Pureblood Pretenders and Sorting Hat Was (Re: Motivations for Joining DEs )

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 140983


> zgirnius:
> It makes more sense to me this way. Would you really want to be the 
> poor Hat if you had to decide whether Hermione Granger's defining 
> innate ability is courage, cunning, cleverness, or hard work? While 
> she appears to have all 4 in spades, she values courage the most 
> highly.
> 

I'm not sure about that. She didn't want to be in Gryffindor because 
she valued courage above anything else; she simply assumed that it was 
the best house, because the present headmaster was its alumnus. And 
naturally she wanted the best. Quite a Slytherin way of reasoning 
actually. 

a_svirn