The door swung open at once. A tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes stood there. She had a very stern face and Harry's first thought was that this was not someone to cross.
"The firs' years, Professor McGonagall," said Hagrid.
"Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here."
She pulled the door wide. The entrance hall was so big you could have fit the whole of the Dursleys' house in it. The stone walls were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing them led to the upper floors.
They followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor. Harry and Selena could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right — the rest of the school must already be here — but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall. They crowded in, standing rather closer together than they would usually have done, peering about nervously.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," said Professor McGonagall. "The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room.
"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honour. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours.
"The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting."
Her eyes lingered for a moment on Neville's cloak, which was fastened under his left ear, and on Ron's smudged nose.
Harry nervously tried to flatten his hair and Selena smirked while helping Neville with his clock.
"I shall return when we are ready for you," said Professor McGonagall. "Please wait quietly."
She left the chamber. Harry swallowed.
"How exactly do they sort us into houses?" he asked Ron. Selena just smirked. She knew how they would be sorted. While flicking through Hogwarts: A History she found a short passage which gave hints to how they would be sorted. By looking at the others kids she decided to keep her mouth shut and enjoy them freaking out about how they would be sorted.
"Some sort of test, I think. Fred said it hurts a lot, but I think he was joking."
Harry's heart gave a horrible jolt. A test? In front of the whole school? But he didn't know any magic yet —what on earth would he have to do? He hadn't expected something like this the moment they arrived. Selena rolled her eyes and whacked her brother on the head.
"Obviously they wouldn't test us with magic, we only just got here!" she hissed, giving her brother a sort of hint on how they would be sorted. She didn't want to tell him exactly how they would be sorted or else he would tell Ron, which she doesn't want to happen as she was enjoying watching him panic about what's going to happen.
Harry looked around anxiously and saw that everyone else looked terrified, too, well beside his sister. No one was talking much except Hermione Granger, who was whispering very fast about all the spells she'd learned and wondering which one she'd need.
Harry tried hard not to listen to her. He'd never been more nervous, never, not even when he'd had to take a school report home to the Dursleys saying that he'd somehow turned his teacher's wig blue. Selena however had managed to cause the kids in their class clothes to disappear during P.E because they were picking on them.
He kept his eyes fixed on the door. Any second now, Professor McGonagall would come back and lead him and his sister to their doom. He could tell that Selena knew what was going to happen when they have to go through the doors but didn't have the chance to ask her as something happened that made them jump about a foot in the air and several people behind them screamed.
"What the —?"
He gasped. So did the people around him. About twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall. Pearly-white and slightly transparent, they glided across the room talking to one another and hardly glancing at the first years. They seemed to be arguing. What looked like a fat little monk was saying: "Forgive and forget, I say, we ought to give him a second chance —"
"My dear Friar, haven't we given Peeves all the chances he deserves? He gives us all a bad name and you know, he's not really even a ghost — I say - what are you all doing here?"
A ghost wearing a ruff and tights had suddenly noticed the first years.
Nobody answered.
"New students!" said the Fat Friar, smiling around at them. "About to be Sorted, I suppose?"
A few people nodded mutely.
"Hope to see you in Hufflepuff!" said the Friar. "My old house, you know."
"Move along now," said a sharp voice. "The Sorting Ceremony's about to start."
Professor McGonagall had returned. One by one, the ghosts floated away through the opposite wall.
"Now, form a line," Professor McGonagall told the first years, "and follow me."
Feeling oddly as though his legs had turned to lead, Harry got into line behind a Selena who was behind a kid with sandy hair, with Ron behind him. Hermione and Neville, who was trying hard not to faint, followed as they walked out of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall.
The twins had never even imagined such a strange and splendid place.
It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. These tables were laid with glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting. Professor McGonagall led the first years up here, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them. The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver. Mainly to avoid all the staring eyes, Harry and Selena looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. They heard Hermione whisper, "It's bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History."
"I read about it in Hogwarts, A History." Selena imitated her under breath, which Harry heard and snorted.
It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn't simply open on to the heavens.
They quickly looked down again as Professor McGonagall silently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first years. On top of the stool she put a pointed wizard's hat. This hat was patched and frayed and extremely dirty. Aunt Petunia wouldn't have let it in the house.
