Chapter Seven - The Sorting Hat

[Brittni]

Discuss chapter seven

[Brittni]

So I have to ask with this chapter, what house would everyone be in?

[Jennie]

According to Potter more I'm in Slytherin but I think I should be in either Gryffindor or ravinclaw

[Brittni]

I have to say Jennie I don't think you're a Slytherin at all. I'd say you would be in Ravenclaw tower with me.

[Jennie]

I know!!! The Pottermore Sorting Hat put me in the wrong house!! The really funny thing was when my sister and I went to Potter Land in FL, I bought a chocolate frog and got a Slytherin card in it! My sister decided that that meant I was destined to be in that house! lol.

[Mary]

Pottermore has me in hufflepuff which I think is probably accurate.

[Jennie]

My sister is a Hufflepuff!! lol

[Cristen]

According to Pottermore I would be in Hufflepuff, which does kinda make sense since I show no signs of bravery whatsoever lol - Hufflepuff 92%, Ravenclaw 84%, Gryffindor 81 % and Slyther 55% - so revealing isn't it?

[Brittni]

Reading this chapter, I feel bad for the Slytherins a bit. This is now 10 years since Voldemort was killed and there's still so much prejudice against Slytherin. Ron is still spouting off that every evil witch and wizard was from Slytherin (which we know isn't true, Peter Pettigrew). How damaging is that for an 11 who gets sorted into Slytherin (who isn't a Malfoy) to hear?

The sorting hat says in this book that Slytherin is for the cunning, which I think is a word with a somewhat negative connotation in our society, but to be cunning doesn't mean that you are automatically evil.

I definitely feel there is some self fulfilling prophecy going on here. You get sorted into Slytherin where everyone else then tells you that's the house for bad guys and treats you like a bad guy, sooner or later aren't you going to start to believe that you are a bad person?

[Caitlin]

Thats a good point. It definitely makes everyone (reader and character) believe that they will be bad wizards and witches. What would have happened if Harry had been put there? The hat was very indecisive as we know with Harry. It could easily have gone that way...