Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Just before the sorting

" Wonder what's the food is like here?" questioned Laura, " I'm hungry."

" Laura you are always hungry this is no exception. You ate so much in the train. And spent half of my allowance for this term." Moaned Draco. "I'm surprise that you are not overweight!"

" Why should I be?" retorted back Laura." At the rate you make me play quidditch with you?"

" Ha!" Ron and Harry burst out into laughter.

" How do they sort students out here?" Laura asked.

" By houses. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin." Answered Hermione promptly.

" Wonder what house I will be in," said Laura frowning thinking over.

" If you are like your brother, Slytherin, the house for –" said Harry with a sly grin, before he could say finish he was interrupted by Draco.

" Winners." Finished Draco giving Harry a glare that could kill.

" Says who?" countered Ron backed quickly.

" Gryffindors are for the courageous," Replied Hermione with a smile, " unlike Slytherins which are for the punchers." As she duck a punch that Draco threw her way.

" First years and transfer students please come here!" yelled Professor Mc Gonagall.

" Opps got to go. See you all later. " Said Laura running off.

The sorting

After all the first years have been sorted, then came the transfers.

" Laura, erm." said Professor Mc Gonagall trying to decide which surname to use.

Laura grinned inwardly at herself, laughing silently at Professor Mc Gonagall trying to decide which surname to use. She quickly walked up to the sorting hat and put it on.
' Hmm' said the hat, ' this is going to be hard to decide. You are a perfect mix of Slytherin and Gryffindor. This is going to be hard to decide.'
' Well is this all you are gonna tell me?' thought Laura, half decided to take of the hat and stomp off to sitting there waiting for the hat to decide.
' Well… Ermm.'

This went on for quite a while and Laura got so bored that she actually fell asleep for a few minutes under the hat. When she woke up, the hat was still deciding. Laura decided to take things in her own hands. She actually got up to Professor Mc Gonagall and told her that the hat could not decided which house to put her in.

When the whole school saw her get up, they were shock. Draco was about to fall off his chair; Ron and Harry were starring with mouths open. Hermione was looking surprised.

" Professor Mc Gonagall, this hat can't decide what house to put me in.," said Laura, silently.

The whole hall became silent at once. Professor Dumbledore was staring at Laura. Draco really fell of his chair. Harry and Ron just stared dumbly at each other, the whole hall looking exactly like them, too dumbstruck to do anything. Except for Hermione, she was looking through a book about Weird Events That Happen at Hogwarts.

" This can't be," said Professor Mc Gonagall clearly shocked by what she heard, "Try the hat on again," She said after putting a spell on the hat that enabled the whole hall to hear the hat's thoughts.

" Well, I thought you won't come back again to try me on again, Laura Malfoy." Said the hat.

The whole hall buzzed with whispers. No one would have thought that tomboy like Laura would be Draco Malfoy's sister, not with her dark hair.

"How did you know I was Laura Malfoy? Not Laura Wang?" questioned Laura.

" I can always tell the person who puts me on, real identity. This is why I cannot decide to put you in Gryffindor of Slytherin. Your family background should straight away put you in Slytherin. But your attitude, behaviour puts you in Gryffindor. That's why I say you are a perfect mix of everything. Like, we all know that you are a girl but behave exactly like a boy, from behaviour to appearance."

" Could you for once keep quiet about certain things." Moaned a very embarrassed Laura, who was red in the face. " Everyone can here you and me. I don't suppose you know that?"

" Oh. I forgot." Answered the hat, not a bit ruffled at all.

" Fine so can you decide?" retorted back a very impatient Laura, " Before I take you off."

True to her word, Laura took the hat off. She walked over to Professor Mc Gongall who was staring at the hat wondering whether it was charmed.

" Professor. The hat." Said Laura with a drawl exactly like Draco's.

" We will decide later." Said Professor Mc Gonagall clearly shocked, taking the hat, while directing her to Slytherin's table, motioning her to sit next to Draco.

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Well…how is it? I have another writers block… so please help me … …