Maybe they had to try and get a rabbit out of it, Harry thought wildly, that seemed the sort of thing— noticing that everyone in the hall was now staring at the hat, he and Selena stared at it, too. For a few seconds, there was complete silence. Then the hat twitched. A rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth — and the hat began to sing:
"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
The whole hall burst into applause as the hat finished its song. It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again.
"So we've just got to try on the hat!" Ron whispered to Harry. "I'll kill Fred; he was going on about wrestling a troll." Harry smiled weakly. Yes, trying on the hat was a lot better than having to do a spell, but he did wish they could have tried it on without everyone watching.
"I know," his sister whispered. She knew what her brother was thinking.
Then Selena started giggling at the look Hermione just gave when she realised that it was just a hat she had to put on. It looked like she wanted to show off all the spells she learnt and prove that she is better than everyone there.
The hat seemed to be asking rather a lot; Harry didn't feel brave or quick-witted or any of it at the moment. If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him, Harry reckoned.
Selena started to panic. 'What if we are not in the same house? I have never been apart from Harry. Please be in the same house' at this moment all Selena wanted was to be in the same house as her brother. Harry saw the panic on his sister face and reached for her hand and squeezed it. "Don't worry Lena even if we are not in the same house it will be ok. We will still see each other and it won't change anything ok, just breath" Selena nodded and breathed through her nose trying to relax.
Professor McGonagall now stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment.
"When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted," she said. "Abbott, Hannah!" A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of line, put on the hat, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down. A moment's pause —
"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat.
The table on the right cheered and clapped as Hannah went to sit down at the Hufflepuff table. Harry saw the ghost of the Fat Friar waving merrily at her.
"Bones, Susan!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat again, and Susan scuttled off to sit next to Hannah.
"Boot, Terry!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
The table second from the left clapped this time; several Ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with Terry as he joined them.
"Brocklehurst, Mandy" went to Ravenclaw too, but "Brown, Lavender" became the first new Gryffindor, and the table on the far left exploded with cheers; Harry could see Ron's twin brothers catcalling.
"Bulstrode, Millicent" then became a Slytherin. Perhaps it was Harry and Selena's imaginations, after all they'd heard about Slytherin, but he thought they looked like an unpleasant lot.
Harry was starting to feel definitely sick now. He remembered being picked for teams during gym at his old school. He had always been last to be chosen, not because he was no good, but because no one wanted Dudley to think they liked him. Selena however hadn't had an issue with that, she'd just didn't care about being picked last, she ends up hitting most of them with the ball and/or bat.
"Finch-Fletchley, Justin!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Sometimes, Harry and Selena noticed, the hat shouted out the house at once, but at others it took a little while to decide. "Finnigan, Seamus," the sandy-haired boy next to Selena in the line, sat on the stool for almost a whole minute before the hat declared him a Gryffindor.
"Granger, Hermione!"
Hermione almost ran to the stool and jammed the hat eagerly on her head. "err really don't like her, stupid cow needs to calm down.
"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat. Ron and Selena groaned.
A horrible thought struck Harry, as horrible thoughts always do when you're very nervous. What if he and Selena weren't chosen at all? What if they just sat there with the hat over their eyes for ages, until Professor McGonagall jerked it off their heads and said there had obviously been a mistake and they'd better get back on the train?.
When Neville Longbottom was called, he fell over on his way to the stool.
The hat took a long time to decide with Neville. When it finally shouted, "GRYFFINDOR," Selena cheered loudly for her friend and Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to jog back amid gales of laughter to give it to "MacDougal, Morag."
Malfoy swaggered forward when his name was called and got his wish at once: the hat had barely touched his head when it screamed, "SLYTHERIN!" Selena rolled her eyes.
Malfoy went to join his friends Crabbe and Goyle, looking pleased with himself.
There weren't many people left now. "Moon"…, "Nott"…, "Parkinson"…, then a pair of twin girls, "Patil" and "Patil"…, then "Perks, Sally-Anne"…, and then, at last —
"Potter, Harry!"
As Harry stepped forward, whispers suddenly broke out like little hissing fires all over the hall.
"Potter, did she say?"
"TheHarry Potter?"
