"It's probably fuzzy enough to include both, but as you said Flitwick was not terribly forthcoming about it."

"Did he tell you how the sorting works? He wouldn't tell me. Maybe it's in one the textbooks." 

"He said it was a surprise, so maybe we shouldn't look too hard." 

"He didn't," she agrees, "but it's probably magical."

"What do you think you'll be? Ravenclaw?" 

"Or Slytherin, I dunno."

"Slytherin sounds cooler. And I think Ravenclaw is probably less fun." 

"Why?"

"Maybe not if you're a Ravenclaw," he amends. "You seem fun."

"I don't think there's really a bad house, Scott. They all have good things about them." 

"I didn't say they were bad...all of them sound kind of bad." 

"I dunno what they're for," he shrugs.

"Flitwick was a Ravenclaw, what does he think about them? He must like Ravenclaw, but what about the others? I guess I'll ask when I get to Hogwarts."

He shrugs again. "We'll figure it out there. Ooor we can ask other children when we get to the train."

"That's true! We can meet other witches and wizards! I can't wait to go to school!"

She snickers. 

"What are you going to do until school starts?"

"Read all these books. I'm gonna know everything by the time school starts."

"How can you know everything in there? I wish I could remember everything I read." 

"Well, I can't, but if I forget I can just read it again."

"Oh. I should read all my books too. Then we can both know more than all the other first years. You take the boring stuff and I'll take the fun stuff." 

"It's magic what could even be boring?"

"Charms, history, defense against the dark arts..."

"Charms isn't boring! You can cast spells! And history I bet is like reading stories, it's magic. I dunno what defence is like but I bet it's like charms, too."

"Transfiguration sounds fun, and potions. Maybe charms and defense are okay, but I think they'll be boring. So you take the boring things, because you like those, and I'll take the fun things, because you don't."