Opposite of Gryffindor?

[David & Laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 125358


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Arynn Octavia 
<arynnoctavia at y...> wrote:

> I am extremely loyal, but not at all concerned with fair play. I'm 
no Hufflepuff
> 
>  
> I am brave in certain situations, but not consistantly. I'm no 
Gryffindor.
>  
> I am intellegent and studious. I am a Ravenclaw.
>  
> I am ambitious and perhaps a little Machiavellian. (Yes I can be 
manipulative.) I am a Slytherin. 
>  
> So where would I go?
> 
> 
> --Arynn Octavia (A Lupin Lover)

David:

Well Arynn, you need to put the sorting hat on. As it announced in 
the first book, it's never been wrong. It figures out where a 
person 'belongs'.

You could argue that it sorts to a persons strongest trait. My own 
theory is that, since the houses are to be the kid's families away 
from home, the hat sorts a person where they can reach maximum 
potential.

Picking on Hermione here, I agree with others that from an 
intelligence/book smarts angle, Ravenclaw would seem the best fit. 
The hat judged she needed to be in Gryff. I would say that was 
exactly what she needed to be the Hermione we see today. If she had 
been placed in Ravenclaw, would she not be just uni-dimensional into 
her studies. Her experiences in Gryff, I would debate anyway, have 
produced a much more rounded person; a lotta smarts...a little 
bravado...a slight disregard for rules...sounds like a good 
development to me.

Extending this theory a little further to Neville. On the surface he 
does not seem the typical Gryffindor. I ask, would we see the 
Neville we saw developing in OOTP, if he had been placed in 
Hufflepuff. I don't think so.

Trust the hat!

David