[HPforGrownups] Sorting Hat Decisions (WAS: Harry as the Heir of Gryffind...

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48841

In a message dated 26/12/2002 14:48:06 Eastern Standard Time, 
erisedstraeh2002 at yahoo.com writes:


> 
> Gryffindor's hat, brings Harry a sword that once belonged to 
> Gryffindor in order to help Harry kill Slytherin's basilisk, it's 
> fairly clear that the Hat thinks it made the right decision regarding 
> Harry's house placement.


Precisely.
When Harry interviews Dumbledore after the evnts in the CoS, he questions if 
the Hat had made a mistake. Dumbledore points out that only a TRUE Gryffindor 
would have pulled Gryffindor's sword from the hat. If Harry were truly meant 
to be in Slytherin, he would have not conjured ( so to speak- not that he 
actually knew he was conjuring anything) the Gryffindor sword. 

I think Harry panics when it comes to being sorted. In a very short amount of 
time he has found out he is a wizard, that his parents were killed by 
Voldemort, Ron tells him that there isn't as witch or wizard who didn't "go 
bad" from Slytherin, he meets the slimey Draco and sees him be placed in 
Slyhtherin, he can probably firgure out that Voldemort was in Slytherin at 
this point, etc. I would probably ask the hat not to put me in that house 
either.

Also, after the curse, Harry gains some of Voldemort's powers, things that 
probably made Voldemort the ideal Slytherin and as the heir, those passed on 
traits were imho the ideal of Slytherin. 

But as Phyllis points out, our choices are what makes us who/what we are.

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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