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Harry Potter and the Exchange Students Chapter 2

Everyone clapped as the last of the first years were sorted. Ron grumbled as he waited impatiently for the food to appear. Hermione jabbed him with her elbow, giving him a dirty look. "They're not done yet! They still need to sort Ami and her friends." She reminded him in a rushed whisper.

"I wonder where they are?" Harry asked softly. "I thought they were going to be entering with the first years?"

As if they'd heard his question the door to the great hall opened and a tall woman with long purple hair entered, followed by the five girls. Whispers broke out among the seated students as they headed to where the first years had been before. McGonagall loudly clapped her hands for silence.

"This year is special because this is the first time that we've had exchange students enroll here. They are led by their teacher in healing, Ms. Meioh, or Meioh-sensei."

"They have classes in healing?" Hermione whispered her question to her friends, feeling that that would be a good class to have at Hogwarts.

"They will be sorted into houses so they can have the proper Hogwarts experience."

With this announcement Meioh-sensei rose up the steps to stand on the other side of the sorting hat.

"Serena Tsukino," McGonagall called out.

Serena almost tripped heading up to be sorted. It only took a couple moments before shouting out, "HUFFLEPUFF!" The house burst into applause as they welcomed their newest member.

"Ami Mizuno."

Only a light blush on her cheeks showed that Ami wasn't as calm as she appeared. Harry was fairly sure that she'd be in Ravenclaw unless she opposed it for some reason. Once again it didn't take long for the hat to come to the same conclusion. Ami's blush darkened as she went to her new table.

"Rei Hino."

Rei walked up to be sorted with the grace and confidence imbued into her after all her time as a miko.

Ron let out a shocked growl as she was quickly sorted into Slytherin, "I can't believe I talked quidditch with a snake!" He received an elbow in his side from Hermione, as she and Harry applauded hesitantly for her.

"Lita Kino."

The girl practically leaped onto the stage as she took strong steps up to be sorted. Gryfindor burst into applause as they welcomed one of the foreign students into their own house. She smiled and waved at Harry and his friends as she found a seat nearby, across from the Weasley twins.

"Mina Aino."

Several boys stared as the pretty girl took her seat on the stool, to be the last sorted. She only sat a moment longer than her friends, before being sorted into Hufflpuff with Serena.

"That's good," Lita said softly.

Harry glanced at her, unsure of what she'd said, only that she'd said something.

Lita, feeling his eyes on her, leaned around Lee to explain, "It's good Serena and Mina are in the same house. Their familiars are mates, this was they can be together."

Harry nodded, he didn't really know anything about familiars but highly suspected he soon would from the gleam in Hermione's eyes.

This interest would fade as soon as the Headmaster revealed that there would soon be even more foreign students in the halls of Hogwarts as they would be hosting the Triwizard Tournament. The students all started to chatter in excitement. Although it was obvious that hardly anyone had even heard of this competition. Only those whose parents had known and chosen to tell their children, like with Draco Malfoy, really knew anything about this, although they also didn't seem to know that much.

Hermione noticed the surprised look on Lita's face and leaned over to ask, "Do you know about the Triwizard Tournament?"

Lita smiled concernedly as those around her quieted to hear her answer, "My friends and I are here because we knew an international competition would be happening, but we didn't know which one. A seer foresaw that we would need to be here to ensure the best ending of a prophecy about the wedding of the next Japanese Minister of Magic. We did research many competitions that had occurred before. Right now I'm happy that we're not allowed to compete because we're not really Hogwarts students. We honestly never thought this would be the one brought back so we didn't study it much."

"Why didn't you think this would be the one?" Hermione asked, curious.

"This is one of the three competitions that were discontinued because they were deemed too dangerous. The last Triwizard Tournament ended with the deaths of two of the competitors, one headmaster, as well as several people in the audience."

There were many gasps as the students heard this.

"I'm sure your ministry and the schools wouldn't have agreed to bring it back if they hadn't put in safety measures. They wouldn't be irresponsible enough to endanger the lives of school children, even if you do have to be 17 to compete," Lita continued.

Harry let his head hit the table with a dull thump. Hermione gently patted his back.

"I'll research this," Hermione promised. "I'm sure that nothing will happen this time. The Headmaster has advanced warning about this."

Lita looked on, concerned even more that she might have jinxed one of her new friends. "Meioh-Sensei holds dual masteries, healing and history. You should ask her if you want to know more. She probably knows things about this that aren't even mentioned in any European history book."

Hermione nodded, she and Harry both worried about the nasty habit of everything happening to Harry. Ron looked on a little confused, but put an arm around Harry's shoulders. The trio showed a united front as they neared the end of the first day of a new year at Hogwarts.

End Chapter 2

Sorry it took me so long to write this. I wrote the first half of this chapter immediately, but I wanted this to be in line with the book/movie so it was bothering me I couldn't remember how sorting night/Triwizard announcement went clearly. I eventually just worked around it. ^_^;;;

Super kudos to AmberWolf for guessing so well on where they would be sorted.

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