Chapter 3: Which House?
For the rest of the trip loads of people stopped by the compartment to see if the rumours about a new guy beating up the most popular boy in Slitherin were true. Most were people known by Harry Ron and Hermione, like Neville Longbottum, Ginny, Ron's sister, and her new boy friend, and Luna Lovegrove. But some were people of Malfoys house, Harry guessed that they had come to size up this strange looking stranger, who had knocked the ape like Crabbe and Goyle out cold.
Lee, had meet all the Slitherins eye to eye and, even with her sunglasses masking her unusual gaze, the Slitherins were always the one to look away. I was obvious that she didn't seem comfortable with more than three around her by the way she seem to relaxed when the extra people had gone.
Soon the food trolley came down; the old lady apologising for being so late, half a dozen of the chocolate frogs had escaped and run amok near the front of the train. Harry and Ron bought some of the remaining frogs and Hermione got a few sugar quills. The lady asked Lee if she wanted anything but Lee just politely shook her heads.
"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ron as he was opening a chocolate frog
"Yes, but I brought my own food" she said as she reached into her bag and pulled out two more foreign thing to the wizarding world. A bag of pickled onion monster munch and a can of Pepsi. Ron ended up drinking most of the Pepsi but thankfully, to Lees growling stomach, did not like the monster munch.
Lee looked into the empty can and said to Ron jokingly "I'm never offering you anything again!"
As time dragged by, the sky out side grew steadily black. "You better put your robes on Harry, we'll be there in about half and hour or so" said Hermione, and she and Ron already had theirs on prefect badges and all. Harry nodded and got up and started opening his trunk. Harry noticed that Lee was still sitting down "hay Lee, don't you have any robs?" Lee seemed to blush slightly and shook her head and pulled her long braid from behind her and played with the end, almost as if she was nervous.
"No, as I only got in this country yesterday so I didn't have time to get my books and get fitted. Youni and Zanko will be sending them for me so I'll have them for tomorrow." Youni and Zanko, they found from earlier conversations, were Lee's adoptive parents. They were muggles but they had known she was a witch from the moment they got her. In Japan some muggles knew of wizards, from a wizard or witch being married in to muggle family to just being friends.
"So your going like that?" said Hermione as she looked Lee up and down raking in the black jeans, black T-shirt, boots, long black jacket and of course the sun glasses. Speaking of which. "Isn't wearing the glasses going to be difficult in the dark?"
"No not really, I'm kinda use to it. Crystal is not really the most seen colour and... well lets just say I don't get the most friendly reception with them now a' days."
Harry put on his robes and shut his trunk. There were plenty of strange things in the wizarding world why would crystal eye cause any harm? "Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why don't you get a friendly reception?"
Suddenly Ron, who was helping harry with his trunk, jumped and dropped the trunk on his foot, "Owww, bugger, bugger, bugger!"
Ron are you all right?" asked Hermione as she helped Ron put his trunk back on the rack.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's that I just remembered a story I heard from dad. About one of the evil wizard with Vol...Voldermort, was an expert in mind control. He didn't even need spells just his eyes with were said to be like diamonds and hypnotise his victims."
"Hai that's the one" Lee chuckled sadly looking down at her lap and let go of her braid "one look at my eyes and immediately think I'm a fucking Death Eater!" Some how, in seconds, from she seemed to be radiating anger, her fists were so tightly clenched her knuckles were white. "Masaka! One old witch started throwing jinxes and yelling at me while in Diagon Ally when my glasses got knocked off. That, was why I didn't get my robes. I had to get Youni and Zanko out of there before some one through any thing at them as well!" it was obvious that being called a death eater was the worst possible insult to Lee.
Harry suddenly felt slightly detached from his own body like every thing had gone cold. That was when he head His voice, //umm such power, such anger. I see why they might have picked such a young girl. She would be a worthy asset to me// Lord Voldermort it wasn't the first time harry had heard him but at that moment he didn't care. Lee was his friend, yes he had only known her for a few hours, but she would never join Him.// Oh really Potter? Yes it would take some time for her to break, days, maybe even weeks. But I'll enjoy seeing her crack along with every one else// and at that, Harry was returned to reality by some one shaking his shoulders.
