[HPforGrownups] Re: Which "One liners" do you think most beg for an explanation ?

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 131440

Laura Lynn Walsh wrote:

>Several times it is mentioned that the Sorting Hat is
>very large.  I am now listening to CoS again and when
>Harry is in Dumbledore's office, he tries it on again
>and it slips over his ears AGAIN.  WHY is the hat so
>big?  When children are 12, their heads are pretty much
>full sized, so one wouldn't expect a normal sized hat
>to be that big.  So, either Godrick Griffindor had an
>unusually large head or he liked wearing gigantic
>hats.  I speculated before that GG may be the half
>blood prince - half human, half ???  What else is
>very large besides giants and trolls?  Goblins are
>small, as are dwarves.  Greek God?  GODrick Griffindor?
>  
>

heather now:

Well, I was just looking at the house crests again, and was reminded 
that Gryffindor's symbol animal is a lion (representing strength and 
bravery of course).  I would not be at all surprised if old Godric was 
an animagus who turned into a lion.  Of course the 'gryffin' part of 
'gryffindor' implies something lion-like about him already.  I suspect 
that the 'lion man' who has been described is GG himself.

Whether or not he's the HBP is, of course, another question.

But, if he was a large, lion-like fellow, that could explain his 
larger-than-usual hat.  He had a big mane to fit it over, after all.

Oh hey, I just thought of something.  Gryffindor and slytherin are the 
Lion and the Serpent -- Lion is often used as a christ-figure allegory, 
and the serpent is of course Lucifer, the betrayer.  They started out 
'together' but lucifer fell...

Eagles (Ravenclaw) are also prominent is christian mythology (esp. 
eschatological) but I don't recall too much about badgers (Hufflepuff)...

heather the buzzard