The Blood of the Chosen One (On hold for now)

Chapter 4: Decision and Friends

Cora was still completely in shock, pale and trembling by the words of the Sorting Hat. If she was not selected for a house... would she return to her home with her parents? How would she look at them to the face? It would disappoint them...

—Professor McGonagall: there has to be a mistake! —exclaimed Malfoy getting up suddenly of his seat—. Avery can't be not selected for a house! It's a blunder! —stated with an offended air the Slytherin—. My father will ear about this!

—Mr Malfoy silence. The decision of the Sorting Hat is always right and irrevocable. —answered Professor McGonagall with a cutting and cold tone, making that the fair-haired child sat down again with a shirred gesture—. Now, we will take care of miss Avery. —she added with a softer voice, turning towards Professor Dumbledore.

—Let the party... begin. —Professor Dumbledore said after getting up of his seat and after waving on a slight way his hands.

As soon as he did it, the meal and drink appeared all of a sudden in tfront of the astonished children who had just came to Hogwarts. After having given the meal to the children, Professor Dumbledore did a gesture to two of his teachers: Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall. These got up on a silent way, and together with the director of Hogwarts, escorted the hooded girl towards another location. They made her to enter another completely different place, being this one a small room that was provided with a bed, closets, mirror, and had its own toilet.

—Well miss Avery, I have to say that you are a box full of suprises... —mentioned Dumbledore with a certain mystery air in his words—. It is the first time that I see in the years I've been in Hogwarts, that the Sorting Hat refuses to sort a student to one of the houses.

—That is true Albus, in fact, it makes us to raise a few questions. —mentioned the profesor of potions—. And if the young girl has been sent here being a muggle without we knowing it? If so, this pantomime has gone too far. That, and the audacity of wearing this hood to cover her face. —Snape added with some distrust and reluctance.

—I-I haven't done anything... I received the letter and came here: I swear it! —said Cora almost at the edge of tears—. My parents are wizards, they also studied here... —she mentioned, as the tears started to fall from her eyes.

—Tell me miss Avery, what was what the Sorting Hat said? —Professor McGonagall asked, giving her a handkerchief so that she could dry her tears.

—He began to describe my personality, and then... exclaimed: "But what?". That's all what happened. —the girl answered her while she dried her tears.

—Well, it seems that I must speak with the Sorting Hat. When I've done it I will communicate it to you. —said Dumbledore looking at the girl—. Miss Avery don't worry, it hasn't been an error that you came here. I'm sure that there is an explanation. —he added before leaving the place.

As soon as the director left the room, Cora was left along with Snape and McGonagall, who watched her with relative distrust. It took two hours for Professor Dumbledore to return, meanwhile, the girl had started a slight conversation with Professor McGonagall, as it gave her some fear talking to Professor Snape, whose gaze hadn't left her during that period of time.

—Everything is already clear. I have spoken with the Sorting Hat and her parents. —said the director after entering the room—. As I suspected from the beginning, we have before us a really special case. Miss Cora Avery has not been sent to Hogwarts by mistake, she is, in fact, a very promising witch. Of course, the Sorting Hat had his reasons to not place her in any house. —Dumbledore explained calmly.

—Well? How is it that the hat has not sorted her for any house? —asked Snape with a serious tone, not kind at all.

—Patience Severus, now I will explain it. —said Professor Dumbledore—. The girl here present has each and every one of the qualities that are needed to enter Gryffindor, but also the qualities to enter Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. So, we can conclude that Cora is a talented witch capable of entering any of the houses of Hogwarts, for that reason the Sorting Hat could not choose only one of them. — explained Dumbledore with a warm smile directed to the girl—. In addition to that, miss Avery showed neither any predisposition nor favoritism for any of the houses, therefore I have come to an agreement with the hat.