Sorting Hat -- Confused? Or having fun?

Mon Mar 18 21:57:41 UTC 2002

No: HPFGUIDX 36644

brewpub44 wrote:
> I have been thinking about Harry's sorting ceremony. Harry starts 
> off by mumbling "not Slytherin", and the hat challenges him back.

I think the Hat may be *testing* him.  I have this theory that the Hat 
is actively intervening in the Slytherin - Gryffindor conflict, on 
Grfiindor's side (it was Gryffindor's hat, after all.)  The Hat wants 
to make sure that Harry can be trusted to represent Gryffindor.

Judy