Disclaimer: Last I checked, I'm not J. K. Rowling. Thus, I couldn't possibly own Harry Potter.

They say that I am wise. They say that I always know best. I even say this myself. The truth is, I don't know everything. I've made mistakes like everyone else. While I can see inside your head; I can't see your future. I only look at what I think is important at the time. I don't always look deep enough. Some people are made of layers. What they appear to be on the outside, they aren't always on the inside. Two of my greatest regrets were in the same year and the other was only forty-six years later. No, they couldn't have been centuries apart where no one would make the connections. No, they had to be so close together, that they were only two generations apart. But who can blame me when I sort eleven-year-olds?

Severus Snape was one of these regrets. Had I known what he would have done as an adult, I would have put him in Gryffindor without a second thought. However, the boy wanted to be in Slytherin, so who was a to disagree? He appeared to be a Slytherin on the outside; he didn't seem too brave. Had I looked deeper, I would have seen how incredibly brave he was. He risked everything, just to protect the son of the woman he loved. Some could argue that he didn't have much to lose, he'd already lost Lily twice (once to James Potter and another to Lord Voldemort) but still very few would have ever done such a thing. I put him in Slytherin. I should have put him in Gryffindor.

Peter Pettigrew was one of these regrets. The boy didn't actually show any great qualities. I was tempted to just put him in Hufflepuff (even though he didn't seem very loyal) because I couldn't think of a better place to put him, but he protested that he wanted to be in Gryffindor. He'd met some boys on the train: James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin and he wanted to be in their house. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin had already been sorted into Gryffindor (Who'd have thought it-Orion Black's son a Gryffindor) and James Potter would surely be too. One didn't have to be able to read minds as I can to see that James Potter was destined for Gryffindor. Little Peter wanted to be in the same house with his new friends. Especially James. Seeing that Peter probably wouldn't make any other friends, I pitied him and placed him in Gryffindor. Maybe his new friends would rub off on him and toughen him up. I dearly wish I'd looked deeper. He was only loyal to the biggest bully on the playground. Had he not been in Gryffindor, he and James most likely wouldn't have been friends and then Sirius or Remus would have been Lily and James' secret keeper. I put him in Gryffindor. I should have put him in Slytherin.

Scorpius Malfoy was one of these regrets. He was smart. That was the first thing that I saw when I was placed on his head. He wanted to please his father. That was the second thing that I saw. That was his greatest wish: to make his father happy. That soon changed, but it was too late. I had already sorted him. He clearly wasn't brave. However, this didn't seem to bother him. He was very loyal though he had too much potential to be in Hufflepuff. He just wanted to make his father happy. At the time, he thought he wanted to be a Slytherin. It was barely six months before that changed. He had befriended Albus Potter and Rose Weasley and just couldn't get along with anyone in his own house. He even told Rose that they scared him a little. I wish I'd just looked at what I saw at first glance. He was smart. If I'd based his sorting on that, maybe Ron Weasley would have taken to his future son-in-law sooner, but he was a Malfoy. Clearly that means he was destined for Slytherin and his last name started with an M. I was half-way through the alphabet and I wanted to get through the sorting quickly. I put him in Slytherin. I should have put him in Ravenclaw.