The Hat Sorts, The Wand Choses

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> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
> > > Hermione says quite plainly on the train that she want's to be 
a 
> > Gryffindor (she is). Malfoy says in Madam Malkins shop that he 
wants 
> > to be a Slytherin (he is). Ron in wanting to live up to his 
brothers 
> > is "desperate" to be in gryffindor and so (even if he doesn't say 
it 
> > outloud) you can presume he wants to be a gryffindor (he is). And 
as 
> > for Harry, he doesn't choose the house he wants to be in, but he 
does 
> > choose the house he DOESN'T want to be in.
> 


After reading this thread with interest, I've re-read the sorting 
ceremony in SS. Has anyone considered that the Sorthing Hat may just 
be messing with Harry? Harry says "not Slytherin". The hat taunts him 
with it a bit, and then puts him elsewhere. Could the hat have simply 
been playing with him a bit? 

Just a thought

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