A/N-sorry I've taken so long to update. My teachers gave me so much homework, and then once I graduated (graduated, yay! but I only graduated 8th grade.. I still have a looooooong way to go.) then I had a bunch of skating practices and stuff. Oh, and once I had finished the chapter, my friend told me to change the chapter, so it was another few days to fix it...

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I like your story- yay, you think my story's interesting! (that's a big deal for me, because my sister's always going on and on about how boring my stories are.. UU)

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Chapter 9

Seto sat in one of the Gryffindor seats, thinking of how it was a grave mistake to come to Hogwarts. First of all, there was so much magic around that his laptop was malfunctioning. Second of all, the majority of people around here were immature little idiots. Especially that Joey character. Hmmm.. speaking of Joey... Seto turned around from his seat, looked at him and wondered what house Joey was going to go in.

Joey was wondering the same thing. 'Would you make up your mind already?' he told the hat anxiously. This was the third time the hat had opened his mouth like he was going to announce which house Joey was going into, and then closed it because the hat had changed his mind again.

"Fine, fine. Must you be so impatient?" sighed the hat. "Well," the hat said a few minutes later, "I know what house you're going to be in."

'Which one?' Joey asked.

The hat opened its mouth and announced "SLYTHERIN!"

Joey sat in the stool numbly, unaware of the huge gasps from Yugi, Ron, Ryou and Harry. Professor McGonagall lifted him up from the stool and dragged him over to the Slytherin table. Some of the older students pointed and laughed, and Malfoy wore a very evil expression on his face...

As soon as all of the food appeared on the table, Harry, Ron, Yugi and Ryou ignored their hunger pains and ran over to the Slytherin table.

"Joey, why did you get sorted here?" Yugi asked.

"I dunno... the stupid hat said it was because.. he said that I wasn't particularly cunning or anything, but I had high ambitions. I don't but... I don't think the hat likes me very much. I was kinda annoying him, which wasn't very smart..." said Joey sadly.

Yugi sighed. "Do you think there's anything we can do?"

"Yes," said Malfoy, leaning over and sneering. "You could go back to your own table. You're not wanted here." The other Slytherins, excluding Joey of course, nodded in agreement. Crabbe and Goyle cracked their knuckles threateningly.

"Don't worry Joey, we'll find some way to get you out of there," said Ryou. He started dragging Yugi away by the collar of his jacket, while Ron and Harry somehow got in a fistfight with Malfoy. Joey pulled Harry and Ron off, while whispering:

"Stop it you guys. I don't want you to get in trouble on the first day of being here." Ron and Harry grumbled, but walked back to the Gryffindor table and started talking to Yugi.

Yugi wasn't talking in the common room that night. He sat in a big chair near the fireplace, looking miserable. Ryou was unpacking, and Ron and Harry were talking about how full they were from all the food they ate. Hermione and Kaiba were both sitting on a couch, reading books.

There was a knock on the door. Everyone heard the Fat Lady yelp: "There's a doorbell right here you know!" Ron opened the door, and Joey tumbled in.

"What happened to you?" Ron shouted.

"The other Slytherins beat me up." Joey explained. His arms and legs were covered in bruises, scrapes, cuts, and his eye was black. Joey lifted up his shirt a bit to reveal a bloody scratch. "That was from Malfoy. I would have punched him back, but the older people had used some spell to keep me tied to one of the walls."

Yugi looked up and noticed Joey for the first time. "Joey! What are you doing here?"

"Getting away from the Slytherins. They were talking about 'Unforgivable Curses', whatever they are, so I left and I decided to go say 'Hi' to you guys." Joey said. "They had untied me from the walls after awhile, which is when I ran." A bunch of the other Gryffindors looked up at Joey.

"The Slytherins were talking about Unforgivable Curses? Do you think they were going to use them on you?" Oliver Wood asked.

"I dunno," said Joey. "But who cares? How bad can 'Unforgivable Curses' be?" There were several gasps from the older students at his response.

"Your parents are muggles, correct?" Oliver asked.

"I guess," said Joey.

Oliver nodded. "No wonder the Slytherins were picking on you. But you should go tell Dumbledore," he said. "They could really hurt you."

"Yeah, Joey. I don't want you to get hurt!" Said Yugi. A bunch of other students nodded in agreement.

"Nah. I've been hurt way worse then this before," said Joey. "It's no big deal."

The big clock on the wall chimed; it was 10:00.

"Aw man! I have to get back to the Slytherin place!" exclaimed Joey. He quickly opened the portrait door and slammed the door behind him.

"I still can't believe he's in Slytherin," said Ron.

"Me neither," said Harry. "Are you going to be OK, Yugi?" He turned to look at his friend, but Yugi wasn't there.

Yugi was under the covers in his new bed, crying softly. But he wasn't just doing that, he was also snapping the pieces together on the Millennium Puzzle.

Soft clicking noises echoed across the room. Yugi heard the other boys climbing the stairs, but he didn't pay attention. He was almost done! A bead of sweat mixed with the tears, and fell on the puzzle. Yugi wiped it away and concentrated. Just a few more pieces...

"Yugi?" A head poked through the curtains. It was Ron. "Are you ok?" There was a muffled reply.

"What are you doing in there?" Harry asked. Ron pulled back the blanket, but Yugi had stuffed the almost-complete puzzle under his shirt just in time. For some strange reason, he didn't want them to see the puzzle again. (They had seen it on the train.)

"What's under your shirt?" Ron asked.

"Nothing!" replied Yugi quickly. "Um you guys, it's kinda late. Why don't you go to bed? Have you even unpacked yet?"

"Damn! You're right!" exclaimed Ron. He ran over to his suitcase, and so did Harry. Yugi snapped the curtains closed, and dove under his covers again.

Three more pieces. Two. One! Yugi grinned. He had waited for this moment for a long time. He snapped in the piece...

A/N- (again) sorry I had to put Joey in Slytherin... I feel like how JK Rowling probably felt when she killed.....in the 5th book. but I had to put Joey in there! It adds conflict!!!!!

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