"Harry-kun, daijoubu ka?!" At first harry thought he was looking into giant bug eye but when Lee stepped back and his eyes focused properly he was able to see her, Ron and Hermione look at him concerned. Then he remembered what Voldermort had said and looked at Lee, what did he mean they 'picked?' His train of thought was broken by Hermiones voice.
"What?" he asked, not caching what she said.
"I said, you went all still and you eyes glazed over, what happened? Are you all right?" she looked extremely worried as did Ron who had gone pale.
"Eer..." he wanted to tell Ron and Hermione for they understood things like this had happen before and he knew it was best to tell them. But Lee... Lee seems to get this was some thing that he didn't want to involve her, and she stepped back again and put her hands up to show she didn't mind, and walked to the door.
"I need to use the bathroom anyway" and she left sliding the door shut behind her.
"It was Voldermort wasn't it?" whispered Ron. Harry nodded "what did he say?"
Harry took a deep breath and tolled them of Voldermorts interest in Lee. Both Hermione and Ron also had no clue what he had meant by someone picking her.
"Picking her for what do you think?" ask Hermione but Ron and harry both shrugged "maybe we should keep an eye on her." They all nodded in agreement.
"Well at least hopefully know that every one knows he's back with the Ministry not saying you and Dumbeldor are mad," said Ron trying to reassure the other two as well as himself. "He wont be able to do any thing to you, or her even, in Hogwarts definitely not after the battle Dumbledor had with him last year."
"God I hope so!" was all that Hermione said. Soon there was a knock on the door and Lee pocked her head in side. "Secret conversation over? Good. Hermione, Ron Prefects are wanted at the font of the train." You wouldn't have guessed she had been so mad she had seemed ready to kill earlier. She had a friendly carefree smile on her face and acted as though none of what happened after Harry had asked about her robes ever happened.
"Thanks Lee, come on Ron. See ya later Harry, bye Lee." Said Hermione and she and Ron hurried down the hall.
Harry looked out side the widow and could see Hogwarts just before the train when through some trees, hiding it. To him coming back to Hogwarts was like coming home. He hoped beyond hope that at least Hogwarts will always be there even when Voldermort is around.
About 10 minutes later the slowing train came to a halt at the train station. "Leave your bag and trunk they'll be taken up" harry said to Lee as the got up. Lee nodded and headed down the hall and through the nearest door.
Out side all the student were crowding onto the plat form when Harry heard the familiar calling of "First years, First years over hear!" Harry looked over a few heads to see Hagrid with his lantin and a growing crowed of nervous first years around him. Hagrid spotted harry and yelled over. "Hi Harry! Have you see a guy called Lee Tanto I think his name is, he's new, but in your year!"
Harry smiled and looked at Lee who waded her way through to Hagrid "Sionarai Harry!" she said with a wave.
Harry watched as long as he could before being swept away toward the carriages. As he came nearer he saw the hoarse like creatures called Thestrals; scaly winded horses that could only be seen by people who have watched some one die. As Harry looked at the student's around him, he wondered how many of them will soon be able to see the Thestrals pulling the carriages. How many will see death?
Neville soon joined him in the carriage and some second years that he didn't know. The trip was a quite one, and Harry, though keeping his eyes in his lap new the second years were staring at him. They probably at first didn't know who they were getting in with, but know they were looking at Harry with awe and wonder. Know that the Ministry of Magic admitted that Voldermort was back, many people who had said Harry was an attention seeker or a lunatic, had apologised and said that they didn't believe it in the first place any way.
Thankfully, the carriage stopped out side the entrance and Harry along with the rest of the school headed to the main Hall. Soon after Harry had seated Hermione and Ron came and sat down looking very ruffled. "God, what a palaver! You know how many arguments we had to beak up over the carriages? This group doesn't want to sit with that group, and the Slitherins are making it Hell." Said Ron in one breath before resting his head on the table.
