A/N: Here's a new project that I will be updating regularly. Not J.K. Rowling, so I don't profit. I like this idea, and this fan fiction will aim to be comical. This chapter ran away with me and got way too deep.
Flitwick- Hello students. This is the first Official Hogwarts Circle Talk Club Meeting! This is the part where you cheer.
Draco- Um, I was promised extra credit.
Flitwick- That was a lie to get you to join the club.
Draco- Nice.
Hannah- What do you do in a circle talk? Also, I was promised extra credit, too.
Draco- Yeah, we won't get that.
Susan- And I was just fantasizing of how my grade was about to become an O.
Flitwick- Anyways, thanks for asking, Hannah. A circle talk is a group discussion where everybody sits in a circle. I got the idea from a Muggle professor while on holiday.
Hermione- Oh, yeah! I remember doing those in Muggle school.
Flitwick- Excellent. Today's prompt is, hold on, let me find it...here it is! "Do you think you were sorted correctly?" Hannah, you start.
Hannah- Well, I definitely was. Hufflepuff just seems to suit me incredibly well. I thought that it was interesting how the hat could hear our thoughts. Anthony?
Anthony: I was definitely. Micheal, Terry, and I had already done everything together, so it makes sense that we would be in the same house.
Terry- You are so sweet, Micheal. I think I'm falling in love.
Micheal- Wait, what?
Terry- Sarcasm, m'dear. And, yeah, what Anthony said.
Micheal- Okay, then. Yeah, I was meant to be in Ravenclaw. My entire family was, except for Great Aunt Matilda.
Parvati- Just because your entire family was in Ravenclaw doesn't mean you were guaranteed to be. Take Padma and I for example.
Padma- Yeah, we're twins and in different houses.
Draco- Gee, thanks for letting me know. I had no idea.
Padma- Oh, be quiet, Dray.
Draco- Never call me that again, you-
Flitwick- Okay, moving on! How about you, Blaise?
Blaise- I'm cool with how I was sorted. I mean, Ravenclaw would have been pretty cool also, but I'll take what I can get.
Draco- What do you mean? It's an honor to be a Slytherin!
Susan- Oh, shut up Draco. Houses really aren't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Hermione- Susan does have a point. Are houses really that important, other than creating prejudices?
Draco- Oh, but prejudice is just oh so important in this world.
Hermione- But wouldn't the world be so much better without it?
Harry- I don't know. It's impossible to completely abolish prejudice. It's the classic case of can't live with it, can't live without it.
Hannah- So we just wont live.
Harry- Precisely- wait, what?
Hannah- Never mind, we're off topic. Ronald, what about you?
Ronald- I like Gryffindor. I can't imagine being sorted into Slytherin.
Draco- I swear, Weasley, I will fight you.
Hermione- Again, prejudice. Ronald is saying that he couldn't stand being a Slytherin because of the connotaion associated with them. From his perspective, all Slytherins are evil just because You-Know-Who came from that house. However, that connotation is clearly incorrect. But do you know what keeps it alive? Prejudice.
Ronald- Hermes, I am not prejudiced.
Hermione- First of all, you are, and second of all, DO NOT CALL ME HERMES!
Draco- I'd tread lightly, Weasley.
Blaise- You know that saying, "Peace on Earth"?
Susan- That isn't the point, Blaise!
Blaise- Well, I tried.
Hannah- Hermione is right. We are all a little prejudiced on the inside, as much as we hate to admit it.
Hermione- Thank you, Hannah.
Harry- Do you know what I just realized? I can't think of a single bad wizard that came out of Gryffindor, but there have to be some. Nothing is that good However, I can't think of a single Slytherin who is good. But nothing can be that evil.
Anthony- History is always written by the ones who win the battle.
Harry- We are led to automatically believe that an entire group is bad because we haven't seen the full circle.
Hermione- This just got deep.
Draco- And you were the one who started it.
Flitwick- Well, let's get back on track.
Draco- Everybody who is here already said their thoughts.
Flitwick- Oh, well, just continue on with your mile deep discussion about prejudice and stereotypes.
Hannah- Great.
Anthony- Again, history is written by the winning side.
Susan- Well, back to the topic of the sorting ceremony, do you think we should have been told about what the sorting ceremony involved before we arrived to Hogwarts?
Micheal- Yes. I nearly had a panic attack in the waiting room. I thought that we would have to perform some sort of magic. And I don't even have a ton of anxiety. I know that Hannah does, though.
Hannah- Yeah, I do. I almost fainted. Susan and Micheal are my witnesses.
Hermione- I would imagine that the anxiety would be far worse for people who were told that the sorting ceremony had some sort of danger involved.
Ronald- Yeah, Fred told me that you had to fight a troll. I don't know why I believed that now.
Susan- Yeah, forcing eleven year old people to fight trolls is probably illegal. I could ask my aunt. But why hasn't a single person talked about it? Like, to warn us or something?
Parvati- That is a good point. I asked nearly all of my relatives what the sorting ceremony was, and they all just brushed me off.
Padma- And the odd thing is that, next year, for all of those who have younger siblings, we will be saying the exact same thing as my relatives. Sort of hypocritical, if you ask me.
Hermione- But are we physically unable to tell others who have not heard it for themselves?
Flitwick- I actually never thought about that.
Anthony- You really weren't terrified of the sorting ceremony when you were a kid?
Flitwick- No, I was pretty apathetic as a child. I only really cared about dueling club and immature eleven year old stuff.
Susan- I can ask Professor Sprout for more information on this. She's pretty nice.
Hannah- It's just so weird that we have ignored this for so long.
Flitwick- Well, anyways, next question!
