The United

Chapter 2 : The Sorting

Professor Longbottom started to call the names of the first-years to be sorted, they went up in alphabetical order. Scorpius would be first out of Albus's new friends. Albus thought Scorpius was likely to be sorted into Slytherin, as he was the slyest person Albus knew.

The students would walk up, sit on the stool, hat on their head and the hat would shout their house, they then stumbled towards the table that was cheering. Albus went over this sequence in his head. He was in the middle of repeating it for the fifth time, when suddenly Professor Longbottom called, "Malfoy, Scorpius."

Scorpius walked calmly to the stool only his hands shaking gave him away. The Hat barely touched his blonde spiky hair before shouting, "SLYTHERIN!" as Albus had predicted. Scorpius took the hat off his head, turned to Albus, Rose and Emma smiled and walked towards Slytherin the only table that weren't catcalling. Up next was Emma she became a Hufflepuff, she grimaced at Rose and Albus. After a little while Professor Longbottom called "Potter, Albus," a slight smile on his face.

Albus stumbled towards the stool his heart beating he wondered whether he was going to be sick. Professor Longbottom smiled encouragingly at him as the hat was pushed over his head slipping down over his eyes. A tiny voice spoke in his ear.

"My there is a lot of stuff in your head."

"Please not Slytherin," thought Albus.

"I wasn't going to say Slytherin. I was going to say- RAVENCLAW!"

This last word was screamed out to the Hall and the hat was taken oof of his head for him. He stumbled towards Ravenclaw dazed. As he passed the Gryffindors he spotted his brother staring at him mouth slightly open.

Albus sat down as people clapped him on the back. This was the most frightening position Albus had ever been in, he had just taken it for granted that he would be sorted into Gryffindor with Rose if he didn't choose Slytherin. He didn't know anyone in Ravenclaw even Victoire was in Gryffindor, all his family were. He raised his head to see Rose become a Gryffindor and go to sit next to James who started talking and looking at Albus. He stared down miserably at his plate. The last person , "Yanny, Tiffany," was sorted into Slytherin and the Headmistress Professor McGonagall stood up to speak to the Hall which fell quiet.

"Forstly I would like to welcome all students to Hogwarts old and new. We hope you enjoy your time here and work very hard. Secondly and lastly let's enjoy this wonderful feast."

The Hall applauded and Albus looked back at the table to find it layered with fod. Albus remembering how hungry he was picked himself a large pork roast. The Hall was full of chatter and laughter, Albus slightly more relaxed as he listened to others' conversations. He looked over at the Hufflepuff table and spotted Emma looking at him. They smiled and waved at eachother. He turned to look at Rose who was still in conversation with James. Scorpius had found himself some admirers but still winked at Albus from across the hall.