I do not own Harry Potter, this is a fan fiction only.

A very stern looking woman walked up to the first year students. "I am Professor Minerva McGonagall, this is Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. In a few moments you will be sorted into your house, a house is like a family to you. You live together, talk with each other and help each other. Good behavior will earn your house points, bad behavior and you will lose points. "

" At the end of the year the house with the most points earns the honor of winning the house cup. I am the head of the Gryffindor house. If you are a member of my house and you do anything and I mean anything to dishonor it believe me that you will pay the price for it in pain."

Harry looked at Neville and he smiled, "Well after hearing that wrestling that troll doesn't seem so bad now does it?" Draco had to laugh as he heard him say it. "Well the bad luck is for you lot, I already know what house I will be sorted into." Harry had to mess with his to bring down from whatever could he was on.

"It has to be house Hufflepuff. Since you are so incredibly humble. " Draco looked at him with a glare of absolute rage. " Slytherin! I would hang myself from the tallest tower if I was made a puff. " Harry only told him to tell him when he was going to hang himself if he was made a Hufflepuff. He said that he would want something to remember the moment.

"You sound like you would even place it on a frame and put it on your living room wall." Draco trying to make him sound bad. "I would, as an example of what not to do for all my future daughters. You would be a moral lesson for generations to come if you actually did that." Draco glared at him some more as they walked into the corridor leading to the Great Hall.

"You don't even have a girlfriend. I am betting that I will get a very beautiful witch before you do. " Harry just asked how much was the actual bet? Draco said he would wager 10 galleons on it. Harry said that to swear that they would pay the winner. They both did and that is when he took out his wallet.

Harry showed a very beautiful picture of Fleur Delacour smiling and blowing a kiss at Harry. "Pay up. This is Fleur Delacour my future wife and the person I am currently engaged to." Draco was speechless and he handed Harry the 10 galleons. "Nice doing business with you Malfoy." Draco told him he hoped he choke on the money as the hat was brought in.

It placed in front of the staff table and as soon as every one was quiet it began to sing.

"Oh you may not think I am pretty,

But don't judge on what you see,

I will eat myself if you can find

A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,

You top hat sleek and tall,

For I am the sorting hat,

And I can top them all.

There is no secret in your head

That the sorting hat can not see,

So try me on and I will place you

where you ought to be.

You may belong with Gryffindor,

Where the brave reside,

Deeds of bravery and chivalry

Set the Gryffindors apart.

You may belong with Hufflepuff,

With the just and loyal,

Those humble Hufflepuff are true

And unafraid of toil.

Or yet with the wise Ravenclaw your home you might find,

If you have a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,

Always find comfort with their kind.

Or perhaps it will be with Slytherin where you ought to be,

Those cunning folk are not afraid,

To achieve by any means.

So put me on,

And I will tell you were you ought to be,

Worry not for you will see,

That you indeed have a friend in me,

I will never place you wrong or seek to do you harm.

For I am a wise old hat. "

Harry for a second felt that he indeed preferred to fight the troll, the idea that this thing could learn every secret he held inside his head was not something that made him feel comfortable. He was the head of a multinationals multinational criminal family, if this thing talked about his secrets he might be looking at life in Azkaban prison.

As he worried he missed how Neville got placed in Gryffindor and indeed Draco was placed in Slytherin like he said he would be. Considering who and what his father was it would be an extremely shocking and surprising if he had been placed in any other house.

Finally he was called and the entire room looking at him made him feel like he was on display at the zoo. He walked over and McGonagall placed the sorting hat on him. 'So this is the reason why you looked so nervous. You do not need to worry Don Potter, I will most definitely not blab about your family or your many quite inventive projects. I particularly like how you managed to turn someone's granny into a high price whore. '

Harry began to imagine many of his more questionable projects.' I can tell you like to push the limits of the conventional. You even have the daughter of the old familiar of Lady Rowena Ravenclaw. I see you truly know the true value of wisdom but you are brave, ambitious and also so very loyal, you are quite the hard person to place.'

Harry began to think reasons why he should not be placed in the other houses. 'I intend to expand my family business to this place, and thus Gryffindor would be the least likely to stand my many experiments. Hufflepuff would only get in the way and would get themselves killed, and Slytherin has fallen too low for my liking. Let' s be honest Salazar would kill Snape if he was still alive. '

The entire hall was surprised how long it was taking for the hat to sort the boy who lived. Draco almost wished it meant that he was going to be rejected. This sick wish was rejected when they heard the hat laughing as if he heard the single most funny thing ever. "Hat many of these students are hungry and tired, you may be enjoying your little chat, but wrap it up."

Professor Dumbledore was smiling as he told this to the sorting hat. 'Drats, first time in centuries that I actually am enjoying a conversation and the old closet fossil wants me to cut it short. Be sure to keep me in mind if you want to chat. Since you will make life interesting for me and so many others,' " You better be in Ravenclaw."

That was when the entire Ravenclaw table became quite loud with their cheering. Draco could only stare as Harry was guided towards an empty seat. The Ravenclaw house ghost welcomed him and smiled as she saw Ophelia on his shoulder. "I see Ophelia has found another person she finds interesting she was my very good friend too. Please be kind to her, she is not as young as she looks."

Harry pointed at one of her claws and she saw a very nice bracelet. "Actually she is as young as she appears. I gave her that bracelet as a birthday gift the other day. It has a regeneration rune array craved into it." The grey lady smiled at him and she thanked him for doing that for her friend.

