Title: Identity trepidation
Rating: T
Characters: George Weasley, Fred Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore and Sorting Hat
Genre: friendship
Summary: For their entire lives they have done everything together. But now things have changed, and George has reached a decision. It's time for a change. To be continued…
September 1, 1991
George looked back at his family all smiling, all happy. He was the only one that wasn't; he had been feeling this way for a while and when the letter had come from Professor Dumbledore he had talked to Fred about switching.
Fred was happy in Gryffindor but George knew he belonged in Slytherin. He had known since he was first sorted, but he had wanted to stay with his twin, that had changed. He was now in his third year and he wanted to have an individual identity outside of being Fred's twin. He wanted to be himself and not who he had been acting as. Getting on the train, he said goodbye to his mother and father and got ready to say goodbye to his house.
No one else besides Fred knew what he was going to do, and Fred had accepted it, he wanted George to be happy and be himself. The train ride went slowly by and the land passed the windows in flashes. George wished it would hurry up so he could start fresh.
Once they arrived at the castle; George walked to Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape and said, "I'm ready to do this, I should never have changed myself to fit my brother and I need to make this right."
The three professors smiled down at George, and Professor Dumbledore spoke in his wizened old voice, "My dear boy, I have been waiting for this very moment for the last two years and it would be my absolute pleasure, and the sorting hats absolute pleasure to resort you. When the first years are brought in, you will stand with them and come up first to get resorted and then sit with whichever house the hat calls."
Professor McGonagall rested a hand on George's shoulder after he nodded in agreement and said in a soft voice, "I only wish that you had of felt you could be your own person before now. Good luck George and know that no matter what I am right here even if you are no longer in my house."
George stood waiting for the first years to come in and Dumbledore to make the announcement of what was going to happen and then sat on the old brown, creaky stool and felt the nervousness that he had felt in his first sorting wash over him as the hat was placed on his head. It fit a bit snugger than the last time but it was still dark looking at the inside of the hat.
A slight pause and then the voice that he had hated in his first year started and he felt relief that he was finally doing something for himself.
"Hello young Weasley, George if I remember correctly?"
"Yes sir, I mean, Hat?" George questioned what he should call the hat.
"Sir will do, now I remember you asking me to purposely put you in a house that wasn't yours the last time we met here?" The hat said for only George's ears.
"Yes sir. I didn't want to be separated from my twin but now I see the error of my ways, I've lost my individuality." George said sadly.
"Well, let's right that wrong then, you still have all of the right traits for this house…" the hat said trailing off leaving him in suspense.
"What's that sir?" George asked with trepidation dripping from his voice.
"SLYTHERIN!" The hat said and from the applause and whispering that George could hear; he knew that the hat had said that out loud.
Professor McGonagall took the hat from his head and gestured sadly towards the Slytherin table. George felt the weight of what he had done through his entire body and as he locked eyes with his beaming twin he felt it had been the right decision.
Now to tell his parents and other siblings that had already left Hogwarts.
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