Andromeda Black (Andromeda Tonks)
I was finally at Hogwarts. After all these years (eleven of them) of my parents and Aunt and Uncles trying to tell me that my family and I were better than everyone because I was pure blooded. My older sister Bellatrix lapped it all up, and I was still trying to persuade Narcissa that Mum and Dad didn't know what she was on about! At least there was one person in my family who was actually reasonable; my little cousin Sirius. But if he kept it up he'd be disowned; he started making friends with the Muggles in his neighbourhood because the pure bloods that his parents handpicked for him were all far too 'boring', as he'd stated.
But I had to just go with it. I really can't get cut off by my family (or not until I left home)! Lucius Malfoy was standing next to me, that pompous idiot. I was really looking forward to marrying him. Did my parents really expect me to want to spend the rest of my life with Lucius Malfoy, I didn't understand why I couldn't chose my own boyfriend! Narcissa has been crushing on him for ages; why not give him to her? Malfoy smiled at me. I wish he'd stop smiling like that, I didn't like him! I didn't want him!
I had been worrying about my sorting however for weeks. What if I got put in to Hufflepuff? That would be a hard one to tell my parents but Bellatrix would probably take the honour. If I was in Gryffindor, it probably wouldn't be as bad as Hufflepuff but it'd still be terrible. I had to get into Slytherin or maybe Ravenclaw although that would still be pushing it. "Black, Andromeda." Professor Dumbledore called.
I walked up quickly trying to get away from Malfoy and sat down on the stool. The hat was put on my head and it immediately said, "Another Black."
"Yes, so just put me in Slytherin and have it over." I thought miserably.
"So you don't want to be in Slytherin then?" the hat said.
"Well I kind of have to, unless I want to be disowned!" I thought.
"You'd definitely do well in Hufflepuff, you're caring and hard working and they are far more dominant than your Slytherin attributes." The hat said to me. Hufflepuff! I'd be killed.
"NO! Don't put me in Hufflepuff, my parents will kill me. Just put me in Slytherin." I thought desperately.
"If you're sure, but you won't be able to reach your full potential in Slytherin, you could be a great Hufflepuff." The hat said trying to make me choose Hufflepuff, but I wasn't going to.
"I think that staying alive for a few more years may be more important than in which house I can achieve better. I won't be able achieve anything if I'm dead!" I thought, annoyed – why couldn't I just get sorted into Slytherin already?
"As you wish." The hat said to me. "SLYTHERIN!" it proclaimed.
Everyone on the Slytherin table started wildly applauding me as I went to join them. My sister smiled at me, happily for the first time in what must have been years. "I knew you were always a Slytherin." She said.
If only she knew that I nearly got sorted into Hufflepuff! I would rather, I mean of course I didn't want to be in Slytherin, but I was just going to have to accept that there was no alternative…