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[ the slightly awkward angle of the camera set upon a desk indicates that this is most likely an accidental video. leonard mccoy is sitting in his incredibly spartan home office, dealing with the usual bunch of medical paperwork with only a minimal amount of scowling - in fact, he looks at peace doing work, occasionally tapping his fingers on the desk when he's got some thinking to do before writing things down. sometimes, he'll check another device - starfleet's communicator - and snort to himself before returning to his work.

and then here comes the fun part of his office window suddenly bursting open with a gust of wind, and before he could even react to anything a hat comes flying inside the room before landing on his head. ]

What the —

[ but he doesn't get to say anything else, or flail about a damn hat, because after a short moment the hat's yells — ]

HUFFLEPUFF!

[ — and bones is pretty much left sitting in his office with a bewildered look on his face as the hat bounces off to terrorize someone else again. ]

… That thing just talked to me.

( OOC | forward-dated to November 14, for the Got That Sorted curse. )

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I knew it! I bloody knew you'd be a Hufflepuff!

Hang on, that's—

What's the Sorting Hat doing here?

It shouted "Slytherin" at me earlier. Whatever the hell that means.

That's what that was?

[ grousing. still bewildered. give him a moment. ]

Th'hell is a hat doing sorting people?

According to Ginny, it's a hat that sorts people into houses. Whatever the hell that means.

The houses at that school she attended back in her world?

[ ginny had mentioned something about them to her once, but nothing kathryn had committed to memory. ]

[Despite the strangeness of a talking hat, or perhaps because of it, Marguerite's only reaction is a laugh.]

Monsieur McCoy! I see you were granted no chance of escape either.

It's... well, it's from home. My school. I've told you, haven't I, about how we're put into Houses that best represent our strongest qualities?

[But why is it happening here?]

Hufflepuff's an amazing House. You should be proud.

I think that's what it said to me, too.

[ this is so weird. ]

[ he has no answer, ginny. just more questions. ]

What's the strongest quality of the people in Hufflepuff?

Yeah, that. Slytherins, Hufflepuffs, something about griffins and ravens?

[ who knows, man. ]

[ at least someone finds it amusing. ]

Not at all, although it did leave my head rather quickly.

Did it come to you, too?

Our mascots are badgers apparently, just so you know.

[ c/o a miss weasley. ]

[ shaking her head. ]

What's next, a flying tricorder that tells you what department you ought to be in?

Tricorder's not nearly magical enough.

[ although he doesn't doubt that ginny might be able to do something crazy about it just because she's such a troublemaker.

or, you know, the damn city itself. ]

I'm going to plead that it keeps me in the medical department no matter what, just in case it actually does happen.

[ chinhands. ]

What, don't want to join us in command and have your turn at the big chair?

They're loyal and hardworking.

[Second only to Gryffindor, they had the most students try to stay behind and fight for Hogwarts. To have dueled alongside witches and wizards like that was an honour.]

Indeed, it did. The word was foreign to me, but I remember it resembling "slithering".

No, thank you. I get woozy enough standin' on the bridge as it is. Don't need the headache that comes with trying to commandeer a bunch of grown children playing with buttons on a console.

Besides, I ain't command material. Jim says that I'm too much of a humanitarian. Whatever that means.

[ although he may have just said that to steer bones away from the thought of taking the Officer's Bridge Test - which he apparently can take - because he later admitted to believing that bones would be a good captain, hypothetically. so who knows. ]

Stubborn workaholics.

Fitting.

Slytherin?

[ he's heard it from Janeway, so he knows the word to say. ]

A person that I know got the same word.

Oh, that was it, exactly! How amusing... Are you aware whether it carries any particular meaning?

Didn't I tell you about them at the party?

[She vaguely... remembers that.]

You told me about the badgers, at least. Tell me about the other houses.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that.

[ just going to take a joking road on this one because what. ]

Do we know what it means?

[ he's only gotten a little bit of an explanation from her. ]

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