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Part Two – Julia (a.k.a. the character who narrates The Marauders Through the Years)
Lauren, Julia. – Called professor McGonagall.
Time seemed to slow down as I walked up the steps to the stool that stood in the middle of the very large upper part of the room. No one seemed specifically interested; after all, one famous Slytherin family had already had a son placed in another house, what were the odds of it happening twice in the same year. "Yeah," I thought "what are the odds?"
I sat on the hard wooden stool and the baggy old hat was placed on my head. It slid past my ears, finally stopping in the middle of my nose's bridge.
"Interesting… Another pure-blood… Very similar to Black… Oh, I see you are smart, very smart, but not studious. No, not Ravenclaw. You are kind, and very loyal, but not Huffle-Puff material. Yes, you are brave and chivalrous, as well was courageous. You've definitely got a knack to be a Gryffindor… No, not Slytherin, though I believe you'll want to go there?
"No…" I thought, wondering how much the hat could hear "I don't want to be like my family. I'm not, am I?"
"No! You are not even a bit like your family! I remember when I sorted them… they are, and have been for many generations, perfect Slytherins. It barely took me a second to sort them. You are so different from them I couldn't sort you with them if you wanted too. Therefore, I declare you GRYFFINDOR!"
I go up from the stool and ran to the Gryffindor table, which was shocked, but not as much as they had been when Sirius was sorted.
And thus, I became the first one in my family to be a Gryffindor and I was, and am to this day, proud of it.