Hi again. Feel free to comment about any typo or grammatical error you see, maybe that way I can actually become better at this :'D
I don't own neither Hetalia nor Harry Potter. (If I did, Voldemort would have won. Yes, I'm that horrible.)
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2 It turned out we are in the UK.
It took a tough battle to make Italy put on the robes, but they were finally out of the train, in a dark and unknown station.
"Firs' years! Firs' years over here! All right there, Harry?" The voice came from a enormous and hairy man. The nations looked impressed at the man, he had to be taller than Russia himself.
The children walked together for awhile in a dark and forest-like path, making it more impressive when they finally saw the castle. Even the former Axis powers had to release a little 'ooh' when they finally saw it.
"No more'n four to a boat!" The Axis immediately sat in one boat along with an unknown girl. The hairy man say some more word before the boats started to move on their own.
"Ve! Ge-Luddy! Luddy! It looks like the Hohenzollern!" The, now, little italian mentioned now that they had a better look at the castle.
"Why you say that, Feliciano-kun?" The raven haired one asked. Germany just raised an eyebrow in disagreement.
"Because the roof and the towers and-and that!" Italy tried to explain moving his arms in the curious way that he always does... but the girl wasn't aware of this so she just looked at him not that amused with the hyper italian.
"If you say so..." Germany just let out a small sigh before letting the silence come back.
The little journey was nice and with not much in it. Before they entered the castle, along with a witch of name McGonagall, Nev-something was given back his toad. She lead them for a little while (time in which Germany had to stop Italy from wandering more than once) till a little room not that far away. The little space made Japan a little uncomfortable.
"...I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting." This is how the professor ended her long explanation. She then glanced to the toad boy and a red haired one before looking, a little impressed, at Italy's floating curl.
The silence stayed when Mcgonagall left. Most of them were really preoccupied about what would happen next... most.
"Ve! We are going to be together!" Italy affirmed before hugging his 2 friends arms.
"Same house or no, we will." Germany was smiling a little bit.
"H-hai." Japan was a pinkish color because of the sudden contact. But no one could add anything because shouts were heard from behind.
The trio look back in curiosity. Numerous floating figures of white pearly color were having a discussion about some 'Peeves'.
"Look!" The italian was now trying to touch one of the figures, the german immediately went to stop him.
Before anything else could happen, the professor was back in the room. She didn't take time at all to make the students form a line and follow her. They rapidly arrived on an enormous hall that appeared roofless and had numerous tables. The new arrivals were devouring it with their eyes.
When they got to their destiny at the front of the hall, the teacher disappeared just to appear moments after with a stool and an old and pointy hat. No first year wasn't impressed when, with no previous advert, it started to sing.
When the song came to an end, the whole hall exploded in claps. The new ones were still shocked when McGonagall gave instructions to put on the hat and sit.
Abbott, Hannah was the first. It didn't took long for the hat to shout, HUFFLEPUFF!. After she sat down with her new classmate, the next name was heard.
"Beilschmidt, Ludwig." The professor said with a little doubt in the pronunciation but still with a firm voice. Germany was soon where the stool. Italy did not hesitate to shout a wish of good luck to his friend.
There was a long moment of silence.
"SLYTHERIN!" Germany stood and in no time was sitting again in one of the 4 main tables, the one of the side were the applause had started. A way to happy italian also joined in the clap.
The sorting continued: Bones, Boot, Brocklehurst, Brown, Bulstrode ... Flinch-Fletchley, Finnigan, Granger...
"Honda, Kiku." Japan was there in seconds when his name was said. He wasn't surprised when Italy shouted him a good luck wish too.
Again, a long moment of silence.
"RAVENCLAW!" It took no time for Japan to sit and much less for his new classmates to ask him about his homeland.
...Longbottom, McDougal, Malfoy, Moon ... Nott, Parkinson, Patil, Perks...
"Potter, Harry." Silence. Not even the Axis took their eye away from the child. It was the best opportunity for the foreign to know how Harry looked.
"GRYFFINDOR!" 'No!' Italy shouted mentally, now there was no way he could be with Germany or Japan and Harry. But he wanted to be with Germany, how was he going to sleep alone? But Germany said...
"Vargas, Feliciano." The next name took Italy away from his preoccupations, it sounded really familiar... wait! It was his human name!
The rest of the hall was amused at the sight of someone forgetting his name. Germany couldn't stop himself from facepalming when the same person waved happily at him before sitting down.
"Impressive, centuries not seeing one of you and today I get 3 nations."
'Ve? who's there?!'Italy was seconds away from crying for Germany's help. Luckily, the voice talked back in time.
"Don't worry, Italia Veneciano. I'm the hat and I have spoken to your friends before."
