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Danger Foretold in A Song

Ethan did not know what Dumbledore meant by "the Order" and now he would have to wait until they reached the school. Sitting on the train he looked back at when he was talk to the imposter and how she or he had known all that information was surprising if for all he knew he could have been dead and not Thomas. If Thomas had not prevented the attacker Ethan would have been able to stop him. At that moment the train had stopped and the students had begun to exit the train and as they were unloading Ethan began to grab his belonging and exit the train with the rest of the group. When he stepped of the old chief engine he looked up and saw Auburn she must have been waiting for him all that time.

"Auburn, Auburn is that you." And as he saw that she had nodded he ran to he and gave her a hug and touched her face to make sure it was really her. " Blimey did you hear about what happened on the train."

"Of course I was in Dumbledore office when he had received the letter from Potter and then he had told me that something had been wrong on the train and that he would have to cut our conversation short." She said with a sad and miserable look that brought Ethan's excitement down.

"Well are you ok though I heard of you being attacked at the station and all." He asked to see if he would be able to lighten up her mood.

"Oh it was nothing some one just went after me at the station and cut my hair. Can you hold on a second Ethan my stupid cat has walked away again. Midnight! Midnight! Bloody Hell where has this stupid cat gone Midnight! Where are you?" she began to get a nervous tone in her voice. When out of the wood came a black cat with crystal blue eyes. "Oh there you are you gave me such a fright now never do that again."

When she had finally found Midnight Ethan noticed there were only a few more horseless drawn carriage left and advised Auburn to get moving so they would not miss the sorting. Sorting was when the first years would be sorted into one of the four houses at Hogwarts. As the two enter one of the carriages they bumped into a fifth year Hufflepuff named Christopher Laden.

"Hello there Christopher, how was your summer." Said Ethan with an interested tone of voice.

"It was horrible I had to spend it at my aunt Grumble's house and she despises me, well now that that is over and done with who is your friend?" he said with the utmost interest.

"Oh blimey I haven't introduced you two yet. Christopher this is Auburn Kingsley a new... well old student at Hogwarts." He said with an undertone

"Well it is a pleasure to mean you may dear lady." He said with the most genuine voice he could muster.

"H.... H...Hi." she said with her mouth wide open and drool dropping from both ends of her mouth.

"You must excuse my friend she has... a problem." He said and Auburn picked up her mouth and slapped him on the shoulder.

"Ok... well were at the school let's go." Christopher said to stray from the odd subject.

"Let's head towards the Great Hall before all the good seats of taken." Ethan said to hurry the to and as he and Auburn head towards the entrance of the Great Hall they headed towards the Ravenclaw table and waited for the rest of the student to enter and also wait for the feast to begin.

As the students and teachers began to sit, when Ethan looked up he noticed that Dumbledore was not present at the staff table. He then looked around and noticed that he was not the only one that noticed Dumbledore missing. When he looked up again he noticed that Professor McGonagall had sat in the headmaster's seat. Much to their dismay they noticed the doors of the great hall doors opened and entered Professor Granger followed by the newest student that were to enter into Hogwarts. When the group had reached the top of the Great hall the stood there in complete silence while Professor Granger walked toward the staff table and picked up a four-legged stool that had a ripped and old hat upon it.

"Welcome First years and new foreign exchange student I am Professor McGonagall and I will be the headmistress for the remainder of the school year, as for Professor Dumbledore has been ask to go help Arthur Weasley the minister of magic in finding the culprit. Now that we have that out of the way Ms. Granger, let the sorting begin." Professor McGonagall said as she stood up.

"Well the sorting hat has a song to sing to you all about the process." Professor Granger said to direct the student to the sorting hat.

"Yes a song I will sing but listen closely and you will hear the truth that will make you beware." The hat said as it looked around to see the student reaction to this phrase.

As you all are playing

I sit on a shelf waiting

And watching as time

Went I began to hear

Stories of secrets that

All should fear

Secrets that divide this

Old school and

Separate each pupil.

Stories of lies and deception

That other hats would shun to hear.
The pain that each story hold,

for different hearts the stories were told.

The heart of each of you holds the secrets

That give me the truth that

I will use to divide you.

Even though I see in your

Head your heart tells

Me stories that you would say

Are untrue.

But in each house you find the courage

To stop the lies and continue to strive.

When the sorting hat had finished it song the whole hall stayed in complete shocked for never has the hat predicted a horrible year since the year of Harry Potter.