𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 / James Potter x Reader

Ch2 ★ Prologue - The Sorting Hat

chapter song:
I Bet on Losing Dogs - Mitski

The five first years fidgeted around all their fellow first years, most of them unsure of what will happen in the sorting.

There was buzz everywhere about tests and duels with trolls and public embarrassment.

Y/n chuckled at all the stories.

Her mother told it to her plain. The hat went on your head, took in your personality, and placed you somewhere based on that.
Y/n found it stupid but obviously she didn't make the rules.

It had just sang a song that y/n didn't bother to listen to.

"Hank Abbott!"
The stern Professor McGonagall shouted.

She placed a hat on the blonde boys head.
It thought for a mere few seconds before shouting-

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

The table clad in yellow erupted into cheers as the first sorted student was theirs.

Name after name was called, oddly it was somewhat in alphabetical order, yet at the same time it was not. Y/n chose not to ponder over this.

The students were sorted into houses at a pretty even dispersion. Y/n watched as kids she knew from family gatherings were sorted. Many pureblood kids sorted in to Slytherin. Some not so prestigious kids she knew as well, she watched them be sorted into Ravenclaw, even Gryffindor.
Y/n felt her heart drop for Ambrose Zabini as she was sorted into Hufflepuff.

Y/n thought to herself, 'Her parents are going to kill her, she's going to be a target.'

Y/n's stomach did flips and turns as she imagined what would happen if she was sorted into Hufflepuff, what her family would do to her. She didn't know if being sorted into Gryffindor or Hufflepuff would be worse. In the eyes of most, Hufflepuff is weak, in the eyes of the pureblood supremacist, Gryffindors are the enemy.

"James Potter- Potter you stop that- Black and Potter please stop pushing Pettigrew around like that! Do you want to lose points for a house you have not been sorted in to yet?! No? Come up here Potter!"

Y/n snickered at the boys antics from behind them.
"Good luck Potterrr."
Y/n whispers teasingly into his ear, James returned the favor with a toothy grin and a wink.
"See you soon, Gray." James whispered.

James would look back on this moment and wondered how things would have gone if he stuck to his word and didn't spend the next four years ignoring and bad mouthing y/n.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

The hat didn't even touch a messy hair on his head before deciding. He grinned towards y/n once again and sauntered over to his table.

Per usual, following right behind James was-
"Peter Pettigrew!"

Y/n was close enough to hear the small boy whisper, "Please not Hufflepuff, anything but Hufflepuff, please you mystic hat."

After a moments deliberation, and seemingly a conversation between Peter and the hat, it shouted,

"GRYFFINDOR!"

A few names had passed.

"Remus Lupin!"

Y/n watched in silence with the rest of the students as the hat pondered which house the boy belonged in. Y/n just knew the hat was probably thinking Ravenclaw, that boy just seemed too smart. He always had a book in his satchel, just like y/n. She liked that about him.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

More cheers from Gryffindor went on, James and Peter being the loudest as Remus nervously sat infront of the two boys who sat together.