Lies and Truths

Hermione and Harry

Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.

So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!

Everyone clapped. Then McGonagall said for all of them to line up and come up when they heard their name.

"Abbot, Hannah" a girl came up and sat down. It didn't take long before they heard from the worn looking hat "Hufflepuff!"

"Bones, Susan" another girl. She looked sweet and she sat down. It barely was there for a full ten seconds before the hat shouted "Hufflepuff!"

"Boot, Terry" the first boy. They sat with him on the boat. It took a good two minutes before it shouted "Ravenclaw!"

"Bruncklehurst, Mandy" the hat wasn't even there long. Only five seconds. It shouted "Ravenclaw!"

"Brown, Lavender" It took five minutes and then hat shouted "Gryffindor!" The two friends frowned at the catcalls and whistles the house gave.

"Bullstrode, Millicent" the girl went up to the hat with pride and within three minutes the hat shouted "Slytherin!"

"Finch-Fletchly, Justin" "Hufflepuff!"

"Finnigan, Seamus" Harry got this bad feeling from him. Something wasn't quite right... "Gryffindor!"

"Goldstein, Anthony" the boy walked up with this grand appeal and didn't seem as caring for it. He seemed to do it for himself alone and the hat had shouted "Ravenclaw!"

"Goyle, Gregory" it was one of the blonde boy's friends. To be honest with Hermione and Harry, he was the first bodyguard. "Slytherin!"

"Greengrass, Daphne" this girl was just as prideful as the Millicent girl. She was blonde as well. Harry started looking at himself and thought that maybe he should stop judging blondes just because his family looked like they wore blonde wigs. "Slytherin!" Or Maybe not...

"Longbottom, Neville" he walked up there and nearly tripped. He sat on the stool and after a full four minutes the hat finally said "Gryffindor!"

"Macdougal, Morag" "Ravenclaw!"

"MacMillian, Ernie" "Hufflepuff!"

"Malfoy, Draco" he walked there as prideful-no even more prideful than the two girls who were sorted into Slytherin and the hat had barely touched his head when it shouted "Slytherin!"

"Moon, Kevin" "Gryffindor!"

"Nott, Theodore" "Slytherin!"
"Parkinson, Pansy" "Slytherin!"
"Patil, Padma" "Ravenclaw!"
"Patil, Parvati" "Gryffindor!"
"Perks, Sally-Anne" "Gryffindor!"

"Potter, Harry" the room got quiet. All eyes were on Harry. Then whispers surfaced. 'The boy who lived!' 'It's him!' 'In our year?!' They wouldn't stop but all Harry would repeat was "anything but Slytherin" in a nearly silent whisper. As the hat was placed on his head and the hat started speaking to him. The hat said he could do great in Slytherin. The hat said it was all in his head. Then he finally said "Boy, I can't send you there with all this Slytherin talent...but since this'll be fun..." the hat shouted "Slytherdor!" Everything was silent until a "What?!" Came from the staff, except Dumbledore. "What?!" Came from Slytherin. "What?!" Came from Gryffindor. "What?!" even Came from Ravenclaw. However, positive and easygoing Hufflepuffs shouted "Cool!" However the trend set in the rest of the unsorted "What?!" Dumbledore asked for silence and then said "He gets both houses. The houses Slytherin and Gryffindor. Harry, please step to the side behind Professor McGonagall." Harry did as told as like all the other students...his tie changed color. Red and Green. On his robes was the patch where normally a Snake, Eagle, Lion, or Badger would appear but instead was some hybrid. [4]