A quick mind, clever...mischievous. You have many of the traits of a Slytherin: you can be cunning, resourceful and very ambitious You could be great in Slytherin. Loki rolled his much smaller than normal eyes. Not because he was opposed to being in Slytherin, his house colors were the same as Loki's battle armor and he probably was well-suited to the house but it was really the principal of the thing. He could hear the things thoughts without everyone else hearing them and the hat must be able read his thoughts and mind to find his strength, so it could probably easily hear any thoughts directed at it.

You do know what your housing separation does right? All those in Slytherin are seen as future death eaters by the rest of the school and even in Slytherin it becomes a sort of self-fulling prophecy. Everyone else thinks you will go dark, everyone else around is dark so if you are sorted in Slytherin that you must be destined for darkness. He had found out about this school around 200 years ago and had kept tabs on it ever since. He had always wanted to attend this school despite the fact that he was neither human nor a child anymore. That didn't even mention that his magic was very different from the others, but he was fairly sure that he would be able to fake fitting in. There were a few things about this world he didn't understand (don't even get him started about Quidditch) and few more that bothered him, one of the was the housing system.

I understand the purpose of the housing continued It is to foster unity inside each house and competition between each house. But by pairing people together by their common strengths they are really pairing them with people who are already similar to them and then they only learn how to get along with people who are already like themselves. How can you grow and develop new strengths if everyone around is the same and you don't have to learn how to get along with people that are different from you? How does that prepare you for the world outside of Hogwarts? There was was a long moment of silence in which Loki assumed the hat was thinking about what he had spoken about. Then he heard a gasp in his mind.

You're not eleven. You're not even human! He winced, so he was 1000 years old rather than the 11 that his body was supposed to look like everyone. He shrugged.

It's a learning opportunity, he thought and then quickly continued, I want to learn about you Midgardians. I promise that no one who is not asking for it will get hurt physically. The hat's voice didn't speak for a long moment and Loki starting to fear that the Sorting hat would tell everyone that he was in imposter and this short vacation from Asgardian life would be cut even shorter. In reality if you translate the age differences between Asgard and Midgard I am only 16 and I want to learn. He thought as earnestly as he could manage he didn't want to be sent home on his first day.

What would you suggest to replace the system? The question surprised him a little, but he managed to respond

Random sorting he said shortly.

No one has ever brought up the point that you have. The Hat said slowly as if he were seriously thinking about this point.

Well, most of the people you sort are foolish, fresh, fearful 11-year-olds who only care about what house they are going to be sorted in. Loki pointed out.

What house do you want to be in?

You take requests?

Sometimes, when it seems that I would put undue hardship on a child by putting him or her in a certain house, as long as they aren't too dissimilar from the house in question. He took in that little tidbit of information and wondered where he actually wanted to be placed. He had thought that even after he had told the hat that he would be placed in Slytherin regardless. But the hat was apparently giving him a choice of what house he wished to be placed in. Which house did he want to be in? His mouth curved in his trademark mischievous smirk, he knew the perfect choice.