[HPforGrownups] Re: Re: Pettigrew & Sorting Hat & Only Children

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 37990

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brooks Rowlett 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:02 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Re: Pettigrew & Sorting Hat & Only Children


  > The Sorting Hat seems to have a bias when it comes to families.


  >The tendency of the Sorting Hat to sort by family is also apparent with all
  the Slytherin families.


  Ehmmm...urmmmm... Occam's Razor here?  I think the cart if before the horse in 
  saying the Sorting Hat has a family bias.   Wouldn't it be as or even more 
  likely for  the way a child is raised, to influence his/her attitudes in a way 
  the Sorting Hat reads?


Although it seems as if the Sorting Hat sorts members of the same family into the same House, what about the Patil twins? One's a Gryffindor, one's a Ravenclaw. Are they the exception to the rule or are the Weasleys the exception? Personally, I dont' think there's a set pattern here. Some families share all their beliefs and some families have very varied personalities, I think we'll find many examples either way. 

Alina of Distant Place
http://www.distantplace.net/
"I will take my place in the Great Below" - Nine Inch Nails


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