Dumbledore stood back, and Len pulled from her pocket a staff which enlarged itself as the students began to file into the Entrance hall. With a resounding thud, Len brought the staff down against the stone flagons that made up the floor, and stood there for a moment, before announcing, "There is a table, wooden about two meters or so in front of me, by the banner, I'd say Ravenclaw. To the right of that is the Huffelpuff, about three meters separating them. To the left of Ravenclaw is Slytherin, and to the right of Huffelpuff is Gryffindor. About five meters off from the other end of the Ravenclaw table is a staircase with five, narrow, but broad steps leading up to what I would say is the staff table. At the table, from the far left, is a man, a woman, another woman, an empty seat, a man, the high seat in the middle is empty, a woman, a man, a man, a woman, and an empty seat. There are candles floating, they're white. Suits of armor line the hall, and a ghost, no, make that two just floated in from the wall behind us."

Shrinking the staff and replacing it in her pocket, Len turned to Dumbledore as the throng of students surged in around them. The old man was shocked, but did well hiding it. "Very well, let's get you sorted then," Dumbledore led Len to the front, and as McGonagal led the first years in with the Hat, he brought her up next to his chair.

When the Hat began to speak, Len knelt next to Dumbledore's chair, between him and the man she had informed Dumbledore sat there.

As this year, merry and fun begins

Among ourselves we must look

To see Death' s Angel bring us closer

And unite us, our dear Hogwarts

As the final dawn breaks, we must be one

Or we shall fall to the rise of a new power

Forget old grudges

Hold none accountable for the past

Five must be one, and all must be friends

Brothers and sisters in battle,

So unite Hogwarts

Be one school

Not four houses

Not four founders

Be one Hogwarts, and Fight.

The founders four divided and fell

Those alone fell to the tide of many

Those given power in fear will win

Unless those rooted in love are watered

Be one

As one

Forever one

And Rise.

The conclusion of the recitation was met with silence. That Hat had always sung and now it simply spoke a bunch of garbled nonsense? Where was the advice? One pair of hands clapped, it was Len's. Numbly, the rest of the Hall followed suit, and the Sorting began with Dumbledore, who stood and announced, "This is Lennae Faellae, and she will be joining our seventh years." The headmaster motioned for the man next to him, Severus Snape, to bring Len to the Hat. Snape raised an eyebrow, but escorted her anyway.

After being placed on Len's head, the Hat simply sat there, for nearly ten minutes before yelling, "Black!" Several jaws dropped, mostly at the staff table, though a few Ravenclaws, a Slytherin or three and Hermione also knew the implications, knowing Hogwarts: A History, cover to cover.

Emotionlessly, though she also knew what her house meant, Len turned to Snape, "So who do you want me to share with Slytherin, or Gryffindor?"

Rising, Dumbledore told the entire room, "Miss. Faellae will be sharing everything with the Slytherins, though she is, in fact, in a house of her own." At a motion from Dumbledore, the Sorting continued as Len was led to the Slytherin table by Snape.

At the table, Snape pointed, "Sit here, and don't make trouble."

Len raised an eyebrow. "This hall is on the larger side, where's 'here' ?"

Snape raised an eyebrow this time, "I indicated which seat? Are you blind, or just impudent?"

"Blind, actually. A small accident a number of years back rendered my eyes useless. Would you mind giving me more specific directions, sir?" Len replied bluntly.

As the clues clicked, Snape placed a hand on Len's arm and gently pushed her forward until she was touching the back of a chair. "That is an empty place. The boy to your right is Draco Malfoy, the girl to your left Daphne Greengrass. They are going to help you find your way about the school, as they are in your year."

Len sat, and folded her arms over her abdomen as the Sorting wound down. When the food appeared, so did a girl, who had apparently been sitting where Len was, since she tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for Len to move. "Can I help you? I'm blind, and I do believe you can find another seat more easily than I can." Len snapped. She didn't like crowded conditions, and was itching to slip away to the dungeons. Len had lived in Hogwarts before, and knew the castle well, yet she couldn't draw too much suspicion to herself now. Word had probably reached the Gryffindor table that she was blind, and as she thought about it, Len became more irritated, because Harry, Ron, and Hermione would know that she didn't just have really awful sight.

Pansy Parkinson, who had been sitting next to Malfoy, drew a shocked breath, and evicted the girl on the other side of the blond to cover herself. To avoid the high-pitched, pug-faced girl now on his right, Malfoy turned to Len, and noticed she hadn't taken anything to eat. Then, he remembered that she was blind, and he asked, "Would you like something to eat? I'm Draco Malfoy, by the way." Looking her up and down, he saw that Len was actually very hot, and he decided that she might be worth a week as his girlfriend.

Len frowned, "No, thanks, I really just want to leave. I'm Lennae Faellae. That girl, on your other side, who is she?"

"Are you sure? You can't have eaten much on the train. And that's Pansy Parkinson, why?" Malfoy responded evenly.

With a smirk, Len shook her head, and said, "Yeah I'm sure. Pansy, hmm? No offense or anything, but she reeks of chemicals. I'm just going to go down to the dungeons. Do you know the password for the commons, or do I have to cheat?"

Surprised, but Malfoy mask coldly in place, the blond answered, "How would you know how to get down there? You can't see, and you've just come here."

Standing, Len muttered, "Cheating it is. Do me a favor, Draco Malfoy? You and Daphne Greengrass both, actually. Don't help me around the school."

Len left and shocked everyone who had heard that she was blind, especially Malfoy and Snape. At the blank wall to the Slytherin common room, Len hissed in Parseltounge, "Open," and she slipped inside.

Rather than go to the girl's dormitory, where she knew her empty trunk lay, Len walked to the portrait of Salazar Slytherin, placed a hand on it, and hissed again, "Open," before walking through. Inside, Len set the wards on the room to react to only her, rather than by password and override in Parseltounge, like the rest of the dorms. Inside the room, Len had access to the entire castle, because it was Salazar Slytherin's old quarters. The rooms connected to every part of the grounds, and had a full 3D map of the entire area, which changed to account for the changes that the land underwent. Len had many of her own things in the rooms, in addition to what the founders had left behind for whomever found them. Having always like Slytherin best, Len had stayed in his quarters whenever it was necessary for her to spend prolonged time in Hogwarts.

Soon after Len had re-settled everything, the Slytherins filed in, followed by Snape, who took attendance, starting with the first years, going in alphbetical order, and working his way through the years up to seventh, where, when he called, "Faellae, Lennae" there was no answer.