Chapter 2


'Alfred?'

"Alfred?" Hermione looked over at Sigrid with a quizzical look. But then she looked to where Sigrid gaze had landed and started to chuckle. "Why do you always relate everything to Batman?" Seeing Sigrid shrug her shoulder, both girls turn to listen to what the lady standing in front wanted to say.

As most of the firsts years were listening to what the lady was saying, Sigrid looked around the part of the cast they were standing in and her eyes landed on a blond-haired boy.

The boy was leaning on the staircase with a few of his friends. Their eyes met, and the boy straightened up as he smiled at her, she saw a glimmer of something in his eyes. It made her tilt her head slightly as she couldn't quite understand what it meant. She nodded her head towards him politely, gave him another smile before turning and looking back at the lady with the pointy hat.

The blond haired-boy beamed when he saw the girl that he fancied smile back at him but before he could call out to her, the girl looked over to the witch that was greeting the first years. He frowned when he saw that the girls gaze landed on the witch that was greeting them but only for few moments before she began to start looking around as though she was not accustomed to her surroundings.

But deep inside, he thought that she looked cute and gorgeous in her own way and he can't believe that she really did look like a model in the male uniform. With those long legs of hers and the way, she wore her ponytail too. It was mesmerizing.

"Sigrid, what are you looking for?" Hermione looked over at Sigrid, watching as her new friend gazed all around and looking as if she trying to find something around the corner of the castle walls.

Sigrid looked back at Hermione and then down as she shook her head and signed that it was nothing and that it was just a habit to look around. Somehow, Hermione didn't think that she could accept that excuse but she didn't want to offend her first friend, so she just let it be.

"Oh, okay then, well let's go, Sigrid, the lady said that we will be joining our classmates right after we go through the doors. She said that before we take our seats, we need to be sorted into our houses."

'Oh yes, it's Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin, am I right? And lord, by the all-father Odin, she even said that the house we are sorted into will be like our families' Sigrid rubbed her face which showed her discomfort which was not missed by Harry, Ron and Hermione.

They were not the only ones to notice, the blond boy saw her discomfort and started to wonder why the girl showed discomfort upon hearing that the house will be like her family. He also started to wonder why the girl that he fancied used sign language and didn't speak. He wanted to hear her voice, he wondered what her voice sounded like.

"What's the matter, Sigrid?" The trio asked, wondering why Sigrid showed such discomfort, and it was also the first time they saw anything other than a smile on her face. She tried to put a smile on her face, but it was clear that she was feeling uncomfortable regarding what was said about their house being like family.

'Nothing at all, perhaps we shall enter into this new hellish-heaven-ish of ours, we don't know how it will all turn out, right?' Sigrid took a deep breath and started to mumble to herself 'Well, better hope it's a heaven-ish rather than hellish'

"Hellish-heaven-ish?" the trio said in unison and look at each other with wonder.

'Oh, nothing to be worried about, I hope. The lady with a pointy hat said that any rule-breaking and our house will lose points. Well, to be honest, I tend to find trouble or trouble tends to find me.'

The trio looked at their new friends with shock. 'What? Don't blame me. It's not like I want any trouble' Sigrid turned around and mumbled to herself 'I guess'

"No of course not, we will never blame you, sir. By the way, the lady also said that by the end of the year, the house with the most points will win the house cup. Do you know what it is?"

'I have no clue at all, what in the name of Odin's beard name was that?'

Hermione looks a little bit perplex upon seeing that sign. Meanwhile, the blond looked at ponytail girl and felt bemused upon knowing her name. Sigrid - what a beautiful name for a someone like her, victory, wisdom and beauty, just like the owner of the name.

Just before the first years and the lady walked into the room, they heard a boy shout "Trevor". Most of the student jumped and looked to where the voice came from, another first-year boy. "No! Don't step on him!" The boy shouted to Sigrid which made her blink her eyes vigorously, she wondered what did the boy mean by 'don't step on him'?

She looked down, and there was quite a big frog or was it a toad? It was huge, to be honest. The boy picked it up while looking at Sigrid, the boy looked a little bit ashamed and scared that she would do something to him for shouting at her but gave a sigh when he saw her give him a gentle smile.

