Hey guys! Thank you for all the reviews! I do apologize however for the clumsiness of my Raven-Snake voting epidemic. I made it very unorganized and unclear. But hopefully the future ones will be a lot easier to follow. Anyway, I am sorry to all the snake lovers. One side was going to have to lose. But Harry really has a split personality between Raven and Snake. He's both wise and cunning. He is also hardworking and courageous but I wanted to make a different sort of Harry Potter. The snake house will rise again to its former glory and (spoiler alert) Harry will make friends with a snake or two. The fifth house's mystery shall be uprooted as well. I do hope that you will continue to enjoy the story regardless of your house placement. Thank you for the +30,000 hits you all have given me. Now onto the story!

The Lord and Lady Phoenix: The Stone

Chapter Twelve

The Sorting Part Two

"Ravenclaw!"

The Great Hall stood in deathly silence. An ant could be heard crawling across the polished marble floors. The students, ghost, and staff were all thinking the same thing. The same thoughts revolving around our young Mr. Harry James Potter. Even the Slytherins were shut up and shocked into place.

'A Potter?' They all thought at once. 'Not in Gryffindor?' Some guessed. 'Hmph! Now he'll be even more arrogant than his father.' Guess who that was!

"Thank you for placing me properly." Harry said to Gideon.

"No, thank you Mr. Potter. Thank you for being unbiased. And after all, keeping everyone waiting for seven minutes really messes with them." The old, ragged Sorting Hat laughed back. Harry plucked the ragged, smirking hat off of his unmanageable hair and set it upon the wooden, three legged stool. He stepped away from the gapping mouths of the staff table. He strode to the staring eyes upon the silent faces the student body held and sat down at the Ravenclaw table. He met Ginny's face and they both smiled.

'Bet you a sickle that they'll be gapping for another five minutes.' Harry thought to her. She smirked.

'You are so on. I bet it'll be ten. Hey look at my gits for brothers.' Harry turned and glanced at the Weasley Brothers. Percy sent a frown Harry's way. 'He was probably all ready to shake your hand and everything. Maybe even become your tutor slash mentor.' Ginny laughed out. Harry smirked. Fred and George held big, fat, identical grins on their mischievous, identical faces. He saw Hermione and Neville over at the Lion table giving him big smiles.

'They'll think being an innocent little Raven will be perfect. Who'd expect a smart student to be in league with the twins?' Harry thought.

'Ron's not looking so hot at the moment.' Ron's face blended with his hair. 'How could he possibly expect to be placed into the same house as you now?' Ginny thought again. 'He hasn't got anything but hot air between his ears.' Harry let out a soft chuckle.

One minute passed.

Two minutes passed.

Three minutes passed.

Four minutes passed.

Five minutes passed.

Six minutes passed.

Seven minutes passed.

Eight minutes passed.

Nine minutes passed.

Ten minutes passed.

'Look's like I won Mr. Ravenclaw.' Ginny trilled in laughter.

'Yeah yeah. Looks like everyone's starting to get back to normal.' Ginny looked around and indeed, everyone was slowly beginning to move once more. Albus Dumbledore was the first to speak. He was stuttering for the first time in his life, trying to find the right words.

"Now um…then…Mr. Potter cannot be a Ravenclaw." The Raven table looked up in anger. A Slytherin or two snorted in laughter. "He belongs in Gryffindor." Percy cheered Dumbledore on along with quite a many others including Ron. "There must have been…a…technicality…with…the Sorting Hat. It wouldn't happen again. So Mr. Potter, please come up and be properly sorted into your rightful house." Harry chuckled again and obliged.

"Yes sir." He said as he got up. He walked over to the stool and once again sat and placed the Hat upon his head.

'Lightning can strike twice Mr. Potter. Remember that.' The voice in his ear said gently. It opened its mouth and shouted, "RAVENCLAW!"

"Another technicality. Try it again Harry." Albus boasted proudly. Harry did as asked and for the next few minutes, the chant of Ravens began. Albus was becoming more pale yet commanding each time. Harry saw him even wave his wand under the table to try and bewitch the Hat. Unfortunately for him, he did not know the founders had placed massively complex curses and spells to prevent this. Ginny, the twins, Neville, Tonks, and Hermione all laughed each time the Headmaster's face become impossibly more whiter than his snow colored beard. On the twelfth time Professor McGonagol said annoyed,

"Albus, this is the twelfth time! And as the previous eleven sortings have shown, Harry is to be placed into Ravenclaw. We are only halfway down the list and it will soon be midnight. Can't we just continue on?"

After the thirteenth time, Albus reluctantly proclaimed Harry a Ravenclaw and the Sorting resumed on with Samuel Putton.

Finally Weasley, Ginevra, came up. Annoyed at her birth name, Ginny placed the ragged Hat on her fiery red hair. After about three minutes, the Hat screamed,

"RAVENCLAW!" The house was once again silenced. The first Weasley to be born a girl, was also to be placed into a house outside Gryffindor? Ron, next in line, hadn't even been paying attention. He'd rather been staring hungrily at the empty plates and goblets of pure gold. Ginny happily skipped over to the table and sat down next to Harry.

"Weasley, Ronald." came up next and the moment the hat touched his head it mumbled what sounded something like,

"Uflpuf would suit you quite nicely with your talents."

