To See with Serpent's Eyes

Better be Gryffindor, says the Hat, and we all know how this goes. 

But we don’t, not really. We don’t know how Harry, knobby-kneed and sharp-eyed and hungry, really wound up in Gryffindor, which was, after all, the Sorting Hat’s second choice. 

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Sit down. 

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Let me tell you a story.