Harry smiled and looked up at the ceiling, mirroring the clear night's sky out side. His attention was diverted though, to the sound of the door at the side of the room opening emitting the new terrified looking first years, Hagrid towering above them and Lee. Lee stuck out immensely among the first years, not only because of the height difference, but also because her sunglasses and incredibly long braid. Harry hadn't really noticed how long it was on the train as she had sat down but it seemed more than 3 and a half-foot long compered to her height of 5'5.
Professor Mcgonigal came to stand in front of the house tables as usual and put the scraggy old Sorting Hat on the stool. The mouth ripped open and started to sing. Harry wasn't paying attention to what it sang in stead he looked up at the teacher's table in shock. There sitting next to Flitwick was what looked like Nymphadora Tonks! Tonks was a Aurora whom harry had first met when she, Lupin, Mad eye Moody and a lot of other wizard helped him escape from the Dursleys last summer. Though she looked very different- she was a Metamorphmagus, some one who could change their appearance hair, nose and so on - he could still recognise her. Or at least she looked like she was when he had seen her at the Order of the Phoenix over the summer, except her hair was long brown and curly instead off the turquoise she had favoured all for the last month. Looking rou8nd at Ron and Hermione he saw that they had also noticed her.
Soon the Hats song ended and Mcgoneagle took centre stage again and started calling out the name of the first years. One by one they came up, sat on the stool, had the hat placed on their heads and the Hat shouted out the names of the houses they were to join Griffindor, Slitherin, Huffulpuff, or Ravenclaw. This went on till only Lee was left standing. Now with out the first years around her they the people on the tables took noticed of her and her different clothing. Some people craned their necks to see.
"Lee Tanto" Mcgonigal called. Lee walked up to the stool and sat down
and had the hat placed on her head as though she didn't notice that
every ones eyes were fixed on her.
Harry could see form the moment the hat was placed on her head that it
seams confused. "SLITH...." But it stopped looking confused again
"GRIFF..."
The hat was now looking annoyed and flustered. "SLITHERDOR."
This has never happened before the hat always knew, but now it just
couldn't decide. Every one sat open-mouthed staring at Lee and the old
hat on her head, suddenly it spoke again, seeming enraged, "Grf-erin,
no, GRIF, GRIF, SL. SLITH...... GRIFINDOR!!!!!!!!" The hat shouted in a
rage. And with that it sprung of her head into Dumbldore's lap!
No one knew what to do. Lee, calmly stood up and waked over to the he
Griffindor table. God knows who started it, but soon clapping and
cheering began all over the Griffindor table. Hermione got up to let
Lee sit next to her.
As the cheering died down, Dumbeldor stood up. "Firstly, I would like
to welcome our new first years and Lee Tanto. And secondly, He-Who-
Must-Not-Be-Named is to be named, Voldermort is back!" this
announcement admitted a few gasps and silent screams from his
audience, "there is now no hiding form the matter. Last year the
ministry had gone out of their way to deny that fact but they can do
so no more. I want to reassure you all that Hogwarts is the safest
place you can be it has stood for over 3000 years and shall not fall
know!" suddenly he seem calmer now that his speech was over.
"And Third I will like you to meet your new Defence Agents the Dark
Arts teacher, Professor Tonks." And at that he sat down. And Tonks
stood up smiling widely.
"Hi, I heard this job is jinxed so I thought I'll try it out, I'll try
not to blow any student up, unless you give me good reason too, hee
hee." She joked before sitting down again. She had defiantly lightened
the mood and a lot of people were now smiling or at lest wondering haw
a dize like her was going to teach them D.A.D.A.
"Let's eat," said Dumbeldor and large quantities of food appeared in the tables. Every one, now ravenous for weighting so long dug eagerly into the food and soon the hall was full of talk and laughter just about forgetting about the prospect of Voldermort.
Lee, who hadn't started eating yet. Looked up at the main table to Tonks who smiled and winked at her.
