Chapter Two
A/N: Now for a character that WASN'T raised by a psycho crack baby eater! Woo… Go Cody. The stinkin' emo (Just a note, this is an in joke. Do not expect to understand it.)! Bleh. This chapter turned out a bit short. Oh well. Tune in next chapter for ANOTHER sorting. It's the last one I swear.
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"Just tell yourself. Just tell yourself 'No, I am NOT completely nervous. No I will NOT end up in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw or Slytherin."
The great hall was buzzing with students and their animated chattering. Most people were sitting at tables by now, besides the first years that needed to be sorted. One of these that needed to be sorted seemed to be having a small nervous melt-down.
To him he would have been a HUGE disappointment to his dad if he was in any other house but Hufflepuff. His dad would… Disown him or something. The weedy looking boy, who for future reference was named Cody Hamren, was pacing a bit, but having a bit of troubles because every time he tried walking he bumped into someone.
His pacing, then bumping procedure went on throughout the first bit of the sorting, though at one point he forced himself to stop as he saw something. A group of slightly large and scary looking students (All most likely just rather large first years, and it seemed all male) were surrounding a smaller girl.
The bigger students seemed to be tossing something around, which he recognized to be a teddy bear on closer inspection. The girl was by this point crying. Cody began to feel slightly angry, who in their right mind would steal something from someone? Especially something so trivial!
"Hey!" He shouted walking closer to them. Something one must understand about Cody is that he is the exact opposite of intimidating. He had never been in a fight before really, nor did he at all look like he'd be good in a fight. Sure he attempted to play sports and Quidditch, but he wasn't very good at them due to a lack of coordination on his part (He still played them every chance he got though. Just because he wasn't good at them didn't mean he didn't love to play them.). So when Cody stood near the rather large and bulky boys he instantly realized that it may not have been the best idea, though he still went on.
"Leave her alone!" He added in, now getting ready to well, to run away if he needed. They were almost up to the H's in the sorting, which would pretty much require him to go running away. Not that he'd want to go running at all if he had several people chasing after him… Nooo… Not at all. The group of boys looked at each other for a few seconds before dropping the teddy bear on the ground and starting to move toward Cody, who was now backing away slowly.
As he started backing away, he heard his name being called. Within a second he was running through the crowd, this time managing to avoid hitting people. He practically jumped on the stool. His heart was beating rapidly in his stomach and he was taking deep breaths, but no one seemed to notice as the hat was placed on his head. After just a few seconds the hat called out a house name (The house was really rather predictable if you thought about it for a while).
"HUFFLEPUFF". As soon as the hat called it Cody fell off the chair practically. He was quite glad, and his grin showed it as he picked himself up off the floor. He barely noticed that the Hufflepuff table was clapping, or any other noises for that matter. He just knew that he was now in the house he had been hoping to get into for the past eleven years.
His heart was still racing as he sat down at the Hufflepuff table, and his grin only widened as he saw the students that had been bullying the girl were now being talked to by a teacher. With a final exhale of carbon dioxide, he relaxed a bit at the table. It was good to be him at the moment. Sure he wasn't a pure-blood or whatever, and sure he was just a step away from being a muggle-born (His dad was a muggle-born and his mom was a muggle.), but he didn't care. No one really cared about those things anymore anyways.