Chapter 10 The Sorting

*No pov*

"Now, form a line we are now ready to receive you in the great hall." the professors informed them students.

It had started to rain and thunder meanwhile as the freshmen walk again across the entrance hall hear the rain fall.

Two huge double doors open as the students and McGonagall approach. The deputy director leads the children between the four almost endlessly long tables filled with curious students.

Each house had a table when entering the hall was on the far left Slytherin next to on the right it's the Gryffindor table, third is Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff is on the far right.

The first graders go to a fifth table, unlike the house tables, it wasn't so long and set up differently that the people had an overview of everything.

It was the table for staff, i.e. professors to the headmaster and similar officials. The hall was lit by thousands of flying candles. When you look up, you also noticed the high ceiling of the hall, it was as if the ceiling was made of glass.

The dark clouds, the half moon were clearly visible. The thunder and the rain could be heard clearly, but not a drop of water made it through the ceiling.

It was enchanted and made a powerful impression. As the students walked up to the top of the hill, the woman in the pointed hat ordered her to stop.

A four-legged chair stood in front of the students. It was already worn out and creaked at the slightest movement.

On this chair lay a more worn hat. Stains and mended areas didn't make it look better. The teaching staff looked down at the students from their elevated desks and if they weren't nervous enough before, they are now.

The hat twitched, a rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth -- and the hat began to sing:

"I sit silently upon a shelf,

No list'ning ear nor wandering eye

Gaze upon my battered self;

Until this night when first year come

To sit upon a three legged stool,

Do my words proclaim to all

The sorting of this school;

Each September the first

It becomes my duty to place,

This child who sits With bewildered face;

My choices be four,

As the founders were numbered,

Creating this school

Whilst I still slumbered;

Gryffindor the brave

Put stock in the gallant,

Slytherin so cunning,

Valued the purest of talent;

Ravenclaw was wise,

And wanted the smartest,

While Hufflepuff the true,

desired diligent artists;

But immortal the four

Certainly were not,

So they gave me some brains

To sort out the lot;

After they'd passed

And left me behind,

I was given the task

Of sorting each kind;

So to Gryffindor I give

The bold and the brave,

To honorable Slytherin

the keenest I save;

For Ravenclaw I leave

The incredibly smart,

For the truest Hufflepuff

The strongest in heart;

At the end of this sorting,

And the last student sat,

I shall silence my lips

And become merely a hat."

[AN: didn't create it myself credits to: Ethan_the_badger]

The whole hall burst into applause as the hat finished its song. It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again.

Most new students were pleased with the news the hat told them no hard task or dare was required to be sorted.

McGonagall moves to the side of the chair and turns to the student. She pulls a list out of her robes and speaks with loud authority.

"When I call your name you come forward sit on the chair and put the hat on."

"Pucey, Adrian!"

[AN: I know that names are usually called alphabetically by the surename, but not this year.]

A tall boy with black hair steps forward and sits in the chair when the hat is on his head before long.

"Slytherin!"

There was clapping from the table on the far left and the call continued.

"Spinnet, Alica!"

The girl who was just standing in the closet with the Weasleys is going to be a new member of house.

"Gryffindor!"

*Aurelius pov*

'House of the brave, when I think of courage, I think of rash, hasty behavior suitable for the girl.'

Angelina Johnson, the girl pranked by the weasleys on the trip is the next new member of the lions.

"Malfoy, Aurelius."

Cederic looks at me briefly and I walk purposefully to the chair. Cederic hasn't encouraged me since the closet thing, it seems I scared him off.

I sit down on the chair and when the hat was just over my head it started to shout loudly.

"Slytherin, Slytherin, Slytherin!"

My new house members stand in applause and shake hands as I sit down next to them. One look at the other unclassified students and I see the Weasleys with a knowing look in their eyes and Sara looking angry.

"Pucey, Ava!"

Apparently Adrian's sister goes to the front of the chair and as she sat there I took a closer look at her.

Black curly hair a pretty face with well filled lips and a small nervous smile.

"Slytherin!"

I didn't screw up and gave her my hand as she sat down next to her brother.

Benjamin Cone became a ravenclaw. After a long time Cassius Warrington followed him with the hat to the ravens.

[AN: Yes there is a character with that name, he is just a side character and i put him in a other house.]

"Diggory, Cederic"

*Cederic pov*

When the hat was on my head I noticed how I felt inner tension I heard a small reading voice speaking to me in my head.

"Who do we have here? Mhmm yes I know you you are a Diggory."

'You are the hat, aren't you.'

"Smart boy, but smart enough for ravenclaw, let me see."

The hat complimented me but afterwards I feel slightly offended as he questions my cleverness.

"Mhmm, yes, you are a good hearted boy, helpful and loyal just like your father."

'I'm not!'

I answer with a loud voice.

"Yeah, you're right, i can see it, i see it far from the shinnig light. What is it let me seeee."

My head felt like someone was bored in it and I think of a spell my mother told me about. The magic spell is called legilmancy and only a few magicians can learn it.

She works as a magical doctor for magical animals at St. Mungo's and a tragic case happened at work.

A girl even younger than me tried to cast this spell without any practice, she tried it without even a wand. The spell was cast on an animal to be precise a fox.

the girl and the fox not far from her was taken to the hospital by her parents and it seems that through the wrong execution she got into the fox's mind but not out.

The girl was trapped in the fox's body the fox could not move and became a dead shell with a girl trapped in the mind. When the parents found out, they were deeply sad and broken and blamed themselves.

At the end of the day, the parents took the fox back home with their daughter.

"Are you scared? Don't get scared. I'm not an amateur I just want to look inside your head and see who you are.

Ahh there it is, well hidden boy, but not well enough, what is this.

Ahh you're really not quite like your father, you are ambitious some greed has never harmed a magician. let's look further a little envy and what is this."

The headache got worse and I had to struggle to sit still in the chair while the hat peered into my head.

'Ahh it's cunning, a bit cunning, you seem like a perfect new member of house.'

"Slytherin!"

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