Snape's reaction to Harry in Slytherin (was : Re: Changing Houses)

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Berit:
> > Sadly I don't have my books with me at the time, but I'm almost 
> > sure Snape HAS learned that the Hat wanted to put Harry in 
> > Slytherin. In Harry's Occlumency lessons, the first time (?) 
> > Snape "legilimens" Harry (and if my memory is not playig me a 
> > trick), one of the memories racing through Harry's head when 
> > Snape "wathces" them, are the Sorting hat telling Harry he would 
> > have done well in Slytherin... 
> > Could anyone confirm this?
 
 
Geoff:
> Oh yes, you're quite right. I almost missed it having just trawled 
> through the Occlumency bits about three times.....
> 
> "He was five, watching Dudley riding a new red bicycle and his 
> herat was bursting with jealousy... he was nine and Ripper the 
> bulldog was chasing him up a tree and the Dursleys were laughing 
> below on the lawn... he was sitting under the Sorting Hat and it 
> was telling him he would do well in Slytherin...."
> 
> (OOTP "Occlumency" p.472 UK edition)


Susan:
I realize this isn't really the point of what you're discussing, but 
I continue to be slightly distressed that many people continue to say 
that the Sorting Hat **wanted** to put Harry in Slytherin.  It reads 
to me that the SH merely *presented* Harry w/ the information that he 
could do well there...just as it implied he might fit in well in 
Ravenclaw when it mentioned "not a bad mind"....  Why does that mean 
it "wanted" him in Slytherin?  I don't think it did, at all.  I think 
it "wanted" only for Harry to think hard, consider, and make his 
CHOICE.

Just my $.02, of course.

Siriusly Snapey Susan