McGonagall asked hurriedly, "What was that again?" The hat seemed surprised because Ron's face turned to purple in what seemed to be a war against the hat's judgment. The Sorting Hat seemed to sigh and said quietly,

"Gryffindor." Ron proudly walked over to the Gryffindor table. Strangely, the Hall was quiet for some bizarre reason. A reason that couldn't possibly have to do with our favorite couple, right?

The last four students were sorted and Albus came up to his owl shaped podium.

"Before we begin our feast, I have a few words to say." Ron whined extremely loudly. "And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Thank you."

Harry said awkwardly, "Um…is he…um…I don't know…a bit…mad in the head?" Ginny laughed.

"Well…that can happen to you when your over a hundred and fifty." Harry joined in the laughter and the feast began.

After a well eaten feast the clock showed midnight. A few first years were passed out, the side of their head lying in their soup. Albus had given them a few announcements that could have been already guessed by the muggleborns and muggleraised. But the magically raised students showed much confusion as to why the rules were enforced. But the last one was what put Harry off.

"Why would he tell the entire student body to not go into a forbidden corridor? That would only make the students want to find out what's in there." Harry said.

"The muggle raised ones will understand. There is something that people should mess with in there. But the wizarding ones will be over confident , thinking their magic will protect them. That's the way the wizening world works Harry."

"We've got a lot of work to Ginny." He groaned at the magical world's stupidity. The students to soon find their common rooms when Harry overheard a discussion over at the Gryffindor table.

"…Ginny at?" Ron asked. He was oblivious to his brothers' glares.

"You mean…"

"To tell me…"

"and me that you…"

"didn't even have…"

"the common courtesy…"

"to watch your own…"

"sister's sorting?"

"Well yeah. Ginny's obviously a Gryffindor. Too bad Harry's over at the bird brain table. They're going to take away my time with him!" He complained. The twins' glares hardened more.

"Check out…"

"the first years…"

"of those very same birdbrains." Ron looked over and his eyes almost popped out of his skull. He stormed over to Harry and Ginny.

"GINNY! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO OUR FAMILY? YOU HAVE BETRAYED THE NOBLE HOUSE OF GRYFFINDOR FOR A COUPLE OF LOUSY SNAKES?" The Ravenclaws were just about ready to prevent the last Weasley male to ever be sorted, or live to be able to sit on a toilet seat.

"WAIT UNTIL I WRITE TO MUM AND SHE HERES ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE! YOU'VE GONE AND JOINED THE HOUSE THAT PRODUCED THE SECOND MOST WIZARDS IN ALL OF HOGWARTS! YOU'VE RUINED OUR FAMILY'S REPUTATION AS PURE LIGHT WIZARDS! YOUR GOING TO JOIN YOU KNOW WHO! YOU MIGHT EVEN BE GOING TO BECOME THE NEXT DARK LADY!

Ginny shrugged and said, "Congrats on becoming a lion Ronald. But what was that word the Hat said? Could it have been…Puff?" Ron scowled but he had something in between his ears cause he turned around to walk away. But not before saying, "Harry mate. Trust me. That demon is bad news. You should stay far away from her and spend more time with your true house. There was definitely something wrong with the hat if you were placed in the same house as her." He vanished in a sea of students.

(Ravenclaw Common Room)

"Can't believe that…no good…stupid…little…" Ginny spat as she punched the dark blue couch's pillow.

"Ginny, he's a prat. We both know that. He doesn't. Come on now, it's already two in the morning."

"That whole thing was your fault though." She groaned. He chuckled. The hugged each other goodnight and went to bed. Harry climbed the boy's stairs. He found out from a fourth year that the girl's staircase wasn't so keen on letting males up. The red welt in his head proved that when he slid into the wall. Laughing to himself, he entered the First year boy's dormitory. All his bunkmates were passed out across their beds already. Gazing out the window was a familiar white owl with bright, amber eyes. Grinning, he walked over and stroked her feathers.

"Boy, it sure was smart of you finding that disguise spell." The owl hooted and her body seemed to melt. It turned into a black goop which quickly reshaped into a different creature. Standing where the owl was, a beautiful creature stood. It let out a musical trill. Its feathers swaying slightly from the light breeze from out side. The female owl had shed the disguise and turned into its true form. Ardoris stood there, grinning at him, and leapt into the black shine of the new moon. Calling out to Harry, he said,

"Yeah I know I'm awesome!"

A/N: Whoa! Harry was sorted a total of thirteen times cause Albus Dumbledore is flat out insane and can not accept the truth? WOW! And what is with those weird words he says. How much more stuff can I mess up with J. K, Rowling's amazing masterpiece?

This is only the first book! Hedwig is really Ardoris in disguise? Awkward!

And now…The info stuff and Challenges!

Thanks to…

Nightwing 509, harrlovesginny7, Harry and Ginny and Daphne, buddygirl1004, Comet Moon, Floyddickey, mdauben, ProffessorChris, NUDGELOVER, mworth1019, Thawk6, Frost,

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moon of starless night, Mei Fa-chan, Jim Red Hawk, shadeirion, hpgwfan628, Mathew Potter,

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Bragging Rights Go To…

HpGwfan628-for-guessing the spoiler at the top of the chapter. Can you read minds? I already had that idea before you commented!

Challenges

1. These will be the classes Harry goes to in the next chapter. What will happen in…

a. Transfiguration?

b. DADA?

c. Potions? This one will be my favorite to write. You'll have to wait and see why ;)

d. Charms?

2. Animagus form question like in previous chapter.