Don't own any of the usual characters. Never have L never will L Oh well, you can still read the story
Warning:Contains spoilers though I don't know why you'd be reading this if you hadn't read the first Harry Potter book already. Go figure.
Chapter 3
As the carriage rumbled along, Magentra sat watching the two girls whisper and stare at her curiously. Finally one of the girls, a tall, strong and dark skinned teenager, offered her name. "My name's Anjelina. Anjelina Johnson, and this," she pointed to the red haired girl beside her "Is Katie Bell."
Magentra smiled. "Magentra Lupin." She sized the girls up and continued "Are you fifth years?"
Katie laughed, "Third. I Suspect you'll be in Gryffindor with us. You don't seem like anything but."
Anjelina nodded.
"I don't look like anything but a what?" Magentra asked, confused.
The two girls rolled their eyes "Muggle family."
"Actually, Lupin's a wizard but he doesn't talk about Hogwarts much," Magentra put in.
"Not talk about Hogwarts," Katie said, confused, "What kind of father is he to not talk about Hogwarts?"
"A wizard and a bloody good God-father," Magentra's temper flared as she replied defiantly.
"Oh, well, in that case, there are four houses named after the four founders of Hogwarts. They're rather your family, sort of-"
Anjelina cut Katie off "There's Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, which is our house, and Slytherin which never turns out anything but Nasty Wizards," Anjelina cut off her explanation abruptly.
The carriages had shuttered to a halt and all the students were climbing out onto the path in front of the large entrance to Hogwarts. "Who's ready to eat?" laughed a voice from amongst the crowd.
Taking a deep breath, Magentra stepped into the entry hall.
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The hall was large enough to fit an entire good sized house in. Lit with flaming torches giving it a bit of an eerie feel, all the students fit inside it easily. Magentra began to follow her classmates across the flagged stone floor- past an immense marble staircase that led to the upper floors, and towards the dining hall. She was stopped, however, in her tracks, when she recognized Albus Dumbledore lying in wait for her. Purple robes gleaming, half moon glasses, clean as a whistle, and long white hair and beard combed, he looked ready to be crowned the next king of England.
"Hello Magentra," he smiled, "I trust the journey went well."
Magentra smiled broadly "Hello Dumbledore. The journey went quite well."
Dumbledore nodded "Good good. Now come with me."
Walking briskly, he led her to a small chamber off the great hall, where 3 nervous looking teenagers sat. A stern-faced, dark-haired witch wearing emerald green robes entered at the far corner of the room carrying an extremely patched and frayed pointed wizards hat.
Dumbledore nodded, "Mcgonagall, I see you've already retrieved our school sorting hat."
Magentra was seated in an over-stuffed plush chair between a blonde-haired boy that looked as if he had more brawn than brains, and a dark haired boy with large teeth and a nasty grin. Magentra couldn't help but think how much he resembled an ape she'd seen at the zoo once.
On the other side of the blonde-haired boy sat a tall skinny girl, with shoulder length, light brown hair and glasses. She caught Magentra's gaze and returned the nervous smile.
"This is a special year," Dumbledore addressed them, "Last year, a family with four children moved to Russia and decided not to send their children back to Hogwarts. You four are very lucky to have been chosen to replace them as transfer students. Uniquely, they had one child in every house, a great rareity. Therefore, one by one, I will call your name and you must come forward to be sorted.
The four students looked at each other.
Dumbledore picked up a small piece of parchment "Edward Vincent Archibald Parkhurst III."
The blonde boy stood up, flashing a brilliant white smile at Magentra (who grimaced) and walked bravely towards Mcgonagall. "Sit on the stool," she ordered and promptly placed the dirty, patched hat on his head.
Magentra nearly jumped out of her seat when a slit resembling a mouth appeared and the hat began to talk to himself!
"Hmm...yes...I see..." the hat muttered thoughtfully, slyly it "looked" at the others and shouted "HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Leah-Jade Black," Mcgonagall read. The tall, skinny girl, slowly stood up and walker over to the stool. The hat spent a long time deciding. "Hmm...courage...brains...where to put you?" After mulling for some time it finally shouted "RAVENCLAW!"
"Magentra Rose Lupin," Mcgonagall read.
Magentra tried to swallow the growing lump in her throat and almost choaked. She rose, walked over to the stool and sat down apprehensively. Mcgonagall immediately plunked the hat down on her head.
The hat whispered, "Psst. Bee in your bonnet Riddle? I wondered if you'd ever follow that blasted father of yours. Nasty one he was. Handsome, but nasty. Your mother was a nice one though. Ravenclaw I do believe she ended up in, though your uncle James was a Gryffindor as was your aunt Lily. Now.... let's see....quite witty...plenty of brains...you've got a nerve, child...plenty of bravery...a thirst to prove yourself...hard working. Hmm..."
"Not Slytherin, anything but Slytherin.." she thought.
"Not Slytherin aye? All you orphans seem to be afraid of Slytherin. Are you sure? You could be great there. Very great, many have prospered in that house. Yes...Well... Not Slytherin? Then it better be GRYFFINDOR!" He shouted the last word to the entire room.
Magentra breathed a sigh of relief and returned to her seat.
"Godric Durmstang," Mcgonagall chirped, "This means you are officially a Slytherin. Now," she smiled at the group, "Come with me."
Professor Mcgonagall led them through a door that entered the dining hall. The students at each table were excitedly chattering to each other.
The room silenced when they spotted Mcgonagall's stern face. "You all know the Stasburgs moved this summer chosing not to return to Hogwarts. Therefore, I'm pleased to announce the arrival of Edward Parkhurst III of Hufflepuff (the Hufflepuff table cheered loudly) Leah-Jade Black of Ravenclaw (The Ravenclaws greeted her to their table with a loud "Huzzah!") Magentra Rose Lupin of Gryffindor (The entire table cheered) and Godric Durmstang of Slytherin (they greeted him loudly, menacing as usual) as your new classmates.
Their new friends continued to roar in approval as they took their seats at the tables Mcgonagall had pointed out to them.
Magentra found herself sitting by a tall, red-haired boy. Everything about him screamed teacher's pet, from his pointed hat to his smartly shoed toes. He grinned and introduced herself "Hello. I'm Percy, Percy Weasley. Then he pointed to some of the people at their table. "Those are my brothers, Fred and George," he said, pointing matter of factly at two, identical, red-haired boys with matching mischevious grins. "That's Anjelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, Oliver Wood, Jambasia Weatherford, Katie Bell..." He continued to rattle names as Magentra noticed Mcgonagall returning, carrying the stool and hat, and leading Ron and Harry along with the other first years.
"Sshhhh" Fred hissed at Percy, "I want to see if Ron gets stuck with us Weasleys."
Magentra realised they were brothers with the boy she'd met on the train.
"Big family," she commented absentmindedly.
"That's not the half of it," George exclaimed, "We've two brothers who've gone here already and a younger sister that'll be enterin next year."
Fred shushed them again and they turned to watch the sorting. To her delite, Ron and Harry, along with their bushy haired friend Hermione, were all sorted into Gryffindor house.
Finally Mcgonagall rolled up her scroll and took the hat away.
Dumbledore, sitting on a high platform with the other teachers, got to his feet. Beaming at the students he spoke.
BRUHAHAHAHA!!!! I needed to get this chappie up in a hurry 'cause I had to go somewhere and my friend wanted to read it- so you get to read about the rest of the feast and the next few days when I get another chance to post. Please read and review NO FLAMES PLEASE!!! Thanks a bunch- Tris