Quote:In short, unless Harry is effectively 'super charged' toward one House or another it will be his conversation with the hat that determines his House.Well, I think you should also count Hagrid's rather obvious anti-Slytherin bias in there somewhere as well, but it all amounts to the same thing, so yeah, it boils down to how the actual Hat encounter goes. As for magic vs. science, the only thing I'll say before dropping it is that I'm drawing a line between science and technology that you (Necratoid) don't seem to be - but this is the internet, and any logical argument can and will be used against the speaker in the court of public opinion. Or something. Anyway, this is about Potter & Company.
(You have entered a room. It is 50ft by 100ft. It contains five tables. It contains many schoolchildren. It contains several schoolteachers. It contains a stool. It contains a Hat. The Hat attacks with Brainal Probe!)
The trouble with connecting via the Room of Requirements is that it's such a fantastically useful McGuffin that everybody uses the damn thing for whatever they want, and bascially every method of getting Harry to find it early has already been used as well. Much better if a modern-looking wooden door with a crab-shaped knocker on it pops up in a previously dead-end nook, or - oh, now this would be good! Randomly replaces a classroom door at various times, but never when a staff member is about to go through it (Hogwarts is playing a little joke, it seems) leading to the occasional History or Defense or Herbology or Astronomy lesson getting taught by "Professor Washuu" and making for some very confused students, more or less amused or annoyed staff, and a HIGHLY curious Dumbledore - and even though the lessons are quite odd by wizard standards they all still WORK ... more or less. Washuu herself might even be behind it, on the theory that the best way to really get a lock on new material is to teach it, and/or testing her theories of the inner workings of magic.
I would love to see Snape's expression on being presented with an entire class worth (all different for each lab pair) of potions totally unknown to him, all with more or less complete and accurate notes on the brewing (since they are student work after all) and have to try to figure out exactly what they are. He'd love it, it's a genuine challenge unlike brewing up yet another batch of blood-replenisher for the hospital wing or riding herd on a bunch of witless children befouling HIS potions lab, but he'd hate it because of the involvement of witless children and having been excluded in the first place.
- CD
ETA: this could also lead to having a short redheaded egomaniac instead of a tall blond egomaniac as the DADA teacher for second year - with the difference that while Washuu may not know a whole about this magic stuff even after a whole year of study, the accomplishments she claims are actually genuine, and she at least knows how to teach.
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