"Slytherin!"
As soon as the Sorting Hat shouted the name, scattered applause drifted from one of the long tables. Evidently, they were not very interested in a young wizard who did not come from one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families.
Devereux, however, was completely frozen.
Wait a minute.
The hat hadn't even touched his head yet!
Wasn't the Sorting Hat supposed to deliberate for a while?
He was a peerless, super-genius of the magical world!
Was he not brave? Was he not loyal?
Well.
He supposed he wasn't particularly loyal.
Still, they could at least take the student's preference into account!
He did not want to sleep in the dungeons for seven years!
Chapter 20