Updated A/N yo, if anyone has any suggestions as to whom Jinbe or Franky could be do not hesitate to PM me, I honestly have no clue rn, there is the possibility to make them OC's I guess but that is my last option.

Whoops, forgot to mention that that is one of the things I am changing - Jinbe is a Straw Hat, (sorry all of the secondary readers).

They finally reached the shore and their ship was the first to lose all occupants from the boat, most first years were simply too awestruck at the sight of the castle to move from their places within their tiny ships.

Eventually Hagrid yelled at the few stragglers that remained behind, stepping onto the boat and almost capsizing their boat, causing all of the little children to scream in fear. Thankfully they were saved at the last second by Hagrids new found balance.

Luffy simply laughed at the others misfortune. Sanji smirked at his captain's antics, Hermione was frowning disapprovingly at Luffy and Ron smiled. Ron had seemed to get over his initial prejudice against Draco, but he still held a general air of distrust around him.

"Alright, if yer'll follow me firs' years." Hagrid boomed, gesturing for the gobsmacked first years to follow him.

Hagrid led them up to the castle, the walk was only interrupted by one occasion when one of the first years had fallen over in their haste to make it closer to the castle.

They walked up from grassy fields that were bordered by a dark, ominous forest and the castle, there was a lone hut near the edge of the gloomy forest, but the warm glow emanating from inside promised happiness, quite incongruous to the darkness of the forest it was close to. Finally they made it to the castle, many of the unfit new comers panting at the exertion.

Hagrid rapped once on the oak doors. Immediately they were opened by a strict looking woman who had greying hair swept up tightly in a bun and emerald robes adorned her lithe frame. "The firs' year Professor McGonagall." He said, well, it was Hagrids' version of talking, but it was far too loud to be considered as simple 'talking'.

Professor McGonagall said. "Thank you Hagrid, I will take them from here." She led them into the castle and several of the first years almost fell over in their shock upon discovering that the castle was bigger on closer inspection. They walked into a hallway that was made of stone, a few moving paintings adorned the walls, paintings that usually gave a simple gesture to the newcomers, welcoming them to their humble (not so humble) abode.

Professor McGonagall finally halted in front of a large doorway, from which the voices of hundreds of students were gathered, no doubt talking about their summers and oh my god did you hear that Kylie broke up with Timothy? And damn the Chudley Cannons didn't make it again last season.

The point stands that they were talking nonsensically, filling the time between the new first years being introduced and the inevitability of a feast to fill the currently empty tables.

The first years milled about the great door, most were still quite awestruck, especially the muggle-borns who had never seen anything like this. And of course a certain bushy haired girl was a constant source of knowledge about Hogwarts having read Hogwarts, A History.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, I am Professor McGonagall." She said. "The start of term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend free time in your house common-room."

The professor briefly took in a breath of air, allowing Luffy's stomach to give out an incredibly loud growl, making Sanji kick him sharply in the back of the shin. Luffy also received various looks of disapproval.

"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin." Sanji noticed the underlying disgust in the teacher's voice at the mention of the house that most of Sanji's family went to (he did not want to). "Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn you house points, while any rule-breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honour. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours. The sorting begins in a couple of minutes, I suggest you smarten yourselves up."

And McGonagall left, presumably to prepare the ceremony that would decide their fate – I mean house.

"So. Is it true? Did Harry Potter really come to Hogwarts?" A sandy haired boy asked with scrutinizing eyes, searching the crowd for his prey.

All at once an outbreak of murmurs occurred, of course this was only amongst those who had witches and/or wizards as parents. None of the muggle borns had any clue as to what was going on.

Said celebrity was currently yawning and fantasising over what meat this school might serve, that and where the rest of his crew was. They had all obviously carnated (whatever the hell it was) into a different person, he had yet to find Zoro or Nami which was starting to really make him nervous. But the first priority was to get meat into his stomach.

Sanji elbowed his absent minded captain, at his sharp look Sanji simply whispered. "Listen."

So that's what he did, "Did you hear? Harry Potter's here."

"I hope that he's cute."

"Maybe he'll be a total pompous jerk."

"I heard that after he defeated you know who he decided he'd hunt down all of his followers."

