p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Oh my goodness, have you all been living under a rock all your life? » Penelope exclaimed, having commandeered the comfiest armchair of the seventh floor common room, where she was sitting regally, wrapped in a blanket as if it were a cape and brandishing the remote like a sceptre./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« James Blake, how are you the only other person in this room who has actually read the Harry Potter books? » she continued, visibly surprised./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Emily shrugged, muttering « Uh, because we're not nerds!» just loud enough to be heard, span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanthen resumed painting her nails a distinctly non regulation electric blue, sitting cross-legged on a cushion./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Just pick a movie, Penelope! » , Hotch grumbled from the table across the room, briefly glancing up from his History essay, eyebrows knitted together and his lips forming a tight line. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« OK, OK, but before I do, let me go get something! ». She got up and rushed off in a blur of pink fluffy slippers and glitter. She returned minutes later, brandishing her laptop and a mysterious-looking, brown, crumpled and patched piece of material./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Glances of confusion were exchanged, until Derek broke the bemused silence from his spot on the floor where he was lying, with a puzzled « Baby girl, what the hell is that? »./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Ta-da! » Garcia replied, showing off the item with visible pride. « Uh, James, a little help here, and some enthusiasm wouldn't go amiss either, especially if you're a true Potterhead! » she added, seeing everyone's bemused faces./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« That's the Sorting Hat, guys, it tells you which house you'll be in at Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school », James explained, as Penelope nodded enthusiastically. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« So, there are 4 houses, each with their own distinct character traits, and the Hat decides where you should go. Obviously it takes your preference into consideration, and you don't necessarily have to possess the qualities of your chosen House, they can be ones you admire or want to have... So everyone's going to take the test before we start the movie, OK? ». /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"" Sure, Penny!" JJ chirped, uncurling herself from the couch to go over to her friend. « Could you just remind me of the different Houses and their traits, please? »./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Penelope quickly explained the differences between Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin before placing the Hat on JJ's head. She pulled her fishtail braid over her shoulder and sat in the armchair./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Penelope deftly flipped open her laptop, tapped a few keys and then cleared her throat. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« I, of course, will be reading the questions so no-one will be tempted to cheat! » she declared./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"After several questions, everyone started suggesting the answer they thought JJ should choose. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Well, that's the last question, Jayje! Which House do you think you'll be in? « Penelope chirruped, clearly pleased./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Um, Gryffindor, I guess », JJ volunteered shyly./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Oooh, I hope you'll be in Hufflepuff, like me! But you could be a Ravenclaw, and yeah, Gryffindor would be a good fit too... » Penelope said, swiftly moving the cursor to the « Reveal my House » button on screen!/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"After a few seconds of waiting, Penelope glanced at the screen and looked up, visibly crestfallen./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« What's up, Pen, did I do it wrong? I swear I answered honestly! » JJ said, evidently upset at her room-mate's distress and removing the wide-brimmed wizard hat from her head./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Alas, we have a Hat Stall, you've tied between Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor! So you just get to pick. Don't feel obliged to say Hufflepuff just because I'm there! » Garcia explained./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"JJ deliberated for a moment before deciding on Gryffindor. « Thank God, the suspense was killing me! « Emily sighed sarcastically./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Good choice, always trust your first instincts! Now, who's next? ». Penelope's gaze swept over the group. Alex and Spencer were huddled together, heads bent over a thick novel at the opposite end of the couch that JJ had returned to, Dave was focused intently on his laptop screen, James was half asleep in the other armchair, Hotch was scowling at his History book, surrounded by crumpled up pieces of paper and several pages of notes. Derek was absent-mindedly spinning a basketball as he perused his phone./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Her eyes met Emily's. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Alright, Garcia, let's get this over with! « /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"At Emily's words, everyone looked up./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Yeah, I'll go after Prentiss, baby girl! » Derek promised. « Sorry, got distracted by my fantasy football league choices! »./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Emily got up, picking up the hat and plonking it on her head as she seated herself in the armchair. From her nest of pillows and blankets on the ground, Penelope reset the quiz page and began./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« OK, first question: black or white? »./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Black, duh! » Emily responded./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Penelope continued through, before finally announcing that Emily was officially a Slytherin./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« I bet I'm Gryffindor, sweet girl! » Derek guessed when his turn was almost finished./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Right you are, my hunk of Hershey's chocolate! » she trilled, having checked his results. He bent down to hug her before letting the next person go./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Alex, James and Spencer all followed, and were all, unsurprisingly, placed in Ravenclaw, though James and Alex both had strong Hufflepuff scores too. Spencer had had to take the Hat off half-way through, as it kept falling down over his eyes and even completely covering his face./span/p
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p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Dave had to be dragged over, but high-fived Emily when he too was placed in Slytherin./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Hotchy, it's your turn now! Everyone else has had a go, even Dave and Emily! Pleeeease let me find out the inner workings of your mysterious mind! » Penelope pleaded, eyes widening with a butter wouldn't melt span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanexpression spreading across her face./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« We'll even stop waving and shouting « Hey, Haley! » at random times during the day, especially if she's not actually in the vicinity. Oh, and Prentiss won't get dress-coded any more this week, and JJ will eat greens with every meal without complaining too, promise! » she begged./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Hotch sighed deeply and rolled his eyes. The « Hey, Haley! » game was absolutely no fun./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"«I have wily ways to bend you to my will, you know! » she mock threatened, approaching him as if to tickle him./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Fine, I'll do your quiz. Just keep it clean! 't. Call. Me. Hotchy! » he replied tersely. He gingerly placed the silly accessory on his head. Penelope beamed at him and began. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"This time, everyone joined in, trying to influence his answers, gently teasing him./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« And that, Hotchy, was the final question! Where do you think you'll end up? » /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Uh, I don't know! Everyone thinks l'm ambitious, so Slytherin? Can we please just get it over with as we haven't even started the movie yet? » /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Well, the Hat has spoken! You're in... »./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Penelope paused for dramatic effect./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"« Hufflepuff! Yay, you're with me! We're a seriously under-represented House, there's hardly any merch for us, but at least our emblem and House colours are correct, unlike poor Ravenclaw! Oh, and our common room is near the castle kitchens, perfect for midnight feasts! » she babbled, flinging her arms around his neck, knocking the hat off his head in the process. He patted her arm and then went to sit on the couch. Spencer had fallen asleep in Alex's arms, and he took the sleeping child from her onto his lap./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"Garcia put a DVD into the player and pressed play./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.3px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-size: 27.34px;"As the first Harry Potter movie started, Hotch looked around at the diverse group around him and smiled. Alex had joined James on the floor, he was adjusting blankets and pillows to ensure she was comfortable, Emily and Dave were bickering amicably over the correct pronunciation of some Italian word, Morgan and JJ were tossing Cheetos in the air and trying to catch them in their mouths, whilst Penny was now wrapped in a blanket, on the armchair, mouthing the words along with the actors, staring intently at the screen./span/p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"He shifted a snoring Spencer in his lap, smoothed the boy's hair off his face and settled in for what was going to be the first of eight films. /span/p
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