@Ernest Baird

@Vicente Hidalgo

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


"Oh." Reginald's eye twitched slightly at Ernest reprimanding him. He now realized he despised the tone of disappointment or anger that formed when people confronted him for his own misdeeds, especially when They were his age. He felt a lash across his pride, which forced a burning defiance that he had to mold, shape, and contain deep down lest he scare off his new friends. "I guess so. Sorry, Vicente." He said with a small, apologetic smile, as he hid the lower half of his face behind his opened Defense Against The Dark Arts book.

His eyes filtered through the emotions, until joy was found once more in the windows to his soul at Ernest's statement and subsequent question, to which he blurted out. "Slytherin! I want to be in Slytherin. I don't know much about the houses, but I do know Slytherin is for ambitious and strong people, Gryffindor is for courageous and confident people, Ravenclaw is for smart and studious kids, and... lastly Hufflepuff, the house of loyalty and dedication."

After finally putting the book down and getting over the bout of rage and or embarrassment he felt beforehand he began to list the houses of Hogwarts while naming the traits he understood about each, a finger going up as he named each house. As he raised that fourth finger, he stopped at Hufflepuff, freezing for a fleeting moment, as if reliving a memory, before he continued as if nothing happened.

"What about you guys? Any preferences? Other than Slytherin, of course since you should want it now." He said with a small smirk, not actually expecting the two to follow suit. Everyone wants to go through school with a friend by their side, but would they want it bad enough to risk being in a house that doesn't match their morals? A house with people that deny their very ancestry.

Word count: 311
Notes: My bad. Took a while, but I got to it.