Chapter Three: Untitled
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were at the Gryffindor table, waiting for the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore to start the feast. The Sorting for the new first years had long been finished and they were now waiting for the feast to start.
Ron groaned, rubbing his stomach. "Hurry up, why don't they? I'm hungry!"
Harry meanwhile, was looking all around the Great Hall for their new friends. "I don't see Sakura or Li or Eriol anywhere, do you?"
"Maybe they had to do something first." Hermione said, crossing her arms, a little frustrated at how much attention Harry was pouring on the new girl.
Seamus Finnigan, another Gryffindor fifth-year and a friend of Harry and Ron heard their conversation. "You've met the new students already, Harry? How were they?"
Dean and Neville turned to them as well curiously.
It was Ron who answered proudly, completely forgetting his hunger. "They were way cool!" he exclaimed. "And the girl was cute as well, but she's the girlfriend of that Li guy."
At the teacher's table, Dumbledore suddenly stood up and clapped his hands three times and all the students quieted.
"This term, we are pleased to announce that we have a new witch and two wizards in Hogwarts. They have graciously agreed to come at my own request. I have decided to. call for them under the recent and unfortunate. circumstances, aside from the fact that they need to finish their magical studies here. They will study amongst the fifth-year students." Everyone turned to the double doors when it started creaking open slowly. "Ah, here they are."
All of the students stared as in marched Sakura, Syaoran, and Eriol straight towards Professor McGonagall, who was waiting with the Sorting Hat at the front of the room. Hermione smiled at Sakura when she passed, and Sakura returned the smile. They were all wearing their Hogwarts robes.
Ron whispered to a wide-eyed Seamus as they passed, "Told ya she was pretty."
Apparently, many people shared his opinion. Boys were staring at Sakura openly, a little mesmerized by her bright emerald eyes and bright smile. Not to be outdone, several girls not only from Gryffindor but from other Houses as well were whispering to each other about how cool and handsome Eriol and Syaoran looked.
"You will be sorted as fifth-years." McGonagall announced sternly, looking over her spectacles at the new students. She unrolled a short parchment after placing the Sorting Hat on the stool. "You will put on the Sorting Hat and he will tell you which House you belong. For every good thing that you do, you will earn points for your house. Rule breaking and not being able to follow the teachers or not doing well at your studies will deduct points from your House. Let us begin." She looked at the parchment, "Kinimoto, Sakura!"
Syaoran gave her a small reassuring smile and squeezed her hand before she sat in the stool and put the Sorting Hat on.
Sakura heard a voice whispering in her ear once she put the Sorting Hat on, "So, Card Mistress, you finally arrived. I was wondering when you were going to come to Hogwarts."
"Hoe?! Y-you're not a ghost ri-right?" she whispered back.
"Of course not!" The hat whispered back indignantly, sounding a little offended. "Anyway, which House should I put you. So powerful. much more powerful than anyone I have ever sorted. you could learn lots of things here easily. you are also kind and compassionate. lots of courage, I see. And what's this?! You love someone." the hat hissed, making Sakura blush a little. "I'm sure of it then! GRYFFINDOR!" He shouted the last word.
The Gryffindor Table erupted in cheers upon hearing the Hat's decision. Hermione moved over to make room for Sakura as she sat down.
"Cool, Sakura!" Ron cheered.
Sakura blushed a little. "Arigatou-I mean, thanks!"
Seamus and Dean blushed when she turned to them. "I'm Sakura Kinimoto! You guys are?"
They introduced themselves as well. Just then, another shout of "GRYFFINDOR!" reached their ears. Turning around, Sakura saw Syaoran heading towards them. She shifted to make room for him. "Sugoi, Syaoran- kun! We're in the same House," she said happily.
He was glaring at the front of the room, where Eriol was now putting on the Sorting Hat. "Yeah. I told the hat that he better not put Hiragizawa with-" he was cut off when the Hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!" for the last time. Cursing fluently in Japanese, he glared at Eriol's smirking face.
