More Than Their House

by Lizzy Raven

Sorting is done in a few minutes of a child's life, and can affect so much. The hat tries to combine a child's nature with their whims, to place them somewhere for seven years. But people can have more than one good quality. There are some who were placed in the right house, and emulate it. But there are some who have become more than their house. AN: On the last page is an index.

11. Chapter 11

Author's Note: Sorry, it's been a little while, hasn't it? Don't worry, only one more chapter left. And then I can get back to my other stories.

Tracy the Hardworking

It was easy to overlook Slytherins.

They weren't meant to be in the spotlight.

Wasn't that the point of the Slytherin house?

To be sly and cunning, so that your enemies never saw you coming?

Not every Slytherin stood in the open like Malfoy.

Tracy didn't want to be noticed at Hogwarts.

The networking could come later, when house prejudices weren't so strong, but for now, she was focused on getting a good education.

It was so much easier to focus on the other houses.

And in class...

Ravenclaws were the brains- they were expected to be the best.

Hufflepuffs worked for what they wanted.

And Gryffindors?

They just liked attention.

So it was easy to overlook Tracy Davis, especially when she wanted to be overlooked.

And she tried so very hard.

Sure, she had roommates, but did they ever care to get to know her?

Tracy avoided conflict, and kept a cool acquaintance with most of her house.

And most of the school, for that matter.

Not once did she initiate harmful contact with anyone in Hogwarts.

She was ignored, for the most part.

Of course, a child couldn't go through school alone, so she befriended housemate Daphne Greengrass.

But even she was kept at arm's length.

Tracy wasn't from a big pureblood family, so she kept out of the politics.

To be honest, many of the Slytherins students stayed out of the political world for the most part.

Not all Slytherins got involved with the mess that was Harry Potter and his band of not-so-loveable losers.

Really, it was just Draco, his lackeys, and the Quidditch team.

No one else.

Sure, many of the death eaters came from Slytherin, but not all of them.

And besides, Voldemort was gathering followers from the early 40's until 1980.

That was almost forty years.

And who followed him?

His schoolmates, their children and their grandchildren.

In case no one in the bloody Order of the Phoenix noticed, very few people joined up to the crazy man.

They were either his followers from when he was young, or they were the family of the former.

So why did they all assume that all Slytherins were Death Eaters?

Idiots.

So, when given that perspective, didn't it seem more reasonable to blend into the background?

Tracy was intelligent, possible the best in her year of Slytherin.

But who cared for a Slytherin?

They were just slimy snakes, after all.

So Tracy avoided them, working in the background all her career at Hogwarts.

It was a much easier way of going through school.

(As apposed to the Malfoy Approach, which included alienating the savior of the wizarding world).

It wasn't difficult to avoid getting noticed.

Tracy did it for seven years.

And how often was she noticed?

Hardly at all.

She operated in the background, working hard, and not drawing attention to herself.

Wasn't that the true Slytherin way?