Andromeda Malfoy: Harry Potter Fanfic

The Announcement

Andromeda's POV

The rest of summer was uneventful. It was amazing being at Aunt Andromeda's. I could wear whatever I wanted, do whatever I wanted and could sleep in or stay up late. There were some rules, but no where near as many there was at the manor. And the punishments are less severe. Draco wrote me a letter asking why I wasn't home and why my stuff was all gone. I sent one back explaining why I left and was never coming back. He never replied, it hurt to think I may never be on speaking terms with my twin again. But who knows what the future holds.

After a lot of thought. I have decided to let the sorting hat resort me. If it believes I'd be better in a different house. I will trust it's judgement. Anyway the Triwizard Tournament is being held at Hogwarts this year. Tonks made me promise to tell no one as Dumbledore should announce it at the feast. It was hard keeping quiet after Draco taunted the others about knowing about the tournament. But I stayed quite.

It was raining cats and dogs on the way to the castle. Well no literally. But it was pouring down with rain, there was thunder and lighting. When we arrived at the school. Peeves was pelting people with water balloons. McGonagall made him leave. While the others went into the great hall. I approached Professor McGonagall.

"Professor McGonagall, can we talk?" I ask.

"Of course Miss Malfoy, how may I help you?" she asks me.

"I wish to be resorted" I state. She looks surprised.

"The sorting hat has never been wrong dear, have you a reason to believe he was?" she asks me.

"I asked him to put me in Slytherin, so that I wouldn't be disowned. He said it wasn't my best fit, so he was not wrong. I just no longer have a reason to stay in Slytherin as I've moved in with my aunt" I state.

"It's never been done before" she states. "I shall talk to Dumbledore during the feast. If he permits it, you'll be sorted after the feast before his announcement" she tells me. I nod my head. "You may sit at the gryffindor table if you wish" she states. I give her a smile and go into the hall.

I sit beside the Hermione. The sorting hat sang a new song like usual. The first years were sorted. One of them with Dennis Creevey, younger brother of Collin Creevey. He to was placed in Gryffindor. During the feast Nick tells us about how Peeves scared the house elves.

"There are house-elves here? Here at Hogwarts?" Hermione asks shocked.

"Of course, who else did you think made the feasts or cleaned the castle at night?" I ask her.

"We have the largest number in any dwelling in Britain, I believe. Over a hundred" Nick states.

"I've never seen one!" she exclaims.

"Well, they hardly ever leave the kitchen by day, do they? They come out at night to do a bit of cleaning...see to the fires and so on....I mean, you're not supposed to see them, are you? That's the mark of a good house-elf, isn't it, that you don't know it's there" he states.

"But they get paid? They get holidays, don't they? And - and sick leave, and pensions, and everything?" she asks him. Nick chortled so much that his ruff slipped and his head flopped off, dangling on the inch or so of ghostly skin and muscle that still attached it to his neck.

"House-elves don't want sick leave and pensions!" he laughs. Hermione looked down at her hardly touched plate of food, then put her knife and fork down upon it and pushed it away from her.

"Slave labor, that's what made this dinner. Slave labor" she states. And she refused to eat another bite. She wouldn't even have a piece of treacle tart, her favourite dessert. Dumbledore stands to address the crowd as the food disappears.

"Now that we are all fed and watered, I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices. But first, someone has asked to try on the sorting hat again. As she had convinced the hat to place her in a house she didn't fit in her first year. She wishes to allow the hat to sort her as it sees fit" Dumbledore declares. "Andromeda Malfoy, please come forward" he says.

I get up and the whole hall watches me as I head to the front. The sorting hat and stool are brought out. I sit down and McGonagall places the sorting hat no my head. 'Back again miss Malfoy' he says.

'I am ready to be sorted properly, I am sorry for making you put me in a house where I did not belong. But I am ready to let you decide what house I belong in' I state.

'Very well, lets see' he says. 'You are very humble to accept you were wrong. And even though you have been disowned, you still would give your life for your family. That shows that you are loyal and have a lot of courage. You are smart, determined and have found the courage I saw in you the first time we met to finally live your own life. Without caring how your father will react' he states. 'Better be, Gryffindor!' he declares.

Gryffindor cheers as the sorting hat it removed. I look down to see my slytherin uniform, had changed into a gryffindor one. I smile at my new head of house and go rejoin my friends. Who all congratulate me. Dumbledore gives his usual start of term notices. Until he gets to the part where he usually tells us about quidditch tryouts.

"It is also my painful duty to inform you that the Inter-House Quidditch Cup will not take place this year" he declares. "This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up much of the teachers' time and energy but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely. I have great pleasure in announcing that this year at Hogwarts" he is cut off by the arrival of someone new. He must be our new defense teacher.

Turns out he is and he was the famous auror Mad-eye Moody. Tonks had told me about him. He trained her personally. I can't wait to learn from him. "As I was saying" Dumbledore says as Moody takes his seat. "We are to have the honor of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event that has not been held for over a century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year" he declares.

The whole school was shocked. He explained what the tournament is, for those who had never heard of it before. Then told us about how only those of age by Halloween will be allowed to enter their names to compete. How there'll be things set up to prevent those underage from entering.

"The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving in October and remaining with us for the greater part of this year. I know that you will all extend every courtesy to our foreign guests while they are with us, and will give your whole-hearted support to the Hogwarts champion when he or she is selected. And now, it is late, and I know how important it is to you all to be alert and rested as you enter your lessons tomorrow morning. Bedtime! Chop chop!" he tells us.

I leave with the others excited to see my new common room and dorm room. The password with Balderdash, so different to any password we had for slytherin. Hermione leads me up the girls dorm rooms. We enter the fourth year one and see we have been given beds next to each other. Our cats already asleep on our beds. She and I got ready for bed and called it a night. I had a dreamless sleep.

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Pictures above of Dennis Creevey and the sorting hat.