School for good and evil comes to Hogwarts

Chapter 8: Strictly Forbidden

Sophie was fuming Her anger boiled inside her like a potion about to explode. She would see Merlin now, because she'd tried so hard and got so little outcome. She pulled out her fake red hair extensions, she scraped the sequins off the back of her robes. She'd had enough of waiting.

When she finally found Merlin's study it was not what she expected. The whole room was covered in little stars that could've been drawn by a child, and there wasn't a desk or a chair, everything around her was a cloud, until she realised that this couldn't be his office.

"Welcome Sophie. This is the Celestium. A wizards place to think if you like."

"Merlin I need you to-"

"Switch you over to Gryffindor. Word travels fast at Hogwarts. But Sophie here is the question, Are you meant to be in Gryffindor?"

"Well yeah!" said Sophie "Or I wouldn't have slogged that 200 steps of marble stairs to get here!"

"Ah I see you've misunderstood my question. Sophie when you put on the sorting hat, what were you thinking."

Sophie's face fell "How much I wanted mother to see me shine in Gryffindor."

"I see" said Merlin "Sophie you have not done some very good things whilst you have been at this school. Poisoning another student? Is that what a Gryffindor would do. Sophie as much as this will disappoint you, I am not moving you to Gryffindor. The sorting hat has never made a mistake, but you are not the first to question it's decision. Why are you so opposed to Slytherin".

"Because it's where bad wizards and witches learn to do magic! It's how villains learn how to destroy people's lives. It would be confirming that I am not a good person."

"Sophie that isn't true. That is a Slytherin stereotype, and, whilst some people in Slytherin have grown up to be bad, a fair number of Slytherins have done many great things."

Sophie clapped slowly. "Nice speech. To bad it was a load of tosh. You think I gonna believe that 'Slytherins are amazing' have you freaking met my room mates! They spend half their time brewing a death potion, and the other half trying to feed it to me!"

"Sophie-"

"No Merlin-"

"Professor Merlin."

"No Professor Merlin. Fine. If you want me to play Slytherin, I'll play Slytherin." she smirked, and left the celestium.

Merlin, Tedros, Agatha, everyone who had betrayed her would pay.

Agatha's P.O.V

Agatha was happy. For once she was allowing herself to enjoy life. She wasn't thinking about school-work or Sophie. She finally had time to relax. She lay back in the arm chair by the fire place.

Tedros came up behind her and cupped his hands over her eyes. "Guess who?" he said.

"Professor Dovey?" she asked in a sarcastic-surprised voice.

"No silly!" said Tedros plopping himself down beside her.

"So you're no longer being detained in the hospital wing laughed Agatha.

"Nope" said Tedros "I'm a free man" he grinned.

"So" said Agatha "are you gonna try out for Quidditch?" she asked.

"1st years aren't allowed" said Tedros disappointed.

"Well actually the rules state that a 1st year is not allowed to own a broom, so it is entirely your right to try out for the team, provided that the broom doesn't belong to you." said Agatha.

"That. That right there is why you're my girlfriend" joked Tedros. Then he frowned "but who in Merlin's beard would lend me a broom?"

"Leave that to me" said Agatha "You deal with the skill side of things. I'm off to bed." she got up, kissed Tedros on the forehead and walked up the stairs to her dormitory.

Tedros was so happy. It was the first time since he'd come to Hogwarts that he wasn't thinking about his home or his family.

The next morning at breakfast, Tedros was sitting at the table and was very surprised that Sophie didn't come to see him. In fact, she was having a conversation with Hester. Hester? Tedros looked again. Yep, Sophie was talking to Hester, and actually looked like she was having fun.

Tedros turned to Agatha. When Agatha saw she looked confused as well. "Maybe they're talking about class?" said Agatha.

"You honestly think Sophie would intentionally talk about class?" said Tedros.

"Point" said Agatha. "On a better note" she said with a grin "I found someone who will lend you a broom".

"Who?" said Tedros excitedly.

"Well I was talking to this Gryffindor in the dorm opposite me, Nicola was her name, such a sweet girl, she said that she had an older brother in 5th year who used to be on the team. She said he would happily lend you his broom. It's quite a new model to, I can't remember it though, you could go and find him and ask."

"Thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou!" Exclaimed Tedros.

"Don't thanks me" laughed Agatha "Thank Nicola. She's sitting over there on the Ravenclaw table with Reena."

Tedros went over to the Ravenclaw table. He could hear Nicola's conversation with Reena.

"You should be in Ravenclaw!" said Reena "You're so smart".

"When I tried on the hat it did consider Ravenclaw, but then it said I showed great bravery and put me in Gryffindor instead."

"Shame" said Reena "I would've loved to share a dorm with you, I didn't even know that our brothers were in the same year-"

"Hi" said Tedros awkwardly "Do you think I could talk to Nicola quickly?" he asked.

"Sure" smiled Reena "See you in a bit Nikki" she said.

"See you" said Nicola. "Hey what's up?" said Nicola to Tedros.

"I just wanted to thank you for lending me your brothers broom." said Tedros.

"Oh your welcome" smiled Nicola "It'll be so cool to see you on the team. Arthur was a great chaser when he was at school, it'll be nice to see if you've inherited his talent. My brother will be watching the try outs, you could get the broom from him then, you'll see him sitting near the front, he'll wave at you when he sees you." she shook Tedros's hand "Nice to meet you Tedros, I'm Nicola even though you probably already knew that." she laughed and then walked back over to her table.

"So" said Agatha from behind him "What'd you think?"

"Yeah she's really nice." said Tedros. Agatha held Tedros's hand and they walked out of the Great Hall together.

They didn't know Sophie was watching from the Slytherin table.

Sophie's P.O.V

Sophie watched in horror as she saw Agatha and Tedros hold hands. In her book, that was strictly forbidden! How could her own sister betray her like that. Sophie frowned and the smirked. Maybe it was time to embrace being Slytherin after all.