[HPforGrownups] On Why Hermione is a Gryffindor

[Julie Holmes]

No: HPFGUIDX 55040

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From: Calliope >

<< I also think the Hat considers what the student "needs" to help them
develop their potential.>>

This is what I was inferring to when I argued that Peter could very well
have been sorted into Gryffindor. For if the hat knew that Peter needed the
strength and character found in Gryffindor, it may have sorted him there
because it was what he needed *overall*. But the Sorting Hat can only do so
much. It can steer a child in the right direction, but ultimately the child
must develop (or not) their own morality.

~Julie
-who also likes Hermione. A lot.