Lack of sorting hat scenes in CoS & PoA

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115978


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, BrwNeil at a... wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/15/2004 11:12:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
> susiequsie23 at s... writes:
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> Does  anybody think there could be something to this?  Or was JKR 
> just  having trouble coming up with a new Sorting Hat song for every 
> single  year?  
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> Siriusly Snapey Susan
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> I would think it is more a matter of not boring the reader.  We all
 know 
> what the sorting is all about.  Why go through a bunch of names if 
they add 
> nothing to the story?
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> 
> Neil

Carol adds:
Not to mention that if we're used to similar scenes every year (and a
bit bored by them), we might be tempted to skip or skim the Sorting
Hat scene in GoF, which provides a bit of background on the ceremony
and introduces the concept of a new song every year, or the very
important new song in OoP, dignified with its own chapter title, which
reinforces the unity theme introduced in GoF with the Tri-Wizard
Tournament. Essentially, it's just like Harry's classes. JKR details
them when they're important and skips them when they're not. (IMO, of
course.) And there's also the possibility that some of the students
introduced during those ceremonies, even though they're "ickle
firsties," will prove important or interesting later. (Dennis Creevey
drowns trying to defend the Giant Squid from the DEs? Or something
like that. :-) )

Carol, noting that the Muggleborn Creevey brothers, especially Dennis,
are described as "tiny" like Flitwick and Diggle