'Ooh! Ciao, signor cappello!' The Sorting hat would have been happy that his mind reading abilities had helped him in knowing how to stop the nation from crying, but he was truly furious at them for being the reason for the 3rd migraine of the night. If one italian wasn't enough, half, or even all, of them were more than enough for a life of mind reading.
"..."
'... Signor capello?'
"Sorry, I was just thinking." Lies, he was just trying to know what part was the pasta loving nation and what part was the pasta loving italians.
"You nations are so tricky. Even if you don't think so, the centurie had gave you so much knowledge, so much that even you can't realise it... Your goals are clearer than water, there is no doubt in that, be it to have fun or to never lost someone again, you will make them come true takes what it takes... There is also no denying, your big heart is what makes yourself, in Hufflepuff you would be more than welcome... but, that's not the answer. Ravenclaw is not your place, no matter how brilliant you could be, thats not who you are. Slytherin is not ready as it is to accept your kind heart. And Hufflepuff would do no good, you need to-" The hat couldn't even finish his speech, what a shame, he was really liking it.
'I'm useless?! no! I really wanted to come and learn to appear pasta with Germany and Japan! I'll be good! plea-'
"No, Italy! I was going to say that you were brave."
'Waaaa?! are you feeling ok, signor capello?!'
"Yes, Italy, I'm ok. I'm telling you, you are so brave that you can't even see it. As a nation, you will do anything for your people and as a person, you will go as far as to destroy your own soul for your friends. You don't only need to watch young Harry, you also need to find that courage. The best house for you right now is..."
"GRYFFINGOR!" Claps were born from one of the outer tables, the most far away from the one in which a german was trying to remember how to breath. Wasn't That the house of the brave? How?! Even if he couldn't believe it, he didn't doubt about clapping for his friend. The rest of the serpents couldn't help but stare furious at him, he even got a laugh from a silver-ish blond not too far away.
"Is there a problem?" Nation stared at the blond in front of him.
"Don't worry, in no time you'll have better friends." The child would have continued laughing if it wasn't for the blue eyes. He couldn't resist a moment of that stare, he had to break eye contact in an instant. Germany just ignored the child and clapped again when Blaise Zabini was sorted in Slytherin, finally ending the sorting.
Everybody was glad when the director finally ended his speech:
"...Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" A laugh announced the blond child coming back to life.
"Told you! He is losing it." Germany let out a sigh when he heard more children follow the blond's example. England needed to teach his citizens resp-
"Kyyyaaaa! English food!" It took a blink for Italy to be in the opposite side of the hall, hiding behind his best friend.
"I don't want to die!" Germany felt all the hall's eyes in them. Not even a facepalm was enough to completely kill his needs to shout to the little italian looking for protection behind him. The german stood up and obliged the smaller man, by force, to go back to his table.
"Feliciano!"
"But but but..."
"This food is perfectly fine. Arthur didn't even get near it."
"But but but is english food!" This was the last thing said before they got to the table. Germany really wanted to just leave Veneciano there and forget about the stares of every Gryffindor in the table.
"1; We are in Scotland 2; This is gourmet for them, be nice." He whispered to him the only thing that came to his mind. Well, he couldn't denied it, he was also scared of England's food.
"Ve... if you say so... but only if Luddy sits with me!" Germany was expecting this but he was not going to fall for... no the puppy eyes. You look like a human, you shouldn't be able to make that face! Aaj.
"You won't even let me say no." The blue eyes passed from severe to defeated before sitting down. Germany was not expecting such a negative reaction, most of the table had done discontent sounds.
"No, sir!" Italy said while saluting ("Feli, is with the other hand.") before sitting down. Of course he didn't notice the negative feelings that the whole table was aiming towards the Slytherin.
It took a while, but Italy decided soon that the food wasn't going to kill him. All the people near him really wanted to know how heavenly was his normal food to hate such a feast.
After that, the chat was just awkward enough to be bearable. Nearly-headless Nick told them his story, the ghost also critiqued the smaller nation for not be enjoying such magnificent feast, Italy ignored him and was constantly trying to get away of his friends grip so he could touch the ghost, normal stuff.
It didn't take much time for the dessert to appear ("Luddy, there is not gelato!") and with it, a new conversation theme: family. They had to be extra careful with this one, it was time, their secret depended of t...
"Luddy is from Germany! Is cold, the food is not as nice as in my house and the women are scary! But the people are really nice even if they look all serious and stuff. And is really really pretty!" Germany's face passed rapidly from hurt to a somewhat embarrassed face, he was expecting more bad things about himself. The other Gryffindors, in other hand, were a little surprised. One, that italian was way too expressive. Two, that was a blush and a smile on the germans face...
