Chapter 3 – Sorting Ceremony and Settling In

The boat ride was uneventful even though it was shared with Neville and Ron. Hermione started reciting facts about Hogwarts just to piss off Ron and Neville. Harry was trying hard not to laugh at what Hermione was doing. It was made funny when she started making things up like people use to regularly get lost in Hogwarts, Dementors roams the halls after curfew, there are ghosts that enjoy possessing students at night, there are rooms full of spiders the size of dogs, Professor Snape is trying to get body parts for his experiments so he makes potions as dangerous as possible and etc. Harry decided to confirm the rumour the twins made up about needing to battle a troll to determine your house. Ron and Neville were both pissing in fear once the boat ride ended. They bolt up the steps to get away from the two bookworms. Once they were out of sight, Harry and Hermione burst out laughing. Everyone looked at them as though they were weird.

Malfoy came over before the sorting began.

"So you are the Harry Potter as there are no other by that name on the train I checked. Why did you lie before?"

"Everything I said is true. What has been said about me is false."

"Let's start over. I am Draco Malfoy."

"I am glad you know your own name. Did it take you long to learn it?"

Hermione seeing how things are heading had silently casts the diarrhoea spell on Draco while they were talking.

"Are you calling me stupid? You mudblood."

"Compare to you a brain dead pigeon is smart. Must be all that inbreeding. Is your mother, the first or second cousin, to you father?"

"Wait until my father hears about this. You will regret it."

"You can't think for yourself. You need your father to do your thinking for you. Do you share a brain cell with you Daddy is that why need wait for him to tell you what to do?"

Draco whips out his wand and then the diarrhoea charm sets in.

"I will get you for this." Draco screams as he running to the toilet .

Harry whispers to Hermione. "Why did you do that for? I was trying to get him to do a spell and fail and look pathetic."

"Sorry, It was just the perfect opportunity to test out that spell you just taught me."

Due to the charm, Draco misses the sorting hat song and the sorting of a few students. Neville and Ron were angry at Harry and Hermione for giving them all that false information especially in regards to the sorting ceremony. They kept sending Harry, dirty looks which, Harry thought was really funny. Draco was back before the sorting of Hermione. It took a long time for the Sorting Hat to decide which house to put her in. But in the end it decided on Ravenclaw. Harry could hear Draco in the background telling Pansy that she was probably a squib and the hat did not know where to put her which was why it took so long.

Harry's name was called and the silence of the room followed by the sound of people gossiping was quiet unnerving, Everyone was staring at him when he walked up the to the Sorting Stand. He put the hat on.

"Another interesting mind. Please lower shields." the Hat said.

"Just put me in Ravenclaw and let go at that." Harry replied.

"Just lower your shields, nothing I find will be passed on to any one else. Privacy is something I take very seriously."

"Give me one good reason why I should,"

"I can help with advise or I can pass on messages to you about what Dumbledore."

"If you reveal what you learn or do not help me I will burn you to a crisp. Do we understand each other?"

"Okay"

Harry lowered the shields on his minds. The hat immediately started going through Harry's memories.

"I can see how the other me had such a great trouble sorting you. Your actions are truly Griffindor, your plans with Hermione plus your ability to lead are pure Slytherin, you are smart enough for Ravenclaw and your loyalty to your friends is great but the abuse of your trust has lead you to your current path. So Hufflepuff is out as they are unlikely to able live up to standards of loyalty. You would suit Slytherin, but I know you want to go to Ravenclaw so that it is where I am going to place. I don't you want to be set on fire by you if I choose differently. I can give you the Griffindor's sword but not right now. I am sure the founders would have agreed with what you are doing so I will try to help you where I can. I should be able to keep the headmaster from tracking you and Hermione within Hogwarts and I might be able to pass on an occasional message. Best of Luck. "

"RAVENCLAW!"

Harry immediately raised his shields and was instantly bombarded by Dumbledore trying to get inside his mind before he could react. But the shock on his and everyone's face was hilarious to Harry. It like all of Dumbledore's plans came crashing down. The Ravenclaw table started clapping and some polite clapping from Slytherin. Some people from Hufflepuff began clapping but the major did not know what to make of it. Griffindor were in shock, all of them thought Harry would sorted in their house or Slytherin if he was evil but not this.

Harry went over to sit next to Hermione at the Ravenclaw table. He was to welcomed to the house by the other members of Ravenclaw then the sorting continue with no variation from last time. Even the constant staring from Snape, Dumbledore, Quirrel and McGonagall was the same as last time. During the actual meal, Harry and Hermione got to know the other Ravenclaws better than they did last time. They were twelve people in Ravenclaw this year including Hermione and Harry. Cho and Mariette were trying to befriend the new girls in Ravenclaw including Hermione. But Hermione rejected them, she strongly suspected that these girls were trying to for a clique that she did not want to be a part of.

The boys at Ravenclaw were alright but Harry was hesitate about developing any close bonds with them for two reasons. First reason he would be leaving in a few years he did not want to become attach to anyone but Hermione who was going with him. Second reason is that the betrayals from his closest friends had made reluctant to make new friends in this environment as he was sure that Dumbledore would end up corrupting them. He will just wait until they start at the Salem Institute before making new friends. As such he was already an outsider with Hermione joining him as an outsider as she refuses to join any clique.

At the end of the meal, the prefects began taking the students to their dormitories. Professor McGonagall came and asked Harry to accompany her to the headmaster's office.

"Hello, Harry. Please take a seat."

"Thank you, Sir."

"How have you been, Harry?"

"Alright, is this how you treat all your famous students?"

"I knew your parents, I was just surprised when you were sorted into Ravenclaw as your parents were both in Griffindor. They would have wanted you in Griffindor like them."

"I never knew my parents, so I never knew what they wanted. I grew up with my Aunt, Uncle and my cousin who would not care which house I got into "

"How did they treat you?"

"Okay, Before I forget, I got a private letter from my parents. My father told me to pick up my family heirloom, his invisible cloak from you since you borrowed before he died. So can I have it now?"

"Why don't I hold onto it until you are older?"

"My father wanted me to have now. He was explicit that I get now and he gave a detail description of the cloak. I will expect the cloak tomorrow. It is getting late, I want to go to bed. Is there anything else?"

"No, Goodnight Harry."

Harry quickly leaves the Headmaster's office.

"Crazy old loon. He forgot to get someone to show me the directions to the Ravenclaw dorms.

Harry uses the Marauders' map to get to the Ravenclaw Dorms. Hermione was waiting for Harry in the Ravenclaw Common Room. She could see he was upset so she hugged him.

"I am sorry. I almost lost my temper at Dumbledore and spilled the beans on our entire plan."

"It is alright."

The other people looked at the crying Harry and thought he was weird. Harry stayed in Hermione's arms until one of the Prefects showed up to take Harry to his new dorm.

The next morning Harry and Hermione woke up early and headed straight to the library. Hermione continued researching her various pet projects in the general area of the library. Using one of the wands she had transfigured one of the other chairs at her table to look like Harry. Meanwhile Harry was using stealth charms he learnt from auror training to sneak into the restricted section of the library and start copying books. When ever someone looked like going to their table Hermione would make the fake Harry walk to the shelves past the real Harry. Then the real Harry would follow behind the fake Harry and they were in the shelves. The real Harry could cancel out the Disillusionment Spell and Hermione's Transfiguration and meet whoever was coming over. Harry and Hermione both borrowed a lot of books from the library before heading to breakfast.

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