I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!

CHAPTER THREE:

As the small group left the train Albus spotted one of his fathers old friends, Hagrid.

"firs' years! Firs' years! Over here!" Al and the others scurried over to where Hagrid was, everyone staring up, clearly amazed at the great half giant. "an how are yer parents?" hagrid asked Albus and Rose

"good, same as ever." Al's parents were NOT what what he wanted to talk about at the moment

"ah, this brings back memories of when I went ta pick up 'oung 'Arry from the dursleys and take him to diagon ally, Ya see they didn' like magic since they were muggles an' all . Hagrid paused for a second looking angry. "'ad to knock down the grimy door an all to find Arry lying on the floor with 'is great brute of a cousin lying on the couch wit all the blankets. O course he didn't beeive me when I told him he was a wizard, thought I'de gotten the wrong person, but I tol' him he was a damn good wizard, an looks like I was right now doesn it?"

Arraently Al was gonna be hearing alot about his parents from everyone.

" Dursley brutes! How I'de like to curse 'em!"

Al had learned a lot about his uncle Dudley from his dad. Him and his family actually got to visit them occasionally during the holidays. And as far as he could tell his dad and uncle Dudley got along fine, making jokes and laughing, he and james were always pretty bored though, since uncle Dudley had three girls the same age as james, al, and Lily. Even though it was fun to scare them every now and then, much to his dads displeasure. Lily always had fun. And so did al's mom, with auntie Linda, baking treats for the kids and laughing in the kitchen. Al's dad knew better than to leave Al and james out of his eyesight since last time they accidently blew up the the dining room table when they were playing hide and go seek with each other. Uncle Dudley also taught them how to play muggle rugby, and they had gotten pretty good at it, they even showed it to their Weasley cousins, and the whole group of them played it at all the holidays. Grandpa Arthur always took great joy in the fact that his grand daughters and sons were playing a muggle sport.

"Al! Quit daydreaming and get on the boat!" Rose screamed at him. Embarrassed, he quickly got on the boat, he realized he was the one of the only ones left on the dock.

"alrigh' then, lets get goin'!" Al heard over the crowd. He realized that Rose, Damian, and holly Thomas all looked pretty excited as they made their way to the grounds

" where were you and dan on the train holly?" Al asked. Holly and dan were twins, and Al knew them because his dad and Uncle Ron worked together with Hollys dad at the ministry.

" we got our own compartment on the train. We came across yours but it seemed pretty full so we left to find another one."

"you got a compartment to yourselves? How'd you manage that? Asked Damian.

"well, we shared it with these kids scorpius and marrietta. They weren't that interesting really."

After about ten minutes the little boats got to the other side of the lake. Thankfully since Holly was starting to look seasick. She got motion sickness a lot but it looked like she had apparently drank all her motionsickness potion on the train. All of them got off the boat and they all got a good look at the magnificent castle. At least James hadn't lied bout that, thought Albus. They got off the bank and met up with dan, kierra, Kelly, and Tanner and they all set off. There seemed to be less students though, until Al realized then that all the other first years were looking at some sort of statue. Rose was making her way towards it and Al followed. It appeared to be made out of gold. And he quickly saw that it was his dad with the grim reaper and voldemort standing behind him his wand pointed bravely in front of him. He looked young, about seventeen, but it was unmistakably him. Off to the sides he saw statues of Ron and Hermione also.

A girl shoved the another girl next to her and they both stared at albus, wide eyed. They saw the resemblance obviously. And since everyones extravagant hair had faded he supposed his did to, leaving him with the messy black hair he had inherited from his father and grandfather.

"come on Rose lets get to the castle." Al asked, she walked after him and they both went to the front of the castle where Neville was standing waiting for the rest of the first years. Rose waved excitedly over at him and Nevilles face broke into a wide grin

"hi Rose, Hi albus!" he whisperd " great to see you!"

It took about five minutes for the rest of the first years to get over to Neville, and when they were all there he led them up the stairs to what looked like the great hall.

"welcome to hogwarts." Said Neville. the start of tern banquet willl begin shortly, but before you take youre seats in the great hall, you shall be sorted into youre houses. The sorting is very important because, while you are here youre house will be like youre family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of youre house, sleep in the same dormitory,and spend free time in youre house dormitory."

Kelly and Kierra looked nervously at each other, they had been friends for a long time and they thought that they would be sorted into different houses, since all of kierras family had been gryffindors and all of kellys had been in Ravenclaw. They were worried that theyde never see each other and that they would drift apart from each other. Albus felt sorry for them.

