Chapter 5: Elsie

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Elsie watched Annette join the Slytherin table. "What is the difference between the houses?" she thought. But she didn't have much more than a second to ponder because they had begun calling the C's.

Cagney, Caine, Cairney, Carrington...

"Carter, Elsie."

The hat was lowered onto her head and she was startled by the Sorting Hat's voice resounding inside her skull.

"Confident. Open-minded. Curious. Adventurous. Yes..." hummed the voice.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Elsie beamed and rushed to take her spot at the Gryffindor table, next to Calvin and across from Lydia.

"How does the hat read our minds like that?" Elsie whispered.

Lydia grinned. "Magic!"

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