Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ YuGiOh goes to Hogwarts! ❯ Sorting Hat Ceremony ( Chapter 8 )

((Finally! This took me a while to finish. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this bit. In order for me to decide whose goes where, I list down the names in alphabetical order and pick the houses out of a small box. It's true! Well, except for Yugi and Joey. I know that they'll do just great in one of the houses. Where? Just read this chapter and you'll find out ^_^))

 

“Firs' years! Firs' years over here!” a familiar voice called.

 

People pushed their way towards the door and out into the tiny dark platform. Unfortunately for everyone, the rain is coming down and people jumped at the sound of thunder over their heads. Hermione quickly put her cat, Crookshanks, in her cloak.

 

“Well, this stinks….I'm going to catch a cold if this keeps up…” Hermione complained.

 

“Hi, Hagrid!” Harry called as a gigantic silhouette came up to them.

 

“Hello there! Do you know where Yugi and his friends are? There suppose to come with me to the lake.”

 

“We're here!” a voice called behind Harry.

 

Harry turned around and saw Yugi, Joey, Marik, Ryou, and Seto.

 

“Argh! I can't believe it's raining!” Joey complained.

 

“Stop complaining you moron! We're all wet here!” Marik exclaimed in annoyance.

 

“Come along! You have to be on the boat now.” Hagrid said.

 

“Uhh….are you sure it's safe to ride on the boat at this time??” Yugi asked.

 

“Don't worry, you'll be safe when I'm around!”

 

“Well, we'll see you guys at the ceremony!” Harry said as he, Ron, and Hermione began walking up to the horseless carriages.

 

“Yeah! I hope you guys make it to Gryffindor!” Ron called.

 

They waved their goodbyes and climbed into the carriages. A few moments later, the long procession of carriages was rumbling and splashing its way up the track towards Hogwarts Castle.

 

 

They walked through the cavernous, torch lit corridors with its magnificent marble staircase and lots of ancient paintings on the walls. It brings back lots of memories to Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

 

“Remember how this place was a big mess last year?” Ron asked.

 

Harry remembered it all too well. It's all thanks to their last year's DDA teacher, Professor Umbrige. Because she was part of the ministry, everyone was mad at her, including the teachers. She made new rules, almost kicked out a couple of teachers, didn't allow students to use magic when learning, and almost killed Professor McGonagall when she's trying to protect Hagrid from leaving the school. It was chaotic. In addition to this chaos, Fred and George Weasley, Peeves, and a couple of other students joined together to make pranks on Umbridge, making a total mess in the school.

 

“That was the craziest year I ever had,” Hermione commented.

 

“Yeah. Let's hope it doesn't happen again….” Harry said.

 

As they were about to enter the Great Hall, they heard a loud crash, followed by a crackling, sinister laugh. They turned around and saw a ghost being chased down by a dirty-looking old man. It's Peeve the poltergeist and Mr. Filch the caretaker.

 

“PEEVE!” he shouted. “WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, I'LL MAKE SURE YOU WON'T ENTER THIS SCHOOL AGAIN!!!”

 

He soon stopped and panted when he saw Harry and his friends just staring at him. His face turned beet red and his rage grew rapidly when he saw Harry Potter.

 

“WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!?!? GET INSIDE THE GREAT HALL!”

 

They were startled and Ron quickly opened the door behind him to the Great Hall. Mr. Filch went back to his pursuit on Peeves.

 

“Wow…after all that happened, he's still grouchy…” Ron said as he takes a seat on the Gryffindor Table.

 

“Yeah, he's probably still angry about losing Professor Umbridge,” Harry said.

 

“I can't believe he supported that witch,” Hermione said in disgust.

 

“Hey, I wonder who's the new DDA teacher now?” Ron asked in awe.

 

They soon turned their attention to the new face on the Teacher's Table. For some weird reason, Harry has a funny feeling about the new teacher because he's wearing the same turban as the first DDA teacher, Professor Quirrel, but the difference is that it's white. Having a dark brown skin, he's wearing a beige robe and a golden earring ((Sounds familiar? ^_^)). What scares Harry is the way this new teacher stares (plus he kind of wondered whether there's something under his turban). The new teacher is staring directly at Harry like some kind of a zombie, which sends a chilling feeling down his spine. Ron then noticed that Harry's hand is shaking.

