Equality in sorting

[selah_1977]

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No: HPFGUIDX C7237
From: selah_1977
Subject: Re: Equality in sorting
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7233] Re: Equality in sorting
Date: 8/18/00 9:46 pm  (ET)

Kaitlin wrote:

"Perhaps it is just some natural law of order that puts the students
evenly into the houses. Have you been watching Survivor? Did you notice
how people were voted off (before the Tagi-Pagong union)? Tagi, Pagong,
Tagi, Pagong...Male, Female, Male, Female, etc. etc. etc. It didn't
seem intentional."

Actually, I think *Survivor* is very intentional. But that's neither
here nor there. (As far as crossing *Survivor* and HP is concerned,
the two concepts don't work together. Trust me on this.)

I don't think that there necessarily has to be an even number of students
in the houses. If there were a precise number of Hogwarts students Sorted
into each house every year, if this was at all important to the plot,
I'm sure it would have been mentioned by now.

I never had the need to know the numbers, and still don't. The only
problem I'll have is if there is suddenly a new fifth year Gryffindor
girl introduced in Book 5.

But watching all the back and forth about the numbers has been sort of
like watching a tennis match. Interesting.

Ebony AKA AngieJ