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"The first years Professor McGonagall" said Hagrid

"Thank you Hagrid" said McGonagall

"Follow me" she said walking into the castle

All the first years followed McGonagall into the castle and past the Great Hall into a smaller chamber off to the side of the Great Hall. "Welcome to Hogwarts" said McGonagall when everyone was in the chamber

"The start of term banquet will be starting shortly. But before you can join your fellow students you will have to be sorted into your houses. The sorting is a very important ceremony because for the next seven years your house will be like your family. You will eat, sleep, and study with the members of your house" she started explaining

"The four houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and has produced many fine witches and wizards. While you are here your triumphs will earn you house points and any rule breaking will lose you house points. At the end of the year the house with the most points will win the house cup" she continued

"The sorting ceremony will begin shortly. We will call you when we are ready" she finished as she exited the chamber

Everyone started talking worried about what the test was going to be. "I heard you have to fight a troll" he heard Ron say

"That's stupid, like they really would pit eleven year olds against a troll" thought Harry

He also heard that bushy haired girl muttering all the spells she knew under her breath. "Wow, someone studied ahead" thought Harry

He then heard a scream that made Harry put a hand near the hilt of one of his swords and look around for the cause of the scream. He saw it was just the Hogwarts ghosts which made him relax again. It appeared that they were arguing about something. "Forgive and forget I say. Let's give him a second chance" said a fat ghost

"My dear Friar, we have given him too many second chances if you ask me. He gives all a bad name" said a ghost wearing a ruff and tights

"New students" exclaimed the fat friar

"About to be sorted I guess" he asked

Some of the kids nodded their heads as the fat friar said "Hope to see you Hufflepuff"

"Move along now" said McGonagall

The ghosts left as McGonagall said "We are ready for you now"

They all left the chamber and entered the Great Hall. Inside they saw five long tables with four of them filled with students and the fifth one at the end of the hall filled with teachers. They looked up and saw hundreds of floating candles and the ceiling looked like the night sky. Professor McGonagall led them down the middle of the two inner tables till they reached the teacher's table where a three legged stool sat with an old hat on top. The brim of the hat opened and it started singing. "So we are going to be sorted by a singing hat" thought Harry

After the hat finished singing and bowed to everybody McGonagall took out a rolled up list and started calling out names. Because of his name change he was one of the first ones. "Harry Aurion" called out McGonagall

Harry walked up to the stool thinking "I'm glad we got a name that came before our original name"

Harry sat down on the stool and McGonagall but the hat on his head. "Interesting, very interesting" said the hat

"What is it" asked Harry

"Your Occlumency barriers, it appears as your mind is encased in a crystal" said the hat

"Oh that" said Harry

"Mommy and Daddy said that was to keep bad people out" he said

"Well could you lower them for me" asked the hat

"No, Daddy said to never do that" said Harry

"Then how am I suppose to sort you" asked the hat

"You could just put me in Gryffindor" said Harry

"That isn't how it works" shouted the hat

"Could you please put me in that house? I really want to go into that one" said Harry

"Fine" grumbled the hat

"GRYFFINDOR" shouted out the hat after a couple of minutes

Harry took off the hat and walked towards the Gryffindor table while thinking "So our Cruxis Crystal provide us with unbreakable Occlumency barriers"

"Those lessons I had with Lloyd and Colette really paid off" he thought as he sat down

The rest of the sorting went well with Ron joining him in Gryffindor. After the sorting was finished McGonagall took the sorting hat and the stool away and Dumbledore got up and spread him arms wide saying "Welcome"

"Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts. Let the feast begin" he proclaimed as food appeared on the plates

Everyone took some food and started eating while talking. A ghost came up to them and said "Welcome to Gryffindor"

"I am Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, the resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower" said Nick

