Chapter Two- The Sorting Ceremony
Ron, Harry and Hermione quietly walked into the castle just after the sorting hat had finished it's song and just as the first student was called up to the stool.
"Ethan Alfort!" was the first name called. He walked up and nervously sat on the stool for a few moments.
Suddenly the hat shouted out "RAVENCLAW!". Ethan beamed and walked over to a table of other Ravenclaws that were bored stiff and gave an older kid, that looked a lot like him, a hi-five.
"Scelious Allendorf!" wan the next to be read from the long list of students. He stood up, popped something in his mouth (probably some food from before), and sat on the school. He looked different sitting on the stool. He wasn't the small blonde kid that they had met outside. Sure he was still small and blonde, but he just seemed, different. He was up there longer than any of the other kids for the rest of the night. He kept saying something to the hat, probably something along the lines of what happened to Harry in his first year.
Finally that hat reluctantly spit out "Gryffindor." The Gryffindor table clapped generically, showing much more enthusiasm than the Ravenclaw table had. Scelious spotted the three sixth years he had met earlier and headed for them.
"Hey Scelious! Congratulations!" Hermione said gleefully.
"Yeah, welcome to Gryffindor." Ron said proudly. "What took you so long under that hat though?"
"The Sorting Hat wanted to put me in Hufflepuff but ever since the quiz my parents gave me two years ago on the characteristics that you need to possess to get into a house, I've known I was Gryffindor material. So I just gave it the facts and it realized the error of its ways." Scelious replied. "Did you hear how disappointed it sounded when it announced my house? I think it was sad that I knew more than it did."
"Well regardless of how you got in, you're in! Since Ron is a prefect, there's been an opening in our room for ages. Maybe I could make arrangements for you to sleep in there. Would you like that?" Harry asked inquisitively.
"That would be perfect! I don't know many people, especially wizards. My parents kept me pretty isolated. Oh, that would be so perfect Harry!" Scelious exclaimed, ecstatic.
"Alright, alright I'll see what I can do. Don't get your hopes up though because I'm not sure of anything yet. But I'll definitely ask the other guys and see what I can come up with." Harry lied. He knew he would be able to make room for him, he just didn't know how the other guys in the dorm would feel about having a puny first year in their room.
They had talked all the way until George Pennington was on the stool. He was put into Hufflepuff. Whether Scelious was exited about being a Gryffindor, or if he was just incredibly optimistic, he applauded every kid that got put into any house. He was almost always the only one applauding for Slytherin acceptances, besides the Slytherin table. This drew questioning looks from other tables, but it didn't seem to discourage Scelious, whose lack of social skills was completely evident.
After the ceremony was over, the feast began. When all the food appeared on the table, all the first years could be heard gasping over the chit-chat of the experienced wizards. Scelious, however, acted as if this happened every day.
"So tell us about yourself." Ron said, stuffing his face with mashed potatos.
"Well my dad is a modestly well known wizard named Aeta Thered." Scelious said before being cut off by Harry.
"But I thought your last name was Allendorf." He asked.
"It is, but my dad is known by Thered. He changed his last name when he went into the- nevermind. I don't really want to talk about it." Scelious said.
He was completely silent for the rest of the dinner, and afterwards he went straight to the library with Ron, Harry and Hermione, who shortly after returned to the Gryffindor Common Room. Harry stayed back for a few seconds though, watching Scelious write something on a piece of parchment. Not wanting to seem nosey, he quickly caught up with Ron and Hermione.
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