Harry Potter And The Korgei
Disclaimer 1: Her tune, my words.
Spoilers: PS, COS, POA, GOF- I planned this before OOTP, so any similarities are coincidence. I have not altered my plans in any way (deletion of information since, and I have edited, but sticking to the original plan otherwise)
Chapter 5- The Welcome Feast
When they all arrived at the castle, they were all tired and hungry, and wanted to get the feast done with as soon as possible.
Harry, Ron and Hermione seated themselves with Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Alison Hayworth and Xara Colsley, who were Hermione's other two bunk-mates. They were both quiet and only really spoke to each other, but occasionally spoke to Dean and Hermione.
As usual, Alison and Xara were speaking in whispers only to each other, but they were sitting with people from their year, which was a nice change. It suggested improvement, or it suggested that they had no where else to sit.
Before they could eat though, they had to sort the new first years. The whole hall was called to silence by Professor Dumbledore. He asked for Professor McGonagall to begin the sorting. She indicated to the hat that it should begin.
It sang:
"For so long I have been sorting,
Telling you where you belong,
But now although I do regret,
I have been doing it all wrong!
This is your final warning,
So please start mending!
If warnings are ignored
There will be a sticky ending:
I will no longer sort into houses,
Developing your boundary
Preventing the ideals of this castle
From reaching necessary harmony
Thankfully I have help
As I have foreseen from within
the saviour will emerge
and unity will begin!
Regrettably, I must impose
For this final time
Divisions amongst the classrooms
So
first years, get in line!
You'll go to Ravenclaw if wit
Is your prominent feature;
With smarts and books you'll be at home
The
eagle as your creature
Or
Hufflepuff, for you generous kind,
With charity exceeding beyond all;
Your badger-like qualities so apparent,
When
you answer those who call.
Perhaps
Slytherin to you ambitious lot,
With pride and power as your guide,
From the slippery serpent none of you,
Will
ever try to hide!
Or
if you're brave, perhaps Gryffindor
Is where you should really go?
The Lion of Gryffindor will encourage you
If
its qualities you show.
To
end my song with some grace,
And a Hogwarts flag on,
As three of the four once did say,
"Never
tickle a sleeping dragon!"
Everyone in the hall applauded, as whispers broke out about the 'saviour' that the hat had spoke of. At the Teachers table, many of the teachers looked directly at Harry with a concerned look on their face. Harry tried not to look, but felt their eyes on him.
As McGonagall called out the names, Harry noticed something odd- far more people were being sorted into Hufflepuff than normal. Normally there were roughly 5 girls and 5 boys in each house at every sorting. At the end of the sorting, there were 4 boys in Gryffindor, 3 girls, 2 boys in Slytherin, 2 girls, 3 boys in Ravenclaw, and 6 girls, and in Hufflepuff there were 10 girls and 11 boys.
Harry suspected that the Hufflepuff common room in the basement was being magically expanded, and the dormitories being expanded as they sat there.
As soon as the sorting had finished, Dumbledore stood up and commanded the food to the tables.
It was an exquisite banquet. There was foods from all nations, with big dishes of vegetarian and fish curries, steaks, many types of potatoes, a large variety of vegetables prepared in different ways, burgers, sausages, different pies, bubble and squeak, and Harry even thought he saw a large Haggis up the table. The House elves had outdone themselves.
Harry himself had a chunk of cottage pie, mashed potatoes, and peas and carrots. He thoroughly enjoyed it. For dessert, he had a piece of raspberry cheesecake which he squirted so much squirty cream on, that it became soggy.
During the meal, Harry noticed that Ron and Hermione smiled at each other a lot and talked to each other just to keep the conversation going. He thought it was very obvious that they liked each other, but neither of them seemed to be able to do anything about it.
He didn't have much experience with girls, but he still found it hard to believe that two people that liked each other as much and as obviously as Ron and Hermione were too dense to do anything about it. He had told Ron many times over the summer break that he needed to do tell Hermione how he felt, but Ron, despite being told that Hermione liked him, did not think she did.
Harry still had some feelings for Cho Chang, however he did not feel as strongly for her as he had done before. He supposed that her relationship with Cedric had something to do with it, but he would not let himself think of such things. He didn't need to examine how he truly felt right now. He would continue to work on auto-drive, until he felt that he truly could sit down and analyse his feelings.
What Harry didn't know, was that girls from all houses, from all years were looking at him, seeing the pensive expression on his face, wondering what he was thinking, and wondering why he had so much hurt there in his eyes.
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