"Yes, the Harry Potter," Selena muttered to herself, annoyed at them and worried for her brother. After a few minutes-
"GRYFFINDOR!" Selena cheered until her throat was sore and her brother walked to the Gryffindor table, looking pleased and a little sick.
"Potter, Selena!"
"What another Potter"
"Has she got the name right?"
"I thought Harry was an only child?"
More murmuring broke out and people were trying to look at her. As she walked up, she caught the eye of a teacher and she saw a startled look.
Huh? The look was almost a stunned look of recognition.
She sat down and put the hat on.
"Hmm, more difficult than your brother," a small voice said in her ear. "Cunning, a real thirst for knowledge, even more than Harry I see. Intelligent, you would do really well in Ravenclaw. I might even put you there!"
Selena grew a bit nervous then. Who did she know who was in Ravenclaw?
"Your loyalty isn't too good, except to people you really like. I can't see you in Hufflepuff. However your cunningness rivals some Slytherins. I feel that you will do well there, great even. It's good to be separated from your brother, to have the chance to be yourself and not follow your brother around"
"What no, I want to be with Harry, I don't know anyone in Slytherin or Ravenclaw"
"Well most kids who come here don't know anyone when they are sorted. It's a chance to make new friends."
Selena couldn't stand to be apart from her brother, he was her best, best friend, the only friend she had had throughout her life. She was about to argue but she was too late.
"SLYTHERIN!" Silence. Nobody moved, nobody cheered. Everyone was in shock. Selena looked over to where her brother was sitting. The look of sadness crossed his face. He hoped that they were in the same house. He didn't mind if she was in the other two houses, but Slytherin, the house that was known to bad witches and wizards, the house their parents' murderer was in.
Slowly the Slytherin table started to clap. The only house that cheering for her sorting. The other three houses just sat there not cheering at all. Professor McGonagall lifted the sorting hat off Selena's head and nodded towards the Slytherin table. Slowly she walked towards the table. She could hear the other students around her.
"A Potter in Slytherin"
"Are you sure they are related"
"I guess that she is the evil twin"
Selena never thought words could hurt her. She didn't really care what the Dursley's or Dudley's friends said about her but for some reason, this time it hurt her feelings more then she wanted it to.
Selena sat down next to a boy her age. She remembered his named from the sorting, Theodore Nott. On her other side was a free space. One the other side of the table was a girl who looked like a pug. Next to her was Draco and on the other side of her was a girl with shoulder length blonde hair, Daphne Greengrass Selena remembered.
And now there were only four people left to be sorted. "Thomas, Dean," joined Harry at the Gryffindor table.
"Turpin, Lisa," became a Ravenclaw and then it was Ron's turn. He was pale green by now.
Harry and Selena crossed their fingers under the table (she wanted her brother to have at least one person he knew with him) and a second later the hat had shouted, "GRYFFINDOR!"
Harry clapped loudly with the rest as Ron collapsed into the chair next to Harry. Selena clapped just to be polite and relieved that her brother wasn't alone.
"Well done, Ron, excellent," said Percy Weasley pompously across Harry.
"Zabini, Blaise," it was the boy that Selena bump into at Gringotts and shared the boat with. 'So that's his name then. mmm hope he is in Slytherin'
"SLYTHERIN!" The sorting hat said as Professor McGonagall rolled up her scroll and took the Sorting Hat away. Blaise made his way over the Slytherin table and sat next to Selena.
Harry looked down at his empty gold plate. He had only just realized how hungry he was. The pumpkin pasties seemed ages ago. While Selena's stomach rumbled loudly and she grinned so did Blaise, who heard her stomach rumbling.
Albus Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there.
"Welcome," he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
"Thank you!"
He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered. Selena eyebrows went up, she wasn't expected him to say something like that.
In front of her dishes appeared with piles with food. She never has seen so much food in one place at the same time, and that saying something considering she was living with the two largest people in the whole of England. Food that she never had before appeared before her roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, fries, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup, and, for some strange reason, peppermint humbugs.
The Dursleys did practically starve the twins, and they'd never been allowed to eat as much as they liked. Dudley had always taken anything that Harry and Selena really wanted, even if it made him sick, even though they weren't allowed to have any. Selena took a bit of everything that was for vegetarian.
"So after seeing you twice now I finally found out what your name is." Blaize asked Selena.
