Percy (was Handicapping the Next Big Battle)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 31856

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Russ & Wanda <farris5 at s...> wrote:
> Then why not just ask the students which house they want to be in instead of going through a sorting ceremony with a hat that just puts them where they think they ought to go?
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Because remember that many of the students do not necesarily know the 
Hogwarts houses and what they represent, and some of the students, even 
if they know the houses, do not know which one to choose. In all those 
situations, the sorting hat reads the personality of the student 
(specially it's hidden posibilities, judging from the poor work it does 
at first sight: Hermione, Hagrid and Neville don't look as if they 
belong in Gryffindor). I insist, however, that if the student is 
determined to go to a house, he will go there (or, looking it the other 
way round, if he doesn't want to go to a house, he won't go there).

Grey Wolf