Opposite of Gryffindor? - Nature of Sorting

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 125554


Magda wrote a lot of stuff I agree with, but I have a question about 
one teeny part:
(PN doesn't know, I assume, about the Harry-Sorting Hat
> debate.)  

Ginger:  I wonder if PN doesn't know about it.  In Ch. 12 of CoS, 
Harry is sitting in DD's office and tries on the sorting hat a second 
time.  It says that the portraits all seem to be asleep, but we have 
also known them to fake it (especially PN).

The conversation is short, and probably goes on entirely in Harry's 
head, but there is the possibility that after Harry left, the 
portraits asked the hat, "What was that all about?"  

This got me thinking, and leads me to my question:  Do you (as in all 
of you) think that Harry got the particular room at #12 because the 
portrait was in there (or that the portrait was put in that room) so 
that PN could keep an ear, if not an eye, on Harry for DD?  

Ginger, trying not to think how potentially embarrasing that could 
have been.  Although not as bad as having Peter in your bed for a few 
years.