Sorry for the late update everyone! I was waiting for more reviews and with Thanksgiving and everything I didn't have much time to upload! Oh, by the way, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! What are you doing online reading when you could be eating pumpkin pie! Go! Go now! Eat the pie before i do! Oh to heck with it *eats pie* HAHAHA! So yup, here's chapter four of my FMA and HP crossover! This chapter is mainly the sorting and everything, entering the Great Hall, that stuff. So enjoy!

I do not own Harry Potter or Fullmetal Alchemist. I wish I did, but sadly there is no magic genie or fairy or whoever the heck grants wishes nearby.

Chapter Four

The five children stepped off the crimson train, grabbing their luggage from the man unloading and trailing down the cobblestone platform.

"Brother, I can't wait to see the school!" Al gasped happily, practically skipping as he pulled his trunk along quickly, Yin Yang meowing happily from the younger boy's hood.

"Me too Al." Ed replied with a small obligatory smile. The Dementor attack still had him shaken, and it took every ounce of resolve he had not to collapse into himself.

"I wonder what houses you'll both be sorted into!" Hermione gushed, coming up behind them with Ron and Harry in tow.

"Oh yeah, I read about that." Edward said quickly, "There's Hufflepuff for the fair and kind, Ravenclaw for the intelligent and creative, Slytherin for the sly and clever, and Gryffindor for the courageous and loyal." Ed said, rattling off the houses as he counted them on his fingers.

"You'll probably get in Gryffindor, brother!" Al said excitedly, "You're certainly loyal." he said with a happy smile, indicating all those years of them both reaching for the Philosopher's Stone just so they could get their bodies back. But the entire time Ed was only reaching for the stone so Al could get his body back to normal, caring less about his limbs.

"You may get in Gryffindor too." Ed said, rushing up and ruffling his little brother's hair with a whine of protest from the younger, "But you're too soft." he chuckled.

"I am not!" Al said, immediately throwing his older brother's arm off his shoulders as the group set their trunks on the carriages to be taken to the school as they made their way down the path to the boats. "I beat you every time we sparred!"

"Al, you know all those times weren't fair." Ed said with a huff.

As the brother's continued to bicker back and forth, bantering and yelling, Hermione, Ron, and Harry, were walking ahead of them, throwing curious glances back at the Elric brothers.

"Why do you think they're comin to Hogwarts now?" Ron hissed to Harry.

"Dunno, maybe they just didn't get the letter or something." Harry responded with a shrug, knowing how this was entirely impossible, because if you didn't receive the letter they sent someone to give it to you personally.

"Guess we'll just have to do our thing." Ron said, a smirk crawling across his features.

Both Hermione and Harry glanced at him in confusion. "What?"

"Along with researchin' Sirius Black, we can be looking up those two also." Ron responded. Hermione smiled widely almost immediately, nodding vigorously as Harry nodded as well. They all wanted to know who these brothers were, and they would find out why the Dementors affected only Harry, Ed, and Al as well.

"Whoa…"

Both brothers stood like wondering children, blinking at the ceiling of the Great Hall. Candles floated above them merrily as a thunderstorm raged overhead, though the ceiling was not open.

"Can't be possible, there's got to be a scientific explanation." Ed whispered to Alphonse.

"No Equivalent Exchange either." Al's voice was full of awe as he practically tilted his head backwards to view the entire Great Hall.

They both stood silently for a moment, Ed's gold eyes sharp and calculating, Al's grey eyes wide with wonder and curiosity. It was such a difference between how each of them looked on something as simple as an illusion.

"What are you both staring at? Hurry and sit down, the sorting is about to start!" Hermione chirped as they passed the Elric brothers. Both brothers instantly snapped their heads back into position and followed.

Four long tables stretched out before them, each empty yet draped in certain colors. One of them was crimson and a gold not unlike Ed's hair. One table was a deep mustard yellow and blue, and another was silver and forest green. The last table was a vibrant yellow with black striped through it. These were the four houses, one of which Ed and Al would each be sorted to.

"Welcome back students!"

"Yeeeeeaaaaaa!" Ed and Al spun around where they were, both in attack positions as a voice suddenly boomed around the large hallway. Every head immediately swiveled to stare at them, many people snickering at the newcomers who were so shocked.

