Chapter 3

The sorting

Ada would not stop talking. All she talked about was how much she wanted to be in griffindor, and if she ended up in slytherin she would leave the school. Jordan kept her thoughts to herself. She wanted nothing more than to be in Professor Snape's house, but knew better than to try and explain it to her sister. Ada prattled on about how nervous she was, and how she wanted everyone to like her. Jordan didn't really care. She hated cliques, and she felt the whole house thing just meant more annoying cliques to deal with. Well she would just be friends with anyone who would accept her, and everyone else could go jump off a bridge. She met a lot of nice people, and some not so nice people, and waited for her turn with the sorting hat.

"Ada Madison" McGonagall called.

"Gryffindor" The hat shouted. Cheers and Boos went all around. Cheers from the griffindors, boos from the slytherins.

"Jordan Madison"

She nervously sat down. What would happen? Should she follow her sister, or do something for herself for a change. Suddenly she heard a voice in her head. "Well you are very difficult aren't you? Hmm, you would do well in all houses. You are Brave, Loyal, Cunning, and Intelligent. You have reasons for wanting to be in gryffindor, and slytherin, even though they are competing houses. But which desire is stronger. Ah, I see, well you must keep your promise. It must be…"

"GRYFFINDOR"

More cheers and boos. But what she saw made her heart sink, Professor Snape looked upon her with absolute loathing. Owell, she had made her decision.

Jordan flopped down on her bed. She, Ada, a girl named Hermione, and another girl who's name she had already forgotten were all sharing a room. They seemed nice enough, but right now she didn't want to talk. She wanted to read. And to her surprise, Hermione pulled out a book as well. Well at least she wasn't the only bookworm of the group. …

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Two months went by in the blink of an eye. Jordan and Ada had both adjusted well. Professor Snape was quite mean to anyone who wasn't slytherin. He still terrified Ada, and entranced Jordan. There was little that could be done to change either position. Both girls had their own interests. Ada's was boys, clothes, and friends. Jordan's were schoolwork, art, and professor snape, but she was discreet about that one. She eventually began to make friends from all houses, even the slytherins. She was as cunning as the best slytherin, and had the same type of humor. But then the rumors started. Jordan was just now learning about the war. People were terrified of this Voldemort. She heard everyone's horror stories, and suddenly she became more curious of her mothers death. She decided to talk to Dumbledore, who surprisingly, had answers for her. Her next move was to tell Ada.

She sat her down, and explained what happened to her parents. "Apperently a known death eater, Bellatrix Lestrange, had once been in love with our father. They had been in slytherin together. She was furious that he married our mother, a gryffindor, which only made matters worse, and called him a house traitor. He didn't want anything to do with her, especially after she had joined with voldemort. She had tried to kill mom, but had accidentally killed dad instead. This only made her anger at mother worse, so she went into hiding. We all did, including Grandma. That is why grandma kept the letter from me. Our last name used to be Harrison, but they changed it to go into hiding."

"That stupid bitch!" hissed ada. "I knew those stupid slytherins were trouble. One day I will find her, and so help me, I will kill her!"

Although Jordan shared her sister's anger, it was hard to agree with all of her statements. Surely not all slytherins could be bad. And going up against a death eater was not the most intelligent thing to do. She decided to change the subject.

"Well I think it is best if we just keep the name Madison. I mean, It will get way too confusing to change it to Harrison now."

"Oh, but it wasn't confusing for you to change your name to Jordan?" Ada said with a sarcastic snort. Jordan gave her a pointed look.

"I had my reasons."

"Well I would have had better reasons to want to "start over" but I still kept my identity didn't I?"

"Look, Madison or Harrison? What do you want?"

"Madison"

"Fine," was the last thing Jordan said before walking out the door.

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The days passed by pretty much the same, except for one day when a troll got loose. After that Hermione started spending time with Harry Potter and Ron Weasly. Ada seemed determined to become friends with them, as Harry Potter was famous. Jordan just went with the flow. But she got some shocking news, which came from Dumbledore.

