Four broken boys

The Sorting

"I don't know what you two were thinking!" McGonagall yelled. "Have you any idea how appalled I am!"

She glared at both of them angrily.

"Never in my entire career have two students fought like this!" She slammed her hands down on her desk, making them both jump. "And from my own house! You two are an embarrassment to Gryffindor!"

McGonagall turned her back to look out the window and took a deep breath. Lily opened her mouth to say something when James elbowed her lightly, giving her a look that plainly said 'not now'. McGonagall turned round and they both instantly straightened.

"Mr Potter, tell me your side of the story." She said calmly but menacingly.

"Well, I was getting out the carriage and I slipped and fell down." James began, reddening. "And Eva-I mean Lily made fun of me... So I errrr... Might've pulled her down."

Lily opened her mouth once again but was silenced by McGonagall.

"What happened after that."

"She pulled me down when I tried to get up and hit me with my shoe." James finished with a glower at the girl next to him.

"Miss Evans, your side of the story." McGonagall demanded.

"Well professor, when James jumped out the carriage I laughed at him along with everyone else, but he pulled me down." Lily began with a flick of her short, red hair. "Then, because I was angry at him professor, I pulled him down when he tried to get up, and then he kicked me."

"Then she wrestled me!"

"He got mud in my hair!"

"It was all her fault!"

"It was all his fault!"

"Evans, Potter!" McGonagall shouted again, making both mouths snap shut. "Have you no shame?"

They both looked away.

"Miss Evans, I expected more from you." She spoke as Lily looked down sadly. "And Mr Potter... I don't expect much from you but... You sank a lot lower."

"Both of you!" She added when she saw Lily's satisfied smirk. "Now, both of you will have detentions every night for two weeks and fifty points will be lost each." She said over the outrage.

"But professor!" James protested. "That's too much! Why!"

"Please professor, I'll do anything!" Lily pleaded.

"Silence both of you!" She yelled. "Because you two have not an ounce of shame you will serve your detentions together!"

James and Lily didn't say anything since they'd never seen McGonagall so angry.

"You will both sit here and because of your childish behavior you will miss the feast and the sorting." McGonagall said in a much calmer tone, conjuring a plate of sandwiches and two wooden chairs.

James opened his mouth to protest again but Lily kicked him with a glare.

"I shall go write to your families." She said as she left the room, locking it.

James and Lily glared at each other. James hungrily grabbed a sandwich and, while still glaring, bit into it ravenously. Lily mirrored James' actions but more dainty and polite, a sudden change from the violent wrestling from earlier. They stayed that way.

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"Black, Regulus."

Regulus took a deep breath and walked up to the stool attempting to displaying a confidence he did not own. He sat down and just before the hat covered his eyes he could see the hopeful look on Sirius' face and, out of the corner of his eye he could see his cousins, grinning. The hat covered his sight in darkness.