[Report This]Date: 08/03/2006 06:58 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
thats really good. you write wonderfully!
[Report This]Date: 07/03/2006 01:36 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
I think this is frighteningly close to the truth. The hat doesn't truly decide anything. I'd love to hear the conversation between them on Pettigrew's first day of school as well.....
[Report This]Date: 04/20/2006 12:51 am Title: The Sorting's Secret
I just visited your LJ, and thought I'd come check out some of your stories that I've missed (or have not read in a long, long while). I really enjoyed this; the idea that DD is proud of his old house makes him seem so human and real. I also like how the hat says Hermione could have been a Slytherin. Overall the story does a great job a reinforcing the idea that choices are everything--truly and completely. I hope you've been following the discussion on HP_essays about Tom Riddle and whether he truly had choices or was defined simply by his genes. (I like to think the former, of course.)
[Report This]Date: 10/18/2005 03:39 am Title: The Sorting's Secret
Thanks for that lovely intuitive interlude!
[Report This]Date: 09/26/2005 03:59 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
Nice interpretation of the Sorting Hat, very much in line with JKR's latest interviews ... I rather like the idea of the Hat just rubber-stamping the students' choices, and it's a good twist.
[Report This]Date: 08/12/2005 12:48 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
Very nice! A very lovely way to put something that we all suspect!
[Report This]Date: 06/29/2005 04:30 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
What a nice idea about the working of the hat! Thank you - I like this story very much.
Author's Response: Thanks for reading!
[Report This]Date: 06/27/2005 11:33 am Title: The Sorting's Secret
It certainly seems as if the Hat Sorts through a person's desires as much as, if not more than, their personality and qualities.
One minor quibble: when they are discussing Ron, it's a little hard to figure out at first who's speaking.
A nice way of explaining where Dumbledore's statement to Harry at the end of CoS came from initially.
Author's Response: I'll go back and take a second look at that section. Thanks for reading!
[Report This]Date: 06/26/2005 06:45 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
A nice piece. Thank you for sharing it.
Author's Response: Thank you for reading anyah!
[Report This]Date: 06/24/2005 10:31 am Title: The Sorting's Secret
Charming story and amusing theory! Thanks.
Author's Response: It all comes from Dumbledore's statemen to Harry at the end of book 2, "It is our choices, Harry, far more than our abilities that show us for who we truly are." Or something like that. Glad you liked it.
[Report This]Date: 06/22/2005 08:15 pm Title: The Sorting's Secret
This was so enjoyable and I suspect so true to Canon! Thank you for sharing!
~Lisa
Author's Response: Thanks for reading!
[Report This]Date: 06/22/2005 10:23 am Title: The Sorting's Secret
Delightful! It put a smile on my face! I enjoyed it very much!
Author's Response: Thanks. Glad I could make you smile.