DISCLAIMER: The ideas are mine, the characters are not. If they were clearly many things would be different. And a great number of things would be just the way they are...

"LESTRANGE, RODOLPHUS."

"Interesting... Ambitious, no doubt,... not exactly-"

"Is this hat talking to me?"

"How arrogant! Yes, this hat is still talking to you, Mr. Lestrange in spite of your rather disrespectful tone."

"I am the heir of the Lestrange house, one of the eldest families in the wizardry world."

"Oh, it's not that old-"

"How dare you?"

"The Lestrange line goes back no more than a couple hundred of years, Rodolphus, no matter how proud you are of your own last name."

"This is outrageous!"

"So young and so knowledgeable of so many unnecessarily long words! But trust me, young man, I've been sorting your predecessors for decades, I remember them all. I remember the arrogance, the self-awareness... It runs in your blood."

"..."

"Oh, it had been a long time since a student refused to talk to me, because I'm 'just' a hat. Let me tell you something young man I've been here long before anyone bearing this last name you so misguidedly place above everything else! I could tell you more about yourself than you will ever find out in your own. I was the hat of Godric Gryffindor, I was even in Slytherin's head once or twice."

"..."

"Yes, that interest you does it not? You want to be sorted in Slytherin, don't you? A house where you'll met your own! People with similar minds and similar priorities, and considering what those priorities are, how dangerous it is to put you all there together! If it was up to me I would not place you there for anything in the world."

"But you're just a powerless hat!"

"It certainly appears so, does it not? I rest in the assurance that, as much as you belong in Slytherin, and as much as you want to be there, I'm not really doing you any favours..."

"My eyes are watered. Not get this over and-"

"SYTHERIN."

AN: At last! I managed to write different disclaimers in each chapter... A little creativity does not hurt, does it?

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