Neville began again."The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each house has its own history and each has produced noble witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts triumphs will earn youre house points and breaking the rules will force youre house to lose points, at the end of the year, the house with the mose points will earn the house cup, which is a great honor"

" the sorting wil take place shortly, so I'de clean up a bit if I were you." He glanced at Albus' messy hair which he then nervously tried to flatten.

" that's what Harry did too before he was sorted." Said Neville and to his amazemet everyone was trying too get a good look at Albus to see if Neville had been referring to the famous Harry potter. This obviously caused a great deal of chatter as Neville went inside the hall.

"so its true, what they were saying on the train, the son of harry potter has come to Hogwarts." Everyone looked around to see scorpius Malfoy with marrissa looking at him

" yeah, big deal, I'm just a normal kid, and I'm not looking for more attention at the moment, thanks" said al.

"I'm not trying to make conflicts here, just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Scorpius Malfoy, and this is Marrissa Goyle."

Just then Neville came back to the first years to bring them into the hall to be sorted.

" nice meating you then" said Albus.

The first years came in to see a ratty old rag on a stool in front of the whole school. Maybe they had to clean something, he thought. But that thought dissapeared when the rag opend its mouth and sang a song about all of the houses, and something about his dad saving the school. Of course.

" when I call youre name, you shall be sorted into youre houses" said Neville.

"Suzanna Abott" it was the girl who had been pointing at him at the statue.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" yelled the hat

"Amy Alterra" a beutifull, stubborn looking girl sat on the chair which quickly shouted

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Tanner Boot" even though Al knew he would make Ravenclaw, Al secretly crossed his fingers in hope that he would make it into Gryffindor. No such luck.
"RAVENCLAW"it shouted

The names were going by quick. Al watched as Rachelle was sorted into Gryffindor along with Damian, and Scorpius was sorted into Slytherin. sure enough, Al heard his name get called out, which sent out a bunch of excited whispers. Al walked up and jammed on the hat. To hear it talk in its ear.

"Ah, a potter! Clearly brave and talented, smart, but I see you are also cunning and you have a strong desire to prove yourself. Ah, and what do we have here, a parslemouth! A talent that you've hidden from youre family and peers, why, you'll make a wonderfull Slytherin indeed.

" No! Al thought into the hat, youre wrong, I would make a horrible Slytherin, please don't put me there! Please! Anywhere but there!"

"you speak the language of snakes, like youre father, you are quite like him you know. But I guess he did make a good Gryffindor…. Well. If you insist."

"GRYFFINDOR" it shouted. God, he was so happy, as he went over to sit next to Damian, Rachelle, and James.

"that took long enough! probably took about ten minutes that did!" said James" I knew you would make it though little brother."

"Al diverted his attention to a little girl who had gone into slytherin house. Then a defiant looking boy who had gotten sorted into hufflepuff. Finally it was Kierras turn and she bravely walked up to the hat. It barely touched her head when it shouted "GRYFFINDOR" She looked secretly disappointed as she sat down next to rachelle.

"I'll probably never see him again, I know he'll get Ravencaw!" Kierra didn't look very happy.

"Kelly Smith" said Neville. the hat also it seemed took a very long time on Kelly, it looked like they were talking back and forth to each other trying to decide on a house. Finally the hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!"

Kierra couldent hold in the excitement. She jumped up and started clapping madly. Kelly also looked overcome with joy as he sat down next to her.
" wanted to put me in Ravenclaw, but I wouldent have it! I told that dumb hat that I belonged in Gryffindor and that's that!"

holly and dan got sorted into Gryffindor also, along with a mischievious looking boy named Conner who was a muggle born. Rose was the last one to get sorted, and she made it into Gryffindor as well. Besides tanner all of them basically had made it to Gryffindor. Tanner didn't seem to mind though, he was having a good time conversing with a boy who had black hair and a light brown eyes, as well as the good looking girl who had been sorted into Ravenclaw.

Headmistress Mcgonagall than gave the start of term announcements and then let them all enjoy the magnificent feast. Al didn't eat, even though he was excited he was also worried and wrapped up in thought, the sorting hat had discovered his secret, it knew that Al was a parselmouth! What if it told Mcgonagall or something? What if then Mcgonagal told his parents, but then he rememberd something. The hat said his dad could speak parselmouth too….