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Hi. Let's talk about Pottermore and specifically let's talk about the
Sorting Hat dilemma.
Okay, so in the books and consequently the films
there is a character of some sort called the Sorting Hat which is
placed upon the new arrival students and that hat figures out your
brain tissue stuff
and sorts you into one of the four houses: Gryffindor, Huffelpuff, Ravenclaw
and Slytherin.
One thing I reacted to when I saw the first film, where Harry is being
sorted along with his friends and his nemesis, was that huh:
if there's a 100 new students, let's say there's a 100 new students and
25 gets into one house, 25 to another, 25 to another and 25 to another,
does that correspond with where they should be put or is it a kind of thing
to equal the numbers?
Because what if there were 60
Ravenclaws and 20 Gryffindors and 10 Slytherins and the rest puff puff?
I can understand that it is fiction where it's good we're sorted so that
the students are somewhat equal in numbers. But then we get to Pottermore
and let me tell you first, I have not signed up for Pottermore at all.
I'm not that into it. I mean I've read all the books and seen the films
but I wanna approach this from somewhat of a non-crazy Harry Potter person,
crazy is good, perspective.
So what do you think? Do you think that the website, the Pottermore website,
has a way of bouncing and equalizing numbers so there's somewhat the same
amount of people being entered into the four houses or
I might just be paranoid, or is the fact that the sorting is
a mental picking of your brain so that you, if you get put into Huffelpuff,
puff puff, you are without a doubt a Huffelpuff puff.
Or is it just you know
somewhat to equalize the numbers because in the books obviously the Gryffindors
are the protagonist, the Stytherins are the antagonists and the Huffelpuffs
and Ravenclaws are basically extras.
Don't deny it. It's true.
There should be like a spinoff movie where they go into the life of someone
from Ravenclaw or Huffelpuff.
You can see Harry Potter doing all the important things in the background
while they're sitting there playing cards and just hang out and have great parties.
I'd like that.
And finally I know that this thing engages a lot of people, like
A LOT!
Let's not call them crazy in a bad way but crazy in a good way,
cause this is how one person reacted.
So which house are you in?
And are you happy with the Sorting Hat?