They all laughed and agreed that if it had worked that way with anyone else that Harry would be a Gryffinclaw and Ron would be a Gryffinpuff. They sat for a while and decided the natural progression of this conversation was to resort to every student they could ever remember. They grew stumped on Crabbe and Goyle and decided that if it was possible that the sorting hat would ever dismiss any students outright it would be those two who clearly didn’t belong anywhere, not even Slytherin. 