Percy nodded, slowly. "I guess, but there are other factors. I might not agree with them, but I can understand how things started. I mean, take my family. If someone had got me young enough and promised that I could have got rid of my brothers, I would have done anything, and by the time, I would be old enough to know better, I'd be caught in a web that I couldn't escape. I don't think it's not being smart. It's a lot more."
He laughed. "I don't think the Hat even considered anything other than Gryffindor for a Weasley, at least not seriously. It comes with the name and hair. It suggested that I could go in Ravenclaw, that Bill almost got there, but being a Weasley superseded everything."