Hogwarts was home and almost everyone would agree to that. Cissa loved the familiar sounds and people, she loved the smell and the magic. They all took a seat at the Slytherin table and waited for the first years to enter, Cissa looked up at the front table and noticed a man that she had seen dancing scandalously with a woman at their ball, but no professor Lestrange.
"Lucius look. A new teacher." She said and half the table turned their attention to the front of the hall.
The doors opened and professor McGonagall entered and trialing behind her was a group of first years, a few boys were wet and behind the wet boys was Sirius, who had the most guilty smile on his face. Cissa smiled it was common sense that Sirius was at fault for the wet boys.
"Belvin, Richmond!" "Hufflepuff!"
"Black, Regulus!" "Slytherin!"
When the hat was off Reggie's head, he practically ran to the Slytherin table with a hug smile on his face. Next was Sirius, as he walked up he still had the smile on his face and McGonagall rolled her eyes, praying that this boy wasn't in her house. The hat barely touched his head before yelling Gryffindor both Sirius and McGonagall's faces dropped, Sirius looked horrified and turned to Reggie and Cissa who looked just as shocked at he did.
He stood and started to walk to the Slytherin table but a hand stopped him, McGonagall then pointed to Gryffindor table, the boy walked with his head down to the table of scarlet and gold.
After dinner Dumbledore stood and the room went silent. He smiled as he greeted all new students and old to school, Cissa felt sick and didn't ant to be there anymore not if her family couldn't be with her.
"I must first introduce our new teacher, Professor Rodolphus Lestrange. He is the brother of our old Defense Ageist the Dark Arts teacher, he will be talking his place this year." The room fell into a polite applause "also I would like to mention that the dark forest in off limits and to please do not swim in the Black Lake, our giant squid is quite moody lately, now off to bed all of you."
The room emptied quickly and Cissa found her and Reggie running after the Gryffindor's trying to catch up with Sirius. When they did the Gryffindor gave them a dirty look, he didn't like two Slytherin's following them.
"What the bloody hell happened?" Cissa asked Sirius.
"I don't know, the hat didn't talk to me or anything, he just yelled Gryffindor." Sirius said, he was panicked and knew he was going to be in trouble for this. "Cissa what do we do?"
"We'll go to Dumbledore tomorrow, maybe it's a mistake." She said.
It was possible to be a mistake, it had to be a mistake no other Black's have ever been put into any other house but Slytherin, maybe the hat heard the name wrong. Cissa hoped she was right and that it was a mistake, for both her, Reggie, and Sirius's sake.
