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Chapter One Hundred And Thirty-One: Never Interrupt Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

On the way to the carriages, Lina got separated from Harry and Ginny. She couldn't notice any of her friends nor could she hear Hagrid's yelling for the first years. Where was he?

"Lee!" A familiar voice yelled.

Lina looked behind her and saw the twins and Lee Jordan approaching her.

"Thank Merlin" Lina sighed, "I thought I was going to have to find a random carriage."

George took Lina's cat carrier and the four loaded into a carriage, shortly after they had sat down it started its journey up to the castle.

"Sort all your business out?" Lina asked the three boys.

"Yeah" they answered grinning as wide as a Cheshire cat.

"We need to talk to you later," Fred said directly to Lina, he gave her a knowing look that Lina assumed had something to do with their joke empire.

"Sure" Lina shrugged "I'll be with you three a lot this year anyway."

The carriage came to a halt, and Lina got out first followed by Fed, George and Lee. The castle windows were twinkling with candlelight, despite her earlier foreboding feelings Lina couldn't deny she was home.

The entrance hall was ablaze with torches and echoing with footsteps as students headed to the great hall for the start of term feast.

Lina left Fred, George and Lee to go to the Hufflepuff table where she sat closest to the great oak doors and alone. Lina puffed out her cheeks and looked around the hall, she caught Tony's eye who gave her a smile and a double thumbs up.

The Hufflepuff table slowly began to fill up, the girls from Lina's dorm sat in the empty spaces around her and greeted her with a polite hello but none of the girls made an effort to continue the conversation. Lina didn't care, those girls had never been her friends why would they make that connection in their last year.

Lina looked around the hall, Hagrid was missing from the teacher's table and there was a new addition sat there too. The women were sat in the Defence Against the Dark Arts table. She was squat, with short, curly, mouse-brown hair in which she had placed a horrible pink alive band that matched the fluffy pink cardigan she wore over her pink robes, her face was toad-like and she had a pair of prominent, pouchy eyes. Who was she?

Professor Grubbly - Plank had now taken her seat at the teacher's table meaning that the first years were now with Professor McGonagall and would be entering the hall only moments later. Sure enough, a few seconds later, the door for the entrance hall was leading a long line of nervous first years up to the front where on a stool the sorting hat was placed.

The buzz of talk in the hall slowly died as they stopped and waited anxiously for the sorting hat to sing it's song.

In times of old when I was new
And Hogwarts barely started
The founders of our noble school
Thought never to be parted:
United by a common goal,
They had the selfsame yearning,
To make the worlds best magic school
And pass along their learning.
'Together we will build and teach!'
The four good friends decided
And never did they dream that they
Might someday be divided,
For were there such friends anywhere
As Slytherin and Gryffindor?
Unless it was the second pair
Of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?
So how could it have gone so wrong?
How could such friendships fail?
Why, I was there and so can tell
The whole sad, sorry tale.
Said Slytherin, 'we'll teach just those
Whose ancestry is purest.'
Said Ravenclaw, 'we'll teach those whose
Intelligence is surest.'
Said Gryffindor, 'we'll teach all those
With brave deeds to their name.'
Said Hufflepuff 'I'll teach the lot,
And treat them just the same.'
These difference caused little strife
When first they came to light,
For each of the four founders had
A house in which they might
Take only those they wanted, so,
For instance, Slytherin
Took only pure-blood wizards
Of great cunning, just like him,
And only those of sharpest mind
Were taught by Ravenclaw
While the bravest and the boldest
Went to daring Gryffindor.
Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest,
And taught them all she knew,
Thus the houses and their founders
Retained friendships firm and true.
So Hogwarts worked in harmony
For several happy years,
But then discord crept among us
Feeding on our faults and fears.
The houses that, like pillars four,
Had once held up our school,
Now turned upon each other and,
Divided, sought to rule.
And for a while, it seemed the school
Must meet an early end,
What with duelling and with fighting
And the clash of friend on friend
And at last there came a morning
When old Slytherin departed
And though the fighting then died out
He left us quite downhearted.
And never since the founders four
We're whittled down to three
Have the houses been united
As they once were meant to be.
And now the sorting hat is here
And you all know the score:
I sort you into houses
Because that is what I'm for,
But this year I'll go further,
Listen closely to my song:
Though condemned I am to split you
Still, I worry that it's wrong,
Though I must fulfil my duty
And must quarter every year
Still I wonder whether sorting
May not bring the end I fear.
Oh, Know the perils, read the signs,
The warning history shows,
For our Hogwarts is in danger
From external, deadly foes
And we must unite insider her
Or we'll crumble from within
I have told you, I have warned you...
Let the sorting now begin