Sorting Hat

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115677


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy" <elsyee_h at y...> wrote:
> 
> Kethryn wrote:
>  
> > If the Slytherins love purebloods so much and you can't hide
> anything from the Sorting Hat, why oh why do halfbreeds end up in
> Slytherin?  One would think that, since ancestry is what caused
> Salazar to split from Hogwarts, the Hat would know better (or be
> bewitched) than to put people into Slytherin that aren't pureblood. 
> Of course, the Hat does take it upon itself to occasionally teach
> object lessons...
>  
> Angie here:
Perhaps the Sorting Hat is attempting to keep those with the wrong 
attitude out of the other three houses; therefore, they all wind up 
in Slytherin?  But then again, the Hat has a history of preaching 
unity, in spite of its seemingly divisive function, so perhaps that 
supports your idea about object lessons.  

Personally, I think the Sorting Hat knowns there's really no such 
thing as purebloods anymore -- maybe there weren't really any 
purebloods as early as when the Fab Four broke up -- maybe that was 
part of Salazar and Godric's disagreement?  After all, the Sorting 
Hat did belong to Godric.  I hope JKR clarifies the whole pureblood 
concept -- maybe that will come up in HBP?  :)