 

“Are you ok? You look like you've seen You-Know-Who or something….”

 

“I'm fine. It's just that the new teacher….”

 

“Yeah, I know what you mean. He seriously staring at you,” Ron said.

 

A few minutes later, the door opened and an overflow of first year students, including Yugi and his friends, came through. Everyone sitting on the table turned their attention to the first years, mostly on Seto, because he's so tall.

 

“Now form a line,” Professor McGonagall told the first years.

 

As they formed a line, Harry could see that Yugi is waving at him. He waved back.

 

“Where do you think Yugi and his friends will go?” Ron whispered.

 

“Dunno, but I'm pretty sure that tall guy name Seto will be in Slytherins,” Harry answered.

 

“Maybe not. After all, I heard he makes the coolest state-of-the-art gadgets in Japan,” Hermione said.

 

Hermione explained to Ron about Seto and his career. Harry ignored them and looked back at the new teacher, who's now staring at Yugi and his friends. Yugi, on the other hand, looks really surprised when he saw the new teacher staring at him. He's then talking to Joey, Marik, and Ryou as he points out to the new teacher. Harry wants to know what they're talking about, but he couldn't make out due to the noise of chatters in the room.

 

“Either he's really freaked out that the new teacher is staring at him or he knows who he is……” Harry thought.

 

Albus Dumbledore then stood up. Beaming at the students, his arms opened wide as if he's going to give all the students a big hug.

 

“Welcome!” he said. “Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to announce that we have new sixth year students that came all the way from Japan: Yugi Motou, Joey Wheeler, Marik Ishtar, Ryou Bakura, and Seto Kaiba!”

 

Almost everyone is shocked when they heard their names. The girls squealed and the boys gasp.

 

“Oh my gosh!! It's Yugi Motou! He's so hot!!”

 

“It's Yugi! You know, Duelist Kingdom and Battle City Champion of Duel Monsters!?”

 

“Seto Kaiba! Can I have your autograph! I love your cool gadgets!!”

 

“Joey Wheeler is so cool!!”

“Marik Ishtar is so hot!!!”

 

“Ryou Bakura is so mysterious…I'm gonna ask him out!”

 

“Alright students, settle down!!! We're going to begin the Sorting Hat Ceremony!” Professor McGonagall announced.

 

Loud chatters turned into quiet whispers. The Sorting Hat twitched and it began to sing its song. Harry remembers when he was in his first year. The hat told him that he would be successful in Slytherin, but the hat put him in Gryffindor. Thinking about it sort of makes him feel better. When the hat stop singing, Professor McGonagall took out a long roll of parchment.

 

“When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted.”

 

She opened the parchment and called out the names of the first years.

 

“Bakura, Ryou!”

 

“EEEK! WE LOVE YOU RYOU!”

 

Ryou smiled and gave the girls at the Hufflepuff table a blow kiss. Some of them almost fainted. Ryou sat down on the stool and Professor McGonagall put the hat on him. The hat twitched.

 

“Ahhh….what an interesting mind! Very complex I might add. Hmmm…it says here that your quite cunning and sneaky, I have a best place for you: SLYTHERIN!”

 

“Nooooo!”

 

The Hufflepuff table frowned in disappointment, and so did Ryou. As he walks slowly to the table, he began to notice that there aren't a lot of cute girls in Slytherin. As Harry looks at the expressions at Ryou's friends, they look nervous, except for Yugi, who happen to be talking to someone he never seen before. Harry is shocked. It's not a person, but a ghost, and the ghostly figure looks exactly like Yugi, only taller and looks a lot more serious

 

“Is that a new ghost??” Harry wondered.

 

“Ishtar, Marik!” Professor McGonagall called.

 

As Marik walked up to the stool, Harry could hear a couple of students praying for Marik to be on their house. Marik sat down and put on the hat.

 

“Oh what is this? An Ishtar, hm? It's been a while.”

 

Marik is puzzled when he said that.

