A/N: Like the last chapter, this got away from me. I hate Percy, but I thought he would really be the type to get fed up with the Situation the Weasleys live in. I thought he deserved a proper outburst. Sorry for the craziness at the beginning. :D. Also, please vote on the poll!

Percy Weasley

"Weasley, Percy!"

After a long day of Sortings, the Hat was nearly reduced to tears when faced with the gazillionth Weasley. As he was plunked onto the millionth head of red hair, he wanted to sprout legs and run away.

DOES YOUR MOTHER SOLELY EXIST TO TORTURE POOR SORTERS????

….Excuse me?

Sorry, sorry. It's just that I've Sorted EVERY SINGLE Weasley, from your great-great-great times about ten thousand and two grandfather, did you know he was in Slytherin?, to Charlie a few months ago. And can I just say that Weasleys are IMPOSSIBLE to Sort!

Well..I'm sorry..

You'd make a good shrink.

..What?

You're so calm..and collected..and, oh, have I gone insane? Right. Sorting you.

Um, yes.

You're very different from your family. You want power.

No I don't!

Yes you do.

No I don't! No! No..I don't mind living in..a house that can hardly hold up..I don't mind..occasionally being hungry every end of month..or having to..do the chores because we can't afford a nanny or a House elf. I don't mind seeing my little siblings, Ron and Ginny, cry because they're still hungry, or because they're cold. I don't mind seeing the tortured look on my mother's face when they beg for more. I don't mind taking second hand—second hand everything to school, and I don't mind the whispers that I know exist. No, sir, I don't mind one little bit.

Right. You mind.

Well, what do you want me to do? It's not just the whole being-poor-a-sheep thing. It's like, everyone's so perfect in my family, just plain because they're not perfect. But none of them like me, because I like to read better than playing. Just because I'm smart. Mum and Dad are all proud and all, but my sibling s are all...there's Percy, run! And I don't know. Sometime I get tired of it.

Wait, back up. A sheep?

First thing that came to mind. But being Perfect Percy, Percy who will probably get two hundred O., Percy who's going to be made Head Boy, Percy who always stays calm, even when we don't have any food, it kind of..gets me, sometimes. Sometimes I just want to panic and run around, but I can't. 'Cause I'm Percy.

I understand this. But I see a quality I'd like to warn you against. You really can get hungry for money when you get tired of it. And I think you'd go against everything you love, possibly hurting everyone you love, to get power and money. So—don't do it.

I'd never go against my family! I love them.

..Right. So. Part of you make me want to put you in Slytherin, because you want power..you aren't a Hufflepuff, that's for sure, but you're only something shy of a genius. You'd fit right into Ravenclaw. And you're brave enough for Gryffindor, and loyal, as you really do seem to love your family.

How does that make me loyal? Everyone loves their families.

It's just you really love them. I think, even if you ever went against your family, your loyalty would take you back.

Why, thank you.

Slytherin would bring you power. Ravenclaw would bring you achievement. And...yes, I think Gryffindor would bring you happiness.

"GRYFFINDOR!"