extra! extra! "Sorting Hat, never wrong" (wasRe: Sorting Hat as Horcrux?

[saturniia]

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> Potioncat:
> I found this quote over at Quick Quotes Quill and I see I cut it 
off 
> a little too quickly. The entire quote is at Quick Quotes under 
July 
> 2005.
> 
> >>>Anelli, Melissa and Emerson Spartz. "The Leaky Cauldron and 
> MuggleNet interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling: Part Two," The Leaky 
> Cauldron, 16 July 2005
> 
> >>Big Snip<<
> 
> ES: Has the sorting hat ever been wrong?
> 
> JKR: No.

<SNIP>


Saturniia: 
Okay, so we have it from the horse's... er... the author's mouth 
that the Sorting Hat is never wrong.  However, we do know the 
Sorting Hat's first decision can be vetoed.  Our canon proof?

Harry Potter himself!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Sorting Hat may never be wrong, but 
that little voice the characters hear when the hat's on their head 
can be swayed by personal opinion.  It might not put little Posey 
Parkinson in Slytherin with her big sister when the girl is much 
more suited for Hufflepuff, but if one is equally suited to two or 
more houses, like Harry, one can make a suggestion like "Ravenclaw, 
please", or the canon "Not Slytherin. Anything but Slytherin".

~Saturniia