Harry's Discovery in CoS

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 108389

Marita Jan wrote:
> I'm going to throw out another theory and see what ya'll think 
> about it.  
> 
> When Harry is in the Chamber, Fawkes flyes to him and brings him --
>  the Sorting Hat.  And the Sorting Hat knew what Harry needed to 
> kill the basilisk - the sword.
> 
> What if the Sorting Hat has a more important role than just 
> putting kids in the right Houses?  
> 
> We know the hat originally belonged to Gryff but that all 4 
> founders put something of themselves in the Hat.  What if the key 
> to defeating Voldy is in the hat, especially if a battle takes 
> place at Hogwarts (and I'm in the camp that believes it will 
> happen)?  
> 
> All Harry had to was ask for help and he got the Sorting Hat.
> 
> An important discovery? 



SSSusan:
It definitely *could* be this.  Let me tell you my reasoning for its 
possibly *not* being this, though.  

On JKR's website, one of the scrapbook items you earn for finding 
clues is a page of doodlings.  On this page of doodlings is a list 
of the possibilities JKR considered for sorting the students into 
their houses.  Here's the list:  
(Ghost) court
hat 
arbitrary list 
gateway 
statues 
selection committee (prefects/Hs of H)  

Now, she DID choose the hat in the end, but I have a feeling if the 
hat itself were *the* discovery of CoS, there wouldn't have been 
such a wide variety of possibilities for the sorting process in the 
beginning.  That is, if the hat were to play such a key role, then I 
think she would've had the hat in her plan from the beginning--or 
that the list would've included a bunch of *objects* from which to 
choose--and wouldn't have "had" to write out all these varied 
possible methods of sorting students.

Does that make any sense?

Siriusly Snapey Susan