Dot waited quietly at first, the anxious trepidation of finding out where she would end up being housed. Would she be a Gryffindor like Chalcedony? Or would she be a ravenclaw like Sapphy and Lio? Truly she knew there was a strong chance that she could be tossed into Ravenclaw with her eldest sibling, but there was a strong part of her that wanted to make the split as even as possible. Her name had been called.

Stalling the panic in her head as she made her way to the stool and hopped up – what house would she be? She questioned as she felt the flopsy moving hat being placed on her head. “I hope no one has lice” she murmured to herself only for the hat to tutt was that in her ear or her head because that felt rather loud and her ear was sort of hurting ... it was like someone had put the speakers right against her ear and decided to play it at max volume.

“Rude, you are way too loud hatty” she hissed and reached her finger up to flick at the hat. Who cared if it was old and decrepit and likely to fall apart in any moment. She didn’t. It was rudely loud.

“ah, ... another Ainsley” the hat spoke firmly its tone a little quieter than before and then the pause to the movement and the bellowed words made her ears scream. “SO LOUD” Dot snapped at the hat and glared out at the crowd.

“Shhhhh child,” the hat rebuked before yelling out “GRYFFINDOR” with an almost clipped tone. Did the hat dislike her? Maybe, but she was glad to have the hat off of her head and skipped over to her new house. Where the girl from the train was housed too!