What's annoying about Harry (WAS: Characters you hate)

[texaschow <flamingstarchows@att.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51506

> <flamingstarchows at a...>" <flamingstarchows at a...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants 
> <rusalka at i...>" 
> > <rusalka at i...> wrote:
> > > I'll toss in one more objection into the mix: if Dumbledore 
knew 
> > > that Harry was going to need a sword and sent Fawkes to deliver 
> it, 
> > > then why was the Sorting Hat involved at all?  Why not just 
have 
> > > Fawkes bring the sword?  The Hat itself didn't do anything in 
> the 
> > > Chamber.
> > > 
> > > Marina
> > > rusalka at i...
> > 
> > Me:
> > But the Hat did do something, it was the Hat that gave Harry the 
> > sword.  Fawkes only brought the Sorting Hat.  When the Basilisk 
> swept 
> > the sorting Hat into Harry, he put it on his head and starting 
> > thinking "help me - help me ... Please help me".  The Sorting Hat 
> > contracted and dropped the sword on Harry's head, nearly knocking 
> him 
> > out (at least acccording to my American edition).
> 
> Well, yes, that's exactly my point.  The Hat gave the sword, which 
> only makes sense if it had the sword all along, and Dumbledore had 
> nothing to do with it.  If Dumbledore had had the sword and wanted 
> to send it to Harry, he'd have no reason to stick it into the Hat 
> first.
> 
> Marina
> rusalka at i...

Me again:
My point was that I don't think the sword was in the Hat.  I think 
the Hat gave Harry the sword when he asked the Hat to help him.   
When the Basilisk swept the Sorting Hat at Harry, it says "something 
soft hit his face." I believe Harry probably would have noticed if 
there was already a sword in the hat when he jammed it on his head. 
The Sorting Hat produced the sword when Harry asked it to help him 
because that is what Harry needed to battle the Basilisk.  After all, 
the Sorting Hat is magical, it is not just another hat.  

~Cathy~