IODOHP= I obviously don't own Harry Potter

I bet you just checked to see if I got that acronym right

Well this is a story that has been swirling around in my head for quite a while but I just couldn't figure out how to make it happen. Eventual Draco/Hermione….. Ron/ Hermione for now…. This almost completely uncanon and this is a repeated 7th year

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Great Hall

"I can't believe McGonagall ordered us all to come back," whined Harry, even though you could see in his eyes that he was happy to be walking into the great hall of the school where most of his wonderful childhood memories had occurred.

Ron thinking he knew what his best mate meant responded, "I know what you mean Harry, I missed the food in here as well."

Hermione laughed and swung her and Ron's intertwined hands; "I wonder what Headmistress McGonagall wanted to announce to us today," She whispered quietly to herself.

"Attention students," called Professor McGonagall to the crowd below her, "Since the war we have seen changes in many people; bravery where we thought it would never be revealed, kindness in those that were of the bitter sort, and cunning in those that were considered of other natures. After witnessing these changes, the teachers of Hogwarts have decided to have a new test to sort you into possibly different houses depending on your personal changes. After consulting with Helena Ravenclaw it was revealed to us that if in a time when the four houses no longer had the students who best fit them, we were permitted reestablish each house and create a new system for sorting the students. We have also decided to have all first years spend half of the year in the new first year dormitory before getting sorted using the test."

Gasps filled the room as the headmistress's words sunk in and the first years looked around confused because none of their siblings ever mentioned a first year's dorm. Some students who obviously liked the houses as they were made calls of opposition and McGonagall had to quiet everyone before resuming her speech.

"Although the sorting hat will not be used for sorting this year he will stick to his traditional song" McGonagall finally got out through all of the groaning and whining of her 'sophisticated' students.

The sorting hat opened his worn mouth and started to sing-

My judgment is not doubted

Still a glossy pane of glass

Only war can warp my decisions made clear in the past

Those personalities changed and the old you was destroyed

New you here at the school

Must grow and be found

For only in your proper house

Can you get the help you need

Now we have the new students from 1st to 7th year

And all will find that they have a new chance to succeed

With a fresh and new; unwarped piece of glass

As soon as the headmistress called for the feast to start the hall erupted in noise of all the students talking about the new sorting test and hoping to be with their friends and current housemates.

Gryffindor Common Room

"Oi! Everybody the list of your time is up!" Shouted Ron, as everyone crowded around him.

All Hermione could see was the top of the list with all the younger years huddling and blocking the bottom from view. She read:

All of the current 8th years report to the great hall at 12:00 sharp for your test:

Lavender Brown

Seamus Finnigan

Hermione Granger

Neville Longbottom

Parvati Patil

Harry Potter

Dean Thomas

Ronald Weasley

She looked at the clock, saw that it was 11:55 and dashed out of the room trying to get to the great hall on time to be the first student to test.

Great hall

Hermione stepped in and saw that most of her fellow Gryffindors were already there. As soon as that thought reached her mind she realized that most of her friends would no longer be in her house once they resorted. Once she sat down and Professor Sinistra, their new head of house, checked that they were all there she started the pretest instructions. "You are the first students to take this test and I hope the best for you. Most of you will no longer have me as your head of house after we get the results in, but I know from all your prior years at Hogwarts that you will make us proud. Make sure you have your wands and I will send you into the testing room. Also even though most of you will not spread talk of the test and give others the advantage of studying, we have a magic contract for you to sign so you can't speak or give information about this test," instructed professor Sinistra.

Headmistress McGonagall appeared in the corner and said "may Lavender Brown and Seamus Finnigan please come with me."

They followed and the rest of the students watched them walk shakily with McGonagall, to who knows where, to do who knows what.

After what seemed like an eternity a gray cat returned and beckoned for Hermione and Neville to follow her to the same spot that Lavender and Seamus disappeared to only twenty minutes before.

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How did you like that? I made the Sorting hat song up on the spot.. Although I do realize that is isn't that brilliant. I know most people like canon but it's really hard to get all of that right so if I leave off a student or I add people who aren't in the books they aren't going to be influential OCs or anything just little filler names. I'm sorry because I don't know many of the students in like Ginny's year or younger and it's really hard to find them.

Ooooh and I am planning to do a POV chapter for Hermione and a couple of the other Gryffindors, so you can just put their names in a review and those are the POVs I will do for during the testing. If you have any special ideas for parts of the test I am open :)

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