Chapter 3: Hogwarts – Sorting and First Year
The train ride turned eventful as I became friends with both Albus and Scorpius. Evie was busily doing her makeup again, plucking her eyebrows again and trying and unsuccessfully failing to put blush on my cheeks. I continued to eat some lollies. Chocolate frogs became one of my favourite Wizarding lollies by far. As soon as we got to Hogwarts, I heard people whispering as I stepped off the train. "Maleficent has a daughter," I heard one girl said. "She looks like a younger version of her." I knew for a fact that they were Muggleborns as they knew the story of Sleeping Beauty. I walked with Evie, who looked a bit stressed.
"Where's Carlos and Jay?" she asks me as we made our way to the boats. Everyone worn the same clothing (except for Evie and I – we had the symbols of our mothers near the Hogwarts badge).
"Evie! Mal!" Jay calls out to us. He runs over, bumping into a few strangers who turned to look at him. "I wasn't talking to you! Wait up!" Carlos followed slowly behind him, mumbling sorry to the strangers.
"I predicted that we would see you here," Jay added. "So what happened after we walked off?"
"We became friends with Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter," Evie injected. "They are very nice as well. I think Scorpius likes me." I laughed. There was no way Scorpius would like Evie. I mean he seemed interested in Rose Weasley-Granger.
"Ah, everyone says Scorpius is Voldemort's son," he says. "I doubt that he looks like Voldemort. As for Albus, isn't he Harry Potter's son?"
"Yes," I replied. "And he is the godson of Neville Longbottom."
"How do you know that?" Jay asked.
"Me smart, you dump," I added. I heard Evie and Carlos laughing as Jay try to think of a comeback.
We hopped onto the boat as I notice Jay stealing something from one of the other first years. "Seriously Jay," I said. "First night here and you are already stealing."
"Best to steal than to be evil," he says.
"Um, hello," I added. "We are the sons and the daughters of the World's most evil villains on the planet. Anyway, what's the point?"
"Well, I do things my way," he says.
"Yes and once we reach our seventh year we take over the world," I added.
"You sound just like your mother," Evie said. I rolled my eyes. "Why thank you," I said, sarcastically. It wasn't like we were going to steal a magic wand – we already got our own wands, but I want to free my mother from her Isle prison along with any other villains who I thought were wrongly accused of being 'evil', for which I decided to do that in my seventh year at Hogwarts, perhaps or maybe not. Depends.
We entered the Great Hall as I walked with Evie. Carlos began to get scared as he bumps into me quite a bit. The Sorting Hat sits on its stool as Professor Longbottom calls out our names, "Carlos De Vil!" I move aside for Carlos as he makes his way towards the stool and sat underneath the Sorting Hat.
Within thirty seconds, his fate was sealed, "Hufflepuff!" He walks slowly towards Hufflepuff as he stares over at the rest of us.
"Evelyn Grimhilde!" Neville calls out. Evie smiles towards me as she walks towards the stool and sits underneath the hat. I notice that Evie's Sorting took a bit longer than Carlos's sorting.
After about a minute the hat finally decided her fate – "Ravenclaw!"
I smiled knowing that Evie would suit well in Ravenclaw mainly because of her cleverness.
"Jay Jafar!" Neville calls out. Jay walks towards the stool and sits underneath the Sorting Hat. Jay's sorting didn't take as long as Carlos's but he was in a different house than I anticipated.
"Gryffindor!" the hat calls out. I notice Jay sigh as he walks off – he was hoping for Slytherin but Gryffindor – I had a hint that he would try his best to get out of Gryffindor by – you guess it – stealing.
"Mal Volent," Neville calls out. 'It's now or never,' I thought, as I walked towards the stool to sit beneath the Sorting Hat.
"Mal – your name hasn't become fully as of yet," the hat says in my ear. "But you will reach your full potential. You are magnificent if you were in Gryffindor but malevolent if you are in Slytherin. No you don't suit Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw like your friends – Evie and Carlos. But I do see a leader, but I do see a snake as well. But where to put you, dear, Mal? Where to put you, Mal? Better be, SLYTHERIN!"
I heard a pin drop as I stood up and walked over towards the Slytherin table. I looked to see Evie's reaction. She looked twice as shocked as Jay was. He sits there continuing to look shock as the rest of the names are called. Another shock came; Albus Potter also became a Slytherin too. I moved myself aside for Albus to sit as every other Slytherin stared at us – not in admiration, but more of uncomfortable that the fact Maleficent's daughter and Harry Potter's son became Slytherins.
A few days later, I made Hogwarts sort of my home. Spray painted some of the corridors with my can of green and purple spray paint so that everyone knows that I did that. I also became a geek – yep, I became a geek, I started paying attention in class and not what other kids were doing. Jay couldn't step a foot near me anymore due to the fact he was in Gryffindor, meanwhile Carlos avoided me – every time I'm around Scorpius and/or Albus. Evie seemed to be determined to not avoid me. We always had classes together and seemed to be friendly.
Meanwhile, I became friends with Scorpius and Albus – plus hearing the various rumours involving Scorpius' parentage. People tormented him basically, but one day I said something to Scorpius which made him laugh. "You know, at least your mother isn't the worst villain in the land," I said. "I mean, my mother caused Sleeping Beauty to sleep for eternity until true loves kiss woke her up."
"And that's how your mother's plans didn't exactly work," he laughed.
As for Albus – I felt incredibly sorry for him. Not only he was picked on because he is friends with Scorpius and me, he was also bullied for being a disappointment due to the fact he is the first ever Potter to be in Slytherin for centuries. I always hear students making fun of him in the hallways as I walked pass, as I gave them daggers. We had flying lessons with the Gryffindors and yes, it got worse – Albus couldn't even fly on a broom stick – 'Albus Potter the Slytherin Squib' they called him now.
Thank you guys for your thoughts on which house Evie, Jay, Carlos and Mal should be in. I've considered their personalities and which house they suited. I don't think Mal didn't exactly suit Gryffindor so I decided to place her in Slytherin along with Scorpius and Albus. This fanfic will stick with Cursed Child until probably the beginning of fifth year. I hope you like this fanfic so far, remember to Fav/Review. I'll be updating once a week with this fanfic but with Girl Meets Cursed Child - it will be every four days, make sure you check that Fanfic out as well.
