personality lab sorting hat

[Joyce Wu]

Saitaina,
I think you've misunderstood what I'm trying to say. There's nothing 
wrong with ambition or intelligence, but I think the whole point of 
the book is to illustrate the damaging effects of dividing people 
into categories and proceed to treat them as such. Even the sorting 
hat in book 5 expressed its concern of creating further rifts within 
the wizarding world by dividng children into different houses at 
Hogwarts. 

However, going back to your statement regarding Slytherin. Given 
that HP are children's books, and given that most of the Slytherin 
characters _in the book_ are shown as bullies, I think the site 
exercised good judgement by making it hard to be sorted into the 
house. 

cheers,
Joyce

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Saitaina" <saitaina at f...> 
wrote:
> Joyce wrote:
> 
> <I'm glad to see they've made the sorting
> process difficult to get
> into Slytherin - given that the majority of
> the students in
> Slytherin come from families who are
> advocates of racial purity (or
> the magical version of it), I don't think the
> site would want to
> encourage muggles to emulate! ;)>
> 
> Just because who the kids come from may have
> a wrong philosophy of live, doesn't mean
> those of us who share Slytherin traits
> (ambition, cunning, skill at some of the more
> underhanded methods of human interaction)
> doesn't mean we should shy away and hide our
> personality.   Some of us actually enjoy
> being Slytherin personalities, the same as
> Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs.
> 
> Just because one has a belief, doesn't mean
> the rest do.
> 
> Saitaina
> ****
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> skin, that's a pretty good indication that
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> 
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> 
> "No, one day I'm going to look back on all
> this and plow face-first into a tree because
> I was looking the wrong bloody way. And I'll
> still be having a better day than I am
> today."