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"Difficult,." The sorting hat said. "Though I suppose all you Potters are,"



A wave of nausea swept over Albus as he waited for the sorting hat to decide his fate. The entire train ride to the castle, all he had thought about what his father had said to him. That the sorting hat would take your choice into account. Yet when it came time to be sorted he had no strength to speak.

All Albus could think was that he didn't want to be in Slytherin. This thought repeated in his head like a mantra and he hoped that the sorting hat paid some attention to him.



"Hmm.....I suppose........GRYFFINDOR!"



Now a wave of relief washed over Albus. He'd made it. He was in Gryffindor.

As he walked to the Gryffindor house table he saw that Rose was still standing in the line. She looked as if she was about to fall over, she was shaking so much. Albus hoped she hadn't taken her dad seriously when he said he'd disinherit her if she wasn't in Gryffindor. Albus sat next to James. James as always, was sitting next to his best friend Myridden.



If what James had told him was to be believed, Myridden was a trouble maker to rival the Weasley twins and the Marauders. He had caused trouble for every teacher, none more so than the head of Slytherin head Professor Marsh.



Now Rose was the only one left in to be sorted. She walked towards the stool where the sorting hat rested. She was now starting to turn green. The sorting hat barely touched her head before it shouted out Gryffindor.



Rose looked completely different when she walked towards the Gryffindor table.



"I told you there was nothing to worry about. Your entire family was in Gryffindor,"Albus said.



"Oh please. You barely even talked on the way down here," Rose retorted."You nearly threw up when you put the sorting hat on,"



They talked and teased each other through the entire speech that Professor McGonagall delivered.



"OI! You two going to talk all night, your food is getting cold," said Myridden




Albus looked up just in time to see the first course disappear from the table and the second appear.



Albus only then realized just how hungry he was and began to dig into his meal at break neck speed.



"You eat faster than Uncle Ron" James said to Albus," You should at least chew your food or you'll choke yourself before term starts,"



"I nearly got expelled at the start of term feast last year," Myridden said.



"You've nearly gotten expelled a dozen times,"said James. "You've copied nearly every file in the school with all the detentions you've got under your belt,"



"Well about half of them are from my midnight duel with Lola last year,"



"You mean the one atop brooms?"Albus interjected."Where you crashed into Dumbledore's tomb,"



Myridden's expression changed from cheerful to angry in a second and back just as fast. Albus wondered if he had just imagined it.



"I see James has told you about some of my adventures. What else have you herd?"



"That you know about all the secret passageways and how you hit Marsh with a lightning when he said something rude about muggles,"



"Albus, I told you not to tell him that I told you that stuff," James said in an annoyed tone.



"That just what I herd on the train," Albus said timidly. He remembered that James had a temper like mom. They also both had her skills for charms.



Albus, feeling that he would be pressing his luck if he tried to talk to James much more tured back to find Rose turned the other way listening with rapt attention to a fourth year girls story about Hogsmeade.



"- he dropped his tea all over me and I was so repulsed that I never even sat next to him in class," The girl finished.



Rose did something then that would have made her mother's skin crawl. She giggled. Nobody in the family knew where she got it from but Rose was a girly girl.



Rose turned back to Albus and he smirked.



"What?"



"Your mother would be ashamed if she saw you right now." Albus said smugly.



"I know. I don't know why I do it. Maybe I picked it up from aunt Fluer or Gabriella."



The rest of the feast past pleasantly enough. Myridden got in trouble for transfiguring his food into a mouse for his pet cat Loki to chase in the common room. A teacher confiscated the mouse but while they were walking out of the great hall Myridden summoned it back to him.



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Albus sighed slowly as he sat down in one of the arm chairs in the common room in front of the fire. He had suffered an exhausting week. The two things that he was really good at were charms and flying.



James walked into the common room with Myridden. Albus had been so busy with classes and homework that he had barely talked to James all week.



"Well, here's Gryffindors flying ace." Said Myridden. "Looks like we've got ourselves a chaser next year."



"Stop messing with me." Albus said



"I'm serious. How about you come to the Quidditch pitch and I'll let you fly on my old Nimbus 2000."



"You'd let me ride your broom?"Albus asked hopefully.



"Sure, you could have it if you were allowed to. My Dad got me a Firebolt II. My old firebolt got busted after the crash last year.



So the three of them headed down to the Quidditch pitch.



Albus was having the time of his life on this broom. It was a lot more stable then the school brooms. He didn't have to worry about any vibrating. Even though the nimbus 2000 model was 25 years old it was still very popular. While he was flying Albus noticed that James and Myridden seemed to be arguing. He decided to use the extra sensory charm he had learned in class today.



"-where it came from."Said James. "of all places to take it from there."



"I didn't Know I had until afterwards. It must have fallen into my robes pocket when I landed. I couldn't go back, I'd be expelled."



"Well what about this research you mentioned."



" I think I've found something important, rare, powerful!"



"It doesn't even work right for you. You said it yourself."



"I've been researching the laws and If I want to make it work right I first need to find the master."



"You're obsessed with this thing."



"I've heard something about it. That it was mentioned in the Battle for Hogwarts by your Dad, he might know something about it."



"I'm not going to-... Hey! What is Albus doing?"James said

Albus jumped. He'd been so attentive to the conversation that he hadn't noticed him self sinking.



His concentration broke and the charm dissipated. Albus flew around for a few minutes until he decided to get off. Neither James or Myridden said anything to him so he supposed they thought he was tired. But in reality he was wide awake. Dozens of questions were running through his mind. What was this thing they were argueing about? Where had it come from? Why was James so afraid of it? The biggest question though, was how was his father Harry Potter connected to it.