The sorting hat seems to think Harry is a pure-blooded wizard.

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105748

Jenni said:

"For instance, Slytherin
Took only pure-blood wizards
Of great cunning, just like him,"
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Cathy:

I think the operative word there is 'took'.  When Slytherin was in charge he may well have sorted out the pure-blood kids and took them to teach.  I don't, for a second, believe the sorting hat is still operating this way or it would not have sorted Tom Riddle into Slytherin or tried to sort Harry there.  I think there is a lot more than meets the eye to that old hat (which was, after all Goderic Gryffindor's) and I think we may yet find out a couple of the Slytherin kids are not pure-bloods either which may create a bit of trouble in books 6 & 7.



xtremesk8ergurl said:

"I remember DD saying at one point(in CoS) that he definitely should have been in Gryfindor. I can understand why the sorting hat would think of Slytherin with the scar and all, but do any of you think that the hat would of changed its mind after a few minutes?" 


Cathy:

I think the scene you're pointing to was DD telling Harry that, yes, indeed he did have several of the qualites Slytherin looked for in students but Harry, himself, chose Gryffindor and it is "our choices more than our abilites" that make us who we are.  He then indicated that the sword had once belonged to Goderic Gryffindor and "only a true Gryffindor" could have removed it from the hat.  Which would seem to indicate that the Sorting Hat can be wrong.




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