Another look at House criteria (was Re: the Sorting Hat)

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No: HPFGUIDX 127708


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 1.What quality did characters lack that sorted them out of a House?
> Why didn't Sirius or Percy go to Slytherin? Why wasn't Cedric in 
> Gryffindor? Why wasn't_______ in __________?

GEO: I don't think the hat's top priorities are the qualities of its 
charges, but rather in the end what the students themselves want. 
Why else are all of the children of Death Eaters sorted into 
Slytherin (Malfoy, Nott, Crabbe, Goyle with the latter two having 
shown more loyality than ambition in their five years) while all the 
Weasley children are sorted into Gryffindor (Percy as noted clearly 
has lots of ambition more so than Harry who the hat said would do 
well in Slytherin) and then we have the Gryffindor Marauders that 
previous fan theories have noted contain qualities more appropriate 
for the other houses (Sirius in Slytherin, Remus in Ravenclaw and 
possibly Wormtail in Hufflepuff) not to mention the current 
generation of Gryffindors like Hermione who is very Ravenclaw like 
yet from the beginning wanted to be in Gryffindor and Harry who the 
hat said would do well in Slytherin yet was placed in Gryffindor 
because he didn't wish to join Slytherin House.