Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or Harry Potter

Authors notes:

I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted! The last chapters were confusing so, just ignore those. Thanks for reading the new chapter! This chapter May be short but it makes a lot more since.

Max was hesitant as she walked up to the three legged stool. She sat down and adrenalin started to pulse through her and she was about to jump out of the chair when the woman with the glasses came holding a bettered old hat. Before Max could protest the hat was already on her head.

It felt as if some-one was sifting through her head. Like sand slowly falling. She couldn't think fast enough. All her thoughts came slowly as if it was wading through thick syrup. Then a voice that she was not familiar with, sprung into her mind. The voice was not like her other ones. It was very clearly a man speaking to her, unlike the other vices where you could never tell. He said

"Max, you have been through much haven't you? All you want is time to relax and time alone. This whole school may seem confusing, but you will do well here. It is obvious where I should put you."

There was an ear splitting cheer from one table as the hat said the final word aloud, Gryffindor.

As the rest of the flock got "sorted" or at least that's how the rest of the crowed called it, Max slowly began to realize that she would be alone.

Iggy and Gazzy went to Ravenclaw, Nudge went to Hufflepuff, and Fang went to Slytherin.

After the flock had taken their seats Max was about to stand and protest that the flock should stay together. But just then the food arrived.

Mountains or food appeared on the tables. Smells wafted over Max and she instantly forgot what she had been angry about and remembered how hungry she was.
Max and the entire flock fell on their food and began stuffing it in their mouths. The rest of the tables they sat at didn't seem to care that they were gorging themselves, because the rest of the tables were, also. After the meal Max felt for the first time, full. She wasn't hungry. It had never happened before. Max then, for a small minute, forgot her troubles as each table was dismissed and was now flowing out of the room in huge waves. Max followed the people she had seen at her table and soon found herself at the end of the hallway. It wasn't a dead end it simply broke off, like the edge of a cliff side. It went straight down. At first she was puzzled and was about to scream in protest, when a stair case began to slowly move towards her. The she looked about the whole room and saw that all the stair cases were moving, to meet the students. She gaped in aw, but when the stair case came to them, Max seemed to move without realizing it and walked down the stairs. Then she came to a crowed of students, dressed in her "house" (as they called it) colors. They stood before a painting. They all were yelling at the same time. All the same word it seemed. Then the painting that Max had been ignoring (she had been ignoring all of them) began to move. Not like the painting swinging from side to side move. The art work was moving. It was a fat busty woman with vines all around her and she began to shout at them as well. Saying

"Will you all just quiet down so I can hear the password?" she said this in a shrill high voice, that made one cringe.

The voices stopped. Then one boy came by and spoke a strange word.

"Lumos"

Then the painting swung open to revile a room filled with table's armchairs and a crackling fire place. All decorated with the house colors of gold and scarlet. Tables overflowed with books and parchment. Candles lit the dark corners and windows were swung open to let in a breeze. The room smelled clean and nice. It smelled of hot days and worm nights, it for the first time in Max's life (other than when she lived with her mom) smelled like a home.

"Max" said a frizzy hair girl who seemed around her age. "Hi I'm Hermione Granger; I'm a prefect here for Gryffindor."

"Umm…Where do we sleep?" said Max as she felt the weight of the food she had eaten.

"The girl's dormitories are up stairs and on your left. We eat in the hall you were just in, for breakfast lunch and dinner. I'll wake you up and make sure you get ready, after that you have to speak to Professor Dumbledore about your classes, anything else?" She asked and Max just shook her head, never had anyone ever spoken so fast and concise to her.

Hermione then happily walked over the two boys. One was the redheaded boy who had "tried" to lead them through the school. The other Max remembered seeing when she had dumped that armor down the old hag. He was the boy she had knocked out.

When he saw her he smiled and gestured her over to them.

"Max I'm Harry and this is Ron, you've already met Hermione. I just wanted to thank you for getting me out of that passage way when I was unconscious .I could have been down there for ages. Hay do you know what it was that hit me? I think it was a loose stone or something.

Max then did something she rarely did, she told the truth.

"Umm….well, my um…brother, had knocked down one of the suits of armor when we were lost in the hallways, and we through it down the hag so we could hide it."

There was a silence for a moment. Then Harry began to laugh.

"You through a suit of armor and it hit me on the head?" He laughed even more and so did Ron and Hermione. Then not knowing what else to do so did Max.

When Max finely went to bed, she was happier than she ever had been. She hadn't even thought of Angel. She hadn't even thought of the flock, because she knew that they were safe. Max fell onto her soft, clean bed and instantly fell asleep. Not even thinking of the strange things that had happened to her that day.