8 Ch 8 The Sorting

We disembarked the boats and walked up to the castle as we followed he Hagrid, he was a giant of a man and kept sending strange looks towards me as we headed up to the castle.

Hogwarts itself was a rather large castle, similar in size to my first fortress at Sea Dragon Point In my past life but instead of Black stone, Hogwarts was made of fine white marble.

It was night out and the thousands of windows on the castle shimmered with yellow candlelight in the darkness.

We entered through a large archway and proceeded up wide stone steps until we reached the end... Professor McGonagall waited for us at the summit, standing just outside of the large engraved double doors that led to the dining hall.

As we approached she cleared her throat and began to speak aloud for all incoming students to hear.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts.... You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend free time in your house common room.

The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule-breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the House Cup, a great honour. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours."

I saw the look in Hermione's eyes when Professor McGonagall spoke about house points....I neared her ear and whispered.

"Don't worry about house points in the end they mean nothing.... Focus on becoming the most powerful witch that you can." 

McGonagall sent me the stink eye for being distracted but I just sent her a smile and pretended as if I did nothing wrong.

She just sighed and kept speaking.

"The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarted yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting."

Her peircing eyes lingered for a moment on Neville's cloak, which was fastened under his left ear, and on Ron's chocolate smudged nose. 

Harry tried in vain to fix his messy hair and Ron ate the chocolate that stained his face after wiping it off.

Most of the boys were on one side of the hall while most of the girls were on the other, I stood with Hermione on the girls side.

When I looked over to the group of boys huddled around eachother I spotted Draco introducing himself to Harry after saying

" You'll soon find that some wizarding families are better than others Potter...you don't want do go around making friends with the wrong sort." And extending his hand for a handshake...

Harry unknowingly made an eternal enemy when he denied his offered hand...to reject an extended hand from another Noble was a grave insult.

It conveyed that 'Youre not my equal and not worth my time' since Harry was raised as a muggle he had no idea as to proper etiquette but no one except for me and Harry knew that.

Oh well..... When Draco saw me looking over at them he quickly avoided my eyes and put some students between myself and him.

I just stood with Hermione and slipped out my black and gold wand..... the demon core on the end glowed frightfully....I noticed several students shiver when I drew it even if they weren't looking at it, the demon core had a cold evil feeling to it and the more magically sensitive students felt it.

I pointed it at Hermione and cast"Capillus ordo ornamus" and Hermione's frizzy hair instantly turned into soft curls and gained a beautiful sheen to it.....I noticed many of the girls noticed my spell and the way it beautified Hermione's hair instantly.

After noticing the change Hermione squeaked thanks and jumped on me in a warm hug for a few seconds before she realized we were surrounded by dozens of other people so she pulled away and tried to calm down as she admired her now beautiful and soft brown hair.

Daphne Greengrass who was standing with a group of the more noble girls looked especially entranced by the spell so she walked away from the group of girls and approached us.

Daphne had long and shimmering Blonde hair and Cerulean Blue Eyes with milk white skin, she was one the most pretty girl around us at the moment.

"Good Evening, I am Daphne, the Heir of Greengrass Its a pleasure to make your aquaintence." She spoke clearly and introduced herself with a very minor curtsy.

I stepped forwards and extended my hand, Noble Etiquette demands that you only take a hand if it is extended and she offered her hand immediately.

I brought her dainty hand to my lips and gave it a kiss on the knuckles before speaking.

A very minor blush appeared on her face but she was an aristocrat so flustering her would be nigh impossible without putting in the work.

"Greetings Miss Greengrass, Charmed truly... I am Helios Octavius Black, This Beauty next to me Is Hermione Granger...may I ask the reason for your approach?" 

She didn't even look over at Hermione throughout the entire conversation since it was clear that she was muggleborn, but that's just how nobles act.

"I saw the spell you just cast and was interested in it since I've never seen it before would you tell me more about it? And what book did you learn it from?" She commented.

Many of the Noble girls were listening in to our conversation, I was the best dressed and most handsome student around, the wealth and power practically radiated off of me and I had a simple looking muggle girl on my arm which drew a lot of attention

"Of course you have not seen it before Miss Daphne....it is a spell I created for these brown curls over here." I spoke as I gently touched Hermione's brown hair with my fingers.

The noble girls who listened in all looked on in envy....the lowly muggle who wasn't even pretty had the tallest, most handsome and presumably talented boy in their year make a spell for her.....they smelled injustice in the air.

Hermione on the other hand smiled sweetly and looked down when she heard I created the spell for her, although with years of using magic I had developed my magical intent greatly, so a simple spell like that would only take me a few minutes to make functional.

Daphne looked at me strangely for a few seconds as If she was having trouble processing that information.

"Mr. Black would you ever consider teaching me that spell~or any other spell~?" She asked while trying her best to act charming.

