[HPforGrownups] Sorting Hat nitpick

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 22215

dfrankis at dial.pipex.com wrote:

> Melanie Brackney wrote:
> > The sorting hat also wished to put Harry in Slytherin
> > at first, therefore obviously people of Muggle
> > ancestory are not excluded automatically.
>
> We don't know if the sorting hat wanted to put Harry in Slytherin.
> Harry said not Slytherin, and the Hat argued.  Later on, in COS, we
> still don't find out - all the Hat does is restate its position.  We
> will probably never know what house it would have chosen if Harry had
> just passively waited to be told.

Excellent point! I thought of that, and never got around to posting it.
That "the Hat wanted Harry in Slytherin" is right up there, for me, with
"Snape wants the DADA position"--things we have been carefully led to
believe. Great clarification!

--Amanda


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