Adele and Emily awaited nervously on the Hogwarts Express to their new school. England wizarding school will be a big change for the pair of witches, or at least that's what Adele's mom had said. Adele would miss her mother while she was at Hogwarts she already was sure of this but if Adele stayed she would have to have been raised as a Muggle from her third year on. A rather unfortunate accident happened which called for Adele's expulsion, the Headmaster didn't wish to do it and leave one of the brightest witches within her own year be reduced to a Muggle. So contacted one of her fellow head masters(Dumbledore) and asked for Adele and Emily's enrollment. Considering Adele would need a friend and under Emily's current situation both had almost immediately agreed to go, for some reason Adele's mom wasn't too keen on seeing her only daughter go to England on her own but let her go after weeks of arguing. Adele's cinnamon colored hair sparkled with the light of the moon as she looked out the window, and then over to her friend's petite frame, half-asleep with her nose in a book. Adele's brown eyes reflected back at her as she put on her most self-encouraging smile and hoped for the best for this train Emily and Adele had been riding on for the past few hours finally halted to a stop and the girls got off the train. A rather large man was waiting for the pair of them and said "Why you two must be them exchange students I been hearing so much about. I think Professor Dumbledore was rather excited to have you both here. I'm Hagrid by the way, official grounds keeper of Hogwarts." The girls followed Hagrid to a pair of boats, Hagrid wisely taking the larger of the two. Emily and Adele got in, making sure for the last time their communicating parchment was in sync as the boat steered itself in the right direction. Emily shoved Adele's head down having her miss a very low branch that would have left a smarting. Emily was always watching out for Adele it seemed more as if she was a big sister rather then a friend girls got off at the edge of the lake and walked up a large pair of stairs and opened the giant door to their new home. Adele marched into the direction where Hagrid said was the dining hall with Emily in a relaxed pursuit of her best friend. When Adele opened the dining hall doors she was honestly impressed, four large tables filled with students, this seemed like a place she could both prosper and blend in at the same time. Professor Dumbledore announced the two new foreign exchange students and claimed they must be sorted as is tradition. Dumbledore himself stood up and made a hat appear from within his robes, making Adele wonder what all you can fit in a took his hand and waved it, making a stool appear out of thin air. He then sat the hat on the stool as if expecting it to do a back-flip, but it did something just as extraordinary; it began to sing.

"I am the sorting hat, though I trust you all know that. Four houses I could place you in, Gryffindor Hufflepuff Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Make new ties, which you must abide. But before you get in, its MY turn to begin; I am the sorting hat."

Everyone in the tables began to cheer for the hat's delightful song as the headmaster pulled the hat of the stool and called,

"Ms. Sharer, your first." Emily got up on the stool and it took the hat a whole ten seconds before it yelled,

"Slytherin!" Emily got off the stool handing the hat back to the headmaster as she walked toward the only table that was cheering quite obnoxiously. Next the head master called,

"Ms. Smith, your up if you please."Adele got onto the stool as Dumbledore set the hat on her head. She felt it trying to pick through her thoughts, she heard it in her head say (not a bad mind…)

"Ravenclaw!"

"No." Adele argued out loud "Emily is by far brighter then me!" (hmmm… your quite loyal Adele)

"Hufflepuff!"

"No. Who'd want to be in Hufflepuff anyways?" That comment got her several glairs from the yellow and black table. (Boy, your quite a stubborn girl aren't you?… I guess)

"Gryffindor! And that's final." Adele grumpily took the hat off and found the table of red and gold that was cheering her on. Adele went and sat by a boy with messy black hair and green eyes. His friends; a girl with bushy brown hair and a boy with orange hair were arguing about something but by the look on his face this was nothing new.

"Hello my name is Adele." Adele said offering a hand out for Harry "But you can call me Dele, everyone else does."

"Harry Potter." the boy said with a smile shaking Adele's hand.

"Woman, I'm telling you your hearing things! That could never happen."

"Well Ron it did. Why not ask HER." the girl said looking at Adele.

"Ask me what?"

"Hermione wants to know if the hat took back its sorting for you and changed it."

"Oh it did, why?" Hermione looked at Dele completely shocked at her gull and said

"No one has ever got the sorting hat to switch their house after it's mind has been made up. Ever."

"Wow." Adele said as the feast appeared in front of everyone. She dug in with the boys and tried just about anything Harry or Ron recommended which was practically everything.

"So what year are you Adele?" Hermione asked after Ron stopped babbling on about quidditch.

"This is my third year in wizarding school. What year are y'all in?" Adele said letting her American slip.

"The three of us are in fourth year, is that an American accent I hear?"

"That is correct Her-my-own-eeh." Adele said making sure she properly said the brunette's name knowing how she loathed it when her's was pronounced wrong.