Sorting Hat for a Day

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 188514


> Alla:
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> I disagree, I think their choice should have been exercised **before** McGonagall threw them out. At least shut up and sit down Pantsy, you little DE would have been enough for me.
> 
> Instead I believe they pointed their wands at Harry (I know, I know many people disagree with me, but my interpretation that they stood up earlier and Harry sees that)

Pippin:
Earlier? But that would have to be before they knew what Pansy was going to say. Are they all seers, then? 

It seems to me the Slytherins would be sitting there in stunned silence, trying to take it in, while Harry's friends, who already knew that Harry was there, are naturally quicker to react. They point their wands at the Slytherins, all of them, without distinction, including  ickle firsties who couldn't do much more than shoot sparks at them. And that alone tells me this is not an action we are supposed to approve. It's Voldemort who threatens harmless people because they are in his way.

Of course Harry doesn't see that his friends are pointing their wands at little kids. He sees a mass of threatening people when in fact there's only one. And that's the point. If you let it, the stereotype will override the facts even when they're staring right at you.

Pippin