CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 10, THE HALLOWEEN LONG

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188437

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

> POWERBABE7 at ... 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.

Geoff:
As time has gone by, I have leaned more to the manipulative Dumbledore 
theory, although manipulative is perhaps rather a strong term.

I've probably read too much fan fiction.
:-(