[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 10, THE HALLOWEEN LONG

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188435

POWERBABE7 at aol.com wrote:
> This might be off topic but if Ravenclaw is a house of intellectuals 
> then I wonder why Hermione was not placed in Ravenclaw. I have always 
> wondered about that.
>   

Bart:
    JKR has strongly implied that the student's desire is a major 
consideration in the choice of the Sorting Hat. Also, we don't know how 
much the headmaster has to do with the choices; it is still my 
contention that the fact that Harry becoming friends with exactly the 
people he needed to get to the Stone was either such an unbelievable 
coincidence as to be considered incredibly bad writing, or Dumbledore 
manipulated events to ensure that the three would become friends. I'd 
like to think that JKR is, or was, not THAT bad a writer.

    Bart