'Sorry, I didn't mean to nearly step on him. I didn't see him'

The boy looked confused and wondered why she was using sign language but then Hermione stepped to his side aside and explained to the boy. "She apologized, and she said that she didn't mean to step on the toad, she just didn't see him." The boy beamed at both girls and gave the girl a soft smile. "I…It's alright, by the way, my name is Longbottom, Neville Longbottom." He thrust his hand out to Sigrid, which she shook with a smile.

'My name is Sigrid, it is quite nice to meet you, Neville. That is quite a big toad you have there, is it your pet I presume?'

The boy frown and again Hermione explain to the boy. "Her name is Sigrid, she said it is nice to meet you Neville and not only that, she even said that you have a big toad and that she presumes to be your pet?".

Neville was about to say something but before he could, the lady with the pointy hat told them to line up and walk into the room fast as the sorting ceremony was to begin momentarily. Sigrid nodded her head and gave a polite smile to the lady, showing that she was ready to enter with everyone else.

Before the quartet could enter the room, the blond boy who was leaning on the staircase looked over to them with a smug look on his face. His voice had a weird roughness to it that made Sigrid wonder why the boy talked like that; maybe he has some sort of problem with his throat? Or maybe his tonsils?

"It's true then, what they're saying on the train. Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts." While leaning on the staircase with two of his bodyguard giving Harry a look. Oh, how she wished she could smack their fat faces. She wondered what she saw in the boy. She hated it when people made a fuss about Harry Potter, can't anyone ever let it go?

The blond boy started to introduce his chubby friends, Crabbe and Goyle, which Sigrid decided to call them Crab and Gargoyle. But when the boy introduces himself, Sigrid stiffed. The blond boy was Draco Malfoy, Malfoy!

The gears in Sigrid's head started to turn as she wondered if the boy's father's name was Lucius, and if it was so, then she would have to find a way to inform her family. While she was thinking, Ron, snorted which made both Draco and Sigrid look at him. Draco narrowed his eyes at Ron, while Sigrid was about to smack Ron.

"Think my name's funny, do you? I've no need to ask yours. Red hair and a hand-me-down robe. You must be a Weasley." Upon hearing what Draco said, she looked over at him with fire in her eyes, knowing that hearing those words must have hurt Ron. No, she can't hear anymore, especially when this Draco boy started to say that 'Some wizarding families are better than others' and started to say that 'you don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort' while aiming his eyes to Ron.

Hermione saw her new friend's knuckles turned white right after the Malfoy boy started to say that he wanted to help Harry in knowing which wizards would be good for him and held his hand for Harry to shake.

"I think I can tell the wrong sort for myself, thanks," Harry said and started to enter the room, Sigrid started to do her happy dance inside at Harry's reply.

Sigrid lagged behind Harry, Ron and Hermione and glared at the blond boy as she walked past. The blond boy, Draco, felt someone's eyes on him when he turned towards where it was coming, he flinched at the look he was getting from the girl he fancied. Before he can open his mouth to ask why he was getting that look from her, she started to sign to him before following the bushy-haired girl into the other room.

'It is not your place to say who he should and should not be friend with and it is not your place to assume things about him like that. I guess that is why some of the elite never wish to be associated with the lot of you. I suggest you apologize to him but unfortunately the lot of you are too arrogant and to big headed to apologize. Am I wrong, dit svin?'

The blond boy looked at the girl that he fancied with a frown, he wondered what she had signed to him and why she was looking at him in that way.


"Sigi, why did you look so mad and what did you just sign at him? You signed it too fast."

Sigrid looked at Hermione and smiled sweetly at her while gripping her hand so that they kept on walking. Hermione wondered what Sigrid signed to the Malfoy boy and wondered what made her new friend give him that look and get that mad at the boy. But she let it be for now.

Without wasting their time, both girls walked fast as to not be left behind. Right after they enter the room, the girls look at the ceiling with awe, that was when Hermione started to explain that the ceiling is bewitched and how she had read it in Hogwarts: A History, and to be truthful Sigrid did know about it. 'Yeah, I know about it, I read it too and to be honest, I just love night sky like this. It reminds me of…' She stopped her signing right after that. Hermione gave her new friend a knowing look before she replied, "It reminds you of home."

