Peter + Sorting Hat

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19135

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mags" <manchisco at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> > The hat does conduct a dialogue with
> > each student; it pointed out to Harry the advantages of Slytherin;
> > it took a long time over Neville - he was my other misplacement,
> > I'd have put him in Hufflepuff.
> 
> Why would you put Neville in Hufflepuff?

Apparently because I haven't read GOF yet...

> I thought Hufflepuff were supposed to be hard workers, and
> although he's certainly not lazy I wouldn't say we see him
> working incredibly hard.

Well, they'd jolly well make him work hard if he was in Hufflepuff.

If Hufflepuffs have to work harder, it's probably because they
don't have either the genius of Ravenclaw to keep them ahead,
or the courage and the mutual support network (chivalry, somewhat
stretched) of Gryffindor - and the Slytherins keep spoiling
their potions and copying their bookwork.

I'm probably exaggerating Gryffindor's special mutuality - the
Hufflepuffs do band together to protect Justin Finch-Fletchley when
they think Harry's the heir of Slytherin and out to get him.

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)