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 Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:49 pm
Usually it's because the people are allowed to pick their own houses, or the surveys which pick the houses aren't detailed enough. There's a fine line between having a courageous lion heart and having a good heart. Clever and snakelike are different, and just because the linage is pure-blood doesn't mean anything.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:49 pm
I agree! Although the linage does matter if you are going into Slytherin. A Muggle-born Slytherin is seldom heard. It is possible if they have the traits but pureness is something Salazar held quite high.
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Nerd_of_Many_Faces Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:26 am
But even then, not all pure-bloods are in Slytherin and basing a character off of which house you want them to be in is ludicrous. A sorting hat survey or quiz should do more then ask linage and favorite house, there's a lot more that goes into it- the sorting hat reads the kids mind. I think instead of a survey, or to supplement a survey, they should have to role-play the character a little bit and develop them. No one does that though.
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:18 pm
I know! I choose Ravenclaw because it's the traits I seem to have in real life ( although I can be a little Hufflepuffish at times) and then I base my role-play character off of myself because it's easier to write role plays when I know exactly how the character would act. But today we live in a society where everyone wants to follow the popular people and is therefore Gryffindor and Slytherin are normally chosen. And I absolutely loathe the Sorting Hat quizzes, especially fan-made. I believe the only accurate quiz would be made by the Sorting Hat himself. But why would he want to do that when he can just read our minds? Also, I think J.K. Rowling would make a pretty accurate quiz considering she made the whole world of Harry Potter. But I doubt she would ever do that.
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Nerd_of_Many_Faces Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:10 am
The quizzes, other then any J.K. could make, don't cut the cheese. Characters need to be developed in order for their house to be decided, you're not going to be in Slytherin if you can't act the part twenty-four seven.
Even the popular houses have their draw backs but people don't see them, they don't understand how they work enough to be able to simply create a character and plop them down in any old house they want.
There's more to it then that, role-players and writers know that the character takes on a life of their own unless their strictly a reflection of the self and even then they become distorted. We don't pick the house the house picks us, just like our wands.
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:36 pm
Exactly, it's kinda a test of character. One takes a completely inhuman and uncorrupted object and have it look at the real you. If only the real world had something like this...
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Nerd_of_Many_Faces Captain
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:46 pm
Well, nothing can ever truly be pure and uncorrupted because eventually it's going to start to think, you have to in order to classify and understand people. To see them for who and what they are. The sorting hat (much like an AI or human) thought, but he lacked curiosity. He didn't question things, he only saw. An AI, or human, or anything else which is capable of looking at things beyond the surface is going to develop curiosity. Curiosity corrupts and clouds the judgment, only by distancing oneself from their values and understand those others can they truly see things as they are. All you have to do is look without prejudice, see no difference in the people- In their race, sexuality, gender, age, religion- and look at their aspects, and look beneath the surface. Then you can see what people are really made of.
The sorting hat could exist in our world, the question is, for how long? For how long can a person go without becoming tired of the game, without wondering what purpose they serve, and what is right and what is just? How long can a being sort others before their lens is broken and they dabble in philosophy? The sorting hat was corrupt, but he did not bring his views into his job. Corruption can be bested by strong will or desire.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:31 pm
Still, in a sense, he wasn't corrupted. The only things he ever sees are the Great Hall and Dumbledore's office. Granted, we don't really know what all goes on there but there aren't many influences to corrupt him.
Plus, he is a magical object. We don't really know how he functions. He could have a brain and that brain could be complete, like a human brain, or one tracked, like, maybe, an ameba's brain, only focused on one purpose.
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