A/N: ...I know I should've posted this before now. Oh well ^^

I also wanna thank my friend DarkHorseBlueSky for letting me borrow the Ben-David kids for this fic. Go read her stuff, she's better than me most of the time.

"There are a lot of wizards here…" Phineas commented as he and Ferb entered the Great Hall. "I can't believe you guys are able to remain hidden from muggles…"

Ferb looked at his little brother and found himself smiling at the way Phineas was looking around the castle.

"I…I guess I need to stop talking as if I'm not a wizard…It's just so strange…" Phineas looked ahead of himself and squeezed Perry a little tighter against himself. "What do you think, Perry?"

Perry let out his signature chatter, and Phineas laughed slightly at the familiarity. "As long as I have you two with me, I'll be fine."

Ferb smiled and squeezed his brother's shoulder.

"Ben-David, Ere!"

The crowd of first-years stirred at the declaration and started parting to allow a boy on a pair of crutches pass through. The kid had tousled, red hair a few shades darker than Phineas', and the kid's eyes were hidden behind a thick pair of glasses, though it was possible to see the scowl that sat on his expression.

"I wonder what's wrong with him…" Phineas whispered in an almost nonexistent voice. "He seems upset about something…"

Ferb shrugged at his brother's comment and gave Phineas another shoulder squeeze. The boy was put in Ravenclaw, and the headmistress continued on through the list of new students, none of which quite stuck out to the boys (though Phineas mentally catalogued the fact that one boy he had talked to on the train—Irving DuBois—was in Hufflepuff), and soon enough, the F's of the list was reached.

"Fletcher, Ferbs!"

Ferb gave Phineas one last shoulder squeeze before walking up to the sorting hat. The teacher by the hat lifted it up and dropped it on Ferb's head, obscuring the Hall from his view.

Phineas held his breath as he watched Ferb sit up there with the hat. Fortunately, it wasn't too long before a call of "RAVENCLAW!" came from the hat and that area of the Great Hall erupted into applause.

"Flynn, Phineas!"

Phineas tensed at the announcement of his name. The moment he was waiting for… Yet also the moment he was dreading.

"We can do this…" he told himself before slowly walking up to the seat.

Ferb watched as his brother had the hat put on him. 'Please be Ravenclaw' Ferb thought to himself as the first kid that went up looked over at him.

"SLYTHERIN!"

A/N: If anyone wants to hear the long drawn out explanations for why I put the boys in the houses I did...I may give them later. For now, though, I'm gonna hide from anyone mad at me for separating them.