"But as a small child to witness something like that…"

It was all very disconcerting to say the least. So Luffy stuck up his hand. "Uh, I'm right here." He said to the crowd awkwardly.

Sanji hit his head, hard. 3… 2… 1… and:

"Wait that's him!'

"He's a lot scrawnier than I thought he would be…"

"Wow he just is taking this attention so well."

"Must be well prepared."

"Hey! Everyone, don't be rude." Sanji finally shouted, looking out at the crowd, to his pleasure (dissatisfaction) they all seemed to know who he was and immediately shut up.

And only a few seconds later the chatter resumed, this time concerning what the Sorting ceremony would include. "Fred and George told me that there's a troll you gotta defeat." Ron said, a certain level of fear entering his voice.

"Huh, sounds like fun!" Luffy exclaimed, way too excited at the prospect of fighting a troll.

Sanji harrumphed, "I doubt that they would make us fight a troll, but that'd be pretty cool, I wonder how I could cook it?" He muttered the last part to himself but the majority of the people close to him moved away in disgust and mild horror.

And when things could not get bad enough a horde of ghosts floated through one of the walls causing a large portion of the first years to scream in horror.

A man wearing a ruffle and odd robes looked at them confusedly. "What? Have you never seen a ghost?" He asked.

Another one of the ghosts had quite a gruesome appearance with a blood soaked gown adorning his corporeal form. He silently glared at the newcomers.

"Well, hello young ones, I am nearly-headless-Nick." Nick said, giving a bow, but, as he leaned down in greeting his head fell off, well, not fully, it was held there by a few tendons.

"That is so cool!" Luffy shouted, his eyes gleamed in delight at the disgusting sight.

"I'm glad someone thinks so, what is- Hold up! Here's the cavalry!" He shouted in delight, and true to his word an entire platoon of horses burst through the walls, some passing straight through students making them shiver, but most of them were far above the student's heads.

"Shishishi!" Luffy laughed at the poor student's misfortune, most of which immediately turned and glared at him, Harry Potter or not.

But it seemed karma was working against Luffy and a ghost floated its way through him, "Gahh! So cold!" He yelped at the feeling, he felt like somebody just poured a bucket of ice over his head, thankfully the feeling only lasted as long as the ghost was… Hmm, were they inside or just forming around him? Too many thoughts…

Right then the doors reopened and McGonagall began to usher the year in. "You'll be called out in alphabetical order." She said.

They were led through the giant doors to an enormous room that seemed to reflect the weather on the ceiling. "I read that the ceiling is enchanted to look like that." Hermione whispered furiously to anyone who would listen.

To the immediate sides of the nervous first years were four tables that were large enough to accommodate an entire pirate crew! And all of the houses were reasonably full. One was red and gold, another midnight blue and silver, yellow and one that was green and silver. The majority of the people at the Slytherin table seemed to be highly pretentious, Sanji noted. Well, it was to be expected, every single one of them came from rich pure blood families.

At the front (back?) of the room was a raised platform on which were obviously the teachers, they were differentiated by their various pointy hats and non-uniform robes. In the very middle was a chair larger than the rest which held the man that Luffy had met when he ran from the Dursleys.

The man seated was wearing periwinkle robes, his wispy white hair and beard reached far down past his waist and atop his head sat a pointed hat that matched the colour of his robes. A pair of crescent shaped glasses sat on his slightly hooked nose.

And in front of the headmaster's chair was a new looking stool and upon that a battered hat, it certainly looked incongruous to the teacher's pristine looking hats.

Much to Luffy's disappointment there was no troll residing in the room waiting for them to challenge it.

Then, from a rip, the hat began to sing, its' melody was quite off the scale and it obviously had no skill in the actual tone, the words however, captured many of the first year's attention. But everyone else was looking at the Hat expectantly, like they knew this was going to happen.

The words enraptured the entire room, it sung of the beginning of Hogwarts, explaining the story that occurred between the founders. It spoke of the friendship between them but the animosity towards muggle born witches and wizards. It sung of Salazar's betrayal.

Finally, after much deliberation, Luffy muttered. "It's a mystery hat." He happened to speak exactly when the hat stopped, drawing attention to himself.

