[HPforGrownups] OOP: Cunning!Sorting Hat???

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 62985


--- Leon Adato <leon at adatofamily.com> wrote:
> I know there have been conversations about
> Evil!SortingHat, but what
> about a Sorting Hat with an ulterior motive?
> 
> Especially based on the new song this year, I begin
> to wonder if the
> Sorting Hat isn't taking people and putting them in
> the *wrong* house
> for now, only to shift them later. I haven't
> finished OOP yet, but I
> half expected it to come up in this book (but from
> the posts I'm
> inferring it doesn't).
> 
> 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.
> 
> You might have Ron and Neville into Hufflepuff,
> Hermione into
> Ravenclaw, Zacharis Smith into Slytherin, etc. Of
> course, people from
> other houses would be coming into Gryffendor
> (perhaps Luna?), too.
> 
> The result is twofold - first, the kids might all
> throw their hands up
> and say "well then what's the difference between
> houses? It all
> doesn't matter now" (which is the *point*, based on
> this years'
> sorting song). But they also might find that they
> get to know kids
> from the "other" houses better, since they are in
> close proximity.
> Plus they will maintain their connection to the
> friends they've made.
> The result is a far better mixing and getting to
> know each other.
> Which is again what I think the SortingHat was
> trying to encourage. 
> 
> Anybody else see something like this happening?
> Leon


Eh, no.  I think we can take the Sorting Hat at face
value.  It does not think there should be houses.  But
it is enchanted to separate teh students anyway.

I wonder if book seven might end with the abolishment
of school houses?



Rebecca

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