Then the prefect started pontificating. "Sir, I don't know if you are aware. But this is my little sister Ginevra. She's still too young to attend Hogwarts but somehow managed to include herself in the Sorting. I'd appreciate it if you could send her home at once, Professor."
Dumbledore began to look serious, separating himself from his earlier discussion with a very grave face. His eyes glanced down, taking in the girl and asking, "Is this true?"
Ginny pulled her arm out of her brother's grasp, having to stomp on his foot to get him to let go. Percy hopped around, holding one foot and looking very undignified. "You prat! You'll be sneezing Bat Bogies for a year when I get through with you! Sorry sir, I don't see how I did anything wrong. I'm already a powerful witch. I can cast spells with my mother's wand better than most of your other first years."
"But are you," the headmaster asked, ignoring the hopping Percy, "still only ten years old?"
"Yes, sir." The girl got downcast.
The prefect had finished massaging his painful instep and set it down, limping over to his kid sister with an eye toward violence before he caught the teachers looking and calmed down. Dumbledore looked very grave indeed. "I am sorry, mister Weasley, but the Sorting is a binding magical ceremony. I am afraid that, having gone through it, your sister is indeed a student of Hogwarts. There is nothing I can do, short of expulsion, to remove her, and she has only the same seven years to finish her studies as the rest of you so sending her home could only put her behind. I fear it may be quite a struggle for her to keep up as it is. I shall owl your parents at once, of course. I imagine they will want to get her a proper wand, so that Molly can regain hers for keeping house."
With a squeal of glee, Ginny broke free of her brother's attempts to grasp her and sped off toward the backs of the retreated first year Gryffindors.
McGonagall quirked her lips. That one would be a handful, she was sure. Well, the needed business she'd returned here to the Great Hall for concluded, she got up from Albus' other side, and bid goodnight to the other staff members, before catching a glance of the stunned prefect. "Mister Weasley, would you care to pick up the Sorting Hat, which I notice is still lying on the floor, and follow me? We can discuss your family's circumstances on the way to return it to storage."
Numbly, Percy leaned down to grab the hat around the brim, lifting it up. It suddenly ceased snoring and shouted out grumpily, "Slytherin!"
Percy dropped the hat in shock as the markings on his robe turned green and silver.
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