Hey, so here is another chapter. I hope you like how the story started out. OoP spoilers forgot to mention that one last time. Please R/R, I don't own Harry Potter, J.K Rowling does!

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"Black, Sirius."

There was a hush around the hall. Sirius looked around nervously; everyone was staring at him. He stepped forward and the whispering began. They pointed, nudged their friends and gaped. Sirius glanced around again, first at the Slytherin table where his two cousins sat, and then at the Ravenclaw table where his other cousin, Andromeda who had a badge on her robes she was HeadGirl. She was his favorite cousin by far and she offered him a smile.

He walked up slowly to the Hat, each step seemed like a hundred. His eyes were now on the Hat. The Hat seemed to be the object that would decide his Fate. He got to the chair, and sat down. The young Professor, he had forgotten her name put the Hat on his head. He was shaking head to foot.

"Ah, Sirius Black, the heir to the Black family."

"That would be me," Sirius thought.

"I see many things in your head, you are powerful, oh yes indeed. I see, yes, yes you are destined for greatness. You are not like your family I see."

"I'm not?" Sirius thought.

"You are not sure about who you are, but one day you must find yourself," the Hat told him.

"I don't need to find myself, I know who I am," Sirius told the Hat.

"Do you? Well don't listen to the silly, old Hat that can see inside your head."

"Just put me in a House," Sirius thought getting annoyed.

"Well that is the question isn't it… where?"

Sirius didn't think anything.

"Do you wish to be with your family?"

Sirius still didn't think anything.

"See you don't know who you are, or what you want."

"I don't need a Hat telling me this junk," thought Sirius.

"Well then you may leave, GRYFFINDOR! Listen to your heart, if not me young Black, it will lead you to greatness."

"Off you go," the Professor said to him and he got off. Sirius walked to the Gryffindor table, each step could be heard throughout the hall. No one congratulated him, no one got up to shake his hand, and they all just sat there in silence unable to believe what had just happened.

He sat down and looked around the table. Gryffindor. He could see in his mind his parent's warnings about getting into Slytherin. He was dead. He hadn't been put into Slytherin. His parents had told him that Slytherin was the greatest house and anything less was not acceptable for the Heir of the Black Family. He looked at the Ravenclaw table and Andromeda smiled to him. It didn't comfort him at all. He didn't dare look at the Slytherin table; he didn't want to see his cousin's expressions.

"Evans Lily."

Lost in his thoughts he hadn't realized that the Sorting had continued. A moment later, a girl with red long hair sat down next to him. It comforted him that he wouldn't be singled out by everyone. But the next second as she looked up at the ceiling amazed and confused, Sirius sighed, she was probably a Mudblood, and didn't know why everyone else was wary of him.

He sighed, how could he have been excited about Hogwarts?

The Sorting was still going on.

"Lupin, Remus."

Sirius looked back up, the boy with the brown hair who had come into the compartment for five seconds was being sorted.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Sirius looked down and felt horrible as the Gryffindors cheered for the new 1st year. Sirius could have cried, why didn't they cheer when he was Sorted? What was so wrong with him? Why didn't they like him… they didn't even know him yet?

"Potter, James."

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Sirius raised an eyebrow; the Hat had barely touched his head when it pronounced him a Gryffindor. However, as James Potter came over, Sirius couldn't help but feel worse, the Potters were a corrupt family. Half the Potters became Aurors, and they were sympathetic to Mudbloods. In the Black's view that was being corrupt, they had forgotten their roots. The Potters were as old as the Blacks, and they were two of the finest families in the world. The two families didn't like each other very much. I'm stuck with him for 7 years; Sirius thought, this day is looking better and better.

"Snape, Severus."

Sirius looked up. "SLYTHERIN."

Ah, well one person obeyed the rules of their families. Severus shot Sirius a look, one of envy. Sirius just glared.

The Sorting was over soon after Severus Snape was sorted. The Professor picked up the Hat and stool, as a man with long turning silver beard stood up and extended his arms out to greet them all. "Welcome back my dear students! For those you did not hear, poor Headmaster Dippet died over the summer, I guess, he like yourselves died of shock when you realized how hard the exams were," a few people laughed, "and I have been appointed Headmaster. Professor McGonagall," he clapped and turned to his colleague. "Will now be your new Transfiguration teacher, as well as Head of Gryffindor. I look to the Gryffindor Perfects, to give Professor McGonagall help as she settles down in her new job. A Whomping Willow has been placed on the grounds, I beg you not to go near it. I think that is it. Enjoy the feast."

Food appeared on the table and he heard a gasp of surprise from Lily Evans. He raised an eyebrow and started to eat. Everyone around him was talking excitingly Sirius just listened.

"I'm an only child," James Potter was saying.

"Me too," Remus Lupin spoke softly.

"I'm the youngest," another boy whose name Sirius had forgotten said.

"I can't wait until we can try out for Quidditch. I want to be a Chaser," James Potter said proudly. "I've been training for years."

"My life will be safer on the ground," Remus shrugged.

"My parents won't let me play Quidditch, they think I will hurt myself," the boy squeaked.

Sirius didn't say anything. He concerned himself with eating and keeping his head down.

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The feast was ending. Sirius could see some people getting up and leaving. A boy a few seats away from them stood up and called, "First years, first years this way."

Sirius felt a tap on his shoulder. He looked up to see his cousin, Andromeda.

"Come, we need to talk," she grabbed his robes and pulled him out of the Hall. Sirius looked back, to see Narcissa and Bellatrix point and whisper to each other.

She brought him into a small classroom near the Hall and she shut the door. She turned to him and hugged him tightly. "I am so proud of you!" Sirius felt the air leave his lungs. He gasped and pushed her away.

"Wait, one second you pull me by my robes and the next you hug me?" Sirius asked confused.

"Cissa and Bella were looking," Andromeda told him. She looked at him grinning ear to ear, "I had hoped you wouldn't be sucked into the trap."

"Trap?"

"Everyone in the family except you and me were in Slytherin. If you had been put in Slytherin you would have become like my sisters and Malfoy. But I knew you were different."

"Wait… wait… I don't get any of this! Different? How? Why are Gryffindors different than Slytherins?"

Andromeda looked at him sympathetically. "They have brainwashed you Sirius." She shook her head sadly, "Listen to what the Gryffindors say! There is another world out there Sirius, one your parents don't like. Listen and learn Sirius. Follow your heart and be yourself."

"Myself? That damn Hat just told I don't know who I am."

"You will learn. What you are now is because of your parent's teaching, but you will come out of this school different. Come, I'll bring you to Gryffindor Tower."