Chapter 3: The Sorting Hat
Everyone exited off the train nervously. News traveled fast on the train. By the time they were at Hogwarts everyone knew what had happened.
"Why did I come here? Why did I come here?" Rose asked herself as she exits the train.
"Relax, it was probably just a onetime thing. I`m sure it won't happen again." Albus told her.
"Oh my god! That was so creepy! It was wicked cool!" Ethan shouted. "It was like being in a horror movie! I hope something like that happens again! And next I won't be scared, because I'll have learned some spells to protect us. Then I'll fight the bad guy and they`ll wish they never been born."
Suddenly Rose and Albas see Hagrid walking toward the train with a lantern. Rose and Albus run over and hug him. Albus and Rose already knew Hagrid from holidays at the potters. Hagrid was Harry`s first friend and Harry still considered him a friend after all these years.
"Hi Hagrid." Albus and rose both say in unison.
"Hello Rose, Albus. Good to see you two." Hagrid answers smiling.
"Did you hear? Some girl got her magic stolen on the train." Rose said to Hagrid.
"Really? Are you sure?" Hagrid asked.
Albus and Rose both nod their heads.
"That's very…odd." Hagrid then looks toward the other children. "All first years follow me to the boats!" He shouted. The children did as he said.
"Hagrid, how is fang?" Albus asked Hagrid as they walked. "Last time we saw you, you had said he was ill."
"Oh hes alright now, dopey dog just had eaten some chocolate frogs. Chocolate frog are very bad for dog you know. Reckon he was a goner, But he pulled through." Hagrid told Albus.
"That's good. " Albus replied. "I always liked Fang. I asked my dad if he knew if fang was ok and he kept forgetting to ask you."
"Rose, do you think I'd get placed into Sylthryn?" Albus asked Rose as they boarded the boats.
Rose laughed. "No, why?"
"Well I don't wana get placed into Sylthryn. Sylthryn are always the bad guys. I don't want be a bad person."
"You're not gana get into Sylthryn." Rose reassured Albus. "I've known you forever and you're a kind, honest, person. You're not a Sylthryn."
"You don't know everything that I think though. Sometimes I want to hurt my brother when he is mean to me or hurts me." Albas said.
Rose smiled trying not to laugh at him. "So do me when my brother bugs me, but that doesn't make me a bad person. That's how it is with siblings honestly don't worry!" Rose told him.
The sorting hat ceremony was about to begin, all the first years were waiting in the hallway to the great hall. Most kids were chatting with their friends. Rose was trying to make friends with some girls, but they didn't seem to be liking her much. Everything Rose talked they had these bored faces. There was this one boy who was sitting on the floor by the wall away from everyone reading. He had short platinum blonde hair, pale skin and brown eyes. He wore a black hoodie and blue jeans with a pair of shoes that looked like red basketball shoes.
"Hey." Albus said. The kid looks up from his book and over to Albus. "…hi."
"My name is Albus. What's your name?"
"I`m Scorpious."
"What are you reading?" Albus asked trying to make conversation.
"A Tale of Two Cities."
"Oh, my friend Rose, read that book she loved it!"
"Good." He said rolling his eyes. Then the boy closed his book and stood up. "Look let's get it out of the way now. Why are you talking to me? No one ever talks to me unless there gana use my words against me or try and make it seem like I'm something I'm not."
"I just saw you sitting by yourself and I figured you could use someone to talk to."
"I'm not that easily fooled, everyone who talks to me always has a motive. " Scorpious yelled.
"I just met you. "
"What if you're related to someone who hates me? They might have told you to be mean to me."
"Look I was just saw you sitting by yourself and thought you could use a friend."
Scorpious looked Albus up and down, there was just something about him that made Scorpious feel like he could trust him. He didn't know what it was.
"No one has ever wanted to be kind to me."
"Why?" Albus asked confused.
Scorpious hesitated. "….It's not important. People are just so small minded."
The two were silent for a moment.
" …. Hey do you watch quttich?" Albus asked breaking the silence.
"Yeah it's the best!" Scorpious answered. "My mom and I watch it all the time together."
"My whole family loves quidditch. Any time a new game is on we all gather around the TV and watch. My mom and dad were wicked quidditch players when they went to Hogwarts." Albus told Scorpious excitedly. "They never went pro but from what they told me they could have. Oh! If you go see the house teams play, my brother, James is on the Gryffindor house team. He`s number 23, he`s a Chaser."
"So I'm guessing it's fair to assume you`ll be trying out?"
"No, I am a horrible quidditch player. I`m a fair flyer but I'm not quick….Or coordinated…..or good at catching anything. "
"That's too bad."
"How about you? Are you gana try out for the teams?" Albus asked Scorpious.
"Probably, my dad was a Seeker when he went here." Scorpious told Albus.
"Really? My dad was a Seeker too. "Albus told Scorpious.
"What a coincidence two sons of former quttich players meeting at last. "
Scorpious laughed.
Rose walked over to Albus. "Hey Al." Rose said sadly.
"What's wrong?" Albus asked concerned.
"I don't think those girls liked me much they kept laughing as I was talking to them and I wasn't making a joke." Scorpious looked at her simpathically.
"Don't worry rose." Albus said. "If there gana judge you like that you don't want them as friends. That's what my Dad always says."
"Thanks Albus." Rose said smiling. Rose looked over to Scorpious.
