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Chapter 5: The sorting hat

'Hey, we're reaching, better change into our robes,' Said Harry as he reached out for his clothes. Yoh and co. all look at Hao who said, 'What? Oh, our robes will be given in school.' Ren was about to say something when a voice echoed through the train: 'We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train; it will be taken to the school separately.' 'Come on,' shouted Yoh as he jumped of the train, then helping Anna down. Anna shivered in the cold air night. Seeing this, Yoh took off his own shirt and gave it to Anna.

Anna blushed slightly while girls drooled at the sight of Yoh's build. 'Uh-oh, not good, guess coming to Hogwarts still have fan girls chasing me,' thought Yoh. Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students and Harry heard a familiar voice. 'Firs'-years! Firs' years over here! All right there, Harry?' Hagrid's big hairy face beamed over the sea of heads. 'Who's that?' asked Yoh looking at Hagrid in amazed. Well who wouldn't, well at least the people who have not seen such big people would.

'C'mon, follow me – any more firs' – years? Mind yer step, now!' boomed Hagrid. They were led through a steep, narrow path. Yeh'll get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec,' Hagrid called over his shoulder, 'jus' round this bend here.' There was a loud 'Oooooh!' The narrow path had opened suddenly on to the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. 'Humph, what's so great about this castle? In my country there are 33 castles like this.' Boasted Ren.

Hearing Hagrid order to sit in the boats they all got in to the boats. Soon after they reached a dark tunnel, which seemed to be taking them right underneath the castle, until they reached a kind of underground harbour, where they clambered out on to rocks and pebbles. Then they clambered up a passageway in the rock after Hagrid's lamp, coming out at last on to smooth, damp grass right in the shadow of the castle.

They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around the huge, oak front door. Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door. The door swung open at once. A tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes stood there. 'The firs'-years, Professor McGonagall,' said Hagrid. 'Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here.' She pulled the door wide. 'woah! Big!' exclaimed HoroHoro. 'Humph, in my country there are 33 such entrance hall,' once again Ren boasted. They followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor.

There were many voices from a doorway from the right. 'The rest of the school must be there,' thought Harry. Instead of heading there, Professor McGonagall showed the first-years into a small empty chamber off the hall. 'Welcome to Hogwarts,' said Professor McGonagall. '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 something 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.

The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule-breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the House Cup, a great honour. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours. The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.'

'How exactly do they sort us into houses?' Harry asked Ron. 'Some sort of test, I think. Fred said it hurts a lot, but I think he was joking.' 'We went through much torturous stuff. So even if it hurts it won't hurt as much as you all will feel,' said Hao confidently. Then something happen which made Harry jump about a foot in the air - several people behind him screamed. Many look up and found pearly white ghost, slightly transparent floating and gliding in the air. 'Hey, these ghosts are different from ours, they are pearly white while ours have colour!' cried Yoh in surprise.

'Move along, now,' said a sharp voice. 'The Sorting Ceremony's about to start.' It was Professor McGonagall. She had returned. 'Now, form a line,' Professor McGonagall told the first-years, 'and follow me.' The first-years all form a line and they were led out of the chamber, back across the hall and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall. Yoh and co. gazed at the thousands and thousands of lighted candles which were floating mid-air over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. They came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them.

Yoh's pov

I focused on Professor McGona-erm what's her name again. I made a mental note to ask aniki later. She was silently placing a four-legged stool in front of us. On the top of the stool she put a pointed wizard's hat. This hat was patched and frayed and extremely dirty. 'Geez, what's with the old hat, I thought this was supposed to be painful' thought Yoh.

End of Yoh's pov

It was silent as the hat twitched and the rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth-and the hat began to sing:

'Oh, you may not think I'm pretty

But don't judge on what you see,-

After the song, the whole great hall burst into applause. It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again. Professor McGonagall stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment. 'when I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted.' She said. 'Abbott, Hannnah!' A young girl stepped forward and put on the hat. After a while, the hat shouted, 'Hufflepuff!' There was a loud applause and then the Professor called, 'Asakura, Hao!' Hao smirking, walk towards the front. 'Omg, he's cute .' 'I've gonna get his address.' 'So cute!' whispers were heard though out the hall. Hao put on the hat and the hat mumbled, 'Quick-witted, strong, over a 1000 years old, oh! And you have been here when you were eleven. If I remember correctly you were sorted in to Gryffindor, now I'm afraid you have to be sorted in to SLYTHERIN!'

