Disappointment and Responsibility

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 175158

 
> Julie:
> I agree 100%, Debbie! I've come to the conclusion that the Sorting 
Hat  puts
> students in particular houses based on the child's *desire.*  

Hickengruendler:

Than why didn't Lily end up a Slytherin? She had prior to the Sorting 
only Snape as a source (who saw Slytherin as the best house, and likely 
would have influences Lilys thinking as well), and there was the little 
scene with James and Sirius, were neither of them were at their most 
likable (James even having pretty similar dialogue as Draco Malfoy in 
Philosopher's Stone). Even if she wasn't fitted for Slytherin, because 
she was a Muggleborn, wouldn't she have possibly thought "not 
Gryffindor, which is the house of the brawny instead of the brainy" and 
the Hat could have put her into Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw.

I think it's a mixture of both. Choice certainly plays a part, but so 
do the characteristics the Sorting Hat sees in these kids.