Good and Bad Slytherins

[melindaleo2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 175112


> Sherry Bailey said:
> "Slytherins. Never forget that HARRY almost got sorted to 
Slytherin! 
> So HE would have been a "good Slytherin" if he hadn't been biased 
> against that house by Ron on the train, and begged the Hat not to 
put 
> him there. (Heck, maybe he'd have led a Slytherin reform 
movement!)"
> 

The Hat DIDN'T want Slytherin for Harry, though. The Hat commented 
on how Harry fit into ALL the houses, it was HARRY himself who 
focused on Slytherin. He begged not to go because Hagrid had told 
them that's where all the wizards who'd gone bad came, and then the 
Hat argued why it thought he would fit there, NOT that it thought he 
should go. The Hat chose Gryffindor, but I think it would have 
equally defended any of the other three houses if Harry had focused 
his thougts on them and then still sent Harry to Gryffindor. This 
was Harry's fixation with not wanting to go to Slytherin more than 
anything else, so the idea it really wanted him in Slytherin is not 
what actually happened.