Sorting (was : James the Berk?)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 105656


charme wrote :
> Potter, Black, Lupin all would have already been sorted, because 
> canon supports an alphabetical sequence of events in that regard. 
> Could you imagine how freaked the Gryffindors would be hearing Snape,
> of all people, having a choice?! This also could be part of the 
> reason he hates Harry so - Harry made a decision that Snape himself 
> could not.

Del replies :
First of all, welcome !!

And then I'm afraid the idea that the other students *hear* the
discussions between a student and the Hat is movie-contamination. In
the books, it's pretty clear that nobody knows that the Hat
recommended Slytherin to Harry (the events in CoS would have been even
worse for Harry if the other students had known that), and it took 5
years for Harry and Ron to find out that the Hat had hesitated between
Ravenclaw and Gryffindor for Hermione : obviously, they didn't hear
that. What a student and the Hat tell each other is strictly private,
so even if the Hat hesitated for Snape, nobody can know that.

Del, who wonders why it took so long for the Hat to sort Neville.