----------------------------> SIRIUS BLACK WAS FORCED TO FEEL APPARATION FOR THE SECOND BUT NOT LAST TIME IN HIS LIFE, when he, Aquila, Regulus and his mother were apparating to Kings Cross.
"Silly way to go to a prestigious wizarding school if you ask me. A Muggle train!" Walburga said. "Now, are you ready? Sirius, don't forget, you simply have to get to Slytherin, so I can win a bet against Orion. He thinks you will be a Gryffindor, simply preposterous. I'll lose about fifty Galleons, ten Sickles and five Knuts if you are a Gryffindor."
"But why did you bet so much? You would lose so much -if you lost, that is. And I wouldn't bet so much. I would do just 10 Galleons out of my precious allowance" Aquila said.
"Well, you know what House I'm going to get Sorted into" Sirius whispered to Regulus, who was to go to Hogwarts next year.
"Yes" Regulus said. "Gryffindor, because that's how you are" he whispered back.
"Now if you all wouldn't mind, I need to meet Adelina and Evan now. So move." Aquila said, shoving Regulus to the side before walking over to Adelina Greengrass and Evan Rosier.
"Evan!" Aquila said, hugging him. "You're the new Quidditch Captain?" she said, noticing his badge.
"Yes!" he said proudly. "Have you seen Adele? I can't find her."
"No, but maybe she'll be on the Hogwarts Express already. You know, the same old, time concerned Adele. Doesn't look like she has changed over the summer"
"Maybe"
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----------------------------------> "...AND THAT'S HOW YOU BLACKMAIL A GHOST" Aquila finished with a smile to an awed Sirius. It turned out that Adelina was sitting with her ever-annoying sister, Celeste, and Celeste's best friend, Elisabetta Selwyn. If they looked out the compartment window, they would see Regulus was tearfully waving to them, while Walburga will be mouthing 'Get into Slytherin' to Sirius.
"Now we have to change into our robes. Come on!" Aquila said after a while.
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-------------------------->"ABBOT, ALYSSA" Professor McGonagall said. Alyssa Abbot was Sorted into Hufflepuff. "Avery, Nicolas" was a Slytherin, but "Anderson, Alice" was the first Ravenclaw. Sirius' stomach clenched when the B's started. First came "Bentley, Martin" the first Gryffindor, and then...
"Black, Sirius!"
Sirius' legs felt like jelly when he walked up to the stool and closed his eyes tightly. After a few minutes (of which Sirius wouldn't want to explain), the Hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!".
There were mutters. Horrible, low mutters which made Sirius feel sick to his stomach. How could a Black be sorted into Gryffindor? More importantly, what would Mother say?
Until there was a clap from the Slytherin table. "I didn't know that people from our esteemed school could let their judgement cloud their mind. That they could forget how to clap." the cold and authoritative voice of Aquila Black said. Slowly, everyone started clapping while Sirius was making his way to the Gryffindor table. Hardy anyone made space for him, except for a girl-her name was Marilyn something, Sirius remembered.
He mostly zoned out, until he heard "Potter, James!" called out. James, as expected, got into Gryffindor, but Rosalie got sorted into Ravenclaw. The look on James' face was priceless, so much so that Sirius wished he had got the thing muggles called 'camera', just so he could take a picture.
"Hey, that's rude" James said
"What is?" Sirius asked, not knowing he voiced his thoughts aloud.
"Nothing, except you said my face was priceless and you wished he had got the thing muggles called 'camera', just so you could take a picture of my face."
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---------------------->AFTER THE FEAST, AQUILA AND LUCIUS MALFOY HAD TO WELCOME THE SLYTHERIN FIRST YEARS. Lucius had a sneer fixed in place, as usual, when they lead the firsties into the Common Room.
"Welcome, first year Slytherins" Aquila said, an enchanting, gorgeous, transfixing smile on her lovely face. Lucius coughed. "The moment you all got sorted into Slytherin, you were branded as evil, and nothing you do can change that."
"And that is why Slytherins always, always stick together."
"Us Slytherins are like snakes. Mighty, cunning, and everything else a snake is. Another example: snakes are misunderstood, and so are we"
"Slytherin's qualities are being ambitious, cunning, determined, strong leader skills, and many more"
"And Slytherin will be the house where you will do great things"
If you need any help, ask the Prefects, or the Slytherin Council, a group with select people for managing and helping Slytherins."
"The secondary Silver Leader, called a princess, is the black-haired, grey-eyed idiot, also known as Aquila Black"
"And the secondary Green Leader, known as the Slytherin prince, is this arrogant bleached fool here, Lucius Malfoy" with a look to Lucius that said: Watch out, Lucy. Two can play this game. And damn him, his traitorous lips twisted into a smile. Aquila had a hard time looking away.
Pull yourself together! she yelled at herself. This is Lucius Malfoy, an- an-
"That is all. Now chop chop, you have your first classes tomorrow!"
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