Sorting Hat -- Confused? Or having fun?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 36669

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:
> 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.

Yes... but any one wizard has always considered his house the best 
one to be in. Well - it's because they *do* value what are 
characteristic to their house.