When they reached the warmth of the hall and all the students began sitting
at their tables the Elementals darted off to find Sara. Just as they passed
the head table they spotted her talking to a very annoyed looking Snape.
"SARA!" Jess screeched and came to a halt in front of them. Snape gave her a distasteful look down his long nose and she visibly shuddered.
"What's the matter?" Sara asked.
"Need to speak, now-ish would be good too," Jason answered.
"Alright, this way then kids," she said with a smile. "Sorry Severus maybe we can chat later," she smiled apologetically and hurried out of the hall.
"Potter." Snape snapped as Harry began to follow. "I know you were at the cafe all the summer. Orphanage really, couldn't think of anything better?" He sneered.
"Really professor," Harry said in a cool tone. "I can't understand why you don't believe us." He paused and looked up at the Potions Master innocently. "We're all parentless-" He finished sweetly but was then dragged away by Anna and out of the hall. Severus Snape scowled and walked back to the head table.
"Why Severus, have a nice chat with Sara?" Dumbledore asked as he sat down.
"She is the same woman from the cafe where I thought I saw Potter." Snape answered.
"Yes," Dumbledore agreed in a grave tone. "I already knew that. But I believe Mr. Potter will let his secret out in time, but until then, I'm ready to trust him. He hasn't shown me reason not to."
****
"You say Harry made the storm?" Sara gasped her cheeks were tinged red in surprise as she began pacing in the classroom. Charms had been cast to avoid being heard.
"Well it seemed to reflect his mood," Anna replied as she stared out the window. The clouds were tightly knit and dark grey, slightly purple colour. There was a feeling in the air, maybe tension, and any second the clouds would burst. She shook her head and stepped away from the window. "And isn't it strange, I mean its summer. We never normally get weather like this." She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself.
"What do you think Harry?" Sara turned to where he sat on a desk, just staring out the window and watching the clouds as they grew and covered the sky like a carpet. "Harry? Harry!" He snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look at them.
"Huh?"
"Real intelligent mate!" Jason slapped him on the back with a wry grin.
"Does this feel like you're mood Harry?" Sara asked. She walked over and placed an arm around his shoulder, glancing out with him at the sky.
"Well, like Anna said, it does reflect my mood. But I don't feel any control over it at all."
"Well, that would be understandable," Sara said after a pause. "You couldn't possibly have power over mother nature quite so easily. Although everything comes to you that way." She chuckled. "Oh this is nothing to worry about really." She sighed. "Just more work in the long run to harness it."
"So Harry is...what do you call it? A weather mage?" Nada asked.
"You could say that. It seems Harry controls nature in its self. The problem with that though is that he needs nature's cooperation, and that will be hard to win over."
"So what about his wind and air element?" Jess asked curiously.
"Well that is all just part of the bigger scale. Harry seems to have nature at his disposal." Sara rubbed her forehead tiredly and glanced at her watch. "Oh dear! Quick we're late for the sorting!" She shooed them out of the room and waddled after them.
"The door is closed!" Jess hmphed as she stopped outside of the hall. "How embarrassing!"
"Closed but not locked Jess!" Harry grinned at her with a shake of his head.
"That's not the point!" Jess exclaimed. "If the door was open we could slip in unnoticed but because it's closed, everyone will look at who's opening the door and arriving late. UNWANTED ATTENTION!"
"OH well," Jason shrugged and slung an arm round her shoulders with a cocky grin. "Might get the ladies, a mystery man with his mystery group." Jason sighed contentedly but yelped as Nada slapped him on the back of the shoulder.
"Ouch! What was that for!" He narrowed his eyes at her.
"Nothing. Just keep dreaming lover boy!" She flashed him a 100-watt smile and pushed open the doors and walked through. The all followed and Harry, with his head down, walked over to the Gryffindor table, sat down and didn't even glance at the student body. The elementals approached the line of first years and waited.
"Well," McGonagall said, seeming slightly ruffled. "Now that our late comers are here. We can continue the sorting. Zefferelli, Black." A small boy with long hair tied at the nape of his neck approached the stool and sat down, the hat sliding over his eyes. Silence filled the hall as they waited for the last first year to be sorted.
"RAVENCLAW!" The hat screeched. The hall burst into cheers and then just as quickly fell into the silence, as they all waited, curiously, for an answer as to why four teenagers were standing up the front.
"O'Sullivan, Anna." McGonagall called. Anna smiled softly and sat on the stool as McGonagall placed the hat over her eyes.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Anan grinned in relief and walked over to the table and sat with Harry.
"Congrats!" He smiled at her.
"Cumerford, Jason."
Jason sat patiently while the hat debated on where to put him and then after a lull it announced, "GRYFFINDOR!" He slid into a seat next to Anna, slapped five's with Harry under the table and waited patiently for the next two to be sorted.
"Makris, Nada." Nada's bob of brown curls was squeezed under the hat, however difficult and not a second later and the hat screeched, "RAVENCLAW". Nada looked slightly put out and frowned as she walked over tot he Ravenclaw table. She glanced over and shared a smile with the other three elementals and then turned to watch Jess finally get sorted.
