K: Hi everyone! I have a lot to say this chapter. ^-^ I apologize for the
prolonged delay with the past two or three chapters. I don't know if I've
been just plain tired or if it's just writers block. Far from not having
ideas, I've had them, it's just when it got to writing the chapters, I had
trouble. What I had spinning around in my head and what I was typing were
two separate things. This chapter started out equally as hard and awkward
but it got better, I'm hoping this chapter is better than the past to.
Yami K: Don't forget.
K: I know, I know. Also I will be fixing the past chapters. Spelling errors, wrong tenses, odd sounding phrases.etc. Then there is another thing. If I suddenly disappear for a few weeks with no noticed please do not get upset. I've found that I'm going to need more back surgery and it could be anytime from next week to next summer.
Yami K: Also we'd like to thank you for letting us know that the thought speak didn't show up last chapter.
K: **sigh** Now I need to check the rest of the story and see if it did that during the whole story.
Yami K: Disclaimer: K does not own either Yugi or Harry Potter.
Chapter 12
Looking around warily as is expecting something or someone, the Professor led the new students into the gigantic castle. "I'll leave you students here, I'll be back when it's time for the sorting." With that simple statement she swept out of the room leaving then students to talk amongst themselves.
"Hufflepuffs are just a bunch of pushovers!" One boy claimed to anyone who would listen to him. "Slytherins are stupid, and Gryffindors don't know when to quit."
"That's not true!" A girl with curly chestnut colored hair argued. "My cousin Hannah is in Hufflepuff, they aren't so bad!" The boy snorted derisively and continued his loud vocal tirade aimed at no one in general.
"Arguing are we?" A cold voice asked loudly. Everyone turned to find a man with cold eyes and dark greasy hair standing in the doorway. "That does not reassure me as to the fact that this years Slytherins would be top notch. Ah well. One cannot have everything I suppose." The man gazed at the crowd of students who were staring at him expectantly. "Come with me, I've been sent to bring you all to the Great Hall." A girl with straight black hair and piercing sapphire blue eyes raised her hand. "Yes?" The man asked rather nastily.
"Who are you, Sir? If you don't mind me asking." The girl asked softly quaking ever so slightly under his harsh gaze.
"I am Professor Snape. Any more information than that would be a moot point, as you will all know more later. Come now!" The Professor Snape snapped and led the students through a maze of hallways and into what was undoubtedly the Great Hall. Sitting at four long tables in the loud and crowded hall were students obviously separated into their houses. The new students eyed the older students nervously and even a bit warily.
Harry gave the group of students a quick look over before turning back to Ron and Hermione. "They don't look wet or anything. You reckon Peeves has gotten bored with terrorizing new students?" Harry asked with a wry smile on his face.
"Somehow I doubt it," Hermione muttered and gestured over to the crowd. Harry turned around in time to see Peeves the poltergeist releasing some sort of powder over the new students while he cackled manically at their screams.
Yugi, Ryou, and Malik had somehow been shuffled to the rear of the group, luckily for them in this instance because the powder managed to miss them entirely. They laughed a little bit at the white-coated kids before them and the crazy looking creature who was clearly having a blast.
"Flour?" Harry questioned in confusion.
"I don't think so." Hermione spoke as a flurry of activity erupted in the crowd of first years as they began to scratch wildly and any section of skin which had been touched by the powder. "Itching powder, inexpensive and shockingly effective." Hermione smiled slightly.
"Well," Ron put in softly, "You can't say he's boring, that's for certain." The trio watched as Professor Flitwick and Madame Pompfrey managed to cause the powder to disappear and cleaned up the students in a matter of minutes.
While Ryou and Malik were both engrossed in the itching powder incident, Yugi had turned to gaze at the table at the front of the Hall, he of course recognized Professor Dumbledore, who didn't look the slightest bit surprised or dismayed by Peeves actions. In fact he looked as if he was enjoying the hustle and bustle of a new school year. He had a tiny smile on his face and from where Yugi was standing, it looked almost as if he was humming slightly, but Yugi couldn't be sure. Yugi felt his thin eyebrows rise as if in a question, before turning his head back to the stricken students.
After the incident was cleared up the students once more went to the front of the Great Hall with Professor Snape in the lead. "He's friendly." Ryou noted, as Snape set an old gray hat on a stool. The hat was faded and ragged with tattered edges and fraying seams.