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For the rest of the trip loads of people stopped by the compartment to see if the rumours about a new guy beating up the most popular boy in Slitherin were true. Most were people known by Harry Ron and Hermione, like Neville Longbottum, Ginny, Ron's sister, and her new boy friend, and Luna Lovegrove. But some were people of Malfoys house, Harry guessed that they had come to size up this strange looking stranger, who had knocked the ape like Crabbe and Goyle out cold.
Lee, had meet all the Slitherins eye to eye and, even with her sunglasses masking her unusual gaze, the Slitherins were always the one to look away. I was obvious that she didn't seem comfortable with more than three around her by the way she seem to relaxed when the extra people had gone.
Soon the food trolley came down; the old lady apologising for being so late, half a dozen of the chocolate frogs had escaped and run amok near the front of the train. Harry and Ron bought some of the remaining frogs and Hermione got a few sugar quills. The lady asked Lee if she wanted anything but Lee just politely shook her heads.
"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ron as he was opening a chocolate frog
"Yes, but I brought my own food" she said as she reached into her bag and pulled out two more foreign thing to the wizarding world. A bag of pickled onion monster munch and a can of Pepsi. Ron ended up drinking most of the Pepsi but thankfully, to Lees growling stomach, did not like the monster munch.
Lee looked into the empty can and said to Ron jokingly "I'm never offering you anything again!"
As time dragged by, the sky out side grew steadily black. "You better put your robes on Harry, we'll be there in about half and hour or so" said Hermione, and she and Ron already had theirs on prefect badges and all. Harry nodded and got up and started opening his trunk. Harry noticed that Lee was still sitting down "hay Lee, don't you have any robs?" Lee seemed to blush slightly and shook her head and pulled her long braid from behind her and played with the end, almost as if she was nervous.
"No, as I only got in this country yesterday so I didn't have time to get my books and get fitted. Youni and Zanko will be sending them for me so I'll have them for tomorrow." Youni and Zanko, they found from earlier conversations, were Lee's adoptive parents. They were muggles but they had known she was a witch from the moment they got her. In Japan some muggles knew of wizards, from a wizard or witch being married in to muggle family to just being friends.
"So your going like that?" said Hermione as she looked Lee up and down raking in the black jeans, black T-shirt, boots, long black jacket and of course the sun glasses. Speaking of which. "Isn't wearing the glasses going to be difficult in the dark?"
"No not really, I'm kinda use to it. Crystal is not really the most seen colour and... well lets just say I don't get the most friendly reception with them now a' days."
Harry put on his robes and shut his trunk. There were plenty of strange things in the wizarding world why would crystal eye cause any harm? "Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why don't you get a friendly reception?"
Suddenly Ron, who was helping harry with his trunk, jumped and dropped the trunk on his foot, "Owww, bugger, bugger, bugger!"
Ron are you all right?" asked Hermione as she helped Ron put his trunk back on the rack.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's that I just remembered a story I heard from dad. About one of the evil wizard with Vol...Voldermort, was an expert in mind control. He didn't even need spells just his eyes with were said to be like diamonds and hypnotise his victims."
"Hai that's the one" Lee chuckled sadly looking down at her lap and let go of her braid "one look at my eyes and immediately think I'm a fucking Death Eater!" Some how, in seconds, from she seemed to be radiating anger, her fists were so tightly clenched her knuckles were white. "Masaka! One old witch started throwing jinxes and yelling at me while in Diagon Ally when my glasses got knocked off. That, was why I didn't get my robes. I had to get Youni and Zanko out of there before some one through any thing at them as well!" it was obvious that being called a death eater was the worst possible insult to Lee.
Harry suddenly felt slightly detached from his own body like every thing had gone cold. That was when he head His voice, //umm such power, such anger. I see why they might have picked such a young girl. She would be a worthy asset to me// Lord Voldermort it wasn't the first time harry had heard him but at that moment he didn't care. Lee was his friend, yes he had only known her for a few hours, but she would never join Him.// Oh really Potter? Yes it would take some time for her to break, days, maybe even weeks. But I'll enjoy seeing her crack along with every one else// and at that, Harry was returned to reality by some one shaking his shoulders.
