Secrets In Blood

Ch: 8

A Harry Potter Fanfiction

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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. You should really know that by now though, even by just looking at my profile. :P

A/N: If you don't like, don't read. It's that simple.

Last Chapter: 'I hear a bushy-haired girl whispering about how she read in 'Hogwarts a History', about the ceiling being enchanted to look like the night sky, and then a collective gasp as everyone looks up at the ceiling.

Theo and I look up, after everyone else has.

'Wow.' I think.

Theo agrees.'
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Harry's POV:

We walk forward with the others and we watch as McGonagall brings a three-legged stool out and sits a beat-up hat on it.

The sorting begins with the raggedy hat, singing. Then McGonagall starts call out names, starting with 'Abbot, Hannah'.

I tune her out, wondering how those boys know me. And why they were arguing about me.

Theo taps my arm, and I look up.

Another student gets sorted, and then McGonagall calls out 'Majora, Theodore.'

Theo walks up to the stool, and sits down on it.

He waves at me before the hat is placed on his head.

We all wait several minutes, until the hat calls out, "HUFFLEPUFF!"

Theo smiles at me and then walks to the Hufflepuff table.

McGonagall calls out a few more names, until she reaches mine.

She calls out my name, "Potter, Harry.

For some reason, the whole hall goes silent.

I hear different whispers like; "Did she say Harry Potter?", "Harry potter as in the Harry Potter? ", and from the Gryffindor(?) table, "I hope we get him! "

This leaves me with aplenty questions.

How do they all know my name?

Why do they seem so shocked that I exist?

And why do they think I'm going to be in Gryffindor??

I walk up to the stool and sit on it.

The hall goes silent again, and I see so many eyes on me.

McGonagall puts the hat on my head, and the brim covers my eyes.

Then the strangest thing happens.

The hat tries to breach my Occlumency shields.

My eyes go wide in panic.

Theo whispers in my mind, 'It's okay 'Ry. You have to let it in, so it can sort you.'

'But Ragnok said that Dumbledore is a Legilimens. I don't want him to get into my head!'

He replies, 'So make it swear on the magic of Hogwarts that any Legilimens in the hall can't get into your mind and that it won't relay anything in your mind back to them, or anyone else. That's what I did.'