Inseparable

CHAPTER NINE

"Cygnus Black!" Dumbledore called out. 

A boy walked up to the stool, and Dumbledore put the dusty old hat on his head. A minute later, the hat shouted to the hall, "SLYTHERIN!"

Harry was shocked, never had he ever heard a hat speak.

The boy walked over to the green table with students wearing black robes with green accents. 

The students waited patiently until Dumbledore called their names. The girl from the boat's name was called "Myrtle Warren!"

She almost tripped over the small step where the front area was. The hat took a minute to decide her house and finally settled on "RAVENCLAW!" 

Tom calculated that it would be their turn soon as Dumbledore seemed to be calling out names in alphabetical order. And because they couldn't remember their surnames, they went by the name of 'Wool', just like all the other orphans without any identification. 

As expected, the next person to be called out was "Tom Wool!" Like all previous students, he walked up to the stool and sat down. Dumbledore places the hat on his head, and he could hear a voice in his head. 

'Hello Tom,' the voice said.

'Who are you?' Tom thought back.

'I am the sorting hat. Now, let's see, you have great ambitions. Goals for the future, I think Slytherin would do you well.'

Before Tom could think anything in response, the hat shouted to the entire hall "SLYTHERIN!"

Dumbledore took the hat off Tom's head, and Tom walked towards the table de orated in green. 

"Harry Wool!" was called out next by Dumbledore. Harry walked up to the stool, and Dumbledore put the hat on his head.

Harry heard a voice in his head; it said 'Harry Wool.... what a mind you have. You seem to want to prove yourself badly, but, you also want to make true friends.'

"SLYTHERIN!" the hat shouted out to the hall. 

Harry followed the path in which Tom took only a few moments ago. He sat in the empty space next to him and watched as the few remaining new students were sorted. 

Opposite Harry, he recognised one of the boys to be Abraxas and the other to be Cygnus Black, the first on to be sorted. Harry remembered that there were quite people from the house of black. Harry looked around the room, admiring the floating candles and inchanted ceiling. 

Tom, however, his eyes landed on the head table, and he examined the teachers. He noticed Ogg and Dumbledore sitting next to each other. He saw an old wizard in the middle of the table; he guessed it was the headmaster. He was proven correct as the wizard in the middle stood up and said "Hello to the new students and welcome back to previous students, I am headmaster Dippet. To the new students and a reminder to the previous ones, Ravenclaw won the house cup last year, and if you are interested in winning it this year, you must earn house point good actions will give you points, negative ones will take them away. Now, that's enough of that, let the feast begin." He clapped his hands and food filled the tables.

The hall began to fill with other chatters as people talked about what they did over the summer. Harry noticed that the students sat in an order with the first years closest to the head table, the seventh years furthest away and the rest in between, ordered by year. 

"So are you two brothers?" Cygnus stated, looking at them pointedly.

"No." Harry said, but then he paused, "at least, I don't think we are."

"What do you mean at least I don't think we are," Abraxas said, gaining interest in the conversation his friend started.

"We don't know our family name; we’re orphans, we took the orphanage name," Harry explained.