This was written for lowi's The Title Challenge on the HPFC Forum.
I was given 'Louis Weasley' and the title had to be 'Always Power', so I decided to make him a Slytherin and go from there. More than anything else, this is to satisfy all the headcanon that sprung from that thought. I was given prompts too, but they'll be used in later drabbles.
He was trembling when the hat slipped over his eyes.
"You're a Weasley," the sorting hat told him. "You're fun-loving and roguish; that's obvious."
Louis relaxed.
"But-"
Oh, Merlin, why did there have to be a but? Louis gripped the edges of the stool.
"-you know how to get what you want. And you won't stand for injustice."
Louis wasn't quite sure he was still listening after that. He just knew, Merlin, knew that if he wasn't in Gryffindor he didn't, Merlin, he couldn't, and his father, what would his father, Merlin, he couldn't-
"SLYTHERIN!"