Sanji frowned at his captain fondly. "Idiot."

When the pair actually payed attention the hat had finished its' little song and was now motionless, sitting limply like it had never moved a non-existent muscle. The entire hall burst into applause.

"So we just gotta put on a hat?" Ron whispered. "I'm gonna kill Fred and George."

Professor McGonagall looked at the first years from the top of her glasses. "When I call your name you will put on the hat and be sorted." Then she began reading off a very long scroll made of parchment. "Abbot, Hannah!"

A pink faced, blonde pigtailed girl walked calmly despite her shaking hands and put the hat on as per instruction, it slipped right past her eyes. After a couple of seconds, the hat screamed. "HUFFLEPUFF!"

The table on the right cheered loudly as a new Hufflepuff joined them. A ghost who was an older woman waved merrily at the new girl.

"Bones, Susan."

"HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat screamed once more and the girl joined Hannah at her new home.

"Boot, Terry!"

"RAVENCLAW!" The table closest to the first years clapped this time, they all had a refined sense about them and a few got up to actually shake Terry's hand.

"Brocklehurst, Mandy." Went to Ravenclaw, receiving the same reception Terry had got.

But immediately after Lavender Brown became the first Gryffindor, Luffy saw the two twins who were Ron's brothers immediately burst into a round of catcalling. He liked the look of that table, between their red and gold colours they seemed to be a rather rowdy bunch of fellas and they also had a daring air lingering amongst them.

That house promised adventure and Luffy was all for adventure, after all, what kind of a pirate would he be if he didn't even go on half decent escapades?

In his thinking Luffy missed Millicent become the first Slytherin, he didn't really think that they looked particularly kind, but he could understand ambition and cunning, after all his navigator had been particularly cunning.

"Finch-Fletchley, Justin."

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

Well, Hufflepuff looked very inviting as well. They all greeted the new boy warmly and a few even gave out a hug to the terrified looking boy. Huh, so loyalty, he knew his crew was loyal as he was to them. Hufflepuff was probably the most likely against Gryffindor then.

"Finnigan, Seamus." The sandy haired boy that had been standing relatively close to Luffy stood up and slunk up to the hat.

Luffy noticed that he was quite buff for someone of his age, muscles seemed to bulge from beneath the almost shapeless robes. That coupled with the fact that the boy looked calmly as if he were an eagle and the rest of the school his prey. He reminded Luffy of someone he used to know.

It took more than a minute for the hat to decide where to put Seamus. "SLYTHERIN!"

Seamus pulled the hat off with the same amount of calm and sauntered to the table where he smiled at the older students, he turned an eye indifferently back to the hat.

"Granger, Hermione."

The hat sat on her head for a solid minute, deliberating where to put her.

"GRYFFINDOR"

And the bushy haired girl grinned widely, showing her buck teeth. She made her way over to the cheering table. Ron groaned in response to her sorting.

"Longbottom, Neville." A nervous looking boy walked up, well, he was pretending to be full of confidence but his knees were definitely shaking.

He dropped the hat on his head. It barely took 3 seconds before the hat shouted. "HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Of course the great Neville would make it into a brilliant house!" The boy exclaimed, jabbing a thumb in his own chest, he forgot the hat in his haste to make it to the yellow table that were smiling endearingly at his antics.

McGonagall took the hat, giving 'Neville' a disapproving face, one that he immediately backed away from, apologising profusely.

Sanji and Luffy breathed in quickly, Sanji's toothpick fell from his mouth. That sounded like something Usopp would say. Their eyes widened in shock and realisation in sync, "Is that..?"

They looked at each other, they had just found their third crew member.

In their shock they didn't notice Morag MacDougal being sorted.

"Malfoy, Draco!"

Sanji pulled himself out of his stupor to walk up to the stool, he sat down, pulling a toothpick out from god knows where and sticking it in his mouth.

Hmm, what to do with you? You're the third Mugiwara I have had to deal with. A voice resounded in his head.

Who am I you ask? Why I am the sorting hat. And you Mr Malfoy, or should I say Mr Vinsmoke are quite the interesting character.

