Wands and Sorting

[bugaloo37]

No: HPFGUIDX 44405

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "greg_a126" <grega126 at a...> wrote:
> Where does Harry, Voldemort & their Phoenix feathers fit into this? 
> I see the phoenix feather as a "could go either way."  Just as 
Harry isn't completely good, part of him was calling out to be in 
> Slytherin, he chose his side.  And I think 50 years earlier, Tom 
> Riddle was the same way.  He still had some good in him, but he 
made his decision.  Thoughts?
> 
> Greg

I do not understand where you got the impression that part of Harry 
was "calling out to be in Slytherin."  At the Sorting, after hearing 
Ron describe Slytherin, Harry made the conscious and apparently 
unconscious choice -"not Slytherin"  According to Dumbledore, the 
hesitation by the Sorting Hat was a result of part of 
Voldemort "passing into Harry"-the end result of the failed avada 
kedavra curse.  I am not saying Harry is completely good-he has his 
moments of weakness-like everyone else-but, IMO, the Sorting Hat's 
hesitation is not an example of a lack of goodness on Harry's part.  
I believe in choice- the wand chooses the wizard- we have been told.  
But IMO, the wand chooses based on the heart of the person-it does 
not foretell the future-it sees what is present at the time.

bugaloo37-who agrees that everyone has a choice-including Tom 
Riddle/Voldemort.