The Potters v The Longbottoms – Rating M
Chapter 02 – Sorting Adam
Warnings – Contains Weasley, Fudge, Dumbledore and Longbottom bashing throughout. For the purposes of this story, Harry is 3 years older then canon.
A/N - Corrected a couple of errors in this chapter 28/4/16
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The Great Hall, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1st September 1991
The interceding years between the fateful Halloween and the year of Neville and Adams sorting were interesting for the two families. Because of Harry lying to Albus Dumbledore to protect his brother, Adam, and the declaration by Dumbledore of Neville Longbottom being the Boy-Who-Lived, the Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Longbottom, Lord Frank Longbottom, started a campaign to get his son awarded an Order of Merlin for the death of Lord Voldemort.
This, along with lack of oversight after the death of Augusta Longbottom by the Dark Lord, led to Frank and Alice Longbottom spoiling their son, meaning that he ended up becoming conceited and spoilt.
James Potter, as Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter, upon finding out about how his friend and cousin was treating his son, immediately ended the Longbottom/Potter Alliance, one that had lasted since Ralston Potter was the Lord Potter. This, in June 1987, led to James, along with friend Sirius Black, being slowly edged out of the Auror Department, who was under the leadership of Frank Longbottom.
This caused a feud, when two months later, the Ancient and Most Noble House of Longbottom was forced out of the Great Alliance, a political group that worked within the Wizengamot, by the Ancient and Noble Houses of Boot, Lovegood and Zabini, along with the Ancient and Most Noble Houses of Black, Bones and Potter.
In January 1990, the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter announced their movement in the Wizengamot from the Light Alliance to the Neutral Alliance, which also coincided with the Ancient and Most Noble House of Greengrass coming into the Great Alliance, signifying a aim that was in 'Grand Plan' that Henry Potter, the grandfather of James Potter, made during his time in the Wizengamot in the early 1900s.
On the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Adam spent most of the journey sitting together when Neville, along with his friend and 'bodyguard', Ron Weasley, interrupted them, resulting in Harry's girlfriend, Daphne Greengrass, placing a Bat Bogey Hex on Neville in order to encourage him to 'move along'.
The first years had got the boats from the Hogwarts Express at Hogsmeade station to the end of the lake nearest the Entrance Hall. After a lecture from Professor Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, she led the first years into the Great Hall, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them. The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver. Mainly to avoid all the staring eyes, Adam Potter looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars.
He heard a girl who had introduced herself as Hermione Granger whisper to him, "It's bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History." It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn't simply open on to the heavens.
Adam quickly looked down again as Professor McGonagall silently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first years. On top of the stool she put a pointed wizard's hat. This hat was patched and frayed and extremely dirty. He looked over to the Slytherin table to see his brother, Harry, smile at him. Everyone in the hall was now staring at the hat. For a few seconds, there was complete silence. Then the hat twitched. A rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth — and the hat began to sing:
"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
Professor McGonagall now stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment.
"When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted," she said. "Abbott, Hannah!"
A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of line, put on the Hat, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down. A moment's pause then "HUFFLEPUFF!" the Hat shouted.
"Bones, Susan!" The Hat didn't even give it a second before it declared "HUFFLEPUFF!" Susan scuttled off to sit next to her friend, Hannah.
After a few more names and people were sorted, Professor McGonagall called for "Granger, Hermione!" Hermione almost ran to the stool and jammed the hat eagerly on her head. "GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat. Ron groaned at that, muttering about a nightmare and her being a Mudblood. After a few more names, Professor McGonagall called for "Longbottom, Neville!"
As Neville stepped forward, whispers suddenly broke out like little hissing fires all over the hall.
"Longbottom, did she say?"
"The Neville Longbottom?"
"Oh how I wished I was dating him!"
The last thing Neville saw before the hat dropped over his eyes was the hall full of people craning to get a good look at him. Next second he was looking at the black inside of the hat. He waited and waited. Eventually it shouted "GRYFFINDOR!"
Neville heard the hat shout to the whole hall. He took off the hat and ran towards the Gryffindor table. Percy the Prefect got up and shook his hand vigorously, while the Weasley twins yelled, "We got Longbottom! We got Longbottom!" Neville sat down opposite the ghost in the ruff he'd seen earlier. The ghost patted his arm, giving Neville a sudden, horrible feeling he'd just plunged it into a bucket of ice-cold water.
Eventually, after the Patil twins, Padma and Parvati, it was time for Adam to be sorted. He looked to the Slytherin table, seeing his brother sit up, paying attention to him. Once Adam reached the stool, the Hat was placed upon him. after what felt like ages for him, but was in reality it was only a minute passing, the Hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!"
