[HPforGrownups]Sorting Hat/Julie Walters as Molly?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 2869

Melanie wrote:

>This brings me to something I've been wondering.  How exactly did the
>original founders sort the students during their (the founders') lifetimes?
> Did they pick them like teams?  Did they lay hands on the students to read
>their minds, then discuss where the students should go?  If so, was the
>discussion in front of the students?  Did the students have any say?  In
>either case, that must have been even more nerve-wracking than putting on
>the hat.

Perhaps they weren't sorted in that way in the early days.  They may have
had houses with other names which the pupils picked themselves (which is
what happens in most schools).  Then, one day, Helga called them all
together in the staff room and said: "Hey, here's an idea - let's divide the
kids up according to our personalities. Salazar - you take the evil social
climbers, I'll have the sloggers, Rowena can have the brainboxes and
Godric... you get the risk-taking show-offs."

I'm dying to know the secret behind the Sorting Hat.

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Julie Walters to play Molly?

I just saw Julie Walters interviewed about "Billy Elliot" (the film she's
in, which also stars Jamie Bell - the first boy suggested as a potential
Harry Potter) and she confirmed that she's been approached to play Molly
Weasley in the Harry Potter film.  She said "her daughter would kill her" if
she didn't take the part.  

I think someone mentioned that she was playing Madam Hooch, but that seems
to be incorrect.

Neil


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