Hugs 🌟✨ A Harry Potter story

Chapter Five:Provoked Potters

Food appeared on steaming trays upon the 4 great tables, and students from all houses eagerly grabbed food and piled it on to the golden plates in front of them, talking filled the hall as students continued conversations that had been left behind and started new ones about this year's sorting and what it could mean. Halfway through the feast the hall doors opened again and Harry entered the hall his face covered in blood. Everyone stopped talking to stare at him, Lauren flinched in her seat before glaring at her brother and spinning away too resolutely look down at her plate.

Conversations resumed as Harry walked down the aisle quickly to take a seat with his friends at the top of the table. Harry sat and took some food from a platter nearest to him and put it on his plate, "Hi Kai, HI Lau..." he had looked up at that moment and realised his younger sister wasn't sat with them. instantly becoming worried "where's Lauren? Did something happen?" He asked needing to know the answer.
"Harry," Hermione said carefully "Lauren was sorted into slytherin."
"... your joking, Lauren as in MY sister? The one who is idiotically reckless?"
"Yes."
"But... how!?"
"Well obviously that's where the creepy mind seeing hat sorted her" Kai said in a quietly sarcastic tone.
"Surely the sorting hat has been wrong before?" Harry said looking almost pleadingly at Hermione. After all she knew everything to Harry's knowledge.
Before Hermione could answer Kai responded this time in a more confident voice than he had ear- lier "actually the hat is capable of making mistakes but will never admit to it, and wrong placements can be attributed to choice of the person if you think about it."
There was a pause in which Hermione's expression flicked from shocked to delight, "you've read Hogwarts a history?" She exclaimed.
Harry sat staring at the younger boy as Ron said "oh great we have another Hermione."
"Im going to talk to her" Just as Harry was getting up Dumbledore stood and went to the platform to make his start of term speech forcing Harry to reclaim his seat for the time being.

"Welcome to Hogwarts to new and old alike. As you all I'm sure have seen from the news the re- turn of the dark wizard Voldemort has now officially been recogniaed and as such the highest safe- ty measures are being taken. There are trained aurors posted throughout the school and its grounds as well as protective spells and barriers placed on the perimeter of the school. As such the list of banned objects has been increased and you were all searched upon your entrance to the school. I should therefore not need to remind you that the forest is forbidden hence its alliterative name. And finally before you all head off to bed there have been two changes of staff this year; Professor Horace Slughorn has agreed to come out of retirement and take up his old position as potions master and professor Snape has moved to the position of defence against the dark arts professor." At this statement a ripple of shocked murmurs went through the hall which grew into animated discussion once Dumbledore had dismissed them and instructed prefects to show the first years to the house common room and dormitories. Students filled the entrance way leaving a backlog in the great hall, this gave Harry an opportunity to attempt to find his younger sister in the crowd he wasn't successful until they reached the entrance hall...

He saw Lauren heading towards the stairs down to the dungeons, pushing his way through the crowd calling her name; she turned and saw him approaching preparing herself for the forthcoming argument, cracking her neck and rolling her shoulders back. "Yes" she asked with forced calm. "What happened?" He asked after a sizeable pause.
"I was sorted into slytherin, obviously."
"Well I guessed that but why? How?"
"I belong here..."
"But. But you aren't a slytherin! You can't be."
Lauren bristled at this "Oh? And why is that? Because you say so I suppose. Well let me tell you something Harry James potter contrary to popular belief the world doesn't revolve around you and not everything has to suit you! Maybe I was put in this house because it will make me a better per- son or maybe it was just so I didn't have to put up with you!" Her accent had become more north- ern as she got more annoyed by her brother's idiocy. The entrance hall had come to a standstill around the siblings as they argued back and forth.
"You know the reputation of that house and what affect it has had on our lives! You can't help where your sorted but did you even try not to be?" Harry hissed with a matched transition in to their mother's Northern tone.
"No I didn't because that's where I was supposed to go. I'm not scared just because I was sorted into a house with a bad reputation. In case you had forgetting there are bad people from other houses remember Peter Pettigrew? And who knows maybe I'll improve the house so much that everyone will want to be in slytherin."
Harry and Lauren were glaring daggers at each other, eyes all around the hall were flickering be- tween the pair as if it was a quidditch match. The teachers had come out to see what all the com- motion was about.
"How am I supposed to protect you in slytherin?"
"Protect me! PROTECT ME! I don't need protecting I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself thank you very much. In fact I would probably be the one defending and protecting you most of the time!"
"Unlikely" At that Lauren had thrown herself at Harry in an attempt to hit him, a shield charm was thrown up between the pair just before Lauren could cause any harm.
"I suggest you all leave to your common rooms now, potter the both of you I will see you in my of- fice tomorrow to discuss this little spectacle and your parents shall be informed. Now off to bed" the students all filed off again the first years finding the precepts again to follow them, Lauren joined the slytherin prefect after one last death stare at her brother.

Uh Just as they were heading off to the common rooms Lauren heard Kai's voice "Lauren?" He said questioningly still staring at the place the argument had taken place, Hermione was stood just be- hind him waiting for him as Harry and Ron had gone off up ahead.
"Yeah Kai."
"See you tomorrow? For breakfast?" He asked hopefully.
She smiled "of course. Great hall 8ish?" Smile lighting up her face. At least Kai still wanted to talk to her.
"Definitely." He said a genuine smile spreading across his face making his eyes seem to become brighter, "see you then"
"Not if I see you first." Lauren smirked and watched as he turned and walked off with Hermione be- fore turning and following the remaining fifth year prefect who had been waiting rather impatiently for her. TV