The Sorting Hat

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No: HPFGUIDX 87339

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> wrote:
> 
> Mandy here:
> Hummm.  So are you suggesting that DD was attempting to create a 
> weapon of sorts that would say, draw on the power of Hogwarts, using 
> James, Sirius, Remus and Peter, each child from a different houses 
> working together against LV?  If so, did DD plan on them becoming 
> such good friends?  Could DD have arranged that?  Is he really such 
> puppet master in total control of every child in that school? 
>

Kneasy:
I don't think that WMPP were about Voldy; it just happens that they were 
of the same time as his rise. No, I think they were placed together to
protect Lupin. He needed friends at the school and DD arranged it all.

Mandy: 
> Secondly, if what your saying is true and it obviously failed, 
> possibly because once the four friends were out of the control of DD 
> they all imploded, is DD now attempting the same plan, creating a 
> weapon but from a different perspective, by putting four friends, 
> Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville with different personalities in the 
> same house?  Does DD believe he can control their destinies once 
> leaving school any better this second go around?  Then again he 
> doesn't have to if Harry is forced into dealing with LV while they 
> are still at school.

Kneasy:
Yes, that's roughly the idea. Harry  is an outsider, just like Lupin. He'll
need friends with strengths he doesn't have. So provide them.
Combine the characteristics of all the Houses into one small group.
Get 'em to work together, all contributing something and at the
same time 'tempering' Harry ready for his big day vs Voldy.
True, DD can't exhibit the same closeness of control after they all
leave school. Lucky the series is set to finish before that happens, eh? 

> 
> Mandy here:
> Poor Hufflepuff!  In the defense of the house no one wants to belong 
> to, it is most certainly not the remedial dumping ground of Hogwarts! 
> 
> Each house would have it's own remedial classes. Probably one-on-one, 
> like Snape suggested Harry was doing when Draco interrupted their 
> Occulmency lesson.  

Kneasy:
Really? So why isn't Neville taking remedial Potions? McGonagall doesn't
seem too  happy with his Transfigurations, either. Not the most proficient,
our Neville. 
 
Mandy:
> Also the requirements of Gryffindor and Slytherin don't specify 
> intelligence.  Ron, Neville, Crabbe and Goyle are a perfect example 
> of this. 

Kneasy:
True. Crabbe and Goyle seem about as accomplished as Neville. They
probably make up for it with unbounded, enthusiastic malevolence.
Happy little Slytherins!
Ron is the archetype Gryffindor IMO. Not dim, not bright, born to
mischief and willing to try anything once.
 
Mandy: 
> Hufflepuff is the house the majority of the world would belong to.  
> Happily and unhappily following along, doing what is required of us, 
> moaning about our lot in life but too afraid to actually change the 
> world around us to make it any better. 

Kneasy:
You do yourself an injustice; Hufflepuffs are too meek to moan about
life, the universe and everything. Born followers, meekly trailing behind
the more forceful, hoping like hell they know what they're doing and that
all will be well in the end. Suckers, every one. 

 
> Mandy, who, ofcourse, wouldn't be in Hufflepuff you understand. I'd 
> be in Slytherin or Gryffindor.  ;-)

Kneasy:
Of course. Goes without saying. No doubt. Indubitably.

Can't say that I'd fancy any of the Houses. Probably start one of my own.
Why should the cantankerous, curmudgeonly, bloody-minded, suspicious 
misfits not have a haven to themselves?