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REVIEW: Hermione and Ron's children: Rose and Hugo | Bill and Fleur's: Louis, Victoire, and Dominique | George and Angelina's: Fred II and Roxanne | Harry and Ginny: Albus Severus, James Sirius, and Lily Luna | Luna Lovegood and Scamander's children: Lorcan and Lysander | Neville and Hannah's: Alice (non-canon)

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CHAPTER IV: The Monkey is Sorted with Eagles

HOGWARTS

When they reached the castle, they were asked to wait in a small chamber not too far from the great hall. It was so the upperclassmen could make themselves comfortable before their entrance. That and to make the entrance 'grand'. After all, it had to be memorable.

In the corridor outside, the amicable first year students introduced themselves to the others and began the process of making new friends. But it was only the bravest ones whose parents had a hand in the battle of Hogwarts who actually had the guts to approach the famous group that was practically segregated from everyone else.

"Hello." A pretty girl of Asian descent greeted them from behind. Al and Alice blushed in admiration. The girl was very pretty and had the features of a Chinese teenager except for her skin. She didn't have the stereotypical Eastern Asian porcelain skin; hers was instead fair with a nice shade of peach.

She lifted her hand in gesture of introduction. Rose smiled at her, while the twins blinked and then whispered to each other. They were having a bet on who the girl's parent was. Al and Alice, on one side though, were still blushing.

"Rose Weasley."

"Heart Evangelista, I'm Cho Chang's daughter." She said getting 'Oh's from most the group, and a huge grin from a Lysander. Al saw few sickles passed between the twins from the corner of his eyes, and Lorcan muttering something in disappointment. He sighed, they are too much like James and Fred when it came to gambling.

Al then shifted his gaze at the newcomer and stared at her with new found admiration. She was just really good-looking, on par with his part-Veela cousins. They heard about Cho Chang from their parents, but all they really knew about her was that she was pretty and that she married a Muggle.

"Lorcan and Lysander Scamander." He heard the two state simultaneously, pulling him out of his infatuated trance.

"Nice to meet you." She said to the twins, who were glad to find a new acquaintance. Al decided to introduce himself next… but sadly nothing came. It was like his words abandoned his lips and now he just looked really, really, stupid.

He was lucky to have such an observant cousin.

"This is Albus Potter and this is Alice Longbottom." Rose introduced the two and stepped back so that the newcomer could make her introduction properly.

Rose watched them for a moment, before separating herself from her friends by taking a few steps backwards. Perhaps unconsciously, she found herself looking around... looking for something.

And there he was: talking with two taller boys. He was wearing that haughty expression he always had, but Rose never really found herself repelled by it. At least he wasn't glaring at her now.

Don't get her wrong. She'd be more than glad to engage in a glaring contest with him. She liked a challenge, and maintaining her cool under those stormy ash-colored eyes of his presented that. It was just that she had no idea why he was glaring for—even when she had always known the fact that he was annoyed with her.

She stared at him for a few more seconds but her attention was caught by Lorcan asking her a question. He just turned around so he didn't notice where Rose was looking.

"Where do you think you'll be sorted, Rose?" The sorting was apparently their topic during Rose's absence.

"Of course she'd be a Gryffindor." Alice stated. Lysander pouted.

"But she's so smart she had to be Ravenclaw. Aunt Hermione was almost sorted there, too."

"Almost…" Al muttered then he recalled his father was also almost sorted into Slytherin…

"Your father was almost sorted into Slytherin." Lysander countered as if repeating his thoughts. To his chagrin, it caused him to pale and sweat.

"What's so bad about Slytherin, anyway?" Rose asked.

The redhead knew about the house's history but like Hermione, she simply didn't see the house as truly bad in itself. It's just that ambition and slyness are some of the qualities you need to succeed in doing bad things, but the reverse usually wasn't true. She read about 'self-fulfilling prophecies' in some muggle psychology book, too.

Al gaped at her. Didn't she know about all the bad things all those villains had done? "You know about the—"

"Yes, I do know the history Albus. Severus Snape, your namesake, was a man who protected and saved your father, did he not?"

"I guess…" He muttered, recalling what his father said to him before they separated. "But would you be alright if you were sorted there?"

"I don't see myself as a Slytherin, frankly…" Rose declared as she touched her chin. "But I am quite ambitious, competitive, resourceful – and you have to admit, I am a good leader…" She muttered half-jokingly. What she said were true, though, to some degree. She was nicknamed a Monkey, too. Even if there was no really good reason for being called that, monkeys were generally associated with slyness and cunning ability…

"I wonder…" She thought out loud. Lorcan's eyes widened slightly.

"Rose! Don't make jokes like that!"

"By some chance, am I power-hungry…?" She asked so innocently that it was almost cute.

"What? It can be true for all we know…" Al smiled at them, before shrugging. "Nah… you're not power-hungry… for the most part, anyway." He said and Rose chuckled. She noticed that Heart hadn't talked since the topic began. So Rose decided on pulling her in. Her light colored eyes met her dark ones, and she smiled.

"What about you, Heart?"

"Probably Ravenclaw, like mother..."

"You can be Hufflepuff." Al stated without thinking, but then involuntarily blushed afterwards. Rose didn't know what was happening with her cousin and she was intrigued… very intrigued.

