Chapter 4-Resorting
Waking up with my alarm clock the next morning was tiresome. While I was getting ready, I thought back to how much fun I had the night before.
After I handed the bottles to James and Remus, we left for the dungeons. When we got to the door, I said the password and we entered.
"We should split up. Me and Sirius go for the girls and you and James take the boys," I said to Remus. Taking Sirius's arm, I pulled him towards the stairs on the girl's side of the common room.
Calling back over my shoulder, I said,"Remember, just 1 drop on each person. Doesn't matter where!" Dragging Sirius up the stairs, I pulled him into one of the rooms.
"We'll do each room one at a time, but split the people, alright?" I asked. Nodding, he went to the first bed and put a small drop on their hand. After watching the skin color change, I turned and once I saw who was on the bed, grinned evilly. Narcissa Black was going to defiantly wake up with a surprise and a screaming Bellatrix, seeing as she was in the bed next to hers.
Quickly and quietly, Sirius and I finished that room and the rest of them. We ran down the stairs to see Remus and James running down the other set of stairs. Well, Remus was running down, James was sliding on the banister.
"You guys finish?" Sirius asked. Remus nodded and we exited the common room quickly before anybody could wake up and see us.
On our way back, I said,"Hey guys?"
"Yeah?"
"Just to let you know, you should probably not talk to me tomorrow until dinner time. At dinner, I'm getting resorted. You can say you were with me tonight, but just please say the Hogwarts Phantom instead of my name. I don't want anyone to know beforehand, okay?"
When they nodded their heads, I sighed in relief. I just hope they keep the promise, I thought.
Smiling, I ran down the stairs for my run. A half hour later, I came back to see the Marauders just waking up and coming down the stairs. Grinning at them, I changed to the same appearance as the one I had yesterday and waved slightly at them. Seeing them wave back, I walked through the Portrait Hole toward the Great Hall for breakfast.
Taking a seat on the end toward the teacher's table, I started piling eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, toast and syrup on my plate. Eating quickly, I pulled out my essay for transfiguration. Knowing I would get points docked off because of it, I wrote in big letters over the page stating: SEE PAGE 131. I had to go back in my book to see if the theory of turning animals into snuff boxes or something along those lines was on it. Seeing that I was right, I chuckled, put my essay back in my bag, and looked back up.
More people were in the room and a social buzz was heard throughout the room. Again, almost none of the Slytherins' were in the room yet. The few that were, were getting pointed at and whispered about.
As I looked up at the clock, I saw that classes started in about 15 minutes. I looked around the room to see if there was possibly someone who I might know. As my gaze passed the doors, I just managed to catch a glimpse of the Slytherins'. They were desperately trying to hide what color they were. As I watched, they figured out that it wouldn't come out and just got fed up waiting. They started out walking in one by one, but chickened out and rushed to their seats as a group.
The chatter died down like yesterday and laughter could be heard throughout the room. The loudest was obviously coming from the Marauders. Professor Dumbledore didn't know I had a hand in this prank, so I didn't get a detention.
Soon the bell rang signaling classes were starting. The day passed by fairly quickly with only a minor blow up between Lily and James in potions, when he tried to ask her out again.
Lunch came and went along with afternoon classes. Dinner was approaching quickly and I still hadn't been called up to Dumbledore's office. Since transfiguration was my last class before dinner, McGonagall held me after class.
"Miss Calecto, Professor Dumbledore would like to talk to you in his office as soon as possible. I believe it's about the sorting tonight," she said.
Thanking her, I quickly made my way up to Dumbledore's office. Not even needing the password, the gargoyle jumped aside for me.
Quickly knocking on the door, I waited.
A soft "Come in" was heard.
Opening the door slowly, I peered around the door to see if it was just us in the room. Relaxing when I saw it was, I opened the door the rest of the way and walked to the chair to sit.
"Are you sure you want to do this Miss Calecto?"
"I'm sure."
"Alright. I'll introduce you as someone who had parents who wanted you to be resorted. Since they're both on the board of governors, I could say that they made me do it. How does that sound to you?" Dumbledore asked.
"Perfect. You could also say that they would withdraw me from the school if you didn't make me resorted," I added.
"Alright." He looked at his weird stop watch/timer thingy and had a mildly shocked look on his face. Rising, he beckoned me down the stairs. "Dinner is waiting on us apparently. You'll wait outside the Great Hall until I call you in."
"Yes Professor."
Walking in silence the rest of the way, I looked at the portraits that we passed.
Soon we mad it to the doors. Standing off to the side a little bit, I waited until Dumbledore walked in. I could hear the chatter die down as he stood at the front of the hall with the sorting hat and stool.
"Before we begin dinner, I would like to have a student be resorted on parent request. Miss Kadashia Calecto," Dumbledore announced.
Hearing my name, I quickly changed my appearance to my natural-born one. The only thing I didn't change were my eyes. Normally they would be white with black where the white was supposed to be. Walking through, I made a last-minute change to them to be my natural eyes. Proudly, I held my head up, squared my shoulder and had a look of indifference on my face.
Making my way rather quickly to the stool, I sat delicately on it and Dumbledore put the hat on my head. It didn't slide over my eyes as much as it did when I was a first year.
Right when it touched my head, it opened its mouth and shouted, "Hogwarts' Phantom". I could feel it shifting through my head before deciding. 7 minutes passed before it finally make its decision. Opening its mouth for another time it shouted for everyone to hear,"Gryffindor!"
Relieved, I made my way over to my usual spot and started eating. Finishing quickly, I made my way to the common room to sleep the night through for once. I made a mental note to sit with the Marauders tomorrow before drifting off to sleep.