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Lancelot is most likely alive, I agree. But the question becomes, where has he been this whole time?
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Yes, yes, yes! Take that moment because I have being likewise. Oliver looks *so happy.* Like, content and at peace and it’s wonderful and then….it’s all going to be painful again I’m sure (though, can it be more painful than S3????) but he’s all domesticated and suburban and so so so so happy. Ugh. I cannot.
And then the Digg/Ollie feels kinda make me want to lay down and die.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Very interesting tweet from JKR. So if you think that Pureblood is better than Muggle born then you automatically go to Slytherin? What if you believe that, but it’s not your defining trait? What if you believe that but you have no intention of ever acting on it or even vocalizing it? What if you’re actually really smart–top of your class even? (We’re back to RG’s persistent problem with the Sorting Hat–it doesn’t take the whole person into account).
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"They wouldn’t need to hide it from the hat, just their peers. If I recall correctly, the hat speaks to them inside their minds when it is on their head (in the books) and only talked outwardly to sing the songs and announce the house placement.
We don’t actually know that, though. The Sorting Hat either sits for a long time on the students head (but whether or not it’s a tet-a-tet like with Harry–and it seems to some extent Hermione when it came to Ravenclaw–we don’t know). It could be that the Hat just sits there and muses and mulls things over. Harry is the only Sorting we “hear.”
OR, the other option, the Sorting Hat is barely placed on the students head before it makes a decision, like Draco. It barely grazes his hair before it yells out Slytherin.
Whether or not a fully born Muggle has ever been sorted into Slytherin we don’t know, but I’d wager that it’s a rarity, but I won’t go so far as to say that it’s totally outside the realm of possibility. I brought up Petunia and Dudley and Vernon in this regard maybe a page back..but where we would sort them? None of them would go into Hufflepuff or Gryffindor, that’s for sure. None of them seem particularly clever, and Dudley in particular seems rather dense. But Vernon is ambitious (he went from being a junior man to running the department), Petunia is cruel and cunning and haughty (but on the other end of the spectrum, she thinks Muggles are better than Wizards/Witches…though, she’s an interesting case as we know when we get to book 6 and 7) and Dudley is cruel, the Muggle born version of Draco. Would they go into Slytherin, even though they aren’t pure born?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Didn’t they say the 5B premiere was two hours long, or that they were planning that? No? I feel like I heard or read that in one of their interviews at Comic Con or D23 or something like that…. #CouldBeWrongThough
Nope. The only thing special about the 5B premiere is that it’s the 100th.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Unless they do another two hours under the same episode number like Smash the Mirror.
Yeah, sorry. That’s what I meant–same episode number but 2 hour
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Wow. That sounds mean and prejudice. But yeah, no, looking at the qualities of a slytherin as opposed to the qualities of all the other houses, its quite easy to see how the majority of them or the average slytherin might not be the most benevolent, fair, “good” person. Am I wrong in thinkin that?
Ahhhh but remember that Harry has those exact same qualities! The Sorting Hat thought he’d do well in Slytherin. Is Harry an unsavory individual? Not really, right? We’d all agree that while he can make mistakes, he’s a walking #HeroArchetype. Being cunning, resourceful, and ambitious aren’t negative traits except when carried to an extreme. Then it’s called being ruthless. BUT any trait taken to extremes is negative.
What’s bravery in the extreme? Recklessness.
What’s intelligence taken in the extreme? Arrogance.
What’s kindness taken in the extreme? Passivity
And *that* might be the difference between Gryffindor and Slytherin, the extremity to which they carry those traits. Harry is still cunning, ambitious, and resourceful but not to a ruthless extreme. However, there are time when he’s brave to an extreme (reckless).
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
