As Albus walked up to the Sorting Hat, he realized he was no longer nervous. If he was in Slytherin, so be it. If he was in Gryffindor, fantastic. He knew it was highly unlikely that he would be in any other house than Gryffindor, so why worry? He would do great even if he was in Hufflepuff! The hat hit his head and shouted "Slytherin!". Ok, that he wasn't expecting. Neither was the entire school, apparently. It took a few seconds for the Slytherin's to start clapping and cheering, and the rest of the school was just staring. Albus slowly walked over to the Slytherin table.
"Bloody hell! I didn't actually mean he might go in Slytherin! This is absolutely ridiculous! Albus, you go back to that ruddy hat and get sorted into Gryffindor!" James Potter shouted from Gryffindor table. Albus stopped and stared at him with wide eyes.
"James Potter, enough of this nonsense!" Professor McGonagall shouted.
"Go on and sit at your house table, Albus." Professor McGonagall said quietly. Albus walked to Slytherin table and sat as far away from Malfoy as possible.
Rose Weasley watched all this with wide eyes. As far as she knew, all of their family was in Gryffindor. She knew of one Weasley relative that had been sorted into Slytherin or something, but nobody really talked about him. She didn't want that to be Albus' fate. Though Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny were quite understanding and loving, so that probably wouldn't happen. Oh Uncle George is going to tease him about this forever. And what was James doing? Rose thought. She heard Wazlib, Roonil get sorted into Gryffindor and then it was her turn.
"Weasley, Rose!" Professor McGonagall shouted. Rose walked apprehensively to the Sorting Hat. The hat went over her head and everything went black. Another Weasley? How many of you are there? I know just where to place you…wait…you have lots of loyalty…ambition…bravery…and oh my, what's this! An incredible intelligence and thirst for knowledge…but is that outweighed by bravery? Hmm…I know just where to put you, yes better be "Ravenclaw!" the hat shouted. The Ravenclaw's immediately applauded and cheered for Rose while she walked over to the table. The other people were completely shocked, but Rose was delighted. It was all she could do to not run over to the Ravenclaw table.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? IS THE END OF THE WORLD COMING? SHE IS A WEASLEY FOR GODS SAKE!" James screamed from the Gryffindor table.
"Detention Mr Potter!" Professor McGonagall shouted.
Rose sat at the table next to a black haired girl and a blonde girl. As Rose looked around the table she realized everyone was exceptionally beautiful. Even the ghost was attractive! A few people smiled and waved at her. They all stood up for Hogwarts' anthem and listened raptly at McGonagall's speech, which included welcoming first years, the Forbidden Forrest was, well, forbidden, Fanged Frisbees were banned by Filch, and then some odd words that were quite out of character for McGonagall. They were "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" and the feast had started.
