April Showers, prompt 6 | Inter-House Unity (Harry Potter)

May 14, 2011 23:14

Title: Inter-House Unity
Author: shimotsuki
Prompt: #6, change
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Teddy Lupin, the Sorting Hat
Genre: Humour, AU
Rating & Warnings: G | canon denial (but it's subtle this time)
Word Count: 472 words
Summary: One very excited Teddy Lupin meets the Sorting Hat.
Author's Note: When I sent Teddy off on the Hogwarts Express in this AUverse, I couldn't decide what House he'd be Sorted into. Now I've finally figured it out. ;)



Inter-House Unity

The Great Hall.

Teddy had been here before, of course, dozens of times, when Dad came to visit Professor McGonagall or Hagrid or Neville-who he’d best be remembering to call Professor Longbottom now. But it wasn’t the same at all when you were a first-year, here for your own sake, facing a sea of faces and voices that contained the as-yet undiscovered friends you would spend the next seven years having adventures with.

He couldn’t begin to contain his grin.

Teddy didn’t know anyone out there, beyond the handful of kids he’d met on the train. Well, all right, technically he did know Callie Kimball, because she was one of the werewolf kids Dad had worked with-but she was loads older, a prefect already, and she was definitely the only one. Standing on his own like this was an exhilarating novelty. At home, there were Potters and Weasleys around all the time. But he was the oldest of all of them, and the first to come to Hogwarts.

“Lupin, Ted!” squeaked Professor Flitwick.

Teddy took a deep breath and strode over to the stool where the battered, charred Sorting Hat waited.

He set it gently on his head.

“Well, Mr. Lupin,” came a voice in his ear. “What shall I do with you?”

I’ve always wanted to know how this works, he thought at the Hat. How do you Sort us, anyway?

“Bit cheeky, aren’t you!” But the Hat rather sounded like it had a smile in its voice. “Gryffindor for you, then, I suppose?”

My dad’s a Gryffindor, though. That’d be a bit like siding with him against my mum, wouldn’t it?

“Loyal to your mum, eh? That’s a Hufflepuff way of thinking-and she was in that House, if I recall.”

The Hat did recall, perfectly well, Teddy suspected. But then I have the same problem the other way round, don’t I?

“Aha, so you’re trying to find the best position to stand in. That’s a bit Slytherin, I’d say. And you’ve lots of ancestors in that House, after all.”

Teddy grinned. Yeah, like my Gran-and there I’d go, taking sides again.

He’d given this whole Sorting business quite a lot of thought, lately. There were people who followed their families, like the Weasleys, or Harry. There were the people who rebelled, like Gran’s cousin Sirius. And then there were the ones like Hermione, following their heroes, or the ones with a dream, like (he suspected from a conversation or two he’d overheard) Neville-Professor Longbottom, that is.

I’m guessing, Teddy thought, that really, you Sort students into the Houses where they most want to go.

“Clever boy,” said the Hat, fondly. “And a fondness for puzzles, too, it seems. All right, then. Let it be-RAVENCLAW!”

* fin *

fandom: harry potter, author: shimotsuki, april showers: prompt 6

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