"Oh this is Scorpious." Albus told her, gesturing toward Scorpious.
Scorpious is silent.
"Oh don't worry she`s nice too." Albus told Scorpious. "She's my best friend."
"I'm Rose Weasley." Rose said with a smile, politely putting out her hand. Scorpious shook her hand.
"It's nice to meet you." Scorpious said.
The first years walked into the huge great hall. It was beautiful with candles floating in midair and long table with different colored cloth.
"When I say your name, come up and you will be sorted in your house. You will earn points for good behavior and lose points for bad behavior. At the end of the year the house with the highest amount of points wins the house cup." Says professor fletcher, who taught charms.
"Ethan Lynn." Professor Fletcher called. Ethan shakily walks up he sits on the stool and hat is placed on his head. "….Raven claw!" The hat shouts. Everyone cheered and clapped as Ethan walked over to the Ravenclaw table and is greeted by the others at the table.
"Scorpious Malfoy!" Professor Fletcher called. Scorpious walked to the front and onto the stage and the hat starts to talk to him.
"Your friend is Scorpious Malfoy?!" Rose exclaimed with shock to Albus. "My dad told me to stay away from him."
"Why?" Albus asked.
"His father was enemies with our dads. When they went to school here he would bully them. he once broke your father`s nose. Plus Scorpious`s father`s family were all death eaters."
"Really?" Albus asked with disbelief.
Rose nodded.
Scorpious sat in the chair. As the hat continued to talk to him.
"This is so odd you have the brain of a Gryffindor but you're a Malfoy. This has never happened before. You`ll be the first Malfoy in GRYFINDORE!" The hat shouted. Everyone cheered and clapped as Scorpious walked to the Gryffindor table and is greeted by all the Gryffindors.
"Rose Weasley!" called Professor Fletcher. Rose walked on to the stage confidently. Professor Fletcher placed the hat on Rose`s head.
"More Weasleys…Geez how many of you Weasleys are there?" asked the hat, not really expecting an answer.
"Living there are exactly 52. " Answered Rose confidently. "But counting the dead ones as well that would be….about 532 Weasleys." She smiled.
"Your gana make some boy die of boredom one day. Ravenclaw!" the hat shouted. Everyone cheers and claps. Rose looks confused as well, then walked to the Ravenclaw table. She is then greeted by Ethan and the other Ravenclaw.
"Rose come sit with me." Ethan called to Rose. Rose walked over and sat with him.
"I like your necklace." Ethan commented pointing to Rose`s necklace. Rose smiles.
"I got it weeks ago. I've been wearing every day."
"Oh, well it's nice." Ethan told her.
"Thanks, my grandfather gave it to me for my birthday, he died a week ago." Rose told Ethan.
"He said when a wizard of good mind and soul wears it, it will protect him or her from any harm."
"That's so cool!"
"Albus Potter." Called Professor Fletcher.
Albus walked up to the chair on stage nervously. He sits on the chair.
"Not Sylthryn, not Sylthryn, anything but Sylthryn." Albus thought to himself.
"Well like father like son. He didn't want to be put in Sylthryn either when he was a first year. I told him Sylthryn could help him achieve great things. Hummmm…I could put you in Sylthryn to prove I was right. Not all Sylthryn are bad you know. Humm….nah lets with Gryffindor!"
Albus smiled so wide all his teeth were showing. Everyone was cheering and clapping. Albus walked to the Gryffindor table where was greeted by all the other Gryffindor's. Albus sat next to Teddy.
"Well look who made it in to Gryffindor?" Teddy said. "Congratulation." Teddy hugged Albus.
Albus smiled. "I can't wait to tell my mum and dad! Their gana be so proud me."
"I'm sure they will be." Teddy told him.
"Who is this kid?" a girl with curly red hair and green eyes asked Victorie.
"He`s my cousin." Victorie told her. "Remember you met him at my sweet 16…and my 15th birthday…and my 14th."
"Let me introduce you to the guys. " Teddy said. "This is-"
"Uh Teddy. I just wanted to say hi. I wanted to sit with my friend." Albus told Teddy.
"Oh okay. But just remember if you need anything you know you can just ask me or Victorie." Teddy told him.
Albus nodded then ran over to Scorpious, who was reading that book again.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a Malfoy?" Albus yelled at Scorpious.
"Why should it matter? I`m still the same person I was outside the Great Hall. What does my family`s past have to do with me? " Scorpious replied.
"But your dad`s family were death eaters, they killed people! How do I know you're not like them? How do I know you're not gana just kill me one day?"
"I wasn't even raised by my father!" Scorpious stood up and yelled. "Everyone gives me hell over his mistakes, I barley even know him! All I know is what people have told me about him. And from what I heard about him! I can proudly say I'm nothing like him. My father was jerk, a bully and a spoiled brat. But most of all he was a coward! He feel in love with a muggle born, my mother. But refused to tell his family. Then when his mother found out she told my dad to leave her and me….and he did. He left my mother with a two year old son to raise on her own. I`m nothing like him and I never will be!"
"….I'm sorry….." Albus said softly. "I just….I didn't know."
"No one ever does."
"Can we pretend like I didn't just come here and freak out about you being a Malfoy?" Albus asked.
Scorpious nodded. "….Yeah. Sure."
Albus smiled. Then sat with Scorpious and the two started to chat about quidditch some more.
