DISCLAIMER: The ideas are mine, the characters are not. If they were, I probably would not have been able to come up with whatever reason made Lily love James in the end.

"EVANS, LILY!"

"Interesting, very interesting. Such a sweetness of temper, and yet a remarkable strength of will. You are capable of standing for what you believe even if everybody else tells you otherwise."

"Does that put me in Slytherin?"

"You seem nervous about it! You know, sometimes I wish I could hear your voices, I'm certain it's a lot different from the way you sound inside your tiny little brains."

"I'm not nervous, it's just- The look, scary."

"Scary? HA! Yes, I can see how they might look that to your eyes!"

"To my eyes? Are you saying that I'm weak? Or are you saying that because I'm just a girl? Because if you are-"

"HA! No need to be offended, young lady! I would never dare to say you're a weak one!"

"Besides, it's not like I don't want to be a Slytherin, anyway."

"Why would you want to be a Slytherin? Didn't you just say they look, in your words, scary?"

"I didn't say I was afraid of them! I'm not! And it's not like that would stop me, I mean, Sev said I better be in Slytherin. That's where he's going and I do want to be with him."

"It's not like that would stop you... That's very brave young lady. It is also brave that you are willing to go and stay with Sev, even if the Slytherin house scares you."

"Hey!"

" I never doubted your courage, but I would not have dared to say it would extend this far, specially when it comes to your dedication to a friendship."

"Sev is my best friend. He was already a wizard before I even knew any of this existed, and- He said Slytherin would be best and I trust him."

"You could always make new friends in your House"

"What if I don't want to?"

"Don't want any new friends?"

"No,... What if I don't want to lose him. Will he still be my best friend, if you send me some place else?"

"That, my young friend, is up to the both of you...

"GRYFFINDOR"

AN: I have been trying to make the reason behind the sorting clear. I don't think there could be any doubt here that Lily was a brave young lady who belonged in Griffyndor.

In truth, I had the ideas for these drabbles a long time ago. Since then, my view of the Hogwarts Houses has changed a lot. I do believe they are too simplistic, and I think it's clear after everything that happened in the books, that courage is not just a griffyndor trait, not is loyalty exclusive to hufflepuffs and so on. But the sorting hat had to make a choice, so I think these sorting dribbles are not, after all, obsolete.

I wrote this for the female appreciation month at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.

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LLAP