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Chapter 3
Powers and the Sorting
At first sight of Hogwarts Harry and Hermione looked on with awe while Yoda just looked annoyed. Then a giant man came forward yelling "First years this way please." When everyone was gathered they went down to the lake and got into the boats that were waiting for them.
Harry, Hermione, and Yoda got into a boat together near the front. Ron did want to get in the same boat as Hermione but Yoda scared him away. 'Bloody hell how am I supposed to get close to her if that guy is always going to be hanging around her.' Yoda snapped his head around and just glared at him. Then Ron climbed in a boat with two other guys.
Then the boats went off by themselves. While on the way something bumped Yoda's boat and Hermione fell out and started sinking. Seeing trouble Harry and Yoda jumped into the water to go get her. When they went under they saw merpeople dragging her down to the depths. Harry swam down to get her and Yoda was trying to talk to them but he knew it was useless. So he doubled over and concentrated on what he needed. Soon most of the merpeople swam away and a big creature swam by and collected Harry and Hermione and then Yoda swam next it and climbed on behind Hermione.
While heading to the surface merpeople swam around them just out of the creatures reach. When Hermione came to she thought about throwing boiling hot water at them and every merperson fell back with red rashes on their green skin. All of a sudden they broke the surface. "Yoda what was that?" Hermione asked.
"Merpeople. They hate us. They aren't happy at us dryads for some reason and that is why we don't like the water that much." Yoda explained.
They noticed that the boats were already at the landing so the creature headed to the landing. Since they were they would be going into the sorting soaking wet. Just then their clothes dried out and all that was left was a cloud of steam.
"Harry what did you do?" Yoda asked. He already knew but he wanted to make sure that he was right.
"I didn't want us to go to sorting with wet clothes so I thought about us drying out and we did." He explained.
"So you have the ability to control fire with thought and Hermione is able to control water. But I guess we should find out for sure." Yoda suggested. "Hermione would you try to lift a ball of water and hold it for as long as you can."
Hermione thought about raising a sphere of water. That's when a ball of water rose out of the water and levitated towards them. After a few seconds Hermione faltered in her concentration from the loss of energy and let the sphere fall back into the lake. By then they had arrived at the landing and everyone else had backed away from the creature. Harry, Hermione, and Yoda got off and Yoda turned around and looked back at the creature and gave it a big hug around the nose.
"Thank you Walaka. I will always owe you for what you've done for me." Then Harry and Hermione came up and hugged Walaka.
"Thank you for helping save my life." Hermione said.
"And thanks for keeping us safe." Harry added.
"Your welcome young ones. It was an honor to help dryads such as your selves." Walaka replied.
Walaka departed and everyone started heading into the castle. While heading in Hermione was wondering something. "Yoda since we have powers over an element, and you're like us, what is your power?"
"I don't know."
They were coming up stairs when they were stopped by a professor that looked like you did not want to get on her bad side. "Welcome to Hogwarts. In a few moments you will pass through these doors and join your class mates. If you could wait a few moments I will make sure everyone is ready." She walked through the doors.
"So it's true Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts. My names Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." When he announced his name Hermione cringed back and Yoda took her into his arms. "And look it's the muggle born and her boyfriend. Even though I don't know why anyone would go out with her."
"Stuff it Malfoy. First of all she isn't muggle born she's dryadian born and secondly she's my sister you lowlife scum." Yoda retorted.
"How dare you I'll have you know my father…"
"He is the lowest of the low and a liar that uses bribery to get what he wants."
Ignoring that last comment "Potter you'll soon find out that some families are better than others I can help you there." He offered his hand.
Harry looked at it and then looked at Yoda and Hermione. Hermione looked frightened at the thought of Harry taking the hand and Yoda shook his head. "I think that I can tell the wrong sort for my self thanks." Then the professor came and tapped Draco on the shoulder.
"We're ready for you now. Follow me." She took them through the two doors and led them through. She led them up to the head of the hall to a stool with a hat placed on it. While walking Yoda and Harry noticed that they were getting a lot of stares from girls all over the hall. Once at the head of the hall the trio stood next to each other and waited to be sorted.
