Chapter 5

Sorting

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Jenna stepped off the train when they arrived at Hogwarts.

Harry rememberedwhen hehad been on the train the pervious yearwhen Malfoy hadimmobilized him and broken his nose. He was glad that Malfoy would no longer be attending Hogwarts.

It was getting dark, but Harry could see the lake surrounded by lights.

"I have to go find Professor McGonagall, she said she wanted to see me as soon as I got here" Jenna said, "See you later!" she called over her shoulder as she walked towards the large front doors of the castle.

Harry looked around for a minute until he heard what he had been waiting for.

"Firs' years! Firs' years over here by me"called a familiar voice. Hagrid! Surely Hagrid would know what was going on with Dumbledore and he was good at letting things slip. After all, the words he used the most were, "I should not have said that"and "I should not have told ya that."

"Come on guys" Harry said waving his hand to Ron and Hermioneso they wouldfollow him, "Let's go see Hagrid."

Harry started making his way towards Hagrid pausingfor a minuteto glance back at Jenna who was now making her way up the steps of the castle.

He turned his attention back to Hagrid and continued walking.

"Hagrid!" he called.

Turning to see the person who had called his name the towering man was astonished to see his dear friend back at the school.

"Is that you 'Arry?" he asked, "I heard ya weren't comin' back, which was really rather sad 'cause then I wouldn't have anyone herewith me with Dumbledore gone and all."

"Well I did come back; I wanted to ask you about something" Harry said. But as soon as he started to ask Hagrid what he knew about the letter he had received from Dumbledorehe realized that Hagrid was looking past him.

"Jenna?" Hagrid asked.

Harry looked over at Jenna who had returned when from her meeting with Professor McGonagall wondering how Hagrid knew her.

"Hagrid!" she said, she ran over to him and was embraced in a giantbear hug.

Hagrid let go and stepped back to look at her "I haven't seen ya since-" he stopped suddenly and said, "Well, look at ya, all grown up now."

"It's great to see you" Jenna said to Hagrid, "I can't talk long, Professor McGonagall says I have to be in the sorting ceremony since I'm new here."

"So Dumbledore finally got ya here, did he?" Hagrid said and then turned to Hermione, "Yer gonna 'ave some competition Hermione, Jenna 'ere is as smart as a whip."

"Hagrid" Jenna said blushing.

"Hey, 'Arry do you know Jenna?" Hagrid asked.

Harry blushed turning as red as Jenna had when Hagrid complimented her.

"Yeah we met on the train. How do you know her?" Harry asked.

"Well I know her from Dumbledore and Dumbledore knows her since her daddy is-."

"Hagrid!" Jenna said quickly cutting him off before he could finish what he was saying.

"Oh right" Hagrid said, "Well I better go, see ya 'round."

Hagrid walked away and Jenna said, "I better go to" she turned and walked away also.

"What was up with that?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know" Harry said, "But I'm going to find out, maybe I can talk to Hagrid when Jenna isn't around."

"I don't think that will be to often," Hermione said, glancing at Harry, "She seems pretty glued to you!" And with that she turned and started to walk up to the castle, laughing the whole way.

Harry knew she was just joking, but wondered if maybe-. No, he shook his head and followed Hermione.

"Ziller, Carrie" Professor McGonagall called reaching the end of her list of first years.

A young girl with curly, black hairwalkedto the front of the great hall. Shesat down on the stool andProfessor McGonagall placed the sorting hat on her head.

The hat paused for a few seconds and then shouted "Ravenclaw!"

All of the Ravenclaws cheeredas thesmall girl sat down with the rest of her house.

"Okay" Professor McGonagall said, "We just have one more person who is starting here in the 7th year, Jenna Bailey."

Jenna walked over to the stool and Professor McGonagall placed the sorting hat on her head. Insteadof the hat going over her eyes as it did for the first years, it rested perfectly on the top of her head.

The hat was silent; everyone in the room waited for the hat to speak.

A few more minutes passed and the hat still didn't speak. Harry knew that the hat was probably talking with Jenna and this reminded Harry about when he first put on the sorting hat; it had to talk to him to decide where to put him also.

While everyone in the room waited for the hat to say something, Jenna heard the hat talking to her.

"This is a hard one. You are smart, brave, and powerful, you have traits that apply to each house, but where to put you."

The hat spoke again "Mother from Gryffindor, father from Slytherin. Your father was much more powerful, but your mother was very smart" the hat said, "You would do well in both groups."

Jenna thought as hard as she could, "Gryffindor, Gryffindor" for she wanted to be put in the house that her mother was in.

"Hmm" the hat called and finally said, "Gryffindor!" and Jenna sighed and stood up.

The Gryffindorserupted withcheers as Jenna took her seat in between Ron and Harry.

"This concludes the sorting" Professor McGonagall said taking her seat.

"Congratulations!" Hermione said to Jenna.

"Yeah" Jenna said, "For a minute I thought I was going to get put in-" she paused for a minute and finally said "Slytherin" as if she could barely say the word.

"Why would you be put in Slytherin?" Harry asked.

"Oh well even though my mother was from Gryffindor, my father was from Slytherin" Jenna said.

This surprised Harry, a Gryffindor and a Slytherin getting together and having a daughter even though the two houses were enemies.

Harry was dying to ask Jenna a question but kept his mouth shut.

"I would hate to be put in Slytherin after Lord Voldemort and everything."

"Oh great another one" Ron couldn't stop himself from saying.

"What do you mean 'another one'?" Jenna asked.

"What Ron means is that both you and Harry say You-Know-Who's name and he doesn't like it" Hermione said.

"It's just a name," Jenna said.

Harry couldn't wait to ask his question any longer, "If your mother was in Gryffindor and your father was in Slytherin then how did they end up together."

The question brought a look to Jenna's face that made him immediately wish he hadn't asked that question.

"It's a long story" Jenna said, "I'll tell you later."

And just as she said this, the food appeared, giving her another excuse to wait, on the telling of a story she dreaded to even think about.

All through dinner Harry kept thinking about that question. Jenna may be gorgeous on the outside, but underneath her pretty face were definitely secrets that she didn't want anybody to know.

But still her parents from the two rivaling houses; how did that work out? And Hagrid had almost said it the name of her father, Hagrid knew her, he thought that too was strange.

"Harry," His thought were suddenly interrupted by Jenna's sweet sounding voice. "You look like you've just seen a ghost."

"Excuse me" Nearly Headless Nick said from behind her. Jenna turned around to look at him, "Oh, Hello Miss…"

"Bailey, Jenna Bailey!" Jenna added very quickly, stressing the word 'Bailey' and raising her eyebrows at Sir Nicholas.

Harry looked at Jenna, why did she cut him off like that?

"Right Miss Jenna Bailey" Nick said, "How are you these days?"