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Three years. It's been three years I've been trying to get Peter Pevensie to talk to me so that I could finish up the Facets series. It's been over two years since I managed to get him to talk at all. And now? Now when I'm supposed to be working on Harry Potter drabbles, now, he starts to talk to me again.

Anyone interested in betaing an approximately 2000 word five things Narnia ficlet for me, so I can finally put this series to bed? I mostly need a flow check and someone to make sure I didn't swap tenses too much writing this up.

Tomorrow (well, later today, but if I haven't fallen asleep yet, it still counts as tomorrow), I will get started on those drabble prompts.

Sorting Canon rant

Feel free to ignore if you're not interested in Harry Potter. Large chunks of this rant come from sorting people at H_E, and watching a number of applicants say that loyalty is a Gryffindor trait.

Why do people always give loyalty to Gryffindors? It's not one of the sorting hat virtues, and Gryffindors actually are the ones most often in canon to turn against people in pursuit of their own ideals. Sirius and Percy both left their families, Peter betrayed James and Lily, Ron has spent large chunks of two separate books not talking to Harry or Hermione because of a mistaken belief and then his pride being too much to make things up until disaster struck. Large chunks of Gryffindor house as a whole turned against Harry in both Philosopher's Stone (after he lost points) and Order of the Phoenix. Heck, even Lupin was willing to drop his responsibilities and loyalty owed to his wife and child when it came to it. Gryffindors are idealistic, brave, chivalrous, and strong willed, but they are not, canonically, all that loyal. With, like, Harry, Hermione, and Neville being obvious exceptions, and they're all characters with a strongly visible secondary house.

Hufflepuffs, on the other hand, canonically did receive loyalty as a sorting hat trait in the first book. Moreover, they're shown to move as a house to protect people they think are threatened (Chamber of Secrets rallying behind Justin, Goblet of Fire behind Cedric, large bits of Order of the Phoenix, and in Deathly Hallows, it's a Hufflepuff who first says something about staying behind to help Harry and the teachers.

If anything, the next house after Hufflepuff in terms of loyalty is Slytherin.