A/N- 905 words this chapter... disappointing, I must say. Oh well. ^_^

Ruth 4 kai- I'm glad you thought my chapter was cool. ^_^

Juliette- I wanted to make it longer and get all the way to the first classes in the school, but I had to stop it there... so, as I said before, it was only 905 words long. Shorter then usual.. U_U

Sadly, I only got two reviews... I want more! *sobs* Anywho, I can't decide which house I want Joey in. I can't decide between Slytherin and Gryffindor.... So you tell me what you think in a review.

Here's chapter 8!

Chapter 8

"Firs' Years, Firs' years over here!" Shouted Hagrid, and Ron, Harry, Seto, Ryou, Yugi and Joey all rushed over to the big man, with all the other first years running too.

As soon as all the first years got to him, they all followed him down a path.

"Yeh'll get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec," Said Hagrid.

Yugi gasped, his eyes spread wide at the amazing sight. On the top of a high mountain sat a immense castle. He was vaguely aware of Joey and the others gasping too, but his eyes were pulled away from the great castle by some crunching noises in the bushes. Yugi was leaned over to get a closer look, but Hagrid interrupted his search.

"No more'n four to a boat, comin' Yugi?" Hagrid called.

"Yep," said Yugi, hiding his disappointment. He wanted to find out what made that noise, even though it was probably a rabbit or a frog or something.

Ron, Harry, and Joey were all waiting for him in the boat when he finally caught up to every one else. Yugi looked around and noticed that Hermione was talking to Seto, and Seto actually almost smiled. Hermione had pulled out a book and was pointing to what looked like a very complicated spell.

"Yugi, what are you looking at?" Joey asked.

"Oh, nothing," replied Yugi. The trip went without incident, and they soon were standing in a chamber waiting to get sorted.

"What exactly is 'sorting', anyway?" asked Yugi. While Hermione gave a long and detailed explanation, the ghosts came in through the walls, and Joey was admiring the way that Nearly-Headless Nick's neck almost came off.

After a few minutes, a professor came in and told them to come with her. The scared first years were lead to the front of the Great Hall, where they stood trembling in front of the whole school.

The same professor that lead them to the Great Hall was carrying a very dirty, frayed, patched and pointy wizard's hat to a stool in front of Yugi and the other first years.

For a few seconds, there was absolute silence from the hall, then the a rip near the brim of the hat opened like a mouth, and began to sing.

Yugi was too amazed to even listen to the words. But, he realized, a singing hat shouldn't surprise him. He had that day, already walked through a seemingly-solid wall, then back in the summer created fireworks with his wand, seen numerous little tricks preformed by random witches and wizards in Diagon Ally, and he was the owner of a magic puzzle. Not even a singing hat could surprise him now, Yugi decided.

He looked up to listen, only to realize that the song was over and one of the professors were calling up first years one by one to the stool, then placing the hat on their heads.

Ryou was the first of Yugi's friends to go up, and Yugi was relieved to see that after a few minutes Ryou walk perfectly fine over to the Gryffindor.

Hermione went up next, and when she walked to the Gryffindor table Ron groaned loudly.

Then Kaiba went, and the Sorting Hat took awhile with him. Almost 10 minutes passed before Kaiba took off the hat. He looked around, paused, then walked to the Gryffindor table. This time it was Joey that groaned.

Several other people went, then Yugi heard his name. Feeling very sick, he went up to the stool and sat down while he attempted to pull the hat on his head. His hair was making this very difficult, but he finally succeeded.

"Yugi, eh? You've traveled far to get here," said the hat into Yugi's ear. "Let's see... friends are important to you... family and school are too..." he continued on in this manner for a few minutes. "You are difficult.. Hufflepuff?" he muttered to himself.

Horror-struck, Yugi thought desperately, 'Not Hufflepuff! Only the gossipy people to there!'

"All right... If that's what you want.... GRYFFINDOR!" Shouted the Hat. Yugi walked over to the Gryffindor table, sitting next to Ryou.

"What did the Sorting Hat say to you?" asked Yugi, wondering if he was the only one that was 'difficult'.

"He said that I should be here, but sometimes I act like a Slytherin," said Ryou disappointedly.

"Ooh, that's not good," said Yugi.

"What did the Sorting Hat say to you?" Asked Ryou. Harry was about to answer when Harry came over.

"Yes! You're with us!" Said Yugi enthusiastically. He and Harry high-fived. They talked for awhile about how hungry they were or how nervous they were on starting classes, and eventually Ron joined them.

"Good job Ron!" Said Harry. Yugi's and Ryou's heads bobbed up and down in agreement.

"Now all we have left is Joey," Said Yugi. They all watched him walk up to the sorting hat.

"He's been under that stupid hat for a wicked long time now," remarked Ron. "How long is this gonna take? I'm so hungry!"

"Me too," agreed Yugi.

"I have some lollypops, want some?" Asked Ryou. "They were for free at a restaurant I ate at a couple of days ago."

"Yay!" Said Yugi, and all four of them dug in.

They were all sitting contentedly sucking on their lollypops when the Sorting Hat opened its mouth to announce what house Joey was going to be in...