"When I call your name you will come up and place the sorting hat on your head and be sorted into your houses", the professor explained. "Abbot, Hannah." She called.
The hat touched her head and then she sat there for a while before it called "HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Bones, Susan." She called next. The sorting went on for a while before she called "Granger, Hermione."
Hermione slowly walked up to the stool, sat down, and waited for the hat to be placed on her head. When the hat touched her head a voice came into her head. "Hmm, very interesting. I've been waiting a long time for this to happen. Welcome to Hogwarts your majesty. So where should I put you. I see courage and a thirsty need for knowledge. But then there is that thing. I guess I can put you in Gryffindor!"
The Gryffindor table erupted in cheers seeing as she was their first new person in their house. Once they settled down the sorting started again with "Malfoy, Draco." The hat barely touched his head when it shouted "SYLTHERIN!"
After a while they started the sorting again and soon the professor called "Potter, Harry." Harry walked up to the stool and sat down. When the hat was put on his head the mental link was started "Here you are. The second boy dryad in over 300 years. Seeing as I put the princess in Gryffindor and that thing I guess I should put you in GRYFFINDOR!"
Gryffindors absolutely went berserk when they heard this and Harry joined Hermione at the table. He sat down across from her and smiled at her. "Well it looks like we're together."
"Okay but what about my brother?" She asked. Then she looked at the small crowd and noticed him looking at them and nodded.
A few other students were sorted she called out "Zanther, Yoda." He walked forward and put the hat on. "Your majesty. I had the pleasure of sorting your sister and I guess that you two should stay together but it's your decision. There is the prophesy about four dryad children."
"I want to be with my sister because there are going to be things that I am going to need to explain. But I'm going to go with what you decide."
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat yelled. Yoda went and sat right next to Hermione and shook Harry's hand in congratulations. Then he kissed Hermione's cheek.
Finally the last student Ronald Weasley was sorted into Gryffindor and Yoda got a bad feeling about him. On the train he was looking at Hermione with a look of adoration that was going to cause trouble. His feelings were going to cause Hermione troubles when she gets older.
Once Ron sat down he looked down the table and saw Hermione talking to the boy that was supposedly her brother. Good I'm in the same house as Hermione. Maybe I can catch her alone and talk to her.
Yoda snapped his head at him and gave him the look of a protective brother. He was going to have to look out for her and keep an eye out for Ron just in case he tried to put moves on Hermione.
Then Albus Dumbledore stood up and said "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" All of a sudden the tables were full of food and everyone dug in. Yoda looked around at all the tables and noticed a few people were looking at him strangely.
"Hermione what color is my hair right now?" Yoda asked.
"Silver. Why?" She answered.
All of a sudden a flash of light came out of nowhere and hit Yoda square in the back. Yoda flew into the table and fell on his back and convulsed in pain while gripping his back. Hermione dropped on her knees next to Yoda while Harry flipped over the table to help. A woman came from the staff table and came up next to him.
"Hello my name is Madam Pomfrey we need to get him to the hospital wing. If you will grab him and follow me." Hermione and Harry grabbed him and helped get him to the hospital wing. Once there they placed him on a bed and backed away to let Madam Pomfrey work.
After a while Yoda started waking up and saw someone with a wand standing over him and he snapped awake and a wall of stone erupted in between them. Once he noticed where he was he lowered the wall and sat back to the woman get to work.
Yoda looked over and saw Harry and Hermione there with excitement on their faces.
"Yoda you have power over earth." Hermione happily noted. With that Yoda passed out and the other two went back to the opening ceremony to get any announcements. When they got there the headmaster was yelling at a boy for firing a spell at a younger student and only doing it because he was jealous that most of the girls looked at him.
The headmaster noticed Harry and Hermione's re-arrival and asked how Yoda was. "He's fine. A good nights rest should do him some good." Everyone got settled down and the headmaster gave all of the year announcements and bade everyone a good night.
Harry and Hermione, while being led to the common room, agreed to go pick Yoda up from the Hospital Wing first thing in the morning.
A/N: Here's the end of chapter three. I hoped you all liked it. I know Yoda keeps getting weirder and weirder but he's going to come clean soon. If you want to know sooner rather than later, than say so in your review.
