"Black, Sirius!" The stern woman called and Desari Malfoy's head whipped around to find her fiance in the crowd. Desari tilted her head slightly and examined him. He had the aristocratic good looks that most pureblood families did with black hair and grey eyes. His hair was chopped awkwardly short and his robes looked forcibly tightened around his scrawny body. Dez laughed silently, Sirius Black had a face built for long hair and a body made for casual wear.
Sirius sat on the stool and Desari watched the sorting hat dip down to cover Sirius's moonlight colored eyes. She studied him carefully, the way only a pureblood could study someone. He was handsome in the same way as my brother, but like a brother, I couldn't see any way I could ever feel any attraction for him. Perhaps it would grow with time.
The sorting hat sat silent on Sirius's head for longer than any of the other students. It was quiet long after Desari Malfoy had lost interest and let her eyes wander across the hall to find Lucius in the sea of green and silver that was Slytherin. Lucius gave his sister the classic Malfoy sneer and Desari visibly relaxed. The sorting ceremony was just a formality for people like Sirius Black and Desari Malfoy. They were Slytherins. Their parents and grandparents were Slytherins. Nothing could go wrong.
Desari Malfoy smiled that Malfoy smile and looked at her future husband proudly, just in time for her entire world to be turned upside down. The sorting hat opened it's wide brim and called out the one word that could shock the whole school into silence. "Gryffindor!"
Desari Malfoy's heart sank somewhere down near her stomach, and she saw a moment of shock and hesitation on Sirius's face too. Then Sirius's face broke into an arrogant grin as if that had been his plan all along. He tossed the hat carelessly to the stern woman called Mcgonagall, and the school watched in horrified silence as Sirius Black, heir to the Ancient and Noble House of Black, strutted his way to the Gryffindor table. There were no cheers from the Lions, no boos from the Snakes, not even a polite applause from the Badgers or Ravens. Nobody could quite understand what they had just witnessed.