Percy (was Handicapping the Next Big Battle)

[avonlea0112]

No: HPFGUIDX 31873

Grey Wolf wrote:

> 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).
> 

I think the sorting hat sees qualities in the student that perhaps 
nobody else(the students themselves, their teachers, and us the 
readers) sees.  After all, going by character's stock descriptions, 
Ron could be in Hufflepuff, Neville certainly would be, and Cedric 
Diggory could well fit into Gryffindor.  Just because a character 
appears suited for a house form our perspective, doesn't mean the 
sorting hat sees it that way.

~Avolea