"I have finally found a place for you young ladies to stay", he told Jordan" Mrs. Weasly decided that since she already had so many, why not add two more?"

Ada could not have been more thrilled, as she had a secret crush on Ron, but Jordan felt like an intruder. She had nothing in common with these people. Her favorite teacher was their enemy, and she had many slytherin friends, not to mention the fact she would like to BE slytherin. She decided to just be thankful she had a place to go. But right now she needed to go to her favorite place. The potions class rooms.

"SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND GET TO WORK". Jordan loved it when he entered like that. It made chills run down her spine. She hoped he didn't know she had a crush on him. That would be really embarrassing. Well it didn't matter, he was a jerk to her anyway, but it didn't faze her. He could walk up to her and slap her and she would just smile. Ada leaned over to whisper something to her.

"He is such a stupid git. Will he ever wash his hair? You know, I heard that he used to work for you-know-who, I wonder if that's true."

"Ada, get back to work, its irrelevant. He is on our side now. Drop it"

"you are always defending him. Sometimes I wonder if you like him better then McGonagall. Its so weird." Blah, Blah, Jordan stopped paying attention. She went back to her work and tried not to think about anything else, especially him.

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Harry, Ron, and Hermione did something truly amazing. They saved the philosopher's stone from voldemort. It was kept secret for the most part, but since Ada and Jordan were living in the Weasly home, it made it to their ears. Jordan was not used to living with so many people around, but things were always interesting. The summer passed quickly, and harry joined them for a visit. Soon it was time to go to diagon alley, to buy supplies. Harry had made a large mistake, and ended up in knockturn alley. Jordan knew because she had seen Hagrid retrieve him. She also saw the Malfoys coming out of a strange shop. She and Draco Malfoy actually got along pretty good, even though she was in gryffindor. It was most likely because she told him one day she would rather be in slytherin. He seemed to soften after that. And pansy had told her, that goyle told her, that crabbe had told him, that draco thought she was really hot. Well Jordan didn't have time for such nonsense. But they were friends anyway.

She finally decided to enter the store. It was very strange. Dark magic was everywhere, and she could feel it. Her eyes fell on a necklace, and she was strangely drawn to it.

"Can I help you?" a very creepy man asked.

"Is there anything significant about this necklace?" she asked. She was really quite curious.

"Oh, yes, that is more than a necklace, it is a pensieve, and a special one at that."

"What does that do?"

"It stores your memories. Memories you want to keep safe from prying eyes. It cannot hold as much as a regular pensieve, but it comes in very handy. And you don't even need to use your wand. As long as you are wearing it, you can store your memories there as you will them. Oh, and it can also be used as a bonder."

Well Jordan did not know what a bonder was, but she did care about the pensive part. It was perfect. It was shaped in a circle, with an olive green metallic background, and a silver snake inside. It was just what she needed to store her memories of snape. But now she needed to find everyone.

When she entered the book shop, she saw her sister and friends talking to Draco malfoy, and a man that could only be his father. He was the most handsome man she had ever seen. If anyone could draw her attention away from Snape for just one teeny moment, it was him. Maybe she didn't need the pensieve after all. On second thought…..

"Oh, Father, this is friend of mine," Draco announced. She gave the man a seductive look before taking his hand.

"You must be Draco's father, I would have known just by the resemblance. I am Jordan Madison. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Well, Miss Madison, Draco has mentioned you on more than one occasion. At last we meet."

"We must be going, but I do hope to see you again sir." She said with a flirtatious glace. She was rewarded with a smug, knowing smile. "Let's go Ada."

The whole group only looked at her with confusion. She only smiled. So she was interested in older men. So what? They could think what they wanted. She was done caring. Besides, she was really only after one man anyway, but eye candy never hurt anyone. And wasn't Snape friends with Mr. Malfoy? It couldn't hurt to get on his good side.