"What's with the hat?" Malik asked Yugi, who merely shrugged rolling his amethyst eyes. All three of their jaws dropped when the hat began to sing.
A long, long, long time ago four wizards and witches brave and true,
Decided that they should work together in order to make a school,
They worked together to make Hogwarts a truly great magical school.
There was Helga Hufflepuff who was kind and understanding, surely not a fool.
The lady Ravenclaw who was smart and clever and never unfair,
Godric Gryffindor the bravest of them all,
Last but not least was Salazar Slytherin who was cool and calm.
These four fought over the students of the school,
Slytherin wanted only the cream of the crop, the best of the best, pure bloods,
The others were in favor of accepting everyone and giving everyone one a chance.
I was the solution to this problem,
Me, the sorting hat, they put a bit of themselves into me so I could make the choice for them
Which house each perspective student belonged.
Gryffindor for bravery, Slytherin for ideals, Ravenclaw for cleverness, or Hufflepuff for Kindness.
So don't be shy, put me on,
I'll see into your head and put you where you belong!
The hat finished its song the resounding applause of nearly everyone in the Great Hall. Yugi gawked at the hat for a moment before turning to Ryou whose wide brown eyes looked a bit bemused. "Did that hat just sing?" Yugi asked, he didn't trust his eyes..and his ears, at least not yet. Ryou nodded just as unbelieving at Yugi.
"This place is crazy." Malik stated simply as he looked around and gazed up. "There is a ceiling up there right?" Malik asked carelessly. Personally it didn't matter to him if there wasn't any ceiling, but someone else could care. Malik shrugged as Ryou and Yugi gazed up at the ceiling, which appeared to either BE the sky outside, or a perfect match of it.
Somewhere around this time Snape had abandoned his place at the head of the crowd and had returned to what was obviously his seat at the same table, which Dumbledore sat. Professor McGonagall came from one end of the room to rescue the new students. "I'll call your name in alphabetical order and you will come to the stool sit down and the Sorting Hat will be placed on your head. This will be the system for first years, new students will be sorted separately after the first years." She told everyone loud enough for most of the hall to hear.
After clearing her throat Professor McGonagall began the Sorting. She called out names one by one and after a certain amount of time the Sorting Hat would shout out the person's house loud enough for all to hear. Ryou, Yugi, and Malik kept themselves separate from the rest of the students, clearly showing to any outsiders that they were not only the new students that the teacher had been referring to, but that they knew each other as well.
"Abbot, Felicity." Professor McGonagall called, and the curly haired girl who had spoken before went up to the stool and gingerly sat down. The sorting hat was placed on her head and almost immediately the hat shouted "Gryffindor!" Smiling Felicity ran to the Gryffindor table where the students were cheering and clapping wildly. Then the boy who had been badmouthing all the houses had gone up to get sorted and not unlike the hat's song, he was placed into Slytherin.
It seemed to take forever for the first years to be sorted and as the moments slipped by, despite his effort to keep alert, Yugi found his mind drifting and he began fingering and playing with the millennium puzzle thoughtfully, a movement that did not get past Professor Dumbledore.
"As you all may have noticed we have three new students, they will be starting from scratch, but will be in the Fifth Year because of their age. I will call their names alphabetically along with the country they are from." Professor McGonagall adjusted her glasses, "Bakura, Ryou from Domino, Japan." Professor McGonagall read clearly pronouncing the name perfecting much to Ryou's surprise.
As he headed up to the stool he could feel nearly every student and teachers eyes upon him and much to his embarrassment he felt a slight burning in his cheeks which could only mean he was blushing. Greatly relieved when the sorting hat was put on his head, he heaved a sigh of relief, he closed his eyes. He found himself in the hallway outside his and Bakura's perspective soul rooms. Bakura was standing outside his with his arms crossed looking sour. Ryou nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard a voice inside his head that did not belong to either Bakura or himself.
"Ryou Bakura eh?" The voice asked before hmming loudly, "I sense a...conflict of interests and actually a literal tug of war. Two souls inhabit this mind. One dark, evil, with less that honorable interests and a bit on the dangerous side to both you and those around you." Bakura glared at the hat before laughing darkly and entering his dark and shadowy soul room. "Another part of you is light and good, with no evil aspirations or thoughts. You are clever, oh yes, and sensible. Perhaps even a bit melodramatic at times. You would do well in any of the houses, Ravenclaw especially, but it would be best if GRYFFINDOR!" The last word was shouted. The Gryffindor table erupted into cheers and applause. Ryou gratefully headed for the table, happy to rid himself of everyone's attention.
