Hello! I'm sorry that I haven't been updating recently, and this might be a really short chapter , but, at least it's a chapter(?)
P.S. We are now at the sorting ceremony!
Winter smiled encouragingly at Jacin as the tattered hat was placed on him. After a moment of consideration it loudly exclaimed, "SLYTHERIN," earning a few cheers, as well as some jeering from Gryffindor.
Let them jeer. Any house Jacin was in, was just fine. And she would be in it too. She would hope to be in it. Hope with all of her beating heart that she was in it. Because of Jacin was there she would be with him. Hope to be with him.
"Hayle-Blackburn!" the woman shouted, what was it? Professor McConga, MacGonnyfur, or something? Realizing she should have been under the hat by now, she bounded up to the stool.
"Slytherin, please" she said quietly as the brim of the hat dropped over her eyes.
"Slytherin?" a booming voice sounded around her like a whisper and a holler at the same time.
"Yes, precisely, Slytherin," she replied, good Sortie had heard her.
"You don't seem very much like a Slytherin to me,"
"Well, than I would very much appreciate you placing me there anyway,"
"But you ought to be placed in your appropriate house based on your personality,"
Winter shrugged, "Oh well, then place me in somewhere other than Slytherin, I was only asking."
The hat was silent for a bit, like she had confused it. This was a common reaction to her.
After a moment it, (surprisingly uncertainly,) exclaimed, "Hufflepuff!"
She skipped toward the cheering table with a smile, despite her disappointment and a few unexpected whistles and catcalls. Sometimes she forgot about the side effects of her beauty.
She sat down and took out a copy of her late fathers magazine, The Quibbler, and read until a girl bounced down next to her.
"Hello!" the girl said cheerfully, " My name is Peony!"
"Winter," Winter said, shaking her hand enthusiastically.
Maybe this wouldn't be so bad even without Jacin, she thought just as the tips of her fingers turned into frosty ice, or maybe. It would.