"Please, settle down." the old man said, his voice magnified by the wand he pressed to his throat. As soon as Edward and Alphonse sat down, their faces beet red, the man continued. "Hello students, young and old, it is my pleasure to welcome you back to Hogwarts this year! Now, because you all read the newspaper, you will know why some Dementors maybe found floating about. Do not mind them, if you do not provoke them, they will leave you alone. Now, on with the Sorting and Feast!" He finished with a flourish, gaining applause from the students seated at the tables.

A tall woman stepped up; a crooked hat perched on her head as she pulled out a roll of paper. She began spouting out names, last before first, her crackly words tinted with a thick Scottish accent. Small first years traipsed up to the podium, sitting on a stool and having a large worn hat placed on their heads. The hat looked as if it could fall apart at any moment, strings and patches all that was holding it together.

"Elric, Alphonse!"

Al shot up, chocolate grey eyes wide in surprise as his name was finally called second to last. He glanced to his older brother for a moment, gaining a reassuring nod and a kind smile. Al nodded as well, sliding from the seat and staggering up to the stool himself like all the first years had done, yet he was second year. The large brown hat was placed on his head, sliding down to his ears and covering his eyes. In response to the darkness Al shut his eyes, breathing calmly as he awaited whatever was supposed to happen.

"Hmm… hello Alphonse, I see that you have been through many things in your short life."

Al let out a small squeak at the unexpected voice in his head, all too tempted to tear the hat off his head and run down the hall with his brother in tow, but he held his ground and slowly opened his eyes.

There, right in front of him, was an artistic rune drawn in the inside folds of the hat, written in blood.

"You're a soul! A soul attached to this hat!" The youngest Elric whispered reverently. The hat seemed to nod, a deep chuckling echoing in Al's head.

"Well, you know my secret do you. You were once like me, were you not?"

"I was, but brother got my body back from the Gate, I never saw it of course." Al whispered to the hat, now no longer afraid of the 'test.'

"Hmm… you are an alchemist then, very smart, very smart indeed. I think I know just where to put you then Alphonse Elric. Better be…"

"RAVENCLAW!" the hat suddenly screamed out loud, the voice cutting off in Alphonse's head and continuing outside for all to hear. The Ravenclaw table cheered loudly, and Al carefully removed the hat with a bow of thanks before making his way to his new house table. On his way, the Elric brothers exchanged glances, Ed smiling widely and giving his little brother a thumbs up, Al blushing slightly and smiling back excitedly.

"Elric, Edward!"

Ed glanced to the Scottish woman, earning pats on the back from Ron to 'hurry it up!' He stumbled from his seat, quickly regaining his composure and strutting up the center of the hall to sit on the stool. He was the last one to be sorted that year, and he would get through it without a hitch. The hat was draped over his head, sliding down to his nose. Ed grumbled angrily about monster hats made for giants before settling down and staring in boredom at the blood seal presenting itself in the darkness. He had seen blood seals before, all too familiar with what they meant.

"My my, you've seen quite a bit haven't you? I'm frankly surprised you haven't gone insane by now… and automail too, well you do have a past don't you?"

"What the- get the heck out of my head!" Ed snapped angrily at the hat, soul attached to it or not, Ed would burn it if it continued poking in his head.

"Settle down now, settle down. I'm simply making an evaluation. You seem to be extraordinarily brave, though that could just be stubbornness," "Hey!" "And yet you are very very loyal to those few who have gained your trust and who you place your trust in. I know you would like to stay with your brother, but I have another place ready for you…"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Ed leapt to his feet as if he were burned, snatching the hat of his head and hissing a threat to it before letting it slump to the stool in an undignified manner. He waltzed back down the hall, taking his previous seat next to Ron and Harry as the entire table cheered madly. Two suspicious looking twins had greeted him simultaneously, and Ed filed them away in his mind to be wary when around them.

"Welcome to Gryffindor, Ed, you're new home!" Harry said with a warm smile, along with agreeing nods from Ron and Hermione.

Ed would never say how much those words had twisted his heart.

So, tiny recap. Ed got in Gryffindor (big surpise there, so cliche, but I don't think he'd fit in Slytherin) and Al got in Ravenclaw (possibly another cliche, but he's smart and creative!) I made the Sorting Hat a soul attached to the hat because I COULD (creative license not really who cares?) And no, I do not know who's soul is in the hat.

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