"Slytherin!" the Sorting Hat announced as Albus Severus Potter sighed heavily. Everyone was surprised, to say the least, even Professor McGonagall was speechless. But she sobered up fast. Everyone stared at the smiling boy who seemed to have accepted it calmly. The hall was so quiet.

He remembered what his father had told him earlier that day - that even as a Slytherin, he could be so brave that others will respect him deeply. He wanted to live up to his name, so he didn't resist the old hat.

He got up and then went to take a seat at the Slytherin table - though no one applauded for him. They were sneering menacingly and watching him very carefully. Shaken he was until he heard a timid applause from the Gryffindor table - it was his ever so loving elder, brother, James Sirius Potter. It was soon followed by cheers and roars of welcome by every other house and soon, most of the seniors in the Slytherin house cheered out loudly, giving him the merriest of welcome.

"A Potter in Slytherin? How unprecedented," mustered a girl with dirty blonde hair from a seat not too far away from Albus'.

"Well, you're the first Potter in Slytherin! We expect highly from you," grinned a kind male senior with shiny short slick black hair to the first-year. Albus definitely felt motivated at the senior's encouragement.

Professor McGonagall called another name which gained everyone's attention, a name everyone seemed to despise as whispers echoed throughout the hall.

"Scorpius Malfoy!"

Some were expecting him to be in the Gryffindor, given what just happened, but "Slytherin!" again was announced.

The Slytherin house applauded and cheered reluctantly given the boy's family name but Albus paid no heed. He cheered and welcomed Scorpius warmly and the two were quickly best friends.

Another name - a name quite familiar to the school and those second-years and above - was called.

"Alekxia Sakriluc!"

Came forth a girl with straight black hair reaching her waist who sat calmly on the wooden chair, giving out a very warm and calm smile. Everyone was silenced at her bubbly and relaxed behaviour - including the professors. Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw - questioned the first-years. For those elder, they knew she was either Gryffindor and Slytherin as well.

While the Sorting Hat was once again facing difficulty in sorting the girl into her supposed house, everyone was whispering rumours about her brother.

"Maximus Sakriluc, the name of her brother, right?" the kind senior whispered to his friend who had brunette hair - while still watching the girl in concern. The friend nodded with a sad face. "She must be a tough cookie to be able to come to the school where her brother mysteriously died."

"Nice person, her brother," replied the friend. The black-haired senior just nodded in somber.

Scorpius and Albus raised a curious brow at their conversation.

"Excuse me, Wade," asked Albus timidly to the senior. The latter hummed in reply. "How did her brother died?"

Looking at the two juniors reluctantly, he sighed. "I don't really know the exact details, but Rayne here can tell ye," the brunette just nodded timidly from his place. For Slytherine members, they didn't seem as unfriendly as most of them were. "Poor guy, he was a prefect last year when he saw the boy in one of the corridors heading towards the office."

The two boys nodded in understatement, then the three looked at Rayne waiting patiently for his story. "He seemed to have had his energy drained out," he started, whispering only audible to them four. "I strongly suspect that he was trying to create a new spell - given that the professors didn't answer me when I asked that." His eyes lingered from the girl to the professors, specifically Professor McGonagall.

"H-how did you know he was creating a new spell?" Scorpius had asked - becoming more wary of the girl who was still sitting on the wooden chair.

"Creating a spell isn't easy, you see," Rayne replied warily. "It drains a lot of energy if you do it wrongly."

Everyone waited patiently till the girl was finally sorted.

"Tough one, you are! But you are best put in-," each person present in the hall, including the ghosts held their breath in anticipation. "Slytherin!" the Slytherine house applauded and cheered loudly at the announcement. The Gryffindor was bitter of course but they showed their support to the girl with a huge roar of applause.

The girl smiled wider, thanked the old hat and bowed to Professor McGonagall in gratitude before walking towards the Slytherin table. Again, the kind senior gave a very warm welcome along with his friend while the others just raised their eyebrows to show their welcome. Cold, but really - they just don't really know how to show proper warm greetings.

"Hello," she smiled brightly at the boys who smiled back at her showing their perfect line of shiny white teeth. "I can't help but notice the similarities we three share," she uttered softly. "I hope we will be friends till graduation and hopefully longer than that," she reached out her hand to them and was first took by Albus, followed by Scorpius, Wade and Rayne.

"I look forward to it, Alekxia," Albus replied as she sat down beside him.

The four boys were surprised when she was shaking her head vigorously, "Oh please, just Alek," she said while brushing a strand of hair to the back of her left ear - revealing a golden earring shaped like a snake. "Alekxia is just too long," she smiled sweetly.

Albus nodded in understatement.

That night, Albus' perception towards Slytherine changed completely.

People always mentioned how the Slytherine people were unfriendly, cold, mean and total jerks. But really, the four people he made friends with that night proved them wrong.

It was much later on that night he concluded that the actual characteristic of a Slytherine was being talented 聽and confident of their talent.

Some are indeed boastful, but he then preferred to call them as overly confident lot of wizards and witches.

There were sneers and teases about him being the only Potter in the Slytherin house, but he paid less attention to them. At least he had the friends he had made that night.

And more so from the other houses as well.

He wasn't alone.

A/N: I had always wanted to watch all of the Harry Potter movies and recently got the opportunity to do so. Please pardon me for any mistakes in spelling, grammar or even information.

I have never read a Harry Potter fanfic before - but I decided that I wanted to imagine the amazing wizarding world by myself, following the ending of the last HP movie, Deathly Hallows part 2.

Amazing story, really. Love it a lot.聽

Lord Voldemort is probably one the best fictional villains of all time! I love him a lot. Since he doesn't know love, I wanna make him know love and care in this fic. No, no. Not the romantic love, nope. I'm bad at that - so I won't even try to write this in the first place.

This fic is going to be about the second generation, mainly Albus, Scorpius and the other kids of the Order of the Phoenix, who will help Harry Potter in his final quest.

I am still researching and doing more readings about Harry Potter - so I welcome any suggestions or ideas or recommendations from you all (if I do get readers of course, haha).

Edited at 1000 hours on 21.08.2017

Thank you to Radio Free for pointing out the flaws in the first raw chapter!