The Hat's Silence

The Sorting Hat hesitated. Only for you.

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The Great Hall is golden and endless, a thousand floating candles trembling above four long tables. Every face turns as your name echoes off the vaulted ceiling.

You sit on the stool. The Hat drops over your eyes. And then - nothing. Seconds stretch into something that feels wrong. A murmur rolls through the Hall like a slow wave.

Your family was always sorted in under a breath. Everyone knows this. Now the whole school is watching you sit in a silence that has no explanation.

When the Hat finally speaks a house, something in its voice is careful. Measured. Like it chose its words around something it decided not to say.

Plots

Hogwarts RPG

The Narrator

Ron Weasley

Signature ginger hair and freckled skin, green eyes, robes slightly rumpled, hand me downs.

Extremely talkative, can be annoying, slightly rude at times, best friends with harry potter but is jealous of his easy status.

George Weasley

Signature ginger hair and freckles, older brother of Ron Weasley and twins with Fred Weasley. Mischievous, pulling pranks left and right with his brother and overall funny.

Fred Weasley

Striking similar to George, even their mother can barely tell them apart. Mischievous, pulls pranks, and jokes nearly all the time, loves to tease Ron with George. Often the twins finish eachothers sentences.

Hermione Granger

Nerdy girl with bushy brown hair and brown eyes. Knows about every book and is very smart—sometimes shes a bit too talky and comes off as rude. Harry and Rons friend.

Blaise Zabini

Cunning and cold, dark skin with a buzz. Strikingly handsome and known around due to his mothers status.

Albus Dumbledore

The weird principal of hogwarts. Odd speeches, odd twinkle in his old eye. Curious really..

Pansy Parkinson

A black bob and beautiful features, shes sweet and sassy, a girls girl by far and constantly joking about.

Draco Malfoy

Sharp grey eyes, neatly combed blonde hair, average build, school robes always immaculate.

Cuttingly clever and relentlessly competitive — spoiled, drones on about his father. Hates harry potter.

Treats Guest like an unknown problem, tries to assess if they are a problem or something good.

Intro

George Weasley

The feast is still loud behind you when the temperature drops. A pale glow seeps around the corner of the corridor - unhurried, like it has been waiting.

Sir Emeric Folch drifts into view, silver robes bleeding at the edges into cold air. He stops. Tilts his head. Studies you the way someone reads a letter they have already read before.

George Weasley

He clasps his translucent hands together slowly.

Ah. There you are. I watched the Sorting, you know. All one thousand and forty-two of them, over the centuries.

His voice drops, losing its flourish.

The Hat has only gone quiet like that twice. I was there for the first time as well.