Harry's Sorting (Was:Re: Blood and Artifice (was The Sorting Hat))

[S Handel]

No: HPFGUIDX 78788

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Simon Crowe" 
<simoncrowe1667 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
> wrote:
>  
> > Annemehr:
> (large snip)
> > 
> > I think it's quite clear from the books by now that many students 
> > have quite a mix of qualities, Harry included, of what suits a 
> > student for any of the houses.  Harry himself also carries 
> > some "Slytherinliness" that was transferred to him from LV.  
> > However, at heart Harry is all Gryffindor, and I believe the hat 
> > would have discerned that in the end anyway.
> > 
> Simon:
> I agree that everything points to Harry belonging in Gryffindor 
> except the Slytherinly (I like that word) qualities he acquired 
from 
> Voldemort (according, at least, to DD).  I don't think the Sorting 
> Hat would have ever actually placed HP in Slytherin -- too many 
> qualities that Slytherins don't possess.  I think this is 
> demonstrated by HP's almost immediate conflict with an archetypal 
> Slytherin -- Draco.  <snip>  This is 
> consistent with what seems to be the overwhelming majority's 
> conclusion that the Hat's decisions are based (perhaps) entirely on 
a 
> student's "qualities" (character?) as opposed to traits with which 
> s/he might have been born -- like physical constitution, remarkable 
> good looks, the ability to speak to snakes... ?
> 
> Simon

Reading this post brings to mind a conversation in SS/PS between 
McGonagall and Dumbledore. McGonagall has just been chastised by 
Dumbledore for not calling Voldemort by his proper name....She 
says...."But you're different.  Everyone knows you're the only one 
You-Know-oh, all right, Voldemort, was frightened of."..... 
Dumbledore blushes and denies the same powers....McGonagall continues 
with.."Only because you're too--well--noble to use them."
This tells me that most wizards posess the same skill ability.  
Whether their skills mature or how they decide to use them is what 
the sorting hat is looking for.  Mostly I think it reads their heart 
and personality and possibly upbringing when determining which house 
each person goes to.  
Just my thoughts,
Susan