Sorting Krum (wasEquality in sorting

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Sorting Krum (wasEquality in sorting
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7339] Re: Equality in sorting
Date: 8/20/00 10:17 am  (ET)

> I would imagine that a student coming in would be Sorted. Viktor Krum
doesn't act like a Slytherin, really, he may be a Gryffindor. We're
seeing in him a student who shouldn't have been in Dumstrang in the
first place -- he'e entirely too straight a shooter for that.

Names being what they are, there must be some reason his name is
'crumb'. Presumably JKR's reason was to mislead us readers to expect
that his behaviour would be crummy.

GoF does emphasize the contrast between his clumsy and graceless walk and
and his perfect broom-flying. Someone on some e-mail-list suggested that
the Seeking is not his own talent but something that he was bewitched to
do, which could account for his apparent humility (compared to what one
would expect of the wizarding world's very biggest celebrity athlete --
part of the purpose of the Bagman character, and reminiscence of his
trial, may have been to remind us of what Krum *could* have gotten
away with).