"Dubois, Jessica." Jess twirled a strand of strawberry-blonde hair around her finger delicately as she sat on the stool. There was a pause and then another pause, and an even longer one before finally it seemed, the hat had given up on debating which house Jess belonged. "HUFFLEPUFF!" Jess stood up and threw the hat off her head furiously as she stormed over to the Hufflepuff table, muttering something about being smart enough for Ravenclaw. Dumbledore stood and made a few words of greeting before the food appeared and everyone began to dig in.
"We can't all be in different houses, this is awful!" Anna announced and took a sip of pumpkin juice. She pulled a face at the flavour and quickly spat it back out. "And Gross! That ain't orange juice!"
"Thankyou Captain Obvious!" Harry saluted with a roll of his eyes. "Anyways Sara will fix things, she knows we have to all work together so she'll organise something."
"Yes, I suppose."
"But what about that bloody hat! It practically read my mind!" Jason grumbled. "And it taunted me, about knowing my secret and all that crap!"
"It did that to you as well?" Anna gasped. "What bloody cheek!"
"Guys it's just a sorting hat." Harry interrupted.
"A sorting hat that could tell our secret to Dumbledore," Anna whispered in reply.
"Oh yeah. Point taken."
They finished eating and Dumbledore stood again for the normal announcements about quidditch and the forbidden forest. "And finally. You all may have noticed the new fifth years we have this year. Would you please give a warm welcome to the O'Doyle College scholarship students." Dumbledore beamed as the hall began to clap. "And of course, our new defence against the dark arts teacher this year is Professor DeWinter." He gestured at Sara who stood to acknowledge the school and then sat back down. "Now then, prefects please lead the first years to their common rooms." He sat back down as everyone stood to file out. Jessica came skidding to a halt by Anna, Jason and Harry with Nada not far behind.
"I say we deck that bloody hat!" Jess announced. "It was so rude to me!" Her eyes flashed angrily. A few students looked up in surprise as a breeze began to tickle their arms. Harry quickly silenced the wind and gave Jess a warning look.
"So are we planning an attack on that hat" Jason asked with a raised eyebrows and a smug look on his face.
"Looks like it." Harry replied. He watched as McGonagall began to carry the hat away. "Problem is it lives in Dumbledore's office. Breaking in will be no easy feet."
"I don't care!" Jess huffed. "As long as I get a chance to teach that stupid-"
"I hear you Jess!" Anna agreed with a determined look on her face.
"So we're all decided then?" Nada asked.
"The hat is going down!" Jess finished in a chilling voice.
"SARA!" Jess screeched and came to a halt in front of them. Snape gave her a distasteful look down his long nose and she visibly shuddered.
"What's the matter?" Sara asked.
"Need to speak, now-ish would be good too," Jason answered.
"Alright, this way then kids," she said with a smile. "Sorry Severus maybe we can chat later," she smiled apologetically and hurried out of the hall.
"Potter." Snape snapped as Harry began to follow. "I know you were at the cafe all the summer. Orphanage really, couldn't think of anything better?" He sneered.
"Really professor," Harry said in a cool tone. "I can't understand why you don't believe us." He paused and looked up at the Potions Master innocently. "We're all parentless-" He finished sweetly but was then dragged away by Anna and out of the hall. Severus Snape scowled and walked back to the head table.
"Why Severus, have a nice chat with Sara?" Dumbledore asked as he sat down.
"She is the same woman from the cafe where I thought I saw Potter." Snape answered.
"Yes," Dumbledore agreed in a grave tone. "I already knew that. But I believe Mr. Potter will let his secret out in time, but until then, I'm ready to trust him. He hasn't shown me reason not to."
****
"You say Harry made the storm?" Sara gasped her cheeks were tinged red in surprise as she began pacing in the classroom. Charms had been cast to avoid being heard.
"Well it seemed to reflect his mood," Anna replied as she stared out the window. The clouds were tightly knit and dark grey, slightly purple colour. There was a feeling in the air, maybe tension, and any second the clouds would burst. She shook her head and stepped away from the window. "And isn't it strange, I mean its summer. We never normally get weather like this." She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself.
"What do you think Harry?" Sara turned to where he sat on a desk, just staring out the window and watching the clouds as they grew and covered the sky like a carpet. "Harry? Harry!" He snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look at them.
"Huh?"
"Real intelligent mate!" Jason slapped him on the back with a wry grin.
"Does this feel like you're mood Harry?" Sara asked. She walked over and placed an arm around his shoulder, glancing out with him at the sky.
"Well, like Anna said, it does reflect my mood. But I don't feel any control over it at all."
"Well, that would be understandable," Sara said after a pause. "You couldn't possibly have power over mother nature quite so easily. Although everything comes to you that way." She chuckled. "Oh this is nothing to worry about really." She sighed. "Just more work in the long run to harness it."
"So Harry is...what do you call it? A weather mage?" Nada asked.
