CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 19: Hermione

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No: HPFGUIDX 99983

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

IMO---Hermione was sorted into Gryffindor simply because she wanted 
to placed into that one particular house. When she is first 
introduced to Ron and Harry on the train, she rambles on about how 
Gryffindor is supposedly the "best" house and how she would like to 
be placed within it. So much like Harry, I would imagine Hermione 
asked the hat to place her in Gryffindor and not Ravenclaw, much 
like how Harry wanted to be placed into Gryffindor and not 
Slytherin. Oddly enough, if Hermione was placed into Ravenclaw--she 
would probably have much better school experience and social 
standing. If anything--the hat should not have complied with her 
wishes and sorted her into Ravenclaw--since it seems that would be 
the more logical choice for her. In fact Ravenclaw would the type of 
house that would teach a Hermione Granger to care at all what a Ron 
Weasley's opinion is.