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"Abbott, Hannah!"

A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of line, put on the hat, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down. A moments pause

"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat.

The table on the right cheered and clapped as Hannah went to sit down at the Hufflepuff table. "Bones, Susan!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat again, and Susan scuttled off to sit next to Hannah.

"Boot, Terry!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

The table second from the left clapped this time; several Ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with Terry as he joined them.

"Brown, Lavender" became the first new Gryffindor, and the table on the far left exploded with cheers;

"Bulstrode, Millicent" then became a Slytherin.

"Finch-Fletchley, Justin!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Granger, Hermione!"

Mary whispered with a smile on her face to Hermione "You´ll be fine, good luck", and Stefan didn't say anything as he nodded at her.

Hermione nodded at Mary and Stefan and almost ran to the stool and jammed the hat eagerly on her head.

"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat.

When Neville Longbottom, who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. The hat took a long time to decide with Neville. When it finally shouted, "GRYFFINDOR," Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to jog back amid gales of laughter to give it back.

As Harry stepped forward, whispers suddenly broke out like little hissing fires all over the hall.

"Potter, did she say?"

"The Harry Potter?"

Everyone was whispering things as the sorting hat got put on him. After a moment of conversation with the Hat, it shouted out, "GRYFFINDOR."

The Gryffindor's table cheered the loudest as Harry went over and sat on the chair, and two twin red-haired boys started screaming "we have Potter, we have Potter "

"Malfoy, Draco."

"SLY... GRYFFINDOR"

Dracos face turned pale as he heard the house he was sorted, he started shouting "WHAT, THIS HAT IS CLEARLY WRONG, IT WAS SAYING SLYTHERIN AND IT SUDDENLY CHANGED"

"Quiet" said a powerful voice that came from the middle of the table where all the teachers were sitting at, Dumbledore was looking at the sorting hat through his half-moon spectacles while pondering.

"A professor that have shoulder-length, greasy black hair which frames his face, and cold, black eyes stood up from the table as he closed to Draco and took the sorting hat and brought it to Dumbledore, he closed the sorting hat to his ear while whispering with it, everyone was seeing this unexpected event with amused faces as they were pointing at Draco who was pale and sweating as he saw many mock smiles coming from the Gryffindor table.

Dumbledore stood up from his chair and said with a serious face as he looked at Draco who was sweating "There is no problem with the sorting hat, you're going to Gryffindor, Draco." as the sorting hat flew to the 4 leg stool.

Draco faced turned pale as he screamed "My father will hear about this"

"Draco Malfoy, you will not speak like that to the principal" said Prof McGonagall with a stern face.

Draco face turned from blue to red, his eyes rolled out as he fainted in the middle of the hall.

"I will take care of him..." said a professor that have shoulder-length, greasy black hair which frames his face, and cold, black eyes with a stiff smile on his face.

"Don't... as the head of Gryffindor, he's my responsibility, could you proceed with the sorting ceremony Severus?" said Prof McGonagall as she pointed her wand at Draco who was fainted on the floor, and started floating in mid-air.

"Don't worry I will take care of everything" said the professor that have shoulder-length, greasy black hair which frames his face, and cold, black eyes.

Prof McGonagall nodded at him as he took out the fainted floating Draco out of the hall.

"Zabini, Blaise" said he professor that has shoulder-length, greasy black hair, with a calm face as if nothing has happened.

"SLYTHERIN"

The ceremony kept going until the only ones lasting were Stefan and Mary.

"Morningstar Mary"

Mary whispered to Stefan with a bright smile "See you at the table", Stefan smiled at her while nodding.

As the sorting hat touched her head, it shouted with a loud voice "SLYTHERIN"

Mary stood up from the four-leg stool and walked gracefully to the table where nobody welcomed her, and just stayed silent, she didn't care as she watched with attention at Stefan.

"Morningstar Stefan"

Stefan walked with a calm face to the four-leg stool and sat down while taking the sorting hat and putting it on his head.

"I did what you asked for, who am I, tell me..." said the voice of the sorting hat inside of his head.