"You could say that. It seems Harry controls nature in its self. The problem with that though is that he needs nature's cooperation, and that will be hard to win over."
"So what about his wind and air element?" Jess asked curiously.
"Well that is all just part of the bigger scale. Harry seems to have nature at his disposal." Sara rubbed her forehead tiredly and glanced at her watch. "Oh dear! Quick we're late for the sorting!" She shooed them out of the room and waddled after them.
"The door is closed!" Jess hmphed as she stopped outside of the hall. "How embarrassing!"
"Closed but not locked Jess!" Harry grinned at her with a shake of his head.
"That's not the point!" Jess exclaimed. "If the door was open we could slip in unnoticed but because it's closed, everyone will look at who's opening the door and arriving late. UNWANTED ATTENTION!"
"OH well," Jason shrugged and slung an arm round her shoulders with a cocky grin. "Might get the ladies, a mystery man with his mystery group." Jason sighed contentedly but yelped as Nada slapped him on the back of the shoulder.
"Ouch! What was that for!" He narrowed his eyes at her.
"Nothing. Just keep dreaming lover boy!" She flashed him a 100-watt smile and pushed open the doors and walked through. The all followed and Harry, with his head down, walked over to the Gryffindor table, sat down and didn't even glance at the student body. The elementals approached the line of first years and waited.
"Well," McGonagall said, seeming slightly ruffled. "Now that our late comers are here. We can continue the sorting. Zefferelli, Black." A small boy with long hair tied at the nape of his neck approached the stool and sat down, the hat sliding over his eyes. Silence filled the hall as they waited for the last first year to be sorted.
"RAVENCLAW!" The hat screeched. The hall burst into cheers and then just as quickly fell into the silence, as they all waited, curiously, for an answer as to why four teenagers were standing up the front.
"O'Sullivan, Anna." McGonagall called. Anna smiled softly and sat on the stool as McGonagall placed the hat over her eyes.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Anan grinned in relief and walked over to the table and sat with Harry.
"Congrats!" He smiled at her.
"Cumerford, Jason."
Jason sat patiently while the hat debated on where to put him and then after a lull it announced, "GRYFFINDOR!" He slid into a seat next to Anna, slapped five's with Harry under the table and waited patiently for the next two to be sorted.
"Makris, Nada." Nada's bob of brown curls was squeezed under the hat, however difficult and not a second later and the hat screeched, "RAVENCLAW". Nada looked slightly put out and frowned as she walked over tot he Ravenclaw table. She glanced over and shared a smile with the other three elementals and then turned to watch Jess finally get sorted.
"Dubois, Jessica." Jess twirled a strand of strawberry-blonde hair around her finger delicately as she sat on the stool. There was a pause and then another pause, and an even longer one before finally it seemed, the hat had given up on debating which house Jess belonged. "HUFFLEPUFF!" Jess stood up and threw the hat off her head furiously as she stormed over to the Hufflepuff table, muttering something about being smart enough for Ravenclaw. Dumbledore stood and made a few words of greeting before the food appeared and everyone began to dig in.
"We can't all be in different houses, this is awful!" Anna announced and took a sip of pumpkin juice. She pulled a face at the flavour and quickly spat it back out. "And Gross! That ain't orange juice!"
"Thankyou Captain Obvious!" Harry saluted with a roll of his eyes. "Anyways Sara will fix things, she knows we have to all work together so she'll organise something."
"Yes, I suppose."
"But what about that bloody hat! It practically read my mind!" Jason grumbled. "And it taunted me, about knowing my secret and all that crap!"
"It did that to you as well?" Anna gasped. "What bloody cheek!"
"Guys it's just a sorting hat." Harry interrupted.
"A sorting hat that could tell our secret to Dumbledore," Anna whispered in reply.
"Oh yeah. Point taken."
They finished eating and Dumbledore stood again for the normal announcements about quidditch and the forbidden forest. "And finally. You all may have noticed the new fifth years we have this year. Would you please give a warm welcome to the O'Doyle College scholarship students." Dumbledore beamed as the hall began to clap. "And of course, our new defence against the dark arts teacher this year is Professor DeWinter." He gestured at Sara who stood to acknowledge the school and then sat back down. "Now then, prefects please lead the first years to their common rooms." He sat back down as everyone stood to file out. Jessica came skidding to a halt by Anna, Jason and Harry with Nada not far behind.
"I say we deck that bloody hat!" Jess announced. "It was so rude to me!" Her eyes flashed angrily. A few students looked up in surprise as a breeze began to tickle their arms. Harry quickly silenced the wind and gave Jess a warning look.
"So are we planning an attack on that hat" Jason asked with a raised eyebrows and a smug look on his face.
"Looks like it." Harry replied. He watched as McGonagall began to carry the hat away. "Problem is it lives in Dumbledore's office. Breaking in will be no easy feet."
"I don't care!" Jess huffed. "As long as I get a chance to teach that stupid-"
"I hear you Jess!" Anna agreed with a determined look on her face.
"So we're all decided then?" Nada asked.
"The hat is going down!" Jess finished in a chilling voice.