Sorting Hat/Likeable Slytherin

[mike_wiltse]

No: HPFGUIDX 38060

When I think about the sorting hat and what its role is I have to 
think about what what goes into making the school what it is.  There 
are pehaps 200 children there at one time.  The children need to be 
split up among 4 houses, put where they will belong the best.  

Lets asume 28 new kids were starting school, and all 28 students 
would fit perfectly into Gryfindor.  The hat would not put them all 
there.  Its job is to sort them into 4 houses first.  People who know 
where the want to go and fit the profile take very little effort.  
Where as people who dont know where they want to be, and dont 
imidiatly fit one profile take longer.  Think of Hermonie, she fits 
the Raven Claw Ideal more than the Gryfindor.  Try balancing out her 
traits she should not have been in Gryfindor.  She was put where she 
best fit and there was room.

People like Neville who shows few signs of Gryfindor trates may 
simply be the ones left over who were closest to the ideal and needed 
to fill the spot, even though he was more like a hufflepuf.
This would explain why in the middle of Voldemorts riegn Peter was 
put into Gryfindor, Slytherin was out of room.

And as to Harry being considered for Slytherin, the sorting hat was 
just having fun.  Teasing Harry about Slytherin just because he didnt 
want to go there had to be immense fun for a hat that would be 
sitting on a shelf for another year.

Enough rambling, after reading everyones thoughts i felt I should 
share mine.

"Mike Wiltse"