Changing Houses

[drjuliehoward]

No: HPFGUIDX 93225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> Julie wrote :
> > all of Hogwarts knew via the sorting hat that Harry did not want 
> > to be in Slytherin.  
> 
> Del :
> This is movie contamination. In the books, the Sorting Hat 
> conversations happen all inside the head of the students. This 
> explains for example why the boys didn't know that the Sorting Hat 
> had considered putting Hermione in Ravenclaw. Moreover, in CoS, 
> Harry is very troubled by the fact that the Sorting Hat wanted to 
> put him in Slytherin, it's his dark little secret, and we are told 
> that he hasn't mentioned it to anyone. And as far as I can 
remember, 
> he still hasn't.
> 
> Del

Thanks for the clarification.  It has been so long that I had read 
it (and my 3 year old loves the movies so we watch them ALL the 
time) that I got those two mixed up.  Despite this one flaw, I still 
stand by my original pov. that Harry could not switch to Slytherin 
and accomplish the task of uniting the houses.