There is the sound of stone grinding against stone, and then a small section of wall is pushed open as though it was a door, even though there is no door there. A young dark-haired girl richly dressed in red and gold crawls through the new doorway and stands up, grinning as she looks around at the Sorting Room. She has a small brown case slung over
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Who is the Pale Man? Is he dangerous?
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"Here you are. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did," she says. "The Pale Man is very dangerous. His eyes are in his hands, and he kills children -- the knife I took from him is the knife he used to kill them, but he didn't need it to kill them. I think he ate them as well. He has very sharp teeth -- he killed the other two fairies I knew by biting their heads off." She looks sad, and a bit guilty. "That was all my fault. I woke him up.
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...I knew someone like that when I was growing up. Something like that. I'm pretty sure if it hadn't been you that woke the Pale Man up, it would've been something else. Those kinds of - things - always seem to come back.
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I'm glad everything worked out, though. And now you're here, and it's a strange and weird and wonderful kind of place. I think I'll vote you for Gryffindor, based on your answer to the Barney question.
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Gryffindor is the House for those who are brave or heroic or very just, and anyone who's done some of the things you say you've done is certainly heroic, and I think probably just as well. So that's my vote.
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The Hat was easy, after all that. Kind of fun, even. But a lot of people who come here, their lives were really ordinary. It takes them awhile to adjust to being someplace - different.
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