A/N Only one review as of yet and it is answered in this chapter. (I think)
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. If I did do you really think I would make him straight?
Chapter IV: Mad Season
Harry awoke to the familiar sounds of his dorms for the final time the next morning. He was the first awake; which wasn't unusual since he had gone to bed well before the other boys.
After a few moments Harry determined that it was time to get up and, after retrieving his glasses from the bedside table, got ready for his last day with his dorm mates.
When Harry entered the common room he found that, in fact, he was not the first to rise. Hermione was sitting comfortably in a chair next to the fireplace, currently blazing, reading a large book.
"A little light reading for the first day 'Mione?"
Hermione started. "Oh Harry, I wish you wouldn't sneak up on me like that."
"Anyone else would have heard. If you hadn't been so caught up in that book you would have too."
"I'll have you know this is a very good book, and its our new Charms text. Don't you remember?"
"Oh. Yeah. I remember." Harry had no idea whether or not it was his new charms book, as he had been to interested in other things to worry about how big his new books were.
"You may as well go on to breakfast. I doubt Ron will be up until just before it's time for us to be there."
"Um, ok. I'll see you there then?"
"Of course. I wouldn't miss the drawing of our new pen pals."
"Of course not. What was I thinking," Harry said under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing Hermione. I'll see you at breakfast."
"Mmmm hmm." That's all she said. She was already lost in her book.
~*~
When Harry arrived at the Great Hall he found that he wasn't the first one there. Scattered throughout the room were several students. (6 ravenclaws, 2 slitherins, 5 hufflepuffs, and 3 gryfendors) "What's going on today? Did everyone suddenly decide to become morning people?" Harry sat down at the end of gryfendor's table, and waited for everyone else. At around eight o'clock, when everyone had arrived and eaten their fill, Professor McGonagle left the Great Hall. Upon her returning she placed a now familiar three-legged stool in the center of the raised stage, and placed upon it the Sorting Hat. As she was being seated Professor Dumbledore stood cleared his throat. "Again I will say 'hello, and welcome' to you. As you all know your new living arrangements will be determined today as well as your pen pals. As you are all patiently waiting for me to continue I will do so without further ado. When I call your name you will put on the Sorting Hat. It will tell everyone here who your dorm mate will be and the number of your pen pal. I will record them and you will be seated." Professor Dumbledore then called out half of the student's names. (When the sorting hat called a person's name they were magically removed from the list). When he came to Harry's name Harry became very nervous. Most of the students in the hall had already had their name called and he was increasingly scared that he would be put with a slytherin. Again the Sorting Hat seamed to take an eternity to place him, and when it finally called out the person's name Harry wished it had remained silent. If it had maybe Professor Dumbledore would have chosen him a roommate. Then he wouldn't be cursed with...
(A/N I should end this rite here, but I would be dead if I did.)
"DRACO MALFOY!"
Harry wanted to die, but he wasn't the only one. Around the room various people screamed "WHAT," but even they couldn't compare to Draco's expression. If a picture was worth a thousand words then people could have photographed him then and never taken enough to say what he was thinking.
Following the calling of Draco's name the Sorting Hat uttered a number. Only Professor Dumbledore, the only person in the room to have recovered from the shock thus far, heard it. (E1-22-5)
"Erm, Harry you may return to your seat now," Dumbledore said quietly.
As if by automation Harry stood, removed the Sorting Hat, and walked back to his seat.
~*~
In the end Ron was stuck with Blaise Zabini and Hermione with Pansy Parkerson, but both of them, as with most of the school, felt more sorry for Harry than anybody else, except maybe his dorm mates. Upon reaching his new dorm Harry found that it was garded not by some unknown person in a portrait but two very well know faces, his own and Draco's.
A/N WOW I updated twice in two days. I never would have thought I would do that. Oh well. Expect another update sometime this weekend. R&R
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. If I did do you really think I would make him straight?
Chapter IV: Mad Season
Harry awoke to the familiar sounds of his dorms for the final time the next morning. He was the first awake; which wasn't unusual since he had gone to bed well before the other boys.
After a few moments Harry determined that it was time to get up and, after retrieving his glasses from the bedside table, got ready for his last day with his dorm mates.
When Harry entered the common room he found that, in fact, he was not the first to rise. Hermione was sitting comfortably in a chair next to the fireplace, currently blazing, reading a large book.
"A little light reading for the first day 'Mione?"
Hermione started. "Oh Harry, I wish you wouldn't sneak up on me like that."
"Anyone else would have heard. If you hadn't been so caught up in that book you would have too."
"I'll have you know this is a very good book, and its our new Charms text. Don't you remember?"
"Oh. Yeah. I remember." Harry had no idea whether or not it was his new charms book, as he had been to interested in other things to worry about how big his new books were.
"You may as well go on to breakfast. I doubt Ron will be up until just before it's time for us to be there."
"Um, ok. I'll see you there then?"
"Of course. I wouldn't miss the drawing of our new pen pals."
"Of course not. What was I thinking," Harry said under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing Hermione. I'll see you at breakfast."
"Mmmm hmm." That's all she said. She was already lost in her book.
~*~
When Harry arrived at the Great Hall he found that he wasn't the first one there. Scattered throughout the room were several students. (6 ravenclaws, 2 slitherins, 5 hufflepuffs, and 3 gryfendors) "What's going on today? Did everyone suddenly decide to become morning people?" Harry sat down at the end of gryfendor's table, and waited for everyone else. At around eight o'clock, when everyone had arrived and eaten their fill, Professor McGonagle left the Great Hall. Upon her returning she placed a now familiar three-legged stool in the center of the raised stage, and placed upon it the Sorting Hat. As she was being seated Professor Dumbledore stood cleared his throat. "Again I will say 'hello, and welcome' to you. As you all know your new living arrangements will be determined today as well as your pen pals. As you are all patiently waiting for me to continue I will do so without further ado. When I call your name you will put on the Sorting Hat. It will tell everyone here who your dorm mate will be and the number of your pen pal. I will record them and you will be seated." Professor Dumbledore then called out half of the student's names. (When the sorting hat called a person's name they were magically removed from the list). When he came to Harry's name Harry became very nervous. Most of the students in the hall had already had their name called and he was increasingly scared that he would be put with a slytherin. Again the Sorting Hat seamed to take an eternity to place him, and when it finally called out the person's name Harry wished it had remained silent. If it had maybe Professor Dumbledore would have chosen him a roommate. Then he wouldn't be cursed with...
(A/N I should end this rite here, but I would be dead if I did.)
"DRACO MALFOY!"
Harry wanted to die, but he wasn't the only one. Around the room various people screamed "WHAT," but even they couldn't compare to Draco's expression. If a picture was worth a thousand words then people could have photographed him then and never taken enough to say what he was thinking.
Following the calling of Draco's name the Sorting Hat uttered a number. Only Professor Dumbledore, the only person in the room to have recovered from the shock thus far, heard it. (E1-22-5)
"Erm, Harry you may return to your seat now," Dumbledore said quietly.
As if by automation Harry stood, removed the Sorting Hat, and walked back to his seat.
~*~
In the end Ron was stuck with Blaise Zabini and Hermione with Pansy Parkerson, but both of them, as with most of the school, felt more sorry for Harry than anybody else, except maybe his dorm mates. Upon reaching his new dorm Harry found that it was garded not by some unknown person in a portrait but two very well know faces, his own and Draco's.
A/N WOW I updated twice in two days. I never would have thought I would do that. Oh well. Expect another update sometime this weekend. R&R