Chapter Two: The Sorting
"Ouch! Al! Watch where you swing that thing!"
"Sorry Rose. James! Where are you going?"
"Finding a compartment stupid!"
"Well we wouldn't have to find one if you'd just kept your hands to yourself!"
"Shut up Rose! Ah here's one"
The door swung open and Scorpius leapt to his feet.
Standing in the hall were two boys and a girl.
The two boys had jet-black hair and were obviously brothers, but the older one had brown eyes while the younger one has piercing green ones.
The girl had wavy red hair and brown eyes.
They were all carrying luggage and owls and all three of them had their mouths wide open at the site of Scorpius.
Suddenly Scorpius felt very self-conscious. Did he have chocolate on his face? Wait no. He hadn't even eaten the chocolate yet!
Then what were they staring at?
The boy with the green eyes recovered first,
"Hi! The other compartments are full. Can we come in here?" he said.
"Sure" mumbled Scorpius.
He moved away so they could get in and then sat down while they put away their luggage. He noticed that all over them had owls.
They sat down. The older boy had now adopted a glare on his face while the green-eyed boy and the girl were looking at him curiously.
Scorpius felt like he should know them from somewhere.
"I'm Scorpius Malfoy. Nice to meet you."
He extended his hand.
The green-eyed boy took it.
"I'm Albus Potter. This is my brother James Potter and my cousin Rose Weasley"
Potter and Weasley. Ah that's where he knew them.
Rose smiled and said "Nice to meet you Scorp"
James just grunted.
Scorp?
He opened his mouth to say No, my name is Scorpius when Albus interrupted him.
"So Scorp! Which house do you think you'd be in?"
Scorpius shook his head.
He didn't know which house he's be in but someone else did.
"He'll be in Slytherin like all the other Malfoys," said James.
He said Slytherin and Malfoy in the same bitter tone.
"Well yes. I-I guess so. But I don't really want to be in Sl-Slytherin" stuttered Scorpius.
Albus smiled, "Don't worry Scorp! My dad says that the sorting hat listens to what you want! You just have to clearly ask what you want! Just like with the Room of Requir- OUCH!"
Albus grabbed his foot yelping, "What did you do that for?" he yelled at his brother.
James glared at him, "Don't tell him about that room! Don't even talk to him!"
"I'll talk to whoever I want!" retorted Albus.
"Fine" sneered James as he grabbed his trunk "Fine have fun with your Death Eater friend. I'm sure you'll bother fit in well in Slytherin!"
And with that he stormed out of the compartment.
Albus turned back to Scorpius, "I'm sorry about my brother. He's a bit of a dick sometimes."
"Don't worry about it" said Scorpius.
He lay down and turned his back to them.
"I'm used to it."
Albus, Rose and Scorpius stepped out of the train. They had left their trunks on the train along with their owls and Scorpius felt odd without Grin.
They gazed with wonder at Hogwarts Castle. It was huge and beautiful. In fact it was almost terrifying
Before Scorpius could stop him self he wondered aloud, "How do they stop muggles from seeing this place?"
Rose turned to him smiling, "There are charms on it to make it seem like a wrecked castle. There are even signs saying DO NOT ENTER. I read about it in Hogwarts; A History."
"Yeah but teenage muggles are risk takers right? Then what stops them from going in any way?" asked Albus.
Rose frowned, "I don't know. We'll ask a teacher later. Oh look! There's Hagrid!"
Rose waved to the half giant where he was collecting first years.
Scorpius stumbled back.
The man she called Hagrid was huge! He has a greying beard and booming voice,
"Rose! Al! Over 'ere! Can ya see any other first years?"
They walked over to Hagrid and Scorpius followed.
"Alright. Everyone 'ere?" asked Hagrid
He counted heads, "Yep. Let's go, single file towards the lake. Come on!"
Scorpius stumbled towards the lake.
They were placed in boats and once again Scorpius was with Rose and Albus.
The boats took them across and within what seem like seconds they were in front of the doors to the Great Hall.
Professor Slughorn ordered them into alphabetical order.
Scorpius was finally separated from Albus and Rose, but he soon realised that wasn't actually a good thing.
His new neighbours were crueller and seemed to have no problem with shoving Scorpius and muttering "Death Eater" under their breaths.
"Everyone ready?" asked Professor Slughorn. "Alright then. Let's go!"
And with that he opened the doors to the Great Hall.
