are you smiling at?" Albus asked
"She called me a rule breaker" James said proudly "Apparently I'm following Dad's and Uncle Fred and George's foot steps" He laughed "Who wouldn't be proud about that?" Albus and Rose smiled "You are beginning to get it, bro, but you'll have to do more than just jinx people" He winked at Albus
The rest of the ride to Hogwarts was pretty much James, Rose and Albus arguing about which house the last two would be in. Finally, the train stopped at Hogsmeade station, where they all came down.
As his father Harry had said, Rose and him didn't go to school on the carriages, but on boats with Hagrid. He already knew Hagrid and was pretty glad to get his first view of Hogwarts with him.
Nothing much happened, until it was time for the sorting.
Albus nervously watched as Anderson, Daniel, was sorted into Hufflepuff. Finally, after Malfoy, Scorpius, was sorted into Slytherin (he remembered uncle Ron saying something bad about him), his name was called.
McGonagall shouted "POTTER, ALBUS!" whispers broke through the Great Hall, he had expected this, after all, he was son of the man who had killed Lord Voldemort.
He nervously sat on the chair, the sorting hat on his head.
"I see, I see" the sorting hat said in his ear "Another Potter!"
Not slytherin, please, Albus taught, Not Slytherin
"Not in Slytherin? Huh, just like your father, yes, you are brave, you'd make a good Gryffindor" Albus smiled "But no, Gryffindor can't be" His smiled vanished, he panicked "You are ambitious, yes you are, a strong leader, I can see."
"No!" Albus said "I thought you took my choice into account!"
"Yes I do." the the sorting hat calmly "But there's a limit, I cannot put someone stupid in Ravenclaw, or a traitor in Hufflepuff just because they want to. You have something of a Gryffindor, yes you're brave, but no, you belong to...SLYTHERIN!" the hat shouted the last word. Albus shook his head violently while he was dragged by some third years to the Slytherin table. He saw James with his mouth wide open, staring at him. He knew his brother wasn't serious about him being in Slytherin.
Rose ended up being the first Weasley not to be in Gryffindor, she was in Ravenclaw. But almost didn't notice this, he was so concentrated in why he wasn't put in Gryffindor, or even in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff…. anything but Slytherin.
He went to the dormitories, the SLYTHERIN dormitories once he finished eating. He wanted to avoid Fred, Roxxane, Rose, and mostly, his own brother James.
He remembered what James had said on the train.
"Apparently I'm following Dad's and Uncle Fred and George's foot steps. Who wouldn't be proud about that?"
He obviously wanted to follow their footsteps too, but how, being in a house that had a extreme rivalry to Gryffindor, could he follow them?
Albus obviously didn't know how a great wizard he was going to be one day.