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"He's coming!"
"Then shut up and hide!" hissed harry
The two boys scrambled around, desperately hunting for a place to hide as the footsteps and conversation came closer. As the key entered the lock, Harry quickly crammed himself into a cupboard and Ron hid under a desk.
"Come in, Lucius."
"I am here to talk about your-"
"I know"
"Then you know what you have to teach. But don't be overt. The dark lord wants a generation of… understanding children."
"I know. If I may, when can I see Svetlana?"
"When your job is complete. I want a sample by the end of this month or I'll take more insurance."
"How is the proposal coming along?"
"Hah, our support is solid but unseen. It will be passed with little opposition and it will cause few difficulties as the current situation is ineffective."
"Just say it plain, Voldemort wants willing converts in easy chunks."
The sound of a loud smack filled the room.
"Don't say the name!"
The door slammed. A sigh was sighed and the door was opened and closed.
Harry came out of the cupboard and looked at Ron. Ron wordlessly pointed at the paper that he had been reading.
September: I start my job as magical theory teacher.
Students to watch out for:
P-EHB
H-HB
W-EHB
Pt's-PB
Hermione-MB
D-PB
L's-HBr
What does any of that mean? Wondered harry, just as Ron said it.
"Well, the main way of cataloguing wizarding descent is by-"
"Blood purity"
"Exactly. MB is probably Muggleborn, PB pure-blood, HB half-blood. But –"
"The L's have an r after the HB, this Peter and W have an E before the HB."
"How does he know if a student is a muggleborn? I thought only the headmaster is privy to that."
"I dunno, but-"
Harry looked in frozen terror at Ron as footsteps once again came down the path. They clambered out the back window and ran.
"Before you enter, I will inform all of you about the new system. There are once again only four houses, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and Ravenclaw. The sorting hat will sing to you anyway, but I want to make it clear that just because you are in a different hose, you cannot be friends. There will be no prejudice on houses here, am I clear?"
50 voices of assent filed the corridor.
"Good. In you go."
Harry and his yearmates nervously crept into the great hall. McGonagall stood next to an old wizened hat, and unfurled an equally old and yellowed scroll.
"Abbott, Hannah! "
HUFFLEPUFF!
"Bones, Susan!"
RAVENCLAW!
This continued. A terry boot went to Ravenclaw, and a lavender brown ended up in Gryffindor.
"Granger, Hermione"
Ron and harry looked at each other and at the brown haired witch sitting on the stool.
"2 knuts against" murmured harry
"You're on" muttered Ron back
"GRYFFINDOR"
"Dammit" muttered Harry
Behind them, Josef flicked their ears.
"Pay attention!"
And sure enough, soon their was a call of
"Potter, Harry!"
Exited murmuring filled the hall.
"Really Potter-"
"I heard that-"
"Only a baby"
"Course, some say-"
Harry nervously walked up the steps, his stomach churning and hands sweaty.
Now then, -ooh, a black, haven't had one of those in a while, but so Slytherin and it matches, but the loyalty is so Hufflepuff. But there is the-
Get on with it thought harry
Oh, all right then, better be
GRYFFINDOR!
Harry joined the long, red and gold coloured table and endured the cheering and back pounding. Slowly the line of students went down
"Lovegood, Luna!"
RAVENCLAW!
"Lovegood, Selene!"
SLYTHERIN!
"Patil, Padma"
GRYFFINDOR
"Patil, Parvati"
RAVENCLAW
And eventually,
"Weasley, Ronald!"
GRYFFINDOR!
Harry smiled and congratulated Ron on entering Gryffindor.
As they entered the common room, they heard a rather bossy voice behind them say:
"You know, this was the first common room to be built in Hogwarts."
Ron looked at Harry and muttered "I think a Ravenclaw walked into the wrong room"
Harry tried to conceal his snort of laughter as he turned round and said "Hello."
A bushy haired girl looked at him. Oh Merlin thought harry she's already got a book
"And, did you know that-"
"Hey, Harry" interrupted Ron quickly, saving Harry from having to talk to the know-it-all behind them "Did you get Dumbledore in the frog cards?"
"Frog cards?" questioned the girl behind them "What are they?"
Harry passed over his Dumbledore card.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE, 1920-2005
HEADMASTER OF HOGWARTS 1954-2003, Minister for Magic 2003-2005
Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flame, and his duel with He-who-must-not-be-named, in which he was slain defending a group of magical babies. Professor Dumbledore enjoyed chamber music and ten-pin bowling. His statue in the wizarding village of Godric's Hollow is visited by many wizards and witches each year. In his life, He was a famous advocate for international wizarding cooperation against the many uprisings in multiple wizarding countries in the years 1984-2005.
"Well," said the bossy girl's voice, "I've never heard of him, and I've read Modern Magical History and The rise and fall of the dark lords and Great wizarding events of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, and he's not mentioned in any of them"
"Well" replied Ron morosely, "You wouldn't see him there. Rita Skeeter drugged his Aunt to high heaven and coaxed out several nasty secrets about him. He's been turned into a champion of blood purity, can you believe it!"
"Blood purity? What's that?" asked the girl, but by that point they had reached the common room, and the prefects were telling everyone to go to bed
"I'm Hermione, by the way" said the girl, who had entered the Great Hall shortly after them and had sat down opposite. "And you never did tell me what blood purity was, and Lavender is an idiot and Padma went silent when I asked about it, so I was wondering- "
Harry and Ron sat there, silently eating as she prattled on for a good few minutes. She was only silenced by Professor McGonagall coming up behind them and saying loudly "First years! Your first lesson is Magical culture, follow me please!"
As they got up, Ron muttered to Harry, "I think our new friend is about to find out what blood ridiculousness is"
So chapter 5, about 10 times as long as every other chapter that I've written is finally up, because I stuck to my once a month upload schedule
*nervous giggles*
Well, chapter 6 should be up soon (read: a year or two), and I hope you enjoy!