He really was.

But what house to put you in? Hmm, obviously not Slytherin, you're not ambitious enough. Ravenclaw is out, no thirst for knowledge. Hufflepuff? No, well, there's really only one place for you then.

Wait, did you say I'm the third like… me?

Yes yes, now…

Hey wait! Who else is here? I know that Usopp was that Neville guy but who else?

That sandy kid, he's a Mugiwara no Kaizoku.

Wait. WAIT!

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Sanji gritted his teeth, he had been so damn close to figuring out who else there was, oh well, the only sandy haired boy he could think of was Seamus so he'd invite him from Slytherin in a couple of minutes, screw all of that stupid house rivalry

But as he moved he realised that the entire hall was looking at him in surprise, half in distrust. He rolled his eyes and sat down at the Gryffindor table, the only ones that were not openly admitting their distrust were a couple of obvious muggle borns.

As others were nervously getting sorted Sanji walked up to the Slytherin table, ignoring the looks of shock he had received and grabbed the sandy haired boy and dragged him back over to the red and gold table.

Funnily enough the Seamus didn't even blink at his man-handling, instead, when they sat down together ignoring the hateful, dirty looks shot their way Seamus said flawlessly. "Nice curly eyebrow you got there shitty cook."

"Why you…" And they began to brawl, in the middle of the table. "Stupid moss-head!" He shouted at Zoro.

Finally they were pulled apart by one of the Weasleys who introduced himself as Percy the prefect of Gryffindor. "Now, I don't care what rivalry you two have, I will see no more of it."

Thankfully the prefect did not attempt to send the Slytherin back to his own table.

Successfully (who am I kidding, of course they're going to fight again) mollified by Percy's words Zoro and Sanji sat next to each other in silent camaraderie, all of those years spent apart meant nothing now. And then. "Potter, Harry!'

More whispers broke out, all concerning the new celebrity. "Oh look, it's our fearless leader." Sanji whispered to Zoro.

"Wait, Luffy is freaking Harry Potter? Of course he is. Don't know what I expected." Zoro replied, lazily opening one eye.

Luffy strode up to the hat and pulled it tightly over his head.

Hmm, so you're the Monkey D. Luffy huh? Well you have all of the qualities of a Slytherin, but you also have the bravery and loyalty of a Hufflepuff. Hmm, well, even without your friends to support you, you still rush into situations you know you will not make it out of in one piece.

Well, that cancels Hufflepuff, hmm, Slytherin or Gryffindor?

While you definitely have the ambition to be a Slytherin, I am more inclined to put you in…

"GRYFFINDOR!" The table exploded into cheers, by far louder than any that everyone else had received.

The Weasley twins were shouting "We got Potter!" simultaneously and everyone was giving him a hearty amount of applause.

"Hey Sanji- oops Draco." Luffy said casually, plonking down in the space intentionally left between Zoro and Sanji.

"Hey captain." Zoro lightly murmured to his best friend and captain.

"ZORO?!" Luffy yelled, launching himself at the swordsman, his words sparked interest of those around him, the boy who lived knew not just Draco Malfoy, the boy who came from an entire family of dark wizards but he also knew another Slytherin who he knew well enough to give a nickname.

Not that they knew that that was his real name. "Yeah, it's me." Zoro whispered to Luffy, arms wrapping around his thin frame.

Well now, of course Luffy was Harry Potter, I mean, who else would defeat the evillest wizard when they were just a little child?

The hat had said that things were going to be changing at Hogwarts and Zoro had anticipated that something like this would happen. He also knew that Luffy would either be in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff or Slytherin. However, Slytherin was apparently the better choice for Zoro himself.

Honestly, Zoro had thought he was going to Hufflepuff, he was incredibly loyal to only his captain. Given half the chance (there had already been plenty) he would gladly trade his own life for the life of his captain.

But apparently his ambition outweighed his loyalty, in the sense that without his ambition he would never have become so loyal to Luffy. So the hat put him in Slytherin, oh well, at least they wore green.

He had suspected that Luffy was going to be here, – Hogwarts that is – but as Harry Potter of all people? It did make sense but come on! Zoro had (almost) been prepared for Sanji to drag him over to the table where he was seated.

