CHAP. DISCUSSION: CHAP 11 The Sorting Hat's New Song

[Peter Felix Schuster]

No: HPFGUIDX 90862

Hi!

Marianne:
> 2.	Would there be greater unity within Hogwarts of the tradition 
> of sorting students into houses was abolished?

I doubt it. It's some matter of administration, too, after all. As 
long as members of the houses can be friends or even couples with each 
other, there is a Hogwarts unity. Even in one big&happy Hogwarts 
house, pupils would form groups. And there are inter-house 
friendships.

> 3.	What does the Hat do with a pureblood child who is brave, 
> cunning and intelligent?  Is this child a Hufflepuff?

Harry's case shows it: if a child shows characteristics of more than 
one house, it's merely up to the child to chose. Perhaps without the 
child knowing that. Also Hermione could have been sorted into 
Ravenclaw, her sorting into Gryffindor seems to be (at least partly) 
her choice. I reckon the hat guesses which house the child would most 
identify with. The books never mention a child that was sorted into a 
house (s)he didn't like to be in. I might be corrected in future books 
(according to the rumour about someone changing houses). Imagine a kid 
(let's name him Harry) sorted into Slytherin without liking them - 
it'd be hell. Or Malfoy sorted into Hufflepuff (one might discuss for 
whom that'd be more of hell*g*).

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