Harry Potter: Son of Hades

Chapter 12

A bit later after the bushy girl left, a redhead enters the compartment, him too without knocking.

Nobody has manners now.

The redhead looked at each one of us, before leaving.

Hadrian: What was that?

Draco: That was one of the Weasleys, probably the one that is being paid to be your 'friend'.

Daphne: Which would mean that he was trying to find you.

Pansy: Good luck with that. He won't be able to find you until we arrive at Hogwarts.

After that comment we started laughing.

A few hours later, the train started to stop, so I put the glamour quickly on me and hid Ariadne and Kerberos again. We didn't have to change clothes as we had been wearing the school's robes all the train ride.

We leave the train to be met with what seems to be a half giant that shouts at the first years to go with him and to ride the boats.

Theo, Draco and me rode in one, while Pansy, Blaise and Daphne where in another one and when all the first years where in the boats, they started to move across the lake.

When we arrived in the middle of the lake, more or less, we got to see the first sightings of the castle, which was impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the temples of Olympus, which I had seen in the past winter solstices.

Having arrived to the entrance of the castle, we were lead to a stern looking professor, which explained to us that we will be sorted and then told us to wait until she returns.

After the stern looking professor, which name was McGonagall, left, the youngest of the male Weasleys finally noticed me and was going to approach me if it wasn't because of some ghosts that appeared to scare the first years, which didn't work on me.

The ghosts after talking a bit about some poltergeist that was making trouble, acted like they just noticed us, and started to tell us things about their houses, that was at least until they noticed me.

Once the ghosts noticed me, they went still and were going to start bowing to me if I wasn't indicating them to stay silent and for the professor to return to bring us to be sorted.

At least nobody noticed why the ghosts started to act strange. I sighed knowing that being with ghosts here it will be a bit more difficult to hide that I'm the child of Hades.

Us, first years, were lead inside the Great Hall, which had four enormous tables with the different houses' students, and one table at the end for the professors, where I saw Severus Snape, which, as I found out in the will reading, was a good friend of my mom.

When we arrived in front of the teacher's table, I saw that professor McGonagall had put a three-legged stool with an old looking hat on top.

The hall went silent and then, the old hat started to sing a song about the different houses in Hogwarts and when it ended the professor started to call our names.

As the others and I imagined, Draco went to Slytherin and I heard two of the names of the people being paid to be my friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, being sorted to Gryffindor, making it more obvious that I have to be sorted there if I don't want the headmaster to be behind me.

McGonagall: Harry Potter

Again saying my name wrong, that must mean that she is a fellow follower of Dumb-ass-door or that he changed my name in the list to only being Harry Potter.

I go and sit in the stool, noticing that the Hall had quieted down and that everyone was trying to take a look at me.

Bad for you guys, this is not even my real appearance.

Suddenly, my vision is obscured and I notice a voice in my head.

Sorting Hat: Mhm, interesting a wizard demigod, it has been a few hundred years since I saw one of you.

I started to panic about this, he won't tell Dumbledore, right?

Sorting Hat: Don't worry about that, I know what can happen to people like you and I also know how can Dumbledore be.

I sighed in relief about that, at least it seems that I won't be discovered anytime soon.

Sorting Hat: Now let's see where to put you, there's a lot of intelligence in you, but you have a greater want to prove yourself, maybe because of the distrust towards your father. I also see great loyalty to your friends, but Hufflepuff isn't the place of you, neither is Gryffindor.

I have to be in there.

Sorting Hat: I know, I see your memories and I agree with you. But, you must know that your place will always be Slytherin or even Ravenclaw. Now, better be GRYFFINDOR.

I let a sigh of relief, for a moment I thought that the hat would break all of my plans against the old goat, but it seems that he is on my side.

I take off the hat and go to the Gryffindor house's table which was basically screaming over me being in the house.

I already regret my decision of doing whatever the old goat wants me to do, but I know I have to do this if I want to destroy him.

I sit in the table and suddenly I'm attacked by the red haired boy of the train, which I now know is Ron Weasley who is paid to be my friend.

Ron: Hi! I'm Ron Weasley, you are Harry Potter, right? I know we are going to be great friends.

I bit back the want to correct him and tell him that it's Hadrian, but I know that it would be impossible.

Hadrian: Yes, I'm Hadrian. Pleasure to meet you.

Not really and you will never be one of my friends.

He, then, starts talking to me about how we will be the best of friends and all the adventures that we will have during the year, while also eating, which was very gross.

I only nodded along whatever he was talking about and ate some dinner.

After dinner, Dumbledore starts to list places in Hogwarts that are prohibited while looking at me when saying about the 3rd corridor one, then a prefect, which I think is one of Weasley's older brothers, takes us to the Gryffindor common room, which was behind a painting of a woman singing.

Whoever decorated the castle has no sense, they should learn about mom Persephone.

Inside the common room, the two prefects, now knowing that the red head is indeed a Weasley, tell us the rules and the bedtime and then signaling our rooms, which surprise surprise, I have to share with Weasley and also 3 boys more which I don't know.

They introduce themselves and I find that one of them is Neville Longbottom, which makes me remember that I have to give him what my parents left for him in their will, but it would be better to do it without prying ears, Ron.

After introducing ourselves, we go to sleep knowing that tomorrow will be the first day of classes, and I would have to wake up early to go an exorcise a ghost.

I hope that Severus Snape remembers that he told me that he would bring me to the ghost.