The Profs and Which Houses They were In at Hogwarts+ Sorting +Patel/Patil Mystery
ronin_economist
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Thu Sep 26 02:01:46 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 44481
> Katherine Adams:
> >> Based upon current personality traits, which houses do you
think
> Voldemort,
> > >Dumbledore, McGonaghal, Snape, Sirius, Hagrid, etc. did the
Sorting Hat
> send
> > them to while attending?
> >> ~Spookykat
Every time the question of which houses the adults were in comes up,
I think of this objeciton, and now I think I'll finally post it.
The characters in question are adults, in some cases quite old
ones. But the Sorting Hat sorts children, little 11-year-olds, in
fact. Doesn't anyone thing that people's personalities and
tendencies ever change as they grow older? Their values certainly
do (e.g. younger people tend to be more politically liberal, then
get more conservative as they age,) and there is evidense that the
Sorting Hat bases its choices on values held as much as personality.
Had I gone to Hogwarts at age 11, I would have certainly been sorted
into Gryffindor -- I was a brave little thing, inspired by adventure
books. But now at twice that age, I am more ambitious and identify
more with Slytherins, just to give an example.
So I do not think it's a good idea to try determining the Houses of
the adults based on their adult behavior -- only their behavior as
children is acceptable evidence.
Peter Pettigrew is certainly not very Gryffindor-ish as an adult:
he's a traitor and abject coward, who prefers to run rather than
fight. But it's possible that he WAS brave as a schoolboy, and
indeed we have canon evidence, such as his learning to become an
Animagus and hanging out with a potentially dangerous werewolf
during full moons.
Hope my bit of whining makes sense -- this is my first post, though
I've been reading for a few weeks. :)
Reene
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