Flashback.
“All first years in
here.” called Professor Plinker. John and the rest of the first years filed in
to the smallish room, knowing that soon they would all be sorted into their
respectable houses. John was hoping that he would be placed in Hufflepuff or
Ravenclaw, but here my friends is where I tell you he didn’t wind up in either;
you see the young boy was and still is quite ambitious. This one character
trait out of his many may have caused him to be placed in Slytherin, the least
likely of places for someone like John. Well maybe I should tell you more about
this John person before I go in to saying things like that. John is the oldest
child of Guillaume (William) and Ginny Moore. John is a fourth Veela, and speaks three
languages French, English, and Scottish. The odd thing about John is that
magical children, who attend Hogwarts the same school as their parents, usually
wind up in one of their parents old houses.
But not John, his dad was a Hufflepuff and his mom a Gryffindor, so as
to why John is a Slytherin only the sorting hat really knows but you and I
might be able to come close to knowing. John
is one of only a handful of Veela or part Veela children in the Slytherin house and no
one really knows why they’re there to begin with, maybe it’s because the sorting hat is old
and can’t place the children as well as it once could or maybe because the
sorting has gotten wiser over the years and knows more then it lets on to.
Whatever the case maybe John is a Slytherin and an odd one at that, but it’s
time now look at where he is during this flash back. He along with the other
first years are walking up the aisle toward the far end of the Great Hall,
where John will find out he is a Slytherin. Professor Plinker started calling
out names that John didn’t really pay any attention to and then he heard it,
his own name, never had John been so scared to hear his own name before. Slowly
but surely he walks towards Professor Plinker and the sorting hat where he’ll
know in which house he’ll be placed in, still chanting and hoping to be placed
in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. Upon sitting down to the stool the hat is placed on
his head but the hat hasn’t said anything or moved this is quite odd, for the
hat usually bursts into life the moment it’s placed on someone’s head.
Professor Plinker tries to pick the hat up, and I say tries because as the
Professor reaches for the hat it yells “don’t touch me you fool. This boy has
every desire to be placed in to Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw both for noble
reasoning, BUT it is Slytherin as to where, I think he belongs.” Then the hat
goes quiet once more. As John walks away he is sure the hat has miss placed him
but can’t bring himself to tell everyone else just how wrong the hat must be. And so our tale of John so-wrongly-placed Moore begins now as we find our present
day fourth year Slytherin John André Moore still as sure as ever that the
sorting hat was wrong, sitting where he sat when he walked over to the
Slytherin table for the first time.
