Chapter Four

A/N: I only own the characters whose names can be found on my profile/not something created by JK Rowling or Ryan Murphy. Anything else is not mine and is the property of JKR or Fox.

The boat ride to Hogwarts was smooth, though John was a little freaked out by Hagrid's size. His dad should have warned him about that! Luckily, he managed to grab a boat with Alex, Sue, and Andrew. After the boat ride, Teddy met them in the Entrance Hall, much to John's surprise.

"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts," he said with a smile. "In a few minutes, you will go through these doors and join your classmates. But before you do, you must be sorted into your houses. There are four: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor and Slytherin. I hope you will be a proud member of whatever house you are to be sorted in. Follow me please."

He turned and the rest of the group went through the double doors into the Great Hall. It was beautiful, with the floating candles and the night sky overhead.

"How do they sort us?" Alex muttered to John, trying not to attract attention from his sister.

"No idea," John whispered back. "I tried getting it out of my dad but he wouldn't budge. Said it's part of the Hogwarts experience."

"Lame," Alex mumbled and John nodded in agreement. Suddenly, someone jostled him from behind and had it not been revealed to be Alex's sister, john might have started his first day in his father's office.

"Ugh, can't stand Hudson," Sue grumbled. "Keeps talking about how great her mother is and how she hopes there's a Glee club here."

"There's not," John shook his head. "It got shut down during Dad's time. Board of Directors closed the funding and no one would provide the giant frogs so they ended it."

"….did you say giant frogs?"

Before John could answer, Teddy came back into the room and led them into the Great Hall. John couldn't help looking up at the ceiling, even though Teddy had brought him here before. It was his favorite part of Hogwarts.

"Dude, what's he doing with that old hat?" Alex muttered and John shrugged. Suddenly, though, the hat's brim opened and it began to sing. What the hat was actually saying, John couldn't tell you. He had to keep reassuring Sue that she wasn't dreaming or having a nightmare where fluffy bunnies ate her cat. She calmed down during the applause, and tried to ignore the taunting from her brother.

"Now when I call your name," Teddy said, as he picked up the Sorting Hat, "I shall place the Sorting Hat on your head and it will sort you into your houses. Seth Abrams!"

A boy who looked a lot like Will, except he was sporting a cut lip and his brown hair was longer, walked up to the stool and sat down. A few minutes later….

"SLYTHERIN!" the hat rang out and Seth went to go sit at the table to the far right. John rolled his eyes; an instant dislike for the boy arose in his stomach. Slytherins were pure evil…even if this guy was Muggle Born.

"Will Abrams!"

Will approached the stool and sat down as well. The Hat instantly opened its brim just as he was placed on Will's head.

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

Will gave his brother one last glace before joining his new housemates sitting in the center table. John let out a sigh of relief he didn't even know he was holding in. Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors could be friends.

"Andrew Anderson-Hummel!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Yes!" John grinned as Andrew went over to the Lion's Den. He just knew that would be him in a few moments. Just had to get through the rest of these people.

"Sarah Hudson!" he heard his dad's voice ring out, ruining his daydream of becoming a Quidditch Player. There, on the stool, was the annoying girl from the train.

"Whatever House she gets in, I hope I'm not," Sue muttered to her brother, loud enough so John could hear.

"Count me in too," Alex muttered back.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Looks like I'm out guys," John said with a grimace. "I've been wanting Gryffindor since I was three. There's no way I'm backing out because of some girl."

"See you for your funeral," Alex said with a smirk-causing John to shoot his tongue out at the other boy.

"John Lupin!"

This was it! The moment John had been waiting for the past eight years of his life. Walking up, he sat down and placed the hat on his head.

Hmm…

Gryffindor, Gryffindor, Gryffindor!

Hufflepuff?

I'll set you on fire if you….

Temper young man. I was only having fun. No, the house you belong in is….

"GRYFFINDOR! Where a Weasley probably slept in your bed," the hat announced, muttering the last part as John took the hat off. John looked at his father, who had a proud look on his face as his first-born took his rightful spot among the Gryffindors.

"Come on Alex," John muttered under his breath but was disappointed when the hat announced that Alex was a Ravenclaw instead of a Gryffindor. But that disappointment vanished when Sue was sorted into Gryffindor as well.

"Let the feast begin," the Headmistress announced after the sorting Hat had been put away and the hall quieted down. To everyone's surprise, food appeared out of thin air.

"Go on," John said to Sue, "eat it. It won't bite you."

Sue giggled and started building her plate of food. To John's surprise, she had almost as much on her plate as he did!

"Sue, I think this is going to be a great friendship," John said. Sue belched in response.

"Lovely," Sarah rolled her eyes as she turned around. Sue smirked and then leaned over to John.

"What are we going to do about her?"

"Leave it to me," John said as he leaned back with a content smirk on his face. It was the same way he got his brother to loosen up and it will be the way he'd remind Hudson just who's turf she entered. Let the little Yank know who was boss.

A/N: Sorry! I'll try to be quicker with my updates from now on. Having a speech and a paper due on the same day doesn't make for much time to give to my stories.