After Rose led all the students across the black lake, and the Hogwarts ghosts gave them all a warm (and chilling) welcome, they stood apprehensively as they waited to be sorted. Several students Pearl didn't know yet were sorted into their houses, but she finally recognized one of them.
"Peridot." Pearl whispered and her eyes narrowed with contempt. Peridot was White Diamond's niece. She had visited the manor with her mother on occasion, and took great pleasure in teasing and taunting Pearl. She wasn't as bad as the rest of the family, probably only because she was still a child, but she was a nasty little brat nonetheless. Pearl leaned forward expectantly, believing the hat would shout "Slytherin" almost immediately, but instead the hat deliberated for quite a while. In fact, it was over five minutes before the hat decided that Peridot was neither slytherin nor ravenclaw. "Gryffindor!" The hat yelled resoundingly, and Peridot looked confused and even a bit frightened as she went to join the older gryffindor students. Pearl had to stifle a laugh. "Brave indeed". Pearl rolled her eyes. Still, surely the sorting hat wasn't ever wrong, right? Maybe there was more to the little jerk.
Pearl's thoughts snapped back away from Peridot as she heard Garnet's name called. Garnet took Pearl off of her shoulder and handed the little elf over to Amethyst. For whatever reason a few children stepped back uncomfortably as Garnet stepped up to the stool, but Pearl wanted to listen in more closely. "Interesting. Very Interesting. I see you're quite intelligent; you have a great deal of foresight and quite bold and daring as well. I remember your parents well; they certainly left their mark. You have the heart of a lion, like your father, but twice as big as one; better be…Hufflepuff!" A few snickers were heard throughout the crowd along with a few snide comments, but Garnet just grinned broadly and waved to Pearl and Amethyst as the other hufflepuffs clapped her on the back in welcome.
"Listen to me!" Pearl was disrupted by some older slyherin students who were sitting nearby where the first years were waiting. A huge, muscular boy who looked like he was about seventeen or eighteen was grabbing a much younger looking girl by the face and hissing menacingly in her ear. The poor girl was maybe sixteen at best.
"Jasper please, you're hurting me." The girl whispered tremblingly with fear in her eyes.
"Hurting you? I'll show you pain, you little b…" Pearl suddenly felt herself being set down and Amethyst stepped forward. Pearl hadn't heard her name being called; she'd been to caught up in the older student's conversation. Her heart swelled in silent fury and her palms felt sweaty. How dare he! Pearl knew there was nothing she could do for now, but she was going to make sure Rose knew about this as soon as she got the chance! For now, she would watch her friend be sorted.
"Hmm, kind for certain but quite lazy indeed." The sorting hat said and Amethyst mocked a pout before grinning mischievously and shrugging off the observation. "Sort of brave, but mostly just a show-off…" (Amethyst scowled for real this time.) "Curious, open minded, always wanting to learn and experience… I think…Ravenclaw!" Amethyst looked surprised but happy at this and went to join the others.
After several more minutes Pearl heard her own name be called and stepped forward. She still wanted to be a gryffindor like Rose, but she thought she might like to be in hufflepuff or ravenclaw just as well so she would be with Garnet or even Amethyst. Rose picked up Pearl and set her on the stool, which earned a few laughs from the crowd, and even a few rude "boos" from the syltherin table. Pearl shot them a brazen glare. Rose lowered the hat and Pearl was horrified to hear "Slytherin!" echo through the great hall before it even touched her head.
Hope you enjoyed! Do you agree with my sorting? I was tempted to put Garnet in Gryffindor just so we'd be in the same house 'cuz she's my favorite character, but decided she belongs in hufflepuff. Then again, I always thought of myself as a Hufflepuff, but I finally got a Pottermore account and took the quiz and apparently I'm a Gryffindor!