As Harry sat down at the beginning of the year feast, he couldn't help being exited by seeing the sorting ceremony once again. As the three legged stool with the old hat on came in carried by professor Magonagall, 40 or so small scared figures followed her into the great hall. Oddly there was an older girl standing at the back. She was tall, slim, raven hair and about sixteen.

The whole school looked at her with the same look of anticipation for and explanation on the face's. Harry skimmed his eyes across the staff table. He stopped at Snape, he was looking at something, with an interested and almost loving look on his face. Harry followed his gaze and it landed on the girl, she watched intently as the sorting hat sang his verse of warning, wisdom and advice. The hat concluded with a message of not letting old grudges come between the fight against the dark lord. Ron leaned towards Harry and whispered.

'Does that hat's speech get edited by Binns? It's so tedious, wonder who that girl is?'

Harry smiled but he was not really interested, he watched as the hat got to M 'McCrackhorn, Lucy' sorted into 'Ravenclaw'. Magonagall called out the second last name on her list 'Zornac, Cassandra' the fair girl was sorted into Griffindor, and welcomed with applause. Then everyone's attention turned to the thing they were more interested in . The girl.

that's the first little intro chapter thing any feedback would be good thanks