When Two Worlds Collide

Chapter 4: The Sorting and Suspicions

"Yeah, McShizzle in the house!" Cheered an elfish looking boy that had his share of muscles but still retained some scrawniness at the same time. His brown eyes sparkled mischievously, and as he jogged to the stool he gave jaunty salutes to everyone and flailed his arms in a sorry excuse of a wave. Everyone couldn't help but laugh at Leo's antics. 

"Leo just get over here," McGonagall sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose. But some of the other teachers looked amused as well. Flitwick's mouth was twitching up slightly, and Dumbledore waved back. I looked to the end of the staff table and saw that Snape had his eyebrows raised so far up that they almost reached his hairline and-holy hell-was he actually smiling? 

Ron seemed to notice too, "blimey, what's Snape doing?" He whispered to me. I just shook my head, too in shock to fully comprehend the situation. 

I jumped when the Hat called out, "SLYTHERIN IF YOU REALLY WANT TO!" Leo hopped up and hurried over to the Slytherin table, high fiving and winking at random people he saw along the way. He sat next to Calypso and placed a hand over hers on the table. She leaned over and pecked him on the cheek. 

Why were there so many couples? 

I found the exchange students really weird. Why did Leo want to be in Slytherin? Malfoy must have poisoned his mind, yeah that must be it! The exchange students have been brainwashed by Malfoy, that was why they were being so chummy to him. the stupid blond git, couldn't he just leave me alone for once?

I have to save them before it's too late. They don't know about these kinds of stuff, they've never been in a war before so good versus evil could be a whole new concept to these kids. I have to clear all this up so they know, it's my duty as the hero of the wizarding world. 

I was about to tell this to Ron and Hermione when Dumbledore stood up. Ron moaned while clutching his stomach, "finally!" The headmaster surveyed us from his stand on the podium, his eyes lingering on each of the exchange students. "There is nothing to be said at the moment, for lack of food seems to be causing a ruckus among most of you," his eyes met Ron's whose ears turned red. 

Dumbledore spread his arms and said, "tuck-in," and tuck in we did. The moment the food appeared on the plates, Ron dove for it and grabbed as much as he could, stuffing his face with everything at once. Hermione wrinkled her nose and muttered a couple of choice words at Ron before primly taking a bite of her chicken.

"So," I said, trying to make conversation with the new students, "most of your friends seem to be in Slytherin."

Percy shrugged at that and smiled, "well yeah, Slytherin is the house for the cunning and ambitious. I'm not surprised that Piper and Nico ended up there, Calypso I can see as well but Leo was what I was surprised about the most."

"You'd be surprised by Slytherin traits Leo possesses," Jason said thoughtfully, as he swirled his spoon idly in his soup, "To be honest, I'm not that surprised. Ambition is something that guy has in buckets."

"How so?" Hermione questioned, although a bit more subdued. I think she was still nervous about talking in front of Jason. I didn't blame her, that guy looked pretty terrifying when he got mad. Maybe he was just naturally protective?

"Well," Annabeth said, "he does want to open the most famous machine shop with Calypso someday. That's pretty big goals right there."

"Yeah, someday," Percy echoed, a faraway look filled his green eyes, "we've all said something like that, haven't we?"

Jason and Annabeth looked solemn and bowed their heads as if they were at a funeral. The moment seemed so tense and still, like a bubble hovering in the air just waiting to be popped.