Hogwarts Pop (was: the sorting hat problem)

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 54640

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Andrea <ra_1013 at y...> wrote:
> 1.) If the Sorting Hat was responsible for the division, why 
doesn't it
> call out, "Gryffindor, A!" instead of just the House name?  It goes
> against everything we've seen of the Hat to think it's somehow
> transcribing a list (with...what, exactly? *g* No hands) while 
sorting the
> students that is later given to the professors with 
everyone's "group
> assignments".  So any group division is, IMO, far more likely to be 
done
> by the professors, not the Hat.

Actually, that may be a more valid way of looking at it.  Most likely 
done while they are figuring out class schedules and the like.  The 
only reason I suspected that hat is that Harry is placed in a dorm 
room with his group at the very beginning, right after the sorting, 
before they get their schedules.



> 
> I think any divisions would be made on a purely random or arbitrary 
means
> while putting together the timetables.  ("All right, all names with 
an odd
> number of letters go in Group A and all names with an even number of
> letters go in Group B, unless you were born on a full moon during a 
Leap
> Year or a month with no vowels in in."  -- Hey, who said it had to 
be a
> *logical* division? *g*)
> 

Really, my only basis to the "cream of the crop" theory is my own 
expeirence as a teacher at a private school.  At the school I'm at 
students are placed (in part) by academic ability into the A class or 
the B class.  No one know which class is which except for the 
teachers in the school (in fact most students and parents are unaware 
that this happens at all).  Other things are taken into consideration 
of course (student personailties, balance of male/female, etc). So, 
it seems to me (and this is just my opinion), that Harry's group 
strikes me as a Group A.  

Serena