Chapter 2: The sorting

The boat ride to Hogwarts was amazing, seeing the castle come into view was magical. When they got inside Harry noticed the two students they had cursed earlier still bruised and cut, though Harry felt bad about it something inside him told him not to say anything.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, the start of term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony, because while you are here, your house will be like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room. Well they're ready for you, follow me." One of the Hogwarts teachers said stepping through a door. The Great Hall was magnificent it was filled with students, sitting at their house tables, the ceiling was enchanted to look like the sky outside, and there were candles dancing in the air.

To the first years it seemed like an eternity, but once they were sorted and sat at their house tables it was a whole different experince, Blaise was right all four of them were sorted into Slytherin."Welcome to Slytherin Harry you'll have a great time here. Our head of house is the Potions Master Professor Snape." One of the boys sitting arcoss from Harry said shaking his hand.

"Thanks, so what's your name?" Harry asked taking the other boys hand and shaking it.

"I'm Tracy Davis, this is my third year here. Slytherins win everything, if we don't we tie with Gryffindor, Snape's getting sick of it. So are you going to help us win this year?" Tracy asked smiling.

"Sure, what do I have to do?" Harry asked all excited, he had never been part of a competition before.

"Just make sure you stay out of trouble, and impress the teachers that way they'll give you points instead of taking them away. I'm sure that your going to catch on quickly."

"Thanks." With that Harry got up and followed the Slytherin prefects to their dormitories. Once inside Harry, Draco, Blaise, and Marcus sat on the couch in the common room. The Slytherin dormitories were decorated in silver, green, and black there was barley any light inside of the common room too. It didn't bother Harry since he was raised in a cupboard under the stairs.

"So how do you like Hogwarts so far?" Marcus asked Harry.

"It's great, I can't wait for classes to start though. Um Draco there's someone behind you." Harry said noticing a pale brown haired girl behind Draco.

"Yeah I know just ignore her and maybe she'll go away. Shes been staring at me since the sorting, her name's Pansy Parkinson, our families are friends and she has this thing for me." Draco said rolling his eyes and looking straight at Harry.

"Draco Edward Malfoy! You can't just ignore me forever, sooner or later you'll have to talk to me!" Pansy yelled over hearing what Draco had told Harry, and then stormed to the girl's dormitories.

"Oh that reminds me Draco did you see that one brown haired girl from America? I think you should see if she wants to go out, if you don't want to though I'll do it." Blaise said remembering a girl who was sitting in the boat next to them.

"No, why, and don't even think about it." Draco said confused.

"I think she said that her name was Bailey Schmidt. Draco she is so fucking hot.If you and Blaise don't ask her out then I'll go for it." Marcus got a look on his face remembering how hot the girl was.

"I think I'll have to meet her. Blaise do you know what house she was sorted into?" Draco noticed everyone's eyes get big.

"Yeah this one." Draco turned around to notice Bailey standing right behind them.

"Oh Hi, I'm-" Draco started to say only get to cut off.

"I know who you are Draco Malfoy, who wouldn't with the temper tantrum that Pansy's throwing in the girls dorm. Do you mind if I sit with you guys, I mean just until Pansy calms down a little." Bailey said sitting between Harry and Draco.

"Sure, but if you're just going to sit with us until Parkinson calms down it might be a while she's been known to throw tantrums for days." Draco said moving over.

"It's ok, I mean she does have to fall asleep some time right. So what were you guys talking about?" Bailey asked noticing the weird looks the guys were giving her.

"N-nothing." Harry said realizing what Blaise, and Marcus were talking about. Bailey was extremely hot but for some reason Harry didn't feel right thinking that.

"Really, because I'm not buying that. By the looks on your faces you were probably talking about me, don't worry though I get that a lot. So what was it that, sorry I don't know your name yet." Bailey said looking over at Blaise.

"I'm Blaise, this is Marcus, and that there is Harry." Blaise said taking Bailey's hand and kissing it.

"Well it's nice to meet you all. As I was saying I know that Blaise was saying something about Draco here, would I be interested in it?" Bailey asked she started to laugh a little, it was fun being a legimens when people didn't know about it.

"You really wouldn't be interested in it, we were talking about how Draco should really get back at those, um, Gryffindors." Marcus said trying to cover up for Blaise. Draco's face went red when Marcus began to talk, then he looked over at Bailey, Blaise was right Bailey was extremely hot.

'I heard that Drake.' Bailey thought, 'You're extremely hot yourself.' Draco reminded Bailey of a greek god, or something.

"So are you really from America?" Harry asked finally getting up the nerve to link a sentence together.

"Yeah, I'm from California." Bailey said putting her head on Draco's shoulder, she was suprised when he didn't move, but wrapped his arm around her waist.

"Then why are you at Hogwarts? I mean aren't there wizarding schools in America?" Harry asked amazed, he didn't know students from other countries could come here.

"There are wizarding schools in America, but my family has connections here and thought that I would get a better education at Hogwarts. I was against it at first, but I'm starting to enjoy it here." Bailey started to smile, being this close to what Pansy thought was a good for nothing ponce, made her feel safe.

"So who are your parent's friends with here?" Draco asked intriged.

"That's for me to know, and for you to find out." Bailey said smiling again, she loved the smile Draco gave her every time she tried to tease him.