"What do you think Uryu?"Ichigo asked. They were finally leaving the city to go to the school. Hannah tock them into the King's cross train station. Unfortunitaly in their two weeks there at the Leaky Cauldron they never got to meet their new teacher, Profesor Longbottom. Acording to Hannah he was on a Herbology trip, which Uryu soon learned from the books was the study of magical and mundane plants. Uryu had read every one of their new books from cover to cover. Ichigo didn't even want to try, but a good few times, Orihime and Chad would sit around to listen to Uryu read and translate them into japanese, explaining the finer points that he was able to understand that he couldn't translate perfectly.
"I don't know, it's going to be different, I really have no idea what to expect."Uryu told them. Hannah stopped at a platform between nine and ten.
"Well, this is where I leave you, you have your tickets right?" she asked. Uryu nodded but looked around in confusion.
"Where's the platform?" he asked her. She turned red.
"Oh, I'm sorry I almost forgot. You see you have to run at the barrier between platform nine and ten in order to get there. I'd hurry though, your train leaves in about fifteen minutes." she said. Uryu looked at her in surprise, not understanding. He tried to call after her, but then she dissapeared.
"So, what now?" Ichigo asked. Uryu told them what Hannah had told him. "She's crazy!"Ichigo screamed.
"Well we have to try something!" Uryu hissed. Orihime stepped forward.
"I'll try." she said. Uryu tock her hand. Then the two ran at the wall. Ichigo gave out a yell of protest as they did. Uryu and Orihime closed their eyes as they came at the barrier, but they never stopped. Uryu opened them to see that they were runnign on a train platform filled with people. Behind them came Chad and Ichigo.
"That was wierd!" Ichigo said. They all laughed when the train whistle sounded. They quickly pushed their bags onto the train and climbed up after them, then they walked down to find a train compartment that was empty. They piled in with their bags as the train began to move. They sat down, Orihime by the window with Uryu next to her and Ichigo by the window on the other side by Chad. Suddenly the compartment door slid open. Five people stood in the doorway. There was a tall boy with jet black hair that reminded them of Shuhei Hisagi. He had dark eyes. Next to him was was boy who looked very much like him with shinning green eyes. They also had a girl with long red hair and brown eyes like the older boy. Then there was a slightly older girl with red hair that was a little frizzy. SHe was beautiful with shinning blue eyes. Next to her was a boy with red hair.
"Mind if we sit in here?" the oldest boy with black hair asked. Uryu nodded to show they could. When they sat down Ichigo ralized Uryu gave them permission and glared at the boy.
"Are you all new here? But you look our age?!" said the younger black haired boy.
"We are, it's hard to explain. I'm Uryu Ishida, these are my friends Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime Inoue, and Yasutora Sado." Uryu said. Recognizing Uryu was introducing them, Ichigo nodded, Orihime waved, and Chad put up a hand to show who each of them were.
"Nice to meet you, I'm James Sirius Potter, this ismy brother Albus Severus Potter and our sister Lily Luna Potter. I'm a seventh year, Albus is a sixth year, and Lily is a fourth year." the elder boy said.
"And I'm Rose Weasley, and this is my brother Hugo. I'm a sixth year and Hugo is a fourth." the girl with frizzy hair said. Uryu looked them over. 'Potter, isn't that the name that Ollivander man said?' Uryu wondered. He smiled though.
"It's very ice to meet you." he said. He quickly told the others what they had said.
"Your friends don't speak english?" Rose asked. Uryu shock his head. The ride was mostly in silence until a boy ran in to tell them to change. The group quickly got into their robes as they arrived at the school. The group arrived at the station and everyone got off. Uryu looked over to see the others heading to a line of carrages drawn by huge black horses. They looked like skelitons with skin pulled over the bones.
"What are those things?" Orihime asked. Uryu shock his head to show he didn't know.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked, noticing the tone in Orihime's voice.
"We're wondering what those horses are." Uryu explained. Lily blinked.
"What horses?" she asked before she left. Uryu thought it was best not to translate that.
"Firs' years!" came a call. The group looked over to see Hagrid. "That includes you lot!" he told Uryu. Uryu nodded and gestured to the others to follow. They walked to the edge of an enormous black lake with a large number of boats. "Now, four to a boat!" the man yelled. Many nodded and Uryu claimed one for the four of them. Then the boats started to move.
"What the hell!"gasped Ichigo.
"What is it?" Orihime asked.
"They called it magic in the books." Chad said. Uryu sighed, this was not going to be a fun year. The boats docked at the base of an enormous castle.
"Oh, pretty!" Orihime mused as they approched it.
