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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3101124" data-attributes="member: 2020">If you have the time, read Pinnochio.  It's an interesting read, especially in the context of Harry Potter.   Each to their own, of course.  Only time will tell on that.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (heh, get back to you in about 50 to 100 years on this!)  I just got the overwhelming impression that the books were primarily about growing up, about responsibility and accepting it, about the pitfalls and problems of the world, and about consequences.  Just my take.    Yes, of course it's magic rich.  Poor Muggles got left out of the fun, though.  I don't understand.  What do you mean when you say:  Harry has more raw power.  What do you mean back that?  What do you mean by raw power?  (confused look)  I merely wish to comment that I would prefer to make my own choice concerning which House I was put into.  I don't believe that Sorting Hat should be determining - for the rest of their lives - which way children will go.  It hasn't got that right.  If I was put at Hogwart's (theoretically) back when I was 11, and the Sorting Hat put me in Slytherin, I'd leave the school.  If forced to remain, I'd refuse to work, causing my forced expulsion.  That Hat wouldn't force me to stay around the likes of the Slytherins when I didn't want to be around them.  (That goes for any of the other Houses, too, where appropriate.)  Yes, perhaps, children arriving and being Sorted had tendencies towards one House or another - AT THAT TIME.  But children change, and people change.  Dumbledore is completely out of line here (anyone got a handy Sphere of Annihilation that Sorting Hat could be stuffed in?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  )  Well, the muggles have nuclear weapons and whatnot.  But in a Muggle versus Wizard war, I think it'd be quick and decisive for the Wizards.  Just my take.  The really big What If, which I can only speculate on, is the historical role of magic.  For example, what role did magic (and Hogwart's) play in World War I?    I do think the wizards are being elitist about muggles.  All of the wizards all being elitist.  And this just messes up an already Voldemort-messed-up situation further.</blockquote>

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