[HPforGrownups] Re: Sorting Hat and Weasleys

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 28831



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com




>
>Of all the theories resulting from this thread today, I agree with
>
>No one is going to follow any of these perfectly, but that's why the
>Sorting Hat waffled over Harry....sometimes he *is* willing to be
>devious or sneaky to get what he needs.  (Remember the Polyjuice
>Potion?  Keeping things from Dumbledore?  *Anything* involving the
>Invisibility Cloak??? <g>)

Um - Harry used Polyjuice to confirm or deny his doubts on who opened the 
CoS. Figuring out the truth. That's the good and right thing to do (rather 
than act on doubt - particularly since Draco was innocent compare with 
Ministry vs. Sirius) - this did lead Harry to learn Slytherin password. He 
never used it for anything since. Nor did he, later on, ever use the 
Hufflepuff Password for anything but the thing he got it for doing.
Should a Slytherin learned the password and possessed invisibility cloak - I 
think they'd been on a visit much more often with no good reason.

>It can explain a lot of weird Hat choices, I think, such as Neville
>in Gryffindor...

Gryffindor virtues: Courage and Courtesy.
Neville fails in neither - in fact, I find him as the most courageous of all 
characters. Harry found him braver because he'd lost his parents, who were 
still alive - and later we found they don't recognise Neville - that alone 
would be courageous. But, that aside, in PoA we find that Neville's worst 
fear is Professor Snape.
So - Neville is facing his worst fear regularly, three times a week with a 
group, on a subject that requires doing the thing exactly right way, having 
trouble remembering details, and knowing that the slightest mistake will 
mean Detention hour alone with his worst fear.
Now that - facing his fear like that - is what I call courage.

Courtesy: Neville's best glamour on this is when he volunteers to stay - 
when others go to Hogwarts - just so that Harry doesn't have to be alone. 
(and then what happens? Harry lies to him so he can go anyway. Neville's 
best - Harry's worst. I never saw Harry apologising to Neville afterwards... 
or am I having memory trouble here?)

Always kindly reminding others as to just where that trapstep is...

Must say that Gryffindor is the place for Neville - it's confidence in 
himself that he lacks - not courage nor courtesy.



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