Disclaimer:The ideas are mine, the characters are not. If they were, each of the marauders would have had a chance to get their revenge against Petter Pettigrew. And they would have made the best of it.

"PETTIGREW, PETER"

"Do I get to pick my house?"

"Of course you don't get to pick, what's the point of having a brilliant sorting hat if you kids could simply walk into the Great Hall and sit at whatever table suited you?"

"You're talking to me!"

"Of course I'm talking to you!"

"But you're just a hat!"

"Oh, and you would believe yourself superior simply because you're a wizard, wouldn't you? This feeling of superiority, this pride might get you in trouble, Mr. Pettigrew, mark my words."

"But if you're talking to me, if you can hear me... Are you sure you can't let me choose? I could do things for you, maybe I could clean you, and keep the spiders away."

"Spiders? What kind of hat do you think I am, young man?"

"I don't know. I'm sorry. Maybe there's something else I could do."

"In a thousand years I don't believe I have ever seen someone sit on this bench and try to bribe me! Not good. Not good."

"..."

"Which house would you choose if you could?"

"Well. I'm not sure. I met this girl on the platform, Bellatrix Black, she's so beautiful and so intelligent, and I saw the way others behave around her, she's so respected, you don't even have to know her to see that she's different. But she ended up in Slytherin, and the way that blond prefect looked at me when I walked into the Great Hall was not so nice, I wouldn't want to have this sort of problem right from the start."

"..."

"Then the other Black kid, Sirius, I think, ended up on Gryffindor, and I saw him on the train with that James Potter. They certainly seem powerful. They payed no attention to me there, but if we were on the same house... They would have no choice but to pay attention to me. I mean we'd be sleeping in the same room. I think. But again, maybe Ravenclaw would be best, I figure if you are the smartest you know more spells, you are more difficult to defeat..."

"Young man, the house you'll be in is about you. Not the people you'd like to have around you!"

"I know. I guess."

"Well, it doesn't seem like you do."

"..."

"I see what's in you. Defnitely not Ravenclaw for you, boy, of that I'm sure. Hufflepuf is out of the question as well, you're sense of loyalty is rather odd."

"Odd?"

"Indeed! Maybe you don't realize this just yet. But loyalty is to stick to somebody even when they don't have the upper hand."

"That's not very smart."

"On the contrary Peter, that's the smartest thing of all."

"It doesn't seem so."

"I know you're not convinced. But I hope you'll see that I'm right in time. Oh, how badly I wish I could take a look in your minds when you get older. Eleven years old is too soon to be sure about one's character, I keep saying this. Goodrich wouldn't listen..."

"..."

"Some things however I can be sure about. You're not very ambitious, I see, you don't want to be the centre of attention, you just want to be around someone who is. Which is good, of course, otherwise you might have ended up extremely disappointed at yourself."

"So where am I going?"

"You're brave, Peter. That makes my job rather easy. I just wish you could make the right choices, and, in time, be brave enough to pick the right side...And stick to it...

"GRYFFINDOR!"

AN:Peter... He didn't even realised the sorting hat predicting he would never accomplish something great himself. So subservient from such a young age. I know most people have a hard time understanding why he was placed in Gryffindor. Hopefully I have written it in a convincing way.

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LLAP