Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. JKR owns it. Last time we saw that Harry claims potter manor, finds new and powerful spells, practices them and how he finally meets Hermione Granger.
Chapter 4 – The Sorting
Hermione thought that her eyes might have betrayed her when she saw him. But when she shook her hand, she realized that the legend was true. Harry Potter was alive and he had become friends with her. They had left the station quickly and the scenario had changed to high mountains and valleys. She had been talking about the sorting, the four houses and all the other stuff.
It had been a few hours. Harry was surprised a bit when a boy almost their age had come into the compartment in which he and Hermione were sitting. He had blue misty eyes and had a whitish complexion. He also seemed a little more muscular for his age. "Can I join you guys? Almost all other compartments have been filled." He said. "Oh sure you can join us. What is your name?" Harry said.
"Daniel, but my friends prefer to call me Dan." The boy quickly replied.
"It's nice to meet you Dan. And my name is Harry. Harry Potter and this is my friend Hermione Granger." Harry said.
"I am pleased to meet you Dan." Hermione said while shaking hands with him.
"So, guys what do you think about Hogwarts?" Dan said once they had finished introducing themselves.
"I am looking forward to getting into the slytherin house. I think it's the best from all the other house and since they are practically winners at Hogwarts." Hermione said.
"Well let's just hope we all can get into slytherin and have a lot of fun."Harry said thinking he had done enough for Gryffindor and wanted to be placed into a new house.
"Well I think the same way, now that Hogwarts has the boy who lived onboard." Dan said happily.
They continued to talk for some time before Hermione suggested that they should get changed into their robes as the train was slowly starting to get slow. So the boys got out of the compartment while Hermione got changed.
The train had stopped a few minutes after the boys had changed into robes. The trio then got out of the train and found themselves at Hogsmeade station. Harry immediately spotted Hagrid who was shouting for the first years to follow him. The three of them went to the bunch of kids surrounding Hagrid. He escorted them along with others to the riverside and then took the boats and traditionally entered the great hall of Hogwarts.
The Gryffindor table clapped loudly when a girl about Harry's age had been sorted into Gryffindor. "GRANGER, HERMIONE" said the professor whom Harry recognized as McGonagall from his past. Hermione went to the chair and picked up the hat and as the professor had said kept the hat on her head. Harry telepathically told the hat to sort Hermione into the slytherin house and since he was the heir to the 4 founders, the hat listened to him and said "SLYTHERIN" and the slytherin house bursted into a thunderous clapping. After the clapping had died down, the professor said "WICKERBOTTOM, DANIEL" and Daniel marched forward and went to the chair and placed the hat on his head. Again telepathically Harry told the hat to place him too in Slytherin. The hat now felt a little odd that everyone wanted to be in slytherin but nonetheless spoke "SLYTHERIN" and again with a loud clapping from the slytherin house, Daniel went and sat beside Hermione. "POTTER, HARRY" said the professor after many first years had been placed into their houses. Harry went to the chair and placed the hat on his head. He watched that everyone was eager to know in which house was the golden boy going to be in. "My lord as you are the heir to the 4 founders, I myself cannot place you into any of the 4 houses. What do you want me to do my lord?" said the hat telepathically into his mind. Smirking a little Harry told the hat to place him in slytherin. After a few moments the hat said "SLYTHERIN" aloud. The Slytherin table clapped louder than they had ever clapped when they had got a new student in their house. They had gotten the boy who lived into their house.
(A/N) I know the chapter is too short but bear with me as I cannot get the time and wanted to finish the sorting as quickly as I could. Didn't expected the trio to be in slytherin? Actually I had flipped a coin as I could not decide in which house I should place them. Ron would not be a part of the trio as his place has already been taken up by Daniel. Daniel is going to be Harry's and Hermione's loyal friend but I will leave the rest to figure out on yourself. I will get you another chapter in the coming week. So goodbye till then!