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Spirit of the Wind

Chapter Three: The Sorting

The girl awoke groggily, her head reeling. Dumbledore was beside her, his crinkled eyes shining, from behind half-moon spectacles. At the foot of her bed were heaps upon heaps of candy, stuffed animals, and other assortments of things that caused her eyes to widen.

"From your MANY admirers," Dumbledore stated simply, a coy grin on his face. Her cheeks reddened slightly. "Everyone wants to know the beautiful girl that flies, and makes portal. They want to meet THE GIRL WHO LIVED!" She looked at him as if he were making a joke.

"It's true," He said cheerily, "What's your name young one?"

"My name is Kirone." She stated simply.

She smiled as understanding dawned on him. "Ah. Then you know not only who I am, but WHAT I am as welljust as I know who you are, Dumbledore."

He nodded solemnly, "I think it best for your safety if we sort you in to one of the houses, so that you most likely will never be left vulnerable, because you are alone." His eyes drifted to the pile of gifts, "Though I doubt that being alone is likely to happen, with that kind of entrance." She rolled her eyes, but nodded. "How long have I been out?" She asked. "Five days," He said, "You are still too weak to leave your bed.."

She scowled at him and stood to prove that she was perfectly alright. She was a little stiff, but fine for the most part. She tested her wings. The membranes had healed well, and were no longer seeping ichor, but it would be a few more days untol they would be fully strong again.

"Let's get this over with" And with that she strode purposefully out of the room.

Outside the Great Hall she muttered a few words and her tattered clothing changed to a silvery shining hlater top, a silver hoop belt that hung off her hip, black dress pants that had two inch slits up from the bottom, and silver high heels. Her liquidy silver hair was pulled up into a VERY high pony-tail on top of her hair, and large silver hoop earrings dangeled from her ears. Her Lips were a frosty white, as well as was her eyeshadow.

Dumbledore looked at her and she nodded her consent. Then he flung open the doors to the Great Hall. The entire Hall went totally silent. Kirone thought you could have heard a pin drop. She looked calmly around at the faces of her soon to be class mates. When she saw most of the boys she had to stiffle a giggles. She tried to regain her composure as she followed Dumbledore to the front of the Hall.

'This is Kirone Yaamahi, all of you know how she arrived, but the reason why will not be disclosed. She is here.to be sorted.'

McGonagall brought out the Sorting Hat. Kirone turned around and was surprised to say lots of boys and girls praying to have the mysterious girl in their House. Then the hat covered her eyes, and she saw nothing else.

'Hmmmm' it said out loud,'Quite smart this oneperhaps Ravenclaw..yes you would learn much there..' The Ravenclaws held their breath. 'No.you would be wasted there, as well as in Hufflepuff.' In one swoop both Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were out of the running. Both houses looked back at their dinner dejectedly. 'Now this is a tough choice,' It continued, 'You could do very very well in Slytherin,' The Slytherins were now on the edge of their seats, 'You have power, and could put that to good use there. You have many secrets that you wish not revealed, yesyou would fit in quite nicely.' As they thought it was about to make it's decision it went on, much to the growing despair of the Slytherins. 'BUT! Gryffindor.ah yes, we can't rule them out. You have a brave, courageous 'heart', though not totally pure. You yearn to help others, and.' It paused.[A/N: For drama of course] 'You hold within your very soul a pure energy.I shall have to think some more.' Then it was quite. Both Gryffindor and Slytherin were impatient for the senile old hat to get on with it!

They waited this way for what seemed like an eternity [A/N: Only really like 7 min.!!!] before the hat suddenly shouted out..

[A/N: I was gonna end it like this, but I'll go on, so you wont have a cliffy!]

'GRYFFINDOR!!!!'

Wild cheers erupted that, were louder then when Harry himself had been sorted. Kirone blushed and made her way to the Gryffindor table. As she walked along she heard many calls of 'Over here' , 'Come sit by me!', and other things. She was unsure of what to do, until a girl, thankfully, pulled her down into an empty seat next to her. The girl had bushy, brown hair, and brown, eyes and looked altogether, plain. She flashed her a smile of thanks before heaping some food onto her plate. She held out her hand, 'Hi, I'm Kirone Yaamahi, but unfortunately, I think you and everyone in the whole school knows that already.' She turned slightly pink. The girl grinned, 'The name's Hermione, and those two 'men' are Rone Weasley, and Harry Potter.' She said with a little more emphasis on Harry's name.

Surely this girl must at least know about the boy who lived

But she didn't even pay any notice to Harry, instead she turned to Ron. 'Oh cool! You're a Weasley. I heard about Bill & Charlie, they study dragons don't they? And wasn't your older brother a Prefect?'

Ron turned scarlet, and muttered something that sounded like 'Yeah..that's my family' She kept going, 'Then the twins are the pranksters, and Ginny is the little sweethart, so you must be the Champion of Wizard's Chess!' Ron turned purple, and Hermoine elbowed him in the stomach,'Don't let it go to your head,' She said jokingly. Before anyone else could say anything. An all-to familiar voice drawled.

'It's too bad you were sorted into this lot, Miss Yaamahi. It's a shame you weren't sorted into Slytherin,' Malfoy said very un-Malfoy like. Kirone turned in her chair, and not knowing the bleached blond boy behind her, stuck out her hand, and said in a falsely cheery voice. 'Oh, silly, you can call me Kiri, all my friends do.' All of Gryffindor gasped. Malfoy just looked smug. 'Th' name's Draco, Draco Malfoy.' He took her hand, and instead of shaking it, planted a kiss on it instead. Causing another gasp from all watching. Kirone was taken aback and didn't know what to do, obviousely this isn't a normal occurrence. Before she could react. He leaned down and whispered something into her ear, then sauntered off.

Kirone turned back to her food, her face a bright scarlet, and she lowered her head, trying to act interested in her dinner roll. Everyone looked at her. 'What did he say?' Harry asked. She blushed further and shook her head, managing to say, '..'

Her face had finally finished cooling down, as dinner was over, and the students were dismissed. She decided to follow Harry, Ron, and Hermoine to the Gryffindor tower, but she was pulled aside by a man with greasy black hair and beady eyes. She remembered him now. He was the one, who had snapped at her so rudely.

'Professor Dumbledore requests your prescense, NOW!' He said coldly.

'Where is his office??' She asked fluttering up so she was head level with Snape, she was not going to let him push her around for the remainder of her stay, however long that be. He scowled at her insolense and pointed at a door, guarded by two gargoyles.

'But you don't know the password, it's..'

By then she was all ready at his door she looked around the hall to make sure it was deserted, than winking at Snape she flew through the door.

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Ummmmm A/N: I have changed things a bit so that Oliver Wood and others that should have graduated, haven't they're 7th years, so there, nyah!

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