"Well all you had to do is ask" she replied as she took a bit out of her jacket potato. While she looked calm on the outside, her heart rate increases slightly. She didn't know why she was getting nervous, but was glad he was speaking to her.
"I guess I should have" he replied. "So how come no one knew about you then? Everyone knew about your brother but not you" he asked. When he finished speaking the other first year Slytherins, who were sitting near them had turned their heads to listen to her answer.
She shrugged her shoulders "Don't know, maybe whoever told you about my brother forgot to mention about me."
The other realised she wasn't going to say anything else went back to eating their meal.
As the night went on she got to know her class mates. She introduce herself to Theodore Nott, who like to be called Theo. He was a quiet shy boy however even though they are total opposite in personality wise both Selena and Theo got along quite well during the meal. She also introduces herself to everyone in her year. The boys consist of Theo, Draco, Blaize, Vincent and Gregory. The girls were herself, Tracey, Pancy, Millicent and Daphne. The girls besides Pansy were friendly towards Selena and she could see that it might not be terrible to be in a different house to Harry. When she looked to where her brother was sitting she could see that he was enjoying himself and making new friends over at the Gryffindor table. During dinner she got to know Draco Malfoy a bit more, sure he was still an arrogant git, but she could see that all he wants is to have friends and that it's just the way he is. Maybe because she was talking and getting along with Draco or something she done to her by accident but Pansy seems to hate her, whenever she looked at Selena she will glare at her and sneer at her.
'Well I can't be friends with everyone and I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who looks like a pug, actually that's an insult to pugs.'
Also she was introduced the Slytherin ghost who sat next to Draco. Selena giggled at the face he pulled when he realised who was sitting next to him. The ghost – The Bloody Baron looked like a horrible ghost who just sat there with blank eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood. Every now and then he would grant and mumble something and then stare over to the Ravenclaw table.
When everyone had eaten as much as they could, the remains of the food faded from the plates, leaving them sparkling clean as before. A moment later the desserts appeared. Blocks of ice cream in every flavour you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate éclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, Jell-O, rice pudding…
Selena helped herself to a Jam roly poly, some cookie dough ice cream and a pecan and maple pastry. She only took very small portions of each desert which got funny looks from her class mates as they all took piles of each desert they wanted. While eating her desert she found out that she was the only half blood in Slytherin, she couldn't even pretend to be one as everyone in the wizardry world knew her family and that her mother was a muggle born. Most of her class mates were home schooled before they came to Hogwarts and she hope that she wasn't so behind everyone as she didn't want to be the odd one out, well she was already the odd one out as she was the only half blood in Slytherin, but she wanted to fit in with her class mates because after years and years of not fitting in and having no friends besides her brother. The conversation moved to their family and what they do. Selena stayed quiet in this conversation, she didn't want to tell everyone about the Dursleys and her life there and she didn't know much about her parents besides what Hagrid told her.
Selena was getting tired; she has been up since 5 in the morning and wanted to go to bed. She was slightly worried that she wouldn't be able to sleep in her new bed as this is the first time she will be sleeping without her brother in the same room. 'Sure I'll be fine.' she thought as she gaze towards the high table where all the teachers were sitting. Hagrid was drinking deeply from his goblet. Professor McGonagall was talking to Professor Dumbledore. Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin. He was the teacher that had a startle look when he saw her. She saw that he was looking at her brother, who had his hand on his forehead.
"That's Professor Snape, he is our potions teacher. He is also my Godfather" Draco said when he notice her looking at the hook nosed teacher. "He is also our head of house"
"Oh ok, just wondering who he was. He looks mean" she replied.
"Well he is, he doesn't take bad behaviour and rule breaking, but he likes Slytherin and hates Gryffindors, so I guess you are lucky you didn't follow your brother"
She looked back at the high table and saw that Professor Snape was looking right at her. She saw his face soften for a second then went back to his usually sneer when he realise she was looking at him.
At last, the desserts too disappeared, and Professor Dumbledore got to his feet again. The hall fell silent.
"Ahem — just a few more words now that we are all fed and watered.
I have a few start-of-term notices to give you.
"First years should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well."
Dumbledore's twinkling eyes flashed in the direction of the Weasley twins. Selena stared at them from where she was sitting which caught the eyes of the twins who then grinned at her.