"Isthar, Malik. Cairo, Egypt." Professor McGonagall called Malik up to be sorted. Malik shook his spiky blonde hair unconsciously as he loped up to the stool, he gave the sorting hat a dark look with his piercing violet eyes before sitting on the stool a bit reluctantly. Like Ryou, Malik found himself in the shadowy hallway of his soul. Marik was nowhere to be seen, but was presumably in the dark and cavernous soul room.
"Malik Isthar." The hat murmured speculatively. "Another person who has two souls inhabiting his mind, one light, one dark, another tug of war." The hat paused, "I sense a thirst to prove yourself, to dispel the reputation your "dark" side has caused. Perhaps to enlighten other that you are not quite as bad as you appear? Beware first impressions are hard to break. You have a great deal of darkness you'd do well in Slytherin, no doubt about that." Malik's spirit form cross his arms and glared darkly. "You are bright and brave, both admirable qualities, also a bit stubborn. Quite tough. Well I best put you in GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted.
'Is it true? Do I want to show the others that I'm not all evil and darkness? That I can work on the good side?' Malik asked himself a bit shakily as he headed for the Gryffindor table. He heard Marik's mental snort, but decided to ignore that as he waited for Yugi's turn.
"Motou, Yugi." Professor McGonagall's voice rang out clearly. Yugi nervously headed toward the wooden stool as the others before him had. As the hat was placed on his head he felt himself being drawn toward his and Yami's soul rooms. He found himself in the hallway between his own light and slightly childish soul room and Yami's slightly darker more serious soul room.
"Yet another crowded mind." The hat spoke into Yugi's mind as Yami left his soul room, entering the hallway. "Only you're dark side is not too dangerous or evil in motives. I sense a bit of royalty about the soul who shares your body." The hat told the two. "You are clever and logical, also very kind and caring. An interesting choice of two houses is becoming apparent. You are brave as well and willing to risk everything for someone you care about, selflessness, a good virtue. I think you should be in GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted and once more the Gryffindor table erupted in applause and cheers as Yugi headed toward the table, sitting beside Malik.
K: Well I did have this chapter ready to post on the 17th, but ff.net wasn't cooperating for me. Sorry everyone for the wait!
Yami K: Don't forget.
K: I know, I know. Also I will be fixing the past chapters. Spelling errors, wrong tenses, odd sounding phrases.etc. Then there is another thing. If I suddenly disappear for a few weeks with no noticed please do not get upset. I've found that I'm going to need more back surgery and it could be anytime from next week to next summer.
Yami K: Also we'd like to thank you for letting us know that the thought speak didn't show up last chapter.
K: **sigh** Now I need to check the rest of the story and see if it did that during the whole story.
Yami K: Disclaimer: K does not own either Yugi or Harry Potter.
Chapter 12
Looking around warily as is expecting something or someone, the Professor led the new students into the gigantic castle. "I'll leave you students here, I'll be back when it's time for the sorting." With that simple statement she swept out of the room leaving then students to talk amongst themselves.
"Hufflepuffs are just a bunch of pushovers!" One boy claimed to anyone who would listen to him. "Slytherins are stupid, and Gryffindors don't know when to quit."
"That's not true!" A girl with curly chestnut colored hair argued. "My cousin Hannah is in Hufflepuff, they aren't so bad!" The boy snorted derisively and continued his loud vocal tirade aimed at no one in general.
"Arguing are we?" A cold voice asked loudly. Everyone turned to find a man with cold eyes and dark greasy hair standing in the doorway. "That does not reassure me as to the fact that this years Slytherins would be top notch. Ah well. One cannot have everything I suppose." The man gazed at the crowd of students who were staring at him expectantly. "Come with me, I've been sent to bring you all to the Great Hall." A girl with straight black hair and piercing sapphire blue eyes raised her hand. "Yes?" The man asked rather nastily.
"Who are you, Sir? If you don't mind me asking." The girl asked softly quaking ever so slightly under his harsh gaze.
"I am Professor Snape. Any more information than that would be a moot point, as you will all know more later. Come now!" The Professor Snape snapped and led the students through a maze of hallways and into what was undoubtedly the Great Hall. Sitting at four long tables in the loud and crowded hall were students obviously separated into their houses. The new students eyed the older students nervously and even a bit warily.