"Harry-kun, daijoubu ka?!" At first harry thought he was looking into giant bug eye but when Lee stepped back and his eyes focused properly he was able to see her, Ron and Hermione look at him concerned. Then he remembered what Voldermort had said and looked at Lee, what did he mean they 'picked?' His train of thought was broken by Hermiones voice.
"What?" he asked, not caching what she said.
"I said, you went all still and you eyes glazed over, what happened? Are you all right?" she looked extremely worried as did Ron who had gone pale.
"Eer..." he wanted to tell Ron and Hermione for they understood things like this had happen before and he knew it was best to tell them. But Lee... Lee seems to get this was some thing that he didn't want to involve her, and she stepped back again and put her hands up to show she didn't mind, and walked to the door.
"I need to use the bathroom anyway" and she left sliding the door shut behind her.
"It was Voldermort wasn't it?" whispered Ron. Harry nodded "what did he say?"
Harry took a deep breath and tolled them of Voldermorts interest in Lee. Both Hermione and Ron also had no clue what he had meant by someone picking her.
"Picking her for what do you think?" ask Hermione but Ron and harry both shrugged "maybe we should keep an eye on her." They all nodded in agreement.
"Well at least hopefully know that every one knows he's back with the Ministry not saying you and Dumbeldor are mad," said Ron trying to reassure the other two as well as himself. "He wont be able to do any thing to you, or her even, in Hogwarts definitely not after the battle Dumbledor had with him last year."
"God I hope so!" was all that Hermione said. Soon there was a knock on the door and Lee pocked her head in side. "Secret conversation over? Good. Hermione, Ron Prefects are wanted at the font of the train." You wouldn't have guessed she had been so mad she had seemed ready to kill earlier. She had a friendly carefree smile on her face and acted as though none of what happened after Harry had asked about her robes ever happened.
"Thanks Lee, come on Ron. See ya later Harry, bye Lee." Said Hermione and she and Ron hurried down the hall.
Harry looked out side the widow and could see Hogwarts just before the train when through some trees, hiding it. To him coming back to Hogwarts was like coming home. He hoped beyond hope that at least Hogwarts will always be there even when Voldermort is around.
About 10 minutes later the slowing train came to a halt at the train station. "Leave your bag and trunk they'll be taken up" harry said to Lee as the got up. Lee nodded and headed down the hall and through the nearest door.
Out side all the student were crowding onto the plat form when Harry heard the familiar calling of "First years, First years over hear!" Harry looked over a few heads to see Hagrid with his lantin and a growing crowed of nervous first years around him. Hagrid spotted harry and yelled over. "Hi Harry! Have you see a guy called Lee Tanto I think his name is, he's new, but in your year!"
Harry smiled and looked at Lee who waded her way through to Hagrid "Sionarai Harry!" she said with a wave.
Harry watched as long as he could before being swept away toward the carriages. As he came nearer he saw the hoarse like creatures called Thestrals; scaly winded horses that could only be seen by people who have watched some one die. As Harry looked at the student's around him, he wondered how many of them will soon be able to see the Thestrals pulling the carriages. How many will see death?
Neville soon joined him in the carriage and some second years that he didn't know. The trip was a quite one, and Harry, though keeping his eyes in his lap new the second years were staring at him. They probably at first didn't know who they were getting in with, but know they were looking at Harry with awe and wonder. Know that the Ministry of Magic admitted that Voldermort was back, many people who had said Harry was an attention seeker or a lunatic, had apologised and said that they didn't believe it in the first place any way.
Thankfully, the carriage stopped out side the entrance and Harry along with the rest of the school headed to the main Hall. Soon after Harry had seated Hermione and Ron came and sat down looking very ruffled. "God, what a palaver! You know how many arguments we had to beak up over the carriages? This group doesn't want to sit with that group, and the Slitherins are making it Hell." Said Ron in one breath before resting his head on the table.