 

“Ah…I have a perfect place for you. HUFFLEPUFF!”

 

The Hufflepuff table cheered, like they forgot about Ryou, who looked really disappointed. Marik walked to the table and sat next to the girls that Ryou gave the blow kiss to. Now Ryou looks like he's going to beat him up.

 

Few minutes later, Seto Kaiba is up. He doesn't look nervous or excited, but rather annoyed and wanted to kill himself for coming to Hogwarts. Harry could even hear Seto swear under his breath. Albus Dumbledore raised his eyebrow in interest. Seto sat on the stool and put on the hat quickly.

 

“Alright hat, just tell me where to go and I'll be on my way.”

 

“Oooo you quite impatient, my friend. I can't just tell you right away. Besides, your mind is even more complex than your friend Ryou.”

 

“It's not that complex you damn hat! Look, I'm a hard-working business man who prefer to work than do these damn magic of yours alright!?”

 

“In that case, I have a perfect for you: RAVENCLAW!”

 

Not a lot of Ravenclaw cheered. They looked rather pissed off than happy. Seto quickly sat down at the Ravenclaw table.

 

“What's his problem?” Ron asked.

 

“I guess he really doesn't like to be here..” Harry answered.

 

“Who wouldn't want to be here?!”

 

“Those who doesn't believe in magic. I guess when he stays here for a year, he'll soon be convinced.” Hermione replied.

 

After a couple of first years, Yugi Motou is next. He kind of jumped when he heard his name. He quickly sat down on the stool and put on the hat. Something went wrong with the hat, because he seems to be twitching a lot.

 

“Oh what in Merlin's name?!” the hat exclaimed. “Oh my! Oh dear! It's you!?”

 

Yugi looks a lot more nervous than ever.

 

“What is it?” Yugi asked.

 

“Why its….your mind is….so familiar…”

“Familiar?”

 

“Yes Yugi Motou. I remember ever student who put me on for thousands of years. Yes, you seem to have two minds. One of your own and another…..”

 

He twitched.

 

“A prince, or rather, a king five thousand years ago..”

 

“You mean…”

 

“Yes Yugi Motou, and I have a perfect place for you. A place where he was five thousand years ago: GRYFFINDOR!”

 

The Gryffindor table cheered louder than before.

 

“We have the King of Games!!” The Weasley twins shouted.

 

Harry, Ron, and Hermione also cheered and clapped, but Yugi doesn't look happy or shocked. He looks spooked, like something big hit him hard. Yugi sat between Harry and Ron.

 

“Well done Yugi! Now you're a Gryffindor like us!” Ron said.

 

“Yeah, I'm a Gryffindor now….” Yugi said weakly.

 

Harry was about to ask him if something's wrong, but then he realized that this isn't a good time to ask him.

 

“Something is going on…” Harry thought.

 

Finally, it's Joey's turn. Joey put on the hat and sat down.

 

“Well well. I can see plenty of courage in you. You have, how should I say it, a passionate mind. Alright, I'll put you in: GRYFFINDOR!”

 

“OH YEAH!” Joey cheered.

 

The Gryffindor table didn't cheer as loud as Yugi's. When Joey threw the hat up in the air it landed on his hand, Joey kissed it, and the room is then filled with laughter.

 

“YEAH! IM IN GRYFFINDOR!”

 

Everyone cheered and clapped, including Albus, who chuckled at his enthusiasm. Joey went to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Ron. He gave him a hi-five. After all the remaining first years was sorted out, Albus stood up.

“Let the banquet begin!”

 

Joey's mouth fell open, as dishes in front of him magically appeared, filled with food. Even Yugi is surprised, and he doesn't look spooked anymore. Everyone is stuffing themselves with so many food: roast beef, roast chicken, pork and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled and roast potatoes, fries, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup, and lots more.

 

((Omg, after I listed all that, I felt really hungry, even though I already ate my breakfast a few minutes later ^_^))

 

A few minutes later, the ghosts of Hogwarts came in. Joey jumped up and landed on his back when Sir Nick popped his head up from the pork chops.

 

“Oh sorry there. Didn't mean to startle you.”

