The feast had finished. Everyone had eaten as much as they could. Everyone except Harry. All he had eaten was a cold turkey sandwich. The students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were starting to file out of the hall. Some Hogwarts students were too. Then
``Potter. A word if you don't mind. `` Professor McGonagall was stood behind him. ``Professor Snape will show you the way to the common room and he will also show you to your dorm. I shall arrange for your trunk to be sent over. `` She was about to say more but Harry was bursting with questions ``Professor, why have I been resorted? The hat must have been tampered with! Will I have to stay in Slytherin forever? `` He was about to ask more but she interrupted him. ``Those, Potter, are questions I cannot answer. But I am sure the hat has not been tampered with, however I will ask Professor Moody to check in case. `` Harry was about to argue but she stared again ``Just do it Potter. The hat has never been wrong. `` And gave him a cold glare.
Harry was now following Professor Snape down the corridor to the Slytherin common room. He did, of course, know where it is but it was best if Snape didn't know that and it was best if it stayed that way. The common room was long, narrow and looked like it could be underground. Green lamps hung from the ceiling and a fire crackled in a carved fireplace.
``You will be in a dorm with Malfoy. `` Harry had nearly forgotten Snape was there, as he blended into the darkness perfectly with his black, bat like robes. The password to get in had been 'Pureblood'. They obviously didn't change their passwords regularly as it had been the same when Harry and Ron had used Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Crabbe and Goyle so that they could find out if Malfoy was the heir of Slytherin. But that didn't matter now. Share a room with Draco, the one person he hated more than Dudley?
The dorm was up a narrow staircase. It was set out exactly the same as the Gryffindoor dorms, just without windows. The walls were made of rough stone and the same green lamps hung from the ceiling.
Harry nearly jumped as he heard a voice coming from the bed to his left. Then he recognised it as Draco Malfoy's drawl.
``So Potter, the new Slytherin. You don't deserve to be here. Why don't you just go back to your, mudblood loving house? Oh yeah, I forgot, they abandoned you. It's just a pity they sent you here. `` Anger was now bubbling up inside Harry.
``Look. I didn't choose this. And there is nothing wrong with muggle-borns. My mother was one an-`` Draco interrupted him `` A lot of good it did her didn't it? I just hope the same happens to Granger! ``