"Why do you say so, Al?"

"B-Because… she l-looks… s-sweet…?" He muttered incoherently getting Rose to tilt her head in wonder. She looked at the twins, who just raised their shoulders in equal obliviousness. Then they immediately turned their heads to Alice, who giggled out-of-nowhere.

"Alice?"

"Oh no… ignore me." She replied waving her hand to shoo their attention away. The three—who were young and naturally oblivious—looked at each other in comprehension.

'She bloody knows something!'

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Several minutes later, a professor arrived. It was Neville Longbottom, Alice's father. He explained what would happen once they entered and what the sorting would mean to them. Their houses would be like their family during their stay in Hogwarts, he said, and most of their free time would also be spent with them.

Even knowing this, it made the kids want to pray to be sorted in the same house as their friends.

The freshmen entered the great hall in two organized lines. The headmistress Minerva McGonagall stood in front of them and announced the students' entrances.

Mcgonagall sighed internally; she was supposed to retire the previous year. If only that premonition (courtesy of Trelawney) didn't happen, she wouldn't be extending her term for a decade more or so. She knew she deserved to be relaxing in her house right now.

The sorting hat begun singing its song, and then afterwards the students were 'analyzed' one-by-one.

A few students came by and almost equally distributed among the three houses. There had yet to be a Ravenclaw.

Then Albus Severus was called and the originally noisy hall immediately became quiet.

"Hmm… A Potter-Weasley mix… interesting…" hummed the dark-colored hat. "Like your father I'm rather vent on putting you in Slytherin… You're named after one of them, anyway… Hmm…"

Al, under him, was blinking profusely in nervousness. He wasn't saying anything because he was replaying what his father (and Rose) said about 'Slytherin being not so bad' over and over again in his head. Lorcan stifled a chuckle since he just knew that hat was teasing the poor boy.

'For such an old timer, he is so mature.' He mused satirically, and then laughed out loud upon hearing the announcement... and the sight of Albus' reaction.

"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted, getting Albus to almost faint in relief. Rose also felt herself chuckle at Lorcan's laugh.

"What's so funny Red-head?" She heard from behind. She heard a momentary pause before turning around since the familiar voice added, "…and guy who seemed to have an eternal cold."

Under normal circumstances she would not feel offended, but the irritated mocking tone in his voice—as well as the snickers that followed, made sure she felt otherwise.

"You won't get it Banana-head. You're just not gifted with a sense-of-humor." She retorted before facing up front again, and ignoring the blonde's rants. She felt Lorcan questioning stare beside her, but her attention was instead caught by another one of her friends getting called upfront.

"Heart Evangelista, Ravenclaw!"

The twins smiled at that. At least we have company." Lorcan whispered, and then added an afterthought before he was called. "But our stay would be so much nicer if you join us in Ravenclaw, Rose."

She just smiled at him, not knowing what to say. But she heard a scoff from behind that made sure that smile disintegrates.

"What the bloody hell is your problem?" She vehemently whispered looking back.

"Your mess of a hair is blocking my view, Weas—Redhead."

"Deal with it." She replied irritably without looking at him again. She ignored the additional irritation she heard when he (almost) spoke of her last name, which he probably just found out during the trip, and just shrugged the thoughts away.

That was, until it was his turn.

"Scorpius Malfoy." Professor Longbottom announced getting her to blink. 'Malfoy…? Where have I heard of that before—'

Her eyes widened at the recollection of a few readings she had before. The Malfoys worked for the Dark Lord, but they betrayed him in the end so Rose really didn't have anything against them. It's just that many critics—and her own father—believed that they just did that since they were on the losing side. They went to the side that would win, like the stereotypical Slytherins that they were.

In any case, Rose stared at Scorpius like he just ate a frog (the real one). So that was why her father looked at that family that way, she mused. She really just thought they were just... normal... rivals.

She found herself watching her 'rival' blankly as he was studied by the odd hat. "Hmm… You're not as easy as your predecessors," The hat paused for a very uncomfortable second. Rose could swear the hat shrugged. "But nevertheless—SLYTHERIN!" And so another round of claps from were heard. No one was really surprised, but she was still in a daze.

"Rose Weasley!" Longbottom then called getting her to flinch slightly. It took her a second before she could compose herself and walk to the front.

When she felt the hat on her head, she immediately felt nervous. Her father would not want her in Slytherin—especially with his eternal rival's son. So if anything, she couldn't be sorted there.

"How interesting… I can put you anywhere and you'd do well. Gifted. And…" He muttered strongly shifting positions making her uncomfortable. Then he stopped moving.

"Something in your Granger blood that actually reminded me more of Harry Potter's sorting than his own son..." He whispered getting her to wince. She was half-expecting she'd be sorted to Slytherin when—

"RAVENCLAW!" He shouted without saying anything else. He remained silent after that, and would remain so until the next kid…

…leaving a somewhat befuddled Rose to walk silently to her new family.

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END OF CHAPTER IV

Coming Soon:
CHAPTER V: Through a Banana's eyes
Really, what goes inside that shiny yellow head?

A/N: Heart Evangelista is a real person btw (I think she auditioned for Cho Chang's role before). Just imagine her in her younger days, and there you have it! hahah

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