The frightened first years now had every student and teacher's attention on them.
Scorpius thought his chest was going to rip with the strain from his heart.
They lined up in front of the stage.
In the middle was a mouldy old hat.
Every student seemed focused on it and Scorpius was expecting it when the hat began to sing it's yearly song.
When it was overProfessor Slughorn called out the names of the first years.
"Albone, Julia!"
The frightened little girl stepped up to the stool.
The sorting hat was placed on her head.
And then,
RAVENCLAW!
The Ravenclaw table cheered while the other tabled clapped politely.
Scorpius sighed.
That seemed easy enough.
Albus's words came flooding back to him,
"You just need to ask clearly"
Yes. That's what he would do. He would ask to be in Slytherin.
Scorpius smiled to himself.
The plan was fool proof.
Just ask.
"Malfoy, Scorpius!"
The hall suddenly became very quiet as Scorpius walked up to the stool.
He sat down and saw that only the Slytherin table was smiling, ready to welcome another Malfoy.
He placed the hat on his head and muttered,
"Slytherin. Slytherin"
Scorpius didn't know what to expect. He was talking to a hat.
But he had been thinking that the hat would ask him why or tell him to tell it how to do its job.
What he got was much different.
"I'm sorry"
GRYFFINDOR!
Scorpius stiffened.
No. No way, He could not be in Gryffindor!
His dad would kill him.
The hall was silent. Scorpius took off the hat and walked towards the Gryffindor table.
Nobody clapped.
He sat down at the very end closest to the door and the other students moved away from him.
The sorting continued.
They passed N and O and went onto to P.
"Potter, Albus!"
The whole room clapped.
Of course they would. It was Albus Potter.
Son of the Chosen One.
No sooner had the hat touched his head it yelled
GRYFFINDOR!
The Gryffindor table erupted as Albus came down. Many people moved to make room but Albus spotted Scorpius and ran over to him beaming.
Scorpius despite himself smiled back.
Albus slid into the seat next to him,
"Wow. That was terrifying!"
Scorpius nodded in agreement.
A girl who had been previously sorted slid over to them.
She had dirty blonde hair and misty blue eyes.
"Hey Albus." She said
"Hi Evanna" said Albus, he looked at Scorpius, "Scorp this is Evanna Longbottom. Evanna this is Scorp Malfoy. Evanna's parents Nevil and Luna are friends with my parents."
Evanna hummed in agreement.
"Is that your dad?" ask Scorpius, pointing one of the teachers at the high table.
Evanna nodded, "Oh look. Lyn is up."
Albus and Scorpius turned to see a brown hair boy get up on the stool.
"Who's that?" asked Scorpius.
"Seamus Thomas. His parents are friends-"
"Of your parents" finished Scorpius.
Seamus was place in Gryffindor and she also joined the boys.
Finally it was Rose's turn.
She got to the stool and raised the sorting hat.
It didn't even touch her head before it yelled out
GRYFFINDOR!
Rose ran down and sat next to Seamus.
The hall was silenced when the Headmistress stood up.
Professor McGonagall voice echo across the all,
"Now that that is over may I welcome you to another year at Hogwarts Castle. I hope you all have a delightful year. Now Let us Feast!"
The tables were suddenly covered in food.
The students all tucked in and the chattering began.
Albus, Seamus and Scorp –who had now realised that the nickname was going to stick and there was nothing he could do about it- entered a heated conversation about last year's Quidditch World Cup until it was time for bed.
They followed the prefects up to the Gryffindor common room and then up into the boy's dormitory. Besides Alubs, Scorp and Seamus there was two other boys who none of them knew.
A Muggle born called Rob Leak, who was putting up non moving pictures of soccer, and a half blood Asian looking boy called Josh Hold, who immediately feel on his bed and slept.
The four remaining boys changed into their pyjamas and sat on the floor swapping cards and wondering what tomorrow would bring.
A/N:
Hey again.
I'm very sorry for not doing the sorting hat song but I'm not very good with making up songs :(
Any way as you can tell, Evanna is the daughter of Luna Lovergood and Nevil Longbottom. I don't care if J.K Rowling said that they weren't together I stand by my belief!
Also Seamus is Dean Thomas's son and was named after his best friend Seamus Finnigan.
I will reveal who Josh Hold's magical parent is but I think you can all guess already.
Next Chapter: First Classes