"You're basically a soul inside of the hat, who put you here? I have no idea... as for who are you I would need to see inside of your soul and maybe there will be fragmented memories of you or maybe not and you will never know" answered Stefan with a calm voice inside of his head.

Stefan noticed as the Sorting Hat tried to peek inside of his head, and he let him passed through but he just left him seeing plain darkness.

"I'll tell you what, I will give you a hint of what are you... Horrocrux, ask Dumbledore, he should know something about you... if you say something about me I will not destroy you but torture you..." said Stefan inside of his head, as he sent a bit of black onyx fog inside of the hat, and scratched a bit of the mangled soul.

"Stop it, pleaseee" screamed the sorting hat inside of the head of Stefan.

Stefan stopped and the black onyx fog came back to his body.

"What house you one to go, boy, either way, I can't see anything" said the Sorting Hat with a hint of respect in his voice.

"SLYTHERIN" screamed the sorting hat.

Stefan took off the Sorting Hat, and started walking to the Slytherin Table where the only one smiling brightly at him was Mary.

He sat beside Mary with a calm face, while looking at those around nearer to him, Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy Parkinson, Daphne Greengrass, and Theodore Nott, he lost the interest as he saw them, and a powerful voice was heard all over the hall.

Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there.

"Welcome," he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

"Thank you!"

He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered.

As soon as he sat down the golden plates in front of them were filled with dishes that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. There were many dishes on the table, roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, fries, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup, and, for some strange reason, peppermint humbugs.

Stefan felt a gaze on him, he turned his head and saw Hermione looking at him and Mary as she was caught staring at them she evaded his stare and started taking food.

Stefan just lifted an eyebrow as he saw that, he turned his head and saw Mary serving him food, his favorite food, so he didn't say anything. "Thanks, Mary" said Stefan with a calm voice, as he started to eat.

"You're welcome" said Mary with a bright smile that attracted the attention of the boys of the first year.

As they were eating, suddenly all the ghost started flying around everywhere and on the hall, gliding around the hall and coming to their old house tables to talk with the new students, a ghost came and float above the first years. The ghost was very pale, pearly-white and slightly transparent.

"New Slytherins, I hope you can help Slytherin win the house cup for the 7th time in a row." He said with a hoarse voice while looking at all of them.

Stefan and Mary just ignored the ghost as they kept eating, Mary noticed Stefan was making faces as he ate, and said "It's not of your liking ?" while pointing at the food.

Stefan answered with a calm voice "Obviously... I prefer your cooking..." a smile blossomed in the face of Mary as she heard the answer of Stefan, attracting the attention again of the first years in the table of Slytherin and some of the boys of other tables.

Professor Dumbledore got to his feet again. The hall fell silent.

"Ahem -- just a few more words now that we are all fed and watered. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you."

"First years should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well."

Dumbledore's twinkling eyes flashed in the direction of the Weasley twins.

"I have also been asked by Mr. Filch, the caretaker, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the corridors."

"Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their house teams should contact Madam Hooch.

"And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death." said Dumbledore with a serious face as he looked at every student in the hall.

Stefan sneered as he heard that and turned his head to look at Harry Potter who was looking at Dumbledore with a curious face, and beside of him was the red-haired boy Ron Weasley.

"Really, how did he survive for so long..." thought Stefan as he was looking at Potter, he felt a gaze and saw that beside the Weasley boy there was Hermione looking at him, he just nodded at her, but she looked at him for a moment and dropped her head.

"And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!" cried Dumbledore.

Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick as if he was trying to get a fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words.

"Everyone pick their favorite tune," said Dumbledore, "and off we go!"

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"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

Teach us something please,

Whether we be old and bald

Or young with scabby knees,

Our heads could do with filling

With some interesting stuff,

For now, they're bare and full of air,

Dead flies and bits of fluff,

So teach us things worth knowing,

Bring back what we've forgot,

just do your best, we'll do the rest,

And learn until our brains all rot.

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Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped the loudest.