Harry gave the group of students a quick look over before turning back to Ron and Hermione. "They don't look wet or anything. You reckon Peeves has gotten bored with terrorizing new students?" Harry asked with a wry smile on his face.
"Somehow I doubt it," Hermione muttered and gestured over to the crowd. Harry turned around in time to see Peeves the poltergeist releasing some sort of powder over the new students while he cackled manically at their screams.
Yugi, Ryou, and Malik had somehow been shuffled to the rear of the group, luckily for them in this instance because the powder managed to miss them entirely. They laughed a little bit at the white-coated kids before them and the crazy looking creature who was clearly having a blast.
"Flour?" Harry questioned in confusion.
"I don't think so." Hermione spoke as a flurry of activity erupted in the crowd of first years as they began to scratch wildly and any section of skin which had been touched by the powder. "Itching powder, inexpensive and shockingly effective." Hermione smiled slightly.
"Well," Ron put in softly, "You can't say he's boring, that's for certain." The trio watched as Professor Flitwick and Madame Pompfrey managed to cause the powder to disappear and cleaned up the students in a matter of minutes.
While Ryou and Malik were both engrossed in the itching powder incident, Yugi had turned to gaze at the table at the front of the Hall, he of course recognized Professor Dumbledore, who didn't look the slightest bit surprised or dismayed by Peeves actions. In fact he looked as if he was enjoying the hustle and bustle of a new school year. He had a tiny smile on his face and from where Yugi was standing, it looked almost as if he was humming slightly, but Yugi couldn't be sure. Yugi felt his thin eyebrows rise as if in a question, before turning his head back to the stricken students.
After the incident was cleared up the students once more went to the front of the Great Hall with Professor Snape in the lead. "He's friendly." Ryou noted, as Snape set an old gray hat on a stool. The hat was faded and ragged with tattered edges and fraying seams.
"What's with the hat?" Malik asked Yugi, who merely shrugged rolling his amethyst eyes. All three of their jaws dropped when the hat began to sing.
A long, long, long time ago four wizards and witches brave and true,
Decided that they should work together in order to make a school,
They worked together to make Hogwarts a truly great magical school.
There was Helga Hufflepuff who was kind and understanding, surely not a fool.
The lady Ravenclaw who was smart and clever and never unfair,
Godric Gryffindor the bravest of them all,
Last but not least was Salazar Slytherin who was cool and calm.
These four fought over the students of the school,
Slytherin wanted only the cream of the crop, the best of the best, pure bloods,
The others were in favor of accepting everyone and giving everyone one a chance.
I was the solution to this problem,
Me, the sorting hat, they put a bit of themselves into me so I could make the choice for them
Which house each perspective student belonged.
Gryffindor for bravery, Slytherin for ideals, Ravenclaw for cleverness, or Hufflepuff for Kindness.
So don't be shy, put me on,
I'll see into your head and put you where you belong!
The hat finished its song the resounding applause of nearly everyone in the Great Hall. Yugi gawked at the hat for a moment before turning to Ryou whose wide brown eyes looked a bit bemused. "Did that hat just sing?" Yugi asked, he didn't trust his eyes..and his ears, at least not yet. Ryou nodded just as unbelieving at Yugi.
"This place is crazy." Malik stated simply as he looked around and gazed up. "There is a ceiling up there right?" Malik asked carelessly. Personally it didn't matter to him if there wasn't any ceiling, but someone else could care. Malik shrugged as Ryou and Yugi gazed up at the ceiling, which appeared to either BE the sky outside, or a perfect match of it.
Somewhere around this time Snape had abandoned his place at the head of the crowd and had returned to what was obviously his seat at the same table, which Dumbledore sat. Professor McGonagall came from one end of the room to rescue the new students. "I'll call your name in alphabetical order and you will come to the stool sit down and the Sorting Hat will be placed on your head. This will be the system for first years, new students will be sorted separately after the first years." She told everyone loud enough for most of the hall to hear.
After clearing her throat Professor McGonagall began the Sorting. She called out names one by one and after a certain amount of time the Sorting Hat would shout out the person's house loud enough for all to hear. Ryou, Yugi, and Malik kept themselves separate from the rest of the students, clearly showing to any outsiders that they were not only the new students that the teacher had been referring to, but that they knew each other as well.
