"And if you had been placed in Gryffindor?" Hermione countered. Again he responded first with a chuckle, "Two things. I would have stormed out of the Great Hall with the words  my father will hear of this ," They both grinned at that. "And then I doubt my father would have been forgiving of me. It would mean that my indoctrination before I went to Hogwarts had failed. I would have paid a heavy price for that."