"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"

The Slytherin's first year started following the prefect Gemma Farley through the chattering crowds of students who were following their respective Prefects to their common room. The entrance to the Slytherin common room is located behind a stone wall in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle.

Gemma as she led all of the first years while saying "Our emblem is the serpent, the wisest of creatures; our house colors are emerald green and silver, and our common room lies behind a concealed entrance down in the dungeons. As you'll see, its windows look out into the depths of the Hogwarts lake. We often see the giant squid swooshing by - and sometimes more interesting creatures like sirens or lake serpents, when someone is lucky they sometimes got a glimpse of the water dragon laying in the depths of the lake.

The first years finally got to the Slytherin common room that was a long, low underground room with rough stone walls and ceiling, greenish lamps were hanging on chains.

Gemma then showed the way to boys and girls Dormitory "It's forbidden to go to the others Dormitorys... well if you want to go, just go...but you're so young so at least wait a bit till the third year... We don't really care about the rules, don't we ?" said Gemma while winking at them, some of the girls turned red while some of the boys didn't understand what she was talking about and just looked at them with a confused face, one boy tried to ask to one girl what Gemma was talking about but he received a slap on his face as an answer, all of the boys didn't ask again as they divided and started going to their dorms.

Mary nodded at Stefan as she jumped the way through the girl's dormitory, and Stefan started walking to the first year's dormitory, as he entered he noticed a lot of boys cramping in front of a door that has a golden plaque that spelled "Draco Malfoy"

Stefan walked through the crowd took the golden plaque and threw it into the trash bin, some of the boys started whispering as they saw that, while others started to walked in front of Stefan.

"Hey Stefan what are you doing, this is the bedroom of Draco..." said Zabini a tall guy, but not tall enough as he was the same height as Stefan.

"I'm taking the room for myself isn't it obvious?, Draco is in Gryffindor" said Stefan with a calm face as he got closed to Zabini and looked straight into his eyes.

There was a silence, but someone broke the silence with a shout "Who gives you the right to own the private bedro..." as the boy was talking a white light hit him on the chest as he flew 2 meters as he hit the wall and fainted.

"No one gave me the right, I'm taking it with my own hands, who has a problem?" said Stefan as he looked at everyone in the room, and looking for one last time at Zabini who had a hesitating expression on his face but said nothing.

As Stefan turned around, he heard Zabini saying "Alarte Ascendare", Stefan turned around and dodged the light that was about to hit him and said "Flipendo", Zabini flew two meters backward and hit the wall.

"Attacking from behind Zabini, admirable, hahaha, next time do it faster" "Furnunculus" said Stefan as he pointed his wand at Zabini who was confused as he got hit on the head, suddenly Zabini bellowed and put his hands to his nose, where great ugly boils were springing up, and then all of his body started being covered in ugly boils.

"Anyone wants the private room guys?" said Stefan as he looked again at the crowd of boys who dropped their eyes to the floor as Stefan looked at them.

"Nice, thank you, and someone make Zabini a favor, don't you see a spell backfire at him when he was practicing, go and help him, take him to the nursery, we don't want to have other accidents so be careful, to not get a spell backfired at you...Goodnight" said Stefan as he walked into the private room while pointing with his wand at the door, and a silver plaque appeared of nowhere spelling "Stefan Morningstar"

Stefan entered the room and noticed that it was an extremely lavish bedroom, with a gigantic bed that could allow 10 people getting inside with no problems at all, and silk sheets.

He laid on the bed, not before sending a message on his silver tablet.

One minute later, through the gaps of the door, a black mist entered the bedroom as it kept flying into the bed where it started to take the shape of a woman, Mary finally appeared after a few seconds, she was wearing her typical red-transparent nightgown that showed her breasts and red tiny nipples and that showed her beautiful long legs and between her legs there was a red thong.

"Let's go to sleep" said Stefan while he accommodated his head between the bouncy and enormous breasts of Mary while closing his eyes as he said "Goodnight Mary"

"Goodnight Young Master" said Mary while closing her eyes and smiling brightly.