Now the shitty cook was also with the captain, and no, Zoro was not jealous at all that Sanji had been the first one to meet Luffy in the body of Harry Potter.

(He really was).

But either way, he now knew of three other Straw Hats. Welp, he was going to need to keep a close eye on Luffy, Zoro didn't like how thin he was and besides, Luffy had a penchant for getting into trouble easily.

Trouble simply found him at every bend and corner. But, they were reunited and that was all that mattered.

Luffy finally extricated himself from Zoro's arms grinning widely, the duo had missed a few people who had been sorted, too busy inhaling each other's new scents as to never forget each other. Sanji simply looked happy that first mate and captain had finally found each other, as much as he was loathe to admit it, Luffy without Zoro was never good.

"Weasley, Ronald!"

Luffy perked up at the mention of his new friend, and even Sanji looked vaguely interested. The hat sat atop Ron's head for barely ten seconds before.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Ron looked extremely relieved as he made his way over to the red and gold table. Everyone cheered for him, all of the noticeable redheads a little louder than the rest. Luffy among those who were cheering loudly.

Zoro and Sanji joined in, however they were not as enthusiastic as their captain. Ron walked over to the trio and sat down with them, Luffy gave him his signature smile. Zoro and Sanji gave him appreciative smiles.

And then food appeared and the moment was over. "FOOD!" Luffy shouted, grabbing anything that was near him, including some that were too far and he had to get Sanji and Zoro to get for him.

All in all the sight of their captain was as hilarious as it always was, he absolutely overstuffed himself, stomach distending, much to the disgust of everybody near the boy. Everyone save for Sanji and Zoro.

"So, Draco huh? Should I just call you swirly eyebrow?" Zoro mocked, sipping on a drink that was (much to his disappointment) not sake.

Said swirly eyebrow twitched before Sanji leapt to his feet and whacked Zoro over the head with his foot. "Then I guess I can call you moss-head!" He said and before they knew it, they pair were duelling, only with hand – to – hand, or in Sanjis' case – feet.

Luffy just sat, content to watch them duke it out. It was then that a nervous looking boy walked up to the trio. "Huh, of course you got the good body." He said, he, being Neville Longbottom, and he was eyeing Sanji and Zoro in envy.

"Usopp?" Luffy asked, eyeing the scrawny frame.

"Yup." Usopp popped the 'p' a ridiculous amount. He stood proudly for a ridiculous long time, posed to highlight his importance, he wasn't tensed up and therefore not ready for the armful of captain that he received.

They both went stumbling and it was only a light tugging on Luffys' robe on Zoro's part that ensure the pair did not land on the stone floor.

Welp, the pair had caused quite a scene, a Hufflepuff and a Gryffindor hugging like they hadn't seen each other in years, well, maybe Harry Potter had a secret relative that was actually a wizard or witch and he was just seeing him for the first time in years.

It wasn't uncommon for siblings to be in different houses, just not too common.

The pair finally pulled apart and Luffy ensured that Zoro and Sanji made a place for Usopp on the bench.

And Luffy went right back to gorging himself on the food that was in front of him. If it was possible to inhale food Luffy would have achieved this feat, it certainly looked like he was inhaling the food.

But alas, the food disappeared, only to be replaced with sweets of all kinds.

"Awesome!" Luffy exclaimed, sure he was a meat kind of guy, but desert was nothing to be laughed at.

He piled his plate until it began to topple over and stuck it in his mouth, all at once. Most of the entire hall was looking at him incredulously, how could he even fit that much in his mouth at once?!

Even the teachers were looking at him, mostly in disdain but others looked murderous. One of the staff, a man in a purple turban was looking at Harry like he was a bug that needed to be crushed.

Finally, finally, the food disappeared, leaving Luffy with a distended stomach that was pressing against his robes.

Dumbledore stood, spreading his arms wide, as if he was going to embrace another. "Hello to you all! I would like to welcome all of you to school."

And Luffy tuned out, except for when Professor Quirrell was introduced, he got a bad feeling from that professor and his ominous turban. It probably didn't help that his scar was hurting like a bitch.