Adam headed over to the Gryffindor table when he heard clapping come from behind him. He looked and saw that it was coming, initially from his brother, Harry, and Harry's girlfriend Daphne, followed by the majority of Slytherin House, then from members of the other three houses. He sat next to a boy named Seamus Finnegan, a boy who told Adam he was from Ireland.
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'It will not be long now until the Kitten is a resident in the Lions Den' Harry thought, smiling at his girlfriend. "Adam looks like he is going to end up in Gryffindor House, does he not my dear Daphne?" he asked her, hoping he would be right.
"Indeed he is my lovely" Daphne said, holding her boyfriends arm. "I think he will have an interesting seven years in the Lions Den, especially as we know for a fact that Slytherin wont bother him."
When Draco Malfoy came to be sorted, Daphne frowned. "I've got a feeling that the blonde git is going to try and be a pain in the arse if he comes here," she said, wishing that the Sorting Hat would sort him somewhere apart from Slytherin. Her wish, unfortunately, did not become true as Malfoy joined the Snake Pit.
Eventually it was time for the Sorting of his brother, Adam. Harry sat up, showing interest in the sorting that was taking place. Eventually, after a minutes of it thinking, the Sorting Hat declared that Adam would head to Gryffindor. Harry stood up, Daphne following him, applauding his brother as not many other people were. A few seconds later, following an unspoken command, the remainder of Slytherin House, apart from Malfoy, stood up applauding the younger Potter. The rest of the houses immediately followed the Slytherin lead.
Harry smiled at himself. He huddled closer to Daphne and whispered in her ear. "Game, set and match. It looks like we are the students to respect in the Pit from now on.'
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Hermione Granger was confused. She had attempted to seek out Neville Longbottom; the person who her books said was the Boy-Who-Lived. She found him on the train; only to find out he was, in her opinion, an obnoxious git. 'Clearly the fame of being the Boy-Who-Lived has gone to his head.' Hermione thought when she had seen him.
On the other hand she saw a different boy, whilst waiting for the boats to arrive, with brown eyes and a messy, albeit not too messy, black hair. He had helped her onto the nearest boat, which he shared with her.
She was sat at the Gryffindor table, watching the Sorting, when she saw the obnoxious Longbottom boy being called by Professor McGonagall. She was disappointed when the Sorting Hat placed him in Gryffindor.
The next person to be sorted was a blonde haired boy who she had encountered on the Hogwarts Express. Draco Malfoy his name was, and she was upset as when she had met him, he called her a 'Mudblood'. It was only because of a Fifth Year named Penelope Clearwater explaining what it was when Hermione was upset.
When Adam Potter's name was called, silence fell in the Great Hall, although not much as when Neville Longbottom's name was called. There was a certain apprehension in the air and Hermione Granger noticed that two students in the Slytherin table were smiling, as if Adam was bound to go there.
After a minute of deliberation, the hat shouted Gryffindor and silence was absolute, with no one clapping. Hermione could swear she saw Adam looking disappointed but then, the clapping started and Hermione saw a boy, looking a bit like Adam and a beautiful girl standing from the Slytherin table and clapping. The Slytherins followed their example, as did the rest of the houses and Adam smiled, going to the Gryffindor table.
Hermione thought it strange but paid no mind to it. After the Sorting was complete, the Headmaster declared the feast open. Once the meal was complete he made a few announcements, including a ban on using the Third Floor corridor on the right. Once the announcements were completed, he sent the students off to their dormitories.
In the Slytherin Common Room, Professor Snape was lecturing the new batch of First Year students on acceptable behaviour that they had to comply with outside the common room. The new First Years took note, especially when Harry and Daphne walked through the Common Room. They all noted the Second, Third, Forth and even Fifth Years yielded to the couple. They all know who the Slytherin 'Power Couple' were and who they had to respect.
In the Gryffindor male First Year dormitory, Adam pulled his charmed notebook from his rucksack, checking if there were any messages for him from his parents, James and Lily, his younger sister, Rose, or even his brother, Harry. Seeing no messages, he sent a quick one to his parents saying he was a Gryffindor House student. Seven years of being a lion is going to be interesting.
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A/N – Based on characters and themes introduced in Harry Potter by JK Rowling and The Potters by zaterra02. Some of the text in this chapter is adapted from The Potters by zaterra02 and Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by JK Rowling. The Great Alliance is based on an idea by Vance McGill. Both authors rights are respected.
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Coming Up in Chapter 3 – Adam and Harry visit the Third Floor Corridor, collecting the Philosophers Stone from the Mirror of Erised.