Harry smiled and looked up at the ceiling, mirroring the clear night's sky out side. His attention was diverted though, to the sound of the door at the side of the room opening emitting the new terrified looking first years, Hagrid towering above them and Lee. Lee stuck out immensely among the first years, not only because of the height difference, but also because her sunglasses and incredibly long braid. Harry hadn't really noticed how long it was on the train as she had sat down but it seemed more than 3 and a half-foot long compered to her height of 5'5.
Professor Mcgonigal came to stand in front of the house tables as usual and put the scraggy old Sorting Hat on the stool. The mouth ripped open and started to sing. Harry wasn't paying attention to what it sang in stead he looked up at the teacher's table in shock. There sitting next to Flitwick was what looked like Nymphadora Tonks! Tonks was a Aurora whom harry had first met when she, Lupin, Mad eye Moody and a lot of other wizard helped him escape from the Dursleys last summer. Though she looked very different- she was a Metamorphmagus, some one who could change their appearance hair, nose and so on - he could still recognise her. Or at least she looked like she was when he had seen her at the Order of the Phoenix over the summer, except her hair was long brown and curly instead off the turquoise she had favoured all for the last month. Looking rou8nd at Ron and Hermione he saw that they had also noticed her.
Soon the Hats song ended and Mcgoneagle took centre stage again and started calling out the name of the first years. One by one they came up, sat on the stool, had the hat placed on their heads and the Hat shouted out the names of the houses they were to join Griffindor, Slitherin, Huffulpuff, or Ravenclaw. This went on till only Lee was left standing. Now with out the first years around her they the people on the tables took noticed of her and her different clothing. Some people craned their necks to see.
"Lee Tanto" Mcgonigal called. Lee walked up to the stool and sat down
and had the hat placed on her head as though she didn't notice that
every ones eyes were fixed on her.
Harry could see form the moment the hat was placed on her head that it
seams confused. "SLITH...." But it stopped looking confused again
"GRIFF..."
The hat was now looking annoyed and flustered. "SLITHERDOR."
This has never happened before the hat always knew, but now it just
couldn't decide. Every one sat open-mouthed staring at Lee and the old
hat on her head, suddenly it spoke again, seeming enraged, "Grf-erin,
no, GRIF, GRIF, SL. SLITH...... GRIFINDOR!!!!!!!!" The hat shouted in a
rage. And with that it sprung of her head into Dumbldore's lap!
No one knew what to do. Lee, calmly stood up and waked over to the he
Griffindor table. God knows who started it, but soon clapping and
cheering began all over the Griffindor table. Hermione got up to let
Lee sit next to her.
As the cheering died down, Dumbeldor stood up. "Firstly, I would like
to welcome our new first years and Lee Tanto. And secondly, He-Who-
Must-Not-Be-Named is to be named, Voldermort is back!" this
announcement admitted a few gasps and silent screams from his
audience, "there is now no hiding form the matter. Last year the
ministry had gone out of their way to deny that fact but they can do
so no more. I want to reassure you all that Hogwarts is the safest
place you can be it has stood for over 3000 years and shall not fall
know!" suddenly he seem calmer now that his speech was over.
"And Third I will like you to meet your new Defence Agents the Dark
Arts teacher, Professor Tonks." And at that he sat down. And Tonks
stood up smiling widely.
"Hi, I heard this job is jinxed so I thought I'll try it out, I'll try
not to blow any student up, unless you give me good reason too, hee
hee." She joked before sitting down again. She had defiantly lightened
the mood and a lot of people were now smiling or at lest wondering haw
a dize like her was going to teach them D.A.D.A.
"Let's eat," said Dumbeldor and large quantities of food appeared in the tables. Every one, now ravenous for weighting so long dug eagerly into the food and soon the hall was full of talk and laughter just about forgetting about the prospect of Voldermort.
Lee, who hadn't started eating yet. Looked up at the main table to Tonks who smiled and winked at her.
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