Sorting/Houses

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 2053

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny Linsenmayer wrote: 

> We haven't as yet seen much in the way of inter-House friendships

That's because we're looking from Harry's PoV. Harry and Ron, having 
met on the train, would be friends even if one of them had been 
sorted into Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, but they fortunately got sorted 
into the same house. Harry is so busy with Quidditch practise (and 
the Tournament in book 4) that he doesn't join any clubs, so all the 
reader is told about clubs at Hogwarts is when a notice is put on the 
bulletin board that a Dueling Club is being started. Students from 
all Houses showed up at the first meeting of the Dueling Club. I 
think there are many clubs at Hogwarts, that putting a notice on the 
Bulletin Board is the normal way to found a club or to start it up 
again after summer break, and that clubs that last longer than the 
first meeting lead to inter-house friendships.