"Nothing in life is free miss Greengrass...and I don't think you are ready to pay the price." I told Daphne as Hermione pinched my ribs secretly....she knew 'the price' and grew angry at what I was insinuating.

"But we will need to speak on this another time....for now the ceremony is set to begin." I said as I walked towards the now opening double doors as I pulled Hermione along by the hand.

When we walked on through the large doors and into the well lit dining hall. 

It was massive, about seventy five meters long and forty meters wide with four long rows of tables set inside.

On the second table to the right I spotted Big Sis Nymphadora smiling sweetly at me.

When I smiled back Hermione noticed and looked directly at big Sis In jealousy.... Nymphy then blew a kiss at me then smiled smugly at Hermione.

Nymphy and Mom had already agreed to be fine with me having other women so long as they remained first....I readily agreed which was the reason why Nymphy wasn't angry with me and just teased us.

Hermione looked at me upset and asked who that pretty girl who blew the kiss at me was, I just smiled and told her I'd tell her later.

Then I looked to the End of the room to the teachers Table and spotted mom sitting next to Professor Sprout.....Mom was as beautiful as ever.... She then pointed to Hermione with a questioning look to which I responded with a nod. She then observed Hermione for a second before giving me a thumbs up as we reached just in front of the proffessors table and stood in line to get sorted.

"Who is that teacher you nodded to after she pointed at me?" Hermione asked 

"That is my mother." I told her with a smile.

"Why did you nod after she pointed at me then?" She then asked a bit confused.

"Oh she was just asking If you were mine." I told her as I gave her cheek a quick pinch.

"And who said I was yours!" She half yelled as she pinched my poor stomach again.

"You're mine already wether you like It or not and there's no way I'm letting you go." I told her as I wrapped an arm around her waist and brought her closer to me.

Instead of fighting back she just smiled meekly as she turned bright red.

We were drawing a lot of attention from the eyes of the Proffesors but what could they actually do to me? Tell my parents? Deduct house points? Hahaha like that will do anything.

Then Dumbedore stood and began his short speech about the forbidden forest being off limits, and that the third floor corridor was out of bounds unless we wished to die a most horrible death.

Then McGonagall began the sorting by calling Hermione first.

"HERMIONE, GRANGER Please step forwards and take a seat." 

When her name was called I leaned in and kissed her cheek as she walked up and some of the older boys at the tables whistled at the show of affection while the oldest girls let out an "Awww" and "They're so cute~"

I needed to mark my territory after all, and her blushing face as she sat on the stool in front of the whole school was once in a lifetime.

The Dusty Hat said aloud "Stop thinking about him so I can read your mind girl..." Out loud which drew some jeers Then she covered her face and after a few moments..."GRYFFINDOR!!!" The old hat called out and the Gryffindor table began to cheer out loud.

After a few more students such as Susan Bones and Ron Weasley it was Harrys turn.

The sorting hat began speaking aloud as soon as it touched his head "Hmm... difficult, very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There's talent, oh, yes. And a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you?"

Harry whispered in a voice only I could hear "Not Slytherin, not Slytherin...."

"Not Slytherin, eh? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It's all here, in your head. And Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness! There's no doubt about that. No?" The hat continued as if wanting to make him change his mind.

Harry whispered again, this time practically begging. "Please, not Slytherin... anything but Slytherin...."

"Well, if you're sure. Better be... GRYFFINDOR!!!!!"

The hall errupted in cheers from the Gryffindor table but this time even louder than any student before them.

The Weasley twins stood up and yelled "We got Potter! We got Potter!" While mocking the Slytherins.

Half an hour late I was the only student left as the Hall went quiet before McGonagall read my name.

"HELIOS OCTAVIUS BLACK....Please step forwards and sit on the stool."

Dumbledore looked at me curiously....he did everything he could to prevent me taking over as the Heir of House Black....but here i was....an unknown variable....I had talked to mom and found that Dumbledore had asked on numerous occasions about me and what type of person I was in subtle ways....good thing mom and Big Sis had the same enchanted rings with Legilimency guards or Dumbledore might know almost everything about me.

I walked up to the stool as the hall was filled with murmurs from all the students.

"So he's the new Heir of House Black...I heard all the blacks are insane..."... "I heard he kills muggles."..... "He's even more handsome in person.".... "But isn't his girlfriend a muggle." ... "Mabey he threatened her family."..... "Do you think he's the next dark Lord....he's too handsome to be a dark Lord."..... "how is he the brother of Tonks....he looks so scary compared to her.". "His eyes are beautiful."... Hundreds of murmurs rang out as I sat on the small wooden stool.

McGonagall raised the hat once again and brought it down towards my head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. .

(Cliffhanger because I spotted a Bosnian around here)

(Also, Luna def best girl but patience young grasshoppers..... All in due time)