HBP Clues

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 108355

---If there is "nothing hidden in your head the Sorting Hat can't 
see" 
> > (SS) then it should know that Harry's "true" character would not 
> > allow him to do well in Slytherin.
> 
> David replied:
> 
> I don't remember the sorting hat wanting to put Harry in Slytherin. 
> Harry kept thinking 'not Slytherin', and it seems the hat debated 
> with him. I don't believe the hat is fooled at all. It seems the 
hat 
> can look into a person and see the potential (Neville) and then 
sort 
> them to the house to best develop that potential.


Angie responds:
When Harry told the Sorting Hat he didn't want to be in Slytherin, 
the Hat told him he would do well in Slytherin and then reiterated 
that in the COS.  So, if Harry is the true heir of Gryffindor, I 
don't see how the Sorting Hat could reasonably say he would have done 
well in Slytherin.