Chapter Eight - The hat and my house

When I got off the express, I followed the rest of the children and got on the boat with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Once the boat ride was over, we all entered the magnificent castle.

When we arrived, the strict Professor McGonagall led us into a corridor and made us wait for a while.

Ding! Ding!

Mission: Put the smug little Malfoy in his place.

Description: Pureblood children, are very pretentious and unsympathetic, Malfoy doesn't know how to measure himself and feels powerful, remind him that he's not in his backyard.

Reward: 1 enhancement point

Ahhh! The system is still alive! And it gives me quests even if I haven't completed the previous one, which's good, although it's a measly 1 point well it's not complicated and there's no punishment if I don't complete them.

The anxious kids were chatting, then a platinum-haired, cocky-looking boy walked up to Harry and started his speech, Ron thought his presentation was funny and let out a small chuckle, the smug little Draco started to humiliate him, so I jumped to his defense.

- "At least Ron is not a cocky, conceited kid, tell me do you make fun of his economic situation or are you envious? Surely your father doesn't love you and just throws money at you so that you don't give him trouble and don't bother him?"

Then he turned to look at me with great hatred, his face flushed with deep anger, just as he took a few steps towards me, he opened his mouth and my salvation came, the teacher.

Mission complete, the system shop is still blocked until the minimum upgrade points are collected.

Luckily the mission didn't fail, and I discovered that there was a shop, unfortunately, I didn't know what was in it, nor how many minimum points I should have, but I had time.

Once the explanation was over, the teacher made us go through the door in front of the 4 tables full of students, the teachers, and the patched and battered hat.

The moment had arrived, I hoped I had the same charisma as Harry and that the hat wouldn't send me to Slytherin.

And taking out the parchment, the teacher began to name everyone in alphabetical order,

- "Elizabeth Lestrange"

And so with a simple name, the whole mood was very dulled, everyone turned to see who this was, Lestrange was mentioned, unfortunately, the looks were not cheerful or kind, they were more of discomfort, shock, and uncertainty when I started to walk the children that were still left unconsciously stepped aside, it was quite uncomfortable how fast people change, it was quite funny the face Ron made, a small mixture of fear and confusion, behind me, I heard some murmurs.

- "Is she that woman's daughter?"

- "How can they allow her to study with us?"

- "Why isn't she locked up with her parents?"

The teacher looked at everyone sternly and shushed them.

Even if I had already heard a lot, although it was within my expectations it was a bit absurd, Draco's parents were also Death Eaters, and they didn't make the same fuss as me, what was my fault that the family I was born into were vicious but loyal sickos.

As I climbed onto the little stool, my mind was flooded with: Not in Slytherin, please, and so the hat began to speak in my mind.

"A Lestrange, your whole family was in Slytherin, that would be the right place for you but let me see, oh, you certainly wouldn't make a good Slytherin, you lack cunning, you're loyal, brave, somewhat rebellious, I know where you should go."

- "Gryffindor!"

So my heart calmed down, I didn't miss the silence and the lack of applause at the lions' table. Luckily the selection wasn't over yet, the names continued, and the place where I had sat was near the Weasley twins, they didn't seem to care about my background, they began to ask me without the slightest delicacy if I knew about my parents and where I lived, I briefly told them a little about myself, clearly explaining my ignorance about magic, the orphanage background and the recent knowledge about the Lestranges.

As I was being questioned, the mention of Harry stole the attention, the whole room filled with elation and the lions cheered for the newcomer Harry, we all cheered, and Harry sat down next to me which surprised everyone, did they expect us to be sworn enemies?

The twins switched interrogation victims, and Harry was bombarded with questions.

Ron was selected to Gryffindor, he received a warm welcome, and he sat next to Harry, looking somewhat shocked and uncomfortable at the sight of me.

After the Headmaster's speech, dinner began, there is only one word to describe the magnificent dinner. Not since I came to this world have I eaten such good food and such tasty things.

I watched all the teachers and noticed that many of them were watching Harry, the most noticeable look was from Professor Snape, so much so that Harry, noticed it and asked about him, I got a description of the most hated teacher in the world.

Once dinner was over, we headed to the dormitories, I hoped that my roommates wouldn't isolate me too much, and being in the same room as Hermione was very pleasant.

The other two girls kept their distance, when I got to my bed I sat down, and they started talking, luckily they weren't rude for a while, I found out that it wasn't that they were afraid of me, they were just shy and came from muggle parents, we went to sleep, so my first day at Hogwarts was over.