This is the shortest chapter so far. I'll try to start making them a bit longer, but I don't have tons of time. This is the third day in a row that I've updated, though, so that's something. :)

It's going to be Ravenclaw.

That's what Minerva had always known; that's what she'd told Alastor when he'd asked. So now, as the Sorting Hat was lowered onto her head, knocking her specs askew, she wasn't nervous. Minerva knew what it would say.

"Are you sure about that?" It asked.

Minerva kept her mind blank, waiting.

"You would do well in Ravenclaw," the hat went on. "You're clever, beyond a doubt, but you're also brave and ambitious. Not, however, very loyal."

That roused her. What? I am loyal! She thought furiously, before remembering that she didn't actually want to be in Hufflepuff.

"So you do have a preference, then?" Said the hat, somewhat mockingly.

It doesn't matter. I know you'll put me in Ravenclaw.

"And if I don't?"

Gryffindor or Slytherin? Minerva had never considered that choice before, but her preference came instantly. Gryffindor.

"Now we've narrowed things down! Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, then. And the question becomes, are you cleverer than you are brave, or braver than you are clever?"

Do you insult everyone who puts you on?

Instead of answering, the hat chuckled, and then shouted a name for everyone to hear.

Minerva McGonagall stood up and, as she replaced the Sorting Hat on its stool, met her sister's eyes across the Great Hall.

The look of complete surprise on Venus' face melted into a grin, and she pointed to the next table over, where Gryffindor House was cheering.

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