Something Unusual | Harry Potter Fanfiction

Chapter 1 | Sorting Ceremony

Violet Belasco was a brunette haired girl, with purple eyes. She's an eleventh year old girl, which means she's starting her first year at Hogwarts.

After saying goodbye to her parents, she walked in to the Hogwarts express. She saw a compartment with a brunette haired girl, in a ponytail, and blue eyes.

She opened the compartment, "Hi, may I sit here?" She asked.

The girl nodded, "Yeah, sure." Violet sat down across from her. She looked around the compartment, out the window, then back at the girl.

"Violet Belasco," Violet introduced herself.

"Chloe Winstlyn." She replied with a smile.

The compartment door opened, a girl with ginger hair(which is in a braid) stood. "Hello, I'm looking for a tabby cat. Alicia said she likes to play hide and seek."

Chloe and Violet glanced at each other, before they shook their heads.

"Sorry, haven't seen one." Chloe told her. The girl sat down next to Violet, across from Chloe.

"Lily Faulters." She introduced herself.

Chloe and Violet boft introduced themselves before Lily stood up, "Nice to meet you boft, I hope to see you in the sorting ceremony." she smiled. "Oh, and I hope I get Gryffindor." She whispered.

"She was nice.. anyway, what house do you think you'll be sorted into?" Violet asked.

"I think Ravenclaw is quite cool, but Hufflepuff is also great. I'm okay with either of them!" Chloe exclaimed.

"Cool! I think I'm going to be either a Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, I'm not too sure." Violet explained. "Mum was a Gryffindor, and dad was a Ravenclaw." She added.

The trolley lady came and offered some candy, Chloe declined, Violet took a chocolate frog.

"Do you collect cards?" Chloe asked.

Violet nodded, "Yeah, I've been collecting for a while!" She exclaimed. "What about you?"

Chloe shrugged, "I collect some, I don't have a huge collection on it though." Chloe replied.

• • •

When the train stopped, Violet and Chloe followed a giant man. The man was named Hagrid, Violet kept her distance. Though, he seem like a nice person.

Violet boarded the boat with Chloe, then another girl joined them. She had black hair(which is in a ponytail), and hazel eyes.

"Hi, the name's Tiffany Glashow." She said. "Sorry to come out of nowhere, my friends left me. I guess that's my fault, I took too long." She frowned.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Chloe and that's Violet." Chloe greeted.

"Where are your friends?" Violet asked. Tiffany pointed towards a boat with a group of people. There was an awkward moment of silence.

"What house do you think you'll be sorted to, Tiffany?" Violet asked, trying to make things less awkward.

"I think I'll probably be sorted to Slytherin." She sighed. "My whole family are all Slytherins, but.. I don't think my friends are gonna be there."

Chloe noticed Tiffany isn't too fond of Slytherins, "I'm sure if you ask the sorting hat, it'll put your choice into consideration. But, I think you'll do great in Slytherin anyway."

Violet nodded in agreement. "My sister was a Slytherin, she's great! She graduated last year." Violet praised.

Soon, things weren't awkward anymore. Hogwarts was already enjoyable, and they haven't even entered the castle.

• • •

The first years waited outside the great hall, some were sweating, some were excited, and some just wanted to get it over with.

Chloe seems to be overall excited, Violet was smiling, Tiffany was nervous about what to ask the sorting hat.

The great hall door opened and the first year entered. The ceiling looked like the night sky, and there were floating candles everywhere.

At the end of the great hall, Professor McGonagall, the headmistress of Hogwarts, held the sorting hat.

Soon, the names were called.

"Winstlyn, Chloe."

Chloe sat on the chair, and her vision was covered when the sorting hat was placed on her head.

'Interesting, I see you are very clever. You'd do well in Ravenclaw, but, you are also loyal. Hufflepuff wouldn't be too bad either. Where to put you.. better be..'

"Hufflepuff!" The hat roared. The Hufflepuff table applauded, Chloe beamed and ran over to sit with the other Hufflepuffs. Violet waved at her, before giving her attention back to the sorting hat.

"Faulters, Lily." The girl with ginger hair came forward, it was the girl they met in the train.

"Gryffindor!"

"Zeagans, Alicia." A girl with curly blonde hair, and hazel eyes stepped forward.

"Hufflepuff!"

And the list goes on, finally Violet was called. "Belasco, Violet."

Violet stepped forward, the sorting hat was placed on top of her head. It began to speak..

'I see, you're parents were in Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Correct? I see, you have the wit of a Ravenclaw, and the bravery of a Gryffindor. You'd do great in boft. Better be..'

"Ravenclaw!"

The Ravenclaw table cheered. Violet grinned and walked over to sit with the other Ravenclaws. Before she did, she caught a glimpse of Professor McGonagall's scroll.

Chloe Winstlyn, Hufflepuff
Lily Faulters, Gryffindor
Alicia Zeagans, Hufflepuff
Tiffany Glashow, Gryffindor
Madison Ree, Slytherin
Natalie Caslin, Hufflepuff
Violet Belasco, Ravenclaw

Turns out, there weren't many Ravenclaws or Slytherins this year.

Violet's POV
"Hi there, I'm Malcom." A boy sitting next to me greeted. "Malcolm Galory."

"Hi Malcom, are you a first year too?" I asked. Waiting for the other students to be sorted.

He nodded, "Congrats on getting into Ravenclaw!" He cheered. I grinned, and thanked him.

"You too."

Professor McGonagall finished her speech and now the great hall was filled with delicious food. I saw Tiffany from the Gryffindor table and waved at her. I did the same to Chloe.

"Do you play Quidditch?" Malcom asked.

I shrugged, "I play some at home, I'm not sure if I'm good enough to be in the team though."

"You should try it out, I always wanted to play Quidditch." He said, playing with his food.

"Why didn't you?" I asked.

"Dad broke his rib when he was a beater back then. He told me I have to be atleast fourteen before I could try." He sighed.

I tried to cheer him up, "I heard we're having flying practice soon, you can start there!"

This was going to be an exciting year.

A/N: This is a collaboration between me and CounterChloe!  OCs were mostly made together.
The reason that the first part of the chapter was in third-person-view, was because it would be difficult. From now on, we (hopefully) will be using first-person-view. It will be switched regularly.