The Sorting Hat

[dmoorehpnc]

No: HPFGUIDX 87335

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> I reckon the sorting was fixed. Either the Hat, or more likely 
> Dumbledore, wanted  all four of them together in the same House - and 
> it had to be Gryffindor; it's the only House who's attributes are 
> flexible enough to accept all of them without questions being asked.
> Dumbledore (or  the Hat) was planning ahead. The four of them form a 
> little gang that is,  in effect, all four Houses in one. A combining, a 
> cooperation, just as the Hat advises in OoP. And so far it seems to 
> have worked as an alliance against the baddies.


Kneasy you are brilliant! I like your thinking the Four houses in 
One! Excellent. I'm not totaly on your side though but I can be 
easily be knocked over the line with a feather. Here's why, simply 
choice. Each one of the 4 made the the choice to be in Gryffindor. 
Although I concede that Neville's reasons have not been shared. I 
believe he feels the need to prove himself to be as good as his 
parents inspite of his fears, (isn't that the essence of courage?).
All that being said your ideas are more intriguing.

Dmoorehpnc