CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 19: Hermione

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> 
> > Ginger:
> >  Ohh, Alina, that was good! But it also got me thinking on a 
realted
> >  thought:  Hermione's fear is failure.  What if she chose 
Gryffindor
> >  because she feared she'd fail in comparison to the
Ravenclaws? 
> >  Better to be the big fish in the small pond, so to speak.


Barbara wrote: 
> Insecurity may have played a part in Hermione's choice of houses, 
but 
> not because she thought necessarily Ravenclaw was the best. Oh no.  
In 
> the first book, we find out that she had read that Dumbledore had 
been 
> in Gryffindor.  We get a clue from the scene that she views 
Gryffindor 
> as the most prestigious of the houses. 

Potioncat:
I'm not sure that Hermione "made" a choice.  Hermione said the 
Sorting Hat considered Ravenclaw.  We don't know that she said, "Oh, 
please, I'd like Gryffindor."  The Sorting Hat may have mulled over 
Ravenclaw and Gryffindor and then chose Gryffindor itself.  IIRC, she 
was responding to someone saying they were surprised she wasn't in 
Ravenclaw and she said the Sorting Hat had considered it. I don't 
think Hermione was implying that she rejected Ravenclaw.  (Sorry, 
don't have my book with me.)
Potioncat