Happy opening weekend everybody! Now that we're in Harry's year I feel it fair to tell you, I won't be rewriting the books. I'll post chapters that either change something or include a conversation I want you to hear, but I won't rewrite the books. You'll have to remember what happens between my chapters because I may skip over entire events where nothing needs to be altered. For help there I recommend visiting the HP Lexicon, see note at bottom of chapter. On with the show! I don't own HP.
The Third Sorting
September 1st, 1991
Third Year
"Abbot, Hannah," Hufflepuff.
"Bones, Susan," Hufflepuff.
"Boot, Terry," Ravenclaw.
"Brown, Lavender," Gryffindor.
"Crabbe, Vincent," Slytherin.
On and on the list went, until,
"Granger, Hermione ," The bushy haired little girl from the train walked up to the stool and sat down, the hat muttered to her and to itself before declaring her a Gryffindor.
The sorting continued to be quite ordinary, Neville went into Gryffindor, the ferret-like boy, Draco Malfoy, joined Slytherin, and then a name every child raised in the magical world knew was called: "Potter, Harry." Whispers filled the room and Gryffindor erupted into glee when he was sorted into their house.
Later that night Jo and Leili sat in their common room and Jo asked, "Alright, who's Harry Potter and why does everyone care?"
"There's some stuff I haven't told you about the Wizarding world. There was this guy, a really, really bad guy and he killed a lot of people, and he frightened a lot more. We were really little, only like 2-maybe 3?-when he vanished. And just the fact that he vanished without a trace scares people almost more than he did. He was a wizard and he went after this little family-I don't know why, there's only so much my dad will tell me-anyway, he went after them and he killed them. And the thing that makes them stand out from all the other people he killed was their son; he survived. He survived a curse no one else ever has. And now he's a firstie here. Most everyone who was raised around magic knows Harry Potter's name. He kinda dropped off the face of the planet after it happened; no one knew exactly what had happened-they still don't, actually. Anyway, that's why everyone stares and why they whisper."
"Kid's gonna be the elephant in the room for the rest of his life." Jo sympathized before asking, "Who was the wizard?" Leili fidgeted, she'd been raised to fear the name and here she was, about to say it.
"Most people won't say his name, just 'You-Know-Who' or 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'." She pulled her notebook towards her and wrote the name down, handing it to Jo. "Voldemort. His name is Voldemort," she said.
"Well, that's a stupid name. I doubt his mother named him that."
Leili grinned; the tension relieved, "No, probably not."
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