Finally, the first years stopped before a platform with a fifth table. The teachers were sitting there waiting impatiently for distribution, like the students. In the center of the table, Albus Dumbledore, director for many years, was smiling softly.

Professor McGonnagall placed on an old stool an old hat, completely worn, dirty and grated. Adria raised an eyebrow at the artifact. Should they really put that on their head? It was disgusting. Suddenly, the object moved until a tear opened wide and he began to sing:

I'm not supremely beautiful

But do not be fooled by what we see

I want to eat myself

If you find smarter than me.

The high-deformed, the splendid hats,

Make pale with me

Because at Hogwarts, when I decide,

Everyone submits to my choice.

Nothing escapes me nothing stops me

The Sorting Hat is always right

Put me on your head

To know your house.

If you go to Gryffindor

You will join the brave ones,

The boldest and the strongest

Are gathered in this high place.

If in Hufflepuff you go,

Like them you will be fair and loyal

Hufflepuff lovers like to work

And their patience is proverbial.

If you are wise and thoughtful

Ravenclaw may welcome you

There, they are scholars

Who want to know everything.

You will end in Slytherin

If you're pretty smart,

Because these are real rogues

Who always succeed in their ends.

On your head ask me a moment

And do not be afraid, stay serene

You will be in good hands

Because I am a thinking hat!

The applause echoed at the end of the song. Adria hesitated a moment to do the same before deciding no. Her hand was too good in Victoire's and there was no way she would let go. In any case, not now. Just now surely but definitely not now.

McGonnagall stepped forward, cleared his throat and took out a large parchment.

- When I call your name, you sit on the stool and put the hat on your head. Adam, Riley!

A boy stepped forward almost backwards. As he climbed the platform his hair was blue. There was a "woa! From students who had never seen a metamorphosis of their lives. The boy blushed in front of his comrades' eyes and his hair immediately changed to red tomato.

- POUFSOUFFLE! cried the Sorting Hat.

The whole table on the right cheers and cheers and Riley, who had recovered his original hair, went to settle there. Adria followed him with his eyes, he looked nice. A little shy maybe.

- Avery, Lily!

A girl with long hair and a dull complexion stepped forward towards the object. A Gryffindor surely.

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