[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood and Artifice (was The Sorting Hat)

[silverdragon at ezweb.com.au]

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 severusbook4 at yahoo.com wrote

> the section of book you are talking about is quite misleading in my
> opinion.  Harry starts out by saying that the hat was wrong, does he
> mean that he thinks he belongs in the Slytherin house and was not
> suppose to be in Gryffindohr?  And the had says it stands by it's
> choice, and but says he would have done well in Slytherin, it is
> slightly misleading.  Harry asks DD about his own doubts of being in
> the right house, and DD replies only a true Gryff could have pull
> the sword out of the hat.  Does that mean Harry was saying the hat
> was wrong for putting him in G or that it was wrong for suggesting S?
> Nothing seems to suggest either, and we are left wondering, maybe
> another of JKR's rather misty things that may be used later for some
> kind of confirmation?  And remember DD says we are defind by the
> choices we make.  And Harry chose not to go into Slytherin.


Interesting. I'd always read this as as Harry telling the SH it was wrong
for suggesting he'd be suited to Slytherin, since he was denying (or trying
to) having anything in common with Slytherins, despite grudgingly admitting
to DD he noticed that he shared several traits with Tom Riddle. He made his
choice not to go the way of Riddle when he told the hat "Not Slytherin.
Anything but Slytherin." But now that you mention it, the passage could be
read another way entirely... Like that infernal prophesy.

Nox
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