Eriol walked over to them, sitting beside Ron and smirking evilly at Syaoran. "The hat told me you said you would rip it apart if it put me in the same House, my *cute little descendant*," Eriol told him after greeting Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Baka hat," Syaoran muttered, crossing his arms. Harry and Ron laughed. Eriol had told them what 'baka' meant on the train ride.
Hermione leaned over towards Sakura. "They don't like each other much, do they? And what's this 'descendant' thingie?"
Sakura sighed as the dishes magically filled with food. "It's a long story, Hermie-san. You wouldn't want to know."
Syaoran cut a small piece off the steak he had put into his plate. Using his fork, he fed it to Sakura, who smiled her thanks at him. He smiled back, before Seamus told him, "You do know that lots of people are staring at you guys right now, right?"
Sweatdropping, Sakura and Syaoran glanced at the other students. Lots of the girls were swooning over the romantic scene and some guys were staring enviously at Syaoran. Syaoran leaned over to Sakura and whispered to her, "Are all the people here in Hogwarts this weird?"
Meanwhile, Harry was talking to Eriol about which school of magic they had been enrolled in before they transferred to Hogwarts. Exchanging looks of confusion, Sakura and Syaoran looked at Eriol as if debating their answer.
After chewing a bite of roast beef thoroughly, he answered, "Actually, we haven't had any proper magical schooling-"
"You haven't?" Neville squeaked.
"But you could say that Sakura and I have been training under the same sorcerer, Clow Reed. Syaoran and I are related to him, after all."
"CLOW REED?!"
Even the older students began listening in on their conversation at the mention of Clow Reed. Eriol raised an eyebrow at their shocked faces. "You know him?"
"He's beyond famous," Hermione breathed out. "They say he's even in Dumbledore and You-Know-Who's League!"
"What about you, Li?" Harry turned to the unfazed boy. "Where have you studied magic?" Everyone in the Gryffindor Table strained to hear his reply.
He glanced at Harry before replying, "I've been training in China, under the Li Clan, since I was three. I'm the Clan Leader now," he replied nonchalantly.
"LI CLAN?!"
Li frowned at their even more startled expressions. "Why? What's wrong with that?"
Ron found his voice first, gaping at Li in awe. "Bloody Hell!! You're from the Li Clan in China?! And you're the Clan Leader now?"
"Well, technically, I am, but my mother has been managing the clan's business for me because I had to attend school here."
"Did you know that you guys are waaaay famous?!" Ron exclaimed. Several girls were now patting their robes looking for quills, probably to get the trio's autographs.
They all shrugged again and continued eating as if nothing had happened, a vein popping on Syaoran's forehead when two Gryffindor siblings who had introduced themselves as Colin and Dennis Creevey kept taking pictures of them with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Suddenly, Professor McGonagall started tapping her crystal goblet a couple of times and the room quieted, looking once again towards the Head Table.
Dumbledore stood up again. "Forgive me, I forgot to announce a few more things. First, because of the aforementioned recent circumstances, we are adding another class to the curriculum. It is a physical defense class, for combat without use of magic. Also, you will be having a new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher. Unfortunately, she couldn't come to the Welcome Feast because she had to take care of some business. Kindly excuse her. And may I please have the pleasure to tell you that two students who graduated last year have accepted my job offer to help the teachers of Hogwarts with anything they might need, Fred and George Weasley!"
Ron gaped as his twin brothers entered from the door to the left of the Head Table and grinned as they took the seats at the corner of the table.
"Eat up, students!" Dumbledore said as he sat back down again.
"They're your brothers, Weasley-san?" Syaoran asked him.
"Yeah," he replied, still looking dumbstruck. "So that was the job they were telling Mum about!"
Sakura turned to Syaoran, "That Phys. Defense class made you happy, ne, Syaoran-kun?"
He grinned at Sakura, blushing a little as Harry and Hermione looked on curiously at them.
