Sorting Surprises

"Slytherin!" The hat called after a few minutes. The boy got up and walked to the Slytherin table on shaky legs, he slowly sat down near the other first years. They weren't being obvious about it but the way they were leaning away from him made it clear that they wanted some distance from him. Harry glanced at the Gryffindor table and saw Longbottom glaring at the boy, it was an odd look to see on the usually frightened Gryffindor.

"The boy will be in a lot of trouble." Jet whispered to Harry. Harry was about to reply when he noticed the Lestrange boy staring at him, Harry raised an eyebrow at the boy who quickly looked away. The sorting continued, a couple of more Slytherin's arrived when suddenly the last person of the year was to be sorted.

"Ginerva Weasley." Professor McGonagall called.

Harry watched as little Ginny Weasley walked up to the stool, looking as scared as any other first year. She sat on the stool and the hat was placed on her head, her sorting wasn't a quick one and it was several minutes later when the hat had finally made its choice.

"Slytherin!" The hat yelled out, surprising everyone as pretty much everyone was expecting the Weasley girl to go to the house of lions like her brothers. Professor McGonagall removed the hat from Ginny's head, she stood up on shaky legs and quickly walked towards the Slytherin table, looking like she was about to pass out from fear. She looked at the Slytherin first years, none of them looked willing to let her sit next to them, or at least until Roman moved up enough to give her a spot. She quickly took that seat and gave him a grateful nod, Harry glanced at the Gryffindor table and the saw all of the Weasley brothers sitting in pure disbelief.

"Well...this year will be interesting." Harry commented.

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A short while later the Slytherin's were back in their common room, Harry and the other Slytherin's in his year sat at their usual spots, all of them taking notice of the first years that were looking around the common room, though most of their attention was now diverted to talking to Harry about his metamorphamaugus abilities.

"Still can't believe that you can shapeshift," Theo commented. "can you turn into Snape or somebody like that?"

"No, not really." Harry said as he shook his head. "My abilities are quite limited, I can change my hair and eyes and make minor changes to my facial structure but that's about it. If you want a full metamorphamaugus then I would advise talking to Tonk's, she can change into pretty much anyone who is close enough in body size. She can even change bits of her face to look like animal faces, like she'd give herself a pig snout or a duck beak."

While Harry was talking to his fellow second years, there was a first year who was looking at him like he was a hero.

"Are you okay?" Ginny whispered to Roman, having noticed the way that he was looking at Harry and the others.

"I...do you think he would teach me?" Roman whispered in a hopeful voice.

"Teach you?" Ginny blinked.

"Come on," Roman rolled his eyes. "you've heard all of the stories about how good he is." He said, Ginny nodded in response, she herself had heard several people talk about how good Harry Potter was at magic and the fact that he had mastered several advanced spells beyond his year.

"Oi Weasley." A third year boy said as he walked over. "How come you're not in Gryffindor with the other Weasley's?" He sneered.

"The hat wanted to put me here." Ginny answered in a quiet voice as she took a step back, she easily became aware that everyone

"The thing is clearly defective," The third year scoffed. "and what about you Lestrange?" He said, turning to the boy. "You're just a...

"Ahem." A cough interrupted the boy, everyone in the room turned to look at Harry. "Is there a problem here?" Harry asked, looking at the third year boy with narrowed eyes. The boy faltered slightly before he continued to speak.

"Yeah, them." He said as he gestured to Ginny and Roman. "You know who his dad is, and look at her, her brothers are the Weasley twins."

"House of cunning," Harry laughed to himself as he stood up and walked forward, he stopped in front of the third year who had taken a step back. "house of ambition, no this doesn't seem like that house to me. This seems like the house where bullying and threats are the key to getting your way," Harry said as he look the third year in the eye. "this seems like the house where civility and decorum go out of the window when talking with someone you don't like." Harry said, glaring at the third year who was now looking down at the floor.

Harry shook his head and looked around the room, seeing all of the other Slytherin's looking at him.

"Speech time?" Jet asked.

"Speech time." Harry nodded before he began speaking to the room. "I understand that you guys might not like these two, I understand a little bit about why you might not like the girl, her brothers are morons. You could torment her for who her family is but I want to point out that she has had to live in the same house as Ronald Weasley and that is suffering enough." Harry said with a small smirk as many in the common room began laughing at that. "As for the other one," Harry said as he gestured to Roman. "he reminds me of another half-blood. There was this one half-blood boy, he came to the wizarding world and was sorted into Slytherin, people didn't like him a first because of who he was, they thought he was weak and pathetic. But then he proved them wrong when he not only gained Slytherin more points than anyone else in his year whilst also being the top student of his year. If that wasn't enough then add in the fact that he also helped lead the quidditch team to victory and not only defeated every person in his year but also helped kill a troll. What does that tell you?"

"That you're rubbish at telling stories?" Daphne commented in an attempt to lighten mood.

"You like to brag?" Tracey guessed.

"Shut it," Harry said as he rolled his eyes. "what I am trying to say is to stop judging people based off who they are and let us instead judge them based off how they act. These two first years have been thrown in the deep end that is Slytherin house, they will either swim with the rest of us or drown on their own, let them earn their place here like I did. Anyone got a problem with that?" Harry said as he flicked his wand into his hand and looked around the room. "Good," Harry said when nobody said anything. "now...what are you all looking at?" Harry asked, the Slytherin's all turned away and began returning to whatever it was they were doing before the interruption.

"T...thank you." Ginny spoke in a quiet voice.

"Don't thank me," Harry replied. "but if you want to express your gratitude then you will act and behave as good students. You will walk and talk as proud Slytherin's and you will give the house reasons to accept you." Harry said before he walked back over to the other second years.

"Defending the first years now?" Pansy sneered.

"In case it escaped your notice, we were all first years last year." Harry calmly replied. "Besides, it doesn't matter to me who is related to what idiot or criminal, it's a matter of who they are and how they act."

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