{"id":119854,"date":"2016-01-04T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/04\/frustratedoctor-writer-of-the-dragons\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:36:22","slug":"frustratedoctor-writer-of-the-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/04\/frustratedoctor-writer-of-the-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-119854 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/04\/frustratedoctor-writer-of-the-dragons\/attachment\/119855\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_nhemkuK8Qh1rnqglfo1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_nhemkuK8Qh1rnqglfo1_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_nhemkuK8Qh1rnqglfo1_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/frustratedoctor.tumblr.com\/post\/135962713872\" target=\"_blank\">frustratedoctor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/writer-of-the-dragons.tumblr.com\/post\/133654974641\" target=\"_blank\">writer-of-the-dragons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cannibalswelcome.tumblr.com\/post\/125689045761\" target=\"_blank\">cannibalswelcome<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tygerflower.tumblr.com\/post\/114745192138\" target=\"_blank\">tygerflower<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mypocketshurt90.tumblr.com\/post\/109481123747\" target=\"_blank\">mypocketshurt90<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/intelligencehavingfun.tumblr.com\/post\/106783825271\" target=\"_blank\">intelligencehavingfun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hatstalls, from JKR via Pottermore<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay but the Hat was just like, \u201cSure kid whatever\u201d when Harry requested against Slytherin.\u00a0 What kind of conversation was this?<\/p>\n<p>NO NEVILLE I CAN\u2019T DO THAT YOU HAVE THE HEART OF A LION<\/p>\n<p>THE WIZARD OF OZ WILL GIVE YOU COURAGE NEVILLE<\/p>\n<p>HAKUNA MATATA NEVILLE<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT RECITE THE DEEP MAGIC TO ME NEVILLE I WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I\u2019ve seen this post a couple of times &amp; something just occurred to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harry was pretty 50\/50 Gryffindor\/Slytherin from what I remember the hat saying (and according to the wiki blurb on hatstalls having a fairly equal split of traits from more than one house\u00a0is the common cause of them) so when he asked not to be put into Slytherin the hat was fine with taking that preference into account and put him in Gryffindor.\u00a0(Also the fact that the hat said he could be great and powerful in Slytherin and Harry\u2019s response was pretty much\u00a0<i>no I don\u2019t want that<\/i>\u00a0pretty clearly demonstrates non-Slytherin traits.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the above\u00a0doesn\u2019t mention the hat being at all indecisive about where to put Neville. The hat wasn\u2019t going \u201chmmm this is tough you\u2019re pretty Gryffindor but you\u2019re kind of Hufflepuff too\u201d. It was probably more like \u201cYep! Gryffindor for sure!\u201d Followed by Neville being all \u201cNo I\u2019m totally a Hufflepuff!\u201d <i>and then proceeding to argue with the hat about it for almost 5 minutes<\/i>. (Which when you think about it is a super Gryffindor thing to do.) By the end the hat was probably like <i>oh my god kid you\u2019re so Gryffindor you\u2019re practically Godric\u2019s heir shut up and get sorted there already!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re practically Godric\u2019s heir!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Neville pulls the sword of Gryffindor from the depths of the hat seven years later, the hat must have been so fucking smug. Like \u201coh yeah kid, this is such a Hufflepuff thing to do. Charge in with a blade and the bare basics of a plan that basically boils down to \u2018I trust Harry, kill the snake.\u2019 Helga would TOTALLY have done that. Oh wait! Did I say Helga? I MEANT GRYFFINDOR!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHakuna Matata Neville\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>frustratedoctor: writer-of-the-dragons: cannibalswelcome: tygerflower: mypocketshurt90: intelligencehavingfun: Hatstalls, from JKR via Pottermore Okay but the Hat was just like, \u201cSure kid whatever\u201d when Harry requested against Slytherin.\u00a0 What kind of conversation was this? NO NEVILLE I CAN\u2019T DO THAT YOU HAVE THE HEART OF A LION THE WIZARD OF OZ WILL GIVE YOU COURAGE NEVILLE HAKUNA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/04\/frustratedoctor-writer-of-the-dragons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[151,14433,13990,14432,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119856,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119854\/revisions\/119856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}