"My brothers told me about you. Your Nearly Headless Nick" said Ron

"I prefer Sir Nicholas if you don't mind" said Nick

"Nearly headless, how can someone be nearly headless" asked Seamus

"Like this" Nick said while sighing

He pushed his head to the side and it fell onto his shoulder with only a few pieces of skin connecting it to his neck. Everyone got a disgusted look on their face as Nick put his head back on properly. "So new Gryffindors I hope you will help us win the house cup this year. The Slytherins have won it for the last six years. We have never gone this long without winning it" said Nick

"Dad isn't going to like that" thought Harry

After everyone had eaten as much as they could all the leftover food disappeared and all kinds of desserts appeared. As Harry was eating his dessert he looked up at the head table and look at the teachers. He saw Hagrid drinking, Professor McGonagall talking to Professor Dumbledore, and a teacher in a turban talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin. "He looks like one of the people dad told me he went to school with" thought Harry

He tapped one of the older students on the shoulder and said "Excuse me"

"Yes" said the older student

"Who is that teacher next to the one with the turban" asked Harry

"That's Professor Snape who teaches potions and the one with the turban is Professor Quirrell our new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher for the year" said the older student

"Dad is really not going to like this" thought Harry

"I'm glad I look different now or Snape would have transferred his hate for dad to me" he thought

After the last of the dessert disappeared from their plates Dumbledore got to talk again. "Now that we are all fed I have some start of term notices to give you before we all go off to bed" Dumbledore began speaking

"First years should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all students. A few older students would do well to remember that" he continued as he looked at the Weasley twins

"Maybe they have the map" thought Harry

"I have also been asked by our caretaker Mr. Filch to remind you all that there is to be no magic used in the corridors between classes" said Dumbledore

"Quidditch trials will be held on the second week of the term. Anyone interested playing for your house should contact Madam Hooch" he continued

"And finally I must tell you this year that the third floor corridor on the right hand side is out of bounds to everyone who doesn't wish to die a most painful death" he finished

"I wonder what he means by that" thought Harry

He heard some of the students laughing with one of them asking "He's not serious"

"He must be since he didn't tell us prefects" said an older student

"Now off the bed with all of you" said Dumbledore

All the students left the Great Hall with the Gryffindor first years following a prefect named Percy Weasley to the dorms. When they were almost there everyone stopped when they saw multiple walking sticks floating in the air. "Peeves" grumbled Percy

"Peeves show yourself" he shouted

There was a sound like someone was blowing a raspberry as Percy yelled "Do you want to go get the Bloody Baron"

There was a small pop as a ghostly man appeared holding the walking sticks. "Ickle Firsties, What fun" cackled Peeves

He dived bombed the students throwing the walking sticks at them. All the students dodged them as Peeves floated away cackling

"You have to watch out for him" said Percy as they started walking again

"The only one that can control him is the Bloody Baron" he said

"Here we are" he proclaimed as they stopped in front of a painting

It was a painting of a fat lady wearing pink silk dress. "Password" she asked

"Caput Draconis" said Percy

The painting swung open revealing archway that they all walked through. "Welcome to the Gryffindor common room" said Percy once everyone was inside

"The boys dorms are up to your left and the girls are up to your right" he said

"Good night" he said as he went up the boys' staircase

The first year boys went to the top of the staircase and went inside their room and found five four poster beds each with a trunk in front of it. Each boy went to the bed that had their trunk in front of it and fell asleep instantly. Harry opened his trunk and found a cloak on top with a note attached. The note read:

Harry,

My father gave me this invisibility cloak when I started Hogwarts and now I am giving it to you. Dumbledore took it before we went into hiding but I got it back using an old family spell. I know you don't need it but you could use it to sneak out with any friends you make.

Love,

Dad

Harry smiled as he put the cloak aside and took out the map. He wanted to study how to get to the Great Hall and all the classrooms for the subjects he was going to have. He got into his bed and shut the curtain and said "I solemnly swear to use you for good" tapping the map with his wand

He looked over the map and was shocked when he saw a name he knew next to Ron's. "Peter Pettigrew" Harry whispered

Sorry it is shorter that usual but I thought that was a good spot to stop.