Looking Back Question...

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182045

> Edna:
> Tolerance, loyalty, bravery, sacrifice, love &
> friendship. I keep flashing a picture in my mind of
> poor Harry starving to death in his room during the
> time that Dudley was on a diet. Hermione and Ron sent
> him food. They cared about each other very deeply. I
> often wonder if the sorting hat put those three in
> Gryffindor for this reason. It wanted to put Harry in
> Slytherin, Hermione in Ravenclaw, and Ron probably
> should have been put in Hufflepuff. 

Magpie:
No it didn't actually want to put them in those places. Harry said 
not Slytherin and it just said he would do well there--I believe in 
an interview JKR now says it was reading Tom Riddle there anyway. 
Hermione obviously belongs in Gryffindor, the hat just took a bit of 
time deciding, iirc. And Ron never mentioned belonging anywhere but 
Gryffindor.

Accordin to the author, the hat is never wrong (whatever that 
means). But the three of them all seem dyed in the wool Gryffindors 
to me.

-m (mostly staying out of this thread because I think the books are 
often giving exactly the opposite messages that they claim to be 
giving--right versus easy? If it's easy and the right person does 
it, it's right!)