"Abbot, Felicity." Professor McGonagall called, and the curly haired girl who had spoken before went up to the stool and gingerly sat down. The sorting hat was placed on her head and almost immediately the hat shouted "Gryffindor!" Smiling Felicity ran to the Gryffindor table where the students were cheering and clapping wildly. Then the boy who had been badmouthing all the houses had gone up to get sorted and not unlike the hat's song, he was placed into Slytherin.
It seemed to take forever for the first years to be sorted and as the moments slipped by, despite his effort to keep alert, Yugi found his mind drifting and he began fingering and playing with the millennium puzzle thoughtfully, a movement that did not get past Professor Dumbledore.
"As you all may have noticed we have three new students, they will be starting from scratch, but will be in the Fifth Year because of their age. I will call their names alphabetically along with the country they are from." Professor McGonagall adjusted her glasses, "Bakura, Ryou from Domino, Japan." Professor McGonagall read clearly pronouncing the name perfecting much to Ryou's surprise.
As he headed up to the stool he could feel nearly every student and teachers eyes upon him and much to his embarrassment he felt a slight burning in his cheeks which could only mean he was blushing. Greatly relieved when the sorting hat was put on his head, he heaved a sigh of relief, he closed his eyes. He found himself in the hallway outside his and Bakura's perspective soul rooms. Bakura was standing outside his with his arms crossed looking sour. Ryou nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard a voice inside his head that did not belong to either Bakura or himself.
"Ryou Bakura eh?" The voice asked before hmming loudly, "I sense a...conflict of interests and actually a literal tug of war. Two souls inhabit this mind. One dark, evil, with less that honorable interests and a bit on the dangerous side to both you and those around you." Bakura glared at the hat before laughing darkly and entering his dark and shadowy soul room. "Another part of you is light and good, with no evil aspirations or thoughts. You are clever, oh yes, and sensible. Perhaps even a bit melodramatic at times. You would do well in any of the houses, Ravenclaw especially, but it would be best if GRYFFINDOR!" The last word was shouted. The Gryffindor table erupted into cheers and applause. Ryou gratefully headed for the table, happy to rid himself of everyone's attention.
"Isthar, Malik. Cairo, Egypt." Professor McGonagall called Malik up to be sorted. Malik shook his spiky blonde hair unconsciously as he loped up to the stool, he gave the sorting hat a dark look with his piercing violet eyes before sitting on the stool a bit reluctantly. Like Ryou, Malik found himself in the shadowy hallway of his soul. Marik was nowhere to be seen, but was presumably in the dark and cavernous soul room.
"Malik Isthar." The hat murmured speculatively. "Another person who has two souls inhabiting his mind, one light, one dark, another tug of war." The hat paused, "I sense a thirst to prove yourself, to dispel the reputation your "dark" side has caused. Perhaps to enlighten other that you are not quite as bad as you appear? Beware first impressions are hard to break. You have a great deal of darkness you'd do well in Slytherin, no doubt about that." Malik's spirit form cross his arms and glared darkly. "You are bright and brave, both admirable qualities, also a bit stubborn. Quite tough. Well I best put you in GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted.
'Is it true? Do I want to show the others that I'm not all evil and darkness? That I can work on the good side?' Malik asked himself a bit shakily as he headed for the Gryffindor table. He heard Marik's mental snort, but decided to ignore that as he waited for Yugi's turn.
"Motou, Yugi." Professor McGonagall's voice rang out clearly. Yugi nervously headed toward the wooden stool as the others before him had. As the hat was placed on his head he felt himself being drawn toward his and Yami's soul rooms. He found himself in the hallway between his own light and slightly childish soul room and Yami's slightly darker more serious soul room.
"Yet another crowded mind." The hat spoke into Yugi's mind as Yami left his soul room, entering the hallway. "Only you're dark side is not too dangerous or evil in motives. I sense a bit of royalty about the soul who shares your body." The hat told the two. "You are clever and logical, also very kind and caring. An interesting choice of two houses is becoming apparent. You are brave as well and willing to risk everything for someone you care about, selflessness, a good virtue. I think you should be in GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted and once more the Gryffindor table erupted in applause and cheers as Yugi headed toward the table, sitting beside Malik.
K: Well I did have this chapter ready to post on the 17th, but ff.net wasn't cooperating for me. Sorry everyone for the wait!