"I can sense spirtiual pressures, they're not increably strong, mostly around the level of Tatsuki and the others back in Karakura town." Uryu informed them. Ther others nodded to show they understood when a woman and a man came up to them. The woman was an older woman with glasses and her hair in a bun. The man was short with dark hair.
"Hello, I am Professor McGonogall. I am the schools Deputy Headmistress, and this is our Charms teacher, Professor Filius Flitwick. He agreed to come put a language charm on you new students. I understand one of you knows english." she said. Uryu nodded. The tiny man pulled out a wand and cast the charm on the other three teens. "So do you all understand me?" she asked.
"Oh yes!" Orihime said, proud that she understood.
"The charms teacher has given you a language charm to read, speak, and comprehend english for the school year. This has never happened before in the schools history so we are making this up as we go. You'll need to be sorted into your houses, but you'll have to wait until after the first years." she said.
"Whatever." Ichigo agreed, not really caring. They walked into the Grand Hall with the others and were amazed at what they saw. It was an enormous hall with four long tables and atable at the front for the staff. In the back was four giant hourglasses, all of the bottoms empty. Uryu looked up above each of the tables to see a banner. Over the far table was a green and silver banner with a snake. Then there was a yellow and black one with a badger, followed by a blue and bronze eagle, and lastly was a red and gold lion. He could see the Potter's and Weasley's all at the one with the lion. They saw that they were already late as people were being called. Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad were in shock as a torn old hat started shouting out names, but Uryu's eyes narrowed as he paid close attention. The hat only yelled out four names, no matter what. If it said 'Slytherin' the person went to the table with the snake. If it said 'Hufflepuff' they went to the table with the badger, if it said 'Ravenclaw' they would go to the eagle. If it yelled out 'Griffendor' they went to the table with the lion.
"I see now." Uryu said.
"What, that the feaking hat talks?" Ichigo gasped. Uryu shock his head.
"No, that this school is dived into seven years, but all the students are in one of four houses. The houses are seperate from each other. The one with the snake is Slytherin, and from the looks that they give, they seem to have a riverly with the lions, the 'Griffendor' house. The one with the badger is called 'Hufflepuff' and the last is called 'Ravenclaw'." Uryu explained.
"Wow Uryu, and you learned all that by watching?" Orihime asked. Uryu nodded. Finally McGonogall yelled out a familar name.
"Kurosaki Ichigo." she called. Ichigo stepped forward. The hat barley touched him when it sent him to Griffendor. The table cheered. "Inoue Orihime." the woman yelled. Orihime ran up, and a few seconds later she ran to join Ichigo. "Sado Yasutora!" the woman yelled, and Chad soon followed the others. "Ishida Uryu." she yelled. Uryu stepped forward and the hat was placed on his head.
'Hmm... very intersting indeed.' A voice echoed in his head. 'I don't understand these houses.' Uryu thought. To his surprise the voice laughed. 'I didn't expect you too. I'll explain. The house of Slytherin values ambition, cleverness, cunning, resourcefulness. The house of Ravenclaw values wit, creativity, and wisdom. The house of Hufflepuff values loyalty, fair play, honesty, and tolerance. And the house of Griffendor values bravery, daring, nerve, and chivalry. This is intersting because you and your friends each holds these traits. Your friend Kurosaki only wishes to protect, and therefore belonged to Griffendor. Your friend Sado should probibly have gone to Hufflepuff for his loyalty, but his bravery was stronger, and the girl was intellegent, but shows great selflessness. You would be a great match for any house, which gives me the difficulty of finding where you go. I should put you in Ravenclaw or Slytherin...' the voice started. 'No!' Uryu thought. 'No?' the voice questioned. 'I can't be seperated from my friends.' Uryu insided. The voice seemed to concider this for a moment. 'Very well, just don't come to me when you regret this. I tried to place Harry Potter in Slytherin as well, but he also argued with me. We'll see how this turns out for you.' then the word Griffendor echoed threw the hall and Uryu was let up. 'There's that name again. Harry Potter! I need to find out who this man is!' Uryu thought as he found the others.
"That sure tock you long enough." Ichigo hissed.
"Your name is Uryu right?" Rose asked. Uryu nodded. "Don't worry, you shouldn't take anything that tattered old hat says to heart!" she said. Uryu smiled at her. 'Maybe she had a similar experiance with it.' he thought.
Alright, thank you to killroy225, Flightstar, ilove2laflol, Doomgiver3, KyuukiTheAnimeFreak, TheAnimeWriterLover, henkieshome, shadowmane, and everyone else who has read this story to this point! I hope you continue to enjoy!
