Chapter 4
The sorting hat appeared to be inside my head.
"Let's see where you belong, Shall we?" the hat said. "Very loyal, surprisingly cunning, very smart, quite brave. Hmmm, this is a tough one. Where should I put you?"
Put me in Slytherin! Please!, I thought.
"Your mind would put you in Ravenclaw, you're bravery in Gryffindor, yet you yearn for Slytherin. Well if you insist. Better be SLYTHERIN!"
I gasped at being sorted into Slytherin. I did it. I made my mom proud. This is all for her. I went over to the Slytherin table and sat down, making sure to steer clear from Malfoy and his folk. I looked across the room and tried to make eye contact with Harry. He wouldn't look at me. He must assume that I'm as rotten as Malfoy to be in Slytherin. I'd have to talk with him about that later. I looked over to Hermione and she nodded and gave me a thumbs up. She knew that this was what I wanted and she supported me through and through. I smiled back before returning my eyes to the ceremony.
"Weasley, Ronald"
"GRYFFINDOR"
That wasn't a shock, the gaggle of gingers in Gryffindor started cheering him on. After one last person, Blaise Zabini was sorted, the feast began. There were so many good foods and I was eating so much, in silence, mind you. The first year Slytherins were all talking and making fun of other houses and people. Slytherin definitely wasn't my scene. My thoughts were interrupted when two girls sat next to me.
"Those gits are rather annoying. Especially that Malfoy bloke." One of the girls said to me. "I'm Millicent. Millicent Bulstrode," she said, extending her hand.
"And I'm Pansy Parkinson, we met on the boats," the other girl said.
"Hi I'm Maggy Roberts," I said, shaking Millicent's hand.
"You're rather different from the rest of the Slytherins. We're all purebloods, and what the other houses call 'evil'", Pansy made air quotes around evil. Both the girls giggled.
"I reckon we should stick together. Us Slytherins look out for another, evil or not.", Millicent smiled.
Beyond their tough exterior, the girls seemed decent enough. They may be mean to others, but I knew they wouldn't be mean to me. I smiled, finally happy to have some Slytherin friends. We chatted a bit and finished dinner and made our way to dessert.
At the end of the feast, Dumbledore, the headmaster, made a speech about not going into the forbidden forest or a corridor on the third floor. After this and news about some sport called quidditch, Pansy said she would explain that later, he called everyone to sing the school song.
"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."
Everyone was offkey and at different parts and in the end, it was just Dumbledore and those two Gryffindor gingers, who I learned were Fred and George Weasley. As goofy as it was, in the end, everyone cheered, making Hogwarts seem less of a school and more like a home and a family. Living with my dad was great, but we missed a sense of family since it was just the two of us, Hogwarts really did feel like my home.
With that, each house was led by their prefects to each of their respective dormitories. I waved goodbye to Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Neville and followed Pansy and Millicent down to the dungeons. The dungeons were cold and damp, probably because they were right under the Black Lake. We passed the potions classroom, run by the creepy professor and head of Slytherin, Snape. We even passed the Bloody Baron, the Slytherin ghost, which was definitely a fright.
"This cellar here is very important," prefect Gemma Farley said. "This is the entrance to the common room. The password changes every two weeks, and it will be boosted on a board in the common room. The password right now, however, is Parseltongue."
The minute she said 'Parseltongue', the cellar opened and the Slytherin common room appeared. There was a cold atmosphere and a huge fireplace, with green fire coming out of it. There were green lights everywhere, coming from the lake. I read about it in Hogwarts: A History. Around the fireplace was a bunch of couches and tables, a great place for people to study. To the right were the girl's dormitories, and to the left were boys. Gemma told us that girls could go in both, but if a boy tried to go in the girl, the stairs would turn into a slide. Hogwarts apparently trusted girls more, as they should.
With that, the boys were led into their dormitories and the girls were led into ours. There were five beds in ours, each with green bedding. At the end of each bed was a trunk. I knew my bed instantly, as my trunk was on the edge, and Leeroy was sitting on my bed purring with excitement to see me. I jumped onto the bed and let out a sigh. In piled my roommates. Pansy and Millicent took their beds across the room from me, and bid me goodnight. The two other girls I haven't met so I introduced myself and chatted a bit. First, there was Tracey Davis, a Half-Blood just like me. She was really sweet and very shy. In the bed next to me was Daphne Greengrass, she was a Pureblood but wasn't like anyone else I've met in Slytherin. She was bright and happy and eccentric. She loved to read, just as I did. She seemed more like me and Hermione more than the rest. We talked for ages into the night, until we finally were both the last to sleep, dreams of tomorrow's classes in my head.
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A/N: Longest chapter!!! I know that Slytherin common room is debated about but I looked on all different Harry Potter wikis and based some off of the movie or my imagination and this is what I thought it would look like. Hopefully, the story quickens up, I know it is running slow but I want to be as accurate to the story as possible. Also, let me know what you think of the Slytherin girls!!