Well, not enough for him to writhe on the ground in pain, but certainly enough to make him wince.

There was another sentence that caught Luffy's attention. Apparently they weren't allowed to go on a specific hallway, Luffy had laughed outright when the old geezer said that going in there could result in injury or death. Mostly thinking that the old geezer was joking, but at Dumbledore's sombre look, Sanji kicked Luffy, hard.

And the Potions master was looking at Luffy with an air of aloofness and utter disgust. He wondered what that was all about.

Zoro and Usopp began moving away, only to be stopped by an arm that was a tiny bit stretched, not enough to cause any heart attacks.

"Promise we'll stay friends?" He asked softy to the pair, voice more vulnerable than it had been in a long time.

Zoro and Usopp looked at each other and nodded to their best friend and captain. "Of course we will." Usopp replied and continued onwards to his group that were beginning to disperse.

Zoro simply nodded and smiled softly, making his captain drop his arm to allow him to walk to the Slytherin table.

"All right, first years follow me!" Percy Weasley shouted at the newbies.

Sanji and Luffy patiently followed the prefect up through winding stair cases and one memorable occasion saw the staircase actually move underneath their feet.

The majority of the year shouted in surprise, and oh boy, Sanji knew that this was going to be a pain in the ass with Luffy.

Knowing him, Luffy would most likely spend hours just waiting for the stairs to move so he had a free ride over the freefall beneath them.

Finally Percy stopped in front of a life sized portrait that happened to be moving. Something that Luffy had noticed all of the paintings did, it was a little disconcerting.

But before he could move on, bundles of sticks began flying at the first years, a menacing cackle was the only clue as to whom was throwing aforementioned sticks.

"Peeves! Reveal yourself!" Percy shouted.

The evil cackle intensified and a short translucent man wearing a garish orange bow tie appeared, sticks damningly held in his hand.

"Ickle Firsties." The man now known as Peeves laughed at the smaller children.

"Peeves! Leave now or I'll tell the Bloody Baron." Percy said.

Peeves simply laughed before turning tail and floating away. Percy resumed attention to the lady sitting in the portrait, she had mousy brown hair and pink, frilly material adorned her creamy white skin.

"You might want to watch out for that one. His name is Peeves, the only one who can control him is the Bloody Baron. He won't even listen to us prefects."

Then the portrait spoke, looking at them in disinterest. "Password?" She asked.

"Caput Draconis." Percy said in reply and the portrait swung forward revealing a hole just large enough to fit the older students. The students all scrambled inside, to stumble into a lavishly furnished room.

Well, Sanji's first thought was that somebody really liked the colour red. From the squashy armchairs that surrounded a roaring fire, to the red velvety carpet that was thrown on the stone floor.

Luffy certainly liked the colours, everything was a variation of red! It was his favourite colour and a tribute, regardless he really liked the entire colour scheme.

Percy directed the girls into one of the dormitories and the boys into another. From the looks of the view it seemed to be that they were currently located in one of the towers.

Up the stairs was the boy's dormitories, and, in a pile, all of their belongings were stacked neatly near the door. Luffy immediately claimed one of the beds that had a window.

Sanji picked one that was next to Luffy's, on the right to be exact. Sanji didn't really pay attention to the other boys in the room, too busy going through the motions of getting changed so that he could sleep.

He had heard that the kitchens were hidden behind a bowl of fruit near the Hufflepuff house room. He planned to get up early in the morning to do some cooking, it had been a while since he had used a kitchen to cook food for people other than himself.

Luffy speedily changed into his pyjamas, he looked around the dormitory interestingly. Many of the other students had ignored unpacking their trunks in favour of dropping down onto their beds, most of them left their curtains open.

Luffy sat on his bed and thought. He mostly was just thinking about the fact that three of his friends had already been found.

Finding them now seemed liked dumb luck, eleven years of his life wasted, wasted by serving the stupid Dursleys. And here three of his members had apparently grown up in a world of magic, it did make him a little bit jealous.

But, all in all, he was just riding out the high of unadulterated happiness that being with his nakama always brought him.

And with those final thoughts Luffy sunk back into his bed, letting the hands of sleep claim him.