"Hai."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were at the Gryffindor table, waiting for the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore to start the feast. The Sorting for the new first years had long been finished and they were now waiting for the feast to start.
Ron groaned, rubbing his stomach. "Hurry up, why don't they? I'm hungry!"
Harry meanwhile, was looking all around the Great Hall for their new friends. "I don't see Sakura or Li or Eriol anywhere, do you?"
"Maybe they had to do something first." Hermione said, crossing her arms, a little frustrated at how much attention Harry was pouring on the new girl.
Seamus Finnigan, another Gryffindor fifth-year and a friend of Harry and Ron heard their conversation. "You've met the new students already, Harry? How were they?"
Dean and Neville turned to them as well curiously.
It was Ron who answered proudly, completely forgetting his hunger. "They were way cool!" he exclaimed. "And the girl was cute as well, but she's the girlfriend of that Li guy."
At the teacher's table, Dumbledore suddenly stood up and clapped his hands three times and all the students quieted.
"This term, we are pleased to announce that we have a new witch and two wizards in Hogwarts. They have graciously agreed to come at my own request. I have decided to. call for them under the recent and unfortunate. circumstances, aside from the fact that they need to finish their magical studies here. They will study amongst the fifth-year students." Everyone turned to the double doors when it started creaking open slowly. "Ah, here they are."
All of the students stared as in marched Sakura, Syaoran, and Eriol straight towards Professor McGonagall, who was waiting with the Sorting Hat at the front of the room. Hermione smiled at Sakura when she passed, and Sakura returned the smile. They were all wearing their Hogwarts robes.
Ron whispered to a wide-eyed Seamus as they passed, "Told ya she was pretty."
Apparently, many people shared his opinion. Boys were staring at Sakura openly, a little mesmerized by her bright emerald eyes and bright smile. Not to be outdone, several girls not only from Gryffindor but from other Houses as well were whispering to each other about how cool and handsome Eriol and Syaoran looked.
"You will be sorted as fifth-years." McGonagall announced sternly, looking over her spectacles at the new students. She unrolled a short parchment after placing the Sorting Hat on the stool. "You will put on the Sorting Hat and he will tell you which House you belong. For every good thing that you do, you will earn points for your house. Rule breaking and not being able to follow the teachers or not doing well at your studies will deduct points from your House. Let us begin." She looked at the parchment, "Kinimoto, Sakura!"
Syaoran gave her a small reassuring smile and squeezed her hand before she sat in the stool and put the Sorting Hat on.
Sakura heard a voice whispering in her ear once she put the Sorting Hat on, "So, Card Mistress, you finally arrived. I was wondering when you were going to come to Hogwarts."
"Hoe?! Y-you're not a ghost ri-right?" she whispered back.
"Of course not!" The hat whispered back indignantly, sounding a little offended. "Anyway, which House should I put you. So powerful. much more powerful than anyone I have ever sorted. you could learn lots of things here easily. you are also kind and compassionate. lots of courage, I see. And what's this?! You love someone." the hat hissed, making Sakura blush a little. "I'm sure of it then! GRYFFINDOR!" He shouted the last word.
The Gryffindor Table erupted in cheers upon hearing the Hat's decision. Hermione moved over to make room for Sakura as she sat down.
"Cool, Sakura!" Ron cheered.
Sakura blushed a little. "Arigatou-I mean, thanks!"
Seamus and Dean blushed when she turned to them. "I'm Sakura Kinimoto! You guys are?"
They introduced themselves as well. Just then, another shout of "GRYFFINDOR!" reached their ears. Turning around, Sakura saw Syaoran heading towards them. She shifted to make room for him. "Sugoi, Syaoran- kun! We're in the same House," she said happily.
He was glaring at the front of the room, where Eriol was now putting on the Sorting Hat. "Yeah. I told the hat that he better not put Hiragizawa with-" he was cut off when the Hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!" for the last time. Cursing fluently in Japanese, he glared at Eriol's smirking face.
