OOP: Cunning!Sorting Hat???

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 62966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Leon Adato" <leon at a...> wrote:
 
> What I mean is that, in book 6 or 7, the Sorting Hat will "come 
clean" - perhaps during the opening song or perhaps partway through 
the year. There will be a big to-do when the hat says it has been 
putting the people into the wrong house for several years, and now it 
will put things right. All the kids will be moved into the "right" 
house based on their personality.>

I don't see that happening, but after re-reading the Sorting Hat's 
song, I've been thinking that come book 7, there will be no more 
Houses at all.  I felt the Sorting Hat was warning Hogwarts about the 
dangers of separating people into categories (brave, smart, loyal, 
cunning) instead of people either be separating randomly or not 
separating people at all.  The Hat reminded Hogwarts about how the 
four founders started out as friends but their differences caused a 
rift.  If the Sorting Hat suddenly fessed up and said "Surprise!  
You're all in the wrong Houses!", that wouldn't quite fit with his 
warning in the Song.

Along with all the big bad things that are coming in the next two 
books, I can also see some big changes in the WW.  A Hogwarts without 
Houses could be one of them.  In fact, the more I think about it, the 
more I see the merits of it.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who has a habit of Sorting people she knows 
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