Advance Arrangement
by Teddylonglong

All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story. I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.


A few weeks later, Harry, Bobby and Angelica were sitting in front of the screen observing the Sorting ceremony that was just taking place at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. They observed how the Hat sorted students into their respective houses for a while.

"Ah, when are the twins going to be sorted?" Angelica sounded impatient, causing Harry to inwardly grin.

"As their surname is Weasley, they'll be the last students to be sorted," their mother replied in a soft voice.

When only the twins remained standing in front of the high table, their Granny Minerva, who looked like a very strict professor that evening, called out, "Weasley, Fred."

The siblings observed, laughing, how the twins made their way to the Sorting Hat together. Ignoring the frown that appeared on Granny Minerva's face, they collectively waved their hands towards the stool, before they sat down next to each other on the now enlarged seat.

"Mister George Weasley, it is not your turn yet. We do not sort students together," the headmaster spoke up, only to be ignored by everyone.

Harry recognised a tiny smile play on Granny Minerva's lips, while their Uncle Severus quirked an eyebrow in obvious amusement.

To his surprise, the Sorting Hat seemed to have no problem sorting the twins together and suddenly shouted, "Slytherin and Slytherin."

Huge applause from all over the Great Hall followed the twins towards the Slytherin table.

"Cool," Bobby commented, causing Harry to nod, eagerly.

"Tori and I are going to let ourselves be sorted into Slytherin, too."

Harry and Bobby stared at Angelica in surprise. "You can't choose your house," Bobby then said exactly what Harry was thinking.

"I will ask Sparkle how to bribe the Sorting Hat then. My godfather is the head of Slytherin after all."

"Merlin…"

"… will you please teach us…"

"… how to charm the stool like that…"

"… so we can let the Hat sort us together, too?"

Merlin smirked. "Sure. Although I didn't teach the Weasley twins. I suspect that it was your mother."

Their mother smiled. "I'll teach you, before you'll go to Hogwarts in two years' time."

HP

When Harry and Bobby had feared that classes would become boring without the Weasley twins present at the school, they were completely mistaken.

Not only did Tobi, the yeti, who worked with the Unspeakables, teach them in Concealment Magic from that time onwards, but Merlin had also hired Nicholas Flamel, a six-hundred-year-old wizard to teach them Alchemy for the remaining two years of their primary school. In addition, they had classes in Laser Magic with Professor Ito.

"As you know, the Selective Academy of Magical Science will only be a primary school until Angelica and her classmates are ready to head to Hogwarts," Merlin informed them one evening towards the end of the school year. "So, it's only three more years. Perhaps, we should slowly begin to watch the screen for promising candidates. They should have completed their NEWTs or something similar. Fortunately, we already have enough competent professors."

"Is that why Dennis, Tim and Nancy joined Tori and me in our class?" Angelica asked, wide-eyed. "So, Tori and I won't feel lonely, when the twins and their friends go to Hogwarts next year?"

"That's about it." Merlin smiled at his many times great granddaughter.

"Will Blub, Jane, Kengo, Nina and Toni…"

"… be able to attend Hogwarts together with us…"

"… or are only humans allowed…"

"… to study at Hogwarts?"

The adults let out a collective sigh.

"Let's invite Minerva and Severus again over Christmas and discuss the matter with them." The twins cast Lily a hopeful look, as she continued, "If anyone will be able to convince the headmaster to allow non-human children into the school, it'll be them."

"Perhaps, you should ask the children and their parents if they even wish to attend Hogwarts, before driving Minerva and Snape nuts?" James cast Merlin a questioning look.

"I am sure that they will want to attend school together with their classmates." Remus' voice was soft but firm.

"Well, you know them best," James relented. "I don't think that the professors will be able to decide pro or contra though. It's probably a decision of the school board and in extension the Wizengamot."

Sirius nodded. "The school board I suppose."

"Harry?" Bobby frowned. "Isn't Draco's daddy on the school board?"

Harry nodded. "Yes, I think so. He's even the boss of them…"

"… Let's speak with him tomorrow…"

"… Perhaps, he can convince his daddy…"

"… to let them attend school with us."

HP

Two weeks later, while the children were attending their morning classes at the primary school, Lily, Claire and Santa sat in front of the screen and observed the meeting of the school board.

Lucius Malfoy, as the chairman, addressed the other members. "My son Draco has been attending the Selective Academy of Magical Science since the age of three. He is ten now, and thus, he and his classmates are going to attend Hogwarts in fifteen months' time."

"Lord Malfoy, wait. Isn't that the school, of which the Great Merlin is the headmaster? An absolute elite school, which is situated on the North Pole of all places."

Malfoy smirked. "Yes, Lady Marchbanks. Now, apparently, they have a yeti, two goblins and two elves as classmates and have become friends with them. They would like to have them attend Hogwarts together with them. The Potter twins are in Draco's class and good friends with him, too."

"Preposterous!" a very old wizard, whom Lily did not know, roared. "We won't have beasts and creatures at the school except for in Care of Magical Creatures."

To Lily's relief, the old wizard's opinion was quickly overturned by the voices of the other eleven members, and the school board discussed the matter for a while, before it was decided to sanction up to five non-human students per year.

"Dumbledore won't like it I suppose," Marchbanks whispered to Malfoy, once everyone else had left after the meeting.

Malfoy smirked. "Well, he won't have any say in it, and I'm going to go and brighten his day with the information right away."

With that, he took his leave, and Santa quickly switched the screen to display the headmaster's office at Hogwarts.

tbc...

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