"Well, I have to say, italians can get really lazy at times, and picky, and I can't still believe how they drive... But the kindness of the people, the art, the history, the weather, and I would never end with how pretty it is." The end of the speech was the signal for the smallest nation to hug his friend. He was beaming and blushing. Great, now they were watching them funny.
"And why you didn't go to a school in your own countries?" The girl from the train, Hermione, asked really curious. it wasn't all days that you meet a weird foreign duo.
"Ve, well..."
"It wasn't too long ago when we moved to England." Italy was going to surely ramble about how they are nations in 'vacations' and Germany wasn't going to let that happen.
The blond let out a sigh of relief seeing as no one was doubting his answer, he could finally breathe cal-
"And your parents?" He didn't know where he got the strength to not hit himself with the table. What does that had to do with anything?!
"We don't have!" Ok, Italy, you only had Rome and Romano, Germany had never meet Germania and China was more a brother to Japan than anything, but you had to say that all happy?!
"Ooh, I'm sorry." Most of the persons around them didn't know if it was better to be confused or sad about the statement.
"Nah! No problem!"
"Well, our brothers did a great job watching after us." He didn't know if this was a lie or not. Prussia was actually a really great brother but still, he wasn't the best role model.
Germany was more than relieved when the food finally disappeared and everybody directed their attention to the headmaster, the same Dumbledore of the card. Germany almost growled when the silver haired man spoke about the third corridor, was it necessary to announce that there was something there out loud? And worst, it could mean death!
Germany and Japan exchanged a look, the asian was also not happy with the, in appearance, older men statement. Germany also looked at the person next to him, he just left out a sigh when he saw that he was just waving at Japan, he must not even hear the part about the third corridor.
Dinner was finished when everybody sang the school's song. It was not surprised that Italy was enjoying it the most from the Axis, Germany and Japan were barely moving the lips. Who wrote this? and they didn't even bothered in adding melody? Maybe Dumbledore was actually losing it... or was he? After all, the headmaster should be their only preoccupation.
Germany said goodbye to his best friend (that responded with a hug) before the Gryffindors left the hall. Now he was back with the serpents that were not that happy to see him back.
"You had to save your friend from the bread?" The blond child, Malfoy, said while closing his eyes and trying to imitate Italy's expressiveness. Germany just gave him a cold stare before leaving to follow the prefect. Ooh, how much he wanted him to try one of England's scones and not be scared of the bread.
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Yay! chap 2 owo
thanks alot for the favs and follows and the review (btw, it was just Nevil because she was interrupted. I better changed it to just Nev so it appears more obvious that she was interrupted.) hope to see you through all the story ^^
The hat's speech is, at least, 5 times bigger than the one in my spanish version xD [and more epic!(?)]
Germany's praise was actually to easy to write, there is ton of times he does that in canon xD
Italy's was a little harder (because I couldn't get out of my head the idea of him singing the song from episode 3)
You should read/play HetaOni *looks at the random reference*
The Hohenzollern thing is there for 2 reasons: I wanted someone to comment about the castle and Hogwarts has looked in my head like a rearranged Hohenzollern for years now. Feel free to agree like Italy, to disagree like Germany or to be indireferent like Japan.
Now, me talking about the sorting, feel free to completly ignore the rest~
Italy is there because I needed someone in Gryffindor and Italy was surely the one who would bond with Harry (and everybody). He is a nation, he knows a ton but he doesn't care that much about it, so no Ravenclaw. He is already kind, loyal and a super nice guy so Hufflepuff wouldn't have been a nice idea in my mind because I feel he would have not learned something new, he is already one of the nicest guys ever. Finally, Slytherin, one, it seems soooo wrong to put him there. Two, I only see the Slytherins winning if they keep Ita, I would see them learning more about being nice. I doubt Feli would have learnt something, he would have just ignored them. So Gryffindor was it, so he can learn how brave he could be... lets hope he actually learns it.
Next, Germany. I see him more like a person with all the Hufflepuffs good things but... it also feels wrong. Even if the hat let him be in Hufflepuff to learn about being more kind and stuff he would not be enough time with them to learn it, Italy would have just monopolised his time. So Slytherin was it, why? the hat says because at least the serpents could learn from their friendship. Mine? because I wanted someone near Malfoy and he was the best choice :'D
Japan was ... weird. I like him in Gryffindor, he likes his honor and I don't doubt that he would protect his friends no matter what but I don't see him as the one linking the axis to the golden trio. (And if I actually get to the second book, there should be one with Luna.) So Ravenclaw... You want an in-universe explanation? ok! I see him a person that likes to be up to date. I don't think he would like to repeat the 'westerners are so weird!' thing that happened when he finally open up, so he likes to know things! ... Worst explanation ever, sorry Japan D':
-Luca
PD: why the words dessert and desert are so alike? The things has nothing in common O.o