[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Zacharias Smith

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 65231

jmgarciaiii wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "andromeda7_4"
> <75211.522 at c...> wrote:
> 
> > Well, this helps my theory that the Sorting Hat reads emotions,
> and
> > not minds-  and that the whole Sorting process comes down to
> personal
> > inclination.
> 
> I am struck by the fact the SH wanted to put HP into Slytherin,
> especially since HP is considered to be a half-blood. Did this
> strike anyone else as a bit unusual?

The hat never said it wanted to put H in Slytherin; it just said that he
would do well there.  Not at all the same thing.

There is no indication that the hat considers genealogy when sorting.