"I have also been asked by Mr. Filch, the caretaker, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the corridors.
"Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their house teams should contact Madam Hooch.
"And finally, I must tell you that this year; the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death."
Selena's eyebrows shot up for the second time that evening from something that the headmaster has said.
"And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!" cried Dumbledore. Selena noticed that the other teachers' smiles had become rather fixed.
Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying to get a fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words.
"Everyone pick their favourite tune," said Dumbledore, "and off we go!"
And the school bellowed:
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest.
"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"
The Slytherin first years followed the prefect through the crowds, out the great hall, and down the marble staircase. Selena was walking in between Theo and Daphne looking at her surroundings. She gasps as she saw one of the portraits moved.
"What's wrong" Theo asked as he heard her gasp.
When she saw that the others didn't react to the moving portraits she replied "I thought I saw a spider" she lied. She is determined to fit in and didn't want to look dumb. Theo chuckled and carried on walking.
'Mmm I need to find a book on everything about the magical world so I am not so behind from everyone else and won't be shocked when I see something weird going on.' She thought.
They carried on walking deeper into the school, walking down more stairs through hidden panels in the wall and into the dungeon, getting colder as they walked further. Finally the prefect stopped before a stoned wall.
"Here is the entrance to the common room, try and remember where it is and don't tell anyone. To get into the common room you will have to say the password, again tell no one. The password changes every now and then so make sure you check the notice board which is located inside the common room.
"The password is Serpent tongue" the prefect told the first years as the stoned wall disappeared. The group walked inside where they found themselves in the Slytherin common room, a dark dungeon like room with greenish lamps and chairs. Through the windows you can see water which indicated the common room was under the lake. There were lots of low backed black and dark green button-tufted leather sofas, skulls and dark wood cupboards.
"The girls' dormitory is toward the left and the boys are on the right" the prefect said. "You can go see your rooms after Professor Snape says a few words."
Professor Snape glided into the common room. Selena saw that her head of house had black greasy shoulder length hair, pale skin and black eyes.
"First years I would like to first congratulate you for joining Slytherin and hope you enjoy your next seven years at Hogwarts. Next I would like to tell that we Slytherins stick together, there is no secret that the other houses don't trust us or friendly with us, so like I remind you that you need to stick together. Also I do not want to find any of my Slytherins misbehaving and if I do I will deal with you personally. If there are any problems you can see me in my office which is down the corridor and my door is always open. That is it, are there any questions?"He asked the first years. No one spoke up so he carried on. "Ok well I will see you tomorrow morning at breakfast where you will get you timetable." He said and left the common room"
"Well I beat, I am going to go to bed" Daphne said
"Same here" Selena said.
"Goodnight" The two girls said to the others while walking towards the girl's dormitory. There were five four posters hung with emerald green curtains. Their trunks already been brought up to their room. Too tired to talk much, they pulled on their pyjamas and fell into bed.
"Goodnight," Selena murmured sleepily to Daphne, who said goodnight back.
Professor Snape walked back to his own private quarters and sat down on one of the sofas he has in his living room area. He finally saw the twins. He knew they were coming to Hogwarts this year but he couldn't believe how much they look like their parents. The boy looks so much like his father. He hated it, now he has to see the face of his childhood bully. But the girl, she looks so much like Lily he couldn't believe it and a Slytherin, who would have thought Lily's daughter in his house, who is also his god daughter. He remembered the day he met Lily and baby Selena. He met Lily one day when she went out for some fresh air with baby Selena. They were in a small village park where he apologises for his behaviour. She had finally forgave him and allowed him to meet Selena. Severus never like babies, however when he saw Lily's daughter he got attached. After awhile, Lily believed that he change sides and saw how great he was getting along with her daughter she asked him if he wanted to be her godfather, which he accepted. And to this day no one knew that he is Selena's godfather, well maybe Dumbledore as he somehow knew everything.
Ok first, I know some of you wanted Selena in Gryffindor but if I did put her there I would end up just writing the whole of the first book but just adding Selena in the some parts of the story. By having her in a different house it will encourage me to write something different then just rewriting the book like I have done in the previous chapters.
Second I couldn't remember if there were any other half bloods in Slytherin so sorry if I had got that wrong.
And thanks for reading my story and for those reviewed.
