The Sorting Hat doesn't sort /WAS The sorting hat seems to think Harry...

[Brenda M.]

No: HPFGUIDX 105878

Reading all the posts about how students are sorted, a few things 
occurred to me suddenly.

1. How does the Sorting Hat balance out the new students into 4 
different houses? It seems only fair that there should be at least 
similar number of students in each house.

>>> Del wrote:
> Actually *Hermione* is the exception here. She was probably the only
> one who read that book. I'm pretty sure none, or very very few, of 
the other Muggle-born students knew about the different Houses. <<<

This got me thinking. How *did* Hermione get her hands on "Hogwarts: 
The History" before coming to Hogwarts? NOrmal Muggle library won't 
have that kind of book, right? So I thought she probably bought it 
from the bookstore (Flourish & Noble, was it?) on Diagon Alley. But 
then -- HOW did she get into Diagon Alley the first time? Before she 
had bought her wand? Was she accompanied by a grown-up wizard who 
helped her through? Does Hogwarts provide this service to all of new 
Muggle-born HOgwarts student?!


>>> Del continues: Anyway, Harry did *not* manage to figure out where 
he wanted to be. He knew where he did *not* want to be, in Slytherin. 
He also knew that he hoped to be with Ron, who waas *probably* going 
to be Sorted in Gryffindor, but that wasn't absolutely certain. What 
was certain though, by the time Harry got Sorted, was that Hermione 
had been Sorted in Gryffindor, and Harry did *not* wish to be with 
Hermione. A big mess, with no definite choice.

EH? "Harry did *not* wish to be with Hermione"? Do you mean RON did 
not wish to be in Hermione's house? Or Harry did *not* wish to be 
with DRACO?

Bren