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

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105966

"happybean98 wrote :
> Also, Harry was an exceptional case because the Dursley's should have 
> told him about Hogwarts, and the WW, but they chose not to. Hermione 
> was muggle born, but she figured out the house system by 
> reading "Hogwarts a History". 

Del replies :
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."


Cathy:
I think you're right, Del, that most of the other Muggle-borns would know nothing of the different houses before they reached the school, or at least the train.  In the PS6, Hermione says: "Do either of you know what house you'll be in? I've been asking around and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best, I hear Dumbledore himself was one..."  She, for once, never mentioned Hogwarts, A History, but that she had just been 'asking around.'  I'm sure she would have read about the different houses in the book, and perhaps the different qualities/abilites each house was looking for (maybe or may not be in the book), but her 'asking around' made her want to go to Gryffindor.   . 

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