He could imagine it now—the Hat shouting out the name, the Hufflepuff table applauding madly, Hermione looking like someone had burned a book in front of her, and throughout the rest of the hall, snickers and whispers of "so much for the Boy Who Lived..." Those snickers would follow him, and even the tactic he'd used in Little Whinging—intimidating people into leaving him be—would be hard to pull off...