That was partly true, but it wasn't just that, it also reminded her before the war. Sigrid looked at Hermione with a soft smile and a nod of her head. There was no way she would tell her new friends what she really remembers about the night sky full of stars, like the one they were looking at now.

They kept on walking until the lady asked them to wait right in front of the brown pointy hat that was sitting on a wooden stool. She could tell that the hat was going to sort them into their houses, she just wondered how. Sitting at the big table behind the lady with the pointy hat, she saw Dumbledore.

And if she wasn't mistaken, on them sitting there was one of her aunt's boyfriend was sitting there as well. She could see a few other professors sitting there as well, but she wasn't sure who they were. Sigrid was not paying much attention to what the lady was saying, she was too busy studying the professors sitting at the table. She did try to listen to what Dumbledore was saying about the Dark forest being forbidden to all the students, but then she saw how her aunt's boyfriend was looking at Harry.

She could tell that something was making her aunt's boyfriend alarmed. While he was glaring at Harry, Sigrid heard Harry say 'ouch' and then proceed to rub his lightning bolt scar on his forehead. It seems that she will have something else that she would have to tell her family.

She broke her attention away from Harry and looked back to Dumbledore, it took all her self-control to not flinch when she saw the look that Dumbledore was giving her, it was like he could tell that she had barely heard anything that he had been saying.

She didn't hear the warning he had given out, but it didn't matter, trouble always seemed to find her no matter how hard she tried to avoid it. She always managed to find her way out of trouble, although sometimes the cost was almost too much to handle.

Dumbledore continued to inform the first years about the caretaker Mr Filch and his list of banned items. He also told the whole school to remember that the third-floor corridor was out of bounds to everyone who didn't want to die a painful death, when he said that, he looked over again at Sigrid with a long look before turning and looking over the rest of the school.

Dumbledore kept looking at her like she was the one to go looking for the trouble that she constantly found herself in. It's not like she went looking for trouble, it just always seems to find her. It was like she had a big flashing sign overhead pointing to her saying 'COME TO FIND ME, TROUBLE'

Sigrid snorted and rolled her eyes as if those things will happen. She has been dealing with this since she was a child. She had near-death experience countless times, yet here she was, healthy and kicking too. Sensing someone looking at her, she looked over and saw Dumbledore giving her a heated look, looks like he saw her snort. She will have to learn how to be more secretive. Even without speaking.

Sigrid sent a thanks to the all-father Odin, when the lady started to inform them that when she called their name, they would go and sit on the stood and she would place the hat on their head, when the hat called the house they would be sorted into, they are to go and sit at their house table.

"Hermione Granger"

The bushy-haired girl walked up, trying not to show her nerves, she got up to the stool as quickly as she could and sat down. Sigrid gave her a small smile to show her some support, when Hermione saw she sent a small smile back, still trying to tell herself that everything would be okay. She sat down, and the lady put the hat on her head while she kept her eyes on her new friends.

Ron turned to Harry and whispered, "Mental that one." Sigrid overheard and slapped Ron on the arm before turning back to Hermione not paying attention to Harry chuckling at the altercation and Ron scowling at her for hitting him.

Sigrid and the first years were all waiting patiently when the hat opened his mouth and suddenly shouted out of the house to which Sigrid's new friend would be a part of for the next seven years.

Hermione hopped down and headed to her new house with a big grin on her face, showing how happy she was, that was when Sigrid started to worry that they wouldn't be sorted together. Would they still be able to remain, friends, if they were in different houses? Hermione didn't notice the upset look on Sigrid's face until she had sat down and turned to watch her friends get sorted. Hermione's smile dimmed when she saw the look on her new friends face; what had caused her friend to look so sad all of a sudden?


One by one, the student's got sorted, even Harry and Ron had been sorted. The trio was starting to get worried, but then suddenly "Sigrid Z'ev".

The trio held their breath when the hat was placed on Sigrid's head, even Draco was holding his breath. When the hat shouts Sigrid's house, it makes Draco frown while the trio shouted out with happiness, meanwhile Sigrid froze on the chair.

She had been playing with her ring on her index finger but had stopped when the hat called out "GRYFFINDOR!"


A/N: Thank you for my beta FrostFire94 for helping me out