The food appeared out of nowhere and he picked a few pieces of choice berries and placed them on a side dish, Ophelia jumped down and began eating her meal as he picked some fruits, meats and vegetables for his own meal. "Do you always plan to eat together like this?" The grey lady asked him as he took a piece of bread and made himself a rather tasty sandwich.

"A meal is always better with pleasant company. I do hope Ophelia likes the taste of those berries, grains would be better but the only thing with grains is this bread. I don't think she would like how dry they are. " Helena had to agree that she indeed did not like the taste of grains when they were too dry.

As Ophelia finished her meal she jumped on his shoulder and gave him a nip on his ear. She walked towards the familiar mark and went inside it." She really seems to like you quite a bit. I can't imagine why? But since you are in my house I am sure I will find out."

The prefect showed the first years how to get inside the common room, to be honest the common room looked like a very comfortable library more than a living room which suited Harry just fine. He could use the chance to read a few nice interesting books. The other kind of books he would get thanks to his right hand man.

It seems Remus really was having no problem at all keeping things in order. Who would be foolish enough to argue with him? He was not only a fully trained wizard but also a werewolf. The business was doing just fine and the sweet shops were actually making the women working in them able to help their families, if only in an indirect way since they each were declared dead to their relatives.

The only trouble they had was when a band of punks tried to muscle in on their territory out in the poor neighborhoods of their territory. Remus solved that very quickly and when the punks began to find pieces of their muscle all over the front of their leaders home, it became clear that this was not a family for show like they suspected.

The truce and even swearing an oath of loyalty came the week after the leader found the heads of his top muscle in front of his house stuck in pikes. Remus was quite happy that the leader spread word around that the Potter Family was not one to mess around with or if they did they would need to hire a prepaid funeral service contract.

Harry was reading a rather nice book about the three brothers. He stopped only because their head of house finally made it to their house. Filius Filwick was a very nice and kind old man and the fact that he was part goblin made him rather short. He was however a very calm, caring and understanding sort as let his house remain seated as he gave the first years the welcome speech.

The speech was quick, effective and left little room to the imagination. Harry finally decided to say something as he walked over to the head of house. "With speech making and efficiency I only wonder why you never tried running for Minister of Magic." This made the begin to Laugh out loud. "Oh, no Mr. Potter I would not want that job for all the gold all the goblin bank vaults. It simply is too dirty with all those back deals. I like my post of charms teacher and head of house too much to even consider it."

Filwick asked him what book was he reading when he entered the common room. Harry looked at him and smiled, "Just something to pass the time on, the story of the three brothers. I always find myself wondering why did death give the third brother the cloak. It should have been pretty obvious that he would never take it off."

This made the professor smile. "The fact is that he events eventually did take it off and passed it on his son when he felt that it was his time. The story speaks of two brothers who wanted to humiliate death, and one that just wanted to hide from death. No matter how we try there is no escaping the Reaper, it is just a matter of time and time is on his side. "

Harry looked at the man and looked like he was contemplating something very serious." If no one can escape death then how is Voldemort still alive? I know for a fact the killing curse bounced off me and hit him. So How is he still alive? " Every student glared at him for scaring them by mentioning the name everyone feared.

Filwick smiled at the young man's deep thinking and he decided to answer with his previous answer." It is just a matter of time Harry, he might think he has escaped death just like those two brothers felt they could humiliate death. Death has a very elaborate plan so that he meets his end. Make no mistake Harry, no one escapes Death. "

He decided to put back the book where it was and decided to walked towards the male dorms and try and find his room, the Prefect told him which one it was.'Ophelia do you think I should visit my ancestors old familiar? Or do you think I should wait a little bit more to open the chamber of secrets? '

The Raven smiled and he knew even inside the mark that she was smiling.' Why leave something that can be done now for later? You know as well as I do that your enemies could try to use it again, after all Tom used it when he was in school who is to say if one of his followers did not try to use it again? '

That pretty much made him decide that after the last class of the day he would indeed pay them a visit, the ghost of the last victim and the snake within the chamber. If he could he would try and reason with the basilisk. He was not looking forward of killing someone who was such a good friend of his ancestor.

He got up bright and early and decided that he should go to the Great Hall and have some breakfast. The funny thing was that he was the first one to get there. He walked over to his spot on the table and sat down. "I would sure love some scrambled eggs, toast and a cup of juice pumpkin if possible. I also need a good bowl of sweet tasting seeds as a snack."

The food somehow appeared before him on two separate plates and jug of juice right next to him. Harry smiled and looked at the spot where his food appeared. "Thank you." he said at the spot and almost instantly he saw a small piece of paper with the words, you are welcome.

Ophelia came out of the mark and began to eat the seeds. He ate his breakfast and several people were finally making it to the Great Hall and were doing the same thing he had done, this was first done by the prefects of each house to show how it was done. The one thing he did not like was that the people just got the food but offered no word of appreciation.

'Humans often take things for granted Harry, It is part of the reason why I took so long in finding someone to be his or her familiar. You have always been considerate of me and I know you know how much I appreciate that. ' Harry smiled as he rubbed her back feathers in a gesture of friendship.

"Having a light breakfast are we Harry? I would think you would want something more than just two eggs and a piece of toast for breakfast. Draco decided to make fun of him earlier than he expected. "I have a very busy day Malfoy, I might decide to have a big lunch later but thanks for being so concerned for my health."

Draco left feeling that he actually had failed at his attempt at making him doubt himself. He walked over to the table and he did eat a big breakfast. The first class was transfiguration with house Gryffindor. He finished eating his breakfast and place them on the same spot they appeared. The dishes banished and so did the note.