Eriol walked over to them, sitting beside Ron and smirking evilly at Syaoran. "The hat told me you said you would rip it apart if it put me in the same House, my *cute little descendant*," Eriol told him after greeting Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Baka hat," Syaoran muttered, crossing his arms. Harry and Ron laughed. Eriol had told them what 'baka' meant on the train ride.
Hermione leaned over towards Sakura. "They don't like each other much, do they? And what's this 'descendant' thingie?"
Sakura sighed as the dishes magically filled with food. "It's a long story, Hermie-san. You wouldn't want to know."
Syaoran cut a small piece off the steak he had put into his plate. Using his fork, he fed it to Sakura, who smiled her thanks at him. He smiled back, before Seamus told him, "You do know that lots of people are staring at you guys right now, right?"
Sweatdropping, Sakura and Syaoran glanced at the other students. Lots of the girls were swooning over the romantic scene and some guys were staring enviously at Syaoran. Syaoran leaned over to Sakura and whispered to her, "Are all the people here in Hogwarts this weird?"
Meanwhile, Harry was talking to Eriol about which school of magic they had been enrolled in before they transferred to Hogwarts. Exchanging looks of confusion, Sakura and Syaoran looked at Eriol as if debating their answer.
After chewing a bite of roast beef thoroughly, he answered, "Actually, we haven't had any proper magical schooling-"
"You haven't?" Neville squeaked.
"But you could say that Sakura and I have been training under the same sorcerer, Clow Reed. Syaoran and I are related to him, after all."
"CLOW REED?!"
Even the older students began listening in on their conversation at the mention of Clow Reed. Eriol raised an eyebrow at their shocked faces. "You know him?"
"He's beyond famous," Hermione breathed out. "They say he's even in Dumbledore and You-Know-Who's League!"
"What about you, Li?" Harry turned to the unfazed boy. "Where have you studied magic?" Everyone in the Gryffindor Table strained to hear his reply.
He glanced at Harry before replying, "I've been training in China, under the Li Clan, since I was three. I'm the Clan Leader now," he replied nonchalantly.
"LI CLAN?!"
Li frowned at their even more startled expressions. "Why? What's wrong with that?"
Ron found his voice first, gaping at Li in awe. "Bloody Hell!! You're from the Li Clan in China?! And you're the Clan Leader now?"
"Well, technically, I am, but my mother has been managing the clan's business for me because I had to attend school here."
"Did you know that you guys are waaaay famous?!" Ron exclaimed. Several girls were now patting their robes looking for quills, probably to get the trio's autographs.
They all shrugged again and continued eating as if nothing had happened, a vein popping on Syaoran's forehead when two Gryffindor siblings who had introduced themselves as Colin and Dennis Creevey kept taking pictures of them with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Suddenly, Professor McGonagall started tapping her crystal goblet a couple of times and the room quieted, looking once again towards the Head Table.
Dumbledore stood up again. "Forgive me, I forgot to announce a few more things. First, because of the aforementioned recent circumstances, we are adding another class to the curriculum. It is a physical defense class, for combat without use of magic. Also, you will be having a new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher. Unfortunately, she couldn't come to the Welcome Feast because she had to take care of some business. Kindly excuse her. And may I please have the pleasure to tell you that two students who graduated last year have accepted my job offer to help the teachers of Hogwarts with anything they might need, Fred and George Weasley!"
Ron gaped as his twin brothers entered from the door to the left of the Head Table and grinned as they took the seats at the corner of the table.
"Eat up, students!" Dumbledore said as he sat back down again.
"They're your brothers, Weasley-san?" Syaoran asked him.
"Yeah," he replied, still looking dumbstruck. "So that was the job they were telling Mum about!"
Sakura turned to Syaoran, "That Phys. Defense class made you happy, ne, Syaoran-kun?"
He grinned at Sakura, blushing a little as Harry and Hermione looked on curiously at them.
"Hai."