 

Apparently, Joey didn't hear that, because he fainted. While Yugi is eating, Marik and Ryou came up.

 

“Hey guys. I can't believe that we're all not in the same house…” Ryou said in disappointment.

 

“Are you still mad because you're not in Hufflepuff with those cute girls?” Marik said deviously.

 

“Don't push it…..”

 

“Hey, where's Joey?”

 

Yugi almost forgot about him and points at Joey, who's still on the floor.

 

“I have an idea.” Marik said.

 

He grab Yugi's goblet of water and poured it on Joey. He jump up on his feet and looked around.

 

“What happened?”

 

“When you saw Sir Nicholas head on those pork chops, you kind of fainted and fell over,” Ron explained.

 

“Sir who??” Joey asked.

 

“Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Propington at your service. Resident of Gryffindor Tower.” Nick said.

 

Joey's eye widened.

 

“A g g g g ghost?!” he stuttered.

 

“That's right!”

 

Joey grabs his goblet and drank all the water in one gulp.

 

“Hey Yugi, should we go and ask Shadi what the heck he's doing here?” Marik asked.

 

“Oh yeah, we should.”

 

Ron, Harry and Hermione stared.

 

“Who's Shadi?” Ron asked.

 

“Oh, he's the guy over there sitting next to the guys in black.” Ryou said as he pointed to the new teacher sitting next to Professor Snape.

 

“So you do know him?” Harry asked. He knew that there's something between them and Shadi.

 

“Well, we wouldn't call him a `friend', but he did save us a couple of times,” Joey said.

 

“We better get going before-”

 

Marik was cut off when Albus Dumbledore stood up yet again and the hall fell into silence.

 

“Ahem­­­­---just a few words before we head off to bed. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you.

First years, including the new sixth years students (he winked at Yugi and his friends), should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of ours older students would do well to remember that as well.

Also, I must remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the corridors.

That is all for now, and now, bedtime. Off you trot!”

 

Harry turned around and realized that the new teacher, Shadi, is gone.

 

“Aww man! We're just about to ask him something…” Joey said in disappointment.

 

“Don't worry, we'll see him tomorrow. Right now, we have to show you where the Gryffindor Tower is.” Hermione said.

 

“We better get going. My house is going.” Marik said as he hurried off to follow a crowd of Hufflepuff.

 

“I hope my house not as mean as what you said, Harry…” Ryou said.

 

“Uhmm…don't worry, not all of them are mean…” Harry told him.

 

“Which I highly doubt…” Ron said under his breath.

 

“I better get going, see you guys tomorrow.” Ryou said as he also hurried off to the Slytherins.

 

“Well, lets get going.” Hermione said when she realized that all the Gryffindors are waiting for Hermione and Ron.

 

“Right,” said Ron.

 

Yugi, Joey, and all the Gryffindors followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase. Yugi and Joey were really surprised when they saw the portraits moving around and talking along the corridors. It took them ten minutes to reach the end off the corridors, which hung a large portrait of the Fat Lady.

 

“Password?” she asked.

 

“Red Eyes Black Dragon.” Ron and Hermione said together.

 

Joey's eyes widened when he heard them say his favourite card.

 

“We're getting tired of using some sort of magical words,” Ron explained, “so we decided to use your favourite card as a password. Plus it'll be easier to remember.”

 

The portrait swung forward and revealed a round hole in the wall. Everyone went through and they all ended up in the Gryffindor common room. Hermione directed all the girls to their dormitory and Ron directed all the boys to theirs. They went up a spiral staircase and found their beds at the top. Their luggages are already next to their beds. Tired and sleepy, they pulled their pajamas and fell into bed.

 

“Well, that was interesting,” Joey commented.

 

“Yeah…and I bet it'll be even better tomorrow.” Yugi said.

 

“Goodnight you guys,” Harry said.

 

“Goodnight…” Yugi said as he yawned.

 

Few hours later, Harry, even though he's really tired, could hear someone talking. He turned around and saw Yugi talking to someone again. The same person he saw at the Great Hall. And he finally found out the name of the person.

 

“Yami,” he thought.