There was a huge applause erupting from Slytherin table. Instead of going to the table he simply stood next to the stool. 'Asakura, you're supposed to go to your table,' hissed Professor McGonagall. 'They're coming,' muttered Hao. Almost instantly, the doors burst opened. All heads turned and they could hear an argument. There were a blond girl holding a doll, a girl with orange hair holding a broom and a tall girl with blue hair smoking. 'I tell you he's alive!' cried the orange-haired girl. 'We all witnessed it; he was slashed by that twin of his into half!' shouted the blue-haired girl. 'Mari is bored' mumbled the blond.

Hao sighed and walked towards them. 'For the last time, I sensed his aura here.' Shouted the orange-haired girl. 'Oh, then why is he here, in this totally non shaman castle!' augured the blue-haired girl. 'Mari wishes you two will stop shouting.' Mumbled the blond. The blond looked up and gasped. She started tugging on the orange-hair girl's sleeve. 'What!' 'Look' she said pointing at the front. 'Huh?' '!' 'HAO-SAMA!' shouted the girls simultaneously as they saw their former master. All three girls bowed before pouncing on Hao. 'Really, making a commotion the moment you arrived, eh? Macchi, Kanna?' 'Sorry, Hao-sama.' Muttered the orange-haired and the blue-haired.

'Apology accepted. Anyway where's the rest?' 'The rest went to find Opacho. We found her but she immediately ran away the moment she saw us. She seemed to be very depressed about running away from you. She thinks she was the one who caused your downfall.' 'hmm? Caused of my downfall? I think he was the one,' Hao said pointing to Yoh who shot him a I-did-not-want-to-kill-you glare. 'Can you continue your conversation later, Asakura?' said Professor McGonagall. 'The ceremony must go on.' 'Whatever.' Said Hao and gestured for the three followers to come to him. 'We are going to find my comrades so deal with my absence.' All four shamans burst into flames.

There was a moment of silence and somebody said, 'How the freaking hell did he do that?' Then hundreds of whispers cut the silence. 'What comrades?' 'Wow, I thought this school did not allow any apparating?' 'Was one of those girls his girlfriend?' 'Eh-hem' There was silence and everybody's attention turned to Dumbledore. 'Sorry for that rather disturbing interruption, now we shall carry on the ceremony.' 'Right. Asakura, Yoh' Yoh stepped forward and whispers were heard again. 'Omg, twins.' 'He's so cute.' 'He's got to be my boyfriend.' 'Guess things never change when you are in a school filled with girls' Yoh sighed and went to sit on the stool and the hat was put on him. The hat once again whispered, ' oh, so you defeated the great Asakura Hao eh? Lazy but brave. A loyal friend… I will put you in GRIFFINDOR!'

Yoh stood up and cleared his throat. 'Erm, I would like to announce that Anna is my fiancée," Many groans were heard. "you can chase my brother if you you like though.I must warn you if my brother does not like you and finds you irritating you be in for much trouble." 'hmmm… good idea Yoh, they can be running targets for 'him'.' A voice spoke. 'Hao! Since when where you back?' 'Long enough to see you being sorted and you small hat Yoh did NOT defeat me, come Opacho'The long haired brunette when to sit at the Slytherin table. Following behind was a child no more than five years old or so it seems. She was wearing a poncho like Hao and had bangles around her wrist and legs.

Hao gestured for the small girl to sit beside him. 'Hao-sama, Opacho is not worthy to sit beside you anymore.' Hao sighed and carried Opacho on to the chair. He put her down on his lap and whispered, 'I told you I forgive you. Now just sit and watch my otouto's pathetic friends being sorted, shall we?' Opacho giggled slightly and nodded. By then, Yoh had already settled himself beside the weasley brothers. 'Chocolove!' After a few moments of silence, 'Gryffindor!'

List of who went to what house

Asakura Hao- Slytherin

Asakura Yoh- Gryffindor

Chocolove- Gryffindor

Lyserg Diethel- Hufflepuff

Hermione Granger- Gryffindor

Iron Maiden Jeanne- Hufflepuff

Kyoyama Anna- Gryffindor (can't let her and Yoh be separated, can I)

Harry Potter- Gryffindor

Tamamura Tamao- Ravenclaw

Tao Ren- Gryffindor

Usui HoroHoro- Gryffindor

Usui Pirika- Ravenclaw

Ron Weasley- Gryffidor

Matilda Matisse (a.k.a Macchi) - Slytherin (the Hanagumi will be attending Hogwarts because after some threatening by Hao they let them in but not without some wizards getting burns)

Marion Phauna (a.k.a. Mari)- Slytherin

Kanna- will not be in any cuz she's too old as in too old to join the first year (though I think I will put her as a person as a teacher.)

Nat: ppl who reads this fanfic I want to tell you that I MAY not continue this fic cuz I'm under terrible stress and if you want me to update then send me some suggestions on what to write next cuz I'm suffering from writer's block. Erm I think that's it so I shall end this chapter with a HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

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