"In a moment you will join your classmates through these doors and be sorted into your houses. While you are here, your house will be like your family. You will have classes with your house, eat with your house and sleep in your house dormitories. If you do not follow school rules, you will lose house points but any good you do through out the year will earn you house points. The house with the most points at the end of the year will win the house cup." The woman said.
"Trevor!" The round faced boy from the boat yelled, he leaped forward and grabbed the toad on the stairs before mumbling a quick "sorry."
"The sorting will commence in a moment." The woman said as she turned on her heel and exited through the doors.
"Fancy seeing you here Malfoy, daddy couldn't wait to get rid could he?" A boy with brown hair laughed from just beside Layken.
"What's it to you Potter?" Draco asked, glaring at the boy.
"He definitely couldn't wait to get rid of you." A boy with unruly black hair said.
"Oh get stuffed Potter." Draco said as he turned away from the laughing pair.
Layken couldn't believe what she was seeing and hearing. These two boys beside her were her brothers and she couldn't believe her eyes. She realized she was identical to the boy with the black hair, though her hair was easily tamed and she had the same bright green eyes as the other boy but they were nothing alike in personalities. They had just been extremely rude and nasty to Draco for no reason and she didn't like that one bit. Barging past them, she made her way over to Draco.
"Hey! Watch where you're going." The boy with the black hair said.
"Oh sorry, didn't see you there." Layken said. "Then again, you're a bit hard to miss with that hair."
Everyone around them stifled a laugh as the boy with the black hair stuttered.
"Just who do you think you're talking to?" The boy with the brown hair asked.
"Why don't you enlighten me? Because I really don't know who you are." Layken said with a sickly sweet smile.
"We're Harry and Sebastian Potter and you ought to be nicer when speaking to us." The boy with the brown hair said pointing to the other boy and then himself. Layken then knew that she was identical to Harry and not Sebastian.
"No I don't think I do." Layken said as she flipped her hair over her shoulder and walked the few remaining steps up to Draco, Gracie following.
"They won't like that." Draco commented. "They think because they're the 'Boys Who Lived' that they can do and say whatever they want."
"Well they better get used to it. I hate bullies." Layken shivered, remembering her time at the orphanage.
At that minute, the stern woman came back holding a scroll.
"If you would follow me please?" The woman said, heading through the doors.
Layken gasped at the sight that greeted her, the ceiling looked just like the night sky and there were four long tables full of students.
"It's not real you know? It's just enchanted to look like the sky. I read about it in Hogwarts: A History." Layken heard Hermione say from behind her.
"Line up along here." The woman said, pointing to below where she was standing, a stool with a hat placed on it to her left.
"When I call your name, you will come up and sit on the stool, the hat will be placed on your head and you will be sorted into your houses."
"Hermione Granger."
Layken could see she was shaking with nerves and could relate to her as she was also extremely nervous albeit for a different reason. The hat was placed on her head and a tear at the seam opened and began talking quietly to Hermione. After a few short minutes, the hat screamed out,
"Gryffindor!"
Hermione leapt off the stool and walked down the steps to the Gryffindor table.
"Susan Bones."
A girl that Layken had seen in the carriage beside hers on the train walked up and sat on the stool. A few minutes passed before,
"Hufflepuff!"
She sauntered off to the Hufflepuff table, a big smile plastered on her face.
"Gracie Ben."
Gracie was shaking with fear and Layken had to usher her up to the stool before she would move. She sat down on the stool and it took a bit longer to decide before yelling,
"Slytherin."
As the hat was taken off of her head, Layken shot Gracie a smile that seemed to settle the girl as she made her way over to the Slytherin table.
"Draco Malfoy."
He practically swaggered up to the stool, confidence oozing from him. The hat had barely touched his head before yelling,
"Slytherin!"
He hopped off of the stool and winked at Layken before heading off to the Slytherin table.
"Leah Burns."
'It's now or never' Layken thought as she made her way up the steps.
"Before I get sorted, I have something I would like to say to Professor Dumbledore." Layken said, ignoring the looks of astonishment she was getting.
"You may think that you have everyone wrapped around your little finger but not me. You have no one to blame but yourself for what's about to happen. I will not pretend to be someone I'm not. I will sit on that stool and be sorted into my house as Layken Potter, no one else."
Layken turned towards the crowd with a smile on her face as the hall erupted in gasps and whispers. Calling for silence, Dumbledore sent a death glare to the back of the young girls head. Layken sought out the eyes of her siblings and had to stifle a giggle at their outraged faces as she plonked herself down on the stool. She had to take the hat from the woman's hand as she was too shocked to do anything. She placed the hat on her head and it began to talk.
"That was quite a show." The hat said.
"Why thank you." Layken replied.
"I can see that you have an ambition to prove yourself and you want to be taken seriously. I can see you are very loyal and you can be quite cunning. This is such an easy decision in my opinion. It's got to be... Slytherin!" The hat roared.
Layken stood and as she glanced at Harry and Sebastian, she could see they were looking at her with slack-jaw expressions. She laughed and headed off to the Slytherin table, ignoring everyone staring at her.
"You've caused quite a stir." Draco laughed as Layken sat down.
"I guess I have." Layken laughed.
"That was amazing, did you see Dumbledore's face? He was fuming." Gracie said.
"I know." Layken laughed again.
They sat and watched as the sorting commenced, Draco's friends being placed in Slytherin and the Potter's being placed in Gryffindor. Layken had taken a strong dislike to the two boys and their attitudes and she was sure it was only going to get worse.
After the last boy had been sorted into Slytherin, the woman, who Layken had learned was called McGonagall, tapped her knife on a glass and called for attention.
"Tuck in." Dumbledore said with a dark look still in his eyes.
The table in front of them filled with every food you could ever desire and Layken had never felt more hungry in her life than she did now.