Hogwarts House Challenge

**OpheliaBlue** · 01-26-2012 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by spartinpastic

Couldn't of Hermoine or those creepy old teachers do it!?

Well, yeah.. but there was a line.

**RebelSeven** · 05-14-2012 07:51 PM

I know this isn't the most active thread, but this was an amazing dream ^ _ ^ Look out Gryffindor! New Member here!

I start to wander the house, opening closets. This fails a few times, so I switch tactics and instead focus on listening. Sure enough a light scratching sound is heard. I follow it, and open a closet filled with mostly pink clothes and dolls. I look behind the dresser in the closet and make out a shifting brown material. I reach in pull it out.

The face is much more superficial than I expected with only the smallest folds to delineate the features, but the hat is exactly how bedraggled I expected it to be, sewed together piecemeal. It is a good size, but the brim is very small, making it look more like a dunce cap. The face is frozen, expressionless.

"Hello?" I say

The hat comes to life, the face taking on a personality as it blinks a few times and stretches it's mouth. I hold the hat loosely as it begins to twist and stretch just like a person waking up from a long nap. The rough material giving off the weight of something twice it's density.

"Hell-ooooo" it says, letting out a forceful sigh as it finishes stretching.
"Don't put me back in there, it was SO stale" The sorting hat says. I frown.
"Aren't you supposed to talk in rhyme?" I ask.
"Oh AM I?" The hat asks with good humor "Maybe I should just BAIL" The hat begins to chuckle with a wide grin leaning back enough to make me fear it falling . It has a very pleasant warm voice and its humor is infectious, I can't help smiling.
"May I wear you?" I ask not knowing the finer etiquette of human/talking hat relations.
"Yes of course!" The hat says.
I flip it upside down to put on and realize the hole is too small for my head, and again that the brim is too narrow
"Can you stretch please?" I ask, in a sing-song voice the hat responds.
"For a seeker of knowledge I shall" pleasantly the brim expands to a respectable wizards size brim and the circumference of the hat expands large enough for the hat to slip down over my eyes.

I put the hat on and the first thing I notice is the immediate loss of ambient sound. It is utter silence. My vision does not go dark like I expected but I see everything with a dark brown colored sheen. I rub my hands together for good measure, and continue to walk around so as to not lose input from the dream scene. I think to myself and it's like the volume of my thoughts has been turned up 3 fold and is coming out with a small amount of static interference.

"I wish I was put in...." I stop myself from finishing the thought "Uh...am I supposed to tell you want I want?" I ask
"Not Necessary," the hat's voice reverberates in my head "Hmmmm..." It ponders, and I feel a strange sensation in my brain, the closest I can describe it is like what you imagine a snake would feel like sliding around inside. Slipping between and around the squishy lobes, not painfully, but wholly alien and uncomfortable. This is a sensation that I doubt I will ever be able to completely forget.
"You have NO idea what you're doing" says the hat vaguely, I feel like a failure and I don't even know why.
"I know what I want" I say in my defense.

I am still walking around, suddenly in my line of vision I see a little girl, she is wearing a brown wizard hat as well, but it is not covering her eyes, and does not have the Sorting Hat's face It takes a few moments, but I realize the girl is me Though she doesn't look like me at that age. The hat talks and I know that it is directed at the girl. The feeling of a snake in my brain lifts. but there is a strange tinkling music to replace it, very quiet but distinct

(sketchy recall on dialogue here)"What would you do," asks the hat "if there was a murderer in your house at night?"
The girl looks terrified "I would run!" I feel like I've had a punch to the gut. The girl is me and she would abandon her family to a murder to save herself.

"There goes my shot at Gryffindor" I think "but there is still Ravenclaw" I hear the hats laughter in my head again but it is not warm and humorous like before.
"You can't even pick a major!" it says, tauntingly "what business do you have with the intelligent house" This really hurts my feelings. I get more of an impression than clear thoughts from the hat as it thinks that I don't belong in Hufflepuff or Slytherin either. I finally get mad.

"No." I say flatly. "That girl is not me. I would have fought, even at that age. And I definitely would now." and then with even a stronger conviction "I don't know what I want to do yet, but I'm still smart, (something like) If I could just be a student from now on, that's what I would do"
"Hm..." said that hat with a good dose approval "Seems I need to re-think this" there is a sly edge to his voice. I suddenly get the impression that he was goading me into defending myself for some kind of test, and I feel sheepish for not doing it before and for being emotional about it.
"There isn't time" I say to the hat, sure I am going to wake up soon. The hat ignores me though. I reach up and run one hand around the rough brim of the hat to stabilize the dream, I find a desk, and with the other hand, begin to write down the keywords of the conversation, careful to think over every word that had been said. I don't bother reading it through when I'm finished, confident I have it memorized. The hat still hasn't given me an answer.

"Where do I go!?" I ask
"In a minute" says the Hat
"I need to know! Don't make me do this again!" I plead
"harrumph" exhales the hat, then it sighs again, "hmmmmmm" it tones and I hold my tongue trying to be patient. "Alright, alright. GRYFFINDOR" the hat calls out.

WOO-HOO!

**Juf** · 05-20-2012 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by RebelSeven

I know this isn't the most active thread, but this was an amazing dream ^ _ ^ Look out Gryffindor! New Member here!

It sure has been a while. I'll try to compete

I'm in Hufflepuff. The OP doesn't get updated so I compiled and updated it for the thread.

Spoiler for New Edit:

Spoiler for Info:

House Points

Hufflepuff - 32 Points
Mancon
Juf
Chronicillness
Gryffindor - 17 Points
Naiya
RebelSeven
Slytherin - 5 Points
mrdeano
FancyRat
Ravenclaw - 5 Points
Stubert

GOOD LUCK AND LET THE BEST HOUSE WIN!

**enak101** · 05-20-2012 01:28 PM

I'm very interested in this, I'll let you know if I ever get sorted. Definitely a goal of mine now.

**Thena** · 05-30-2012 06:56 PM

Oh, I was so close before I lost lucidity last night!

This has to be a dream, then. I head outside and shout, "Hey, where is my Sorting Hat?" I probably would have tried summoning it, except I remembered that I hadn't gotten a wand yet.... Finally, a hat appears on top of one of the cars in the driveway. It's a striped paper carnival hat, though, and definitely not a Sorting Hat. I put it on, but it doesn't do anything. I guess I'll just have to head to Hogwarts in the morning.