Well bear in mind at Sorting it goes alphabetically. So before me there was Parkinson, Patil, and Patil. Don't you think I made a good choice, considering the girls I could be sharing with?
But that's why you wanted Slytherin? Really? I thought you didn't know any of them before you came to school. Had you met Patil, then? I suppose it'd just take the once to put you off wanting to know her better.
I'd never met anyone I was sorted with actually. I was the only one in my year at my village school, everyone else was older or younger than me.
If you want to know the honest truth (ha! like you'll even believe me after all this talk about lying!) I asked to be in Slytherin because I thought all my friends there (if I made any) would be above suspicion. So I'd never be asked to spy on them.
Seems dead ironic now doesn't it? If I ever DO get asked to spy on my friends I'd better hope I'm a VERY convincing liar.
And I suppose 'spy on them' is a little overdramatic.
Sometimes people from the Ministry would come to the village school and would talk to students one at a time, and ask us about our families and our friends and so on and so forth and when they'd talk to me, they'd hint that if I DID ever have anything really USEFUL to tell them it might be good for my family's situation, you know. Not that they'd give us a lovely new flat in New Wizarding London or anything but things were pretty terrible sometimes, it wouldn't have taken much for them to be better.
They asked us questions about our foster families during YPL, too, when they took the halfbloods off by ourselves.
Anyway.
I thought if I were in Slytherin this wouldn't happen. Because no one would dare suggest that DRACO MALFOY was secretly in league with Sirius Black! or Teddy or Hydra or any of them, really, although I suppose Daphne isn't really above suspicion and neither is Milli. Probably not Blaise either. But back when I didn't know anyone, it seemed like Slytherin should be really SAFE from that.
Like I said it's dead ironic now.
By the way I think something like this might be why Katrina hardly ever talks. She went to village school too, not the one I went to but one like it, and I think she said something once -- you know how Gryffindors tend to be too honest for their own good -- and got someone into really terrible trouble. I don't know that for sure, mind you. It's just what I suspect.
Not that I think she was a rat on purpose, I mean they started in on asking us about people when we were too little to really understand why they wanted to know. I think they asked her a question when she was really young, and she answered honestly, and something terrible happened.
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Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-03-28 08:03 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-03-29 02:23 am (UTC)But that's why you wanted Slytherin? Really? I thought you didn't know any of them before you came to school. Had you met Patil, then? I suppose it'd just take the once to put you off wanting to know her better.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-03-29 03:30 am (UTC)If you want to know the honest truth (ha! like you'll even believe me after all this talk about lying!) I asked to be in Slytherin because I thought all my friends there (if I made any) would be above suspicion. So I'd never be asked to spy on them.
Seems dead ironic now doesn't it? If I ever DO get asked to spy on my friends I'd better hope I'm a VERY convincing liar.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-03-29 03:39 am (UTC)Sometimes people from the Ministry would come to the village school and would talk to students one at a time, and ask us about our families and our friends and so on and so forth and when they'd talk to me, they'd hint that if I DID ever have anything really USEFUL to tell them it might be good for my family's situation, you know. Not that they'd give us a lovely new flat in New Wizarding London or anything but things were pretty terrible sometimes, it wouldn't have taken much for them to be better.
They asked us questions about our foster families during YPL, too, when they took the halfbloods off by ourselves.
Anyway.
I thought if I were in Slytherin this wouldn't happen. Because no one would dare suggest that DRACO MALFOY was secretly in league with Sirius Black! or Teddy or Hydra or any of them, really, although I suppose Daphne isn't really above suspicion and neither is Milli. Probably not Blaise either. But back when I didn't know anyone, it seemed like Slytherin should be really SAFE from that.
Like I said it's dead ironic now.
By the way I think something like this might be why Katrina hardly ever talks. She went to village school too, not the one I went to but one like it, and I think she said something once -- you know how Gryffindors tend to be too honest for their own good -- and got someone into really terrible trouble. I don't know that for sure, mind you. It's just what I suspect.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-03-29 03:44 am (UTC)